#v: balsam for madness

[balsamina]

@88sugiru

As she made her way through the conservation area, Klara may have gotten the uncanny feeling that she was being watched.

It was not any of the other visitors that had filed into the facility with her from the ferry, nor any of the white-clad employees that flitted about the area, and rather one of the Pokémon. Unlike most of the others, it did not walk behind the protective railing and rather on the walkway with her, trailing after her at a lumbering pace.

The Bewear, which from afar would have seemed harmless, like a child’s plush toy, was menacing up close, dauntingly tall and clearly muscular under the layer of thick fur. Its behavior, however, was much less so. Button eyes blinked and fluffy white ears waggled at Klara in curiosity-- then, from its maw came an adorable squeak, as if to greet her.

“Bweh.”

[banchoaniki]

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Mad Men rewatch: Season 1, episode 2: Ladies Room

We didn’t get much at all of Betty in the first episode. In fact, she allegedly didn’t have any lines at all in the first draft of the script. So this is the first time we really get to meet her. Betty’s mother has recently died and she clearly isn’t coping well. To the point that she’s starting to experience stiff and shaky hands, and ends up crashing her car with the kids inside.

Don and Betty have a new neighbor who is *gasp* D I V O R C E D. I don’t know if it was the intention but I got the feeling that this didn’t help Betty’s anxiety. It’s implied that Betty does know about Don’s philandering and doesn’t want to admit it. The arrival of Helen Bishop makes her consider, perhaps subconsciously, that she too could one day be in the situation and it terrifies her.

From a modern perspective(and as someone who suffers from severe anxiety myself), it really is cringeworthy to watch Don’s dismissal of Betty’s mental health issues, but I guess that was par for the course for the early 1960s.

There is a sweet side to Don and Betty’s relationship. It gets lost in the wayside, but it’s there. The scene at the end where they’re having dinner at a fancy restaurant in the city is actually pretty cute. You can see why they got married.

At Sterling Cooper, Don and the dudebro brigade are having trouble with coming up with an idea for Gillette's new spray on deodorant as Roger and Cooper are trying to persuade Don to work on Nixon’s election campaign. I probably missed something but are they pitching directly to the Nixon campaign? Are they forming a PAC? Did they have PACs back then? It’s been a while since I’ve watched Season 1, don’t judge me.

Meanwhile, Peggy is having trouble fitting in at her work. Pete(who, as you’ll recall, she just had sex with last week) is off on his honeymoon and literally every man in the office is being a weird creep. She thinks she finds an ally in Kinsey, but then it turns out he’s just as much a creep as the rest of them. I love Peggy(obviously), but I generally prefer later series Peggy to early Peggy, but I have so much sympathy for her here, which is why the scene where she goes into the bathroom to cry but then decides that she’s not getting to let those bastards get to her is so satisfying.

The seeds of Peggy’s copywriting career are planted in this episode. While it’s clear he’s just hitting on rather than actually having faith in her abilities, Kinsey is the first person to tell Peggy that there are female copywriters. Then, after rejecting Sal and Kinsey’s astronaut idea(“who is this moron flying around space? He pees in his pants!”), Don says they should be targeting women who buy deodorant for men. Shame they don’t have any female copywriters on staff!

Random Observations

Peggy takes Pete’s postcard and hides it in her desk. NGL Pegs, that’s a tad stalkery.

I have problems with feeling in my hands/arms due to anxiety myself and it is truly terrifying so the scene where Betty’s hand start shaking and she crashes the car brought back some not great memories.

I don’t care how fancy that restaurant is, you couldn’t pay me to eat a raw egg.

We get our first glimpse of the legend that is Creepy Glen Bishop sitting on the steps as his mother struggles to lift a giant cardboard box with a pitchfork sticking out of it.

Francine is simultaneously the best and worst character on the show.

I love Mona. She and Roger have the most incredible chemistry, even when it’s clear that their marriage is unhappy. They are married in real life so of course they’d be great on-screen together.

Roger is apparently young enough to have had a nanny during the Lindbergh Baby debacle in the 1930s, which actually makes him only 2 or 3 years older than Don at the very most. That’s… weird to think about. The show makes him seem so much older. And I believe later events on the show actually contradict this claim so ???.

Don calling Betty “Birdie” is really cute, but hearing him call her “Bets” drives me up the fucking wall.

Peggy earns $35($294.48) minus $6.75($56.79) for FICA. Just a few years later she would be making the equivalent of a six figure salary.

Who is this guy? No really, who is he? Do we ever see him again?

The banana Peggy brings for lunch is the nastiest banana I’ve ever seen holy shit.

I always get a kick out of the scene where Don is doing push ups: “seven, eight, nine, ten *sees Betty get into bed* ninety-nine, a hundred.” Same, Don.

Audio commentary

There are two commentary tracks for this episode. The first is with January Jones and Rosemarie Dewitt and the second is with Michael Gladis and Elisabeth Moss. Jones and Dewitt do their commentary together and have some pretty amusing banter, but Moss and Gladis do theirs separately and the tracks are edited together. This is something that happens a lot on the Season 1 sets(but not on any other season, so at least they learned their lesson). I get that scheduling issues are a problem and there’s a limited amount of space on the DVDs, but it sounds awkward and weird tbh.

Harry Crane was supposed to kill himself, but Weiner ended up liking the character so he lived. I’ve heard this before and I vaguely remember there being more info in future commentaries but I believe this is the first it’s been mentioned so I’ll put it here.

Jones and Dewitt agree with me on the raw egg thing. Ewww.

The restaurant scene was shot in a restaurant/bar called The Prince in Koreatown in Los Angeles.

Despite being married IRL, this is the first time that John Slattery and Talia Balsam have acted together and they were nervous.

January Jones originally auditioned for Peggy and she got pretty close to landing the role, but Matthew Weiner told that she didn’t come across as “innocent” enough whatever the hell that means. Betty was originally supposed to be a very minor character but Jones made Weiner decide to expand her role in the series.

Jones complains that she never gets to see any of the actors besides Don and kids.

Dewitt didn’t want to cut her hair, so they made her wear a wig. But the wig looked so fake that they wrote it into the show.

This episode was shot a full year after they shot the pilot. The actors had no idea whether or not the show was going to be picked up. They also didn’t know if they were going to shoot in New York or Los Angeles(the pilot was shot in New York, but the series of the series in LA). Ultimately it came down to Matthew Weiner not wanting to move his family across the country. Moss argues that it’s actually more practical to shoot in Los Angeles because it’s not like they can make modern day New York look like the New York of 1960 and in LA, they have easier access to sets and such, there are a lot of restaurants and other businesses in Los Angeles(“there are a lot of places that look like they were abandoned in the 60s”) that are very reminiscent of that 1960s aesthetic, and the architecture in LA is apparently more period-appropriate than the architecture in New York.

Weiner told Moss that in every ladies room in every office, at some point you’ll see a female employee in there crying(???). How Matthew Weiner knows so much about what goes on in women’s bathrooms is unexplained.

Gladis says the character he played in the pilot(“Dick”) and Paul are considered to be different characters and he had to re-audition for Paul when the show got picked up. The main difference, he says, is that Dick smokes cigarettes and Paul smokes a pipe.

Moss has extremely high praise for Christina Hendricks, her most frequent scene partner in the earliest episodes, and calls her one of the most wonderful actresses she’s ever seen.

Gladis had bronchitis and was “drugged to the gills” during filming.

Gladis worked on the impersonation of the Rod Serling and watched a lot of the Twilight Zone. He loves that Paul is a sci-fi nerd.

Moss says that the closest thing Peggy has to a friend is Don because he’s only one not trying to fool her or take advantage of her.

Gladis says that his kiss with Peggy was his first on-screen kiss and he was very nervous.

“No one worries about the bomb anymore” says Michael Gladis. Man, I miss 2007 sometimes.

Anyway, pretty good episode. Six and a half bad wigs out of ten.

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[balsamina]

In the evening, the Worm Our God went to Alola, and its six eyes searched for black glass between the grains of sand. When it gathered attention, it saw their horror and it felt joy and sorrow boil within. Said Eternatus: " BE NOT AFRAID! I COME BEARING WINE AND TEA, SUGAR AND MILK, LACED WITH HONEY AND CREAM. ANSWER ME THIS, O' MATRON MINE, AS I FIND THE GLASS THAT YOUR GODS HAVE HIDDEN FROM YOU, AM I A PART OF YOUR DREAM? OR ARE YOU A PART OF MINE? "

The instinctual terror fades quickly, leaving her lingering awe alone. It must be a dream for a beast like this to be here, speaking to her in what sounds like a sermon.

“Oh, well-- I’m afraid I’m not sure myself... But what does it matter?”

Looking at it brings to mind ocean depths, the crystalline folds of Ultra Space adorned with pulsing alien life-- then, bizarrely, trips to the beach with her children when they were still small, Lillie’s skirts damp with sea water as she combed the shoreline for anything that sparkled. This creature is seeking something in the sands, too.

“Shall I help you look for your glass?”

[balsamina]

There is a certain sun lion lying upon the roof of Aether, staring down at the humans, dressed in white, and seeming to be making a clamor and pointing towards him. One rushes off inside, while others discuss amongst themselves. This behavior is amusing to him, his forepaws resting over top themselves, and the ledge of the building he had picked as a perch. Typcial feline behavior, is what this is... (solusflares)

@solusflares​

Though Lusamine had heard the commotion from her staff, the cause is perhaps the last thing she’d expected to see. The very sight of the beast fills her with a rage that she by now knows to be misplaced, yet feels deeply all the same.

Disregarding it and putting on a professional face for her ruffled employees takes her longer than it tends to-- but she manages well enough. This doesn’t appear to be the same Solgaleo she’s familiar with anyway (its hide is littered with scars, for one, and for another, neither the champion or her daughter are anywhere to be seen).

She takes the elevator to the roof, appearing behind the resting beast with hardly a sound. She is not trying particularly hard to be inconspicuous, however, made apparent by the way she then voices aloud a question:

“Comfortable?”

[balsamina]

"Ma'am, what kind of bug is that and why is it so hot? I've seen a lot of Bug-types before, but we don't have any like that in Chrysalia."

“I’m not surprised... There aren’t many of its kind here either.” Though she smiles amicably, there is a strange sadness in her tone when she adds, “It is a truly rare creature indeed.”

The insect in question, enigmatic as ever, stares down the stranger in their midst with eerie quiet, still as a statue. It has the look of a solemn monarch rendered in marble; the aura it radiates is regal and imposing, yet somehow bewitching.

“It is called Pheromosa. As for your other question...” She titters. “Well, you’ll have to forgive me if this sounds a bit odd... Apparently Pheromosa produce a pheromonal substance capable of altering the behavior of other creatures in a certain way-- even those outside of its own species. It’s still being studied, but supposedly it is something of a defense mechanism, to render potential predators docile toward it... It’s possible that is what you’re feeling the effects of now. Not that I think you’re really a predator, of course!”

[balsamina]

redtoomuchintoit replied to your post “Flings a water balloon @”

Stands exactly 2 feet away from her. "Stinky."

... Oh, that is it.

She lunges, one hand reaching for his hair.

[balsamina]

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Wretchedly, of course, the madnesses that strike her can never do the polite thing and simply leave when they’re done with her; the aimless panic and fury ebb away slowly, pulled from her like clinging cobwebs, like the phantom tendrils of her beasts she feels being plucked from her skin. In a moment of clarity, she attempts to sit herself somewhere a bit more secluded to let it all pass gracefully, pretending she doesn’t feel them, nor hear their voices singing in her mind.

She manages it better now than previous times, but still finds her thoughts wandering to how frightful she would surely look to any passersby, hunched and trembling like a madwoman where she sits.

At some point, she happens to glance up and sees that someone has taken notice of her– a stranger, and a rather important-looking one at that.

Oh, just perfect. Of course.

Lusamine straightens her back, trying to call her usual poise back to her with a deep, steadying breath, but still her voice sounds weary and frail when she speaks. “Hello. Pardon me, is there– something I can do for you, Miss…?”

[balsamina]

tenebres-champ replied to your post: “My, you’re all just so young… I’m a little...

Must be hard being old and sickly, damn

“You have such a way with words, don’t you, dear?”

[balsamina]

@floralcrowns || continued from here

Though intellectually Lusamine had known that returning to Alola put her at risk of encountering those she had left behind in pursuit of her beasts, his voice still startles her and sends rising back to the surface a host of old, festered emotions.

Oh, how she loathes surprises. There was a time she could count on Guzma to never surprise her (always predictable, perfectly malleable, her beautiful boy)-- but this isn’t the first time he’s betrayed her. She almost doesn’t turn to face him, as if ignoring him would cause him to conveniently vanish into thin air, but the curiosity proves too great; eventually she manages to tear her gaze away from the flowers, and sees him standing just a short distance away, staring at her dumbly, in that same overpowered way he always looked at her.

“So I am...” she sighs, as if the fact is a regrettable one. “And you’ve remained here.”

It’s almost as if no time has passed at all. A small laugh escapes under her breath.

“My, but that is a dreadfully serious face you’re making, Guzma... Are you so surprised to see me? I do still live here, you know.” She brushes her fingers lightly across the flower closest to her, a sprig of fragrant lavender, coaxing it to stand more upright. “But I suppose it has been a long time now, hasn’t it...?”

[balsamina]

@abelladxnna​​ || continued from here

“Thank you-- and forgive me if I’m prying, but... it has caused me some concern.”

“Miss Millay... When you look at me, do you see someone else?”

[balsamina]

".. I miss him and I want not to be angry. Because when I'm angry I have the beans and drink too much." He answers her. Far more honest than she had hoped for.

She understands. Suddenly, she feels more exhausted than ever– and her eyes are stinging. Not for the first time, she thinks that the clarity of mind that comes with this agonizingly slow process she is loathe to call recovery is a terrible curse, or just another part of her karmic punishment. It’s like she’s losing him all over again.

(She hasn’t wept in many years. If she must do so now, it will not be in front of Ricardo Carillo.)

A moment to compose herself, and she looks at him blearily, lashes fluttering. “… Beans…?”

[balsamina]

'Cannot BELIEVE you fucked the anime haired league scout.'

She gives a dramatic flutter of her lashes, expertly feigning ignorance. “Excuse me-- what?”

[balsamina]

There's a box of Kalosian chocolates on her desk. There is no trick. No gimmick. Just a tag that says "~Red"

She feeds them to the Grimer. Harmless or not, they are to her nothing more than a reminder that the boy will never stop pestering her.

[balsamina]

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All I wanted was for you to hear that

“Is this just how you entertain yourself, then? Approaching unfamiliar women in the night and threatening them? There are plenty of more creative ways to have fun, dear...”