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Hollowknight painting process 🪲

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no trace left

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Romeo to his Juliet INPRNT | Twitter | Insta

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"Mark and Gemma are bland. This isn't a love story. Gemma didn't have anyone besides Mark. Mark was a douche about her infertility. Mark was exploiting Gemma's labor."

Do you not remember when Devon had to remind Mark that Gemma was her family too!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you not remember the scene where Devon offered Gemma alcohol and the excitement and joy and affection that was in that brief interaction alone!!!!! Do you not remember how we were told in season one how seemingly healthy of a sibling/sibling-in-law relationship Mark, Gemma, Devon, and Ricken had where they would regularly go on hikes and have dinner together and were very involved and invested in each other's lives!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you not recall how Gemma was clearly going to a gathering of people, presumably friends, on her own, the night Lumon kidnapped her!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark was unable to grieve on the "Mark can't grieve" show!!! Are you so shocked????

Have you never experienced grief in a way that impacts your romantic relationship???? I have. Not regarding fertility, but grief operates in similar ways regardless of the source and Mark and Gemma's clear conflict of "I want to avoid the grief, if this is making you unhappy let's just stop!" and "I want to put these emotions on the table can we please just talk about it!" is sooooooooo exceedingly common and real. I saw bits of my own experiences and the experiences I've seen in others I know in real life in them both.

Sometimes it's not exploitation. Sometimes it's just people with conflicting emotional states that begin to create tears in the seams of a relationship in spite of the ways those people clearly care for each other and want a relationship together.

That's literally the uncomfortable situation, the distressing situation, that Lumon is trying to remove from people's lives. The pain, the miscommunication, the grief. We're being shown that life is hard, and messy, and uncomfortable, and sad, and how Lumon thinks they can simultaneously create life and strip life of those things.

The whole point!!!!!!! is that they still love each other despite the grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That they are willing to fight through the literal hell of the testing and severed floors and reintegration to get back to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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they mean a lot to me

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It’s so funny seeing non-science people write scientist characters. specifically when arcane fans write Jayce and Viktor and they’re in the lab just talking about “solving equations.” exquisite.

yo who up solving they equation

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yes where is tramell tillman’s emmy. but equally important: where is seth milchick’s TONY?

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JADE HARLEY GIF WOOOOO YAYYYYY - other mod

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thank you all!

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sneak peek of a collab with @/panplantita on bsky for our next lineup of merch stuff

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defiance, personified

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He should be at the Adventurer's Guild.

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"are innies and outies the same person" and the show says well yes but also no. "and does love transcend severance?" and the show says well yes but also no! hope this helps.