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Vintage hand painted rosebud slip tea set ☕

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Banquet

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back patch for a new vest / design by the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire

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bowser is lookin cool in those new duds

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the fucking disrespect and the misogyny in lumon claiming harmony was romantically and sexually interested in mark, and that is why she stalked him and monitored him obsessively, when in reality, SHE INVENTED SEVERANCE, she is a scientist who became obsessed with her own creation, a creation they stole from her and never gave her credit for...my god, i'm on the floor.

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whatever. anyways

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all the big reveals in severance just make so much sense. there’s never a plot twist that feels like a dumbass mindfuck. every new piece of information we learn i’m just like. of course OF COURSE. of course harmony was a child laborer with a phd who invented this evil brain surgery of course there was no other option there was no other story but this one

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the people hating on the Cobel solo ep r crazy bc for me one of the biggest mysteries of the show has ALWAYS been "wtf is up with that absolute freak?" She is so deeply strange and captivating. Finding out the specific kind of madness that has been motivating her methods has haunted me since she was talking about de-icing her stoop, and now we know! child soldier PhD student mourning both her mother and her stolen IP!!! THATS why she's crazy THATS why she is so incomprehensible and strange. obsessed obsessed obsessed.

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she’s unhinged she’s religiously traumatized she’s a child soldier she’s a genius she’s 5’1 and commands every room she walks into she’s middle-aged she’s good with babies she’s bad at baking she’s a horrifying driver and she has never done anything wrong in her life

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i went into this episode questioning the sole focus on harmony right after the gemma-focused episode but now i am going to defend this choice until i die. they are BOOKENDS. they are in CONVERSATION WITH EACH OTHER. the severance process itself has become a character and this is its backstory. gemma walking down hallways of bright white walls and harmony driving through streets bracketed by pale white snow. the inventor of severance grew up doing child labor. the severance process is supposed to be the answer to all grief and all suffering. gemma is suffering. hellyna is suffering. dylan and irv and mark are suffering. milchick’s hands shake while paper clipping documents. MISS HUANG. do you see the beautiful devastating soup i am stirring

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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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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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fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

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Trump’s golf course in Turnberry, Scotland was vandalized overnight by Palestine solidarity activists.

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The Escanaba Daily Press, Michigan, November 23, 1949

Neighbors and co-workers have been told of his change.

They all want to help Ed lead the normal life that was denied to Edna.