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Where we obsess about dystopian books and television shows, intelligently. I'm mostly The 100 trash but you may find some Once Upon a Time as well as other random fandoms. Secondary/Fandom account

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covinsky + being the cutest couple ever 

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[stinas-garbage]

If y’all don’t use the footage of Demi on Will & Grace to make edits of Chad and Sonny as adults by mixing it with footage of Sterling on Melissa & Joey then what’s even the point

Link me some if they already exist and I’m late to this lol

[stinas-garbage]

someone on twitter said if they don’t bring back Lexa for season 7 of the 100 they’ll stop watching 😆💀😂

Bro it’s the last season, we all gotta stop watching

[lorelaidanes]

[ahandmaidstale]

[colleenwing]

“I like the notion that June has this power over Nick that causes him to make decisions that aren’t necessarily ideal for his self-preservation. The power of love is a strong thing.” - Max Minghella

[stinas-garbage]

Oh MY GOD I just realized the stone parellels in the handmaids tale. In season 2, the handmaids collectively refuse to stone Janine and then as a consequence they are forced to hold stones up for hours on end without relief.

Season 3 ends with the handmaids coming together using stones to keep the guards from catching the Martha’s and the children trying to escape.

Amazing!

[mysharona1987]

RE: The Handmaid’s Tale. I think a flaw of S3 is its attempt to make unrepentant war criminals like Serena, Fred and Lydia vaguely sympathetic.  It doesn’t work.

When you understand why Emily stabbing and beating the ever living shit out of Lydia is considered one of the show’s greatest moments.

These people are impossible to feel sorry for. 

They’re not sad about the horrors of Gilead (mutilations, murders, rapes, etc.) 

They’re just sad Gilead has spun out of their control and they’re doomed.

It’s like trying to make Eva Braun in the bunker a likable protagonist. 

[stinas-garbage]

As for all three of them, I don’t think the fact that they try to have the characters seen as sympathetic means they’re going to try to redeem them. At least not entirely. I think they’re just incredibly good as depicting that no person is all good and no person is all bad. I think also the way they’ve been portrayed since the beginning will ultimately indicate how they are portrayed in the end. Like for example, from Serena’s first scene, were meant to dislike her. She seems like a villain, like she’s evil and we’re supposed to see her that way. And Lydia too, she seemed to have no compassion or sense of kindness. We were meant to see her as a bad character.

Fred on the other hand, always seemed so ambiguous. In the beginning he seemed to be uncomfortable with the monthly Ceremonies and yet he still did them. He first called June to his office and we were meant to feel concerned for her and then he just asked her to play scrabble. He seemed both scary but also not scary at the same time. He’s always been portrayed that way. Sometimes appearing as a caring man and sometimes as a sadistic monster. Consistently inconsistent. That makes him remarkably untrustworthy. And it’s how I know he never will be trustworthy. Serena’s character has been on a very slow but still upward trajectory. We’ve seen her character actually develop since her first scenes. It’s interesting to watch. I won’t be upset or surprised if her character in the end pays for all the damage she’s done but if Fred gets off Scott free, I’m gonna be so pissed off. Lydia I think could end up at least humbling herself in the end. Or she could die for her cause. It’s a coin toss.

But to disagree with you, I do feel sorry for them at time. Just like I feel angry at June and Emily at times. The good and bad tropes are blurred for a reason in the show. We’re meant to have mixed feelings for all of them. I ain’t even know how to feel about my man Nick. Homeboy has made me so mad at this point. 🙃

[peacefield]

they don’t give a shit about us.

[stinas-garbage]

I feel like I’m the only one who’s angry at Nick??? Am I missing something? Y’all??

[peacefield]

mood

[zalrb]

There are so many things to love about the Nick and June scene this episode. I, for one, was worried that Nick was never going to be able to hold his baby so I was relieved that he gets to hold Holly

I also love the parallel of this scene to when June tells Nick she’s pregnant in 1x10

Their absolute adoration of their daughter and their genuine happiness at being together with her alone in a moment without Fred, without Serena

June finally, finally verbalizing that she loves Nick

But also, I love that they’re both feeling this love and joy and they’re both processing it differently. June is just letting herself be in that moment with no guilt or reservations or self-admonishment. She’s with a man she’s in love and their child and she’s happy and in that moment carefree

and it took her a while to get to that space

whereas Nick is so happy and so in love and he realizes that neither June nor Holly can stay there

he’s making a plan in his head at that exact moment, he’s going to do everything in his power to ensure that neither of them perish in that house and in GIlead

and he’s saying goodbye

[stinas-garbage]

The show makers and actors did an absolutely phenomenal job creating this dynamic. On one hand I want to see it the way this thread portrays it. On the other, I feel the way June must feel after finishing season 3. Did he really even care for her? Or was he just playing her as he rose up in the society that has done nothing but tear her down and silence her and abuse her? Why didn’t he try to leave with her? Why did he let them just be separated? Why didn’t he tell her his role in Gilead? Why did he only ever fight for her or at the least support her in the dark? Yes it was because he knew he’d be killed the instant he did any of this and was caught but was he really comfortable with the way things were? Wherever would he draw the line in his complacency? The whole time I was wondering all of this. Had this uncomfortable feeling about him that there wasn’t something right and then we find out he’s going to be a soldier and his role in Gilead and I instantly was so angry at Nick’s character. I definitely think in the next season we’ll see them again and this time June will be as angry as I am about all this and maybe we’ll actually get some insight on who Nick really is. I’m confused as hell and very conflicted on him/them together. I don’t even know what to feel.

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june/nick | season two (season one) “in this place, you grab love wherever you can find it.”

[thehandmaidstalehulu]

Nobody dies from a lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.

The Handmaid’s Tale | 3.05 | Unknown Caller

[evilspirit]

get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get june out! get ju

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