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jdeere625
2 weeks ago
1. Man is a MORAL animal.
2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you convince them it is moral.
3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.

Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

jdeere625
2 months ago

ether as severance + “the courtship of kier and imogene” (relationship parallels)

An ether factory does not produce ether

The ether factory in Salt's Neck and the ether mills mentioned as part of Kier Eagan's history were not places where diethyl ether was manufactured. They were regular factories or mills with strategically placed vats of boiling diethyl ether to intoxicate the workers when at work, effectively functioning as a primitive form of severance.

(1) Diethyl ether was historically used as an anesthetic because it causes short term memory loss. Kier served as a military doctor in his early 20s, presumably during the American Civil War (1861-1865), so would have been exposed to the anesthetic properties of ether. He founded Lumon Industries in 1865.

(2) Diethyl ether is not something would be synthesized in a vat (it is extremely volatile and flammable), especially not in the way pictured in The Courtship of Kier and Imogene.
(3) If you had vats of boiling diethyl ether around your regular mill or factory, your workers could still perform the basic functions of their jobs, but would not remember most of it. Lumon created severed work places in 1865!

(4) Harmony says she hadn't consumed ether since she was eight, so this is probably when she stopped working at the factory. She also refers to Hampton selling ether as "shameful", because to a Kier cultist, ether intoxication is a quasi-religious alienation of one from their work.

(5) The effect of having a town where the ether factory shuts down would result in an entire town of ether addicts who are no longer getting high at work which is what we saw in Salt's Neck.

(6) I think it is pretty clear by now that Dieter (Diethyl ether) was what Kier Eagan referred to as his persona while in a state of ether intoxication.
Imogen was a child bride.

I've been thinking this ever since Woe was described as half the height of a normal woman. That felt child bride coded, but here is the rest:

Kier didn't have his first child until he was 44. If Kier met his wife in his youth, as Lumon would have you believe, she wouldn't be in good shape to have two children one year apart from each other in her 40s in 1885 and 1886 respectively.

All the evidence provided in attached pictures supports the idea that he found himself a child bride at the ether factory, while undercover as a swabman.

I included some more fantastical pulls about Woe because I believe Imogen is represented as the woeful bride. Kier seems to have felt some kind of way about the sins of his past on his deathbed, so he made up the fourth appendix and Dieter to sever himself from the sin. He made up Dieter to be his scapegoat. (If you grew up not religious, like I did, google scapegoat+religious) Part of his guilt (?) might revolve around his child bride, given she may have been sick from the factory and she was definitely woeful.

The fact we only know two things about Imogen, she was a swab girl and married Kier, leaves a lot of question marks about her ultimate fate. Poor girl.
Ether As Severance + “the Courtship Of Kier And Imogene” (relationship Parallels)
Ether As Severance + “the Courtship Of Kier And Imogene” (relationship Parallels)
Ether As Severance + “the Courtship Of Kier And Imogene” (relationship Parallels)
Ether As Severance + “the Courtship Of Kier And Imogene” (relationship Parallels)
If Kier & Imogene knew each other at work, and Imogene was effectively severed due to the ether high, it makes sense that he would find Imogene outside of work and tell her that their innies fell in love at work, whether it was the truth or not, just to get her to be the child bride.

Fits with a lot of religious/cult behavior where a man will corner a woman (sometimes younger) and say something like "God meant for us to be together," or "God came to me in a dream and revealed that you are my soulmate," to manipulate the woman into being with him.

The mysticism around Kier being a religious figure due to "mastering the tempers" and severance just makes it more believable.

It's what Kier did to Imogene, it's what Burt is doing to Irving, and I wouldn't doubt it's what Helena's about to do to Mark – or perhaps already subtly did at the Chinese restaurant? Or meant to but failed/chickened out because she's so awkward.
I want to add, I do think this unethical practice of yielding the next generation of Eagans by coercing (assaulting) people under their employ is probably normal within the family tradition.

Inside Lumon it's romanticized so they can justify this abuse of employees, which is in line with the rest of the show. History is written by the victors, so many probably don't live long or are stored away, Shelly Miscavige style, the second they show signs of objection towards Lumon.

(just so we’re clear, while the kier-imogene dynamic is clearly paralleled with helena and mark, it is also reiterated in cobel and mark, dr mauer and gemma, and even burt and irving to some extent; season 2 has also made it a point to show us that helena and cobel are both victims in their own ways while being perpetrators. it is not a black and white situation and misogyny will get you blocked.)

original threads: (x), (x)

jdeere625
2 months ago

cant stop thinking about the fact that mark and gemma met while donating blood.

a painful and uncomfortable task that they both volunteered to do.

the kind of chore u might prefer to avoid if you had a severed version of yourself to do it for you.

so in a world where everyone delegates unpleasant tasks to their innies, you might never meet the love of your life

jdeere625
2 months ago

What really gets me about Gemma and Mark's life before Lumon is how full of KNOWLEDGE it was! They meet at university whilst donating blood in a library! They're humanities professors! They joke about their students' work! Gemma has books stacked everywhere in her office! When we get to see their house, it's wall-to-wall bookshelves, and where there isn't a bookshelf, there's an open window, or a plant! Can you imagine how much the innies would fuck with that??? Their work is something they love and it bleeds out from their campus and office scenes and visually dominates the flashback scenes! Post-severance, we see Mark watching tv in suburbia whilst drinking in his free time, completely divorced from this love of learning and knowing, are all his books packed away in the basement like Gemma? AND INNIE MARK! We see how strictly Lumon controls the spread of information, how outside materials are discouraged, how they just love making shit up ("tallest waterfall" etc) but when he gets Rickon's stupid shitty book Mark is still enthralled by it! Outie Mark does everything he can to erase his life with Gemma but we still see that love of learning and knowledge COME BACK!!!


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jdeere625
2 months ago

this is like. GENUINELY the best edit i've ever seen in my life. full stop. let me reiterate: not just the best severance edit. THE best edit. the creator doesn't have a tumblr that i can find but i simply had to share.

jdeere625
3 months ago
This Is A Comment Someone Appended To A Photo Of Two Men Apparently Having Sex In A Very Fancy Room,

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

jdeere625
4 months ago
jdeere625
4 months ago
Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz

jdeere625
5 months ago
A white sports car is parked on a tennis court in front of four palm trees and a flat blue ocean.
A red sports car is parked to the right of a palm tree, in front of blue ocean waves moving from right to left.
A yellow towel sits on a diving board above a pool, with a lawn, bushes, palm tree, and ocean in the background.
A record store sits beside a few trees, in front of an ocean and a gradient orange sky.
Two pastel, square buildings sit in front of an ocean and behind a pool.
An album cover for "Hawaiian Dream" depicts a beach in front of a placid blue inlet, with another beach and a city visible in the background.
An album cover featuring the image of a white sports car and tennis court included at the start of this photoset.
The skycraper city lights of a city on the far shore of an ocean inlet are reflected in the ocean, under a gray sky. A tall tree is visible on the near shore, but nothing else on that shore can be seen.

Hiroshi Nagai: Japan’s Sun-drenched Americana

jdeere625
5 months ago

You're passing through Wonka's factory and through a doorway you see what is distinctly the body of Christ being fed into a big wacky machine

jdeere625
5 months ago

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6 months ago
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6 months ago
Senpai Says You’re Welcome

Senpai says you’re welcome

jdeere625
6 months ago
Win For Traumatised Individuals! Local Eldritch Horror Is Here To Rip It All Out Free Of Charge

win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge

jdeere625
6 months ago

I have news but I need everyone to know it's not fake and I'm not making it up

jdeere625
6 months ago

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

jdeere625
6 months ago

Kneecap is like breaking bad good ending

jdeere625
6 months ago

had a dream about getting addicted to vaseline on toast. my girlfriend crying, begging me to stop eating "that miserable greasy toast"

jdeere625
6 months ago
jdeere625
7 months ago

complete shot in the dark here but are any tumblrinas from Dublin? And if so, how the fuck do you people make friends here???

-a culchie who has just moved here


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jdeere625
7 months ago

if you've ever used the London Underground you might have noticed that it often gets uncomfortably hot. the reason for this is actually that its builders dug too greedily & too deep and as a result the trains are very close to the fires of hell. hope that helps.

jdeere625
7 months ago

i get so scared. and i get scared again. yuo are never gonna calm me down. i get so scared. and i get scared again. you are never gonna calm me down. i drink a nervous drink. i drink a frightened drink. i drink an anxious drink, i drink a scary drink. i fear the scares that remind me of the scary times. i fear the scares that remind me of the horror times

jdeere625
7 months ago
Afterdeath, Andrey Surnov

Afterdeath, Andrey Surnov

jdeere625
7 months ago

No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

jdeere625
7 months ago
Moomin House 1976-1979. Built By Pentti Eskola, Tuulikki Pietilä And Tove Jansson. Moomin Museum In

Moomin House 1976-1979. Built by Pentti Eskola, Tuulikki Pietilä and Tove Jansson. Moomin Museum in Tampere, Finland

jdeere625
7 months ago
Sëlynn Aka 쉬시턴 Aka Sëlynn Lee Aka Selynn Draws (South Korean, B. South Korea, Based Frankfurt

Sëlynn aka 쉬시턴 aka Sëlynn Lee aka Selynn Draws (South Korean, b. South Korea, based Frankfurt am Main, Germany) - Sudam Sudam, Paintings

jdeere625
7 months ago

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

jdeere625
7 months ago

when i was reading the book entangled life which is about fungi and the author merlin sheldrake said that once he got his first author copies he was going to dampen the pages and use them to grow oyster mushrooms and yeast and then use the yeast to brew beer and then drink the beer with the mushrooms to complete the cycle of fungal knowledge. i was like really and truly this guy gets it

jdeere625
7 months ago

found goat milk and wheat ale at the store. theres no way im NOT making a white gilgamesh tonite

jdeere625
8 months ago

The Lincoln County, MO Drug Task Force arrested a pirate.

The Lincoln County, MO Drug Task Force Arrested A Pirate.

When arrested he begged to walk the plank, he decorated a pontoon to sell drugs from. Which he required customers to say, “Ahoy matey, I come to purchase ye party favors.”

The Lincoln County, MO Drug Task Force Arrested A Pirate.

His nickname was Red Beard.

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