#is goals

[scribe-of-hael]

A perfect world is Knockout listening to Sabrina Carpenter

[dystopiandramaqueen]

Do you separate Nick from THT? In that, the creators and show runners are pretty toxic and the show isn’t really helping anyone… but the character of Nick !!

If you mean for the television series? Yes, 100%.

The book is a different story.

Nick is the keystone in Margaret Atwood’s iconic book.

The book begins and ends with June thinking on her sexuality. Like bookends.

June starts off in chapter 1 in the red center- a renovated highschool gym. June imagines the highschool dances that took place in that space. She remembers what it felt like to be *wanted*. To crave and be craved. How epic and validating love and lust are. What a key part of life that excitement and yearning are.

She goes outside to walk on the track with the other handmaids. “angels” are positioned outside the chain link fence, facing away from the handmaids.

She feels power though- knowing she has something to barter with them. Maybe she could exchange something for protection or food or favors.

Then when she’s forced together with Nick-

And they begin an achingly sad, doomed affair- and she gets pregnant with his child- and he rescues her- “likely at his own expense”….

It becomes clear there was another exchange.

Nowhere near the simple sex work she imagined on the track. Not “maybe I’ll blow a guard and get an apple.”

Nick exchanges his safety. His anonymity, his cover- for June. He protects her life above his own. Because he fucking loves her. He makes a hero’s sacrifice. Getting her out. Knowing he will never see her again.

Full stop, end of story, roll credits.

Nick saves her. Love saves her. Nick’s love saves her.

I mean.

Then you read Atwood’s ending.

The ending she wrote after rich white men started fucking w her story. Putting June… back in the house? 🧐 TWICE? 🧐🧐🧐 filming graphic rape over and over and over… hanging black bodies. Shooting and dragging black bodies. Hurting women. Because… rape and misogyny win Emmy’s? 🤷🏼‍♀️ yup.

Anyway. Atwood, Goddess fic queen that she is, writes the ending. 20 years in the future.

Grampa Nick, June, Luke, Holly, Hannah and their children- erect a statue. Carve in fucking STONE - “Love is stronger than death.”

So that even when they are long dead and buried. The legacy of their love will live on. Because love saved them. It made them brave. It helped them survive hell.

So Nick Blaine- as written by Margaret Atwood-

described at the edges of the story, but integral to June’s emotional and physical survival-

He is who we love.

He must be protected at all costs.

He is blorbo from my shows- my long suffering son.

When his full arc hits in S6 EVERYONES gonna love him. It’s epic. Just wait.

The fact that rich white men are making money off of Atwood’s story by writing never ending seasons of misogyny porn 🤷🏼‍♀️ not my circus not my monkeys.

[salzrand]

30 Shades of Fluff [6/30]

Reading To You 

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That. Voice. (Part 1 😘)

[legobiwan]

I would die for Cara Dune the end

[dkettchen]

look at other ppl’s T updates while I’m working on mine

[tytrack-kpop]

donghyuck: hey mark!

mark: what?

donghyuck: you're pretty

mark: ...

donghyuck: -fucking uGLY

mark: i knew something was off

[definition-of-awkward]

ok but... Geralt and Dandelion... are so good together?? like... you just KNOW that they'll have each other's back no matter what... the true definition of through thick and thin...

and maybe Dandelion is not at all used to combat and can't exactly protect Geralt with brute strenght, but you can bet your life that he'll do whatever it takes to help Geralt, no matter what.

they're just. best bros. but like... In Love.