It's that yearly time where we must think about The Neverending Story and more specifically about whatever the fuck it was that Bastian's dad was having for breakfast. Raw eggs in orange juice?
That's been living rent-free in my head ever since I saw it as a child.
It feels like it matches his vibes of taxes and responsibilities, at least.
Read the book they based the movie on. The movie is only the first part of the long novel. The real world turns out to be a fake dream Bastian is having because the Childlike Empress is harvesting his dark wizard ass for the energy needed to rebuild after the Nothing attacked. She's in a wizard duel with him trying to trap him in a fake world where he can suffer without any options to save himself. The "neverending" part is the stable time loop where he realizes he was delusional, comes back to reality, then he tries to call the Nothing to unmake the false world and sucks his energy back into himself. Each time he wins she tries to imprison him again. The book starts mid sentence and ends with the first half of it, implying they're in a stable loop. 
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