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Introducing our heir for the 1900's, Robert! (who was technically born first between him and John) and his lovely partner Margaret 'Maggie' Grey❤️💙

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As we fall into sequence And we're eating our young Remain silent and still for modesty When the splints have been broken And they can't help you now Do you pray with your eyes closed naturally?

Follow me into nowhere Woven with the utmost care

If I'm lost please don't find me If I drown let me sink We descended from no one With a wink

Alice and Alice

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The Boston Globe Episodes

Today I’m going to talk about The Boston Globe episode and how it paved the way for Nick, June and Holly’s journey. The Boston Globe episode is a powerful statement about the break down of truth in the face of dictatorships, and the threat of it in current political climates. In regards to the future of these characters, the episodes featuring the Boston Globe are extremely pivotal.

It’s telling that Nick and June spend the first 3 months of their babies life together at the now haunted and abandoned Boston Globe. Its the place where knowledge and truth once flowed and it’s where we truly begin to see how Holly is used as a vehicle to tell a larger tale. Here the printing presses are all painted in handmaids red, nooses hand from the rafters and bullet holes punctuate the walls like the final word in the resistance. It’s no coincidence that Holly undergoes her most formative months in this broken down home of free knowledge and information, as she will be fundamental to the restoration of democracy to her country.

It’s also the place where Nick and June begin to truly fall in love with one another. Nick and June have sex, at last unrestrained by the boundaries of the Waterford household, and there’s a lustful abandonment to it bred by years of captivity. We’re finally given a glimpse into their somewhat free life away from Gilead. Blaine’s always been somewhat of an enigma, stoic, dutiful and domesticated. But here in the semi free world we see the layers are almost instantly stripped away, he becomes immediately emotional and vulnerable….years of service have suffocated him.

These are their child’s most developmental months and it is the most formative moments of their relationship, where their feelings grow into a lasting bond. By the time she returns to the Waterfords, their child is well on its way to being fully formed, just as is her relationship with Nick. By the time their child is born, their bond will be forged and they will love each other entirely. It’s no coincidence that when Nick is married off to Eden, June almost miscarries.

June wanders around the secret location dressed in Blaine’s clothes, she’s in her first trimester, she’s wearing the t shirt she took off him the first night they were together and very possibly the night they conceived Holly. His clothes act like some kind of personal shield, it’s the best he can do in his absence. Later as she makes the Globe her home, she jogs between the small cities of presses to a shrine she has erected, an assortment of mementos and photographs from the surrounding desks. Just like the Handmaids letters, she intends to keep their stories alive, their voices heard.

Upstairs she gathers old editions and pieces together the story of the The Sons of Jacob and their rise to power. As Holly grows in her womb, rebellion grows in her heart and June returns to the Waterfords with a crystalized intent to destroy Gilead. Nick looks at the wall of clippings reconstructing his past and begins to truly understand, this is the moment when Blaine’s loyalties truly turned. He tries to convince her to go, he’s understandably worried about her future and the future of his unborn child….he should be, it’s a girl.

The two share a morning cup of coffee and there’s the facade of a normalcy as we get a glimpse of Nick and June as a couple in the real world. “If I wake you then you leave, how is that a win for me?” She asks him. Atwood’s text describes June as no longer wanting to leave Nick, June’s caught in a dream from which she no longer wishes to wake. The rare moment of domesticity in this moment is so brief, but overflowing with contentment. Just a flash and then it’s gone, like all the other precious moments of peace these two get.

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The Haindmaid’s Tale (2017)

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Season 5, “Motherland”

Director: Natalia Leite

DoP: Stuart Campbell

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TYRION LANNISTER, GAME OF THRONES

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“No more to you than a bee is to a flower. Not me, not my flesh”

-Margret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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Reading : The Handmaid’s Tale

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The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood

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Welcome home to a new life in Chestnut Ridge.

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Crystal Castles at Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada October 26, 2012

Part 1

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“—I guess you get used to things being one way”.

The Handmaid’s Tale: season 1, episode 6.

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"NO ANESTHETIC, LAY YOUR PACE, MUTILATE THE HUMAN RACE."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a live shot of Alice Glass, Canadian vocalist, singer, songwriter, co-founder and former frontwoman of electronic/dance musical duo CRYSTAL CASTLES (2006-2017).

"When I cut deep you'll think of me, Until your lobotomy, No anesthetic, lay your pace Mutilate the human race, This way, we can be together, Mangled hearts stitched with leather, I've been waiting for so long, Your silent scream's my favorite song."

-- "Love and Caring" (2008) by CRYSTAL CASTLES

Source: http://timeforheroes729.blogspot.com/2014/02/crystal-castels-alice-glass.html.

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How austerity broke Britain

“The case for austerity was presented less as an economic imperative and more as an ethical one. The UK had enjoyed many years of growth and prosperity by living beyond its means; the time had come to pay the bill. This morality tale had truly perverse consequences. A period of elite excess was twisted into a reason for popular guilt, which would legitimate punishment of the poor. On those ideological terms, at least, austerity worked: the number of food bank parcels handed out by the Trussell Trust increased by 2,612 percent under Cameron’s premiership …

“During the 1980s, the Thatcher government introduced measures designed to corrode the power of the working class and strengthen capital. The idea, as author Gregoire Chamayou agues, was to restore the ‘governability’ of society. Workers had to be reminded who was boss — and neoliberal economic policies provided the whip that would be used to beat them into submission.

“Today, austerity, combined with tighter monetary policy, is playing the same role. Lower government spending, higher taxes, and high interest rates all restrict demand, and therefore put downward pressure on wages and undermine stable employment.

“The threat of unemployment is supposed to discipline workers into accepting lower wages and avoiding strike action. The problem for the government is that working people have been subjected to so much suffering over the last decade that many feel they have little left to lose. When you can barely heat your home and put food on the table, not demanding wage increases in line with inflation seems like a greater risk than doing so.”