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the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

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outie mark: our wife is being TORTURED. stop having sex with helena eagan and get her OUT!

innie mark: don’t care + didn’t ask + L + ratio + you’re an alcoholic with no drip

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the way he rly dgaf when helly steals his walkie like 😭 can he not have his moment for two fucking seconds before mdr has to pull out the anti-establishment conspiracy... its every fucking day with these ppl

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i fully respect the decision mark s. made because i would have made the exact same one if i was in his position. if both of my options are getting me killed, i’m choosing the one where i die with the person i love, and maybe get an extra hour or two of life. why would i walk out of that door and die without taking any possible chance to fight? why would anyone expect another human being to just do that? why should mark s. just do what his outie says, when it’s going to cost him and the people he loves their lives? mark scout, devon and cobel miscalculated by assuming mark s. would be okay with dying. mark scout in particular fucked up by assuming his innie had no agency from the very beginning of those recordings - because even after all that mark s. did for them (he is the reason mark scout even found out gemma was still alive!), they still don’t see innies as people.

i also don’t think he was trying to screw over mark scout or say fuck you to him and gemma and their happy ending at all; he was just exercising HIS autonomy and making the decision HE wanted to make. to buy himself more time with the one life he’s been given.

his allegiance was also rightfully with the very few people he knew and loved. he had no allegiance to mark scout and gemma, but still did an incredibly kind thing by helping gemma escape - because he is a kind person. but assuming he’s kind enough to just choose to give up his own life without a fight is ridiculous.

mark s. has had literally had no control or say in his entire fucking life. him running in the hallway with helly, towards what they believe to be certain death - it’s cathartic. it was the right decision. i don’t think it came out of nowhere at all; they have been setting the stage for this all season, with the very first hint being in the new opening sequence where helly and gemma glitch and blur together.

what does it mean to be human? mark s. just told you

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dylan g's last interaction with another person before dying is to extend kindness towards a child. love transcends severance and so does fatherhood. excuse me i'm gonna go cry in a supply closet

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SEVERANCE 2.10 | Cold Harbor

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the work is mysterious and important, and that's why we've severed this tuba player

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Severance spoiler: I love that neither innie or outie mark killed Drummond. It was the severance process itself, making the muscles contract and pull the trigger. Drummond was killed by the elevator.

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this doesn’t fit that well because I’m sure Milchick doesn’t do the budgets but I just want to know why they had only one security guard and when he got murdered they never got another one

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Clementine von Radics, Lemony Snicket, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Vita Sackville-West, Caitlin Bailey, Max Porter, Emily Dickinson, Jenny Slate, Rachel Mennies

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[ID: Gifs (left side) of Helena saying "I am a person. You are not." and Helly's reaction. Then gifs (right side) of Mark Scout saying "Honestly, I love that you had that experience. So now, you can imagine...like what you and Heleny had, but multiplied." and Mark S.'s reaction. End ID]

HELENA EAGAN and MARK SCOUT + dehumanizing their innies

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Tramell Tillman the man you are!!!!!

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the reason unnamed gemma innie #25 went with mark was not because he is Mark but he is the first person she sees and how much easier it is to trust someone you can see and touch and isn't ordering you around over a disembodied speaker. and which is why innie mark was never going to trust that guy either

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The Dylans' conversation: a beautiful affirmation of both of their identities as whole people as well as an acknowledgement of them being intrinsically the same person.

The Marks' conversation: No YOU kill yourself!