#ahtask

emotions & feelings.

* blind fury * Catholic Guilt™️ * loyal as a dog * dark humor

colours.

* rust * charcoal * silver * navy

scents.

* blood * moss * silk * nutmeg

clothing.

* business professional is the new causal * Ties are nooses * Mud-stained boots * Good Scottish boys own kilts

objects.

* how many axes is too many axes * falconer gloves * Rosary beads * box of sentimental letters

vices & bad habits.

* dimly lit fight clubs * cracking knuckles * casual late night murder

body language.

* rod-straight posture * Fidgeting with clothes * eyebrow tennis

aesthetics.

I think there’s a few possibilities, but they’re all totally speculation. It’s probably going to be something completely unexpected!

1. She becomes a Handmaid again. It’s a possibility because this is Gilead, but it’s the least likely situation I think. I highly doubt they would send her off to become a Handmaid again. If Moira was a corrupting influence, Emily is… well, much more. If she was to become a Handmaid again, I wouldn’t put it past the show to have her become the new Offred. It would certainly keep her and the Waterfords (which I were hoping would disappear into the void, but that’s not going to happen) involved in the show. However, I think it’s more likely the Waterfords will be involved because they want that baby back.

2. The black van that carted June away was the resistance and they somehow got Emily out as well. And June and Emily end up in the same safehouse or something to that extent. However, season 2 is supposed to be quite dark so I don’t think them being out of Gilead’s reaches is that likely. That feels too easy.

3. The black van that carted June away wasn’t the resistance and she ends up in a prison with Emily. Unlikely. I don’t think Gilead has much use for prisons, they mostly just kill people they don’t like. Perhaps it’s different with Handmaid’s. And while I think June would definitely be punished for what she did at the Stoning, I highly doubt Gilead would remove a pregnant Handmaid from high ranking Commander and his wife.

4. Mayday aren’t great. In this article it states that Mayday aren’t necessarily for the Handmaids. Which I think is actually quite fascinating. By the way Moira described the Underground Femaleroad, they’re a totally separate organisation than Mayday. They are trying to help. Miller makes a point that Mayday are anti-Gilead. And what makes Gilead strong to the outside world (as disgusting as it is) is their ability to create a new generation. Without the Handmaid’s, Gilead wouldn’t have much. Perhaps Emily and/or June will find themselves fighting to escape from not only Gilead but Mayday too.

5. She gets sent to Jezebel’s. And it becomes a more central location than it was in season one, perhaps it becomes a hub for the resistance or something like that. I think Mayday would use her again if she was in a position she could help. Given she has just - quite brutally - killed a man, I doubt they’d put her somewhere she could escape from. Especially after what Moira has just done.

6. She made it to Canada! She could reunite with her son and wife and her, Luke, Moira and the unnamed Handmaid can band together and create an outside resistance! Okay, fine. Not likely. But a girl can dream, right?

I think I said all of these are unlikely, didn’t I? I’m terrible with speculations and theories. I always find something in them that makes them not possible. Of course, her storyline and presence could be totally unrelated to June, but June is the central character (and I assume will continue to be so in the second season) so if Emily is a recurring character, I think it’s likely her paths will cross with June’s in the second season.

I don’t watch mine online, but I have used this site before for other shows and they have Handmaids Tale on there, so it might be handy!

http://mywatchseries.to/serie/the_handmaid_s_tale

Just be careful when clicking links! I tend to use the gorillavid.inlinks. If you watch too many in a row they do have a waiting period (or they used to) but other than that, I’ve never had any actual trouble with it.

I don’t think she’s actually doing either of those things. I honestly don’t think Gilead would remove a pregnant handmaid from a high ranking Commander’s house, even given what she did at the stoning. Her punishment would likely be put on hold until after she’s given birth and the baby was weaned off. She would potentially lose “privileges” (I say in quotations, because I really don’t think the Handmaids have any privileges) and be confined to the house, but I don’t think they’d remove her.

At this stage the government wouldn’t know she’s pregnant, I don’t think. The test that Serena Joy had was likely purchased on the black market. So if Gilead and the Eyes ARE the ones taking her in for punishment, I feel like once they discovered she was pregnant, it’d be back to the Waterford’s for a few months.

And her being taken to Canada is too easy. Even if Mayday are the ones that have her, hurting Gilead could involve hurting a Handmaid and a child. The Underground Femaleroad were trying to get Handmaids out, but who knows about Mayday. Their goal is to bring Gilead down.

So either way, I think June is screwed.

If, for some reason, Gilead DOES take her in for punishment and she doesn’t get returned to the Waterford’s since she’s pregnant, I honestly don’t know what her punishment would be. Likely something to do with losing limbs, I’m sure. She dropped the stone with her hand, so I wouldn’t put it past them to cut her hands off. But I’m not sure if the show would go down that route, because it would then be something they would ALWAYS have to consider with June, and the makeup/effects.

There’s also the possibility of this trade deal with Mexico coming back into play. Will someone get sent there? June? Emily? Alma? Janine? Or was it just a throwaway plot to get her to send a message to Luke? Because I’m not sure what Gilead would want from Mexico in return for something as important as Handmaids.

I think it’s likely that she hasn’t been taken in by Gilead, but that doesn’t mean she’s in the clear. In the epilogue of the book June (or, Offred technically in the book as her name was never revealed, though it’s always been assumed to be June) has recorded a bunch of tapes about her story, which was then published as a book. They were found in an attic, a look into the world of Gilead before it was destroyed. But if the book ends with the end of season one, I think it’s possible that at some point these tapes might be recorded. So it’s possible she’s being held somewhere where she’s able to do that. Or perhaps they’ll disregard that entirely. I’m not sure.

There’s quite a few things here to reply to so I’m gonna try to do my best.

First of, male characters definitely have a much lower bar to be considered a “good guy”, this is clear across lots of fandoms! It’s not right, but it’s certainly not exclusive to Handmaid’s Tale.

I feel like the fandom disagrees on a whole, but yes, I do mostly agree with you anon. I definitely wouldn’t go as far as to say I’m disgusted by him (for me personally) but I don’t like him as much as everyone else, nor do I ship him and June. I will of course reblog gifs of them and gifs of Nick to keep a fair balance on the blog, but they’re not my cup of tea. (Side note: I’m currently drinking tea out of my Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum mug which seemed appropriate to mention).

We don’t know what the outcome of season one was yet, whether Nick did betray the system he supported into creation to give June a chance at being saved, or whether he was tricking her. It was left open in the book as well. If they were the resistance, he was taking a huge risk and going against the system and potentially risking death. If they were to find out he was involved, of course.

I do think he regrets his involvement in the creation of Gilead, at least to some extent. I don’t know if he started to think this way before June, or he slowly started to see how awful it was after he met her. Because of what happened to the previous ‘Offred’ and how he found her, I’m inclined to think the latter. Although I don’t ship them, I do think he - at the very least - cares for June immensely. He wouldn’t be with her otherwise because she could sell him out at any moment, and the proof would be in the baby in her stomach, so it was a risk for him to maintain the relationship too. He has a vested interest in keeping June and the baby alive.

June’s decision to be with Nick is definitely, in my opinion, a way for her to give herself choice and agency back, something that Gilead has ripped away from her and other women, particularly Handmaids but also Marthas, econwives and - for some of them - the wives (not all of them).

He did willingly join the Sons of Jacob on his own, he wasn’t forced into the regime like a lot of the population was, despite joining it initially because he needed a job and wanted to support his family. Could he have left before it all went to shit, when he really started noticing the cracks? Of course.

I do think he regrets his involvement of Gilead personally, but it’s hard to know. He hasn’t ever outright said anything about his involvement in the beginning, all that was said that he was sorry it was happening to June specifically.

Yeah, you’re absolutely right that’s how a lot of cults work and in the beginning stages, that’s what Sons of Jacob were. Well, it still is a cult they’re just running a whole country now.

However, when he joined, the guy didn’t force him. He just told him to come to a meeting, and that he would like what he heard. Yes, he was told there’d be a job involved in it. But we don’t know specifically what was discussed in that meeting. Perhaps a much more watered down version of what their final outcome was intended to be, but he still went to that meeting with the ability to walk away and didn’t.

In saying that though, he was in a vulnerable position, I don’t mean to imply he wasn’t. He obviously had a hard time holding a job and wanted to do anything to support his family, but - depending what was discussed in that meeting - it could have been pretty obvious that in the world that the Sons of Jacob wanted to create, his family probably wouldn’t be kept together anyway.

She was probably mentally plotting how she could slowly destroy their relationship one step at a time, let’s be real.