[sevrd-belle]

I made this compilation of all the moments of Mark and Helly transcending Severance during Season 2. Both of them are reintegrating.

Please enjoy.

Also I apologize for the Helena Eagan typo, I was still relatively new when I made this. :)

[but-i-want-to-live-with-you]

I did a thing, I deleted the scary numbers made a meme

[sevrd-belle]

God Bless iMark and Helena for not caring

About anything

At all

[whimsical-catacombs]

shirt that says "i love redundancy!" on the front and on the back it says "i love redundancy!"

[mikkeneko]

And on the front, it says "i love redundancy!"

[sevrd-belle]

I hate redundancy but this shirt idea is funny. 😂

[wilderlavenders]

Irving B as a Leyendecker

[lowkeyyashell]

when she says "fuck me" and he immediately turns to look at her that pervert he was so down for it

[sevrd-belle]

Can’t tell if the head turn was scripted but physical comedy gold.

[94leeds]

i just wanted to be a regular fan i didn’t choose this

[sevrd-belle]

I feel like I walk the line between regular fan and stan.

I try to take time off whenever I become too stan-ish.

[frominniekari]

oh lord i’m not your strongest soldier, they are never beating the allegations.

[sevrd-belle]

Off topic, but I can probably count on a single hand how many times I’ve seen Adam Scott smile with actual teeth. Lol.

He does have a resting “I hate this place and everyone in it” face. Except here.

[jesterkoops]

I realise a lot of the discourse around Markhelly vs Markgemma treats this as a classic ship war, but I realise that is sort of missing the point.

I don't think Markgemma is supposed to represent simply a past/old/alternative relationship, it's supposed to represent a past/old/alternative identity for Mark first and foremost.

We often focus a lot on how the dynamics between Mark and Helly and Mark and Gemma are different (as I have done myself here), but the point is: they are not just different because Helly and Gemma are different women and complement (or not) Mark in different ways, but because it is a different Mark. Many of the juxtapositions are not about how differently Helly and Gemma approach Mark, but how differently the two versions of Mark approach his partner.

The most glaring example is o!Mark's lack of interest in what his partner has to say: and note that this does not happen just with Gemma but with Alexa too! When he tells her she's from Minnesota instead of Montana, it's the ants vs plants all over again. This lack of attention to what his partner says is a feature of his personality, which might relatively harmless in the beginning but as the relationship progresses and the stakes and difficulties increase, it becomes a big deal. "I'm nervous"/"I said I love you", and so on.

Contrast this with i!Mark's laser focus on Helly's needs, his making it his mission to make sure she's happy, his not giving up even when she was at her most confrontational and pushing him away and not giving him an inch. It's obviously hard to say if i!Mark's attention to his partner's needs and ability to listen and respond appropriately is because of Helly or because it's a personality trait, because he's never been with another woman. But I would guess it's likely the latter.

And it makes me wonder: if the premise is clearly that the innies are the outies minus their life experience and conditioning, what in o!Mark's life caused him to become such a polar opposite of his innie when it comes to relationships? That is the biggest mystery at the moment to me, because with Helena it's pretty easy to understand how and why she turned out the way she did. But Mark? Is it all down to his relationship with his "misdiagnosed alcoholic" father that we don't know much about? Was it something about his parents' dynamic that imprinted on him? Is there more?

[sevrd-belle]

Hot take: There was never meant to be a shipping war in this show.

Also, everything here is 100% correct.

[yms1]

90% of the time I just wanna go home.

[dailyflicks]

SEVERANCE 2x10 "Cold Harbor"

[sevrd-belle]

I hope this is a safe space but I always felt like MarkGemma was initially born out of an irrational hatred for MarkHelly and “main character ships” rather than for the sake of shipping.

Gemma was a torn up picture. We weren’t even sure that she’d become an actual character.

She was only a torn up photo when MarkGemma shippers started popping out of the ground. MarkHelly, at this point, had a lot of screentime, regular interactions, good banter, and it was building towards something.

I don’t buy when people say they were caught off guard by the S1 kiss. Either you were paying attention or you were willfully blind.

I think MarkGemma falls into the latter category. They made a contrarian ship, even when there was nothing to ship. And to be contrarian, you need to actively deny / reject canon.

To this day, that’s what it feels like, because this mindset ignores so much of the main plot and chooses to stay stuck in the past, selectively blind, even if it means misunderstanding the show, misunderstanding the characters (i.e. villainizing Helly) and being unable to predict it.

[stillgotscars]

dan erickson saying “[season three] is gonna feature a lot of fun weird hijinks that will probably make people mad” is all the confirmation i needed to know that markhellyna nation will be eating so good

[frominniekari]

THEY’RE SO IN SYNCH IM GONNA COLLAPSE, HER EYE CONTACT IS INSANE LIKE GIRL PICK YOURSELF UP WE’RE IN PUBLIC.

never beating the allegations

also, grand central station pop up keeps blessing us, praise kier.

[ichabodcranemills]

I'm rewatching 2x02 and yeah. I'm sure

this is the woman

we were meant to see

as a terrible person

and irredeemable villain

in a show so careful with visuals, yeah, I'm sure these were the facial expressions they wanted displayed by the woman who's only ever cruel and guilty of everything bad that has ever happened

[frominniekari]

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE MAKING A CHOICE

and it’s them, after Mark chooses HER, don’t want to ever hear another thing against them. It’s so clear that it’s always been Mark and Helly’s story.

[dailymarkhelly]

random markhelly moments / ∞

severance, 1.01 "good news about hell" first meetings

[sevrd-belle]

I’m still a bit ticked off at the comments of that Eager vs. Eagan video.

“Omg Britt should never stop pushing the GemmaHelly allegations”

- She’s doing that to pander to the fanbase to get them to like her. It’s depressing to watch. She’s the lead actress of the show. Helly / Helena are the main heroine of the show. I’m not sure why she has to pander at all.

Adam, who’s not affected by this fandom backlash, can openly show a preference for MarkHelly. Misogyny doesn’t affect him.

“Adam is so confused about the Eager vs. Eagan game, that man never knows what’s going on.”

- He knows exactly what’s going on. He knows all the bullshit that gets thrown at Britt online and in interviews. That’s why he refused to associate the word “Eagan” to a negative connotation.

You see his eyes shift as he disapproves of it. You see him get angry in other interviews when they ask Britt for the 10th time “are you Helly or Helena at the end of the episode?”

He changed the words on purpose. To yucky or yummy, which is a more mainstream version of the same game, without dragging the lead female protagonist through the mud.

We should all learn from him.

Anyways, that’s all.