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fans from every other team in the league are currently lighting candles and telepathically communicating with their GMs like they're calling their state senators begging for mitch marner, and there are some delusional leafs fans who think it's a good thing if he walks lmfao have fun never getting a parade I guess??? your chances are not better without him, idk how to tell you that but I'm annoyed and have unfettered access to the internet so. here ya go.

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SABRINA CARPENTER in MANCHILD

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SABRINA CARPENTER in MANCHILD

my favorite bits from the video :)

bonus:

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SABRINA CARPENTER in MANCHILD

hey i kinda need this music video injected into my veins

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we'll get them next time :)

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toronto maple leafs + i know the end by phoebe bridgers

inspired by @pemguims's weave

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nothing new (taylor's version) - taylor swift / brad marchand, at his 1000th game as a boston bruin

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cant stop thinking about the fact that mark and gemma met while donating blood.

a painful and uncomfortable task that they both volunteered to do.

the kind of chore u might prefer to avoid if you had a severed version of yourself to do it for you.

so in a world where everyone delegates unpleasant tasks to their innies, you might never meet the love of your life

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happy severance friday to all those who celebrate

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hallucination nation where yall at

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i will have this dream periodically, until i meet all of the strangers one by one. introducing them to eachother until we are a close group of friends. i will set these events in motion, and i will die.

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Sidney the freaking Kidney Crosby graphic, based on those card designs from the "a league of our own" posters. you know the ones?

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Some may be apprehensive that Severance won’t portray Mark’s interaction with Helena in the tent as the sexual assault it was. But not only will they — they already are.

Mark’s behavior toward Helly has completely changed. He doesn’t sit next to her at Irving’s funeral. He shuts down attempts at conversation with offhand, vague snarky comments and a defiantly blank facial expression. When Helly knocks on the door to the bathroom, his eyes dart around like an animal cornered. Where he once would have slowed down for her in the hallway so they could talk, he walks much faster ahead. He’s trying as hard as possible to avoid her. To ignore her. To run away.

Now contrast this with his treatment of “Helly” when she first walked out of the elevator in season two. He waited for her to arrive! He was so relieved she’d come back! And when they were walking down that hallway and he was explaining the situation with Ms. Casey, he stopped mid-stride, turned to her with a smile on his face, and said “Look, Helly—“

He never got to finish that sentence. But some say he was going to confess that though his outie had a wife, his affections lay with her. And I think they’re right.

So why is he acting so differently now? The answer is obvious: “Because they are smarter than us, okay? They know everything.”

After the assault, Mark likely feels like a complete idiot. He spent so much of season one deconstructing his beliefs and breaking free from Lumon’s propaganda. And the minute he believes he’s immune to their lies and no longer a corporate slave, he is taken advantage of and hoodwinked by the very figurehead of said company, masking as someone he loves.

A symbol of Lumon convinced him he was safe. Tricked him. Invaded him in the most intimate way possible, with him completely oblivious, “like an idiot.” Right when he thought everything might be okay.

So maybe Lumon’s right. Maybe there’s no point in fighting. Because if he was stupid enough to not realize his own friend was being possessed by her billionaire doppelgänger, then maybe Lumon is correct about innies being nothing more than pawns. Maybe they are people, and he really is… not. (That’s how Helena treated him, anyway.)

And if that’s the case, of course he wants to give up looking for Ms. Casey and lose himself in work! For a moment he thought he was a human being, deserving of autonomy over his own body and capable of something more than sitting behind a desk — but his assault sends that all crashing down. He is an extension of his outie, made for work and nothing more. Going beyond that gets dangerous. That’s what got Irving killed… and him in Helena’s tent. And Helly? He cannot trust Helly. As far as he knows, his only confirmed moment with Helly since the OTC was when he was holding her in his arms, his jacket wrapped around her shoulders. Why should it be Helly coming back to the severed floor? If Helena could trick him before, who says she can’t learn from her past mistakes and trick him again over and over? Mark refuses to be humiliated and hurt after last time, so he avoids her (and Dylan!) and puts up a barrier of cool, snarky indifference — just like how he deals with grief.

But we know that indifference is a mask. When Milchick walked out of the elevator after revealing he knew about him and Helena Eagan, Mark had no one to pretend for — and he went completely stiff, blankly wide-eyed in an expression extremely reminiscent of his usual innie self. Whatever the reasons for this, one thing’s for sure: Mark does deeply care about what happened in the tent. And at least for now, he will lose himself in Cold Harbor to cope with it.

Lumon certainly got their productive worker back. But good Lord… at what cost?

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Severance 2x05 • Helly R // Helena

alt caption: Lumon really said fuck you and fuck your bodily autonomy to everyone involved

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severance season 2 episode 5 "trojan's horse" // supernatural season 15 episode 2 "raising hell"

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The Mark and Helly situation is so fucked up, and I’m dreading her finding out her outtie slept with him. On one hand, yes, she’ll most definitely be upset that he wasn’t able to tell it wasn’t her, but considering that mark had a lot on his plate, and they were all significantly affected by the ‘overtime’, I can’t say I really fault him for not noticing (plus, if he had no reason to know her outtie had so much power, he would have little reason to believe it wasn’t her). Granted, I still understand pretty easily how she would be upset and furious in equal parts that he and Helena were together.

But, that doesn’t change one really important thing here - Mark was raped by deception. He didn’t know it was Helena, and never would have slept with her if he did know. Finding out that he had sex with her outtie must be traumatizing; not only was she not the woman he had feelings for, but she’s an Eagan! I can imagine the guilt and shame he’s feeling right now, that unfortunately many rape victims experience, but doubled because he might feel like he ‘betrayed’ Helly. Or at least, he assumes that’s how Helly would feel if she knew. Plus, Milchick’s line “did you tell Helly you fucked her outtie” hurts on many levels because it’s so accusatory, even though we know that him and Helena and the powers that be at Lumon purposefully set that up for them to fuck! And they knew how messed up it was!

It’s fucked up! I have faith it will be handled well but wow, my heart is breaking for mark especially.

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how long did helly get to breathe outside air before they dragged her out of there and shut her off again? she wakes up in that elevator like she didn't expect to be standing on her feet the next time she opened her eyes