#fields severance

[prettyasapic]

God, that moment where Fields, an older gay man who must have lived through the AIDs crisis, asks his husband if he had unprotected sex with a stranger is just sending the weight of history crashing down on me.

[alexjcrowley]

Did anybody else noticed that during the Old Men Yaoi dinner there were so many moments in which Irving asked a question, the camera was set on Burt's face but it was Fields's voice answering to the question? I feel it happened at least a couple of time, what a brilliant way to show how much power Fields seems to hold over Burt, what a way to stage Fields answering for Burt. It reminds me of a ventriloquist.

[peopleareaproblem]

gonna need the folks in the Severance tag who are baffled/angered by Fields's concerns about unprotected sex to have a long think about why a gay man who would have been in his early thirties in 1981 might be worried about STIs

[randomfandomss]

THIS IS THE LOOK OF A PERSON WHO IS EMBARRASSED ABOUT WHAT HE HAS TO PRETEND TO BELIEVE IN TO KEEP THE PEACE IN HIS MARRIAGE, HE IS THE ABUSED WIFE AND YOU GUYS ARE CALLING HIM EVIL???? I SWEAR TO GODDDD!!!!!!!!

[stupidusernamepolicy]

a couple other thoughts re: burt g. I don't think he's ever been a severed worker or if he has then he's very aware of . The implied long history with the company, the attempts to rekindle the same kind of humor burt and irv had and it seeming much more foreign to irving than it is to burt. Burt's acting suspicious on top of all that ofc.

Also, just relating to the workplace relationship and the discussions they had about it? Them being staunch Lutherians and gay. How they immediately think they had sex when they had not even kissed...

And this is more vibes-wise and speculative, but Burt being the "wild child" and one who needs to Get To Heaven to be with Fields, Burt pursuing Irving (in both senses of the word, to my eye),... It doesn't feel like love or a relationship purely based on it, but more like a keeper and his charge. Making sure he stays on the straight and narrow.

[fynnlink]

If I had a nickel for every time that australian actor John Noble was part of a scene involving him eating and an uncomfortable/awkward atmosphere I'd have two nickels...

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

I know my church growing up was pretty progressive, but Lutherans typically believe that the only thing that gets you into Heaven is faith in Jesus, so I find it kinda weird that Burt's main motivation to get severed is so his innie could go to Heaven when they explicitly mention he goes to a Lutheran church. Hoping that there's more there and that this isn't a strange oversight

[ariconditioner]

dude… is burt and fields from severance holt and kevin from brooklyn 99 in the evil timeline