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here's some glitch art i made of audrey horne

used audacity

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i was trans gender

growing up I was always afraid of being Found Out. not sure what I was hiding. just my whole self I guess

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it’s so deeply sad that helly probably longs to be a bush girl but helena absolutely keeps that thing bald as hell

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her...........

[Severance s1 fav lines: helly]

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you have to transition. even if youre in your 40s 50s 60s. its your duty to make this world a better place

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in a weird way i think the baby transes are kind of familiar with this feeling-being loved but the person they love is not actually you

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.

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something i’m thinking about is how helena has clearly never experienced an actual emotional connection with anyone before. her whole life has been dominated by demonstrating fealty to lumon, to being its perfect representative. meanwhile mdr doesn’t care about that: they just want to live a genuine life, they want to be HUMAN. they want to be themselves in a real way. i’m just thinking about how queer that is and how helena’s behavior is so sad because you can see how much she wants that real connection with another person but her family’s violence toward and her deception of mdr makes that impossible for her. her connection with mark was never genuine; he thought she was someone else. but she got a taste of what it might be like. i hope that the fuckheads in our government are going through this soul-torture as they strip queer and trans people of their rights.

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the david lynch was so strong with this episode

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this was a plundering; a sacking. what mark thought was a culmination of a real emotional connection was actually an imperialist, parasitic extraction of emotional capital

no, No, NO, I don't want to hear some of y'all dusty ass takes about markhelly this episode. "He cheated on Gemma!" STFU.

Does no one see how incredibly sad that entire scene was? Mark S.'s entire existence is to be the punching bag that lives to take the excess pain from Mark Scout's life, he's literally enslaved to a cubicle with no way out. But he finds something fragile and sweet with Helly, something that is finally his own that isn't the run off pain of his outie. And Mark S. thinks that he is having this moment of realization and culmination of mutual desire with Helly but NO. HELENA JUST DESTROYS IT WITH NO CARE, fully believing that she is entitled to what they have with one another because what are Mark S. and Helly R. to her but subhuman?

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS SCENE OMGGG THIS WAS SO TERRIFYING

SEVERANCE 2.04 - "Woe's Hollow"

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Helena wants what helly has. The love. But she doesn’t realize how potent love is. She probably doesn’t even think about the love between Irving and Helly, proven by the way she didn’t even take note of how Helly almost always calls him “Irv” not “Irving”.

She gets her version of love from mark; she turns him away from his oldest living friend. She fucks him too! She gets what she wanted, but love is more than she bargained for.

Irv loves helly enough to know from the get go that something was wrong. Irv has always loved so much. His love was before so deeply focused on worshiping Kier and the Eagans. This love is eventually turned toward his fellow innies, but he remembers what he learned. It comes to him in a dream. A revelation one might call it.

Irv loves helly so much he’ll kill for her. He loves helly so much he’ll die for her. Helena knew Irving doubted her, but she didn’t know that. Because Helena may be a person, but she doesn’t know people. She could watch those tapes for hours and never understand what it’s like to be an innie; that Helly was 25% of Irving’s entire world for a time. Of course he knew it wasn’t her. Of course he would do anything to get her back.

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irving b is a perfect unimpeachable angel sent from heaven to destroy seth milchik and the eagans and i really hope we see him again

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past few days have been like this

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i found this scene to be so incredibly hamfisted and the weakest part of what is for me the greatest thing ever put on tv, twin peaks season 3, but maybe my reaction would be different were i to wwatch it again now that the official policy of the us government is that trans people do not exist

david lynch telling people in 2017 that you should accept trans people or kill yourself. he was so real for this.

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if/when trump bans trans ppl from the military the united states will be at a serious cybersecurity disadvantage

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I’ve seen a lot of people speculating that Gemma’s storyline will lead to a cloning reveal, which like, it’s a decent theory and wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. But god, this show is so specific and detail oriented Ben Stiller himself has even said nothing in the show is a coincidence. The cloning theory has also been shut down a couple times by some producers and writes from what I understand and idk I feel like a cloning reveal would just be so boring. And honestly, I don’t know if this is insane, but I’m fully leaning towards the idea that when it comes to Ms. Casey/Gemma, it’s more of a resurrection situation.

Okay so hear me out I believe our Ms. Casey is still physically Gemma her original body, her bones, her blood she’s alive baby that’s her but like also it’s not her. It’s like in horror or fantasy stories when a character dies and comes back but comes back wrong YK?. Physically it’s still them but it’s not them. In my opinion, her brain has been completely reset, wiping away whatever kind of person she used to be.

To back this theory I’ve been heavily leaning on the interaction between Ms. Cobel and Helena in the parking lot and just the general existence of the Mammalian Nurturable department.

Now, I might be reading into this too much, but I just love these characters so much and this show so please bear with me, this is a long one.

this season Harmony/Ms. Cobel is a problem. Like there is just no way she isn’t. Lumon is already struggling to keep it together after the scandal the main four caused, and a change in management isn’t helping. People are (probably) starting to pay attention, and they do not need that kind of heat. Ms. Cobel literally crashing tf out making herself homeless and sneaking around in the dark probably isn’t helping.

Helena’s choice of words have always stood out to me. She’s calculated, smart, and precise in how she speak just like Harmony. Both of them are masters at saying exactly what they need to without ever outright saying it yk? So when she she spots Cobel in the parking lot in the middle of the night she clocks her immediately.

Harmony walks out as if she still has a job in that bitch and has the audacity to tell Helena what her needs are and exactly how they should be met. And in my opinion, Helena is appalled but not surprised. She calls her out on her behavior.

“I hear ego, hubris, and arrogance. Kier teaches us they only cause pain.”

To me, this isn’t just a read it’s a warning. Harmony doesn’t take it. She bites back, calling Helena a NEPOTISM BABY. wild.

And I mean look at Helena’s face.

So Helena lays it out for her as plainly as possible

“We didn’t have to ask you back.”

No translation even needed, she just said it flat out Baby, we don’t need you here. You do not, no matter what you think, represent us. You are not Lumon.

And Harmony, being just as cunty clocks her shit right back

“You didn’t have a choice.”

At this point, Ms. Cobel isn’t just skating on thin ice she’s walking across a frozen lake in metal combat boots, her ass skipping around as if the ice won’t break. And that’s her mistake.

Helena, after giving Harmony multiple chances to walk away. Multiple chances to come back in on lumons terms. Multiple chances to stop playing in her fucking face, finally pulls back with a kind smile and offers her a chance to “restart”.

As they walk towards the car, Ms. Cobel locks eyes with Helena’s bodyguard and the instant terror is actually insane. Full deer in headlights.

A lot of people saw that shot and took it as a straight-up Sopranos esque death threat like, if she gets in that car, she’s not gonna survive the drive (RIP Audriana). And sure, it could be as simple as that, but this show is just way too good for it to be that simple.

I think Cobel recognizes the bodyguard. She knows him and I mean like fr knows him.

I saw a theory on Reddit suggesting that the bodyguard might be someone she knew maybe a former coworker, someone from her personal life (they suggested it could’ve been someone she was super close with before she even became the woman we know today) idk just somebody she knows knows and out of nowhere suddenly, he’s here, presented as Helena’s bodyguard. But it’s not him. It’s his skin, his bones, his blood but it’s not HIM.

And the way it plays out, it doesn’t seem like the bodyguard recognizes her at least not in the same way she knows him. That stare man that stare. I didn’t even know Harmony could experience fear. Who knows, maybe in that moment she’s reflecting on everything that’s happened. She bitched out the boss’s daughter in this empty ass parking lot on the brink of a mental break down, and suddenly there’s a chance to start over. All she has to do is get in that car, with that man, talk to the higher-ups, and hit the “reset” button.

Basically my theory is that Lumon are essentially grave robbing the fuck out of that town. Taking people who have been in serious accidents car crashes, house fires, construction site falls, factory explosion, hell even a drive by. I also think they’re also taking drug addicts, the homeless people who have no loved ones looking out for them, or even looking for them at all, the ones who are confirmed to be gone in every way, physically or emotionally. They’re taking these people and giving them a full system reset rebooting the computer.

By doing this, Lumon gets to create a free labor force that works 24/7 without question or resistance, exploiting people who have no emotional ties or support systems. Blank slate baby! They’re also using these individuals as test subjects for whatever weird shit they wanna launch out as a new product.

This helps explain a lot of the weird shit going on with the employees at Mammalian Nurturable. They look so rough and are also really off-putting towards outsiders. Which is understandable but I genuinely believe they haven’t even “clocked out” in days, if not ever.

Even though this theory makes the most sense to me, It still has its plot holes like if Gemma isn’t a clone and it’s her “resurrected” where does she go when she’s not her innie. In Season 1, she tells Mark she’s only conscious as her innie for a couple of minutes at a time, and the longest she’s ever stayed “alive” was the 8 hours she spent with his department. So where tf is she if not there as Ms Casey i don’t know man I do not know.

Anyways I have some other general curiosities about the town itself and why Lumon decided to build their main building there. I saw a TikTok video of someone saying it reminded them of company-built towns like Hershey Pennsylvania or Kodak Town, and I agree. Anywho I love this show so much it hurts I hope it never dies I literally missed having an obsession this intense I hope it gets all the love and awards it deserves!!

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so yeah i'm reading Ricken's book (apple books has the first 8 chapters and-

then there's also gems like these

plus the one time he thought a beehive was a wig

and there's also this charitable project of his

it also looks like he went on a trek with Mark and Gemma (who he calls 'Flip' and 'Nan')

all of chapter 7 is about him and mark