#Tom & Caroline

[romulussy]

I got Mommed.

[circusbythesea]

FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - WITH EYES OPEN

thank you succession.

[not-so-rosyyy]

congratulations to the WGA and all workers and unions benefitting from this win! 🎉✨

[brotherconstant]

SUCCESSION 1x09 Pre-Nuptial Neither Caroline nor Shiv take him seriously 2x05 Tern Haven Huh. No one bought it. But still felt good for Roman to say.

[imchoccy]

[siohbhanroy]

SUCCESSION ↳ 3x08 | 4x07

[tomwambsgans]

peter munion + tom wambsgans

[nobodyisevrmissing]

Andrew Kane, "How To Be A Dog"

[cptrs]

[stewyhosseini-bf]

[finitevariety]

the thing for Shiv is that she genuinely does love Tom. She was so upset at having hurt him in S1 that she TOLD him she had hurt him. She won't do that unless she considers you real, and if she considers you real then she generally won't want to deal with the consequences (feeling judged and/or seen)--but she told Tom, and attempted to be vulnerable with him. Yeah, perhaps for the first time, yeah, on her wedding, yeah, about her infidelity, but--she loves him. When he suggested sheep farming and scuba she thought well, he's not just in it for Waystar. Because she has always known that he is at least partially in it for his career!!

And in S2 she begs Logan to spare Tom, at great personal cost to herself (totally nukes any hope of Logan offering her CEO, because she has been weak like this). The conversation in 4x10 lays it out clearer than ever: in some ways, she believes it is a good thing that they have hurt each other so deeply, because that makes it more real. She sees the deep web of distrust and pain they have built between them as a good foundation for what she calls a proper/real relationship.

(And honestly? There's a bit of truth to that. I think about the scene where Tom said he'd perish on impact if their marriage went sour, that he honestly wouldn't even want to survive. And she definitely thinks 'bullshit' and she's definitely right to do so)

Anyway, her decision makes perfect sense to me. Not only does she love Tom--who has only said to her that he 'doesn't know' if he wants a relationship--but she's carrying his baby. He was fucking desperate to impregnate her in S3 because he wanted an anchor to this life in case he had to go to prison. He saw her womb as a fucking winch cable to tether him to the private jets and yachts.

But that tether goes both ways, and as the mother of his children Shiv feels that she could have more influence than as the sister of her brothers. She has to choose between being the girl that was shut out or the wife who will be. It's not much of a choice, but she chooses the better one, and in so doing dooms herself to become Caroline.

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

Hot Take 2.0

[raviposting]

THE POISON DRIPS DOWN (insp)

[thewaitisogre]

i love succession weddings because they all have that arch way

[imchoccy]

[murphysiblings]

succession characters as lps

kendall:

roman:

shiv:

logan:

caroline:

tom:

greg:

tabitha:

rava:

gerri:

part two, part three