The Heart Of Catcher In The Rye Is That Children Do Not Need To Be "worthy" Of Being Cared For. "But

if i didn’t know any better, i’d say that helena has developed an erotic fixation on mark and has plans to pursue both him and his outie in what might be termed a “throuple”.

I hope Devon leaves her loser sellout failhusband for the slightly unhinged fugitive brain surgeon living in her brother's basement

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that one scene in the raven king where henry wants blue to go with him somewhere in a car but she's like "no i have a strong hating-rich-boys-especially-raven-ones reputation here and people are looking at me", so he's like "fair enough" and pretends to dramatically have a fight with her so her reputation upholds, and drives away. and then equally rich and equally raven boy gansey arrives and stops right next to her. easily top 10 funniest scenes in the entire series

I love how much Helly’s clothes have to say not just about her outie’s identity, but the origin of her rebellion as a whole.

Like… she breaks the dress code. Constantly. We know from The Lexington Letter that Lumon only allows white, black, navy, gray, and pastels. And what does Helly wear? Bright blues, green, orange, and at one point, even a dress that is unapologetically crayon-yellow.

For most of season one, the audience thinks this symbolizes Helly’s rebellious nature. Of course her outfits break the rules and stand out like a sore thumb in the muted halls of MDR — so does she! Helly is a new wild card spicing up the lives of her coworkers and shaking up the system. She doesn’t care a whit for Lumon and their stupid regulations, and her clothing reflects that.

But remember… Helly R. doesn’t dress herself.

Helena does.

If Helly could choose to break the dress code, she would — but she has no say in what she puts on every morning. It isn’t her who’s doing this. It’s Helena Eagan who wakes up and, every time she gets ready for work, purposefully dresses herself in ways contrary to her own father’s company.

Whatever her reasons, the point is this: the only reason Helly can unashamedly break the dress code is that no one has the guts to tell the CEO’s daughter to follow the rules. That rebellion, that defiant warmth? Only there because of privilege.

And isn’t that the point? Isn’t that so much of what Helly R.’s “moxie” is? Yes, she fights against MDR’s mistreatment and galvanizes the innies to revolution! Which is awesome! But a lot of it’s because when she first woke up on that table, something inside her went, “This isn’t right.

“This isn’t how people are supposed to treat me.”

It is SO deliciously ironic that almost every sliver, every atom of resistance Helly has against Lumon is an inversion from a sense of entitlement that they gave her in the first place. Helly R. goes to work with someone else’s power over her skin. It’s both the flaming crest of her defiance and a constant, quiet reminder that it is only there because she is not like the others. That she is only rebellious because on the outside… she is used to getting her way.

Your outie prefers two scoops of ice cream in a serving, but they must be the same flavor.

Noah Czerny holds a permanent place in my list of characters of all time because like, there was a Noah Czerny, but our Noah is a boy who never existed. The Noah who loves Blue’s spiky hair and watches over Gansey to remind him not to waste his chance and hangs onto existence even as he’s constantly dying and likes snowglobes was never real, he was a shadow of a very different boy who once lived, and at the end of the story it is that Noah—the flesh-and-blood Noah—who is remembered, memorialized through the continuation of Raven Day, while our Noah slips from existence, and is forgotten.

when i remember that no amount of waiting will make me brave and no amount of fear will keep me safe

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