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Chibi Caira for @mme-chouette

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Chibis of Caira and Mabaki I wanted to make it a set/pair Caira belongs to @floral-necromaniac

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(We are French Canadians) My grandmas were Nany and Nana. We had no relationships to our grandfathers (bad ppl) but my stepfather’s dad became our grandfather and we called him Papy Bouboule. I have no idea why the bouboule.

THIS IS KILLING ME

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lmfao @ getting blocked over me saying that people shouldn’t be sending anonymous attacks to others on here

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Industrial sentimentalism.

Photographer unknown via #utilitarianarchitecture on Facebook.

A reverse image search was totally worth it though.

Now I know there are more pipes and metal tubes that look like they're fucking.

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im suuuuuper tired. i think ill stay up for another 5-24 hours

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i think im getting better! :) [another event occurs]

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I experienced this same realization as I was watching it play out! Initially, I was bothered and felt like it was going into the cliché and was annoyed they were tackling a pregnancy on top (like as if his grief for her wasn’t enough and they had to add the grief of a baby on top. That felt like the woman wasn’t enough but thankfully I was wrong) and I jumped to those feelings because of what you described but also I really disliked the previous episode. I do not like the Helly x Mark romance they set up. It feels phoney all the way through and yet another case of a male lead and female lead unnecessarily needing to have a romantic relationship. The show would do better without it imo. The previous episode’s unbearably long sequence of them having sex exacerbated my negative feelings about their relationship. I don’t wanna watch 2 characters with no chemistry have virgin sex that is so irrelevant to the story.

Maybe there is some compelling reason we’ll discover in future episodes that will explain outie Helly’s behavior towards Mark but til then this is my biggest gripe with the show and had me expecting more shitty Mark centric depiction of the women in his life but was happily wrong about how they delivered Gemma. I tried to explain those negative feelings as I was watching it happen with my boyfriend and you’ve written it perfectly. 💖

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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and obviously you find yourself thinking oh i do wish i could get severed to do this one thing. would you actually maybe not. but you do wish you didn't have to undergo medical procedures you do wish you didn't have to do the things that give you anxiety you do wish you didn't have to do tedious tasks that barely even require you to be present for them. it's tempting. that's why the premise works. but the premise is also that somebody has to do it. somebody has to go to the dentist and somebody has to get on that plane and somebody has to write those thank you notes. just like somebody has to clean the house and somebody has to harvest the food you eat and somebody has to make the clothes you wear. you can't eliminate inconvenience you can only delegate it. you can't eliminate suffering you can only delegate it. and always the easiest way to live with this is to see that somebody as less than. less than you less than people. and if that somebody has to wear your body to do it well maybe it's not all that different. they're not a person. you are. it's capitalism all the way down baby

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I just can't get over that after years of reddit speculation about how MDR's work must be 3-D printing brains into clones and putting souls in goats or whatever it turns out to just be...rich people trying to find a way out of the human experience. subjugating one or two or six people you will never meet to an existence of pure suffering so you don't have to be inconvenienced or feel a negative emotion ever. it could never have been anything else

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fairy wings nail art 🧚‍♂️ | aistehaas on ig

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Can someone just do it already

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VIOLA DAVIS | 82nd Golden Globe Awards (2025)