#much like francis' goldfinch cameo

[quidfree]

I read your TSH X The Graduate fic and was struck by a line in which Francis calls Richard "plausible". There is a similar moment in Succession where Tom Wambsgans is described in the same quietly (for the show anyways) bitchy way. So... does this mean that Francis is distantly related to Lady Caroline Collingwood? Is there a world where Francis and Richard watch the Roy family drama play out from their TV in Montreal and Francis makes sporadic, vague references to Roman's childhood "latency" and the ginger promiscuity gene that he and Shiv share, without ever fully elaborating?? Please say yes.

plausible! anon the way this concept has had a hold of me since i saw it… words cannot describe. like! caroline “your father used to sleep with all the men in sausalito” collingwood running in francis’ circles is so real and true.

even if it’s not direct family... the roys are scottish catholics after all….. perfect tie-in to the red-head boston catholic abernathy clan…. it all just connects. ewan roy is kind of my mental image of abernathy senior anyways can’t you see a bit of the old-age francis in james cromwell’s cunty austerity?

anyways back on track francis and richard are what, late 60s babies if they were 20 in the 80s? and caroline is probably early 1950s if you go by the actress. so kid wise connor is probably roughly around their age??? oh my god. but francis would have only met the roys when caroline and logan were married so he would have been in his late teens looking with absolute disdain upon the roy kid trio. idk who he would dislike most. probably ken for being so *gestures at ken*, otherwise roman. he might have tolerated shiv more because he gives more grace to the girlies (see: camilla). and he probably only met connor sometime later since he didn't see the family for some time after his mother got taken away- i can only imagine the horrors of them interacting.

good lord imagine priscilla abernathy and caroline in the same room. the insane vibes. but at least that side is all old money condescension and they would bond over their distaste for the new money roys. what the roys would think of the abernathys? probably very little as adults. world famous homophobe logan roy would not have taken to francis, who is maybe the truest definition of 'not a serious person'. i have to think about what the kids would have thought about him. suggestions welcomed.

as for middle-aged francis and richard in montreal watching the shitshow that is canonical succession timeline playing out live in the news? *gesticulating incoherently* someone prompt me to write this.

i could go on for days this is too perfect of a concept. anon please supply more thoughts of your own. and if i kept going in the tags no i didn't.

#qui repond #qui parle #anon #tsh #succession #literally you are a genius. #your mind is unmatched #the ginger promiscuity 'if you love the dog but don't tell it you do maybe it won't hurt when it bites you' shivfrancis gene HELLO??? #the secret history #it feels so illegal but it's so... plausible #god imagine....... a tern haven with the collingwood side of it all.... #much like francis' goldfinch cameo

[steelycunt]

am i the only one that thought that richard and francis would’ve ended up together by the end of the book? like idk i was at 3/4 of the book and i said “yeah they definitely hooked up” 😭

they have this sort of “intimacy” that was kind of shocking to me, given the nature of the characters. yk, hearing that richard imagined himself old with francis and running to boston at the end of the book and trying to convince francis to not marry that woman idk maybe i read too much into it but they had potential (also because they were two annoying pretentious men that nobody would stand lmao)

oh god see youre testing my memory now but i think. i didnt quite expect that but i think i did expect something to happen. which--if i recall it did? or not? christ i can't exactly remember. i did love francis though when he made that little cameo in the goldfinch i was cheering soooo hard you can't even imagine like hiiii babygirl :-))

#telegram #anon #reading tag #it is book club night tonite i see!! i love it!!

[gellavonhamster]

I finally watched The Goldfinch, and maybe I am a bad Donna Tartt fan or something, but I actually liked it a lot. Yes, it feels a bit like a compressed retelling, but I don’t think anything but that should have been expected: for me, the charm of this book relies heavily upon its language and style, and it’s clear there was no way to convey it all in the movie even using some off-camera narration, just like there was no way to fit the entire book into two hours and a half. It still works as an adaptation that can make people interested in reading the book (a number of people I follow read it after watching the movie, some more are planning to), and I’d say it still has the same mood and aesthetic as the novel (ar least it succeeded in making me experience again the “fuck it, I should drop everything and apply for a job in an antiques shop” feeling I had while reading the book). Wish there was more of Hobie and Pippa (and for the cameo of Francis Abernathy to have been included in some way - it’s brief and does not influence the plot, but it is a fun Easter egg for those who have read and love other novels by Tartt), but overall it was all right. I honestly expected something much worse based on the reviews.

(Wolfhard and the actor who played Boris’s father speak Russian terribly, but I don’t think any Slavic person at this point expects Hollywood to do better; I sure as hell do not. Things like the moment on the submarine in Good Omens are nice exceptions, not the rule)

#talk talk talk #the goldfinch #donna tartt #gotta reblog some stuff that's been sitting in my drafts