#ava half man

[sunshinevettel]

I don't see why it's a problem. Because I don't know!

[danielsarmand]

Half Man 1.04 | 1.05

[thisautistic]

Aftermath

[dorsetti]

I had a whole thesis on Scotland’s economic reality as a character and mentioned one thing that got it flagged so what I will say is:

Class and economic reality are foundational to the story. Niall’s relationship with Ava has to be partly rooted in his admiration of her social class. She’s in a respectable profession and is seemingly from the stable middle (or maybe upper middle) class.

Her beautifully appointed Victorian townhouse in the UK’s 3rd largest city is full of tasteful modern art and warm Danish lighting features that retail in the £1000s. Her father can lend Niall £30k without chasing him for repayment. She moves with that confidence you only develop when you know that when you fall, there is a stable & strong safety net to catch you.

Ruben and Mona’s house also speaks to their social class. Their working class origins are apparent in its size, style, and decoration. It’s modern and huge, almost like an American McMansion. The rooms are full of large, expensive furniture and furnishings that show no warmth, good taste or personality. Much like the relationships in the show, the house is their idea of how they think successful people live. Like they selected the most expensive items from a catalogue just because they could afford them. Down to the deer horn lamp in their living room that is probably £75 at NEXT (think a slightly nicer TJ Maxx, Americans), their taste is dictated by the Instagram influencers du jour, very nouveau riche. But it stands on a house of cards, Ruben doesn’t have the means to maintain it without a high-paying job and he has no one to turn to help him save it.

Ava belongs to the secure social class that can ride out the economic shocks of the day. Ruben can only dream of that. And that has to be enticing, if ultimately hollow, to a guy from a Glaswegian housing estate. His orientation notwithstanding.

[lovelikeafuneral]

charlie and ​anjli on set of half man

[i-wanna-scream-tm]

It just makes me so so so fucking mad thinking about what Niall and Ruben put Mona and Ava through.

Niall agrees that he wants that baby, not because he actually wants that child, but because he wants to slight Ruben. Ava makes this massive fucking decision based on a lie.

Ruben has Niall stalk Mona because he is so afraid of not being a real man, just because he's infertile. Mona can't get a second away from that man or his wiry little brother.

Niall makes a comment about Ruben's infertility just to get himself out of the shit that HE got himself into, knowing DAMN well that it could've gotten her killed.

AND THEN he looks at Mona, a woman who has been through hell, being married to an extremely abusive and aggressive man that wants nothing more than her subjugation to him, and has sex with her on HIS kitchen floor. All to prove his masculinity by not pulling out.

Don't even get me started on the financial abuse they have both inflicted on them. Niall lied to Ava about the 30k, and Ruben lied about having a job just because their masculinities were so damn fragile that the idea of not being able to PROVIDE shatters everything that makes them whole.

Imagine the partner you were planning to have a child with lied to you about 30k, and you forgave him because you earnestly care about him, and then he has sex with a prostitute. At least he didn't fucking lie.

She comforted him. She had empathy for him. He had sex with a prostitute. He didn't even have the courtesy to fucking lie.

Niall has never been able to really provide, the only way being through Ruben.

Ruben has always been a provider because that's what a man is. Then he failed to do that in the one way he believes he's meant to. He fails to do what god made him to do. Eventually, that all comes down on Mona. She suggested adoption, and he ripped the sink off the wall. She had to sleep next to a man who ripped a sink off the wall.

Niall knows that he ripped the sink off the wall and then sends him a voicemail about Mona and Benji.

Of course, they did this. Of course, two genuinely kind women get pulled into their psychosexual battle for dominance because that's what happens when toxic masculinity gets to its worst. The people picking up the glass from the kitchen floor ALWAYS ends up being women because the greatest proof of masculinity is subjugating a woman.

[fuckmegentlewithachainsaw]

Does anyone know what's the difference in months between Mona's and Ava's kids??? How big is it??? +what's Ruben's second name, if he has one?

[pythia113]

Happened to my good personal friends Ava and Niall