#family is hell... again!

[ananke-xiii]

work/life balance vs we're like a family

okay so i'm gonna tag this "severance spoilers" but it's def more about s1 and i want to use this post for future reference since s2 is currently airing so there aren't gonna be any actual spoilers in it

if you've worked in corporate you probably know that "mental heatlh awareness week!!11!!11" and the "we're a team, we're a family" propaganda is real and sickening.

"severance" has taken the first theme literally since people arguably have "solved" the work/life balance conundrum by removing themselves from the picture: you don't actually need to balance your work/life... life anymore if one part of you "lives" while the other "works".

cool, fine, great concept, we're all hooked.

However, one of the show subplots is gabby arteta's and devon scout's pregnancies. And, as we all know by now, it's INSANE.

so... what if... they took the "we're like a family" theme literally too??

what if this is not a subplot, but THE plot?

what if it's not so much about severed workers but severed pregnancies??? as in, the severance procedure is a by-product of experiments on reproduction?

if you think about it, the severance procedure is about space rather than time: severed people still experience events in a linear chronological order but these events are based on the location they're in.

and where do gabby and devon go to have their babies? to the hospital, you say? No, they go to those scary pregnancy houses in the woods.

and who does mark end up dating? devon's midwife, alexa. Now, I don't remember how many but the show makes a point when it tells us the number of children alexa delivers per day. and, i mean, have you seen the town they all live in? it doesn't scream babyland, as a matter of fact there are literally no babies at all. the house are empty ffs.

so where are all these babies?

and what about ms cobel and her shrine with the baby thing inside? and she's a midwife as well? or, at least, she knows how to work with babies.

so... hear me out... what if.... WHAT IF

when ms cobel tells that guy (i don't remember his name, the security guy anyway) that "if you need a hug, go to hell and find your mother?" it's not just a cool line, but a key line?

we know the severed floor has been visually paralleled to hell via helly r.

we know that helly r. tells mark something along the lines of "you're not my family".

we know helly r. is very much family to lumon to the point that, when she was a kid, she thought she had hundreds of brothers and sisters...

we know that gabby's husband is a pro-severance senator who's clearly pro-lumon

so... what if

the key, or one of the keys, is literally to "go to hell and find your mother"?

what if lumon is your literal, actual family like in helly r's case????

[sourkreem]

i hc that jason is concerningly good at obscure competitive video games, and that tim comes around his apartment at least twice a month

[pocketwei]

mother,

[amevdw]

[justaz]

balinor giving merlin the ambrosius sigil and merlin carrying it around with him for years. merlin and arthur sitting around a campfire, both believing fullheartedly that they’ll be dead by morning bc like hell are they going to allow the other to sacrifice themself to close the veil. arthur giving merlin the du bois sigil as a parting gift and ensuring that merlin will be taken care of after his death. merlin biting the bullet and handing over the ambrosius family sigil in exchange. luckily, arthur doesn’t recognize the ambrosius sigil for what it is - a dragonlord lineage. BUT now he thinks merlin has noble blood and is wondering when tf he figured that out, if he ever met his father, and why he never told arthur.

[nocofamilyau]

Noah and/or Cody, what’s your favorite thing to do with the kids? Is it a certain or bedtime stories or something else entirely?

no Cody why are you singing that to him he's gonna get brain damage and other incurable illnesses

[fyllophobia]

seliph & ares commission, thank you!

[eternalmomentss]

Ashton "she's not going to take you" Greymoore, Ashton "I will stay and I will be there and I will not walk away" Greymoore, Ashton "stay soft" Greymoore, Ashton "you're the fucking best" Greymoore, Ashton "don't be brave" Greymoore, Ashton "they were way too good for this world" Greymoore, Ashton "I don't know what love is, but I'm going with this" Greymoore, Ashton "i love you all" Greymoore. The softness you hold in your heart...

[foryourownbosom]

portrait of a young artist, c. 1760s

(happy birthday dear john! 🌻)

[misteria247]

Ford: I want to show Stanley affection via hug but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Mabel: I know how! Show him via tackle hug!

Ford: Hmm......I'll think about it, thank you dear.

Later

Stanley talking to Dipper about something

Ford out of nowhere tackle hugs Stan knocking them both over while Mabel cheers on and Dipper watches in shock

Stan in a wheeze: oW MY BACK-

Dipper panicking: GRUNCLE STAN!

Ford also panicking now: I'm so sorry Stanley I just wanted to give you affection-

Stanley hugging Ford despite dying: AhhAhh affection hurts!

[sforzesco]

decimus wanted to wind cassius up a bit just to see how he would snap

uhhh. what else. you know!! caesar was collecting (and discarding) a new generation of romans, operating a new kind of roman imperium. political manipulation. "good" governance. conspiracies are forming in reply.

the collage art is all public domain/open access stuff from the met collections!

[leafspiritz]

good dog 🦴

[sapphirebluejewel]

Endless List of Platonic Relationships I Love - SHIELD Team

"One thing I don't need time to understand is that we are all in this together."

[nocofamilyau]

burnout gifted kid type (11/24)

[moeblob]

Terrified by this customer I helped today holy moly why would you say that while reading my name tag and saying my name please don't REPORT me for any behavior, good or bad. Just don't.

[kacievvbbbb]

I don’t know why, maybe because I’ve been on a Garp kick lately.

But I do really think that Garp kind of became like a surrogate Uncle to the Roger boys and by extension Mihawk. Like I can just imagine Roger telling them that if they were ever separated from the crew or if something ever happened to him or Ray and they needed help they should go to Garp (I mean he entrusted his own baby to him it makes sense he’d also entrust his boys)

(for whatever reason Mihawk got this talk too despite him already traveling by himself and not being officially part of Rogers crew. But since Ray adopted him he’s Roger’s brat as well)

All this to say that Garp takes his uncle duties very seriously and what is an uncle if not an inconvenience and an embarrassment?

So Ofcourse he pulls up to Kuriagina during the timeskip (Hawain shirt and all) to visit his new grand babies (read Perona and Zoro) that he’s heard so much about. (read shanks immediately gossiped with him abou mt after stumbling upon them last time he came to visit Mihawk)

And because Garp is essentially the one piece equivalent of Florida man, this goes well for absolutely nobody

Except Zoro who is nothing if not a troll. And game must recognize game.

The monkeys love him tho, he communicates with them on a wavelength nobody can quite understand least of all Garp.