[image description: a video of a tiny, fluffy dog getting a haircut. at the end, the groomer puts the dog in little sunglasses and a little cowboy hat.]
I have never seen a dog love a haircut this much.
So I'm slightly obsessed with Severance (2022) and I may have spent like a week straight cutting together an Innie Cut and an Outie cut and holy shit guys it's such an experience. I watched them both straight through like long movies and
The Outie Cut is like an obscure offbeat indie dark comedy where none of your questions get answered and there's zero resolution at the end.
You really get to focus on oMark's perspective, which is interesting because in the show it feels like iMark is the main focus. We get to focus on how oMark's depression has impacted his life, and his journey through the confusion of what's happening with Lumon and Severance. The story feels slower and more grounded. It works better than I anticipated.
The Innie Cut is like a slow and unexpected descent into madness. Honestly, I thought the Outie Cut would be spookier, but no. The Innie Cut is very unsettling.
At first, it kind of just feels like a regular kind of office life show, where it's not at all unusual that we never see the characters at home. We only see them in the office because the show is about the office.
But then there are. Things. Very strange unsettling things. Just out of nowhere. With no context from the outside world. No relief from the blinding bright white landscape of Lumon Industries. The hallways that never stop, the walls closing in on you, the fact that you can't ever leave.
And oh my god when they wake up in the outside world in the final episode it is. SO. JARRING. It's been like three plus hours of bright white office at this point. And then suddenly, disconcertingly, you're thrown into this world that is dark and warm but unfamiliar and treacherous and you have to navigate it perfectly and fast or suffer the consequences.
And iMark, at the party. When you watch Severance for the first time, the party scene is a meeting of two worlds that are familiar to you, the viewer. When you watch the Innie Cut, you're just as off balance as iMark. You don't know these people. You don't know who you can trust. You don't know the right thing or the wrong thing to do here.
Anyways I'd love to share these cuts with people but I have no idea how to go about doing that
Okay I got a few reblogs showing interest in seeing these cuts so I'm looking into how to share them and will hopefully have them available within the week if I can figure things out!
Also something I forgot to say in my original post is just.. major props to everyone behind this show. The fact that watching entirely from the innie's perspective or entirely from the outie's perspective is just as coherent and entertaining as watching them mixed together really goes to show what a wonderfully thought out story it is. Each half is a full story with satisfying character arcs independent of the other. It's incredibly impressive.
IT’S AVAILABLE!! Updating this thread in case people are following it. This post on my page explains how to download the cuts!
Tagging people who commented/tagged that they were interested so they don’t miss it: @cloverscomrade @earthedlightning @beatsheetketch @sibella @sphfollows @scoopsbuckley @aphrodizzy @homoqueerjewhobbit @herxus @wwarborday @fuckyeahseverance @udonthreens @pichitinha @sheisraging @aubrcy-plaza
In a counterfactual exercise estimating CO2 emissions with and without subways, we find they have reduced population-related CO2 emissions by about 50 % for the 192 cities and about 11 % globally. Extending the analysis to future subways for other cities, we estimate the magnitude and social value of CO2 emissions reductions with conservative assumptions about population and income growth and a range of values for the social cost of carbon and investment costs. Even under pessimistic assumptions for these costs, we find that hundreds of cities realize a significant climate co-benefit, along with benefits from reduced traffic congestion and local air pollution, which have traditionally motivated subway construction. Under more moderate assumptions, we find that, on climate grounds alone, hundreds of cities realize high enough social rates of return to warrant subway construction.
advance thanks for recommending The Lazarus Project - I see it starts airing in the USA this Sunday, June 4 on TNT and I think they do live streaming from their network website
oh yeahhh it's coming out in America this month.
gil and mencken both being in iwtv feels like a fever dream im. this is great
Jaboukie why did you delete this?
still thinking about the ken-roman LITERAL WOUND-OPENING hug that was. insane. insanity on my television
My one problem with Star Trek is that no one is ever consuming contemporary media. As in media that's contemporary for their time period. Everyone is always reading old novels and practicing classical music. They study Klingon Opera or read old Cardassian mysteries. No one is ever like really into obscure Klingon Nightcore. Nobody is reading shitty Ferengi pulp novels. There's no kids media of any kind. Where is space Sesame Street or junior novels about gaining superpowers from a warp core accident? What about comic books? Nobody is playing crappy indy holodeck games. It's always some recreation of a historical battle or just lounging in a mud pit at some alien spa. Someone give me angsty Bajoran protest music. I need some rebellious teens producing the worst most cacophonous death metal techno that they recorded in an empty cargo bay. I need contemporary pop culture in Star Trek.
I recall Bashir complaining of something similar once. That everything was human interpretations of alien stories, and thus they were all ignoring their own unique modern culture? O'Brien was not listening as he ate his lunch.
At the end of the day, they're still just little kids making noise outside his office.
so do you guys think kendall's going to be crowned antler queen next episode or?
someone please make comparison gifs of Tom putting his feet on the desk when watching Shiv and Ken putting his feet on the desk when talking to Stewy
To her consternation she detected in herself in relation to little Nicholas some symptoms of her father’s irritability. However often she told herself that she must not get irritable when teaching her nephew, almost every time that, pointer in hand, she sat down to show him the French alphabet, she so longed to pour her own knowledge quickly and easily into the child—who was already afraid that Auntie might at any moment get angry—that at his slightest inattention she trembled, became flustered and heated, raised her voice, and sometimes pulled him by the arm and put him in the corner. Having put him in the corner she would herself begin to cry over her cruel, evil nature, and little Nicholas, following her example, would sob, and without permission would leave his corner, come to her, pull her wet hands from her face, and comfort her.
Little Koko is so sweet 🥹
m3gan poster is taking me out
someone post that extremely cute tweet from sway bhatia
i have to do everything myself around here
an 18-wheeler died on the side of the highway the other day. a pack of scavenging motorcycles was eating its carcass. one of them growled at me