— Ocean Vuong, Because It’s Summer
I want my gay rights now! - Marsha P. Johnson (NYC Pride Parade, 1973)
June will be filled with hope.
June will be filled with love.
June will be filled with trust.
June will be filled with peace.
June will be filled with positivity.
June will be filled with healthier connections.
shiv's motivations for voting to pass the gojo deal are so layered and i don't think they should be dismissed in favour of any one interpretation. shiv desperately grabbed on to a lifeline for her relationship with tom. shiv was the deciding vote and she couldn't bear to hold the crown only for a moment just to place it atop her brother's head. shiv knew she would have more influence as wife of CEO rather than sister of CEO. shiv absolutely hated seeing kendall crystallize into logan before her eyes, especially when he made roman bleed ("and if we did kill him we get to go to bed") -- succession has always been about siblings so of course she tried to free her brothers before her child. shiv still thinks she can raise her child with all the material benefits of being the daughter of waystar CEO while doing better by her, whatever that means. and all of those things are true
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.
