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I want to be a muntjac deer so bad

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I’m really fascinated by the significance of pet names in severance. They’re obviously something the writers put a lot of thought and care into, especially considering one of the episodes is titled after one.  My analysis for each:

Atilla (Burt and Fields) - Obviously one of the more unique pet names of the universe. It’s specifically something you wouldn’t understand unless you were in on the joke (much like they seem to be hiding something from Irv). A bit macabre and dark, based on a violent historical figure, which matches the couples energy well.

My Babe (Ricken to Devon) - A twist on a normal pet name to make it just the slightest bit strange, which matches Ricken perfectly.

Baby (Mark to Gemma) - An all around normal pet name, lining up with what we know about Mark and Gemma’s marriage (steady, average). If I were to dive into it a bit deeper, this pet name is revealed in season two, when Mark’s drive is primarily rescuing Gemma from Lumon, and it is a slightly diminutive, nurturing.

Honey (Helly to Mark) - A pet name primarily associated with older, married couples. Honey as a pet name is very intertwined with domesticity. I would say this matches the optimism and longing for normalcy that weaves through Mark and Helly’s relationship. Very aspirational in its use.

Kids (Irv to MDR) - Irv acts a kind of paternal figure for the MDR members. Because orientation is a two person activity, we can presume he was there for all of their births (like he was Helly’s). Has a casual kind of fondness. Interesting side note, the ages of the known MDR members correlate to when they were born into MDR. Irv is the eldest, Petey the second, Mark the third, Dylan the fourth, and Helly the youngest. (I’m not including Carol D because we don’t know her age.)

My Helly (Jame to Helly/Helena) - Very possessive. A reminder that Helly is a child’s nickname, which infantilizes Helly and which has been taken from Helena.

The Princess (Mark to Eleanor) - A pretty basic pet name for a little girl, but adoring. Matches well with Mark’s longing for a daughter. ‘The’ indicates distance from the subject, which correlates to how Mark holds himself away from his family, and specifically has trouble being around his niece due to his own grief regarding parenthood (for example, him having to leave the cabin when she’s born).

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helena would really want a labubu and quietly order one and hide it immediately and when she’s all alone at night in her room she would hold it and give it a little hug and maybe shed a tear

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I think it’s really funny that Mark begged the universe for his wife back and the universe just gave him a different lady. Like you can have a wife back. She’s all yours. No take-backsies.

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Mark and Helena having their own music dance experience

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Mark S won’t work without her. So we must give him her.

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Do NOT ask Helena Eagan what she had to sacrifice to kier for her twelfth birthday

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While I do think Gemma was partially complicit in her own abduction to Lumon (obviously without the knowledge of what they would truly be doing to her, this isn’t a post blaming Gemma for her torture) because that’s just the more interesting narrative choice and they’ve left the details purposely vague, I really disagree with what others have theorized about her going for fertility treatments. I think they probably offered her an escape from the pain of her miscarriage and infertility. If Gemma really wanted to try an experimental fertility treatment there are so many to choose from that she wouldn’t have to basically fake her death for, I just don’t think it would be a convincing plot point for her. But an escape for grief, paralleling Mark’s own storyline? That’s cinema

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hey! i came across your page and noticed my art in your profile picture.

i'd really prefer if i was asked first next time, it'd mean a lot if you wouldn't mind changing the picture, or at least adding credit in your bio :(

i hope i don’t come across as mean, I've never had something like this happen before and it just makes me pretty uncomfortable. thank you for appreciating the art though I’m glad you liked it enough to make it your pfp ❤️

oh yeah of course, sorry bout that. I love the Helena homunculus and had her saved in my camera roll and because I refuse to pay for more iCloud storage (I hate you Apple) my phone won’t let me use like most of my photos so I was just relieved when it finally let me upload one lol, but I totally should’ve asked first and that’s on me. You have a great style!!❤️

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I think if Mark and Helly lived together she would come home everyday covered in mud cuz spends her days in the woods (unemployed) and he’d make her get undressed and hose her off before she came inside

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I think it’s very funny that any time Helena makes a decision the narrative punishes her and everything that can go wrong does go wrong. In a broad sense, her innie becomes Lumon Che Guevara and unionizes the severed floor. More specifically, she tells her innie she’s not a person (hoping to… make her behave??? I don’t know what the thought process was here) and wakes up in a noose. She pretends to be Helly and almost gets drowned. She tries to flirt with Mark Scout and he immediately decides to get basement brain surgery. She sends Burt to ‘handle’ Irv and he longingly lets him go. This girl has never even once been successful it’s honestly astounding. I love her.

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Helena has weak enamel. When she was little, when she was Helly, she hadn’t yet come to learn that she was only safe from her father’s warped love if she was numb enough he couldn’t torment her. Little Helena probably scrubbed her skin raw in the bath every night. 

What she puts in her body is the only thing she can even slightly control so she eats very little and she purges it out, purges him out. Vomits up the dirtiness he’s made her feel. He wishes she’d take them raw. She wants to snipe at him, tell him they feel worse coming back up that way, but that would be Malice and the Fire of Kier and her father looking at her with eyes that make her feel like she’s covered in a thin, sticky, egg white film, weighed down and gross.

Her tempers settle in her stomach, where they’re safe to roil and growl, unable to breach her mind. They all mix together, down the drain at the end of the day, blank slate. Helena doesn’t know if she hates purging the dirtiness or the feelings more. Her dentist is gonna scold her again.

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People who got insanely angry with the innies for choosing themselves over their outies give me the same vibes as the people get super upset whenever retail or food service workers complain about their jobs

[loverofthewrongkind]

milchick should be running a tight ship as creative director at his local theatre. someone get him out of the torture factory.

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Jame Foreshadowing

In season one, episode three, Irving quotes Jame Eagan as having said, “Come now, children of my industry, and know the children of my blood.” Looking back now with what we know of Jame getting presumably-severed women pregnant, this line rings differently.

‘Children of my industry’ can easily be discerned to mean severed workers, products of the company he presides over. ‘-know the children of my blood’ reads, to me, like it could be alluding to impregnation.

Perhaps part of the reason all the departments are so spread out and isolated is so the severed women can’t spread what Jame does to them around the severed floor.

Additionally, although the birthing cabins have a mechanism that allows the severance chip to activate, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that the children, particularly the girls, in Lumon commissioned schools might be being groomed to become victims of Jame. They would also fall under ‘children of [his] industry’ and would be particularly susceptible to abuse by an authority figure. That may even be the reason Cobel knows about Jame’s use of the cabins.

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Helena and Intent

I want to post this here before twitter because those people are mean and they scare me. This analysis is based on the information we've been given so far and might change as the show progresses. The dynamic between Helena and i!Mark to me, regarding the tent scene specifically is reminiscent of child on child sexual assault, wherein the victim does feel violated and traumatized by the event, but the perpetrator walks a grey line between abuser and victim. Because of the environment in which she was raised, Helena has never experienced a positive, healthy relationship, be that romantic or platonic. She has not been able to explore healthy sexual habits, processes, or dynamics. Additionally, the cult that runs her life instils in her that her innie is not a person, but a part of her. Obviously, she recognizes i!Mark as a person she wants to be with, so this is hypocritical, but feelings and bias aren't rational. Helly and i!Mark's kiss is probably the first time she has ever perceived herself being intimate with someone, so she latches onto it and wants to explore. As she sees Helly as a part of her, and not a seperate person, she recognizes i!Mark wanting Helly as wanting her, Helena, and pursues that relationship. She is aware she is tricking people, she is aware she is acting differently, but she does not properly understand the violation she is committing against i!Mark. Because they have such a specific dynamic, I do believe Helena is capable of redemption.

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walter skinner when someone asks him what those two weirdos in his basement are doing with their taxpayer funding all day

[isabilightwood]

I am begging all of you to fact check the things you reblog. SO MUCH of the stuff I've been seeing on here lately is at least partially untrue.

Screenshots of twitter posts and titles taken out of context aren't sources.

Claiming major news outlets didn't cover something when it's easy to find an article if you actually check their websites is misinformation.

I've seen opinion pieces presented as fact.

Facts twisted or left out, even when the point would stand with those facts left intact.

Posts dragging in separate issues while misrepresenting how governments function.

Completely false memes that are counting on you not to spend one minute on google.

I'm really tired of seeing mutuals reblog these things when there are plenty of accurate pro-Palestinian sources

There's a lot to criticize in how the US et al are handling the genocide in Gaza. I'm just begging you to be accurate in your criticism, because spreading misinformation damages the cause.