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[markcobel]

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characters: mark s • mark scout • harmony cobel • seth milchick • gemma scout • ms casey • dr mauer • doug graner • ships: markcobel • markgemma • markpetey • markhelly •

fun severance trivia:

gemma's maiden name is gemma chetri (revealed in props) • gemma has more than 25 innies (based on doors seen in cold harbor) •

[dykeselfcest]

Okay, belated, but I come bearing some information and commentary on the Lumon pharmaceutical packaging designs that were going around recently! [tumblr post] [on the designer's website]

First off, informational notes on the specific drugs that have packaging depicted here:

Budesonide—steroid; in this pill form it's used to treat inflammatory bowel disease

First patented 1973

Metoclopramide—used for gastroparesis etc, but in pill/injection form

First introduced to US in 1979

First generics 1985

Topical forms seem to be only available from specialty pharmacies, which tracks with "compounded solution" on the box—in present day irl these are sold as transdermal gels

Fluoroquinolone—class of antibiotics, not a specific drug

Prescribing began in 70s and 80s

The kidney note seems appropriate—it looks like not all fluoroquinolones can cause kidney issues, but that is a common problem with antibiotics in general

The notes about preventing antibiotic resistance seem reasonable, given that knowledge of the problem of antibiotic resistance arose pretty much as soon as antibiotics did

Chlordiazepoxide—for anxiety (or withdrawal from other benzos/alcohol/etc), the first benzo to be produced

Began to be prescribed in 1960

Given the potential dependency issues with benzos and that this was indicated for short-term use, the small number of pills makes sense

Amitriptyline—tricyclic antidepressant, also used for certain pain syndromes—usually second-line option due to bad side effects

FDA approved in 1961

Diazepam - aka valium; another benzo

Launched in US 1963; generics launched in 1985

General notes on the drugs:

All generics—implies Lumon is manufacturing drugs but not doing their own research and drug development—was the severance procedure their first true innovation? did Cobel have any preliminary data or just a concept?

The only true "error" I would note (aside from a few typos) is the use of "fluoroquinolone" as if it were the name of a specific drug that could be prescribed.

It's hard to comment on time period given the intentional anachronism in the show, but it's at least clear from the packaging for these drugs compared to the items used for the severance procedure that these are from an earlier era of Lumon, and the timeline of the drugs' introductions irl would allow for a period in the 80s when all of these would have been on the market.

[lifeisourcause]

Severance season 2 graphics by Kristina Perez

[malsorie]

Meet me in Cold Harbor.

[cryptid-on-a-string]

having a blorbo be like “Omg have you seen that one scene where he closes the door ????? 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍Oh and that other scene where he’s eating food ???😍😍😍😍!!!!!!! omg I love him so much 💕💕💖✨🌸💕✨💖💕💓💗🌟🌸💕✨💓”

[t-valentines]

saw a 'that old man' version and was compelled to make this. the og femslash

[saltyoaktree]

it's just me and my autistic gemma headcanon against the world

[sadistic-harpy]

rb if you support women in STEM (sadism, torture, evil, menacing)

[babylon5-deletingsoon]

maybe i like it when a female character is deeply flawed and responsible for countless deaths and so on and so forth. more female characters should be deeply flawed and responsible for countless deaths

[thinkatoryprocess]

The reason Ms Casey is so firm about people staying within the rules of the wellness session is not entirely about doing what Lumon says, but also because if the wellness session ends early, she has to go back into nonexistence again.

[padawanton]

My wife liked other people’s dogs

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

oh mark

[normalmammal]

harmony cobel my beloved weird genius who spent her youth raging against the oppression of a religious depressed small town and fought so hard to get out but in the end she loses everything and she has to go back but everything she could love about it is gone. I loved your backstory episode harmony.

[eiravolence]

jame eagan really rolled up on the severed floor to go "you a bitch fr. i am an abusive father and have had many illegitimate children. btw i think you're god incarnate. bye."

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

It drives me crazy how innie mark and outie mark have the exact same conversations without knowing it...!!! And they respond to the same existential questions people throw at them with the same arguments, only flipped!!!

Innie Mark: You (but really, I) will never know if you have a family.

Outie Mark: It's the point for some people (but really, me) to never know if they have a family.

Innie Mark: are we really captive if every time we find ourselves down here its because our past selves chose to walk here?

Outie Mark: Are they really captive if every time they find themselves down there its because their past selves chose to walk down there?

Both Marks focus on the same bullshit detail "well actually they stagger us..." when uncomfortable with the questions people ask about how the switching works...oh it drives me crazy

[dovahkiin-official]

I'm sure everyone has noticed the similarities between Kier Invites You to Drink of His Water and Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, painted in 1818 by Caspar David Friedrich.

But this is one painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and the man more often than not painted trees. He painted so many trees, dude. And I've seen them.

When I tell you I was screaming "IT'S HIS TREES" during episode 4, I mean I was annoying my husband watching with me.

Dead and gnarled and covered in snow. But also it's his snow and ice.

I was shouting at my television like holy shit the art department loves this one gothic romantic painter from the 1800s in a way that only rivals me.

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

I saw a severance post that said that they quote the handbook at each other even when they're trying to go against its ideals and I can't stop noticing it now. Both Dylan and Mark quote handbook passages at Irving as an excuse for misbehaving "see, I'm technically following this Kier rule, so I'm not doing anything wrong!" (This doesn't work)

But they try this on Irving since he openly lives and breathes the ideology of Lumon. He really falls for and finds meaning in the romanticism and noble mission of the cult they're all part of, unlike Dylan, who finds meaning in earning perks and incentives, and Mark, who is a bit more complex, but - all three of them have different coping strategies for dealing with the Horror of their Existance, strategies which they try on Helly, and Irvings is... Religion.

Its easy to think of him as the most brainwashed since to us he sounds like a stereotypically obsessed religious nut, but actually, even if they aren't as intense as Irving, Dylan and Mark are still capable of quoting any given part of their Bible with ease - equally brainwashed, just quieter about it. And it makes sense, of course they read the only book that's available to them (at this point in the story) they're starved for information about the world and cling to scraps of it - even if it's bullshit cult propoganda