Biting the bars of my enclosure. Its a shame severance is like a show everyone and their dog enjoys because there are so many normal people making normal posts about it and we don't really have a "500 pictures of the same character in a row in a deviantart gallery"-tier people here for the most part
my butch!mark AU aka what if YOU 🫵🫵🫵 were a deeply closeted heiress who had to watch your innie bag the hot older butch whose wife your company may or may not have locked in their basement.
I've seen headcannons for transfem Mark Scout and transmasc Mark Scout and personally I can see the transfem one but I can't see him being a trans man, mainly because if he was I don't think Devon would call him "m'lady".
Calling Reghabi a "mama" and "bitch", and claiming she's evil isn't just a misreading of her character; it's racist. Why is it that Helena or Harmony are allowed to be complex, morally nuanced characters, but Reghabi isn't? Why is it that most discussions about Reghabi aren't about her, but about the White characters? Why is it that when we don't know why Irving wants to take down Lumon, people assume it's for all the right reasons, but when we don't why Reghabi does, people assume she's malicious?
These questions are obviously rhetorical. I know the answer and you should too. But you should think about this more. And it's not just a problem with the fanbase, it's the writers, too. All the Black women in this show are sidelined. Alexa is a disposable Black girlfriend, Felicia is the third wheel to a White gay romance, Natalie we know nothing about, and Reghabi is essentially the Magical Black character. This is why I get so mad when people say that Severance should've ended at season 2. To leave all the Black women as unrealized, *trope-fufilling characters is bad writing at best, and offensive at worst. Lackluster writing definitely contributes to the hate and misreading of Reghabi, but ultimately it's misogynoir.
*When I say they’re not as fleshed out, I mean in comparison to the rest of the cast, They’re not as badly written and offensive as other characters who fall into their tropes, but it’s still a problem.
Will delete later but I think there will never a good time to bring this up, so here it is. I'm a person with a lot of hobbies, fandom being just one of them. Those who already know me are familiar with my posts and my writing and none of it is malicious because I tend to focus on the things I love. And yet I've found this on twitter about me and my post:
(The aforementioned is a screencap of something I wrote with my username cropped)
I don't think it's a good time to remind you of the damaging patterns repeatedly seen in this fandom, bullying patterns and hostile behaviors coming always from certain groups, but I feel like acknowledging it is the bare minimum. Especially since I’m not the only one who has been targeted, and friends of mine have received insults and shocking threats for simply… disagreeing? And ‘disagreement’ isn’t even the right term—it’s blatant attacks against people who engage with different aspects or characters.
Since severance rose in popularity the show became a boiling pot not only for interesting questions and theories, but for strangely unhinged fans who suddenly made everything about their workplace-whitemance, leaving everything else aside and very conveniently closing off when a pivotal moment of the show dropped, revealing the reality and the full story of a woc character.
The presence of Gemma Scout, distinctly alive and fighting back in the series, changes everything the audience knew so far and it's worth looking into why certain fans refused to empathise and turned a blind eye to her.
Why did this subversion of expectations upset them so much? Why are they bothered by Gemma having a key role in the narrative (when her character did not bother them when she was ‘dead’)? Why are they bothered by the fact that Gemma and Mark still love each other? Why do they undermine her? Why do they insist that she cannot coexist alongside the rest of cast/characters? And it all leads to the final question, why on earth would a person check my silly, harmless blog just to mock an opinion that empathises and praises Gemma?
There isn’t a neat answer of course, but things never happen in a vacuum and it’s clear there’s a pattern of internal biases and racism going on. That, paired with these fans’ constant takes (uplifting white characters while ignoring and/or denying the complexity of characters of color), paints a pretty clear picture. Not new, but why is helena sugarcoated, cutified and absolved of her predatory actions? Why have these fans given more thought to drummond (a two-dimensional villain) than to gemma who has an entire episode? It’s no coincidence. And it’s incredibly pervasive how they don’t let anything go untouched: with these people ridiculing/demonizing the actress, the writing, Gemma’s character and her relationships with other characters.
Speaking of, Gemma and Mark have been called uninteresting, uncompelling, bland, boring, ‘typical’ (whatever that means, if you think a couple separated and tortured by a megacorporation is ‘typical’ go off I guess), doomed to die, doomed to disappear, doomed to divorce, irrelevant, loveless, abusive, evil—whatever. Why do they not see their relationship as nuanced and complex, flawed but hopeful, trusting and intimate, full of traumas but also hope to build new things with one another? Why are they incapable of seeing it that way? GEE I WONDER!
It reaches a point where it doesn’t matter what canon says, despite the clear, concerted efforts to state the importance of her character—these people will always frame Gemma as some sort of unwanted, underdevloped element that stands in the way of their ship. Being forced to see this is bad enough, but I draw the line at my posts being a source for ridicule. I’m not looking to change the way anyone enjoys the show, just expose the damage and the deliberate blindness of these fans. I don’t have to see your shit (*shut up about markhellyna, zufu lovers and your pornslop*), but if you take the stuff I make with bad intentions I’m going to respond.
STOPP THE SECONDHAND EMBARRASSMENT IS KILLING ME. watching a show rn and the main character's current gf comes over while he's drunk and he's trying to prove he's moved on from his dead wife so he finds a picture of her and rips it all up and he's like 'whoaaaa seeeeeee?' omfg 😭
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