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SUCCESSION 1x06 // 4x10

Exclusive: Jeremy Strong on Succession's Brutal Finale and Kendall's Ending

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😦 jeremy strong why would you say this

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JUST FUCKING LOVE a mirrored ending. everyone right back to the start. in the pilot, kendall has the ceo-ship yanked away at the finishline with his own botched acquisition. shiv ends how she started trapped in an emotionally barren marriage where she holds the only small power she has. tom ends as he began, an undeserving nervous wreck of a puppet. Connor, with all the bells and whistles and riches, and no one real to share it with. roman on the outside, alone. except unlike at the beginning, their father is dead and this is no longer his playground. they end where they start with one crucial difference, this time it's real.

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tragedy fans when the tragedy is tragic

(Mark Mylod, Succession: Inside the Episode, s4e10)

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the responses i’ve seen to shiv’s ending seem very quick to write her off as just another sad victim of the cycle, which isn’t without truth BUT!!! that is not even remotely the summation of shiv’s story.

i don’t think she votes yes to “save kendall” or to try to finally set her brothers free. and i don’t think her main concern was that ken was becoming their dad. she absolutely noticed and didn’t love it, but that was not her motivation in betraying him. she was thinking about herself.

it’s tempting to make a martyr out of her as she is the only female child and we see her suffer the onslaught of misogyny that comes with that. but to make her into a saintlike figure who got beat takes away the power and intelligence behind her decision.

at this point she’s stuck between two non ideal choices, but she recognizes that they have accidentally made her the single most important player in the game. because while she can’t have the outcome she’d prefer, she has the power to decide the fates of everyone else. the written off lone woman now holds in her hands the fate of every man in her life.

so she thinks about the long term benefits of both options and realizes that one side leaves her completely without any leverage.

her brothers have proven to her multiple times in the last few days alone that they will cut her out and walk all over her the first chance they get. siding with them leaves her nothing to bargain with. she would just have to hope that ken would actually take care of her. and that level of vulnerability is not only unacceptable to her, it’s stupid. and shiv fuckin roy is not stupid.

so she thinks about the other side and about what she actually wants for her life. and against her better judgment, it’s becomes unfortunately clear that she wants tom. the way she wants him is not altogether loving or even good but it is necessary to her. she sees relationships as having winners and losers and she chose this man specifically so that she could be confident in her ability to win. except now he’s grown some balls and made himself unavailable to her.

she may not like the way her husband is evolving but she already placed her bets on him, so she’s sure as hell not losing to him now. there’s also a part of her that feels intrigued by this new man she’s married to. it’s interesting to have a sparring partner in him instead of having to looking for excitement outside of their marriage.

so for maybe the first time ever, she processes what tom has said to her and thinks about what he actually wants.

he needs her to prove that she cares. he needs to know that she is capable of sacrifice. if she can’t find it within herself to do this for him, then she will lose him, and by extension, she will lose.

siding with tom gives her the opportunity to once and for all make a grand-stand gesture of love, but more importantly, it creates leverage for her. never again will he be able to hold the moral high ground over her head. never again can he say she doesn’t love him. never again can he call her selfish or uncaring. above all, he can never betray her again, because she just removed all of his moral justification for turning on her. he doesn’t realize it yet, but she’s just taken back all the power in their relationship. just in a more subtle way than she’s used to operating.

and just like that, she has the ceo of a multi billion dollar company in her pocket, while situating herself as the only descendant of logan roy to still be playing the game, having removed her brothers from the equation permanently. she may still be far from the top but she’s creating a path for herself to climb.

so yes, she’ll let tom play king for a day, and she’ll have his baby and say “congratulations,” and play the gracious wife, but tomorrow is a new day with lots of room to maneuver. and when her husband puts out his hand, she’ll place her own on top. but she won’t grasp it because she doesn’t need to.

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caged dogs

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art of the dreamer trilogy

El Jaleo - John Singer Sargent / Study in Black and Green - John White Alexander / Portrait of Dr. Pozzi at Home - John Singer Sargent / theft of Rembrandt’s and Vermeer’s paintings in the Dutch Room at the Gardner Museum / Repose - John White Alexander / Althea - John White Alexander / The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit - John Singer Sargent / Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller - John Singer Sargent + El Jaleo’s room at the Gardner Museum

call down the hawk | mister impossible | greywaren coming soon!

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FBI's most unwanted <3

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ew it's that couple from my sociology class who's always acting like it's their honeymoon in the middle of the quad 😩🤢

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Hang in there. Yeah? Um…it’ll be okay. We love you, dad. Okay? We love you. I love you, dad. I do. I love you, okay? And it’s okay. Uh, even though you fucking…I don’t know. I can’t, I can’t forgive you. But, uh…yeah, but I-I, uh, it’s okay. And, I love you.

SUCCESSION (2018-2023) 3x08: Chiantishire 4x03: Connor’s Wedding

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PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET KRANK

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Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

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What means more to me is honor. And loyalty. And character. These are the reasons I serve you, Lady Kryze. Your song is not yet written. I will serve you until it is.

BO-KATAN KRAZYE in THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 3

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There are two options and both of them are equally funny.  Jon Favreau just let the entire internet call that man Din as his given name and didn’t say a goddamned thing until the end of the third season, casually blowing years of assumed knowledge into absolute shreds, that he waited three full fucking years to drop that bomb despite that his finger was on the trigger the entire time.  Or.  He random woke up one morning halfway into writing the third season and said to himself, “You know what would be really, really funny to do to the entire internet?” and chose the violence in his heart.  I respect both options, Favreau, my hat’s off to you!

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sorry for the dirty sketches!😖 this is my modest contribution to the fandom💪🤧