hi hello im a mess

AND IM SINGING YOUR NAME CAUSE YOU LIKE HOW IT SOUNDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH YOURE ALL OVER ME NOW YOURE ALL OVER ME NOW YOURE ALL OVER ME NOW YOURE ALL OVER ME NOWWW

I ALWAYS THINK THE WORLD IS ENDING. YOU SAY ITS JUST BEGINNING. YOU SAY ITS JUST BEGINNING. YOU SAY ITS JUST BEGINNING.

we really didn't deserve The Good Place. a bizarrely high-budget sitcom telling a longform, highly conceptual story that you need to have been watching from episode one, which was allowed to play out at its own pace and wrap things up when it intended to, and it didn't even lose steam over its four seasons. that's practically proof of the existence of a loving god

Sorry but I'm never going to get over Kevin chewing out the Ravens, revealing that Wymack is his dad, and dropping the "I've never been skiing" bomb on live television in the same interview, and then going "we're all going to die" while hunched over a sink the second he walked off stage. Absolutely hilarious.

Can’t believe Xana wrote Save the Bullets, Baby! about andreil

the most car ride of all time

Before writing that Black queer &/or trans character, ask yourself:

Another set of resources that I've typed up for my upcoming lesson. I'm sure that even more questions could be asked; I hope that Black folk feel free to include their own additions in the tags! But these ought to be enough to at least get anyone to start self-reflecting during their creation/watching process!

ALT ID Context under a readmore, as requested:

Okay I feel like we really can't ignore this anymore. Trump opening his tweet re: arresting Mahmoud Khalil with "Shalom!" was an obvious dogwhistle.

Now, in his (illegal) executive order to disband the Department of Education, the children he's putting in the front row to 'sign' it with him are visibly black and Jewish. They are scapegoating minorities - particularly Jews - to be blamed for their shitty choices.

And the awful thing is, leftists are buying it. I'm begging you not to. The majority of Jews voted against him. The majority of Jews do not want anything he's doing to happen.

But unfortunately, this man has a Jewish son-in-law and daughter to parade around as proof the Jews support him, and I need you to understand this isn't true. They are outliers. They do not represent most of us. They are being used as cover while Trump blames his subversion of free speech on the Jews. Please don't allow it.

2024 election demographics from NBC:

Black people and Jewish people were the most left-leaning. We (Jews) are primarily a progressive people who HATE Trump more than nearly every other demographic.

please god take all of gemma's suffering triple it and give it to jame eagan

severance s2 finale spoilers but the ending scene is making me crazy from an innie mark outie gemma perspective. mark probably thinks gemma already knows he’s severed and wants him to choose her anyways & gemma probably thinks the mark walking away from her is the one who was just kissing her. innie mark thinks she’s just another outie demanding his life for herself. gemma thinks her husband really did move on after all. i’m sick to my stomach oh my god.

the fact that petey didn’t get a mention in the finale is actually insane. mark scout. mark you have the answers your innie wants. petey told you. remember petey? mark s does. they killed him in his life and then he died in yours too. he told you this information for a reason. tell him how your lives will intertwine as far back as your fifth birthday. tell him the meaning petey found in being reintegrated. acknowledge him. petey. remember petey? remember petey? remember petey? r

honestly i think the marching band sequence was one of the most horrifying sequences in the whole episode.

this whole season has been milchick silently contemplating his place at lumon, particularly in regards to his race, and yet he is still pushing through even after abuse from kier "himself". he is still performing.

and frankly i don't think it's being taken as seriously as it should be by the audience!!!!!!

i get that that is partially because it is absurd and out there that lumon would have a whole marching band and partially because tramell tillman brought so much oomf to it (i still cannot believe that this is one of his first acting gigs - he is such a good actor). and also, it's meant to evoke the first season's dance sequence (but i also don't think that's taken as seriously as it should be by the audience soooo--- ‪¯\_(ツ)_/¯‬)

but like — i felt a similar kind of horror watching the marching band sequence that i did watching get out and us. like. watch this black man in white gloves and a cane who has been consistently put down and othered for his race throughout this entire show, perform at the request of an automaton of the white man who very likely built his company on the backs of former slaves at the end of the civil war, whose company who still effectively employs slave labor and indentured servitude two hundred years in the future.

for milchick, this season began with lumon black face and ended with, effectively, a lumon minstrel show as someone else put it.

that is horrifying.

no point in pitting mark against mark. innie mark & outtie mark are both valid in their feelings & lives. they both struggle to empathize w the other bc it’s extremely hard to empathize when it’s through a screen. when u don’t know the person. imagine it then also being YOU?? so u think u know what this person needs, wants, how they’ll just agree with you, etc. imagine just having a steady, baseline hatred for urself & then trying to empathize w another version of urself that u can never speak to face to face. then imagine being that other version & helping this woman u know get out of a terrible situation bc it’s the right thing to do & then watching her turn into a stranger. u can follow that stranger & end ur life, or u can turn around and live. neither mark is wrong for what they’re doing. they both love someone & want to live. helly and mark deserve to have a life together & gemma deserves to have her husband follow her out to freedom. that’s the whole point. severance is fucked up & no one wins except lumon. these are the consequences, & everyone’s just trying their best

I feel for Gemma so, SO much after this episode.

She wakes up and her husband is there. The same man whose name she cried in the elevator. The man she’s missed for two years. And his hair is longer and his beard is gone but he’s smiling, and she’s smiling, and they fall into each other and the blood on his face mixes with the tears in her eyes and it doesn’t even matter.

She drags him through the scarlet, screaming halls — she’s fast from whatever she does on the days she wears a tracksuit, he’s slow from sitting on the couch and crying/drinking until he falls asleep — stepping over a dead man and into the elevator and treasuring the warmth of his hand. That sick, perverted doctor runs to get her back, but her husband steps between them and closes those doors.

And it is then Gemma knows. She doesn’t need to be afraid anymore.

But then she blinks and everything she’s wanted, everything she’s dreamed about for two years is staring her right in the face, an inch of glass between them — and no matter how hard she bangs on the door, all he does is stare at her like a bad dream he’s already forgetting.

She sobs for him. She screams his name. And all he can do is back away and take another woman’s hand.

Gemma’s dreams come true for a few, wonderful seconds. But that just makes it all the worse. Like loosening the grip around the head of a drowning man to let him come up for air — all her temporary relief did is remind her how much she is suffering and plunge her deeper into the pit of her grief.

This is the testing floor elevator all over again. Except this time, everything she wanted is not only taken from her.

It gives her a long, sorrowful look. Turns around. And walks away.

the way there’s almost no black people at lumon & then the ~choreography & merriment~ performing department is almost entirely black/poc. nasty implications.

that mark (very recently!) was so fucking pissed about helena using the wrong name for gemma that he went to immediately do experimental brain surgery as a giant fuck you and then DIDN'T anticipate his innie self getting pissed when he got helly's name wrong really underlines how much mark doesn't think his innie loves helly and also doesn't consider his innie to actually be him at all.