#looks right at roman

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

#tomgreg #succession #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #shiv roy #roman roy #kendall roy #yeah no im not tagging everyone thats too much #this is me going 'how much implications themes and symbolism can i fit in one painting' #yes i gave rose shivs haircolor. if we ever find out how she looks like and its not like this im just gonna pass away i guess #but yeah i hope yall connect the dots #i put waaay too much thought and work into this. i was googling pictures of all the actors as kids just for reference (sigh) #honestly kinda wanted to make tom and greg link pinkies as like. a pinkie promise. but that was too hard to draw in this angle #at least not without obstructing the view of the ring which is important to see so ya #my fave is actually the tomshiv wedding pic i went off with that. i love them... they should have run away to become sheep farmers fr fr #anyway im so glad im done with this UGH!! finally i can draw smth else without being like oh noooo i need to finish this #i see a lot of you wondering why there is no portrait of logan but one of ewan #it's bc the placement of the painting represent their standing. logans portray would not hang next to the stairs #his present portrait hangs at the end of it. all the way up at the top. alone and withering away #basically the picture you see underneath ewan to the right? its where toms parents would be. the right side of the wall is tom and gregs #and the left one is the roy siblings theirs. since they grew up rich rich. and tom and greg didn't #but ya thats why ewan hangs here and logan does not :)

[blushingzephyr]

saw this

and you KNOW it had me mind body and soul

pov: they’re at your house

+bonus! kendall and kendall undercover

#thought i’d share these doodles #succession #succession art #also their detective company is ROY & ROY DETECTIVE AGENCY #they have never arrested the right person and they wont start now #my art #traditional art #ALSO ALSO kendall roy is so hard to draw and im screaming crying throwing up about it #roman roy #kendall roy #succession fanart #sorry about the lighting i have not figured out how to make it look good yet #succession detective au

[homielander]

shiv's motivations for voting to pass the gojo deal are so layered and i don't think they should be dismissed in favour of any one interpretation. shiv desperately grabbed on to a lifeline for her relationship with tom. shiv was the deciding vote and she couldn't bear to hold the crown only for a moment just to place it atop her brother's head. shiv knew she would have more influence as wife of CEO rather than sister of CEO. shiv absolutely hated seeing kendall crystallize into logan before her eyes, especially when he made roman bleed ("and if we did kill him we get to go to bed") -- succession has always been about siblings so of course she tried to free her brothers before her child. shiv still thinks she can raise her child with all the material benefits of being the daughter of waystar CEO while doing better by her, whatever that means. and all of those things are true

#shiv roy #succession #succession spoilers #ok i'm sleeping #wait i know i just assumed tomshiv baby is a girl but like. i'm right #also i have seen many people say shiv did it purely out of spite and i will say #i don't think they would have had dialogue about shiv saying she's tired and they should all rest #or panned to shiv looking at roman's face fresh with blood #or shown shiv tearing up over her conversation with tom at the beginning of the episode #or had her say 'i cannot stomach you' which has pretty obvious connotations even in the context of succ #or had shiv make up her mind precisely when kendall said the andrew dodds confession was a lie #if her motives weren't meant to be read as ambiguous. they would not have put those things in there without reason #shiv leaving the room may have been impulsive spite but what came after was more complicated #it's also not even wholly altruistic it's just cold admittance that they don't have It. she thinks she does #and i'm not sure why the sentiment that they can't take it but she can surprises anyone #she's literally always seen herself as the exception

[lyinginthesnow]

something about childhood in succession.. the way it casts its shadow over the entire narrative, the rotten root of the roy siblings’s pain, all wrapped up in Logan’s power and abuse and love. The opening credits are filled with images of them as kids, beginning every. single. episode. by emphasizing the importance of their childhood: the siblings posing for a photo, playing sports, standing on a manicured lawn, riding an elephant, etc. and then the shots of logan, in which he is always shown from behind, or far away. It is a childhood the viewer never gets to see in any other context, since there are no flashbacks in the show, and therefore as integral as it seems, we know almost nothing about it. What exactly happened? What are the details? We feel its presence, we can tell how it informs their relationships, we can put together the pieces of incomplete and contradictory memories expressed through dialogue, and if we trace their struggles and dysfunction back far enough we know it leads there, to when they were kids. But there is so much empty space we can’t fill in. It’s almost like their childhood is presented in that horror technique where you never get to see the monster clearly straight on. It’s always in darkness, and chopped up into close-ups so that the viewer’s imagination is forced to invent something, however vague, and that is far scarier than it would be if we could actually see it — a monster that is terrifying BECAUSE it’s unknown. The roy siblings’s childhood is a major force behind so much that happens on screen, but what specifically occurred is out of the reach of our understanding. We are shown the monster’s shadow but not the monster, we are shown the frightened faces of the characters as they look at something behind the camera we never get to see, we are shown the running or the fighting or the blood but never the true, bigger-picture, clear details of the horror itself

#sorry succession as horror scratches an itch in my brain and the idea of their childhood makes my brain explode <333 #just!! even showing this shaky blurry footage of mundane childhood moments feels ominous to me— #it’s like. a documentary abt something awful that begins with #a ‘before’ montage of seemingly benign family life #and of course when the videos were taken they seemed meaningless. but now looking back at them we can see they mean so much #like the tragedy was woven into them right from the start #eeeeeeeeeee i need to be sedated i think #roy siblings #connor roy #kendall roy #roman roy #shiv roy #logan roy #succession #ruby (unfortunately) watches succession #succession as horror

[r-truth]

Join me in congratulating your brother... Solo

#roman reigns #jimmy uso #wweedit #wwe #i didnt add the part where roman says 'solo' 😭😭 #and it's important because jimmy has more than 1 brother but you can understand it's solo right ?? RIGHT??? #sorry i was looking at jimmy when grouping the frames :( #long post #* #*usos #*reigns

[thatsrightice]

The story of these two men is my Roman Empire.

Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov were highly decorated Cosmonauts, both of which made firsts in the history of space flight.

Yuri Gagarin famously became the first man in space on April 12, 1961.

Vladimir Komarov piloted Voshkod 1 on October 12, 1964 on the first space mission to carry multiple crew members. He flew again aboard Soyuz 1 on April 23, 1967, becoming the first Russian man to make two spaceflights.

Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov were close.

The Soyuz 1 was described as being “a piece of shit” and a “devil ship” as issues plagued the spacecraft throughout development and failed testing. Yuri had done everything he could to get the launch postponed, including writing a ten-page memo detailing the 203 structural problems he had discovered during inspection of the Soyuz 1. Any person who had laid eyes on the memo would be fired or demoted.

Komarov knew of these issues, but refused to step down from the missions. In March of 1987 he met with Venyamin Russayev, a then-recently-demoted KGB agent who had been assigned to "mind" Yuri Gagarin.

He met with Russayev and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight." Russayev asked, “Why not refuse?” Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura. And he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.

Yuri, nicknamed Yura by friends and family, showed up on the day of the launch “demanding to be put into a space suit,” "demanding this and this and this...", doing anything and everything he could to be the one on that spacecraft instead of Vladimir. Unfortunately, his attempts were be futile.

Soyuz 1 would launch on April 23, 1967 and faced serious issues throughout the flight. The parachutes failed to deploy during reentry and the spacecraft burned up while Vladimir screamed and cried and cursed out those responsible.

Yuri Gagarin was grounded from future space flights and denied permission to pilot military jets. This was devastating for the already deeply depressed man and everyone knew it. Even his favorite hairdresser said that “Yuri couldn't live without flying. It was his whole life. A man can't live without his trade. He can't survive.”

He eventually convinced them to let him fly, but on March 28, 1968, less than a year since Komarov’s accident, he was tragically killed during a routine-training flight aboard a MiG-15. The cause of the accident is unclear, though many speculate that the accident was an assassination on the cosmonaut as he had a falling out with several high-ranking officials following the death of his close friend.

Both Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov’s names are featured on the memorial for fallen US Astronauts and USSR Cosmonauts left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew.

#I KNOW FOR A FACT I read somewhere that Yuri dug through the crash site for his remains but I can’t remember 😭😭😭 #DID I MENTION HE’S 5’ 2??? #there’s tons of controversy surrounding what’s right and wrong but regardless their story is tragic #and I mean tons of controversy btw #there’s absolutely no way for us to know what’s right and what’s wrong #we’ll never know what actually happened but we all know what should (or should I say shouldn’t) have happened #look at how they look at each other and tell me there’s not *something* there #space race #Cold War #Soyuz 1 #Yuri Gagarin #Vladimir Komarov #cosmonaut #research #information #THIS is my Roman Empire fr #like these two deserved better 😭

[clowndensation]

there’s a question to be asked i think about to what extent “getting out” can be conflated with “being saved” in this show, and what freedom actually means to any of these characters.

like you can argue that shiv saved ken by voting against him on gojo, but what if your intent behind saving someone is to inflict a worse punishment than if you’d just left them trapped? can a child weaned on poison survive on milk, or are you just sentencing them to a death by inches, starved of the only thing they know? and if you save someone specifically because you know that being saved is the worst thing that can happen to them, is that kindness or cruelty? at what point does a good thing become a malicious act?

and you can say that roman is finally free, but what exactly is he free from? the company? his father? does unlocking a cage mean saving a dog, or are you allowing him out on the street knowing there’s a kill shelter nearby? if the driving anxiety behind roman is that he’s an idiot and a failure—that he’ll never amount to anything, and trying will only lead to pain—and he’s finally cut loose once all of those anxieties have crystallized into cold hard fact in his mind, what has he actually escaped from? if the cage is in your mind, is it even possible for somebody else to unlock it?

the fundamental truth of a tragedy is that even being saved can be a death sentence, if the characters are incapable of escaping the thing doing them the most harm (themselves and their childhoods)

#'what about shiv' if i think about shiv i'm going to kill myself. she needs her own post. there's too much there to get into. #anyways seeing a tremendous amount of At Least Roman Is Free <3 tags that have me going. right. for sure. free from what? #because it's certainly not the intense amount of self disgust that has driven him in circles this entire time. #i fear he may feel the weight of alienation on his soul for the rest of his life. and he won't even try to alleviate it anymore. #and ALSO the idea that shiv went out of her way to save kendall as an act of like. altruism. like it was a sacrifice on her part #which i feel is a very toothless perspective on shiv and the psychological torment that's been weighing on her essentially since birth #like her choice in regards to gojo is one of the meatiest most harrowing bits of character work i've ever seen #and while of course there was love inside that action (because nothing these characters do is entirely divorced from love) #i don't think it was necessarily a kind or forgiving or sacrificial love #like this was an intense vitriolic snapping from a dog that has been kicked by her dad all her life. #and who absolutely refuses to accept that from her brother (because that would mean acknowledging that kendall takes the mantle of Dad- #and that she's subservient to him. which is the one thing she absolutely will never do #because it's a level of degradation that's finally a step too far) #anyways. um. insane season that i still can't look at directly or i'll perish on the spot. #succession

[jazzy-tzw]

Mans thumb is long asf. I thought he was throwing up the one and had to look again

#roman reigns #literally had to count his fingers cause it wasn’t looking right lmaoo

[rickybaby]

another video from the launch

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3ImaDastHB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

And these side profile shots of his

#sometimes you get a close-up of his Roman nose and you just have to admire the odd gracefulness of it #and sometimes if you stare long enough at his side profile you’ll see the faint mark of his pierced ear #which means he must put an earring in it from time to time for the hole to not have closed up completely after all this time right??? #he would honestly look SO GOOD with a tiny golden hoop!! #daniel ricciardo #car launch 2024

[radioactive-cloud]

chewing off my arm is the only option rn

source: x

#maybe homophobojan was right #i can't deal with this anymore #i'm done #why are they like this #the way their faces just light up every time they look at each other #the second pic is my new roman empire #nace jordan #jan peteh #jance #janace #joker out

[shivroy]

succession cats

#look at succession cats NOW!!!!!!!!! #RIGHT NOW #art #digital art #succession #succession fanart #succession hbo #shiv roy #siobhan roy #kendall roy #roman roy #romulus roy #connor roy #logan roy #caroline collingwood #greg hirsch #gregory hirsch #succession gerri #stewy hosseini #tom wambsgans #tomgreg #body horror #unreality #tw #unreality tw #tw unreality #eye contact #scopo tw #scopophobia

[loganslowdown4]

Remus: I want to get with him. *points*

Roman: The emo one? Nope, I called dibs on him already.

Remus: No, HIM. *points better*

Roman: Oh brother, good luck with that one.

Remus: He’s so cute and nerdy. And hot. I wanna love him.

Roman: I mean good luck cracking his shell. I want to see how emo boy reacts when I play hard to get.

Remus: Challenge accepted, bro bro. Heh.

*across the room*

Logan: Did you get a chill just now? It’s like I felt… something…

Virgil: *eyeing the twins suspiciously* Yeah, I suspect those idiots are plotting together.

Virgil: *loudly* Hey! What are you two talking about over there?

Roman: Oh! Ah… nothing! Nothing, cutie!

Virgil: … What?

Roman: I mean, nothing… you dang punk! *winces*

Remus: *facepalm* Nice save Ro-boat.

Roman: Shut up.

#look out left brain right brain has zeroed in lol #thomas sanders #sanders sides #incorrect sanders sides #roman sanders #ts roman #logan sanders #ts logan #remus sanders #ts virgil #virgil sanders #ts remus #creativitwins #Intrulogical #prinxiety

[oplishin]

"it's about redemption."

#there's 2 ways to look at the moment from sunday and it depends on whether you frame it as seth doing this for cody or to roman #with the first one he's found redemption #in 2022 he was maybe looking for penance from roman but in 2024 he knows he doesn't need it anymore!! #an act of selflessness that means he doesn't have to be the guy asking a backstage interviewer #what she thinks about him. because he knows what he can be without having someone decide for him #with the second interpretation. maybe he'll be here forever #searching for redemption #right now i prefer the first but yk. wrestling stories are cycles and seth's is especially #seth rollins #jifs #roman reigns #triple h #its not one of my gifs if i dont slap an ugly dramatic filter on it!!

[technicolourtelevision]

Roy Siblings x Bisexual Lighting [from the S4 Teaser]

#i mean they know what they're doing right #literally cannot stop looking at this scene the LIGHTING #also hiii ken baby i love you #Kendall roy #roman roy #connor roy #shiv roy #succession #succession season 4 #season 4 teaser #my gif #gif #kieran culkin #Alan Ruck #sarah snook #jeremy strong

[somecunttookmyurl]

mosaic

#but also #DENARIUS of AUGUSTUS #'greek or roman. really who can say. greek probably right' #denarius #of. of augustus. #look hear me out #might be a wild stab in the dark but #i dont think thats a greek coin m8

[zaricats]

succession (2018-2023), s4.10, "with open eyes" // s1.06 "which side are you on?"

"I like and respect every one of you, but, uh, no one's gonna have their mind changed in here. Right? So I suggest we move on to the vote." "Fine. Okay. Vote."

#'that's fucking right' #'roman for me' #that complete confidence that they will win the vote; the self-satisfaction in being able to get roman to do their bidding #obviously kendall isn't laying on the kind of blatant pressure and threat logan is #but i think that there is a pressure there and the look shiv gives roman tells of that pressure #as well as roman's hesitation and reluctance in both instances #also i think part of kendall's satisfaction is based in roman changing his mind last minute in the vote of no confidence #finally. he has that loyalty and control #i can hear logan saying 'that's fucking right' #maybe he even does at some point #succession #succession spoilers #tvedit #successionedit #roman roy #logan roy #kendall roy #parallels