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SUCCESSION (4.10) | WITH OPEN EYES

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remember when it used to be so fun to just fuck around with the settings on the computer? changing the background, screen saver, giving yourself a little rubber duck icon, cursors

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This panic happens like every few months.

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one of my trans friends added me to a discord channel called "egg group chat" and I was starting to get very introspective before I realised they're organising a group buy of eggs from a local farm

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I dont think anything on this earth tickles me so hard as how busted white people look in the yakuza franchise

its so dhsjdjfjxjfjgk

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Draw a cat using only straight lines. Design in theory and practice. 1910.

Internet Archive

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Sometimes little pleasures in life are loadbearing. Whenever someone is like "If you'd just give up tea and coffee and sugar and--" im like I'll stop you right there. Because if you finish that sentence i am going to kill everyone in this building and then myself. If i have to face the horrors of the world without my little jar of caramel flavoured instant coffee i am going to go full American Psycho. Believe it or not, my main priority in life is not to have perfect teeth or be an Olympic athlete or look like a supermodel, but to actually enjoy living, because I spent far too long not doing that and it royally sucked. And boy, some people don't like hearing that. Particularly dentists

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paint me with black wings

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poor thing 💔

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a vampire stroking ur hair as they're fangs deep in ur neck. u agree

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put a shirt on you’re gonna get cold :/

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tos is going to be my emotional support tv show during these times

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i’m like if a saint was also a faggot

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If man is five, then the Devil is six

and if the Devil is six, then God is seven

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things should be easier for trans women.

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Right, fuck this. In the spirit of ‘be the change you want to see’, I think we should celebrate Assad Zaman, because fuck knows AMC won’t, so someone has to step up to the plate.

Here’s a Ten Things I Love About Assad’s Performance As Armand list:

The way his voice cracks ever so slightly on the word donated in the Louvre monologue. Also, the entire Louvre monologue.

The hand acting. Thanks to @platoapproved for this gif set which illustrates what I mean.

“Do you find me boring?” Like, obviously, all of 2x05, but that line reading, terrifying and obsessive and heartbreaking and childlike all at once.

The stillness. The way he can be completely still and nevertheless absolutely mesmerising.

Contrasted with gremlin mode in San Francisco when he is anything but still. This post from @hypermania is a great analysis of his physicality and acting choices in this scene.

The micro expressions. The sixteen layers of emotions including three I’ve never even heard of before in some of the reaction shots. The way the directors clearly understand this and hold the camera on his face so that we can watch Assad showing us Armand’s brain at work without a word being said.

His French accent.

The way he sits down on the couch next to Madeleine.

Just how fucking cool he looks on the motorbike in the hunting scene.

Sauntering back into the Dubai apartment in his cunty sunglasses and tragically misplaced confidence.

Feel free to add your own thoughts in notes or reblogs. Let’s appreciate the hell out of him.