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piper halliwell in season two, episode ten; heartbreak city
That’s easy for you to say. You’ll never greet your husband at the door with “Honey, I think I froze the kids!”
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Nick & June (+ Luke) - 4.10
OK I figured I would just do a post because I got a few asks asking if I could write out my thoughts about Nick’s active involvement with June’s revenge vs. Luke’s push for her to let it go.
I’ve mentioned this before but I think it’s important to note that Luke and Moira are a unit now, they’re a team, they’re co-parents, they’re, I would argue, best friends, they’re family
and I think it’s important to note because Moira is emotionally dedicated to moving forward by letting the past go, she is doing all she can to build a life in Toronto
even when she’s angry about Fred and wants to send June to Geneva, it’s a palatable anger and a palatable response to that anger and when they find out about him being extradited to Gilead, her response is “Good, fine, whatever, I’m not wasting anymore energy on him” and Luke wants June to have the same response. He sees the work Moira is doing, he sees how communicative Moira has become, he sees how she helps the effort by working with nonprofits and raising money and contributing to The Fight in that way,
and he wants June to do that. I wouldn’t have said this in 4x07 but I do think he wants her to be a palatable victim/survivor but of course, he wouldn’t see it that way, I believe he believes that telling her to let it go and move on is healthy because she’s not “stuck” in trauma.
An anon said that Luke not being in Gilead so he can’t understand June is a copout explanation for his reaction and while I don’t think his behaviour should solely rest on the fact that he wasn’t in Gilead – let’s also remember in the flashbacks while Luke offhandedly mentioned that the new laws were terrible and he did walk with Moira to keep her safe, he wasn’t with June and Moira at the protests
Sure, it could be inferred that he was with Hannah or he was at work but even when they discuss the laws, he’s flippant
and unaware
but I do believe the fact that he wasn’t in Gilead plays a significant part.
Nick has seen the way that Gilead and Fred and Serena have negatively impacted June:
He found her, pregnant and bleeding out, outside of the Waterford House:
He has watched Fred and Serena play house with their child:
He has risked his life numerous times to keep June safe
and he has had to keep June safe by doing morally questionable things that immediately hurt her in order to save her:
He was forced to marry a fifteen year old girl because Fred couldn’t handle Nick and June having any sort of intimacy and through a series of different events Eden ended up dead:
It’s not only that he gets the context of June’s rage, I don’t think he simply accepts and supports that a way forward for June is through Fred’s death at her hands but he genuinely understands that,
He genuinely thinks that’s right, he genuinely wants a part in his murder because of everything Fred put June through and Nick through, which is why there’s as such a strong sense of victory in his eyes when he takes Fred into custody
And Luke, living in Toronto for how many years, doesn’t understand the concept of killing Fred in the same context that Nick or June does, murder isn’t a viable option for him because he’s always lived in a different kind of society, under different kinds of laws and hasn’t had to do things and hasn’t had to lose people and pieces of himself in the way that these two have.
But I think another dimension to this is that Nick knows a different June than Luke. I mean this in terms of personality and behaviour. Nick knows a stubborn, active, rebellious, facetious, tenacious June
And these are qualities that he loves about June and he knows what would be enough for her and understands her motivations and her morally ambiguous actions, he sees her and there’s some of these qualities in Nick himself, which we see in how he reacts and responds and loves June:
so there is a genuine, intimate understanding there that leads to them both planning and executing Fred’s death as a victory.
The June Luke knows is perpetually apologetic
and seems to always feel bad for not behaving in a way he can wrap his head around
and she is worried that she isn’t good enough, that she won’t live up to his expectations:
and frankly, that’s a thread from their pre-Gilead relationship,
and while they were together long enough for there to be a sense of security for June, because of the way they got together, there’d been an undercurrent of insecurity
and he would make her feel better
and it would presumably work
June pre-Gilead is facetious, yes, and the fact that she went to the protest shows that an impulse to do something active, particularly with a mother like Holly, exists, yes, but she doesn’t press an issue, she doesn’t really show the kind of stubbornness and fire that she has in Gilead (probably because she didn’t have to)
and, again, Luke was enough
so I think Luke kind of expected him saying “this is OK” and “I understand” and “let’s move on” and “Fred doesn’t matter” would have the same kind of effect that it did pre-Gilead, he expected her being in Canada and the promise of him and them to be enough but, June is not that June anymore, their relationship isn’t that relationship anymore, she’s a June that needs the victory she found with Nick.
Does any of that even make sense? Lol. I feel like I was all over the place, so sorry for that, but those are my thoughts!
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Anyone: u ok Me; yeah just thinking about how I’ll never be this young again and about how most of my youth has been lost to depression loneliness and self doubt lol
So much of patriarchy relies on men genuinely believing women are too stupid to catch on and women genuinely believing men are too stupid to do terrible things on purpose
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4x07 & 1x03
June's speech about Serena was about Serena. Not June. June has not become Serena. Until June decides it's completely okay to strip away another person's humanity as a means to her ends she is nothing like Serena (I mean again. I still remember OfMatthew. But it's important to remember June was pushed to that point and she regretted it. Serena got there on her own and stayed there). Her rage at Serena makes sense. The fact that she's fucked up about sex and boundaries now makes sense. What happened with Luke was fucked but I don't see the show pretending it's not. The camera was literally pointed at him when June said the word rape. That was not an accident. The effects of trauma aren't pretty and becoming someone who could survive Gilead means you aren't going to end up particularly nice. June's a gaping wound of a person right now. It's going to take time for her to transition back into someone not living in Gilead where bodily autonomy and basic humanity aren't things. But the Serena thing believe it or not was progress. June got to confront her abuser and say everything she wanted to. People don't like to think of anger as cathartic but it can be. That was her feeling her goddamn feelings. The thing with Luke afterwards is how trauma warps things like perception. June felt stronger after the encounter with Serena. I think she initiates sex because she's trying to reclaim more of herself. She's felt like a shadow up until then. Unnecessary to her baby, damaged, guilty, and terrified. She understands anger. Anger's fueled her for years. It helped her survive long enough to be rescued. So she feels justified rage sated, she's riding on the high of making SERENA cry for once, finally. She wants more power and autonomy back. So she initiates sex with Luke. She becomes so focused on feeling like a person again for just a little bit she forgets he is. That's what severe trauma does. It makes you selfish. You just have to survive. You do what you have to survive. And for the last 7 years (because June was in Gilead 3 years before season 1) she's been in a place where consent doesn't matter. It can't even really exist. You can't take someone out of a near decade of that and expect them to react rationally. Not to excuse what she did but it wasn't illogical and I don't think it will be glossed over. This entire episode was just example after example of how you deal with trauma, what trauma does, how trauma displays itself. It's all going to be an ongoing process. June will do good and bad and make progress and regress. We got multiple examples of that just in this episode. Healing doesn't move in a straight line. June is not irredeemable. Serena is.
also there is obviously parallels between June and Serena. The big difference is Serena has ALWAYS been this way. Yes she has progressively gotten worse, but she was always willing to step on anyone and everything that got in her way so she could get what she wanted. And what she wanted was her little happy ending, even if everyone else's was stripped away. It was concious and calculated. She is willingly a bad, manipulative person.
June on the other hand has become an extremely morally gray person, but it's out of trauma and ultimately from a good place. It didn't start as her being a shithead who didn't care about the suffering of others, it was desperation and trauma. Even now we see her struggling with survivors guilt and seeing herself as a bad guy because she didn't WANT to do a lot of what she's done, but she needed to. It has been selfish at times yeah, but a lot of it was to survive and try to do what needed done.
Serena is unchanged. She has caused June so much agony, and June is rightfully appalled by her, but in her selfishness she cannot accept letting June get the better of her. She will sacrifice it all to get freedom and a happy life with no consequences, and to spite June.
June has changed as she has become numb to a lot of the suffering. The flashbacks are a sign she's harboring lots of guilt and trauma and the enormity of it is starting to hit her. She feels she cant leave without Hannah because that's always been how she's coped with everything; by reminding herself why she started this all in the first place. But at the same time, she is so used to making these split second decisions without really considering the full risk and scope of what might happen because thats how she has lived for so long and she feels like if she stops to think about it for one second she's done for.
They're the same, but on opposite sides of the spectrum. Two angry, chaotic, impulsive people, but one started out motivated by contempt and the other was pushed into that motivation.
This isnt something I think won't be addressed. It's a massive plot point. It's basically THE plot point now. As June begins to settle into Canada and it all starts to really hit her, she is going to be forced to come to terms with everything she's done and who she is, and she's going to have to make the choice to be a better person - something Serena chose not to do.
The duality of June Osborne -
Reflections on The Handmaid’s Tale 4x07
[Spoilers ahead for episode 4x07, “Home”]
Hero: a person who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great.
Villain: a bad person - or a character in a book, play, film, etc. - who harms other people or breaks the law.
(Definitions from Cambridge Dictionary).
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literally nothing frustrates me more than people saying “we want to see less june” ..... pls shut tf up oh my god no we absolutely don’t want to see less of her. this is literally her story. she’s such a great complex character, sorry she’s not perfect all the time but no one is and that’s literally the point so pls get over it. anyway
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