#interview with Connor

[anna-scribbles]

old doodles from the archives 🫶

[weirdgirlvampire]

Oh characters doomed from the start we’re really in it now

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[nnicknnelsonn]

you said it while I was in the shower

{prev} so in love, literally, like out loud and everything {next}

[wh2m]

→ “It still doesn’t quite compute how many people have seen it and how many people love it”: Jenny Walser on Heartstopper season three

“Whilst it’s Charlie who’s really struggling with his mental health, Nick is also struggling with knowing how to care for and talk to this person that he absolutely adores and loves. He knows himself he doesn’t have that support from his brother that Charlie does in Tori, which I think is quite a sad element to the story. But it’s quite nice that the relationship between Tori and Nick this season deepens. There are some very lovely moments when they’re both supporting each other and helping each other in how to best support Charlie. He becomes sort of her surrogate brother at some points, and she becomes his surrogate sister. I find that element of what Tori’s able to give to Nick quite lovely because his brother just isn’t emotionally able to be that support for him.”

[heartstopperthoughts]

Kit and Joe in season 1: appropriate coworker banter

Kit and Joe in season 2: love-hate sibling relationship

Kit and Joe in season 3: bickering old married couple

[snekjin]

one thing about connor bedard is he will be found rolling his eyes and smirking (x)

[transxfiles]

thinking a lot about the phenomenon of celebrities going through their "baby gay" phase in the spotlight. idk i know it's funny to joke about jojo siwa and "gay pop" etc etc and there's so much valid criticism there. but i also think there's something to be said about how pop culture forces queer people out of the closet which means that if celebrities try to work through their baby gay phase on their own they're considered "traitors" or "liars" or "queerbaiting" etc etc for trying to keep their sexuality private, but if they decide to come out as soon as they know "what they are" they become cringe in the eye of the public bc they're still figuring out what it means to be queer. idk. like even with chappell roan, i know she's a pop culture darling rn and i adore her. but sometimes she says stuff in interviews that feels so baby gay and i have to remind myself that she's just. a young person who is in the spotlight and figuring herself out still. and even with the jojo siwa thing like. again obv she sounds so ignorant when she talks about wanting to "invent gay pop" but it's also like. god. figuring my gender/sexuality business out was stressful enough when i was sitting alone in my bathroom at age 13. i cannot imagine growing up in the spotlight with hundreds of cameras and millions of eyes on me. and then having to be my "cringe" newly out queer self to the masses. idk lots to chew on. i've just been thinking about this a lot recently.

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2015 draft class continue to be inexplicably connected in mysterious ways (mm16 and cmd both being the first male victims of misogyny) (mitch marner being told to smile more by toronto media connor mcdavid being asked at age 26 about his worry for his biological clock)

[lauradonnelly]

JOE LOCKE & KIT CONNOR React to Heartstopper Season One

[kit-inclothes]

kit connor, and the earth tones

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[wh2m]

→ “It still doesn’t quite compute how many people have seen it and how many people love it”: Jenny Walser on Heartstopper season three

“It’s quite nice that the relationship between Tori and Nick this season deepens. There are some very lovely moments when they’re both supporting each other and helping each other in how to best support Charlie. He becomes sort of her surrogate brother at some points, and she becomes his surrogate sister.”

[waystarresourceco]

Harriet Walter on Caroline’s relationship with Kendall and in particular some of the past dynamics that are driving her conversation (or lack thereof) with Kendall in Season 2.

“Kendall’s quite a sort of complicated guy. There was a scene that didn’t get into the final cut in Season 1 where we had a little duo scene where it’s very evident that Kendall has a lot of anger towards his mother. And sort of as the oldest son blames her for a lot of – you know maybe he got the brunt of the divorce because he was the most aware of what was going on. . . . Here’s this guy who has been pretty angry with me in the past. And I think she says something like ‘Have you got over your – is it something you're gonna blame me for again?’ So that’s what she immediately assumes when he says ‘Can we talk?’ she thinks she’s gonna be in for a bit of blame and a bit of reckoning that she can’t quite face.”

The deleted Season 1 scene she references is included below the cut.

Harriet Walter has mentioned a few times that she thinks Caroline was "kicked out" of the family, probably for having an affair and getting caught. I can definitely see Kendall knowing more of the details than Shiv and Roman both by virtue of age and his relationship with Logan (and being pulled pretty hard into Logan's point of view).

Video excerpt from 2020 GoldDerby interview (x)

Script excerpt from a deleted scene in "Pre-Nuptial" in Succession - Season One: The Complete Scripts

[scoringeffects]

id love to be normal about them. however unfortunately for everyone involved that appears quite impossible