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Mark telling Petey where he is actually means so much to me idk
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Mark telling Petey where he is actually means so much to me idk
Dividing Lines Chapter 26
Chapter 26 of Dividing Lines is out in the world, co-written with the wonderful @insert-witty-user-name-here! In which Don pursues his own line of investigation (wisely? that remains to be seen...)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61967617/chapters/220937206
No name, no memories, and an overabundance of corporate jargon that would drive anyone insane.
Loki is trapped inside a sinister bureaucratic nightmare, and he’s desperate to wake up.
The TVA – whatever that is – claims he opted to undergo the “Severance Procedure,” splitting his consciousness into two distinct chronologies: one living freely in the outside world, the other eternally bound within the confines of the TVA. The only light in the darkness is a man named Mobius, who also happens to be his team leader.
If Loki has imprisoned himself on purpose, he wants to know why – and if he can’t escape, that only leaves one option: burn it all down.
Hey, so, uh, is it just me, or has Mark seemed more volatile specifically since Regbahi flooded the chip? Like, I know he's going through A Lot, and he's always been an asshole and never has been good at handling his negative emotions but, you know, does anyone else wonder if difficulty regulating emotions might be a side effect of experimental brain procedures? Anyone else worried about whether there will be long-lasting effects from this? Anyone really anxious that this will blow up on Mark and his goals in the worst way and everyone will just blame him for it?
Ode to reintegration sickness
Changing my Severance fan theory. We already knew Lumon was lying about the severance procedure being permanent because of reintegration. I think they’re lying about the other part too. Reintegration isn’t just possible, it’s inevitable—with the same results as Petey.
Lumon and Reghabi are both trying to solve the same problem, just in opposite directions: Reghabi by making reintegration survivable, Lumon by strengthening the barrier to prevent it.
A trauma is a traum, a wound, a rupture in our life-experience, and as such it is obviously not going to be possible to adequately assimilate it into a smooth, linear narrative progression: if it was, it wouldn’t have been traumatic in the first place. We can absorb normal events into our ongoing mental narrative of ourselves, but traumas are the places we get stuck, where we trip up, and as a result they tend to generate mental stutters.
—‘Every Night, The Same Routine’
Art by @larri0li 🖤
The Gothic novel is, in its conclusion, typically neither open nor closed — but slightly ajar.
—Industrial Gothic
Gif by @maxanor 🖤
Patients are rarely cured in the genre, and orthodox practitioners seldom seem competent to deal with the uncanny and unprecedented.
—The Handbook of the Gothic