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you smug motherfucker. you’re not severed.

severance (2022-) // the employees by olga ravn

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THEY ARE TRYING TO TURN MR. MILCHICK INTO A BASIC BITCH AND I WONT STAND FOR IT

I SEE YOU MR. MILCHICK AND YOUR COLORFUL VOCABULARY KEEP SLAYING

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tramell tillman had one single scene this episode and it ruined my life. the fucking atonement paperclipping. the self-breakrooming. WE'RE GETTING YOU OUT OF THERE SETH. WE'RE GETTING YOU OUT OF THERE

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confused

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i understand why people say gemma is a non-character or something along those lines but i believe it’s actually much worse than that, because we know things about her. we know how ms casey acts and talks and moves and there must be some gemma in there. we know she was also a teacher. we know she did crafts. we know she was allergic to nutmeg and liked other people’s dogs and thought cardigans looked ridiculous and when she sneezed, she always sneezed twice. we know she and mark went on hikes with devon and ricken. we know she was nice and supportive to ricken and had conversations with him about his ideas and was grateful for his throat singing dedicated to her, but she did still laugh at it with mark. we know what her loss did to mark, devon and ricken. we know that devon and ricken wanted to name their child after her, but mark didn’t agree. we know she made mark wonderful. we know a bunch of things about her and her presence in and effect on people’s lives, and we know all of it through the people who love her and lost her. and that is so much worse than her just not being there.

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Thinking about how despite the fact that he doesn’t remember gemma mark s is LITERALLY born out of his love for her. Like he loved her so much he was CHOKING ON HER GHOST (!!!) and created a new version of himself who didn’t have to remember losing her. It’s a super fucked up subversion of loving someone to the point of creation; I love you so much I created a version of myself that never knew you. And he still feels it down there he just doesn’t know what it is!! What the fuck!!!

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He’s sitting in a room across from his dead wife. She tells him to sculpt how he feels. He makes a tree. He thought she died in an accident involving a tree. “You think you’re escaping it but you carry it down there. You just don’t know what it is.” or whatever Petey said (Im paraphrasing.) And eventually Mark is going to remember that. Sitting across from the woman he is grieving and just making a tree. The writers just do that and go on about their lives without caring that they’re ruining mine.

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doomed yuri

toxic yaoi

i see no difference love is love ❤️

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they’re growing on me

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the mortifying ordeal of being known

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I think with Yor being so perceptive, she picks up on little things often (like we saw in ch 103). i believe this would impact loid more so than the usual person, because he is a spy and fakes every part of himself, so to be seen is simultaneously desirable and horrifying. like, it makes him torn between wanting to accept and reciprocate the love, or distancing himself so that it doesn't happen again.

thats mostly what the last panel is about, that dichotomy between 'omg this person noticed this about me, is this love' and 'oh shit this person noticed this about me, is this Doom'

just some thoughts i had🤪

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✧ soaring high above, watching over you ✧

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If I had a nickel for every time my favorite character

- had the last name “Grayson”

- dark brown/black hair

- started out their vigilante life with red and yellow in their costume

- complicated relationship with father

- started out looking up to/idolizing their mentor/father figure but ended up separating themselves from them

- when forging a new identity away from their father/mentors shadow, donned a black & blue & yellow suit (and at some point getting rid of the yellow)

- accidentally beats an enemy to death in a moment of blind rage (bonus: it was after the enemy severely harmed their close family)

- been on a team with other teenagers

- red-head love interest

- orange skin alien friend

- had their reputation tarnished and had to briefly fly under the radar (dick accused of murder, mark being (sorta) blamed for the destruction of chicago)

- accidental brother aquisition

I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but its weird that it happened twice right?

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As a kid learning about the holocaust, I never understood how people could let Nazis rise to power. But now I’m watching it happen in real time.

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The way the government treats homeless people and panhandlers ought to be evidence enough on its own that empathy doesn't always lead to ethical behavior. Middle and upper class people get uncomfortable seeing homeless people because seeing someone in a bad state triggers an uncomfortable empathic response. They feel bad seeing people suffering. But people respond by trying to remove the source of their discomfort just as often as they respond with compassion.

That's why cities respond with hostile architecture and brutality. They just need to make the problem invisible, and people stop complaining.

Empathy is very useful, but it's no substitute for actual ethical principles.

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at least from what I’ve been seeing, a dancer waving the sudanese flag in front of tens of thousands at the super bowl during halftime has arguably put more (american) attention on what’s been happening in sudan (150,000+ estimated dead and 8 million displaced) than any us politician has in the last 3 years and they got fucking detained for it.

Please do not forget about Sudan.

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Oh they’re so stupid.