I'm so confused by that astound me fic. Firstly I can't comprehend what about the s3 finale, a symbolic marriage between tom and greg, made it seem plausible that tom would what, panic so badly about him and greg kissing that they essentially break up? But even then, given that scenario, where tom is THEN ready to engage sexually with some other guy all the while he's spurning greg? That shit felt like the twilight zone I'm genuinely so fucking baffled
tom wambsgans, age 46, head of a major news network. successful in most things, but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives: resisting the urge to fuck his wife’s weird cousin.
and also like all men, perhaps there’ll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, where he’ll attempt to quell that desire by sucking off some random-ass twink instead—with deadly results… in the Twilight Zone.
“I can’t help but say… he has wrought the most terrible things. He was a man who has, here and there, drawn in the edges of the world. Now and then, darkened the skies a little, closed men’s hearts. Fed that dark flame in men, the hard, mean, hard, relenting flame that keeps their hearths warm while another grows cold, their grain stashed while another goes hungry. And even has the temerity to tell that hard… funny, yes, funny, but hard joke about the man in the cold. You can get a little high, a little mighty, when you’re warm. Oh, yes, he— he gave away a few million of his billions, but he was not a generous man. He was mean, and he made but a mean estimation of the world. And he fed a certain kind of meagerness in men.”
SUCCESSION 4.09 “Church and State”