love her down but delacroix suggesting penelope turn herself in as whistledown bc eloise was unjustly in danger and pen immediately going "erm no" is some ridiculously selfish heinous bitch shit
idk to me it’s just like,,,black people coined the phrases say her name and rest in power for a reason and im gonna focus specifically on say her name because it was black women who wanted to call attention to the systemic violences that we have faced that have resulted in the deaths of so many of us which were left unrecognized. it was specifically addressing an issue within the black community wherein black femicides (particularly at the hands of the police/intimate partners) were not given the same spotlight as the murders of black men. we are always forgotten in life and in death and that is part of why the violence against us has been permitted to continue to the point that we are at a significantly higher risk of homicide than any other race. and the statistics are even more grim for black transwomen and femmes. for every nonblack victim of transphobic violence that gets recognition in their horrific death, there are 10 black victims whose names we never know. like that is the whole point of the phrase this shit is life or death for us and we know that the moment race is decontextualized from the nature of the phrase then that is when we are once again forgotten. but yall are acting like we’re trying to start genz tiktok lingo/aave co-opting discourse.
maybe i should rewatch succession [car crash] [explosion] [fire erupting across town] [babies crying] [wilhelm scream] [six more car crashes] [police chopper flying overhead] [a woman falls to her knees and begins weeping PLEASE NO GOD NO] [news reporter: “we come to you live from the scene of-”] [guy in the chopper over a loudspeaker: “ma’am, we’re going to need you to-”] [wilhelm screams again]
the craziest thing about kendall roy is that even in universe so many people care about him. in ways that not even connor or shivs spouses care for them, people care for kendall. they worry about him. kendall has a network of people that wait and wait for him to be better and they all sit there and have to watch him get worse and Fawk Off his assistant is looking at him with tears in her eyes as she quits and his second oldest friend Also has tears in his eyes after he betrays him (do the other roy kids even have second oldest friends?) and his ex wife has tears in her eyes as she asks for him to just once put his family first. fucking nate, shivs nate, cares abt kendall. actually insane to me how many people saw that pathetic man under his fathers thumb, knew he couldnt be saved, and cared abt him anyway
Shoutout to ship pairings that only work well as exes. Sometimes romantic and platonic dynamics just aren’t the vibe. Sometimes characters have too much chemistry to not be drawn to one another romantically but also the idea of them actually being together long term just doesn’t feel right in your soul. Two people who really wanted it to work but didn’t and now they’re dealing with the fallout. Show me the bitterness. The civility through gritted teeth. The alimony checks. You’ve seen the rawest, most vulnerable part of me and now you’re walking around the street as if we’re strangers. Maybe they stay friends and that unspoken resentment lays dormant just beneath the surface, both of them refusing to look it in the eye. Maybe they don’t talk at all and trail each other’s memory like a shadow. Maybe they never fell out of love but got hurt too badly the last time to try again. Maybe they kill each other
remember when we had succession and the next day you'd have to get up and go to work like you hadn't just experienced all 5 stages of grief simultaneously the night prior