#back to concepts like the Absolute Classic ''taylor giving winston as much time as needed to give a verbal answer if he's clearly been

[unproduciblesmackdown]

had thought the other night about winston’s tendency when particularly stressed, often in an “he’s being aggressively confronted and presumably wanting to avoid any more of this,” to just stop talking.......not like this is something we haven’t mentioned before, just thinking/posting about it again.......

#winston billions #and how naturally unless anyone intervenes this means he ''loses'' the interaction #and that theme of what is considered Winning and how people expect it to manifest / how they agree it ought to be manifested.... #winston might be right about anything even if someone tells him to shut up and do x or else and he backs/shuts down about it #but again on the show it's only an L unless someone else takes over the exchange to Win it for him or someone's willing to listen to someone #who was just proven a loser anyways #and you know. the concept that instead of being able to expect some basic respect boundaries from coworkers no matter what #it's instead more like well if you can't figuratively shove someone right back then it's your fault for Letting people do whatever to you... #or the concept that say; winston has to Earn like ''being able to talk w/o anyone like Get His Ass'' by being Winning enough or w/e..... #and we get this contrast where he'll speak up quite Especially Readily but then also completely stop talking if like #someone clearly isn't talking to him to actually communicate; just to issue this Interpersonal Punishment over whatever #which so far the ''whatever'' is always [something he just Said]; well no we also get bill stomping in in 5x02 to Start w/a confrontation #but what else is new re: that particular character #and so we meander over to ''what if someone was obviously in [trying to shut winston down] mode but rian was there'' #what might occur then; especially with the context of [5x05].....would be underwhelming if this especial winston ally is like eh whatever #of course as another sidenote: also thinking about how when winston stops talking it's for [the whole rest of the scene] #he'll say all of like 4 words in 4x11 but then we also see that everyone else is leaving the room and he's apparently moving to sit down.... #back to concepts like the Absolute Classic ''taylor giving winston as much time as needed to give a verbal answer if he's clearly been #stressed and needs that time to buffer / work up to speaking'' concept; epic shoutout to its direct invocation in the #Hotel Check In Tayston Fic Scene.......