#old guard succession

[kencoded-kengirl]

LOOOOOOL KRANK THAT SOULJA BOY 🔥💯 LMFAOOOO OLD MAN YAOI frank is every bit as bad as stewy is with kendall when it comes to logan. he can only see the nice parts. he knows logan isn’t a good man or even a good father but he’ll love him forever anyway. he could get fired a hundred thousand times and he wouldn’t know how to stay away. that’s how they are. he hates caroline because logan pays her so much attention. he hates marcia because logan trusts her so much. even, sometimes, he hates gerri, because logan wanted her like a lover and he’ll never, ever, want frank that way, no matter how long he waits or how much he parents logan’s children. and gerri is so ungrateful for it. she doesn’t even want his attentions, how can that be? it’s like logan doesn’t think anything of him anymore, even though when they were twenty-eight, logan would tell him everything.

he would tell him about uncle noah and keep telling him until his voice got scratchy and his chest got tight, which was something he usually only did with women he had become obsessed with. of course that made frank feel special, even though he knows it can never mean anything. he’ll never be logan’s real wife, or kendall’s real father, or ceo. logan has always known there was something strange about him, something queer, something that prevents him from being more than just loyal confidante and underling. does anyone ever tell you guys that you’re kind of obsessed with him? karl asks, new blood in the legal department, and gerri and frank glance at each other. he’ll learn soon enough.

he doesn’t, though. karl is always so placid with logan, nodding along when he’s bullied, smiling flatly, being just funny enough. he does his job and doesn’t get made into anybody’s godfather. frank waits for thirty years for something to change, but, in a way, the four of them are mountains, and thirty years is not enough. frank is sitting in the cabin of an airplane, staring at gerri, who is staring at karl, who is staring at him. for gerri, god is dead in the next cabin over. for frank, the realization that every minute he lives now will be without logan is dawning. karl is thinking absently of who might be made interim ceo. frank feels like he might have been sitting with the two of them in this airplane since he was twenty-eight.

no one spirals. it’s too obvious to do that. the kids need them. the company needs them. karolina needs them. and they’ve always had each other as a constant comfort, even if they’ve never been anything more. at matsson’s retreat, frank takes one look at the sauna and says, good luck getting me in that thing. karl says, i can’t agree more. the kill list feels far away and meaningless as they sit together, breathing in the cold air, laughing at hugo in the same way they’ve been doing together for ever and ever. the grief feels almost meaningless, too.

little shiv, who used to sit at the end of the long dining table in the hamptons doing summer school and tell frank every detail of her life because roman and kendall think they’re too grown-up for me, now, asks them at the funeral how bad was dad? frank can’t answer honestly. karl’s honesty is too dry. she walks away. when she does, karl brushes his knuckles against frank’s, and even though they never tried this once in thirty years of being in each other’s business, frank knows without having to be told that he’s supposed to tangle their fingers together and hold on tight.

maybe they should have cared more about the kill list, though. tom fires them. he has to. he does it together, the three of them in logan’s office, killing two birds with one stone. it hurts frank more than logan’s death did, and it’s the best thing that ever happened to karl. the two of them are standing side-by-side outside of the temple that is waystar, waiting for their drivers to take them away for the last time. did we ever meet up outside of work? karl asks, because he actually can’t remember. when was the last time either of us did something outside of work? frank counters, and karl chuckles. you wanna give it a try? frank does want to give it a try. he’s forgotten what it’s like to spend an evening without one of logan’s children, or mistresses, or siblings, or apprentices, or disciples within his line of sight. somehow, karl has completely avoided becoming any of these things.

the house in the country is many times too large for two. frank reads shakespeare in the sunroom and drinks tea. karl walks in and says, can we go to the pond tomorrow? and frank says, no, i’m meeting kendall for breakfast tomorrow. karl doesn’t roll his eyes. okay, can we go to the pond on wednesday? the ducks will miss us, karl tries again. you make me feel old, frank says, happily.

you gave him too much credit, says karl, finally, on wednesday, tossing stale bread into the duck pond. you never gave him enough, says frank. i didn’t have to. he was just my business partner, says karl. and he was the love of my life, frank says, but in saying it, he’s proving it wrong. logan would never have fed the ducks with him, or encouraged frank to idolize him less. FROG AND TOADDDD 🔥🔥🔥😂😂🔥 LMFAO COMPRESSION SOCKS

[alcubierre-warpin]

needed to share the photos i’ve been digging up, slay off the charts

[successionable]

i don't think we're talking enough about how tom and greg rocked up to logan's wake together even though tom was last seen accompanying shiv (back to their apartment, presumably) and shiv was last seen lying in bed alone

[roman-roy-apologist]

saltburn would have been good if mencken was ollie and roman was felix do u see my vision ugh

[stewyhosseini-bf]

you just know they slayed in the 90s

[tastethesetears]

crossed out or u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲d̲?

[childhoodtheme]

they were so not amused im crying

[cup-noodle]

Forever laughing at this exchange from 3x05

[perilegs]

outfits to fag it up in the grocery store + do cable management in

[stewykablooey]

80s krank would be so old school yaoi in that karl would be the tall blonde flirt and frank would be the dark haired serious worker who thinks karl is sooo annoying. it would Especially be old school yaoi because everyone would ship them to be having crazy kinky secret office sex when in reality the limit of their sexual interest in each other is a curious one night stand Maybe

[kencoded-kengirl]

young old guard you will always be famous

[alcubierre-warpin]

Gerri is from Idaho

[blackstarising]

love how the old guard is having their own succession spinoff in the kitchen

[grimmlinn]

because it’s all about cycles and it’s all about family this is how it’s going to go down in succession (im delusional). shiv will find herself an incredibly rich single or unhappily married mother to a child she never wanted and as such she will never fully be apart of the business in the way she wanted because motherhood will be the perfect ammunition for her to be blocked even further out. she will understand she is becoming caroline and there is nothing she can do to fight it. roman will have to go. either he dies or he leaves but however it happens I doubt it’s a sensible cathartic decision he himself makes. that leaves kendall to finally at last take complete control of waystar just how he always dreamed. he is in charge alone at the top. he is logan. he even has his own rose (roman) who he lost along the way while chasing his cravings for power and for whom he’ll always blame himself for a little, and he then has his own ewan (shiv) who hates him for keeping her out and taking control and forgetting everything he came from (the family) because at the end of the day he was just her older brother and she was his little sister and now he is her father and she is her mother and people are dead and gone and it’s all unhappily ever after but hey they’re rich and in the end someone succeeded alright!!!

[shivsdownstairsneighbour]

Succession x F1

Since it's F1 GP weekend, and with not a single soul having asked for this, I thought about Succession characters and which race they'd go to. (This is based on none of them seeming to be F1 people, so it would be all for side businesses or just for the vibes.)

Logan: He wouldn't even get close to the track, ngl. But, if he does, he goes for the Hungarian GP making it a corporate retreat for everyone (with more Boar on the Floor).

Connor: Silverstone out of being a classic track in line with the eldest boy vibes, and it was built on a WWII airfield, so it has a historical element.

Kendall: The Number One boi would go to Spa-Francorchamps because it's unpredictably rainy and the weather is always moody.

Roman: He gets Monza because wanted to book a race in Italy, didn't specify which, realizes he should've specified, and ends up in getting swarmed by the Tifosi who jump to the track and get all rowdy.

Shiv: She gets Zandvoort because it used to be on the calendar, then it didn't, and it's making a comeback into becoming mainstay. The weather is also super unpredictable.

Tom: He gets Monaco but because he googled about how to get the most "classic" and luxe experience knowing absolutely nothing about F1. He gets annoyed and throws off-shot remarks if he sees anyone walking around wearing official merch, pretending to be already so aloof about it despite being his first time attending.

Greg: Monaco because he follows Tom.

Stewy: Singapore no doubt. Great track, requires top strategy, and happens at night. Gets to spend a relaxing weekend treating himself to some good food and partying.