#severance theory

[whovianbuffalo]

[the-collector-blog]

Famine. Plagues.

Severance was made shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic. Many things during the pandemic are surreal, and parts of Severance evoke the same feeling.

Employees must wash their hands 10 times a day. Departments are isolated in order to contain pathogens. Soap is just weird.

Everything is so empty. Mark's neighborhood, Baird Creek, "never really filled up," and beside it is a massive graveyard. (On Irving's map of Kier, PE, almost all of the severed employees he marked live right by cemeteries.)

Lumon Industries and Kier Eagan are all about perfecting and curing people and the world. Lumon started as a medical company and still seems to be, at least to some extent. Dentistry, medicine, neurosurgery; they were recruiting pharmacology and psychology college students. Mark and Irving's license plates show Kier's face and, instead of a state name, "remedium hominibus". Latin for "cure for mankind". Lumon wants to "save the world".

Kier was sick as a boy, but healed. Dylan's Eagan bingo cards listed "picture of a boy with rickets"- some part of the Eagan history (or Kier's personal history) included rickets. Illness. Everything at Lumon is about "healing".

There is a lot of weird stuff about food, inside and outside of Lumon. At Devon and Ricken's "dinner" party, they don't eat at all. Patton's "friend in Lima hasn't had a food-based dinner event in-" some significant amount of time. Their guests have discussions about food vs. life. The Kier song that Harmony sings says that he "brings the bounty to the plains".

Dylan's theory might've be a little off, but I honestly think he is very close. "Shit must've gotten pretty bad out there. Famine. Plagues."

[one-last-pickleback]

Severance Irving-Burt Theory theory:

Irving saw Burt go down to the testing floor to be "reset" previously and they had been in love. It's why he keeps painting it & why the painting is from the viewpoint of someone watching the elevator not someone getting on it.

[aitadjcrazytimes]

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[sunofpandora]

OFFICIAL AVATAR 3 ANNOUNCEMENTS

This just in guys, last night on D23, avatar 3 has an official title “fire and ash”

We are so back guys 🤭💙🩵

[comicaurora]

Hey is this a visual metaphor on how the Champion can’t fully think for himself and be his own person rather than a weapon for the Paladins and Light Dragon to utilize because he acts as a vessel for LD in a similar way as how Kendal acted as a vessel for Vash (as a simple body to command for their goals) and so literally can’t “open his eyes” and be an individual on his own behalf because he does not have his own eyes to be able to open, also symbolizing how he can’t understand or sympathize with Erin and the others because he can only see the world through LD’s eyes?

Or am I just going insane

it might have more to do with the fact that Erin didn't think the Light Dragon was a real Primordial, let alone a match to the Void Dragon, but there's only one place he's seen eyes like this before

[spac3d0lls]

“talia was a codename for noel!”

“noel was catfishing mischa!”

don't care. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

[shoukohime]

nobara comeback before jjk ends like to charge reblog to cast

[aroacechillzone]

I don't know if I've ever made a post on this topic before, but I'm going to do it anyways: Romance is a social construct.

What does this mean? Well, think about gender, which is basically a set of expectations of how to present, dress, and act. These expectations (such as shaving) are not inherent to biology, and differ across cultures and time. Romance is the same way. People in a romantic relationship are expected to act a certain way and do certain things, like holding hands or having sex. They are expected to feel a certain way about one another. And, just like gender, these expectations differ across cultures and time. In Europe, kissing friends on the cheek is a common greeting, but in the US that's seen as romantic. And in the past, the concept of "dating" as we know it didn't really exist.

Just like gender, this doesn't mean romance isn't "real." It just exists in the context of the society around it.

[vaguely-concerned]

lucanis' weirdly matter of fact but not necessarily unfriendly casual bedside manner ("this -- will look weird") has enraptured me I must admit. like okAY doc dellamorte didn't expect to see you here but imma trust you on this one you seem to know what you're doing. I've seen people describe him as 'smooth' which like. folks I think he might not be particularly cool he's just weird in a way that emulates it until you look closer. it's the blunted affect doing the vibe version of putting cool shades on him but there's still just a tired strange little man who'd rather be sharpening his knives right now behind those shades

[the-collector-blog]

also.. one employee in the security control room is "harmony s" (in "d&r" aka "disposal and recollection"). my theory is that harmony cobel used to be a severed employee, and eventually was moved up to management, where severance no longer activated in her brain. (the security room very likely has the ability to do this.) she got severed because it was an objective of her cult- the quote "to heal, one must be cut" hangs upon her wall.

i think she is actually mrs. selvig as well. how? her late husband's last name was selvig, so before, she went by harmony selvig. harmony s. a while after his passing, she went back to her maiden name, harmony cobel. she sympathizes with outie mark because he, too, lost his spouse and was so heartbroken that he elected to be severed.

[acrownofantlers]

there’s a discrepancy in Irving’s time at Lumon— in the show he says he’s been there 5 years. there’s an official Severance guidebook somewhere saying he’s been there 8 years. I don’t think the writers are that sloppy; I think Innie Irving doesn’t remember his first 3 years at Lumon because he wasn’t severed for them.

I think Irving used to be in Milchick’s security position, which would involve walking people to That Hallway (and having it haunt your every waking moment that those people were essentially dead to the world, never to be seen again, and you personally walked them to their doom)

it would also line up with why Outtie Irving has that list of names/addresses that Innie Irving uses to find Burt. they definitely wouldn’t let just any old employee have access to that type of information!!!

WHY DOES IRVING SEE MS. CASEY'S ELEVATOR?!? WHY DOES IRVING KNOW THE HALLWAY DOWN TO THE TESTING FLOOR?!!?! WHY WHY WHY

[albino-parakeet]

Just a working mom and her three beautiful kids.

No Timelapse cause I messed with the lighting wayyyy too much and it’s like a strobe light so here it is without the overlay:

[intothedysphoria]

Purely because because I think it would be fun, I really want harringrove actually from where Joe and Dacre are from. Like Billy from Perth and Steve from Massachusetts.

Like if I’m trying to be a serious storyteller with this I think it would be interesting to see if Billy and Steve being different nationalities would shift their vibe or dynamic in anyway but also I just know Steve is not immune to an Australian accent

[fanaticallyfleeky]

I’ve seen multiple posts about the ibuprofen and Buck’s allergy to naproxen and people thinking they’ve connected the dots, but the thing is

an allergy to naproxen does not inherently mean an allergy or sensitivity to ibuprofen

yes, they’re both NSAIDs but they differ in chemical structures. Allergic reactions to NSAIDs typically occur because of a sensitivity to the drug’s specific structure, so a person may react to one NSAID but tolerate another.

in fact, if someone has a known sensitivity to naproxen, doctors may recommend using a different NSAID like ibuprofen

Tldr: Tommy giving Buck ibuprofen makes perfect sense