#successful trip

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

bought heart shaped pasta today btw <3

#went to tk maxx for a chopping board and a spatula #left with a chopping board a spatula heart shaped pasta a pair of earrings a scalp brush a bag of rum infused coffee #and a gift box of guylian chocolates #successful trip #🧃

[yourmomsahira]

I only have three goals in life to be pretty, kind and disgustingly overeducated.

#aab kisi aur cheez se farak nahi padta #bhagwan bas successful insaan bana dena #baaki sab bhad mai jaaye #i am gonna take my family and ace on a trip #runs to study bye #desiblr #desi tag #dark academia #desi tumblr #girl blogging #girl core #coquttee #studyblr #student core #studying #fashion

[raineandsky]

#97

“[Villain].” The supervillain beckons them closer from around the door. “I think you might like this one.”

He’s in their little captive room; being a criminal organisation has made them improvise their spaces. A hero is tied to the rickety chair in the middle of the room, ignoring them both with their head bent. A rare sight, and a nice one at that. A sight that suggests a hint of winning.

“Wait,” the supervillain says softly.

They wait. Nothing happens. “[Supervillain], what—”

A sound breaks through their question. A sniffle. The villain ducks slightly to look at the hero’s face, catching the glistening trail of long-since shed tears on their cheeks. Catching heroes is rare enough, but having them cry about it? Gold.

The supervillain flashes them a quick grin. “Wait ‘til you hear their cover story.”

The villain steps forward and flops down in the seat in front of the hero. The hero keeps their head ducked, holding back shuddering breaths, and the villain simply waits for acknowledgement.

Waiting is in vain, it seems. The hero refuses to look up, even when they clear their throat expectantly.

“I thought heroes were meant to be made of steel,” they comment eventually.

The hero finally looks at them, and the villain only feels slightly bad about the miserable quiver of their mouth and the leaking of their eyes. “I’m not a hero,” they say shakily.

The villain raises their eyebrows. Denial’s a new one. “He must have told you that!” the hero continues, their gaze set on the supervillain at the door, and on the last word they break down into tears.

The villain glances back at the supervillain and he throws them another elated smirk. The slightly bad feeling they felt suddenly splits into painful worry.

They turn back to the hero and open their mouth to say something, but it occurs to them they don’t know who the hero is. They’ve never seen them before.

The worry becomes gnawing.

“You’re not a hero,” the villain reiterates slowly, and the hero’s head snaps up faster than the villain thought they could move.

“Yes!” they cry. Hours of tears scratch at their throat. “Thank god, yes. I’m– I’m not a hero. The agency they– they took me off the street, I’m not a hero or anything or– I’m not anything to do with them I swear please the agency is just–”

“Stop,” the villain snaps, and the hero's words cut off abruptly. “The agency took you off the street?”

The hero nods as they gulp down another sob. “I don’t know why. They threw me out in a hero costume and told me to distract the villains, I don’t– I don’t know anything—”

“Hey,” the villain says smoothly. They scoot their chair closer to the hero’s. “Hey, it’s okay. We’re all here because we hate the agency, right?” They glance back to the supervillain, who’s looking rather unimpressed by this turn of events. “You’re on our side now.”

The sob escapes the hero’s throat this time. Or whoever they are. “I just want to go home,” they manage through the tears.

The villain fishes a tissue from their pocket, tipping the hero’s head back to carefully wipe some of the tears from their face. “I know,” they say softly, “but the agency might be out searching for you right now. We’ll look after you until you can go home, okay?”

The hero hiccups their next breath. “T–Thank you.”

“I’ll get you back on your feet,” the villain says with a sigh. They glance back at the supervillain scowling from the door. “And [Supervillain] will go find whatever the hell the agency’s trying to distract us from.”

#creative writing #writblr #writers on tumblr #writing #writing community #heroes and villains #hero x villain #i am currently away friends #this is posting 2 hours from home #however im nothing if not on the GRIND #i brought my laptop lmao but only cause ive been SO burnt out so im hoping this trip will Fix Me #so far so good too ive written 2 lines in 4 hours. more than ive done the past week. success

[flocklings]

Ok but the accumulation of emotional stress Shiv endured just to fall down the only stair in the house in front of everyone—directly after being humiliated both privately and publicly by both brothers and everyone that respected her father—she just wants to grieve and people are celebrating and she’s a little girl alone in a room full of people with smiles stuck to their faces.

#shiv Roy #succession spoilers #succession #I will admit I started crying #I’m very hormonal rn and just #I trip sometimes and it’s so embarrassing and godddd

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Obviously the structure of an episodic series often requires characters to go from 'complete strangers' to 'close friends/family' in an unusually short amount of time. I get it.

Writers need a 'new guy' in the group to ask questions about the setting that the audience can't, but still (especially in comedy shows) want the fun dynamics that come from all the main cast knowing each other super well. It's one of those functional tropes like L-Shaped Blankets where you're required to suspend your sense of disbelief.

Having said that, I love when writers choose to take this trope and retroactively justify it by later on revealing that the Seemingly Normal Everyman Character is actually as unhinged as the rest of the group— it's just that their weirdness manifests specifically as an ability to form found family dynamics with literally any group they join, almost immediately after joining.

Like, you assumed that they just fit in so well because your group has a special vibe, but then you accidentally left them in the supermarket for like five minutes and by the time you realised and went back they were already Blood Brothers with the cashier.

Characters who are like friendly dogs in that you can put them essentially anywhere, with anyone, and they will just be like “welp! Guess this is my New Family now” and just go along with it.

#comedy #writing #tropes #been rewatching #derry girls #and noticing how james immediately takes on the percieved social norms #and tries to become part of #every group he's in #with admittedly varying success #put him in a room with a priest for five minutes #and he wants to be a priest #send him on a camping trip with 'lads' and he's acting deliberately blokey in an attempt to fit in #leave him for like half an hour with a group of travellers #and he's already fully part of the team #no wonder he became a derry girl so quick #also shout out to an even BETTER #but lesser known example of this trope #in the podcast #midnight burger #where the seemingly normal character who joined the crew #and fit in suspiciously quickly #gets lost in an alternate dimension alien wilderness for several weeks #and by the time the others find her she's literally just formed a new found family with the local wolves #and all the other characters are like ''what??'' #and then *thinking back over the past few weeks* #''nevermind that makes sense''

[homosexualslug]

home alone (1990) // succession (2018)

#watching this movie for the first time since watching succession is a trip #like that's literally young roman roy #succession #home alone #kieran culkin #roman roy

[akajustmerry]

#succession #I'm on a train trip so you know i gotta make a silly succession poll <3

[plus-uno-anno]

my favorite genre of media is normal guy who goes to do normal guy things but then gets surrounded by the weirdest fucking people imaginable and just goes with it

#greg hirsch #cousin greg #succession #richard papen #the secret history #nick carraway #the great gatsby #dan cain #re animator #eddie brock #venom #lena gereghty #tripping arcadia #dana scully #the x files #text

[sgsketchbook]

sometimes i lie awake at night thinking about the camping trip that connor took them on. decided to do something about that

#messy because i just physically needed to get this out of my system #like i wanna know more ab this trip. i’m fascinated by it #and roman’s warped perception of it too like what’s that about #anyways idk #sometimes i get in my feelings about connor #i’m a conhead i fear #succession #kendall roy #roman roy #connor roy #succession fanart #i had fun w their designs here #imagine it’s like the early 90s idk the timeline #con is like late 20s #ken is 15 or so #and rome is like 11

[kiddcarnage]

A short & sweet Succession comic. I've been so busy and haven't had a chance to genuinely sit down and do any comics (I'm a seqa major) so I'm rlly happy I got this one out. A little love letter to Connor Roy; no kids of his own but a dad to several.

#succession #succession fanart #connor roy #kendall roy #roman roy #succession camping trip #bro shat the bag #president of bag shatting #connor roy for president

[waystarresourceco]

Cherry Jones on what Kendall and Nan talked about at Tern Haven (with bonus Caroline and golden trio lore!).  

“Jeremy Strong, to my left, had come up with this whole backstory to woo Nan Pierce. He suddenly starts asking me all of these questions about the sculptures in the garden and the paintings on the wall. And he says ‘Was I mistaken or is that really a Sargent in the front, in the foyer of the-’. And I said at one point that I was surprised he was so knowledgeable and then he starts talking about the fact that his mother, who’s English, was on the board of the Tate. So that he – they’d spent a great deal of time as children at the Tate and Tate Modern.”

Cherry also mentioned this in an interview with Vulture, below the cut.

Video excerpt from 2020 GoldDerby interview (x)

Text excerpt from an interview with Cherry Jones for Vulture - Sept. 19, 2019 (x)

#one of my favorite bits of weird deep lore (pseudo-lore?) #I think Connor would have also been included on trips to the museum? #the dialogue in Pre-Nuptial kind of makes me think he was or at least could have been #nan pierce #kendall roy #roman roy #shiv roy #caroline collingwood #hbo succession #cast interviews #cherry jones #jeremy strong

[catilinas]

top finds from mudlarking this morning with @ed-teach and @catboyrightsdefender

roman decorated black-burnished ware (found by quin!), 2nd-4th century

decorative medallion from a bartmann jug, 16-17th century

some sort of hook/eye fastening, could be anywhere from late mediaeval to 18th century?

top half of a lion face from the spout of a roman mortarium, 2nd-4th century

#really fun and successful trip and we found a lemon as well so hashtag no scurvy #obligatory You Need A Mudlark Permit tag #mudlarking #beeps

[blackstarising]

s4e4 summary

#shiv roy #succession #succession spoilers #roman voice i feel unwell. i don't feel good #that trip down the stairs HURT me that shivlukas alliance is getting tastier by the day!!!!!!

[thepettymachine]

Jules and Lyndsey hanging out together + nectary shenanigans + some nectar woohoos baby chimes

#sims #sims 3 #ts3 gameplay #ts3 legacy #trout legacy #trout g1 #lyndsey trout #jules fournier #they spent all day at the nectary just drinking and then jules proceeded to try for baby with success #honestly that sounds like a nice trip outside of the townies randomly trying to fight them

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

I strongly agree that there are world events that deserve much more news coverage and resources than the Titan because frankly it should’ve been immediately assumed they were dead when sonar couldn’t find them and communication was lost.

However, I don’t necessarily think it’s fair to compare the EU coast guard and the US and Canada's various first response teams that responded to the Titan. Because they’re separate entities.

Do I think people should care more about the refugee ship that capsized due to alleged incompetence of the coast guard? Yes. I do. And I hope more survivors can be found because that was a genuine tragedy.

Do I think that it should be getting the same kind of attention as the Titan? Not really. Because people are just memeing on the Titan, and the average tumblr user has around $0.20 to their name and maybe 400 followers so this isn’t a very good platform for getting meaningful help for those affected by that situation.

This isn’t even a “you can care about two things at once” situation, because again with the Titan you should be very amused by 4/5 of those deaths whereas there’s nothing funny about what happened to that fishing ship. These are very different niches in cultural awareness and your ire should be towards media companies over random people on social media.

#Idk it just feels like getting mad at someone for posting spongebob memes instead of signal boosting that a genocide is occurring #like sure if someone genuinely thinks the Titan is more tragic just because it’s rich white people then yeah #please do clown away #but it’s just a bit weird to act like people don’t have compassion for the migrants who died just because they’re mocking rich folk for dyi #guy who intentionally removed any and all safety features getting crushed into paste instantly by his own hubris #is objectively funny and I will continue laughing at Stockton rush until I die #especially since he talked up how safe it was and then named it after the titanic only for it to share the same fate #perfect set up and punchline #genuine R.I.P. to the innocent guy on board but the others were absolute morons to do it to begin with #The contract you had to allegedly sign to go on the trip? Absurd #it wouldn’t have been a good view even if successful #and it was disrespectful to make a mass grave into a tourist attraction #so I’ll toast to the death of Stockton rush and his idiotic name forever

[aropride]

dont ever let ur friend give u a group name ironically it sticks forever and eventually becomes unironic

#text #roadtrip trio #we're roadtrip trio forever now #im trying 2 convince them we should go on another road trip but idk how successful i will be