#connection. tom + shiv

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

[shivroyalty]

tomshiv / i'm your man - mitski.

[holly-mckenzie]

Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too:

Much Ado About Nothing: Act IV, Scene 1, Lines 1963-1971.

[tomwambsgans]

going insane over all of tom's little mannerisms while greg leads into telling him about shiv cheating. and btw i hold without a doubt that tom did NOT know that that's what greg was going to say

like this is the rapid nod of someone absolutely anticipating a love confession...... tom's little hop is irrelevant i just thought it was cute

[sunsetmoonlight]

Greg, Shiv and Tom’s Individual Posters for Succession Season 4

[gregkinz]

ok but like. okay. okay but like Greg WOULD go live in a trailer park with Tom lol. Greg would follow Tom anywhere for love lmao

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Tom winking at Shiv in season 2

Shiv: 🙄🥰

Tom winking at Greg I’m season 4

Greg: 🥰🙄

[kendallroygf]

like there has to be other people on here who are reading past the surface level implications of tom’s behaviour to shiv this episode. it’s part of a wider trend that’s been prevalent since the start of the show. like shiv repeatedly has told tom not to touch her this season yet he never took her seriously and then he flicks her ear. not gently might i add. and no matter your interpretation whether you consider that to be hitting her or not (it basically is) that’s still unwanted touch. it crossed a line shiv literally recoils right after. she looks shocked and tom knows he crossed a line but there just has to be a middle ground between reading it as ‘tom is a wife beater’ or ‘this is just silly failmarriage hijinks’ like there’s so clearly a tonal shift after he lays a hand on her. no less in an episode which clearly shows how similar waystar and gojo are as companies that enforce the idea that women are expendable and under the authority of these companies women are harassed and ignored and abused and then the nature of this abuse is trivialised. and like tom has always felt a certain entitlement towards shiv (eg attempting to baby trap her in s3 + the repeated social climbing attempts made through her every season since s1) but it’s so clearly emphasised this season. and like who has tom been in close proximity to since the s3 finale up until just recently who also feels a entitlement over shiv and also belittles and weaponises her gender against her? who also forces her into the gendered role of Wife/Daughter against her will and whose own abuse towards her is specifically misogynistic in its nature? like it seems to me the proximity around logan has enforced the idea in tom’s head that he has a certain given entitlement and right over shiv no matter what. like the jokes about tom being openly hostile towards shiv now when he hasn’t in past seasons. like i wonder where he internalised all that. who else has acted just exactly like that.. . simply put logan labels shiv as tom’s “fucking wife” enforcing the idea that shiv is just an extension of him and tom. and even now that logan’s gone tom’s misogyny and his utilisation of it has so clearly intensified from watching and learning how logan himself operates in regards to his treatment of shiv and other women close to him.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Everyone keeps saying Shiv is becoming her mother. But what if it's worse than that? What if she's becoming Connor's mother?

[ceaselesslyinlove]

someone make a gifset paralleling shiv’s “are you attracted to me greg” to tom’s “would you kiss me” to greg please and thank you lmao

[gregoftom]

“do you have all the support that you need [for sweden]?”

[pettyprocrastination]

Shiv votes against Kendall because in her mind she has more control with Tom in charge than him. 

[jimmymcgill]

Westworld 1.05 "Contrapasso" Succession 1.07 "Austerlitz"

[nygleskas]

officially recommending my succ.ession mutuals to watch the righ.teous gemstones bc they're very similar except trg is abt a megachurch and it's more insane and funny :hearthands:

[atlafan]

I said this to a friend, but I wanted to say it here because I want to know what others think: succession is one big game of chess. Logan is the queen. The queen’s job is to protect the king. The “king” is waystar royco. The kids are pawns. Every once in a while, one of the kids advances and becomes a knight, a bishop, a rook, but never as another queen.

Logan’s side is stronger. Logan’s pawns always advance. He’ll use anything to keep the king protected and in the right hands. He’s been checked a few times, but never check mated.

One of the kids in this final season will advance as another queen. Then, and only then, will Logan meet his match and be knocked out of the running. Giving the king over to the new queen.

[colorisbyshe]

i think i grew up too poor to enjoy the family drama in succession because like... the family drama you get out of growing up poor is sooo different. so like even the "heart" of this show is just bouncing right off me

not gonna call the show bad or whatever but like... it is not for me

i really wanted to go join in the shit posting that comes with prestige tv but this is not gonna be the hsow for me

maybe if i had blood siblings instead of pseudo-siblings i was raised with it'd work a bit more on me but alas... no