#the accurate succession

[normalbrothers]

peaky blinders (2019, anthony byrne

(much needed remake of this post)

#for reasons i don't remember anymore i apparently missed the fact that the sequence of of these respective scenes are inverted ... this is #the accurate succession #really like that detail w the sugarcube and the cyanide capsule #given that arthur is ultimately the one who prevents tommy's suicide* #but it's also arthur who triggers tommy fondling the cyanide capsule in the second scene in the first place #lots going on here #peaky blinders #tv #tveidt #upon research there's more going on here with the cyanide/sugar connection but i can't properly phrase it hddh #glucose is said to be a counteragent; sugar cubes are made of saccharose #but it's a neat visual shorthand

[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

#across the spiderverse #across the spider verse spoilers #break from my regularly scheduled trigun posting for spider posting #i'm actually kinda eh on the idea of the canon and police chiefs dying it is not my favorite plot point #but like any sane person i love spiderverse so #actually still think i like the first one more but wroaw much to think about #spiderverse #atsv #.lieii #i only watched the movie once so hopefully this is all accurate #i feel like this is all really obvious my point was like #pavitr being an example of a spiderperson who is still successful without going through all these awful things #and you think despite all this stuff about the multiverse how does he feel about the chief being saved? hes probably rly grateful right? #i mean maybe something terrible will happen to him in the next movie but. yk what im saying #.lieii txt

[fanning-the-flames]

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) in Sargent’s Repose. I imagine this is how White Lotus disciple Luo Binghe sees his Shizun while in reality, the Peak Lord is drooling, hair a mess, and has crumbs on his robes.

Now for a close-up:

And the sketch I posted earlier is linked here. Hope this ended up meeting expectations!

Your Easter Egg for this year is this view of what the scene looks like without the Shizun goggles.

#shen qingqiu #svsss #mxtx fan art #john singer sargent #pov Luo binghe #Shizun goggles on #I tried my best to make the setting and clothes more ancient China and was only marginally successful #like no way that skirt is accurate but I will seize all opportunities to paint luxuries drapery with both grubby hands #I'm glad you all love sargent as much as I do

[irlplasticlamb]

you’re my baby, say it to me.

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#vic.txt #biblically accurate kid roys…. #roman roy #kendall roy #shiv roy #connor roy #succession #hbo succession #succession hbo #succession art #my art #art #fanart #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #character art #jeremy strong #kieran culkin

[privatejoker]

how do you feel looking at it

#camera can no longer accurately capture the colors. success

[waystarresourceco]

Kieran Culkin on Roman's playboy image and the way the actors/writers understanding of backstory fits together. (x)

#thought it might be interesting to throw this out there #I think “playboy” is sometimes used in connection with Roman by Jesse/Mark in a way that can be read as a split from Kieran's view #and that's totally fair #or it can be read as consistent in that that's the image Roman works to project #which i tentatively think may be the implication for what his life looked a little like pre-series but still thinking through that #I think that's what makes Roman so interesting to watch when he's in those party environments #he's clearly good at people in a way his siblings aren't #and he knows how to be in those spaces (even if there's a discomfort with drugs and sex) #see for example how he is with Lawrence in S1 and that he knew about Rhomboid #but at the same time that's clearly not all of Roman or even an accurate reflection of his internal life #and it's unclear how frequently he actually goes out #anyway I think the point is just that Roman is interesting haha #and I think both reads support the fake playboy thing and not like...a real one lol #roman roy #succession #cast interviews #hbo succession #kieran culkin

[tomwambsgans]

tomgreg is not "i could fix him" nor "i could make him worse" but "i could make him feel like a real person." from both ends.

#tomgreg #there is genuine incompleteness on either end without each other #i'm thinking nrpi and the mutual obsession and being (successfully) singularly inclined toward monetary success #EXCEPT in regards to each other #greg having only the most naive aspirations until he meets tom #tom having an essentially directionless desire to be a caretaker until he meets greg #i'm thinking of that one rebvilla tg art with the caption #'doderick fell from the fantasy doggy land and became a real boy in the arms of a guy named tom' #i'm thinking of how the last time greg smokes weed onscreen has him throw it away when tom shows up #how he first does coke. an upper. onscreen directly as tom shows up #tom wakes him up and guides him #greg gives him someone to guide #they're both sponges that soak each other up bc they were sorely missing something #the ethics of their behavior are besides the point #the point is that they cease to be performative about it. tom gets less conservative greg gets less liberal #bc both were masks that weren't necessarily real #'don't be an asshole greg you don't have PRINCIPLES' <- tom accurately calling greg out for being fake #i'm thinking we don't change minds. maybe we do change minds. #once again whether it's in the direction of being 'good' or 'bad' could not be FURTHER from the point #bc the human condition does not condern those things. LOVE does not concern those things. #they just push each other in the direction of being complete people. of being fucking real #mine

[loveandthings11]

Mark Mylod on eventual Kendall optimism ❤️

The Hollywood Reporter, 8/16/23

#this sounds reasonably accurate- some crazy plans for a while but eventually finding himself #and I love that he refers to Kendall as a family member or his child 🥲❤️ #he’s the only one who’s allowed to talk about the show right now because of the strikes 😭 #so I love him for doing so!!! #I didn’t think we’d get another interview from him and I’m so glad we did! #THANK YOU to the interviewer for asking about the characters’ futures #he also talks about Shiv and Roman in this article #he sounds more optimistic about Ken than Roman kinda but he seems to think they’ll all keep going #kendall roy #succession #mark mylod #Jeremy strong #Roman roy #shiv roy

[brookheimer]

roman is free in the sense that he is free from waystar, but he is not free in the sense that he has 'escaped the cycle.' roman realized everything is bullshit and left, but that's not what actual meaningful freedom would be for roman. what rome needs is for business and family to finally make a clean separation, for him to be allowed to love his family without molding himself into an image of logan that he isn't. waystar has always been the only way the roys know how to interact with one another, and it still is. in that sense, nothing has changed. roman's declaration about the nothingness of waystar is not actually a change, because he still marries waystar to family, and thus believes family is nothingness as well -- functionally, there's little difference between that and the opposite belief that both waystar and family have meaning and are 'real.' what the roys need is to realize waystar is bullshit and family is real, but roman went from thinking both have meaning (family has meaning thus waystar has meaning) to thinking neither do (waystar is bullshit thus family is bullshit). nothing changes, the cycle keeps on cycling. finally family has been severed from waystar (what he's needed all along -- he's never really cared about the business, only his family, and the business was the only way he could be with his family, so he tried and failed time and time again to mold himself into the businessman his dad wanted him to be), and while this is a good thing, it's coupled with his realization of the hollowness of the family itself. in hindsight, this was inevitable, i think -- if waystar royco was the beating heart of the roy family (which it was), there's no conceivable severing of the two that would allow the family to maintain functionally intact.

i do think that roman will have relationships with his family after the finale (shiv is definite, con is likely, kendall is also likely because roman is incapable of not being around his family and can't imagine a world in which they don't return to each other somehow), but he's aware for the first time of the nothingness of their bonds, something that everyone has already known except for him -- something, i think, that isn't even entirely fair. they do love each other. there is something there. and now that waystar is no longer part of the equation, maybe there's hope for real relationships beyond transaction, beyond business, beyond logan. but none of them believe that to be possible. roman always used to, but for the first time, i think he's not sure. he's free of waystar, but the roys never managed to functionally healthily uncouple family and business, so being free of waystar also means being free of family -- it has to mean that. he's convincing himself it's all nothing and he doesn't care, and that won't last. but, in my opinion, neither will the distance between the siblings. i think it'll take time, but they'll come back together, albeit in varying degrees (i doubt shiv and ken will ever have quite the same relationship again, for instance). roman is free of waystar but not because he realized it's not necessary for family -- because he 'realized' family is not necessary, that family is nothing too, that everything is nothing. it's an empty sort of happiness, unsustainable and hollow. but i do think there is hope. i think it'll be okay for rome in the long run (family-wise, at least). i just don't think nihilism is a salve capable of healing deep cuts, only a bandage allowing them to stay hidden for a little while longer.

in life and in death, waystar royco and the roy family are eternal partners, inextricable from each other -- and so long as the two remain conceptually married, it'll be hard for roman to find legitimate happiness: if one is dead, then the other must be too. he ends the series the same as he started it, believing fully in logan's conception of family as a business unit (meaning now that both are bullshit), people as economic units (meaning now that both are bullshit), and roman himself as the son who couldn't be the heir and thus was never much of a son at all. logan dominates his worldview just as much as it always has. sure, roman acknowledges that everything is bullshit now, but that's even more logan than his previous viewpoint which was a naive sort of belief in family. now, it's all just bullshit. everything's bullshit. it's logan with nihilism as the dominant frame (rather than capitalism), but regardless of roman's thoughts on the meaning of things, the structure of the world is the same one that logan taught him. he is free from waystar, but he is haunted by its ghost and always will be.

#yes i said the 'roman is free (by choice) thing in one post however that was literally just to match the format of the #other parts of the post to make the con punchline work LOLL. needed to clarify my actual thoughts - that was mad oversimplification #anyways tl;dr - he's realized the business is nothing (!!) which means family is nothing (...) and logan's worldview prevails (fuck) #don't know if this makes sense or is even accurate to my thoughts bc 77% of my brain is focused on shiv rn lmaooo #succession spoilers #roman roy #casey shut the fuck up about roman roy #succession #so many thoughts to think. #idek if this is what i actually think LANDASJDNk i might change it later or post a new thing i just needed to clarify that i do not think #roman is actually free and that other post was just phrased that way to make the joke work LMAO #long post #100

[buckysoldatbarnes]

succession captured the mundane, bizarre, chaotic, inexplicable details of death so perfectly. the denial of roman refusing to admit logan was dead until they stopped giving CPR, the immediacy of the team moving forward with logistics before the kids had even processed it, shiv blurting out non sequiturs, roman stressing over if he said the right words and wanting to see him, all of them grasping for control through making the statement. 

the writers were SO genius for having his happen on episode 3 of the season, only a quarter way into the episode, after they’d already established the episode plotlines. it was sudden, unpredictable, and it blew everything else (the mattsson deal, connor’s wedding drama, roman firing gerri) to ashes. that’s how death is. it has no logic, no narrative symmetry. and by not showing anything until tom made the call, the viewers are put in the sibling’s shoes. we’re as shocked as they are.

#succession #mine #this is really me rambling but yeah. as someone who lost a parent not long ago this was so painfully accurate #succession spoilers #shiv roy #kendall roy #roman roy #connor roy #logan roy #poor connor oh my god #POOR ROMAN #POOR KENDALL #POOR SHIV #that tomshiv hug broke me #AND ROMAN FEELING LIKE IT WAS HIS FAULT AND STRESSING OVER IF HE SAID I LOVE YOU #I WANT TO GIVE ROMAN A HUG #AND ALSO i wish gerri hugged him but i love her anyway

[queencaramilflinda]

Everyone during neverafter 15: oh my god these social interactions are going horribly they’re all doing so bad!

Me, neurodivergent and cannot read social cues: idk mostly these seem fine

#like… Pinocchio overshared for sure #but I didn’t think the rest of them were too bad? like they rolled poorly yes but the actual conversations went fine? I thought? #i at least didn’t think they were as bad as everyone else seems to think #like… with ylfa. when you are a young girl and you meet an older woman who is Like You and successful you are drawn to that #her questions didn’t seem invalid if a bit personal #like ‘how did this happen to u? how do u find the answers and the strength to be successful when your like this the way we are now?’ #that was fair to ask! there was a moment before that where they even clocked eachother as beasts! and then ylfa asked about Pib #which seemed fine to me. like she was genuinely asking advice and she got shutdown with like a one word answer #I feel like la bête did worse in that interaction than ylfa did #none of the stuff with gerard was really his fault within that interaction. Brennan surprised Murph with the read the cards outloud thing #he handled it the best he could under the circumstances #Pib did great. Pinocchio overshared but his intentions and actual words were sweet! traumabonding! #Rosamund did great! she was kind and she said what she wanted like yeah! not too bad! #i don’t think Ally intended to actually put dirt in the cookies Brennan kind of pushed that and I don’t think a lot of what he said was bad #I think ally could’ve handled it better in the sense that they could’ve just told the truth and been vague abt the questions being abt #the book but the stuff about being so overly nice and a bit unnerving seemed like an accurate and not very offensive way of putting it #even before they knew about the nihilistic princess cabal stuff they thought rapunzel was creepy #cienna talks #neverafter

[gayjedicoded]

been thinking about this man and his love of the flashlight

#he whips that thang out once an episode #except this week when it was omega i yelled like thats his daughter :) #this wasnt supposed to be an innuendo i promise #tbb #the bad batch #tbb hunter #my art #im still trying to find a digital lining style i like and can achieve with some success #getting closer tbh #this was rlly a practice in accurate details i usually just handwave away the armor

[bassdraws2]

would you kiss me, sporus? if i asked you to?

#tomgreg #succession #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #FINALLY my first tomgreg art #anyway yes that's an accurate translation i checked with an expert on the ancient latin subreddit

[divorcedtom]

this is the closest thing we have to a tomgreg christmas

#this is an accurate representation of how it would go too #greg going 'where's my gift?🥺' and then not having shit for tom #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #succession #tomgreg #i s2g if i look back and find a typo in this... #my gifs

[jondoe-inspiration]

Alright, I haven't shared anything in awhile because I've gone down a rabbit hole but here's a snippet of my upcoming hockey AU (it's like 30k and I haven't even finished the first plot arc because I'm insane apparently).

Joe rolls his eyes slightly and sits down, putting the steaming mug in front of George’s plate. “I’m asking to be polite. You know, making conversation.”  “Mmmmh.” George settles in the chair across from Joe. “Nothing to do with your sudden interest in hockey then, I take it.” He raises his eyebrows and takes a sip of the orange juice that is sitting on the table. Joe can feel his heart sink. He doesn’t really want to talk about what happened yesterday and whether George thinks that Don is in danger of getting traded. “I was at the game,” he says quietly. “I saw what happened.” He reaches for a slice of bread, busies his hands by spreading peanut butter on it.  George doesn’t say anything and it’s almost worse because he’s clearly drawing conclusions or assuming things that simply aren’t true. He doesn’t know about Joe stealing Don away and not stopping until he saw that little smile on his face again. He doesn’t know that Joe can still feel the way Don’s hands felt on his waist or that he can see the expression on his face when he’d seen Joe’s scars. Joe clears his throat, feeling heat rise into his cheeks.

This fic is like an onion when it comes to layers in worldbuilding and I can't stop and think about the fact that I made all of this up from a little rowing movie or my head will burst.

Tagging @arokel in case she wants to share anything on this fine day.

#tbitb fic #don hume/joe rantz #nici writes #hockey au #i'm trying to tag my fics accurately i don't think I'm entirely successful

[kirbyliker12]

things scrawled out as fast as possybl while i was Bored

#kirbyliker12png #tagging dis is 2 much effort #the sue stuff is kirbyliker12 tumblr exclusive content bc. i said so #LOOK nothing against crazy evil suzy characterization but thats...just Not Accurate... #suzy literally put the company into millions of dollars of debt and accidentally sparked the end of the world how is that “girlboss” #i just cant see her as like that knowing that her parallel versions are so much better and more successful than her. u cant leave them out #shes not girlboss...shes girlFAIL....i have a degree in identifying girlfails #the suzy community has Forgiven Kirbyliker12 #i wish i had her plush so i could soak it in milk and throw it against the wall☹️