Your wish is my strong recommendation

"omg you remembered!" of course i did. I have a file on you

my hips don't lie but they will exaggerate details, misrepresent the facts, and on occasion deceive via omission of crucial information

(Smugly after failing at a task) and they said it could be done.

Do you ever think about how Deacon’s wife is named Barbara, and Saint Barbara was a martyr who is venerated by Catholics who face the danger of sudden and violent death at work? And that her name comes from the Greek word for ‘strangers’? Barbara the synth, Barbara who dies a sudden, violent death and whose widower joins the Railroad after her death, where he faces the threat of sudden, violent death every damned day? Unfortunately, now I do and I can’t unthink it. Probably not intentional on the part of the writers, but damn.

Saint Barbara is ALSO one of the fourteen Holy Helpers, saints to whom prayers are considered even more powerful than to others. A holy martyr, and Deacon is continually running the razor’s edge of martyrdom himself with the Railroad. The symbolism is /chef’s kiss.