#muah muah baby Tom my beloved

[delineate-creates]

Day 23: Celestial

“See, over there?” Harry tilts the tube and adjusts the knobs some more. “The stars are tracing out a lion. Do you see it?”

Tom squints. Maybe he can imagine a lion there, if he tries really hard. Not a real lion though. A paper lion.

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From chapter 10 of @perhaps-sunlight’s Paved With The Best Intentions

[salomeapologist]

say it queen! what’s your opinion on how tumblr talks about shiv and roman

hello!! thank u anon who is likely a beloved mutual but it would also be fun if youre a follower ive never talked to. the floodgates have been opened. i wasnt gonna talk about this bc i didnt know if my ideas were totally misguided and i wasnt sure if i could express them calmly but ive talked to a couple people now and i think im more coherent

i think that tumblrs analysis of body language (and tone of voice etc) is flawed. i love making everything gay i do but i love either straight up making shit up or using compelling evidence. i dont like using really uncompelling evidence. and maybe it is compelling to other people!! but i just dont see it in the case of shiv and roman.

compelling could be real shit like shiv planned a threeway between her, her husband and a woman. making shit up that would still have me nod my head and go yeah that tracks would be going yeah i just think that roman is bi. these seem like normal things to say.

i just personally dont think shiv has “energy” with women in the show. roman is more complicated. i mean it is simple that he doesnt wanna have sex with that guy (he just tries to seduce to get his way in business as a modus operandi) but also i think roman has a defense mechanism where he says shit that makes him seem like a horrible person. sometimes it’s easier to go with the flow even if the flow is sewage than to fight against it. so it’s not surprising that he would back the worst candidate he can find. it doesnt say much about his actual opinions on running the country, but it does say a lot about his privilege that he can just support a fascist and not have to worry about it.

just as freebies, i think it’s silly to suddenly not stan greg because hes suing greenpeace. hes been traveling by private jet for two and a half seasons. i also dont think that tom was babytrapping shiv. i think he pays so little attention to what she wants out of their relationship that he assumed that she was on the same page about family planning. if he could figure out her perspective, he would never have married her. there is yes an element of trying to fix the marriage and keep him in her memory with a baby, but people on here have been acting like hes villainously trying to get her pregnant against her will, so im now just against the term for him entirely.

theres obv an issue with either going omg this person is Thee One Good Person On Succession or going im so smart i realize that these people are all completely evil but they are just people on screens trying to be ceo. the way the show is presented and the fact that theyre billionaires makes them hard to understand completely, but you dont need to understand anything in life completely. the characters being in the show kinda sets a baseline that they are too greedy to save themselves, so you cant expect them to be wonderful or to make it out of this okay by doing all the right things.

muah!! 💗