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I can't stop thinking about this skort I saw somewhere on the internet

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sorry for awol i’ve been busy with commissions and moving to the other side of the country!!! heres some old glee art i never posted here to hold u over <3 full image below cut

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The work is mysterious and important

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workin 9 to 5

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I love you shows with planned & definitive endings, I love you epilogues that prove the happy ending lasts, I love you finales that feature direct parallels to earlier seasons, I love you cast members that left years ago but came back to say goodbye, I love you well crafted & impactful final lines, I love you fitting send offs for the characters I love

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for my followers who do not watch severance:

dylan's wife cheated on dylan with dylan so dylan threatened to kill dylan so dylan's wife broke up with dylan and went back to dylan and dylan was so depressed about it that dylan killed dylan but dylan's still alive

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Imagine you're Eurydice. And just like the story is meant to go your Orpheus travels into hell to save you. And you almost make it out when he turns back except not to look at you, and you have to watch, screaming, as he walks away from you back into hell. I'm very normal about this.

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“see you at the equator” and then seeing each other at the invisible line that divides innie mark and outie mark

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see you at the equator.

severance, 2.10 ‘cold harbor’ // the guest by anna akhmatova

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SEVERANCE 2.10 – Cold Harbor

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you arrive at work (hungry, as usual) excited for more under-tarp sex with your work husband only to find that he's not there. when you ask your boss about it he berates you. you talk to your only remaining work friend about it, but he blames you for not being able to be with his not-work wife and then kills himself. you decide to seek out the treasure map hidden by your other dead work friend. the treasure is your work husband's not-work wife, who is currently trapped in work hell. you're trying to memorize the directions in your darkened office (no work is being done). and then elon musk walks in

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the fuck is a resume bitch give me the job

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the one perk he can't earn

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I feel like typically the "dead wife" montage does nothing for me, even when executed very well, because it's often just like "here's this woman you'll never get to meet, she only matters because a man loves her so much and now he's sad."

But the montage wasn't just Mark's recollections. It was her perspective too. He's her dead husband. He's her Eurydice as much as he's his own Orpheus.

This isn't humanizing Gemma for Mark's sake. This is humanizing Gemma for Gemma's sake and it's there not for us to root for Mark, it's there for us to realize we're rooting for Gemma. Every moment Mark reaches out for her, she's reaching back.

The dead wife montage normally deprives a woman her agency, making her a tool for a man's arc, but this episode fully restored Gemma's agency. She's fighting back, she's yearning too. She hurts, she aches, she angers. She fights, she bleeds, she gets frustrated too. And has been before she was ever Ms Casey,

I've never seen a show restore a character's humanity as fully as this single episode did for Gemma. She went from an abstract concept--a wife, a severed employee, a ghost--to a tangible person.

And this was realized so literally as well. We literally see her bleed, we literally watch her eat, her hands cramp up, her teeth ache. It's like watching a hologram become flesh muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

I'm in awe of what they were able to do for her in just 50 minutes. In many ways, I feel I know Gemma better than I know half the cast.

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She was my family too, Mark. Fuck.

DEVON SCOUT-HALE & GEMMA SCOUT SEVERANCE 2.07 - "Chikhai Bardo"

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Your outie prefers two scoops of ice cream in a serving, but they must be the same flavor.