Kendall is cornered into talking about the business. Wordlessly, gently threatened into it when he said he didn’t want to right now. Gerri and Karl aren't in mourning. They are doing their jobs, and they’re testing him to see if he can do his. If he said no and walked away, the company would be taken out of family control, Logan would be furious, and he'd lose out on his dream forever.
Shiv sees none of that happen, and Kendall doesn't even tell her about it- maybe because he thinks she wouldn't listen, maybe because she said she thinks he’s weak already, or maybe because he just almost never defends himself in general. But she can’t see his perspective without knowing what happened.
The lack of understanding between them results in this disaster:
She thinks he’s being cold by talking to the nominating committee, but we see how he really feels. He just always turns to reason and order in times of crisis and she doesn’t really know that.
He has not forgotten this conversation or Shiv’s perception of him here. He doesn’t want that:
Shiv’s been inside Waystar now. She knows now that talking business for a minute during a dark time doesn’t mean you don’t care. In fact, she did it while Kendall was confessing his worst moment, but it didn’t mean she loves him less. She knows him better now and has seen that he’s anything but emotionless. No one criticizes him for turning to reason and order this time. They ask for it.
No matter what happens, he won’t forget this nice conversation either. He won’t forget that his siblings finally see him the way he’s always hoped they would: as the big brother who can make hard decisions in seemingly impossible moments. He’s the one who can shepherd them through it. There’s trust there now and they finally know how it feels. The door will be open for togetherness now, even if it looks like it might close for a while. It’s not that they changed as people, it’s that they’ve learned how to read each other.
Not seeing each other’s perspectives led to having to be alone:
Now, it seems, even though they will struggle for a while, they have an understanding.
Y'all know what I'm thinking though. Sunshine singing with the sisters of sin. Her taking over the existing choir as part of her retirement from the band
One of the things Khare gets saddest about is the fact that it's hard for her to pet cats, especially Walter. Her touch is always a little 'staticky', her skin carrying a stronger electrical current than most other people which animals don't always appreciate.
I missed mermay cause of school, but listen, consider this, a headcanon because I’m bad at writing gore (the song Mermaids by Florence and the Machine is the only inspiration behind this):
- Mare is a mermaid who every year to help her and her other mermaid friends stay immortal steals the heart of a human prince (whether that be stealing metaphorically or literally 😈). If she does it metaphorically it obviously only helps her, if she steals the actual beating fucking heart and they all share it then, well it helps all of them.
- Her target this year actually straight up falls in her lap after she rescues him from drowning and deposits him on the shore. She keeps an eye on him for a few days, and realizes that he sort of remembers her as this mysterious woman. He’s perfect, there’s enough kindness, morality and all around honor (she almost vomits when she learns about it) in that heart of his that she may not have to go hunting for years. His heart could sustain her and the others for years. So she makes a plan with a few of them. They’ll attend the ball that’s being thrown, and while her group distracts everyone, she will steal the prince away from everyone and take his heart.
- leaving the water like they are only able to do once a year, shedding their scales and losing their gills and fins until midnight, they take what they need from passerby's and enter the ball as a mysterious group of ethereal women and men. Let’s be real, they should stick out like a sore thumb because they are just that freaking ethereal. One woman whispers: “fae” as they pass, but they are most certainly not that, and everyone knows fae and mythical creatures are just stories.
- The whole thing is so easy that for a moment, she thinks this prince actually knows what she is, that he has some strange sense that lets him see passed the glamor and the magic to what she truly is.
- it takes so little effort to get him away from the party and out on a balcony. She doesn’t even have to sing to get him to come, he just puts his warm hand in hers and lets her guide him away. For a moment, she wonders if she bewitched him by accident on the shore, but she would have known if she sang to him. He trusts her without even knowing her, putting his full faith in her as she leads him further and further into the shadowy alcoves until she finds the perfect place.
- Even before she goes about putting him in a position where she can rip his heart out of his chest, she can feel the magic working because he’s already given her a little bit of his heart metaphorically which she wants to roll her eyes at because “humans, so gullible” kind of thing.
- As he’s telling her that he knows its her, that he’s been looking for her trying to find her to thank her and whatnot, she smiles up at him and in the moonlight, he misses the flash of her fangs before she takes the hand she was resting against his wonderful beating heart and punches it through his rib cage.
- It takes two seconds for him to gasp and start losing his footing, in which she lets him slowly sit on a bench as she whispers softly to him and rips his heart clean out of his chest. His eyes are wide in shock but he doesn’t even have a chance to say anything as she presses a kiss between his brows and thanks him. She never does that, but this time it feels right. When she pulls away those lovely amber eyes start to darken as she rips the skirt of her dress to shreds and wraps the now still heart in the scraps before turning and leaving his body to be found.
Jody Scheckter won the italian grand prix in Monza, claiming his only f1 world championship title with ferrari. followed by Gilles Villeneuve (2nd) and Clay Regazzoni (3rd).