Understanding in 1x02 vs 4x03:
*deep breath*
Early on, this is what Shiv sees:
This is what she doesn’t see:
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.
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i do think some of the skepticism around dune is kind of sillay. this was the website posting about and cheering enthusiastically for some succession character every week when the show was airing. tumblr.com/ask is it ethical to enjoy this character who’s kind of bad? well yes, it is. they’re characters, which is to say they’re just vehicles for storytelling.
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trying to figure out what i think will happen with the gojo deal. like neither of the options rn feel that interesting — at this point the deal going through feels anticlimactic and expected, but the deal falling apart also feels anticlimactic and expected…. i feel like there needs to be a secret third option. like what if manic cocky kendall is like ok yeah deal no deal whatever whatever but guys what if WE bought gojo? hm? go fuckin nut nut?
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You are NOT ALLOWED to be successful by the way!!!! You’re not allowed to be popular on a popular app because that’s not COOL!!!!!!! I find songs by listening to the bugs hum in dirt!!!! IM COOLER THAN YOU!!!! BE MY KIND OF COOL ONLY!!!! POPULAR THINGS ARE FOR LOSERS AND IM A PROFESSIONAL HATER BECAUSE YAY!!!! SUCCESS CAN ONLY BE ON MY TERMS!!!!!!! IF YOU DIDNT BECOME KNOWN BY RANDOM LYRICS ETCHED INTO THE SIDEWALK RIGHT BY AN ABANDONED BUILDING YOURE ILLEGITIMATE!!!!! BE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!
Side note: if we (specifically consumers who don’t even create, themselves, and regard art as only a product) keep making dumb rules about art and creation, no one will ever have fun or want to do what they love anymore.
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Do you have Headcanons of Peeta wanting to go to a party while Katniss wants to stay home? Do you think that she would be able to convince him to stay with her? ;)
soooo i think i’ve spoken a little bit about this before, but i’m not entirely sure and i don’t want to have to go back and find it so i do apologise if i’m repeating myself here BUT i do think it’s pretty obvious that out the two of them peeta is the more sociable. katniss mentions it briefly that he seems to have had a lot of friends in school, whereas you know our girl would’ve much preferred sitting alone.
that said, i don’t think peeta would be a ‘party’ person either - especially not after the war (which i’m assuming is the timeframe this ask is referring to). but i do think he would enjoy hosting or attending nights in with friends, like dinner parties etc
katniss also wouldn’t mind these events but i think it’s something that would need to be in moderation for her - that is, that the nights they host are few and far between. she likes her own space, probably doesn’t have that great of a social battery, and most of all she likes her comforts. if they had people over, it probably gets to like 8pm and she wants to get into her pyjamas and get curled up on the sofa (preferably with peeta).
i think she would also be prone to faking sick to get out of going to their friends house sometimes 💀 peeta grumbles at her for pulling out of something they’ve planned to do for weeks and sometimes he even insists that she goes (it’s rare, and only effective if he threatens an embargo on baked goods, but it does happen). other times, when he knows she really doesn’t feel up to it then he’s quite happy to let her sit it out.
on the other hand, katniss is always scheming to get him to stay home with her. she loves her man, and she loves cozy nights at home with him. she’ll pull out every trick in the book, threatening and coaxing and kissing just like in the cave 💀 some times it’s harder than others, but i would say she has a pretty high success rate of keeping him in when she doesn’t want him to go out.
afterwards, she’ll tease him to no end and gloat about her success while he’s like “yeah yeah, jokes on you i didn’t even want to go that much”. (other times he’s happy to just let her think she’s won).
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Me: oh I’m just gonna do warm up figure sketches, no big deal
Me, after inking: huh, this was not the plan
It was just a very Robin pose and my brain said we run with it or die so
Full nude/uncensored version below,
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oh my god. before my surgery yesterday a nurse or something came into my little ward room and they were all like “hi, you go by veer right? oh sorry- is it pronounced ‘veer’ or ‘verr’?”
and i was just gobsmacked… verr..? Verr??? where do u get that from V-E-E-R 😭 bless the staff for valiantly attempting to use my name and pronouns tho fr
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