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One thing I think is interesting about Severance as a concept is that I realised I've actually seen very few pieces of longform storytelling that truly genuinely engage with the horror and trauma of contemporary work environments

not saying they're not out there but it's not like. a massively popular theme

which I honestly think is kind of wild because I'm my early 30s I have met basically nobody over the age of 25 who hasn't had a genuinely traumatic work experience.

whether it's about managerial bullying, persistent control, being consistently lied to and and made to feel crazy and paranoid, being put in situations that cause your physical and mental health to collapse, being verbally abused, sexually harassed, pushed into panic attacks and depressive shutdowns, totally losing your self-worth, being robbed of thousands of pounds, being sleep-deprived and in constant pain, all the nonsense

it's an almost universal experience by a certain point in your life to have had at least one job that you're still panicked and overwhelmed and disregulated if you think about it even years later

and we kind of don't like. talk about work as a site of genuine trauma that much. but it fucking is. and a lot of the structures of corporate systems are specifically abusive, they're designed to make you feel unable to question what's happening to you or assert your own agency, and to relocate any problems on you as an individual (that's what HR is for). and while there is obviously metaphor involved, I really appreciate seeing a show really solidly engage with those systems as they literally exist.

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Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

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They had me at lunatic pirates and then had to go do this shit

"Intelligence, knows," Avra said airily, "that 'sane' doesn't exist. Nobody is sane. Nobody has ever been sane. Sane is fake. Sane is . . ." He waved to his own face. "One of those things you wear to a masked ball."

". . . A mask?"

"Yes, thank you, one of those. Behind everybody's sanity mask is someone who is unalloyed batshit in one way or another. That is the truth of human nature, Baltakan." He polished off the last dregs of beer. "When I say 'one absolute madman,' that's not somebody less sane, because nobody's sane. That's just somebody who's decided that leaving his mask off gets him where he wants to be, which is usually somewhere really weird that nobody expects him to go." He paused. "Like the top of a wardrobe."

-Alexandra Rowland, Running Close to the Wind

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Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

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2.01 "The Engineer // 2.09 "The Safeguard"

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4/? BLACK SAILS ✘ EPIC THE MUSICAL

So tell me Would you fall in love with me again?

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THE LAST OF US — 01 x 03, “Long, Long Time”

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Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are. 

The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation. 

I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.

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LMAO YELLING!!! this is from diana wynne jones to her editor—

Dear Miriam, I have been on the phone to Terry Pratchett who sent me a rough draft of a story which is going to be very good, but he is very anxious to know at what stage in the process he actually gets the money.

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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I love you, George Takei.

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Lots of ominous news nowadays, but there are good things too! Thailand's Marriage Equality Law took effect today!

This tweet takes you to the top of a thread that lists all the changes, like replacing gendered terms like husband and wife with spouses, same-sex marriages have full legal status that, same-sex couples can adopt and use IVF and create pre-nups, just a whole lot of steps to make them equal.

It's all just so amazing and joyous. They hosted a parade for the newlywed couples!

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Russian handwriting

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So my friend’s kid has celiac and dyslexia and reading labels is difficult for them (also they’re like 7) so he’s teaching their pigeon, Grey Boy, to read the labels and identify ingredients with gluten. It’s going well, other than Nick thought it would be a good idea to make the behavior when the pigeon does find a bad ingredient to just fucking…wing slap the box. Just beat the shit out of it like, “no! BAD gluten! BAD!”

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catherine tate rocking up to doctor who with a background in sketch comedy and knowing literally nothing about the show; giving one of the most nuanced, tragic performances in the entirety of sci-fi history; and then dipping after one season with an absolutely horrifically devastating character ending is icon behavior i don’t make the rules

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travis's scandalized "LAAAAURA BAILEY!!" whenever she does something immature will always be my favorite thing like my brother in christ you married her