plenilune | vega-ofthe-lyre:I can’t do this anymore. All this theatre.#I WILL LEAVE IT TO JO TO SAY
plenilune | vega-ofthe-lyre:I can’t do this anymore. All this theatre.#I WILL LEAVE IT TO JO TO SAY SENSIBLE THINGS ABOUT THIS EPISODE BECAUSE #JE SUIS INCAPABLE #(GAUNTLETS) #(CIRCLING) #(SUFFOCATION) #(HELP)SO EMMA CHARGED ME TO SAY SOMETHING SENSIBLE, MAKING ME DOUBT WHETHER SHE EVER KNEW ME AT ALLbut last night when we were watching it and wailing she said “this show is a perfectly constructed treatise on agency and suffocation”, and this episode is one of the tightest and most poignant examples of that. how the system makes the victims pay the price for their own abuse, and how exhausting it is to keep trying to find some way to work within the system in order to thwart it at least a little. about women trying to preserve their agency in a system that’s stacked up against them in particular and having to do so without letting on what they’re doing because as soon as you show your hand you’re finished. about Daadh and Magdalena, each in their own way forced to perform constantly in order to live honestly at all, and how wearying is that paradox. also about longing glances and gossip-length hand-kisses and SECRET MAKEOUTS. but like.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.#emma and i plot to scrape together a fandom -- source link
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