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Was thinking about how fitting it is that Bear wants to be a food critic while Nikki wants to be a writer.

He wants to complain about the creations of someone else, adding nothing but despair to their lives, refusing to contribute anything helpful or new.

She wants to create something original but is stuck in an imitation of herself, forced to reenact a plot she hates.

vampireistic

i absolutely love how nikki is nearly always bathed in shadow (whether it’s fully in the dark or with a single light behind her with her as the faceless darkness). she’s quite literally become a shadow of her former self. no autonomy, no personal thoughts or emotions, just a carved image of what bear desired.

nessa007

so i just saw obsession

ghostlyquestion

"because nothing can be more powerful than a teenage girl"

this show means so much to me

valyrfia

straight vs queer ships in shows are always like….omg girl and boy shared a lingering glance once? that must mean they’re in love?…versus i killed my father because he dared lay hands on you. when i was doing it i felt like the divine light of justice and my love for you felt pure and clean and holy because i rid the world of evil in devotion to you.

alastair-1205

The Eridian science teams try soooo hard to be soooo normal about Grace. "He helped save our entire planet, we cant experiment on him!" "Hes a whole ass intelligent being, the biodome isnt like a zoo enclosure at all we swear." "Rocky might actually kill us if we try and add enrichment things to the biodome just to see what happens. It'll seem like an insult to Grace's intelligence."

Meanwhile Grace is just waiting in anticipation for someone to ask for a chunk of his hair or something. Hes lowkey curious as to what theyd find. Hes fine with being a creature to them its chill he gets it as a fellow intellectual and all around curious guy who insisted on watching Rocky eat.

lokihiddleston

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

incandescentorrery

As soon as they panned to the fiber arts classes I sat straight up because that is the PERFECT mechanism for girls and women to pass coded messages in Gilead. No one is going to pay any attention to the Wives knitting or embroidering or making lace - it's basically the only "work" they are allowed to engage in. It's seen as frivolous and purely ornamental. Even in our world, men dismiss the value of fiber arts and belittle the women who engage in them. And yet throughout history fiber arts/textiles have been used to communicate coded information. In the 1800s, quilts were used to communicate coded information about how to navigate the Underground Railroad. In WWII, knitting was used to send coded messages concerning troop or railroad movements.

The girls have been deprived of the opportunity to learn to read traditional writing, but they are being given the tools to communicate clandestinely right under Gilead's nose.