[kaleidoscopesndreams]

The look of a brother now very aware he's no longer the only alphabet sibling in the family.

[mswyrr]

#shonda let them go to gay bars together#i need him to parallel Kanthony's “The sisterrrrr” with Franchaela's “Michaelaaaa”#HE KNOWS and i will eat my hat with a spork if the plot doesn't allow for a conversation highlighting this exact moment as a precursor.#also look at JANET'S FACE omggggg#ive been thinking about this since time immemorial

[closetcasefranchaela]

I just remembered an interview with Masali where she says Michaela wears sequins as a kind of celebration of the moments of joy she finds, something flashy. It reminded me of champagne—People tend to love it; it’s appealing to people who don’t even drink wine, and we associate it with celebrations.

It is in the celebratory nature that Michaela hides in plain sight, simultaneously grabbing attention but redirecting it perfectly to talking points where she is in control of the narrative. Sequins are also nice to look at—but not to touch. A shiny exterior that she wears like chainmail.

So in my headcanon, Francesca has strong preferences for particular textures of various fabrics, so when they start getting closer, Michaela starts to wear more dresses that feel nice, and she feels guilty for almost inviting Francesca’s touch.

She still manages to include something sparkly and fun but also keeps the same deep reds, forest greens, sapphire blues—altogether something she knows Francesca finds pleasant.

Once they start sharing a bed, Michaela switches only to linen because Francesca hates how wool sheets feel.

(“Bed linens are best suited for beds. Wool is meant to be a nice winter coat. I don’t need to lie in it.”

Francesca pulls back the bed linens to climb in, and Michaela just has that small amused smile as she always does when Francesca insists on this same point each winter.)

Francesca also runs warm, so as time passes, during the colder months in Kilmartin, Francesca gets used to waking up to Michaela curled up like a cat, pressing her back into Francesca’s chest.

After a year of falling asleep beside one another, Michaela will pull Francesca practically on top of her like a warm blanket in her sleep. She argues that it’s Francesca’s duty to make up for the lack of wool sheets for winter.

Francesca accepts all such responsibilities, and it turns out she’s very good at keeping her wife warm.

[carolsturka]

RHEA SEEHORN

as ELLEN SWATELLO in Franklin & Bash.

[whenfatecollides]

lesbian sex, the only known antidote for writer's block 😎👉

[heartcharacter]

[bicreature]

- To blow shit up? For kicks. I mean, does it matter?

Pluribus 1.03 "Grenade"

[warningsine]

The X Files 7.21 // Pluribus 1.02 (both written and directed by Vince Gilligan)

[warningsine]

Okay, bringing this back because it's relevant again.

The X Files veteran mutuals know what this episode is about.

It's the "It's like talking to a fucking genie with you people" episode and it was written by Vince Gilligan like I mentioned above.

There are a bunch of weird deaths happening and Mulder/Scully investigate them.

So they find a mysterious woman named Jenn that turns out to be a genie; she's bound to grant three wishes to whomever frees her.

As Mulder digs deeper, he discovers that it did not go well for every single person who has made wishes.

This genie is depressed and cynical (rings a bell?), because she's 500 years old and has seen centuries of greed and cruelty. She believes humans are fundamentally flawed.

When Mulder becomes her master, he wishes for world peace first (rings a bell?) and she wipes out humanity (again, rings a bell?) except for him. His second wish is to undo the first, because duh.

Before he makes his third wish, Scully tells him that people shouldn't be forced to be good, so he simply wishes for the genie to get freed.

And she does. (And the magical events get erased from existence too.)

You know who was called a genie in "Pluribus"?

That's right, Zosia/"Zosia" in episode 4 when Christina Aguilera's song dropped.

"Like a genie in a bottle."

His old obsessions are back.

Maybe this give us a taste of what might happen to those who take advantage of the hivemind for their own pleasure or what have you and also the fate of the hivemind (/Zosia) itself.

[teejay-kaye]

Ooooooooo it’s all “we support women’s rights and wrongs” until it’s a middle aged lesbian who is very understandably a little grouchy about the apocalypse that everyone else is smiling about

[teejay-kaye]

I’m just saying. if Carol was played by Pedro Pascal all her haters would be fawning over her and saying she did nothing wrong

[medievaljournalist]

unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice

[halles-comet]

vince did you just google "lesbian sentences to say"

[dykeselfcest]

new disease dropped

[toomanyvocals]

carol sturka in that dress. how she picked it out, got dressed, did her hair and makeup, put on heels. drove herself to dine out at someplace special in a car with "just married" written on its rear window. just to sit alone in the restaurant where she and helen had their anniversay. to eat the exact same meals she had on martha's vineyard in 1999 and helen's birthday in 2008. while the entire world agrees that the day her wife died happened to be the greatest day in the history of humanity

[birdplushie]

i keep thinking about zosia's life preserver analogy of how you wouldn't think or wait or ask before helping someone, and how that's something we see from carol multiple times. outside the bar in the first episode she immediately runs over to that guy who crashed his car to check on him and tries to get helen to call for help. later in the hospital she rushes over to catch that baby to make sure they didn't fall and get hurt. in episode 2 when she yells at zosia she instinctively reaches out to catch her when she falls over and sets her down safely, even though she's angry at her and for good reason. we then see her trying to get the dangling construction worker down (even if she was really bad at that in practice, it's the thought that counts). and after the grenade she tries to stop zosia's bleeding and calls for help. all of these examples of her trying to help people, to prevent harm, because the desire to do so comes naturally to her. in contrast to the hive who use this anaolgy in the first place to say they want to "save" carol, that it is not only their biological imperative but the morally righteous thing to do, but they don't mean saving her from any actual threat to her safety. it's just them deciding what's best for her and disregarding her autonomy in the process. when her life is actually in danger, when she could be said to be metaphorically drowning, they're nowhere to be found. they're not following their own apparent principles, at least not unconditionally. they literally have to ask permission from carol to save zosia's life when she has the heart attack, something they explicitly said "you wouldn't do" when you see someone dying (carol of course does not hesitate to tell them yes. it is absurd to her that they wouldn't just do what needed to be done. she would have)

[not-a-choice]

I think Pluribus intends for the audience to look at the Hive, and then at the real life news, and then back at the Hive and think "would that be so bad, really"

And then the show demonstrates that it would, in fact, be so bad

[mswyrr]

It is impressive, if they really have set themselves the goal, as artists, of arguing fairly--without softening the edges or pretending the full truth of people away--that humans are worth it. That the pain and struggle of connection is worth it. That freedom and choice are worth it. And life is precious, even though it can hurt a great deal.

[mswyrr]

Regarding whether the breakdown was genuine... Carol doesn't stay down. That's the truth of her and one of her most admirable qualities.

[mswyrr]

This is someone who was tortured by her own mother and the adults in her life as a child. Torture that kills people and is designed to break them in the most intimate ways. She does. Not. Stay. Down.

[ahauandthesun]

RHEA SEEHORN as Carol Sturka Pluribus (2025–) ⤷ 1.05 Got Milk

[lesbo-de-pointe-du-lac]

AITA for drugging my hive-assigned wife so she would tell me how to reverse the Joining?