Florence Welch, photographed by Karyme França
I don't mean to be callous but when I talk about walkability/transit and someone says "what about people who live out in the country" I'm like yeah, what about them? What does that have to do with how people in cities get around?
I have a post very explicitly about pedestrian fatalities in disenfranchised neighborhoods and how people who can't afford cars are treated as second class citizens and someone commented "tell me y'all don't live 20 miles from the nearest town without telling me." I've had an IRL conversation where the guy interjected "well there are starving people in remote West Virginia, that's the REAL poverty." And it's worth asking, why do you valorize and sympathize with rural poverty but not urban poverty? JK, I know why.
That magnificent, awful force of him, but my God, I hope it’s in me. SUCCESSION (2018-2023)
kendall attempting to convince his sister he is in fact fit to run a multibillion dollar global corporation: “actually i false memoried myself into a fake manslaughter confession because i wanted us to bond.” i am going to miss him so much
Succession 4.10, "With Open Eyes"; John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Often father and daughter look down on mother together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate”
Also mattson says I don’t want your wife to be ceo I want you to be ceo so I can fuck your wife and Tom says Okay
and of COURSE it ended with “no real person involved” pointing back at the Roys. Tom the winner being an empty fucking suit. Roman admitting they are ALL bullshit they are not real they are hollow. Kendall confessing if he’s not CEO he is nothing. Shiv reduced to a human vote and a wife and a mother. Greg literally getting bought like a piece of antique furniture. None of them are real people because they never were to Logan!!!!!
NO but Colin being the only other person alive who knew for sure that Kendall DID kill someone and that knowledge following Kendall like his own shadow in that last scene. Jesse Armstrong I am in your yard.
sorry the kenrome violence was VISCERAL. Kendall spends the whole series putting himself between Roman and physical harm, refusing to touch him when goaded and getting pushed over himself. only to commit the most like. brutal violence on the show by holding his split open face and squeezing.
Everyone’s talking about the mausoleum scene in Succession and how it represents the way the family was doomed from the beginning. But here’s the thing right? It’s incredibly easy not to end up in a mausoleum. Like what’s Logan gonna do about it? Kendall makes a single annotation to his testament or will and he ends up at whatever resting place he wants. It is insanely easy to not be buried somewhere you don’t wanna be buried, especially if you’re that rich. But they’re not going to do that. That, to me, is the true horror of that scene. If it was just “wow Logan built a mausoleum for all of them”-who cares? It wouldn’t be the first time the Roy kids refused their father’s wishes or demands. But they won’t do it. You can joke about killing him, you will still cry at his funeral. You say you’d piss on his grave but you stumble to his casket, “is he in there?”. They’re all children in one way or another and even decades after Logan’s death they won’t even dare think about disobeying that rotting decaying body that once housed their father. They WILL end up in that mausoleum, each in their own bunk, trapped with an abuser. The tragedy of Succession is more than being poisoned at birth, even more the loving the poison. They can’t live without it. “What is Logan gonna do?” Nothing, he already did it. The game was rigged from the start.
oh to be ewan, the only one left in the room who knew logan when he was little. to know logan could be minuscule. to watch your niece and nephews cry about your brother who swallowed them whole until they couldn't imagine being anything but in the pit of his indifference and ambitions. and to see some of you in him, dead in a casket. after all, his beginning was also yours.
every time you find yourself here, it's because you chose to come back.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson