#severence procedure

[lifewithaview]

Adam Scott in Severance (2022) Good News About Hell

S1E1

Mark is promoted to lead a team who've had their memories surgically divided between their work and personal lives.

*There is a mural at the lobby, resembling science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Dick's work echoes all of the themes (memory, identity, concensual reality) present in the series.

[wheelie-sick]

man sometimes I think about the fact that all the kids who were like me and [more] medically neglected are just dead now and it's depressing lmao

like I see posts about being medically neglected as a kid and how hard it was and it's like. fuck. the kids like me who didn't see a doctor are just not here anymore.

the eugenicist healthcare system kills infants and toddlers and sometimes I am brutally reminded of that

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

been thinking about severance as always and just, correct me if I'm wrong but…they have no idea what it's like to sleep, do they? irving keeps getting in trouble for falling asleep at work which means they're not allowed to sleep, which make sense in a corporate environment but just the fact that the simple pleasure of knowing what it is to sleep, of knowing what rest feels like, is forbidden to them just seems absolutely horrific to me

[wisteriander]

hello i’m on my opening theme sequence bullshit again but on my latest rewatch i noticed that the MDR office gets pixeled/swept up into the syringe that puts the severance chip in people’s heads… that and the four tempers/four boxes for sorting the numbers makes me think they’re helping lumon like…. control emotions or something.

[eponinesflowers]

being chronically ill and mentally ill like: is the medical professional telling me “relax” repeatedly because they do this with everyone or because i radiate anxiety from my very being?

[umemiyan]

i have taken to holding my stomach with my hand for support whenever i'm not lying down since it's still rather sore and whenever i become conscious of it it's so fucking embarrassing because i look pregnant bro 😭

[himbeaux-on-ice]

hot take, heavily penalizing teenagers for causing each other head injuries, even unintentionally, is good, actually, and the nhl could stand to take a page from the iihf book on the way that standard is upheld (for all ages).

“how are you gonna prepare them for the nhl if the rules are different?!” this is not an nhl run event. this is not the george parros department of player safety or the gary bettman league. this is not the ‘nhl prospect practice and preparation tournament’, this is the world junior hockey championship. it is its own entity unto itself and for its own ends, it is not just a stepping stone for your favourite budding superstars to gain prestige and fanfare before they move on to the only “big league” that north american hockey fans consider significant or meaningful. it plays a larger role in the development of not only players, but also of entire hockey training programs in countries where hockey, even men’s hockey, is an under-funded or less established sport.

not all of these kids are going to go on to be nhl players. ALL of them should get the chance to grow up to be adults who don’t have their quality of life degraded by lingering head injuries and cte.

miss me with your tough guy bullshit. good grief.

[apotheoseity]

i should more openly talk abt my distaste for psychiatric curealls honestly

[butchnavi]

every time someone tells me I’m emotionally intelligent or good at reading people I’m internally like HA. good guess but I’m just a woefully inept person who’s convinced myself to behave like an advanced algorithm that obsessively studies people as data sets and reproduces said data through fine tuned pattern recognition. but like. thanks I guess

[missholloween]

Day 3 of making my partner watch Severance

We have watched 4 episodes in a row today, as they have been charmed by Irving's love of Eagan (and later the canon, explicit old man yaoi, which they didn't think was going to be Like That) and Harmony's... Whole deal. Discivering that All Of That was her and not Lumon was really fun for them and make him like Harmony even more.

The best part was to see them react to Burt and Irv's romance though, as they are used to shows where 'old man yaoi' are

40-somethings or younger

Involve Mad Mikkelsen and a twink or

Are non-canonical or at most subtext

He (rightfully) almost lost it at the garden scene, and I'm really excited for them to see how that plot resolves at the end of the season.

We only have 3 episodes left, and boy aren't they loaded (the whole show is. Three severance episodes have the plot of a whole series). We are now at a sweetspot where I can show him the spyverance posts (kinda) and talk about the pregnant servered lady, which still haunts me to this date, so that's something. Will probably reblog tomorrow or so when we finish the show <3

[lususnatura]

ahh, don't mind me, y'all — i'm just thinking about how, in my canon, nico morselli (the doctor who blamore is allies with AND also is friends with but don't tell him that, shhh lol) was the first person that it actually learned to trust after it's transformation. and i say this because, in the first few months after it's transformation, it's nerve pain was actually even worse than it can be now. and due to how blamore's metabolism is different... nico felt like formulating a specific type of anti-convulsant for it's condition was the ideal option for blamore because there was a LOT of uncertainty around how much meds he should give it. so, in the meantime while nico worked on a drug that he knew wouldn't possibly O.D. it (man's also has some experience in biochemistry + he's also got a degree in that) those first few months were roughhh.

this is because he primarily used nerve blocks for it's pain which are actually injections that are given through the spine and as you all may know, blamore's spine is like a HUGELY sensitive spot for him. and so it doesn't let anyone it doesn't trust touch it + with this in mind, it didn't trust nico at first, but for an MD with some questionable patients (he's been the primary doctor of someone in the mob for years); nico actually seems to have his heart in the right place a good amount of the time because he comforted blamore every single time he gave him one of those injections 😭 because they never got any easier for blamore to take, and i don't mean nico just talked him through it, either. man's held it's hand and everything. and for that, he's a real one

[skunkes]

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[chiropteracupola]

a little pain now, to save a great deal more pain later

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[healingheartdogs]

Doctors visits as an AFAB person that have absolutely nothing to do with potential pregnancy and do not at all match symptoms of pregnancy be like:

Doc: "When was your last period?"

Me: "I'm currently on my period, it started (date)."

Doc: "And are you on any birth control?"

Me: "Yeah I have the nexplanon arm implant."

Doc: "And are you currently sexually active?"

Me: "Nope, haven't been for years."

~ Fifteen minutes later ~

Doc: "Well your pregnancy test (that we didn't tell you we were doing or ask your consent for) came back negative so it's not that."

No. Fucking. Duh.

[gothicseverance]

Power politics, identity and inheritance.

—History of the Gothic

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

me when I got prescribed Ativan for my anxiety: omg just like Fall Out Boy song