Jaime the Explorer

koops: I spend hours arguing about things that don't even exist https://agameofleaks.tumblr.com/

[sorrydetka]

claire from the bear and gemma from severance are the same ….. what people what mg to be…. yeah that’s claire and carmy 😭

[sorrydetka]

the writers on the bear are so staunchly against their actors chemistry (ayo and jeremy) that they introduced this character NO ONE cares about to the detriment of their show, and keep doubling down on it…. vs the writer on severance which let the chemistry between britt and adam change the show into what it is, defending it, yet still clear in their vision…. if they listened to yalls tantrums it would fr go down like the bear, and let’s be honest yall do want a worse show devoid of consequence and humanity

[jesterkoops]

LOL omg, I have just finished The Bear and all along I kept thinking about how much I agreed with this very thing I remember seeing on my dashboard months ago but for the life of me I could not remember who made this point... and of course it turns out it's @sorrydetka!

She's EXACTLY like Gemma: all characters TELLING us CONSTANTLY how amazing she is, and she has literally no flaws. My absolutely most loathed character trope/writing.

The only context in which this trope works is if it's a storyline that is going somewhere bitter and tragic like "this is what Carmy could have had but you can't fix the past and now it'll be a lesson to help his future self grow and evolve and not make the same mistakes again" but, in this case, doesn't look like it.

[jesterkoops]

Taken a hiatus from Tumblr due to life and now that I need escapism into fiction more than ever I am not going to lie... despite me not wanting to go anywhere near GoT-related material ever again, those Dunk & Egg gifs are re-igniting my JB candle all over again. Whether it will turn into a fire once more remains to be seen, but boy if they don't remain my top-tier pairing of all time.

[bellamysgriffin]

@pscentral EVENT 41: HEROES

[kestrel-of-herran]

there's sooooo much meaning in mark turning and walking back towards helly and so many layers to the scene in terms of both emotions and narrative implications.

up to this point they both thought they were about to die. mark would get gemma out of lumon for his outie, turn into him and wait on his mercy to be sucked into his consciousness in a capacity that might render him into nothing more than an echo or a ghost, and helena would never turn back into helly because mark scout and gemma would expose lumon and terminate the innies' existance. mark s. is staring at this oblivion when he's staring at the door and the woman he doesn't recognize calling out for a version of him that needs him only for the labor he can provide for him in dulling his pain and earning his money and rescuing his wife.

when the red lights turn on over helly she thinks it's already over, that mark got gemma out and she'll never get to see him again. britt said the alarm reminds her of her escape attempt at the staircase, so this is where she runs to on impulse, for the slightest chance she might be able to see him again.

when she calls out his name it's just a single word to all of gemma's cries and pleas, but it's the only time in this scene when "mark" denotes him, the innie. her voice and the sight of her at the end of the corridor ground him back to himself, remind him he is a person, he has people who care about him and love him and want him because of who he is, not who he could be, and that he has things he wants and people he doesn't want to lose. he might have nothing in this world built just to control him but he has this choice and he has her and their love.

when he starts walking to helly he's made that choice with every atom of his body, but she still doesn't understand, she's thinking maybe he wants to tell her something, maybe he's coming just to say goodbye. it only hits her fully when she sees his expression, all the love and desire and rapture there, all the feeling in his heart, that this is real, that he's making this choice, which means she's not about to die and she's not about to lose him. the girl who didn't want to live half a life has become the only thing he wants to live for. it's this sublime moment of disbelief and relief at the enormity of salvation that can be achieved through your actions when you didn't ever hope you could be saved.

and then he takes her hand, and nothing exists in the world but them anymore. the world was built for lovers all along. he looks at her like he wants to drink her in and she finally lets herself have it, lets herself feel joy and pride and this conviction, my love mine all mine, nothing in the world belongs to me but my love does. and triumph, too, she chose well, she gave her heart to him and he's more than worthy of having it, and love as a source of power and lust for life, if it's the two of them against the world nothing can stand in their way.

the music is enormously important here, it coocoons them in their emotional journey, shelters them from the incomprehensible anguish of the outsider. this moment is only for them, their connection something they built and earned and will continue to fight for, independently and in spite of every controlling entity in their lives.

it's an action that is also a statement, a discovery and definition and actualization of self, i'm this kind of person, i'm the kind of person who wouldn't lose you. it's a rubicon moment, a point of no return which is the start of time, a line whose crossing will remap their world.

what he did is life-defining for both of them, the choice to put themselves and their love first, the choice to say i am a person worthy of life and joy and agency. the triumph of the human spirit over the dehumanization of the dystopian narrative.

[graciehart]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [79/?] ⤷ 4.10 — “Paper Hearts”

[kendrysaneela]

The thing that makes me the most insane about Hellyna is that Helly is only like that because Helena was forced to repress her base instincts and her emotions and her wants and needs and was given no love or care or autonomy for her entire life. And through this conditioning it created Helly this angry, rebellious will not repress any emotion person who has a NEED for control and autonomy and will speak her mind no matter what. All that repression that had built up in Helena for thirty years? Only stayed buried because of the conditioning which only existed for as long as Helena had memories. Helly doesn’t have Helena’s memories so therefore all Helena’s repression and base impulses had nowhere to go but out when Helly was born. Therefore causing Helly to start the innie rebellion. But if Helena wasn’t raised in that way? Was given control was given care, was given autonomy Helly wouldn’t be like this. She wouldn’t have caused the innie rebellion. But also that’s a moot point at the same time because if Helena was cared for and was given autonomy then she never would’ve been severed to begin with and Helly never would’ve been born. Helly was created through their lack of care for Helena. And their lack of care for Helena and by extension Helly is gonna cause the end of Lumon as they know it.

[kestrel-of-herran]

you carry the love with you. you feel it up there, too. you just don't know what it is.

SEVERANCE (2022- )

[mistressaccost]

[kimwexlersponytail]

The only thing that kept me going was knowing that you were here.

McWexler in Every Season

SEASON FIVE

[sorrydetka]

insane how the season has been over for 4 months and every few days a cast or crew member will come on here to double down on markhellyna like OH AND ANOTHER THING!!!!!!!

[sorrydetka]

this is still relevant that’s crazy

[jesterkoops]

Severance cast/crew in the year of our lord 2090:

[jesterkoops]

I should be entitled to financial compensation for having experienced what it is like to sit next to a live manifestation of Reddit bad takes this weekend, when I enthusiastically showed my friend the S2 finale and was hit with, in the span of 1 minute, the following comments:

"Oh that's the other one [Helena] isn't it?"

"This makes no sense, why would he not go through the door??"

"This makes no sense, why is she [Helly] there?? What does she want??"

"This does not resonate with me emotionally, therefore it makes no sense."

"If Helly just wanted to see him one last time, she should have given him a kiss and then pushed him through the door."

Facing my friend the following morning after this blew up into a full on argument was the most uncomfortable experience I have had in a long time. I cannot believe that someone who I regard as highly intelligent would have such shit takes. Not to mention she keeps referring to Helena as "the bitch".

Luckily I also have other highly intelligent friends who do have media comprehension and love Hellyna and the finale. But man, it will take me a while to get over this. I am still here, nearly 48 hours later.

[jesterkoops]

Should I be allowed to cancel my friend who says the finale makes no sense, Mark should have gone through the door/Helly should have pushed him out of the door?

Should I cancel my friend?

Yes

Ja

Oui

Si

Da

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )

Voting ended onAug 13, 2025

[carolsturka]

SEVERANCE, 2x10 "Cold Harbor".

BETTER CALL SAUL, 3x03 "Sunk Costs".

[delphines]

you're the main severenceposter i follow so i wanted to ask how you think a meeting between helly (innie) and mark's outie would go?

Hi! I think there’s a lot of different ways it could go, and it all depends on how far into reintegration oMark is when him and Helly meet. It also depends on what context he’s coming from, i.e. what his last memory is before he “wakes up” and meets her. I’m personally predicting that the innies will take control of the severed floor post-Cold Harbor and hold a sit-in of sorts, and oMark will wake up sometime in the middle of that. If that’s the case, it’ll feel to him like only a few seconds have passed since he reunited with Gemma and kissed her in the elevator, so him meeting Helly in that context would be abrupt and tense to say the least. And I’m not gonna lie, there’s a non-zero chance oMark wakes up in the middle of sex with Helly, because the writers are just insane enough to do something like that.

Putting the rest under the cut because this got long sorry:

No matter the context, he’ll be angry at both her and his innie, feel like they’ve stolen his reunion with Gemma from him, and will feel violated at his lack of bodily autonomy on the severed floor. oMark will likely lash out at Helly in a similar manner to how we saw him lash out at Devon at the beginning of s2.

But the thing is, Helly absolutely will not tolerate him speaking to her like that, and she’ll be prepared to give him a piece of her mind herself. We already know that oMark is highly avoidant and lives in denial about all the hell Lumon puts the innies through, but Helly is extremely persistent. She is perhaps the one person who could get through to him just how messed up it all is and how he is ultimately responsible for both creating Mark S and continually choosing to send him down to Lumon, even after he learned that he was being literally tortured down there. Every time oMark would get mad at her/his innie for keeping him on the severed floor against his will, Helly would remind him that he’s been doing that to Mark S every day for over two years. She will force him to confront the parts of himself that he tries to deny. We’ve already seen a glimpse of what this could look like: in 2x05, when Mark S retreats and becomes avoidant as a response to trauma (arguably becoming most similar to his outie), Helly simply refuses to let him retreat and confronts him until he faces reality. Honestly this whole scene just feels like a preview of what it’ll be like for Helly and Mark Scout to communicate:

I think ultimately we’ll get a repeat of the Markhelly dynamic from season 1, with Helly starting off “hating” him/seeing him as the enemy, but eventually softening and falling for him. She’ll realize that he’s at his core still the same person she fell in love with. This could also tie into what I’m assuming will be part of Helly’s arc in s3: her accepting the humanity of the outies. She’ll hear about the outside world from oMark and that’ll complicate her current anti-outie stance. Helly identifying similarities between oMark and iMark will also make her realize that maybe she and Helena aren’t that different, either.

As far as oMark’s side of things, I do think he’ll also fall for Helly despite the guilt he’ll feel about Gemma. Like I said, oMark is extremely avoidant, and he’s spent the past two years trying to disappear and feel nothing. Helly will wake him up and remind him what it’s like to feel again. And he’ll be so upset about it, because he knows he’s supposed to be feeling those things for Gemma, but as the reintegration progresses I truly believe it’ll become more and more difficult for Mark to avoid his feelings for Helly.

[jesterkoops]

Nail on the head! I especially like the part about Helly starting to see the outies' humanity through Mark Scout because it parallels Helena starting to see the innies' humanity through Mark S.

I think this will also be deliciously complicated because the different corners of this love square feel differently about each other. Helly and Helena obviously both want Mark S (and Helena possibly Mark Scout) and Mark S arguably wants both Helly and Helena (despite the betrayal he feels towards Helena). But Mark Scout is, at this stage, still focused on 'getting his wife back' and both Helly and Helena are strangers to him. And Helly will probably not like/hate Mark Scout the same way she hates(d) Helena. That's probably why this combo meeting is the key to the entire story. Because that's the knot that needs to be untangled and that will unravel everything else once it is.

[ouaiscestsaucisse]

And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space,

Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.

[sdktrs12]

severance + guide to troubled birds

[ambitiouswitch]

I never care much for the award seasons but I hope Severance wins all its nominations. Maybe it will impulse these morons to create original stories instead of a million bad adaptations done by people that hate the source materials.