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"I don't want to marry anyone, I want to jump off a cliff" spoken like a true doomed lesbian

Everytime I get my period now I have to say as he blessed Ruth and Leah, he has blessed me this day.

Happy pride month to becka grove and becka grove ONLY

We need to turn this into a meme.

How Aunt Lydia escaped treason charges^

Daisy is so funny to me because imagine you know that your adopter friend Agnes has a thing going on with her best friend who has just been forced into marriage with HER crush and brutally left as an orphan, and the marriage she'd been preparing her whole life for just got cancelled and you decide this is a good moment to tell her that her mother is a terrorist.

what if you grew up in gilead and loved your parents and they loved you and your father was the bravest person you ever met but then one day you realize the system he supports and gives his life for is corrupt and evil and so you betray him and everything he did for you to join the rebels and then your father is poisoned by those very rebels but you’re okay with it, you have to be okay with it because it’s all in support of a revolution which you believe in with every fiber of your being and things must be done for that revolution that you don’t agree with, and so you’re fine with it and you continue working for the people who poisoned your dad because you believe in the revolution and you have to win, but you still love him and act as his caregiver and continue to describe him as the bravest man you know unprompted, happened to my good friend garth chapin

While I was surprised that Becka would kill her father so brutally, it does make sense in the grander scheme if things because they are in the Republic of Brutal Punishment. The first episode begins with the girls having fun while several people have been hanged around them, the episode ends with the girls watching a man lose his arm to a chainsaw, they are encouraged to cheer as it happens. They have been living like this for over a decade. That would fuck anyone up, especially when they keep telling you that violence is deserved and it is God's will and everyone should be implementing God's will and you cannot have friends, you cannot love people because at the end of the day you are merely God's eyes and hands on Earth even if those hands have to turn on you and your own. In the grander context of that world, I don't think we can find the issue with Becka. In her own way she's doing exactly what they taught her to do.

Shunammite is shaping up to be SUCH a fun character. She was born at the top and taught that if she did everything right, tore down everyone around and below her, gave her life to some decrepit creep of a commander, she would be rewarded with a life of luxury. She would be privileged and as powerful as a woman in her society could be, and it would be precarious and miserable, but she was willing to make that trade!! From what we've seen she is perfectly content to applaud public execution and bitch at anyone who struggles to follow the rules. She is completely capable of signing the social contract. But she miscalculated - because in a world where women have power exclusively through their bodies, it's not enough to do everything right. Her autonomy and authority have nothing to do with her choices; her future is entirely out of her control. If I'm right about the path she's on, that tea is never going to work. She's never going to get her period. She'll be written off as infertile, unmarriageable, unable to attain the life she's been groomed to want - and that's what will get her to start questioning the fairness of Gilead's setup. Which may be self-centered and unfair but is ultimately going to help take down the establishment! Hooray!!

The concept of Hannah having a lust vs. Love situation going on in regards to her feelings for Becka and Garth. The concept of her realising this through how far she is willing to go to save Becka’s life. The way she describes her feelings for Garth have always been very physical, and not very emotional, in a way. She realises that what she feels for Becka is much stronger than that, more spiritual. She would go further for her and all together would die for her in a way that she wouldn’t for Garth. Which must be a very conflicting and somewhat scary thought, that surely has shaken her worldview like crazy!! Can’t wait to see where this going in season two🥲!!

Becca crying "I want my mom" while they prepared her for her wedding ceremony. 😭😭