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[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

I have not read any of the follow up hunger games books. And I will not. But I think it's interesting that (some, or maybe even, many) people are pretty focused in what the movie version is gonna look like. Immediately after the book came out, all the while talking about how revolutionary and timely THG and all it's spinoffs are. Something something, do you want some bread with those circuses?

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Hitting the 3 week mark of my entire work team being scheduled off with no updates on when work will resume. Our bills and rent do not slow down when work does and everything in the world is due next week!

Rent and utilities are the biggest priority $2,700 is the goal

[yourbitchystudentartist]

I think there's something to say about how WOC are treated in severance, but I'm putting a pin on that thought till season 3 cause there could be potent commentary on its way, but idk yet. But basically, you know Gemma is in a place of constant overwhelming suffering, all her innies are stuck in torturous nightmare situations, she have 24 other consciousnessess that just experience torture so letting those innies live or entertaining reintegration is just, not feasible. You have Reghabi, who obviously has a life and backstory that parallels cobel's but we know nothing about her other than her passion for taking down Lumon and her fugitive status. You have Ms. Huang, who is a child labourer at child exploitation inc. All these women are characters who are suffering pretty extreme versions of different main character's lives. And the oppressive Male Whiteness of Lumon has been a factor in its culture and makeup, the way Milchick and theat other lady are treated highlight the racism in Lumon. So I feel like there's a point to the Show amping up the suffering of these WOC, the consequences of interacting with Lumon seems doubly hard on WOC and I would like to think that's a conscious writing decision and I would love to see Gemma, Reghabi, Ms. Huang, and even that very smiley lady (I am so sorry I forgot her name) expanded on a little bit, but also, given a bit of levity. Like please, Lord, let Gemma have a good day. If it's not a conscious writing decision I'll be a bit disappointed, but hey, art imitates life, Gemma is still portrayed by a WOC and if that means the white writers are going extra hard on her I will individually extrapolate that as a part of the themes of the show buy ill be looking like this >:( while I'm doing so.

[yourbitchystudentartist]

i respect innie mark for saving gemma at the very least and the romantic in me understands why he chose to stay in hell with helly but it ALSO needs to be understood by both him and every single person in this series that gemma’s feelings come first because no one has suffered more than her and if that’s a hard pill to swallow well then so be it

[yourbitchystudentartist]

On the one hand. It doesn't matter, cause I don't read these books. On the other hand, every friend or acquaintance of mine who does like to read DOES read these books, and I'm just. So tired. Of like, you know, the very popular romantasies with a white main character and a racially ambiguous brown man MC and often a host of diverse side characters, especially in the romance genre, the fetishization of men of colour seems so transparent to me and I'm so irritated by the lack of critical thought around this, or. Even worse, the fact that these books are being promoted to me as diverse lit for me to check out.

Like, the MMCs are always tanned, vaguely coded as possibly, maybe a man of colour if you squint but never described with any particular ethnic features or cultures that would meaningfully identify them as a man of colour. So these white authors can have their cake and eat it too: the veneer of diversity so no one can call them racist for always having a white cast of characters, while appealing to white people by allowing them to imagine these racially ambiguous MCs as tanned white men if they want to. They can drool over their imagined exotic man of colour while still holding on to white standards of beauty.

I'm just so sick of it, and I blame Sarah J Mass for popularizing it. And I know that, for her it's a deliberate marketing/avoiding being called racist strategy cause I READ HER BOOKS and NONE of those bitches were people of colour until AFTER detractors started pointing out the orientalist coding of her work while having every character be white. I was THERE when all the fanart of every character was pale as freshly driven snow. Ain't no way in hell she meant for those high fae whatever to be people of colour.

AND her (and other others in this space) racial retconning remains racist because she fundamentaly sees PoC and their cultures as barbaric and writes them as such. That's why in all these romantasies with racially ambiguous MMCs, those characters are big scary possesive and aggressive, an amalgamation of every racist assumption of men of colour, wrapped up in a vaguely brown package. I had it, I hate it so much when fantasy has these vague underlines of people of colour because non-whiteness can be combined and erased and mushed together, but whiteness will never truly be ambiguous. A white FMC is White. Full stop. And allows for White people to be confident and comfortable in their existence and identiy, but people of colour are expected to latch on to, and even praise ambiguous representation, as if its at all meaningful, sincere or deliberate. As if all people of color are the same, look the same, relate to the same things.

Tldr if I get recommended fouth wing ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR TO GOD—

[yourbitchystudentartist]

Mark was kinda pissing me off this season but I was gonna chalk it up to him being 19 years old and under an insane amount of stress. But this season finale is bothering me for no other reason than, bro, WHY ARE YOU TOSSING THIS MAN INTO BUILDINGS ON PURPOSE. GET HIM OUT OF THAT METROPOLITAN AREA YOU DUMBASS GO FIGHT OVER OCEANS OR SOMETHING OH MY LORD. DIDN'T YOU LEANR ANYTHING FRON NOLAN?

[yourbitchystudentartist]

I have thoughts on why Lumon showed a brief fixation on pineapples (milchick's pineapple centric fruit baskets and the pineapple bobbing perk) and how it's kind of a way to demonstrate how Lumon is, like, just a bit to the right of being normal by replicating everyday outside world things, but having an element to them that is uniquely Lumon and separates lumon customs from outie world customs, but still providing a simulacra of things from outside the severed floor (like the dance experience and the simulacra of music styles in their choices, pineapple bobbing a bastrdization of apple bobbing etc). I think Lumon does this weird twisting of American/subrban/whatever culture and living for the same reason that they put Gemma through realistic but still old fashioned and stylized simulations of real world every day actions with full sets and costumes. Even though, technically they should be able to tell innies pretty much anything about the world and they would have to believe it because they are functionally blank slates and only have vague ideas of what things are and how they should operate.

This is an incomplete thought, cause I equally could see these narrative choices as stylistic ways to translate information to the audience instead of actual lumon strategies (ie: pineapple fixation showing of how out of touch Lumon is with reality and how fixated they are on maintaining their own corporate culture. Or in the sense of Gemma, a way to articulate Gemma's dehumanization because of the extra steps put into dressing her up like a doll daily and putting her through elaborate scenarios for both experiementation's sake and the personal pleasure of the weird dentist dude) but a part of me thinks these are hints to how severance works where Lumon creates imitations of real corporate culture and American culture, but in ways that are out of touch and disorienting as a way to work within the scientific limits of severance? Like innies have no personal memories but maybe they retain information in a more concrete way. Maybe partial immersion is necessary because some memories are retained, but twisting that immersion helps to control innies through promoting a sense of disorientated and separation from the modern world? Maybe it's a way to make sure, should an inner find their way out, their knowledge of the real world vs how the world works is incongruent to the point of confusion and distress therefore they'll go back to Lumon? IDK IDK, but I think there's a point to Lumon's Weirdness because while it's obviously a cult, it's not like cults typically come up with and maintain these strict traditions because of a genuine belief in them, there's always an aspect of alienation and control and I think Lumon create environments for Innies that are just left of normal as a new way to continue that control but idk exactly why and there might not be a why. Like I said I think a lot of this could be for the benefit of the audience for some realities to sink it. Like feeling off kilter with the perks being so close to fun activities we do IRL, but still tinged with weirdness.

[yourbitchystudentartist]

I finished it. The thing I didn't like was 100 percent unnecessary. I'm quite disappointed

One of my biggest pet peeves when reading YA is when a character starts speaking incredibly formally in a way that is outdated out of character and just weird, considering everything we know about the world. Why the fuck is an 18 year old boy saying "woe betide"

[yourbitchystudentartist]

I'm having a hard time with this book. It's the 3rd in a series, and I really liked the 1st one, the 2nd one kind of annoyed me, but I think it was still a well written story I just wasn't a fan of some of the author's choices, but this one feels poorly edited. The pacing is stressing me out and one of the main twists for this book feel so contrived and unnecessary? I'm not gonna name the book but I'm gonna talk about it more under the cut in case someone recognizes it

Basically, the main character loses her memory of her friends and family because of some magic thing and the fact that those memories were stressing her out and making it impossible for her to control her magic. And i really hate this idea because the whole memory loss thing operated in a way where the character and her personality and motivations remain entirely intact but she is just not emotionally effected by the mention if those people she loved. I like this idea in theory, but in practice, I'm halfway through the book, and this premise bothers me more and more cause I feel like we're not gaining anything from this aspect of the story. it just bloats the story with tension and conflict that doesn't need to be there, when in fact I feel like the main character still having all her memories would be way more interesting for when she eventually reunites with her people, cause they she actually has to contend with the choices she makes instead of get a get put of jail free card a la "a forgor". I thought it was a way to speed up the process of her learning her magic, but then there's like a 4 month break in between chapters (??) So the author didn't need to do this with this much of a time skip. The MC is about to run into her former lover interest and I think the memory wipe this is just supposed to be a barrier to keep the pair from getting together until the very last book, but like I said, bit characters have made choices that would have cause enough issues by itself. It just...feels so lazy? Or even cheap? Like I'm reading fanfiction if this series instead of the real thing. And it's just so loooooong a lot of parts could have been an email.

One of my biggest pet peeves when reading YA is when a character starts speaking incredibly formally in a way that is outdated out of character and just weird, considering everything we know about the world. Why the fuck is an 18 year old boy saying "woe betide"

[yourbitchystudentartist]

One of my biggest pet peeves when reading YA is when a character starts speaking incredibly formally in a way that is outdated out of character and just weird, considering everything we know about the world. Why the fuck is an 18 year old boy saying "woe betide"