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TAIYO & MUTSUMI IN EP02 | MISSION YOZAKURA FAMILY

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Does this mean Goliath has a license like Scooby?

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Does this mean Goliath has a license like Scooby?

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#mission yozakura family #taiyo and mutsumi #mutsumi be like: this drink is FUCKING INCREDIBLE #same girl same

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Unrelated to academia, ik, but I’m on season 3 of succession and ‘I’d castrate you and marry you in a heartbeat’ is literally most chemistry I’ve ever heard from two characters in my entire life AND THEN they play wrestle???

If when I get to season 4 there isn’t concrete substance of Tom x Gregg, istg ill lose my mind

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One look at the mistress (see you later 😏)

And off he goes to the wife

I need to do a rewatch and see what other little things like this we missed during the seasons.

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Looking at the “I got you” (aka the last Tomgreg scene Matthew and Nick filmed) again, and I noticed two things: first, Nick’s eyes are very red, as if he’d been crying; both he and Matthew appear to be on the verge throughout the scene. Second, on Tom’s  second “I got you” after putting the sticker on Greg’s forehead, Matthew seems to allow himself to briefly step out of character(his accent slips ever so slightly), so that it’s not just Tom saying it to Greg, but Matthew saying it to Nick. And now I’m getting a lump in my throat. 

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greg hoped It Was Just A Phase (spoiler alert: it was not)

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Weirdest love triangle ever 🤣🤣🤣

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Anyone with eyes can see the absolute adoration on Tom’s face during the sticker scene. That little pause after he says to Greg, “You are a fucking piece of shit…” – that look in Tom’s eyes finished the sentence: “…and I love you!” This is  Succession’s answer to Mattmac’s famous “You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you”

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happy pride month, tomgregs 🏳️‍🌈

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I’m a billionaire hater, communist, eat the rich kind of person till I see my little meow meow kendall roy

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I just think the fact that Tom kept the stickers from Connor to put on Greg is actually hilarious

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tomgreg internalized homophobia theory

I've been thinking a lot about how tomgreg seems stuck in a rut this season; greg getting excited about something and tom dismissing him like it's season one all over again.

I'm hoping this is intentional; that the writers are going for some kind of commentary on the difficulty of breaking the cycle of internalized/inter-generational homophobia.

in any case, there seems to be a recurring pattern in tom/greg's relationship of tom saying something homoerotic, then backtracking to protect his 'straightness.'

the most egregious example being, of course, when tom asks greg to kiss him, only to violently rip the meaning away in a bro-y, bravado-y display of 'no homo' (i.e., "I'm joking").

the same with 'i'd castrate you and mary you in a heartbeat.' there's sincerity in tom's face when he says it, but when greg doesn't say anything back? he rips the meaning away again, re-asserting his 'cis-hetness' by asking greg to "wrestle him to the ground."

looking back, greg seems pretty passive about tom's advances in s1 - 3. or more curious, than anything else (e.g., "are you trying to seduce me, tom?").

this season, i think it's the first time we're seeing greg actually reciprocate or even initiate that energy -- what if it's not the newfound 'confidence' making tom uncomfortable, but the homo-eroticism?

greg sneaking up on him at parties, teasing him about their sexual escapades, supporting him emotionally, getting jealous of his other assistants, making dick jokes, etc.

it seems like tom's dismissal of these advances isn't about greg at all, but a knee-jerk reaction to queerness itself; a familiar habit of 'shutting that shit down' to maintain the façade of straightness.

and the more overtly 'queer' greg acts, the more triggered and dismissive tom becomes.

the mention of greg's gay dad in 04x01 sets up s4 even more to explore this theme; perhaps greg has/is struggling with his own flavor over internalized homophobia, too.

i don't want to grasp at straws here, justifying what's ultimately an unsatisfying dynamic with tomgreg this season by claiming there's some deeper meaning, but i'm trying to be as gracious with the writers as possible.

it's just so hard for me to imagine them setting up an overt parallel to 'nero and sporus' (gay?) for them to go back to 'yep tom and greg super straight yep yep yep' like they forgot or something.

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they thought the idea was fun until someone asked about their costumes

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The way Tom wasn’t sure he wanted to keep Shiv, but he was absolutely sure he wanted to keep Greg.

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and they had a consensual workplace relationship