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I miss you. I miss you. I miss you. colored vers.

episode seven being the episode that uses fiction to highlight that any kind of global breakdown in communications will effectively destroy life as we know is because we, as human beings, fundamentally cannot live without each other. thirteen people left on this bitch of an earth, but they’re all scattered across the world.

97% of the reason carol can’t cope is bc she needs someone next to her to keep her in check. i bet you if laxmi lived next door and cussed her out over the fence for day drinking, carol would drop the liquor at least when in public. someone like carol needs constant reinforcement. not fake happiness shit with the Others, but an actual person telling her to brush her teeth and wash her face. bc carol is someone the community would care for, and she would give back by creating wonderful stories for the community to enjoy.

bc in her heart, despite being a hero, carol’s not a leader. and the Others know that! they know she’ll never really be a threat bc she doesn’t believe in herself to really be a part of the survivor group. her very self-hatred makes her an easy target. it’s why leaving her to spiral for a month worked. they know she’s someone who desperately needs community to survive, and they won’t give her one by helping her connect to the other survivors. instead they broke her and made her beg for their fake niceties instead.

#pluribus

whether you ship stursia or not, it’s hard to deny that the idea of carol falling in love with zosia isn’t fascinating from a humanity standpoint. carol is completely against the hive, yet they send her someone beautiful, someone who embodies a character that only carol and helen ever knew of. they know that seeing zosia will be a constant reminder of helen. plus, let’s not forget that the hive holds all of helen’s memories. and we see that carol can’t even deny her attraction to zosia (see: carol all drugged up in episode 4 saying, “and why she gotta be so goddamn fuckable?”).

the hive clearly intended this as a way to draw carol closer, but she resisted. she tried everything she could to have the others fight back against the hive with her. as far as she knows, no one is coming. now she’s endured nearly forty days of total isolation. the only other voice she hears is a voicemail recording when she calls the hive. humans adapt to their environments, and carol is at rock bottom. she needs connection. this is most evident when she knowingly sits in front of a firework about to go off and doesn’t move as it nearly misses her. after this, she knows she cannot take the loneliness any longer. it seems this may be what the hive wanted all along. they repeat on the voice message, “we just need a little space.” but were they ever going to return until carol needed them back?

her relationships with the other unaffected are not good, so the only connection available to her is the hive. of course zosia is sent first, the one figure from the hive carol has connected with the most. from carol’s perspective, this is her reality now. she has no idea that someone out there was moved by her words and is on their way to help her fight. in her mind, this is the new normal.

that’s what makes the possibility of her growing closer to the hive and especially to zosia so compelling. it becomes a study of what humans will do to survive and adapt. what do relationships look like now? friendship? love? carol is going to explore all of that primarily through zosia. the possibility of falling in love with someone you were fundamentally opposed to, simply because they’ve become your only option for connection and intimacy, is deeply doomed and deeply toxic and that’s exactly why it’s so interesting. i can’t say it doesn’t intrigue me, and i definitely can’t say i don’t want to see more of it. incredible storytelling by vince gilligan.

#pluribus #stursia #carol sturka #zosia #hot hot hot #doomed yuri #toxic yuri #give it to me

1x01 vs 1x05

#pluribus #carol sturka #rhea seehorn #ouch

some shots from pluribus that i really love

#pluribus #carol sturka #rhea seehorn #up to episode 5 #i love shows that have great cinematography

imagine you’re gay and your mom sends you to conversion therapy at 16. this conversion therapy is full of happy, smiling faces who all want to change you. this severs the relationship you have with your mom. the trauma pushes you into heroin use during your sophomore year. all of this sticks with you so deeply that you battle alcoholism in adulthood and never feel fully proud of who you are. the only person you really have is your wife who then dies, along with nearly everyone else, when a hive mind virus takes over the planet. by the way, this hive mind is full of happy, smiling faces just like your counselors from conversion therapy. there’s only a handful of people left who speak your language who aren’t affected, and they all think you’re crazy for wanting to undo this virus. you also can’t express your anger in any real way, so you fall even harder into depression, alcohol, and pills just to get through the days. and now the closest thing you have to another person is a woman who’s part of the hive mind herself. but now she’s at risk of dying so you may lose the last bit of connection you had left once again. happened to my good friend carol sturka.

#pluribus #carol sturka #she is the most tragic #i want to cry

rhea seehorn as carol sturka in pluribus

#rhea seehorn #pluribus #yuribus #get it #ha #i love you rhea #everyone watch pluribus #carol sturka

carolsturka

SEVERANCE, 2x10 "Cold Harbor".

BETTER CALL SAUL, 3x03 "Sunk Costs".

sadandsevered

#my tweet in the wild #yay #severance

markhellyna

#markhelly #markhellyna #severance

there is nothing like making a choice.

#markhelly #oh my god i love them #again don’t mind the watermark #that’s my twitter user #follow me there too yay #severance

“whatever this life is… it’s all we have. and we don’t want it to end.” - mark s. (2x10 cold harbor)

#markhelly #don’t worry about the watermark that’s my twitter user lol #markhellyweek #markhellyweek2025 #severance

rickenhalesbookclub4innies

I love it so much that we see snapshots of Mark Before. Before the terrible thing happened and he fell apart. When he was well groomed and happy and working at a normal job he was passionate about and going home to his wife. I love that there’s a Before and an After. I love that he’s a new person forever now. And I love that there’s someone who’s fallen for the After version of him. He doesn’t have to go back to Before for that. Helly loves After Mark. It’s such a great depiction of grief and trauma.