#spoilers !!!!!!!!!

[saritawolff]

I’m not even doing this in the tags because I want to rant.

Not a movie but the 2017 “The Mist” TV series was the worst thing I think I’ve ever watched. Every time you’d even try to root for a character the plot would punish you for it by making them do something unforgivable, until there were genuinely no likeable characters left. I only kept watching because I wanted to see if they would reveal where the mist was coming from, and then they canceled the series before that point, which I seriously should have guessed would happen before suffering through it. Most miserable TV experience I’ve ever had. I get angry just thinking about it.

What would you guys consider the worst movie you've ever seen? Not something that's fun to make fun of, nothing you ironically enjoyed, I mean just an absolutely miserable moviegoing experience that you paid for, hated every second, and wish you had walked out of and asked for a refund.

For me, no joke, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. It did not even feel like a real movie to me. It made me see red! I was SEETHING with anger and annoyance throughout the entire thing, and I cannot for the life of me articulate why. I saw it once in 2012 when I was 15, I remember almost nothing about it now, but it struck a nerve with me like no other movie ever has before or since.

Tell me in the tags, which movie makes you disproportionately angry just thinking about it?

[emziess]

Devon hiding the picture of Mark and Gemma Severance, S02E02

[sart7alex]

I'M SORRY CHAT IS THIS REAL?? HELLO?!

I've never been happier about being right

[why-i-love-comics]

Detective Comics #1093 - "Mercy of the Father IV" (2025)

written by Tom Taylor art by Mikel Janin

[kirachune]

Scars

[cactuskat]

I think this is the first time I've seen this text post correctly applied to the character

[karawra]

showing they care

[emziess]

Severance, S02E02 - Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig

[fanfoolishness]

Y’all!!! Season 2 is continuing the food journey!

First, we have bizarro new incentives. Pineapple bobbing is given up as a fun team building activity, though both Clay!Mark and Clay!Helly look agitated, even frightened — who wouldn’t be at the thought of grabbing a spiky pineapple with their mouth and their hands tied behind their backs?

The food here is a threat and an additional labor, echoed in Milchick’s ominous gift baskets. Okay, you get a pineapple — now you have to work to actually get it open and enjoy it. There are always strings attached.

Even if the food is easy to eat, that doesn’t mean it’s actually helpful, or desired, or good. The Christmas mints look like crap (and who calls them that?). Cut beans?? Salsa in a vending machine? It’s psychotic! They attempt to use novelty as incentive but it’s as clumsy and false as the claymation.

And most heartbreaking of all, where once Devon and Mark shared a warm, nutritious and fulfilling meal, signifying the strength of their relationship… here at Pip’s they barely make it to coffee before Mark explodes and takes off, unable to bear any scrap of hope that his wife is still out there, unable to hear that Devon misses her too because his own pain is still so all-consuming. Devon’s left alone at the empty table, their relationship shaken, and there’s no comforting meal anywhere in sight.

More to come as we continue on in season 2!

ALSO! Check this quote from Dan Erickson:

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!

As you all know I've been rabid for Severance the past few weeks, and I've been mulling over various theories, ideas and character arcs. But I did notice that food is a running theme on the show: food, its absence, its uses, its meaning.

Severance is a show about connections, what happens when we lose or lack them, and how we can grow by developing these connections and relationships to other. Food is often used as shorthand for community and togetherness, and Severance uses food -- or the lack of it -- to help underscore these bonds, whether broken or whole.

Mark, a grieving, alcoholic widower, is rarely shown to eat. His normal post-work routine is beer or whiskey or wine on the couch. There's no montage of him even making a lonely bachelor dinner. He typically eschews food entirely outside of his interactions with others.

When Devon tries to pull him out of his house and away from himself, knowing the anniversary of his wife's death is approaching, they find themselves in a dinnerless dinner party, a pretentious, masturbatory bit of nonsense. The participants describe food as mere fuel for higher things, and not worthy of weight in and of itself. But these are hollow people, tactless and empty. Their relationships are plastic. There is nothing real about them, and thus, nothing real about their "dinner party."

The only real relationship that is explored here is Mark and Devon's.

Which is where we see the healthiest, freshest, and most filling meal of the show, lit with golden warmth, made by Devon and given to Mark. Their relationship is real, their connections are real. Their food is real. Devon asks Mark about therapy (he's not going) and Mark drinks from a hip flask (he's ill, but doesn't feel a need to hide it from Devon). The food in this scene underlines the strength of their bond.

Mark's other attempts at meals go less well. Mrs. Selvig/Cobel nearly force feeds him cookies; he eats them out of politeness, but the batch of burned ones in her kitchen shows that the effort to connect in this way is doomed. He goes to Pip's VIP area and is accosted by Petey before his food ever arrives. Later he and Petey share a pizza, but we don't see Mark eating, and the pizza looks sad and listless. Petey is trying to form a connection with him, but Mark is unable or unwilling to reciprocate.

A relationship that Mark does truly try to cultivate is that with Alexa. However, it doesn’t go well. His first date with Alexa is entirely foodless, though he orders a second whiskey while they sit with empty plates. He ruins the date later by aggressively arguing with people downtown, his defensiveness fueled by whiskey, and heads home alone for a beer.

The best he manages to do with Alexa is to decline alcohol at his second dinner with her and enjoy some fries -- and this is their healthiest interaction, where they mutually extend the date and Alexa comes home with him. Food as connection.

Contrast ordering whiskey number 2 in an empty restaurant on their first date, with being good with only water and having at least fries in a restaurant that shows more warmth, more liveliness, other couples. It's a healthier step, and one that almost gets Mark to a better place, until he runs out on Alexa in the middle of the night.

His worst meal, and the only time we see himself having his own food in his house, is when he scours the news for information on Graner's murder, makes an ass of himself to Alexa, tears up Gemma's photo, and grieves her more than ever. This is not sustaining. This is not healthy. It's a fucking bag of potato chips and a bottle of whiskey for dinner.

In contrast, innie Mark doesn't fare much better. The food at Lumon is doled out purely as soulless rewards for work the innies must perform. The food is precisely regulated, either with tokens or with Milchick's falsely cheerful deliveries of bizarrely regimented melons and eggs. Lunches are provided and noted on the list of the senior refiner's duties, but we never see the innies get to enjoy them, if they are indeed enjoyable. Food is fuel. Food is incentive. Food is out of their control.

Even the vaunted waffle party, lauded all season, requires taking a refiner away from their team so they can eat alone, where they then put on a mask and watch other people in masks. Food as separation. Food that encourages distance rather than fostering closeness.

But slowly, the innies begin to band together. They realize their prison is cold and cruel, that they have been deprived of basic, vital, precious relationships. Helly realizes that her own escape is not enough, and she wants the others to find freedom too. Dylan realizes corporate incentives mean nothing in the face of his son’s embrace — and he insists the others deserve the same chance to experience their own lives. Mark begins to realize through Ricken’s book and their new experiences that self-worth and community are vital goals. And Irving realizes his love for Burt is beautiful, Kier be damned.

The egg bar, coveted as fuck, is actually good. So is their teamwork. Their friendship. Their connections, finally recognized by all of them as more important than punishment or toeing the line or making it through another day.

So they plan their rebellion, their chance to break through to the outside world, to honor their mutual struggle and their bond. Dylan gazes upon his reward, a glass cube of all of them united; and Irving, excited, determined, triumphant, says:

“Let’s find out what’s for dinner.”

[why-i-love-comics]

TVA #2 (2025)

written by Katharyn Blair art by Pere Perez & Guru-eFX

[tinukis]

i kind of need him sorry

bothered most of my friends about him and honestly i am not over him send help. we dont even know much abt him but it’s ok i’ve loved worse (i think? doffy)

[mari-lair]

look at this art!!

I hope so bad my fears were wrong and we will get Teru explaining the glasses this ep!!

[tannnnblogs]

Exactly this day last year, I've uploaded this comic!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[mas-y-menos]

[lemons-and-pie]

Tap for better quality, Tumblr fried it :( I kept messing with this for too long I’m just gonna post it lol

It’s Sam 🫵 and Max’s disembodied brain