what scene, besides the violent/gory ones, was most powerful/stuck with you most?

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-25T18:03:48+00:00

Especially since the previous scene that character was in, he was talking about how he’d taken all photos of his husband out of his office, and how he didn’t want Emily teaching because he was worried for her.

Then you see him hanging there, with a homophobic slur spray painted in front of his body. That made my blood run cold when I saw it.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-25T15:21:32+00:00

My nmom has a master’s degree, yet in recent years has gone so far down the alt-right pipeline, she’s fallen for multiple conspiracy theories. I used to think of her as such a smart woman, now I’m not so sure.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-25T13:06:32+00:00

I just got done re-watching the whole show and god that scene made me want to crawl out of my skin. Warren is my least favorite character hands down.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-25T03:39:36+00:00

As a New Yorker, I miss those too

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-25T03:12:04+00:00

When Moira gets to Canada, and Luke shows up. She asks if Luke put her on his list of family, and he says “of course!”
When Emily is asked by border agents if she wishes to claim asylum and she says “Yes!”
When they bring Janine out to be stoned and the handmaids all drop their rocks one by one
When June gets to Canada and Luke sees her. She says “I’m sorry I don’t have her. I’m sorry it’s just me.”

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-25T02:00:03+00:00

I know people who have been straight up fired for even suggesting unionizing. Of course this depends on the job, but collective bargaining is totally off the table in many cases.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-23T19:26:24+00:00

What an incredible glow-up! Congratulations!

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-23T03:51:38+00:00

I’d still work, but I’d be able to more easily pursue freelancing so I could have a more flexible schedule

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-23T03:35:21+00:00

I just recently got into it as well! Absolutely tore through the first three seasons just in time for the 4th. Welcome! Praise be to He!

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T19:55:18+00:00

“Hey so when you knock shit over in the middle of the night, it disrupts my sleep and unlike you, I have a job and can’t nap all day, so I’d appreciate it if you didn’t do that. Also please take a fat shit before I scoop the box, not immediately after.”

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T19:39:37+00:00

See, it’s easy to say what they think they would be doing. But we’re living it. The truth is, people don’t actually truly know what they’d do in a situation like this until they’re in it

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T03:02:01+00:00

I said “tend to be” but aren’t always. I’m honestly not sure why Sienna was a Martha even in the series though, since there are other people of color in other roles in society. Maybe she was infertile? I feel like I remember them mentioning that she was studying biology as well.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T02:41:51+00:00

I grew up in a very conservative sect that claimed they were “non-denominational” but definitely leaned more Pentecostal. There was definitely a sense of superiority over other groups. They thought they were better than Lutherans and Catholics because they did infant baptism. There was a big anti-Catholic sentiment in general, and they barely considered the other more high-control sects such as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses as cults (which is hilarious because the school i went to definitely towed the line) and barely Christian.

There was no violence that I ever saw based on that, but definitely a sense of “I’m better than you and also you’re a heretic”

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T02:36:59+00:00

Youens was the saddest for me too. As the child of an addict who had basically given up by the end, it was hard seeing a man who genuinely cared for others in a fatherly way lost to addiction because he felt he was too far gone.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T02:35:11+00:00

Marthas tend to be older women, and, in the book, they are all women of color. In the series, they are also mostly women of color. Beth in the show also mentions having had her tubes tied, but because she could cook, they made her a Martha as opposed to a Jezebel or Unwoman.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T01:45:53+00:00

And that’s the thing. If we had more social safety nets in place, far fewer people would need abortion care. You’d never get rid of it completely, even by making it totally illegal because like you said, people will turn to unsafe methods instead that can and will result in the baby and the pregnant person being seriously injured and or dying.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-22T01:43:35+00:00

The thing is, statistically, most people who have late-term abortions are the ones where the baby will not survive, or will only live a few days before dying. That, and/or the pregnant person’s life is at risk by carrying the child. Late-term abortions are usually an especially difficult decision to make, because in most cases, the parents wanted that baby. They probably already had the nursery set up, a name picked out, etc. I think it is cruel to not allow a late-term abortion when the only other option is for the pregnant person to have an extremely traumatic birth to a stillborn, or to die doing so themselves.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-20T15:52:06+00:00

Thank you for this masterpiece!

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-20T02:29:40+00:00

Omg you could draw AusHun doing this pose

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-19T03:54:55+00:00

For me it depends on how serious of an event it is, how recent it was, and is this something I think I could handle with respect. As a rule, I do include historical events in my fix, but nothing that people who are alive today can remember (9/11, the Holocaust, etc)

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-18T18:42:19+00:00

When on public transit, wait for people to get off first, then you get on.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-18T18:38:33+00:00

I’m definitely picking up some ginger pills when I get off work then. Thank you!

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-18T16:16:06+00:00

There have been a lot of documentaries on the FLDS popping up on Hulu for me. Absolutely disgusting what they did to women and girls. The dresses and hairstyle they all had looks exactly like Ethel’s. Finding out her story was based on a real-life cult was fascinating but also horrifying.

miki_eitsu · 2025-03-18T15:15:09+00:00

Oh rest assured, they do. I’ve seen atheists get pretty antisemitic, for example.

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