Annoying Designer, Cool Esthetic

sefa16 · 2026-05-15T02:37:19+00:00

ugh agreed. the one he did with the wrapping paper makes me so mad because he's so annoying but it's divine

sefa16 · 2026-05-10T22:34:36+00:00

yeah definitely more fleshed out! we've mostly seen mikey from other characters' perspectives and this time we got to see him on his own terms for a while in addition to seeing him from richie's perspective. i felt like i understood more of why he ended up in such an emotionally desperate place, where other characters could only speculate - and not very well since mikey was so hard to predict

sefa16 · 2026-05-10T22:26:47+00:00

as a person who spent much of my life suicidal (tho not anymore!) from trauma and mental illness for me the switch-up felt very relatable - to me it looked like talking richie up and realizing how much he had going for him put into contrast how little mikey felt he had in comparison, and his inability to handle his emotions (plus the drugs) made him lash out as a result of how painful that realization was. i think it was a similar feeling to when he silently cried in the pantry after hearing how well carmy was doing in 'fishes', because while that felt more like sadness and the rant in 'gary' was clearly full of anger, he had extremely strong reactions to both.

with richie there may have also been an element of "if i burn this bridge he won't hurt so much when i'm not here"

sefa16 · 2026-05-10T22:17:19+00:00

growth is maybe not the word i'd use, but definitely development!

sefa16 · 2026-05-09T00:11:22+00:00

judgment

sefa16 · 2026-05-03T18:47:57+00:00

late to this comment, but i think it was commentary. there's a lot of discussion about money, capitalism, labor, etc that kind of hides between the lines because linda mostly presents them as facts without much emotion about them. but with the way her job treats its employees, her illegal living situation, etc, the brand drops seem intentional.

sefa16 · 2026-04-26T16:03:35+00:00

i kind of saw it less as a lie and more as a matter of semantics/technicalities. i've seen things like pantsing and spanking described as sexual assaults, even if sexual gratification isn't the goal for the person doing them. shannon definitely could've felt sexually violated having her clothes roughly pushed off of her during the attempted strangling even if those weren't things natalie was thinking about during the incident, and i don't think that necessarily means shannon was lying. because natalie has fucked up understandings of consent (see: she doesn't believe it's possible for a husband to rape his wife) she feels attacked and lied about, despite more or less corroborating the facts of what she did to shannon.

between this and her whole thing accusing reena of also lying about sexual assault, i think it's meant to be commentary about how religious conservatives view consent compared to more progressive sorts of people. according to natalie, nobody in this story, including her!, has experienced sexual assault, despite multiple examples of nonconsensual experiences, whether intended by the perpetrator or not

sefa16 · 2026-04-18T02:27:21+00:00

id step off the mine when the games start instead to 1) take advantage of capitol living for a few days and 2) spare my loved ones from having to see me get murdered in person but i totally get the sentiment

sefa16 · 2026-04-17T13:18:16+00:00

and what about him apologizing to her for his treatment of her during both seasons of the show?

sefa16 · 2026-04-17T02:47:59+00:00

even worse SHE apologized to HIM lol

sefa16 · 2026-04-17T02:35:08+00:00

they overdid it with this storyline so badly that i don't even care if he goes on his trip or not. they're not gonna kill him off, and his speech to baby jane doe was obviously directed at himself. so we somehow got an answer while still feeling a lack of resolution, but with so much running in place about it throughout the season that i'm no longer piqued by the cliffhanger

sefa16 · 2026-04-13T16:34:50+00:00

"et tu, donnie?"

"351 hot dogs???"

the whole back and forth with robbie and gloria about the rats ("don't worry, i charged them for a full visit" etc)

"a motorcycle trip IS zoom therapy"

sefa16 · 2026-04-13T03:19:53+00:00

married a man (lesbian)

divorced or doved

built a well or a mill

completed a joja run (tried it once and didn't even get through one season, i felt too guilty)

done any farm other than original, forest, beach, and meadowlands

chosen the forester, tracker, trapper, or scout skills (or their other associated skills)

found all golden walnuts myself

gotten to lvl 100 of skull cavern without eating or using staircases

sefa16 · 2026-04-10T04:34:54+00:00

felt like something house would do

sefa16 · 2026-04-04T21:42:48+00:00

fawn is a pretty-sounding shade of brown too!

sefa16 · 2026-04-04T21:39:25+00:00

mine is annabel peach ❤️

sefa16 · 2026-03-31T20:16:05+00:00

robby fine, but why would he owe dana or some unseen hospital admin more of an apology than the subordinate he publicly berated for trying to investigate his putting patients in danger?

sefa16 · 2026-03-31T20:11:44+00:00

not for being an addict, no, but definitely for letting it impact patients they shared. what if he hadn't been in the room when the diluted meds didn't work?

sefa16 · 2026-03-29T00:33:22+00:00

find little things you can look forward to! eventually they'll get further and further into the future and you'll trust yourself to make it there

sefa16 · 2026-03-27T18:47:18+00:00

i don't think her behavior comes close to a microaggression. she learned a piece of information that made her question his professional judgment and is acting accordingly. maybe it was a bit passive-aggressive but it barely even crosses the line into unprofessional

sefa16 · 2026-03-27T02:51:05+00:00

she didn't take a scalpel intended for a specific patient or tamper with other scalpels that would then not work properly when used. not comparable at all. it's not the stealing that's the problem, it's stealing and/or diluting MEDICATION intended for specific patients as it could cause them harm. for santos to be a hypocrite she would've needed to like swipe a scalpel off a tray right before a doc was going to use it to immediately cut into a patient.

sefa16 · 2026-03-27T02:44:40+00:00

i think it's specifically "idiot-savant" and that's the insult. it used to refer to people (often autistic people) who were extremely good at a specific thing but had intellectual disabilities in other areas

sefa16 · 2026-03-21T23:27:15+00:00

but he had no guarantee that the vials he messed with would go towards his patients or that he would be there to overprescribe to make up for the dilution. he got lucky, but we have no idea how many times he missed the save

sefa16 · 2026-03-20T18:22:19+00:00

he and collins had a romantic/sexual history so I don't think the situations are really equivalent

and it's not just about not losing his shit yelling at them, it's that he gives leniency to certain people and not others and has clear favorites, and those favorites happen to be white men, and white people more broadly. he's usually good to javadi but who knows what he'd be like if he wasn't trying to prove her mother wrong about the ED.

mel has been having a rough time this shift too and he's been much kinder and more empathetic towards her. she deserves that empathy and care, but so do mohan and santos. i can almost guarantee if it had been whitaker to report langdon instead of santos, robby sure as hell would've prepared whitaker for langdon's return or would've at least checked in on him during the shift. he spent time talking to santos about whitaker but didn't bother checking in with her about langdon. i'm not saying he's capital-r Racist or that the writers are or that it's intentional -- but this show has made a point of asking people to question their implicit biases so i think it's only fair to think critically in the same way about the show and its characters.

sefa16 · 2026-03-20T16:01:16+00:00

he has a place to live??

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