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something about connor being logan’s first unloved child. about connor making sure the trio never have to experience that same fate, cause even if daddy doesn’t love them, their older brother does. something about the trio mocking connor for his affection because logan’s raised them to consider it a weakness. about connor continuing to love them anyway. something about connor remembering the games shiv used to play as a little girl, about taking ken and roman camping, about roman’s single happy childhood memory being connor taking him fly fishing. something about connor being so desperate to be loved back that he pays for it.

My hopes for Succession Season 4:

- Tom and Shiv get a quickie divorce in Las Vegas. Tom gets custody of Mondale. Shiv is surprisingly devastated by this.

- Shiv moves in to a modest apartment with Roman and they embark on a journey of learning basic life skills like writing résumés and eating regularly and booking therapy appointments. Gerri gifts them a crock pot.

- Connor and Willa open an Etsy store selling expertly curated vintage jewellery and assorted knick-knacks. The experience brings them closer together.

- Cousin Greg uses his newfound wealth to found a cannabis dispensary empire and also buy the Ottawa Senators.

- Tom returns to St. Paul and becomes a beloved local weatherman.

- Logan dies and goes to Hell. Frank also dies and becomes CEO of Hell. Logan must work as Frank’s Executive Assistant for all eternity.

- Gerri is elected President of the World by unanimous vote.

- Stewy does so much coke that he ascends to a higher plane of consciousness.

- Kendall becomes a Buddhist monk and achieves enlightenment.

- Marcia spends all of Logan’s money on increasingly lavish objets d’art. Decades later, she dies peacefully, surrounded by her children and her Fabergé eggs

- It is New Year’s Eve. Tom walks home alone from the TV station party. He’s spent the last 24 hours in the Storm Center tracking the blizzard of the century. The first fat flakes of snow begin to fall. He watches the delicate ice crystals form on the lapel of his exquisitely tailored camel-hair coat, a relic of another life, another world. It was worth leaving behind, he thinks. All of it. Well, almost all of it. He’s lonely here. Sure, he has his parents and the whole extended Wambsgans clan and the Fly Guys, who were actually really chill about his coming out. He has Mondale and a job he loves and yet, and yet.

“Uh, Tom?”

He turns around slowly, his heart in his throat. Could it be?

“Greg?”

“Hey, man. I know it looks, like, totally stalker-y but uh, I had to fly out here because you know, I have like, millions of dollars and a cannabis dispensary empire and also, uh, the Ottawa Senators but I don’t have, like, you?”

- Tom and Greg are married on Grandpa Ewan’s farm on a glorious Ottawa Valley summer day. Shiv sends a thoughtful handwritten card wishing them the best. Shiv has a girlfriend now! She hopes that Tom can meet her the next time he’s in New York. Tom texts her to say that he would like that very much. He returns to his wedding reception and he and Greg have a wonderful time with their family and friends. Gerri gifts them a crock pot.

- Roman actually writes The Electric Circus. It receives rapturous reviews with the New York Times claiming it “brilliantly captures the anxieties of modern life.”

- Gerri gets a nasty flu. After two days of coughing and sneezing on the couch, she receives a knock at the door. She answers to find Shiv and Roman holding a crock pot full of chicken soup that they made all by themselves. The soup is mediocre but it is also the first act of selfless love the Roy siblings have ever shown in their entire lives and therefore it is a metaphor for their continued growth and progress.

they should fuck

no body, no crime - taylor swift // gone girl - dir. david fincher

chelsea g. summers, a certain hunger / ginger snaps (2000) / joan macleod, the shape of a girl / L’AQUART - jade medusa, 2020 / john collier - lilith, 1887 / florence + the machine, “howl” / battle royale (2000) / brenna twohy, “swallowtail” / caravaggio - judith beheading holofernes, 16th c. / herbert james draper - ulysses and the sirens, 1909 / william etty - the sirens and ulysses, 1837 / alicia ostriker, “in the 25th year of marriage, it goes on” / gone girl (2014)

a monster in the shape of a girl

jackles drop the tapes. they dont have enough money to sue you anyway.

good

this is singlehandedly the funniest thing to ever come from the cw

ppl are just afraid of the power that Tom "I'm an actor, of course I've had gay sex" Hardy and Andrew "I have an openness to any impulses" Garfield would hold together

I find it so funny every time an angel says "angel radio", it's like dean made that up , cas heard it and then he told all the angels that that was the correct term to use on earth to describe their form of communication

sorry to jump in but this is very vivid in my mind bc i recently rewatched 4x16 and when uriel allegedly goes to communicate with heaven he actually refers to the process as “receiving revelation” (which is not only tone-appropriate but it also severely fucks, bc, well, ben THEE edlund)?? and from cas’s lack of reaction we can assume this is accepted term??

but like imagine you’re an angel in the heavenly host circa 2008 and you refer to your internal network with the perfectly dignified “receiving revelation” and then your weird sibling castiel who keeps having to be rebooted to factory settings comes in twirling his hair like omg haha you’ll never guess what dean called revelation today. it’s the best thing it’s so funny i swear-- yeah angel radio!! yes radio like the wavelengths!! you know, like we are?? yeah haha isn’t he soooo witty and interesting???

and the tragedy is that against all odds, because Weird Sibling Castiel is canonically popular with other angels, it actually catches on and everyone start calling it that. imagine how PISSED naomi must have been. imagine being dean “just some guy” winchester and being so influential that your spur-of-the-moment joke redefines heaven’s communication infrastructure. trendsetter, icon, legend

man ive been watching videos of sheep getting shorn all night. makes me wanna be a sheep, getting man handled by a farmer who loves me, emerging from my cocoon of wool a totally new being. prancing around the barnyard so free, no longer weighed down by winter. i have clinical depression 

it’s posta like these that so encapsulate the spirit of tumblr while making it impossible to explain tumblr to my mom

“as FullMetalFisting explained, mom, our insensate depression manifests as deeply sensate desires, like being a sheep free from weight it can’t control and-”

Mom hangs up

Happy holidays to everyone whose holiday isn’t what they want it to be. whether it is illness, poverty, distance from loved ones or something else that’s making things tough for you this year, i hope that you can find peace and warmth. i hope that your year will end and start on a brighter note

something I truly adored in bojack horseman was that the main character was morally grey (but not the kind of morally grey that’s easy to look past. you know, the kind who made a sacrifice for a good cause, or the antihero who got drunk and ruined a quinceañera once.) 

no. bojack’s mistakes were serious and hurt people deeply. frankly, if bojack were a real-life celebrity and i found out about all that he did, I would be… pissed. and rightfully so. and so would all of twitter.

but that’s not the question it forced me to ask myself.

‘how would you react to a celebrity doing unforgivable things’

no. 

the question it forced me to ask myself, that i would now like to ask you (as man hands on misery to man, it deepens like a coastal shelf,) is

'how would you react to someone you know, or at least think you know, someone you love and care about and sympathise with, doing something unforgivable?’

because we all have those people in our lives, like it or not. the degree of severity just varies. 

(this is not to say i’m morally pure myself. like most people,  i fit into the moral grey area at best. i’ve done things that are unforgivable. but this is not a thesis on the self, as much as i love writing those.) this is about the people that you love that, no matter how hard you try and stretch it, you cannot fit into your moral worldview. whether it’s the things they’ve done or the very essence of who they are.

but you still care.

and you still love them and it’s not like you can just stop because that’s not how love works, it’s not rational. that’s not how people work.

say, one of your parents is kind of racist. or homophobic.

or even abusive.

neither you nor anyone else is obligated to forgive them, that goes without saying. you are allowed to cut them off. you are allowed to just be mad or stop caring. if you can do that, good for you.

but that’s rare.

how do you stop loving the person that taught you what love was? even if you hate them, it’s hard. sometimes impossible.

so what do you do? just forgive them? even if having them in your life is hurting you? hope they’ll get better? cut them off despite your heart? well… i didn’t say bojack gave me an answer. i didn’t say I had an answer, i wish I could give you the answer but i don’t know if there is an answer.

i was just announcing that i had a question.  

it's, idk, one of the things that really get me about bojack horseman is that like. i'm afraid i won't be able to put it into words properly, but this show deals so heavily and so well with the entire topic of change? like, literally all of these characters, both main and side characters, have their issues, and a lot of them do shit that's just. really not okay, because they're dragging all this (often generational) trauma around with them, and again and again, the shows goes "hey, this is all understandable, but that doesn't make it okay, you can't just be a shitty person and hurt others and then excuse it with your own baggage".

and so these people try to change, and bojack in particular has these moments of. self-reflection and insight. and tries. he does try to be better, he so desperately wants to be better, but he's got such a hard time accepting that being better will a) be fucking difficult and b) need active input and action from him. nobody's going to change or make him better for him, that's his job?

so there's these scenes and entire episodes where he tries and tries and manages to be better, be good for and to other people and himself, do the right thing.

but that's. not. how it works, that's not where it ends. because life will just. throw hard shit at you again. and that's not even anybody's fault really, that's just what. life. is like. and again and again, bojack can't handle that. and falls back into his old patterns, all (self-)destruction and self-pity.

and that is one of those things that get me the most. because it's. real. i've been there? i still...do that, today. every so often. and it's so uncomfortable to watch, because i feel like if you watch this tv show "correctly" (which, like, i don't usually like saying stuff like that because there's always different ways to engage with media, but bojack horseman in particular is just really something i don't think you should even *try* to watch without like, analysing it, especially if you relate to characters; it's not been *written* like and for that), you just sit there and it's like. like looking in a fun house mirror that shows you the worst possible version of yourself and you know that one's just as real as the other reflections that make you look better, and like. then you just have to sit with that. aware of that. hating bojack, a little bit, and knowing that the way he's portrayed is. realistic.

and it's so good, it's such an important and necessary thing this show does, but gosh. it's a lot.

I think the thing I’m saddest about is that Hollyhock cut BoJack out of her life completely and permanently. I don’t disagree with either the writing decision or the character’s decision. BoJack wasn’t good in her life. I just loved the brother-sister relationship at its purest. Emotionally I’m sad that’s how it ended.

But I mean like. That’s how real life goes sometimes. I appreciate that depiction, even as it makes me sad.

And honestly? I appreciate the fact that many of the characters’ final choices were to leave BoJack to some capacity, for their own health. Princess Carolyn healthily stepped away from sunk cost and says she can recommend other people if BoJack wants an agent again. Diane suggested this would be their final meeting and good-bye - and for many good reasons. She can’t be his savior; that’s not the role of a friend; and the pain he created in her life means it’s time to step away.

That’s a fascinating writing move to make, where the ending involves many of the main characters stepping away from the lead - while at the same time the lead has been making promise. There’s a fuckton of nuance to it, and I appreciate that endlessly. 

you see modern aus where lucifer and michael are twins and modern aus where jimmy and cas were twins but do you know what we never see? cas and lucifer as twins. so here’s my au proposal:

jimmy, cas, and lucifer are triplets. through a series of unfortunate events, cas ends up with custody of BOTH of their kids

also screaming at this idea. u have ur identical triplets and one of them is evil, one of them is Christian™️ and the last one is gay