Tearing Up Thinking About The Fact That Mark Was Only Able To Save Gemma Because Of Innie Solidarity.

No looking back, Jonny boy

The Major Arcana (tarot) (TMA): Agnes Montague as The Hanged Man.

Sometimes when I close my eyes...

SOOOOO THAT HAPPENED!

Starting to feel like I am reading so much Gothic literature for various projects that my entire personality is being consumed by The Horrors.

On a completely unrelated note, Episode 38 of 'The Magnus Protocol' will be available today if you have early access!

[two tumblr soldiers bleeding out on the internet frontlines]

“heh… remember strawbebby…. And ranibow spramkle… always made me laugh”

“Don’t talk like that man. We’re gonna get out of here i prommy.” [mortar fire sails overhead and land nearby] “christ its like a childrens hospital out there”

[through shallow breaths] “I always loved…… the color of the sky…………”

End scene

It's weird thinking that you somehow have to apologise to everyone who's ever met you for your existence while simultaneously knowing you are a good enough person to be around

their tragedies are similar

SEVERANCE-GEMMA SCOUT

DARK-ELİSABETH DOPPLER

More Game of Thrones – Dragons > Hair

I feel like typically the "dead wife" montage does nothing for me, even when executed very well, because it's often just like "here's this woman you'll never get to meet, she only matters because a man loves her so much and now he's sad."

But the montage wasn't just Mark's recollections. It was her perspective too. He's her dead husband. He's her Eurydice as much as he's his own Orpheus.

This isn't humanizing Gemma for Mark's sake. This is humanizing Gemma for Gemma's sake and it's there not for us to root for Mark, it's there for us to realize we're rooting for Gemma. Every moment Mark reaches out for her, she's reaching back.

The dead wife montage normally deprives a woman her agency, making her a tool for a man's arc, but this episode fully restored Gemma's agency. She's fighting back, she's yearning too. She hurts, she aches, she angers. She fights, she bleeds, she gets frustrated too. And has been before she was ever Ms Casey,

I've never seen a show restore a character's humanity as fully as this single episode did for Gemma. She went from an abstract concept--a wife, a severed employee, a ghost--to a tangible person.

And this was realized so literally as well. We literally see her bleed, we literally watch her eat, her hands cramp up, her teeth ache. It's like watching a hologram become flesh muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

I'm in awe of what they were able to do for her in just 50 minutes. In many ways, I feel I know Gemma better than I know half the cast.