#devon scout

[manwholovescabins]

idc that it wouldn’t have worked — mark and devon doing their little investigative craft together was so important to me <3

[pulsingvoid]

i desperately need devon and reghabi to 1. meet 2. kill some people and 3. have a lesbian affair

[fearoftheminotaur]

Thoughts on Ricken Hale

I've seen some meta to the effect that Ricken is being set up as a sort of foil to Kier Egan. Kier's family is trying to turn him into a patriarchal god through the worship of his Lumon manual, a mix of religious commands for submission and advice for feeling contented at work, while Ricken has a league of sycophants ready to hear out his vanity projects and discuss his book at a moment's notice.

But what I've been thinking about is what Devon sees in Ricken, as well as what makes his book not just compelling to the Innies, but deprogramming. And of course, it's the fact that what Ricken lacks in humility, or accuracy, he makes up for in his ability to explain basic things about the world to someone who has no experience of it.

He also does seem to have his heart in the right place at times. He does care about Mark and wants to reconcile with him, he is scared of becoming like his own father, and even in his public reading he tries to put his focus on Eleanor, even when his "friends" are unwilling to engage with her existence.

To Mark and Dylan, reading Ricken's basic anti-establishment, vaguely pro-labor rhetoric is like a crash course in every human sentiment that led to this book existing. Believe in yourself, your job isn't everything, sometimes the world around you is unfair and wrong. These are huge to what are essentially, sheltered children living in a strict orphanage. The absent idealized patriarch of Kier, versus the flawed, compassionate, teacher in Ricken.

So maybe Devon chose Ricken because, for better or worse, and right or wrong, he seemed like he would make a good dad.

[eggsistential-basket]

not innie mark risking his life to get a message to the outside and outie mark and devon spending so much effort to say *old man voice* "huh????? what did you just say???"

[ananke-xiii]

work/life balance vs we're like a family

okay so i'm gonna tag this "severance spoilers" but it's def more about s1 and i want to use this post for future reference since s2 is currently airing so there aren't gonna be any actual spoilers in it

if you've worked in corporate you probably know that "mental heatlh awareness week!!11!!11" and the "we're a team, we're a family" propaganda is real and sickening.

"severance" has taken the first theme literally since people arguably have "solved" the work/life balance conundrum by removing themselves from the picture: you don't actually need to balance your work/life... life anymore if one part of you "lives" while the other "works".

cool, fine, great concept, we're all hooked.

However, one of the show subplots is gabby arteta's and devon scout's pregnancies. And, as we all know by now, it's INSANE.

so... what if... they took the "we're like a family" theme literally too??

what if this is not a subplot, but THE plot?

what if it's not so much about severed workers but severed pregnancies??? as in, the severance procedure is a by-product of experiments on reproduction?

if you think about it, the severance procedure is about space rather than time: severed people still experience events in a linear chronological order but these events are based on the location they're in.

and where do gabby and devon go to have their babies? to the hospital, you say? No, they go to those scary pregnancy houses in the woods.

and who does mark end up dating? devon's midwife, alexa. Now, I don't remember how many but the show makes a point when it tells us the number of children alexa delivers per day. and, i mean, have you seen the town they all live in? it doesn't scream babyland, as a matter of fact there are literally no babies at all. the house are empty ffs.

so where are all these babies?

and what about ms cobel and her shrine with the baby thing inside? and she's a midwife as well? or, at least, she knows how to work with babies.

so... hear me out... what if.... WHAT IF

when ms cobel tells that guy (i don't remember his name, the security guy anyway) that "if you need a hug, go to hell and find your mother?" it's not just a cool line, but a key line?

we know the severed floor has been visually paralleled to hell via helly r.

we know that helly r. tells mark something along the lines of "you're not my family".

we know helly r. is very much family to lumon to the point that, when she was a kid, she thought she had hundreds of brothers and sisters...

we know that gabby's husband is a pro-severance senator who's clearly pro-lumon

so... what if

the key, or one of the keys, is literally to "go to hell and find your mother"?

what if lumon is your literal, actual family like in helly r's case????

[pelorsdyke]

DEVON SPOTTED IN PROMO PICS

[trashcapableofsentience]

'what in the fuckity fuck...?'

*looks down at kid* sorry

DEVON YOU ARE ICONIC

[shmlnbstrcnd]

1 x 8 : "What's for Dinner?"

1 x 9 : "The We We Are"

[tvuniverse]

SEVERANCE -> 2x02 Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig + The Break Room

[therealslimshady]

Devon leaves her brother alone for threeeee seconds and he gets experimental brain surgery

[manwholovescabins]

we’re going to see devon and reintegrated mark soon which i am NORMAL ABOUT!!!!!

[linusbenjamin]

#devon should be allowed to kill people Severance 2.03 "Who is Alive?"

[ajaystillblue]

web weaving with Devon and Mark in Severance

HOW ARE WE FEELING AFTER S2 EP2 BECAUSE I AM :'I

[ghostoflyra]

Mark and Devons siblinghood is so realistic actually. Because I bet you two minutes after that conversation in Pips, in which Mark said things he can never take back and things that Devon might not forgive, he called her and was like “hey soooo do you want to hear this really cool idea i have”

[sci-fi-gifs]

Severance 2.02 "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig"

[pelorsdyke]

if I tell you, are you going to punish him for it?

severance // all-american bitch (olivia rodrigo) // #6 (AroarA) // a brother named gethsemane (natalie diaz) // the other boelyn girl // final girl (chvrches) // unknown uquiz