#gushing

Lush pattern. Modern ornamentation. 1886.

Ornamental design plate with imagery almost entirely drawn from natural and marine sources, rendered in a highly stylized way.

“She’s twice as pretty on the inside.” 💕

Noah Wyle and wife Sara Wells on the red carpet at the MPTF NextGen Summer Party

The Aster | Los Angeles, CA | May 31, 2026

first of all, she's a "living weapon" type of character which!!! yes!!! she's not on the extreme end of that spectrum, i'd say she's like in the middle of living weapon if it's juxtaposed against a Normal Person (no idea if that makes sense). still, the obedience and devotion so deeply ingrained in her is beautiful. it's horrifying but beautiful. you feel her grief and rage in every scene. you feel how much she genuinely believes that what she's doing is right, which makes her stand out so starkly against the rest of the cast that does bad things, because you know that many of them are doing it knowing they're bad. but lute thinks she's doing it all for the good of heaven and the good of the cause she believes in. and you can just tell that she is completely loyal to that idea.

i want to see her worldview shatter. this is why i love the idea of lute falling to hell. i want to see lute face such serious consequences for her actions that, instead of vindicating her, making her rethink everything she's ever known. i want to see her pick herself up and put herself back together. i honestly want to see her make up with vaggie, too, who would be the only person who truly understands what her life and trauma is like.

lute could never be a villain to me. she's one of the most tragic characters. raised to be a weapon, fell in love with the an unobtainable person, that person dies when you can't even attempt to save them, and you live knowing that someone you left for dead and their mercy is the only reason you keep standing. but honestly, i can't help but think that lute probably wishes vaggie had just killed her, so she wouldn't have to live with the grief, at the same time as she channels all of that energy into repaying what she experienced at any cost.

seeing lute's grief supersede her allegiance to the executioner's cause was sooo satisfying. we're seeing the cracks in her worldview already, because if the cause doesn't mean as much as adam did, then can the cause really mean anything at all?