In Search of Hope

Equally determined and confused. 

[theaxiomofhope]

[fearlessplatinums]

i support being a hater unless youre hating on something i enjoy and love and then you need to lighten up buddy wheres your sense of whimsy

[discojams]

mark demanding coffee from his sister, who journeyed into the snow to retrieve it, while in labor. mark i love you. you shouldve been killed on the spot for this

[sageshouldknowbetter]

featuring a self-described rickenesque excerpt of a draft essay by @binomech!!

[meerschweinchen-archive]

your twenties are Also about discovering that you’re not a bad person in all the ways you believed you were but you’re a bad person in completely new and exciting ways

[killhitleragain]

[theaxiomofhope]

👩‍🍳

[toastbutteregg]

[queen-of-meows]

The severance procedure hasn't been invented by some high management guy to create a docile and disposable workforce.

It was created by a young victim of child labour who desperately wanted to escape her existance of grief, abject poverty and drug abuse.

So many implications, can't even start to wrap my head around.

[kendrysaneela]

Oh god. Oh no. I just realized. Helena thought Mark liked HER. She thought that because Mark liked Helly that meant Mark liked HER cause Helly is her. Helly is part of her. That’s why she called for Mark when Irving was pulling her toward the water. She thought Mark would save her. And now she has to rectify with the fact that Mark didn’t love or even like her. Their whole thing was only because Mark thought she was Helly. Mark doesn’t care about Helena at all. And she’s gotta deal with that in her head now. That’s another person in her life who doesn’t love her. And this time it’s even worse. Because he likes someone who IS HER! It’s her body! It’s her brain! But he still doesn’t love her. She’s still not loved. But another version is loved so much by three whole people they’re willing to sacrifice themselves!!!!! Helena is loved by no one. She even had to almost beg Milchick to save her. No one was coming to save her. Because they don’t love her they don’t even like her. They love Helly.

[beyourghost]

helena eagan talks to a man as herself for the first time and she drives him straight to basement brain surgery she's such a freak i'm obsessed with her

[cowboyidiot]

there’s something so beautiful about helena eagan not being written as an elite frigid untouchable evil yet perfect woman like she’s such a loser and it’s so wonderful. she’s revolutionizing loser women on my tv in the same way helly r continues to revolutionize the representation of girls that bit someone in 3rd grade. and they’re both the same person and hate each other and are messy about it. it’s just beautiful.

[consultingfujoshi]

outie irving thinking his innie had an erotic entanglement with burt when in reality they never even kissed and innie irving being told that his outie is a skilled lover when in reality he's never been loved his whole life

[pussyevisceration]

they’re growing on me

[kelvintimeline]

I feel like typically the "dead wife" montage does nothing for me, even when executed very well, because it's often just like "here's this woman you'll never get to meet, she only matters because a man loves her so much and now he's sad."

But the montage wasn't just Mark's recollections. It was her perspective too. He's her dead husband. He's her Eurydice as much as he's his own Orpheus.

This isn't humanizing Gemma for Mark's sake. This is humanizing Gemma for Gemma's sake and it's there not for us to root for Mark, it's there for us to realize we're rooting for Gemma. Every moment Mark reaches out for her, she's reaching back.

The dead wife montage normally deprives a woman her agency, making her a tool for a man's arc, but this episode fully restored Gemma's agency. She's fighting back, she's yearning too. She hurts, she aches, she angers. She fights, she bleeds, she gets frustrated too. And has been before she was ever Ms Casey,

I've never seen a show restore a character's humanity as fully as this single episode did for Gemma. She went from an abstract concept--a wife, a severed employee, a ghost--to a tangible person.

And this was realized so literally as well. We literally see her bleed, we literally watch her eat, her hands cramp up, her teeth ache. It's like watching a hologram become flesh muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

I'm in awe of what they were able to do for her in just 50 minutes. In many ways, I feel I know Gemma better than I know half the cast.

[theaxiomofhope]

SEVERANCE BLOGGING

Soooo I watched all of Severance in the last couple of weeks

I realize it says bad things about me as a person AND YES I GET THE POINT THAT INNIES MATTER etc etc etc

But I FEEL SO MUCH for oMark and Gemma and barely anything for Helly and iMark

While I understand the scene I was BIG FUCKING MAD

(and I not so weirdly care INTENSELY for Helena as as an eldest faildaughters!)

[theparadigmshifts]

yeah i trust her. she's framed really normal and trustworthy here. don't worry about it