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Be intentional. Reach out to people even if they rarely reach out to you. Have food that both fills you up and nurtures you. Make a habit of catching yourself in the act of being overly critical of the things you do or the way you look (and choose to be nicer to yourself). Pick the scary new thing over the safe familiar thing once in while. Life is best lived when it’s lived consciously and with intent.

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been thinking a lot about anticipatory grief lately. i love you so much that i know losing you will devastate me. i haven't lost you yet but i already miss you. we still have time, but it won't be enough. i think about what i would say at your funeral, and say some of it to you now cause i need you to know how loved you are before you go. you will go where i cannot follow, but you will never really leave me. it won't make it hurt less but it is a part of healing somehow.

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1.01 // 4.10

#roman roy #succession

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the responses i’ve seen to shiv’s ending seem very quick to write her off as just another sad victim of the cycle, which isn’t without truth BUT!!! that is not even remotely the summation of shiv’s story.

i don’t think she votes yes to “save kendall” or to try to finally set her brothers free. and i don’t think her main concern was that ken was becoming their dad. she absolutely noticed and didn’t love it, but that was not her motivation in betraying him. she was thinking about herself.

it’s tempting to make a martyr out of her as she is the only female child and we see her suffer the onslaught of misogyny that comes with that. but to make her into a saintlike figure who got beat takes away the power and intelligence behind her decision.

at this point she’s stuck between two non ideal choices, but she recognizes that they have accidentally made her the single most important player in the game. because while she can’t have the outcome she’d prefer, she has the power to decide the fates of everyone else. the written off lone woman now holds in her hands the fate of every man in her life.

so she thinks about the long term benefits of both options and realizes that one side leaves her completely without any leverage.

her brothers have proven to her multiple times in the last few days alone that they will cut her out and walk all over her the first chance they get. siding with them leaves her nothing to bargain with. she would just have to hope that ken would actually take care of her. and that level of vulnerability is not only unacceptable to her, it’s stupid. and shiv fuckin roy is not stupid.

so she thinks about the other side and about what she actually wants for her life. and against her better judgment, it’s becomes unfortunately clear that she wants tom. the way she wants him is not altogether loving or even good but it is necessary to her. she sees relationships as having winners and losers and she chose this man specifically so that she could be confident in her ability to win. except now he’s grown some balls and made himself unavailable to her.

she may not like the way her husband is evolving but she already placed her bets on him, so she’s sure as hell not losing to him now. there’s also a part of her that feels intrigued by this new man she’s married to. it’s interesting to have a sparring partner in him instead of having to looking for excitement outside of their marriage.

so for maybe the first time ever, she processes what tom has said to her and thinks about what he actually wants.

he needs her to prove that she cares. he needs to know that she is capable of sacrifice. if she can’t find it within herself to do this for him, then she will lose him, and by extension, she will lose.

siding with tom gives her the opportunity to once and for all make a grand-stand gesture of love, but more importantly, it creates leverage for her. never again will he be able to hold the moral high ground over her head. never again can he say she doesn’t love him. never again can he call her selfish or uncaring. above all, he can never betray her again, because she just removed all of his moral justification for turning on her. he doesn’t realize it yet, but she’s just taken back all the power in their relationship. just in a more subtle way than she’s used to operating.

and just like that, she has the ceo of a multi billion dollar company in her pocket, while situating herself as the only descendant of logan roy to still be playing the game, having removed her brothers from the equation permanently. she may still be far from the top but she’s creating a path for herself to climb.

so yes, she’ll let tom play king for a day, and she’ll have his baby and say “congratulations,” and play the gracious wife, but tomorrow is a new day with lots of room to maneuver. and when her husband puts out his hand, she’ll place her own on top. but she won’t grasp it because she doesn’t need to.

#succession #love love love this take! #shiv roy

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kendall attempting to convince his sister he is in fact fit to run a multibillion dollar global corporation: “actually i false memoried myself into a fake manslaughter confession because i wanted us to bond.” i am going to miss him so much

#succession #it was Heartbreaking bro

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jeremy strong for the hollywood reporter

jeremy strong for vanity fair

#jeremy strong #succession #girl???

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resurfacing here to laugh at that anon who sent me a message asking me why I hate fil-ams. boiiii it's not even that buy sometimes some of you do cringe things and i just

"filipinos when convenient only" truly pwede ba

can we put this in small text ok idk how to actually do that but let’s just pretend

ako lang ba naiirita slight sa mga fil-am na ginagawang main commodity yung pagka-pilipino nila pero sobrang detached naman sa nangyayari sa pilipinas? like ok i Get that you’re not directly affected especially if your family has lived in the US for multiple generations already but my man, if your comedy special is centered around pinoy culture, maybe idk just maybe you kinda owe it to us to give at least two shits? it feels like youre only pinoy pag binabayaran ka e

#pards the barong is RIGHT THERE

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How can anyone hate Junji Ito 

#:((( #junji ito

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Yes babygirl you’re a very handsome young man

#me @ my uyab

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Roman was so close to beating the game of succession, the only way being of course to stop playing. But as always as always as always with him he loves to much too deeply. His siblings ask him to sign on to a deal they cannot possible finance, and he knows that it won’t work, but he agrees. Because he loves them. After Kerry calls he texts his father Happy Birthday. Despite everything. Because he loves him. If his mother fell to financial ruin because her new husband who he told her would scam her scammed her, he would come running in a second. Despite everything. Because he loves her.

Just like always, when his siblings would hatch a plan to shoot water guns at Dad and then chicken out at the last moment leaving Roman to take the blame and the beating, Roman will pay the price for their ambition. Because he always plays with his heart on the line. Bleeding chest open. The one who loves the most is the weak dog in the pack, the loser, the sacrificial goat. He knows this story. It’s happened to him a thousand times. But still he agrees with his siblings. A goat walking himself to the slaughter, with nothing, no armor, only love.

#roman roy #succession #good reading

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Succession makes me nuts because all of the tragedy is preventable but also it isn't. Usually, in big epics, the tragedy is that fate is inescapable. But in Succession there are a million tiny times where someone could have chosen to treat their siblings better or their spouse better or stuck to their guns or been honest or stopped being an asshole for two minutes, and it would have completely changed the trajectory of events. But also how could they have ever done any of it differently? Who taught them they could?

#succession

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love as an act of merciful conquer, silas denver melvin / succession (2018-2023) cr. jesse armstrong

#my fucking GOD #succession

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1.10 | 4.01

Love is the last fridge magnet left. Right. How do you mean? Well, I mean that love is… it’s like 28 different things, and they all get lumped in together in this one sack, and there’s a lot of… things in that sack, it needs to get emptied out. There’s fear and jealousy and revenge, control, and… they all get wrapped up in really nice fucking wrapping paper, and it just looks really lovely and nice, but when you open it up…

#:( #succession #it is sad in its own fucked up way

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also roman knowing that 10 comes after 9, and then explaining how many thousands are in a million to his siblings. literally king of understanding numbers. haters will say training management was for nothing, but look at him now.

#roman roy #succession #spoy baby boy

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#succession

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Logan: roast me pls

Greg: lol no kids on ur bday

Logan: Your Dad Was A World Renown Faggot

#succession s4 #lmao jesus fucking christ logan

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It's dangerous to go alone, take this.

Healing potions ✨

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#fuck i needed this hahaha