A hand held against the world

absolutely devastated that op made this post unrebloggable before he deactivated. the effect this post had on my vocabulary is unbelievable

Everything’s getting messy on severance, baby!!!They’re humanizing the people who do violence, without excusing the violence they do!!! Milchick, and Helena, and even Harmony Cobel are all fighting their own battles!!!!! And even worse, they’re showing already humanized and dear characters doing violence, without making them any less dear or human!!!!!!! Dylan is cruel to Helly in what may be their last interaction (but we understand it!), Burt banishes Irving (but we see it as kindness!), Gretchen truly does treat innie Dylan “like everything’s for [her],” insensitive to the power dynamic between them until it’s too late not to wound him so deeply he’d rather be dead than bear it (but she didn’t mean to!). And dare I say even Devon?!?! She’s gentle with innie Mark to be sure, but she didn’t wake him up for him, she did it for her mark, and her Gemma— you can tell by how she leads him like a baffled baby animal up the stairs to a woman about to end his life as he knows it!!!! Like everything’s for them!!!!!