we’re all full of lies

Lowkey the gentleman is both a child thing and a sex thing. But that requires accepting that the dystopian dystopia where things are weird and bad has freudian stuff in it that’s weird and bad

The gentleman is a children’s TV show host > the regime uses his image to recondition gerard via the psychosexual associations of comfort and nascent attraction he remembers from watching the show as a child > once gerard is delirious and dumb enough to accept it, they give him a puppet (famously requires a hand up its ass) of the very same gentleman > he cradles it to his breast and also smacks it around and also has conversations with it full of innuendo

looking back at nurse sylvia mid-crying to see if it’s acceptable to be crying (according to her, it’s not) and then trying to self soothe so they shut up before she gets actually angry that they’re upset. yay ❤️

she really expects better from you. you’re not a baby. only babies cry.