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Wilson Fisk having a director of mental health is crazy not just given his own mentality but also given how he used Dex’s vulnerable mental state to orchestrate his downfall so he’d be completely reliant on Fisk. Fisk is gonna use the mental health department to manipulate and control the masses even further, just like he did by creating panic with the blackout so people will become dependent and loyal to him

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they should have let Pointdexter say “I’m sorry, that sounds really hard” at some point in daredevil born again

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Since the finale of the Daredevil: Born Again is sadly so timely, I really need a DD Resist Rebel Rebuild shirt or pin or something. I know it's been less than a week, but still it feels like an important message.

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can we get some Karen Page without romantic tension with [insert male character here]. can we PLEASE get some Karen Page without romantic tension with [insert male character here]

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the reveal that Vanessa actually asked Pointdexter to kill Foggy, but also that she did it while he was drugged up, promising him a way out and masking empathy when she was just using him. Every time Dex is clearly at one of the lowest points of his life, a Fisk comes in, manipulates him into doing a hit for them, and tosses him aside. Plz just get my man some mental health services and some friends who actually gaf about him

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daredevil born again rlly said we’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover

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even Frank Castle himself said you missed the point by idolizing him

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Rewatching Severance season 1 and makes me realize how there is an obscene dirth of Ricken in this last season. My two main complaints would be not enough Ricken and not enough hanging out Macrodata refining.

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If I see one more “Jinx shot Silco on purpose” take I’m gonna lose it

Jinx was having a psychotic attack cuz Vi was unintentionally triggering her. She was clearly in distress.

That’s why Silco is telling Jinx not to listen to Vi. Cuz he knows how triggering Jinx’s past family is for her. So Silco pulls a gun to shoot Vi to get her to shut up.

Jinx, while clearly panicked and unstable and under severe emotional distress, sees a gun drawn, and on instinct, reaches for her gun and pans it as she shoots in the general direction of the gun. She shoots out of instinct in a panicked state. She just pans the gun in the general direction of Silco. But she was still panning the gun so she could have shot anyone. Both Vi or Caitlyn could have been shot in the same instance.

If Vi had broken free of the chair and started coming toward Jinx, Jinx probably would have instinctively shot Vi. If Cait had gotten hold of the gun, she would have instinctively shot Caitlyn. Silco just happened to be the one who made a major sudden movement that could be interpreted as aggressive first.

So it’s clear that Jinx shot out of panicked instinct, aimed in a general direction, and panned the gun as if not trying to consciously hit a specific target. She did not choose to kill Silco.

As soon as the gun stops spinning and Silco’s chair spins around, Jinx realizes what she has accidentally done in her state of violent panic, and immediately starts sobbing and apologizing, because she did not want to kill Silco. she did not conciously make that choice in a clear state of mind.

She just Jinxed it.

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Obsessed with these lyrics in epic 3 and how fear controls characters in Hadestown.

It draws a direct parallel to the workers Hades is exploiting. All the workers, like Eurydice, have come to Hadestown out of fear and desperation. The actions they took to escape that fear ended up trapping them in worse circumstances. They keep their heads low and back bending because that fear and lack of hope keeps them obedient because they think it is their only option, it’s how the world is.

But Hades is also controlled by fear—that his wife will never return, that he’ll lose her. So he builds walls and industry to protect what he does own. He keeps his head low, his back bending under the weight of this fear of loss that has come to drive his every descision.

This fear is why he gives Orpheus the test that he does. He understands how uncertainty can corrupt you as you begin to fear losing what you cannot see. Just as Hades fears losing Persephone each time she goes for the summer. To be driven mad by not knowing, and thus not being able to do anything to stop the worst if it is to be true. She’s out of sight and he’s out of his mind.

The same fear and desperation and uncertainty that drives Eurydice and the workers to Hadestown, that drives Hades to become a compulsive capitalist, is what causes Orpheus to turn around.

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hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.

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No one:

Me whenever I’m sad:

All Burt & Irving scenes from Severance season 1

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thinkin abt that one tweet by christian linke where he admits they sidelined vi cuz she wasn't "as interesting" as other characters. it's so funny to me cuz like. there's no such thing as an uninteresting character there's just unimaginative writers. way to tell on yourself chris

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burt legit tells irv that as long as they don’t directly label it as romantic, then technically it’s fine cuz the manual doesn’t say anything about lip-to-lip contact. he’s like who says I can’t have faith AND exploit religious loopholes? king behavior

ok but cheating god being one of burt's core traits that transcends severance is actually so funny. like innie burt is out here telling irving that if kier and imogene could kiss at work then they can too, while outie burt is rationalizing that if he gets experimental brain surgery he can be at least a little exempt from divine judgement. finding loopholes in religion (or at least attempting to) is his hobby no matter his memories or circumstances. good for him.

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friendly reminder that bullies are nothing but bull and lies