[transatlanticalien]

Letterboxd speculation: Sturstead edition

[clover-fell-over]

dehived zosia for pluribus week!

[geeklovesstuff]

A study in couch time ( pt. 2)

Couch time issss sacred lol

[wexler]

we’re so back

[lexavillanelle]

karolina winning her first major award for playing zosia and immediately doing a whole ass love confession on stage to rhea i love her

[ruscha]

can i say something slightly controversial.

[ruscha]

carol x helen not being nearly as popular as carol x zosia has something. even a little something. to do with the fact that miriam shor is older than karolina wydra, and therefore seen as less attractive of a woman by general audiences. helen has tons of characterization and backstory with carol even from just the little time we get with her, whereas zosia is literally a blank slate speaking for 7 billion people who just met carol 2 months ago, and yet? hmm.

and i'm not talking about people who explore carol x zosia as a complex manipulative pairing with an almost otherworldly being, aka reckoning with the relationship as it actually exists in the source material. i'm talking about people who seemingly got nothing out of this show except wanting to push two hot barbie dolls together. you can even see it in the way people make light rpf-ish posts about rhea's chemistry with karolina, and never about her and miriam, even tho rhea has talked at length abt her chemistry with miriam even after just 2 episodes together.

could it be that some of you are uncomfortable with older women who don't exist as shells of pure wish fulfillment for the main character? just a thought

[mmhhch]

[namelessvoid77]

ever since i finished pluribus i cannottttttt stop thinking about carol's eggs being used to develop a way to join her. this choice she made directly tied to her reproductive health, directly tied to her lesbianism being so grossly taken advantage of to do something so expressly against her wishes. their violation of her consent by using her eggs because of their "biological imperative" to assimilate the population. it was kinda shocking to me to learn that this show was originally conceived with a male protagonist in mind because that's such a clever point of commentary on how choice surrounding reproductive rights is consistently stripped away under the guise of "biological purpose" or "the betterment of humanity" or similar reasoning. they respect consent when it comes to taking stem cells via a hip injection, but not when it comes to using her frozen eggs, something tied to an incredibly personal choice she made with her dead wife that they killed. they're not willing to kill any living thing, including plant life, but they are willing to use a lesbian's reproductive health to directly go against her wishes for individuality. it's fucking sickening. it's amazing writing. holy shit i love this show.

[halveablock]

a character study of one carol sturka.

more under the cut. thanks for reading! i'll have this as a physical copy at ECCC. come talk to me about pluribus!!!!

[diwhitney]

i don’t know what’s wrong with us they just made us this way / there’s a hole in you and me that pulls us together

[womansfilm]

"They're after some mystery man, some heavy hitter. Goes by the name Heisenberg. They want this guy like the axe wants the turkey."

[carolsturkas]

Rhea Seehorn as Roxanne in Whitney 2011

[halveablock]

we love you, carol

[obsessivedaydreamer]

i wrote another carolhelen fic :)

A Light Out on the Coast

Fandom: Pluribus Rating: Teen Words: 8,495 Relationship: Helen/Carol Sturka Characters: Carol Sturka, Helen Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, First Meetings, Internalized Homophobia, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Conversations Summary: Helen and Carol keep each other company on a quiet night in Cape Cod.

[kendrysaneela]

Rewatching the first scene with Helen and Carol really is so interesting because like. They are communicating completely non verbally. Their first scenes look almost identical to when we first see Zosia and they’re going through all these motions nonverbally from Zosia working with that guy to get the body from under the car into the truck, to Zosia taking the motorcycle and then getting on the plane it’s all completely nonverbal but they all know what the other is gonna do. It’s the exact same with Carol and Helen. They get their suitcases, Carol nonverbally asks to Helen move the book and she knows immediately, Helen hands Carol gum wordlessly, Carol even knows what Helen is saying with one word when she goes to drive and Helen is like “Seriously?” It’s only then that we actually see them actually talk about what they’re doing and even then it’s like only a few words and they know exactly what the other is saying. It’s basically like they’re in their own two person hivemind. I do kind of think it sort of predisposes her to fall into her relationship with Zosia she’s already used to a relationship where the other person knows everything about you and what you’re going to do before you do it and who you can communicate pretty well nonverbally with.

[artradio]

at this point helen’s my dead wife too

[gayujb]

helen..