#Act of Succession

[marythequeen]

The Queen was also acutely aware of her vulnerability on the international stage. According to the leaders of Catholic Europe, she was not the rightful ruler of England, but the bastard child of an invalid union that had subsequently been recognised as such by her own father. (Although Henry VIII named Elizabeth in the 1544 Act of Succession, and in his last will, he never formally repealed the Act of 1536 that had declared her illegitimate.)

-God’s traitors terror and faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs

#elizabeth i #elizabeth i of england #elizabeth tudor #anne boleyn #henry viii #roman catholicism #act of succession

[romansmartini]

i’m connecting the dots

#succession #girl like gerri used to be the only person who didn't think roman was a joke. #AUUGHBJHSBGJHEWBFJHEWB #WAHHHHHHHHHHH #whatever. let me be delusional for a sec maybe one day she won't think he's a joke again if he gets his act together <3 #jk we are so over

[brookheimer]

shiv was not being altruistic nor intellectually self-interested when she voted against kendall. that was pure raw visceral desperation to maintain some semblance of dignity that she felt kendall being ceo would shred her of. sometimes people do not act in other people’s best interests or their own best interests. sometimes people do the wrong thing for the wrong reasons just because it feels like the right, the only, thing to do. shiv could not let kendall be ceo. she just couldn’t. not because she wanted to sacrifice herself to “stop the cycle,” not because she made a calculation and decided tom was her best interest — because the thought of kendall being ceo and acting like That the rest of their lives when shiv earned that job, she fucking earned it, that was too much to fucking bear. watching him sit in dad’s chair, conduct that vote, grin with entitlement and cockiness and certainty — seeing that elicited a visceral painful all-consuming sensation not dissimilar to overwhelming nausea that, summed up in two words, would simply be: fuck. no. she couldn’t live with that. she just couldn’t. it’s not kind. it’s not smart. it’s just human. painfully, destructively human. because sometimes, that’s all there is to it. not just for shiv, but for everyone. god knows roman and kendall have had those same feelings, made those same self-destructing yet necessary-feeling decisions throughout the show. why does it have to be different for shiv? why can’t she be painfully destructively human, prone to impulsive ill-conceived viscerally felt actions, like everyone else? why are we incapable of allotting her the same nuance and humanity (the good and the bad), the same trauma-informed self-destructive life-ruining hamartias, as we do her brothers? why can’t we fit a whole woman in our heads?

#very surprised to see so many ‘shiv stopped the cycle on purpose blah blah blah’ takes like that didn’t even cross my mind as a motivation #of hers #it wasn’t calculated — i mean kendall winning would be to her benefit in terms of power and respect. that would be best for her #it wasn’t just jealousy or anything either; it wasn’t a coherent thought or plan #it was just I Can’t Fucking Do This #i can’t sit there while he smiles like that when he sits in dad’s chair and hisses that’s fucking right under his breath when someone votes #his way. not when that job was fucking MINE. it was MINE. i can’t- i can’t fucking do it #it’s about preservation of emotional dignity #it’s about self-respect #it’s ironic though because there are few things more undignified and less respected than being a quiet betrayed trophy wife to a weak ceo #husband who earned his position even less than kendall #but she’s not thinking clearly. she’s not Thinking. she just acted because there was this visceral need to act #succession #succession spoilers #shiv roy #100 #500 #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy #1000

[ato-dato]

Anyway R.I.P. Logan you would've hated tomgreg

#loved the episode even cried a little I gotta be honest #Sarah snooks acting got me #they got me girl #anyway #i guess #the witch is dead #tomgreg #greg hirsch #tom wambsgans #succession #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #comic #drawing

[feydrautha]

There's just something about the earnestness and commitment to the inherent silliness of acting when it comes to Jeremy Strong...

[whole interview here]

#jeremy strong #kendall roy #succession spoilers #'im not in the business of judging' like! acting is the OPPOSITE of judging it means going the extra mile to portray an emotion! #why do you think community theatres do these exercises that look and feel silly bc Oh Man are they silly and cringey to an outsider #but it's all to make you feel at comfort with play pretending no matter how over the top is it

[krasnyel]

the weak dogs

#i’m sure connor never confronted logan on his abuse but i think he was there to give at least some kind of comfort to his siblings #still my heart aches for them #roman might act bratty but he was the only one to actually worry about and pay attention to connor #and the way connor went out of the room after roman after kendall and shiv were mean to him #don’t forget about the camping and the fishing thing #connor roy #roman roy #childhood au #succession #krasnyel post #artist on tumblr #digital art

[lets-go-banana-fishing]

My favorite kind of ship is the acts of service hoe finding a guy that got never taken care of and deciding to STEP UP

#crawls to my followers #I SWEAR I'LL STOP COMPARING THEM #i just want Ash and Rei to get treated right y'know #also the type of animes to be like #'we don't exactly say that they're gay but you'll see them act domestic and be perceived as partners by everyone else' #VDHSHSSHSUSHSH #Eiji and Kazuki best housewives fr 🥰🥰🥰 #waut nvm only Eiji is the successful housewife Kazuki is a loser comedian 😔 #banana fish #buddy daddies #eiji okumura #ash lynx #asheiji #rei suwa #kazuki kurusu #mimi posts

[stewyhosseini-bf]

what would’ve been stewy’s reaction to l to the og?

unbridled lust

#would have sucked him silly afterwards he's obsessed with kendall being cringe and embarrassing as much as he would act like he hates it #kenstewy #succession #ask #anonymous

[kenshiv]

Daddy, uh, I love you. Don't go, please, not now.

#succession #successionedit #roman roy #kendall roy #this was shot so beautifully it genuinely looks like a painting. and that's all due to their acting #how much pain can kieran and jeremy's beautiful hazel eyes take.... #2

[queerasian]

nothing you ever see about succession will prepare you for the way jeremy strong’s acting will gradually then irrevocably grab hold of your heart and soul and evoke emotions in you that you didn’t even know were there

#i know i was late to the show and finished it after everyone else was long done but. #i can’t get over how it started vs how i felt as each episode passed and i didn’t even realize how deeply #the show made me feel #it just kinda crept up on me then hit me over the head with a frying pan #esp jeremy strong’s acting like…it’s out of this world. idk how he manages to do it #but you can just FEEL the care and earnestness he put into his role and it’s profoundly moving #kendall roy #jeremy strong #succession #hbo succession #queerasian.txt

[bitchthefuck1]

It's kind of funny that Kendall and Shiv are both equally delusional about their ability to charm people for business and somehow think they can do it even though they choke almost every single time, whereas it's like the one thing Roman is consistently good at despite being the "least legitimate" option.

I think part of this comes down to the fact that Shiv and Kendall both have very clear ideas of the versions of themselves they're trying to be and the images they're trying to project, and they're trying so hard to be seen that way that they end up coming off as a little desperate and off-putting. Meanwhile Roman "knows" that there's something wrong with him and he's worthless, so he doesn't get sucked into the trap of trying to force people to see his idea of himself and instead molds himself into whatever he thinks the other person wants from him because that's the only way he can compensate for "being him," which works very well in the short term but also means he's the least capable of maintaining any relationship for very long because he has no sense of self.

#this was going to be a joke about kendall consistently failing to charm anyone that isn't stewy (and still for some reason thinking he's #good at it) but then i thought about it too hard and started connecting dots #but it is really interesting on a character level to analyze the different ways the siblings act when they're trying to win someone over #kendall and shiv will try to find common ground but they always end up pushing too hard and overplaying their hands because they're #focussing too much on wanting to get the person to take them seriously or see them the way they want to be seen #and roman will test the waters a bit but not say anything definitive until he get the person talking and can see what it is they want #and then just says whatever it is he thinks they want to hear #which also makes a lot of sense with the abuse dynamics since he was the one most likely to actually get hit so the goal is to just make #sure dad never gets angry at you and tell him whatever you need to to avoid that because the consequences will be worse #anyways its 2 am here you go #succession #kendall roy #shiv roy #roman roy

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Also like. This idea that romcoms are some uniquely feminine form of entertainment made by and for women, when >90% of romcoms and basically 100% of the most famous/successful ones are made by men and are about how women MUST have a man to be fulfilled in their lives and relentlessly and creepily pursuing women will ultimately be rewarded in the end because eventually she'll "give in"... stop it!

#the most successful romcom director ever is w**dy all*n stop acting like they're 'for women' lol

[riftdancing]

I sat with my anger long enough...

until it told me its real name was grief.

I'm not a whole person...

and I don't think I ever will be.

Parts of me died in the house I grew up in...

and I visit them in my dreams.

When you aren't fed love on a silver spoon...

you learn to lick it off knives.

#riftdancing - screenshots #character - blink vaniro #ff14 #gposers #miqo'te #ffxiv #ffxivsnaps #ffxiv oc #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv wol #wol #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #Blink you're looking so healthy these days... #man is that because a certain crimson haired asshole walked into your life and helped you get your act together? #are you finally getting therapy? #are you finally becoming a success story? #hmmm #HMMMMMM

[a2zillustration]

I did this fight in exactly the wrong way but Mama K saved the day by being absolutely terrifying apparently

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#I tend to clear out the room before fighting the Big Bad #so imagine my surprise and horror when I saw that by doing that I gave Sarevok some MASSIVE buffs #the ONLY reason I didn't have to reload the fight was bc Karlach had Intimidating Presence and kept being successful with a 50% hit rate #ty mama k #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #murder tribunal #croissant adventures #karlach #sarevok #omg croissant's not even in this one wow #comics

[nativehueofresolution]

i think there's an interesting connective thread between sarah snook saying she thinks shiv just reads whatever's currently popular and got people talking ("everyone's reading this? all right, fine."), and alan ruck saying he thinks connor only reads books that are very old and considered classics - that way he doesn't have to decide if it has literary merit, because everyone else has already decided it's a seminal work. like, it takes them in the opposite direction when looking for materials, but in both cases they're being driven by a desire to not have to have original artistic tastes or opinions and just defer to someone else's judgements. which is just so telling?

shiv can be a bit of a black sheep politically, but she arrived there by just trying to define herself in opposition to her family; it's an indirect way of having someone else decide for you to keep trying to do the opposite of what's expected. it requires little in the way of genuine beliefs, which is why she flips very easily when it's convenient. connor meanwhile just wants any scrap of attention he can get, which is why he brings up random trivia or collects bizarre historical items. he likes to be able to just say or have something that gets people's attention, without having to provide any real explanation or show understanding. and i think it's interesting how that carries over into things like entertainment or art - the lack of self conception makes it hard to do things like pick up a random book you've never heard of because it looks interesting.

#succession #connor roy #shiv roy #roman meanwhile has never read a book. his reign of terror in la i think had more to do w him being difficult #than him having genuine artistic opinions about kids movies #though i'd love to know more about that era of his life #kendall i think is similar to shiv but with more of a pop culture movies/tv slant #and i think he is probably hipstery in some ways and tries to act above the mainstream #but he's just getting his recs by going off of who everyone says is an auteur #he is also incapable of just like sitting and having a reaction to a work of art #kaitlin speaks

[shesnake]

most important addition to my Image Folder™️ this week

#succession #succession spoilers #kendall roy #this and 'and he acted'