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@blooshirt i couldnt pick thru that whole rb chain, but its rly good n cute, n ilu thank u for tagging me!! i made a cpl diff ones, n rly lov them

im taggin @agayconcept @hotcawfee @shadaras @regalvoid and anyone else who wants to, to make a lil picross (stealin yr cute joke sami) 

can do so here

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January 3, 2020 - Hailey Bieber was out in a restaurant with her friends in Miami. Hails looked absolutely stunning in the new year already. 

January 3, 2020 - Hailey Bieber looked amazing wearing a Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini Oversized Satin Cloqué Blazer in color pink, which you can find on modaoperandi.com for $893.00. It's on sale right now.

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January 3, 2020 - Hailey Bieber slayed in her sexy Philosophy Di Lorenzo Serafini Lace and Satin Mini Dress, which is sadly sold out but worth $780.00.

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Jennifer Fisher Samira Huggies Earrings for $265.00.

Bottega Veneta Padded Cassette Shoulder Bag for $2,480.00

Nike’s Air Force 1 Sneakers for $90.00.

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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 Episode 6 Review: Guilt, Sacrifice, and a New Chapter for June?

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This The Handmaid’s Tale review contains spoilers.

There’s really no such thing as understatement on this season of The Handmaid’s Tale, is there? This episode, and the ones preceding it, have played out at a deafeningly high emotional volume. Every speech is emphatic, every exchange is urgent and tear-filled, every decision is literally life or death. It’s a good job that Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley and the others are able to pull off this level of sustained intensity, because with a lesser cast or less controlled direction, the high drama could easily turn into melodrama. 

If not for the judicious use of pre-Gilead flashbacks as tension-releasing valves, this episode’s force might have been too much to take. That’s always been this show’s natural habitat: teetering on the edge of too-much-to-take, but generally keeping its balance. The scenes of June, Moira and Luke as twenty-somethings negotiating the changes imposed by Luke and June’s impending marriage, provided that balance. They offered respite in an otherwise heightened episode, and underscored June’s present-day anguish over escaping Gilead without Hannah, with her past fear about letting Luke down. 

The flashbacks also served to intensify June and Luke’s reunion by reminding us how their relationship used to be (find a more perfect rom-com line than writer Dorothy Fortenberry’s: “What if I’m not who you think I am?” / “Then I’ll just love whoever you turn out to be”). Often, a flashback in The Handmaid’s Tale is there to contrast with the present day and illustrate the chasm between the past and now. Revisiting Luke and June’s early infatuation did the opposite. Seeing June glow at getting a phone call from (presumably) Luke, or his jubilation when they found out they were having a baby, shored up our sense of the couple we saw melt into each other on that ship. The silent conversation Moss and O.T. Fagbenle had with their eyes when Luke walked in was beautifully done.

The aid ship was another new backdrop in a season that’s offered plenty of location variety, the show having long broken out of Gilead’s symmetrical repetition. Like the prison facility in episode three ‘The Crossing’, almost the entire episode was contained on board, which condensed the emotion and tension further, especially once night had fallen and scenes were filmed in almost total darkness. After the authentic-feeling refugee chaos at the port, the ship signified safety… for about 30 seconds (roughly as long as The Handmaid’s Tale ever lets viewers breathe out and relax). Then the Guardian inspection was announced, and the next ticking clock began.

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That was the second obstacle, after Oona (Zawe Ashton) told Moira that she wasn’t allowed to take June with them. What a winding blow that was. We’ve waited for June and Moira’s reunion for so long that when it finally happened at the end of ‘Chicago’, it felt like an ending in itself. The idea that international law and bureaucracy might stop it in its tracks felt grossly unfair. The actual gross unfairness though, as this episode was keen to make clear, was June being rescued. 

‘Vows’ staged The Handmaid’s Tale’s version of The Trolley Problem, that old ethics thought experiment debating whether one life is worth more than several. In one corner: Moira and the audience, who’ve both invested so much in June Osborne, we couldn’t stand to let her go. In the other corner: Oona and her colleague, who know that saving Gilead’s public enemy number one would put the organisation in contravention of the law, and threaten both diplomatic relations and future aid missions. Traumatised June was unexpectedly on the latter’s side. At first, June offering to turn herself in because her life “isn’t worth more than anyone else’s” felt too perfectly heroic and unselfish, making a paragon of our lead character. And then we were shown what was underneath her act of self-sacrifice: not holiness, but guilt.

June didn’t feel worthy of rescue because of the guilt she feels over her failure to rescue Hannah and the still-missing-presumed-dead Janine. When faced with the prospect of reaching Canada and reuniting with Luke, June spiralled. How could she face him? How could he ever forgive her? Not just for Hannah, but also for falling in love with another man and leaving Luke with his baby to raise in Nichole? The last time Luke heard from June was through the cassette tape in which she explained about her loving relationship with Nick. 

Guilt was the emotional driving force of this episode, and perhaps of this entire season. June feels that she’s failed as a mother, telling Moira that everything that she’s responsible for everything that’s happened to Hannah. Moira’s survivor guilt over getting out while June was left in Gilead drove her to sacrifice her relationship with Oona to get June home. The “your fault, your fault” buck of guilt passed between June and Aunt Lydia in ‘The Crossing’ echoed across this episode, as Gilead’s victims turned their blame inwards, as survivors so often do.

This intense episode ended on the long-awaited emotional climax of June stepping foot on Canadian soil, an occasion marked by director Richard Shepard breaking out June Osborne’s signature shot: dead centre of frame, facing the camera. Usually in such shots, June’s eyes are fixed on the viewer as a promise of resistance to some abject horror. This time, they looked out onto a complicated homecoming. Finally out of Gilead, is this the end of June’s fight?

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The Handmaid’s Tale season four streams weekly on Hulu in the US and will air on Channel 4 in the UK at a later date. 

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Many intriguing tidbits about The Handmaid’s Tale’s second season have been confirmed, but how the book ends opens the floodgates as to what more we can expect from future episodes. Having just read (and then reread) the chilling epilogue from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, I’m practically bursting with anticipation as to how the show’s writers will spin the drama.

While the biggest plot points from the book have already played out in season one, what happens in the epilogue has yet to appear in the show. If the show stays true to its source material, here’s what plot developments might occur in season two (and possibly beyond).

Gilead Expands Its Influence

According to the epilogue, Gilead redraws the map of the world, especially in the North American hemisphere. We know Gilead is planning on trading handmaids in Mexico, but in the novel, it’s mentioned that Canada begins to comply with Gilead, aiding in rounding up and extraditing refugees.

My theory: If this plays into the plot of season two, Luke (O-T Fagbenle) and Moira (Samira Wiley) are once again at risk of being shipped back to Gilead. In the book, June (played by Elisabeth Mossin the TV adaptation) says she never sees Moira again after the run-in at the Jezebel’s sex club, which may foreshadow that Moira will either die (possibly trying to save Hannah or June), or she’ll venture on to England, which is the only remaining safe haven for refugees, according to the epilogue.

June Records Her Account

The epilogue reveals that June’s story (everything that occurred in season one) is from 30 audiotapes she recorded, recounting her experience as a Gilead handmaid. They were found in a home that was used as a safe house for refugees on the run near the Canadian border, so perhaps season two will go into the details of where exactly June recorded the tapes and for what purpose. The story on the cassettes ceases after June is hauled away by the Eyes.

My theory: Since the tapes aren’t numbered, my guess is more tapes exist; that is, unless June was abruptly recaptured and unable to record more of her tale. What occurs to June after recording tape 30 is purely speculative — i.e. Atwood left her fate open-ended, enabling TV writers to have a field day divulging these juicy mysteries.

A New Resistance Movement Is Introduced

We’ve heard a lot about Mayday, but the buzzy resistance group mentioned repeatedly in the epilogue is the Underground Femaleroad, responsible for rescuing women out of Gilead. The epilogue claims these two groups were connected but had different missions. Mayday was “quasi-military,” while the Underground Femaleroad was a “rescue operation.” Since June’s tapes are found in the UF safe house in Maine, it leads them to believe UF helped smuggle June out of the country (although the success of her escape remains up in the air). However, since there are no other diaries or recordings from that area, the leaders and/or participants of this group may have been discovered by the Eyes and arrested.

My theory: We know June is motivated to stay alive (obviously) and avoid The Wall. Simultaneously, she wants to escape Gilead, take down the theocracy, and save her daughter. These big, conflicting wants are likely come to a head in season two, where June must shape and break alliances that determine her fate. June commits herself to the Mayday group in season one, so it will be interesting to learn how (or if) she becomes connected to the UF.

The Great Purge Occurs

June’s time as a handmaid is considered the early period of Gilead. The epilogue also describes a middle period, in which Gilead’s founding fathers are tried and executed in a “Great Purge.” In the “earliest purge,” Commander Waterford is accused of “liberal tendencies,” possessing “heretical pictorial and literary materials” (Scrabble, magazines, etc.), and “harboring a subversive.” We don’t know who the subversive is (June or Nick, which could lead to another plot twist), but we do know the Commander’s execution is publicly recorded and televised in England.

My theory: The epilogue says June was “certain to be interrogated,” so perhaps in the opening episode of season two, June is instrumental in stripping the Commander (Joseph Fiennes) of his power. However, his disgruntled wife, Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), could also play a role. The first season foreshadows Waterford’s nervousness growing when Putnam’s wife requests her husband receive the harshest form of punishment after leading handmaid Janine on.

We see a little bit of Nick’s past in season one, witnessing his allegiance to Gilead grow and shift to June and his unborn child. The epilogue mentions he could be part of the Mayday resistance and working as a double agent. Season two may uncover his true loyalty, if he’s instrumental in rescuing June, and whether he survives or sacrifices himself. Does he become part of Gilead’s 2.0 leadership, end up on The Wall, or find a safe haven in England with June and the baby?

The Futures of June and America Are Two Big Question Marks

The epilogue’s series of unanswerable questions may uncover plot developments in season two. Is June smuggled over the border of Gilead? Does she have a stint at the Colonies or Jezebel’s? Does she end up on The Wall? Does she get recaptured while fleeing, or does she make it all the way to Canada or England? Does she carry her baby to term? Does she reconnect with Luke and her daughter? If she escapes, why doesn’t she go public with her story in other countries? Who is she hiding from? Does she go crazy and become a recluse?

My theory: The epilogue speculates about June’s fate and raises questions about Gilead’s demise by omission. Why isn’t the “end” period of the theocracy discussed? Does Mayday take over and slaughter the population? The group of professors, gathering to discuss the history of this “handmaid’s tale” and its validity, appear enraptured yet uninformed about Gilead’s beliefs and common practices. Who are these people? Were their grandparents part of Gilead? Based on the repetitive, demeaning comments made about women and the group clapping when the professor refuses to denounce Gileadean ethics, what the hell is this weird future “democracy” that replaces Gilead, and who are its citizens? Clearly we’re all just going to have to wait and see.

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Winter / Ethereality [Bandcamp, Vinyl, Digital Release]

Winter / Ethereality [Bandcamp, Vinyl, Digital Release]

//bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=2545956286/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/   Artist Name: Winter (Samira Winter) Label: Everything Blue Records (Self-Label), Burger Records Release Date: April 6, 2018 Tags: alternative, california, cassette, dream pop, indie pop, los angeles, shoegaze Links: Bandcamp, Facebook, SoundCloud  

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Tell her throw it back, then I blow a bag Drop it down low, let 'em know it's like that Feel like I'm hexed, yeah, that bitch bad Collar on her neck and her ass real fat