#shiv my girlfailure

[keyotos]

the last succession episode... i am not okay.

[slowdancer]

haven't watched the ep yet but i think shiv should be allowed to run people over with her car specifically tom and also anyone else she wants as a mother's day gift

[proustianlesbian]

shoutout to rich mean girllosses with a dead father and failmarriage(s), my favorite genre of women.

they're also both lesbians, they told me themselves.

(funfact : if there ever was a live action of monster i'd love to see eva having kinda the same vibe as shiv in term of like costumes, hair etc idk.)

[shvroyism]

Something I’ll never understand is preferring s1 shiv. Yes, she appeared to be very functional, independent and was successful outside of Waystar but she was also…very underwritten before 1x10. It’s like they didn’t know what to do with her besides the whole overused cheating storyline with Nate, and I hate him so I skip all of their scenes when I rewatch s1.

Meanwhile, S2 turned her into the most complex character in the show and nothing compares to her in that season.

[bolly--quinn]

hand in unlovable hand.

[allurared]

actually shiv IS the most tragic character in succession i think, like in her ideal world she's made for another show, somewhere where a girlboss who takes space and leans in and dabbles in abject cruelty is rewarded, where becoming her dad is a little sad, sure, but where she's ultimately gonna win for adopting the machismo and brutality of the corporate world, she's the underdog who every man underestimates and will finally prove wrong, but no, she has to live in this reality where sure she might be not taken as seriously for being a woman, and might be subjected to some kind of misogyny, but she is at the end of the day a sheltered daddy's girl who has to face the cruel fact that she isn't owed anything even though it is all incredibly unfair, that she can't escape being a woman even with her immense privilege

[spellmotif]

Gwendolyn Bouchard concepts. I've been absolutely captivated by her put-together wet-cat-of-a-woman hypercompetence and blunt attitude. I want to wring her out like a dish towel. Putting her in a jar as we speak, on a shelf in my collection labeled "girlboss girlfailures" along with Shiv Roy Succession and Tabitha Scarlet Hollow. I need to see her covered in blood, or getting a hug, or both. Someone give her a lead pipe and see what she does with it. Her playlist absolutely fascinates and confounds me. I need to know every detail of her childhood and/or familial trauma. Her ass is NOT making it out of this narrative alive-

[saturnskyline]

top 10 female characters

tagged by @dummerjan, thank you!!! <3

rules: name favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people

this was unreasonably hard but that's what i get for watching so much bl gkshsjd. anyway this list is about to be wild but here's some of my faves 😄 (i say "some of" bc if i am asked to make a definitive list for anything i will literally die lol)

in no particular order:

1. clarice starling (the silence of the lambs)

not to be a filmbro on main but. i really do love this movie (certain trans stereotypes aside), and clarice is an absolute icon. jodie foster you will always be famous <3

2. tiffy (lovely writer)

she makes me absolutely feral at all times?? bisexual biker girl with the most beautiful smile in the world???? yeah we stan

3. yoon ji-woo (my name)

i'm just saying, i would not complain if she beat me up. in fact, i would thank her for the privilege!! on my knees for her any day, han so hee my beloved

4. toni shalifoe (the wilds)

mean lesbians deserve the world methinks :) love how strong and authentic she was, miss her every day 💔💔

5. shiv roy (succession)

she's a girlfailure, she's mother, she's the loml, she makes me blush whenever she's on my screen bc she's JUST TOO FINE! sarah snook the woman that you are!!

6. ink (bad buddy)

MY SUNSHINE GIRL MY EVERYTHING. love her so dearly, blowing lots of kisses to her at all times 🥰

7. amma crellin (sharp objects)

amma is so layered and compelling and just the best ngl. i've never seen a character like her and idk if i ever will again. legend

8. kate sharma (bridgerton)

i mean. she looks like she walked out of a fairy tale. how am i supposed to not fall in love with her. (answer: it's impossible, she is an angel)

9. fiona gallagher (shameless)

my queen. my ride or die. literally what didn't she do. increased my bisexuality by tenfold, i'll tell you that!

10. miw (3 will be free)

100/10 i would die for her!!!! and btw she has never done anything wrong in her entire life, which is so cool and valid of her

tagging @vegasandhishedgehog @leporschespam @stillqueerstillhere @negrowhat @askanis @waitforthestars @a-slut-for-vegaspete @i-got-the-feels @salamander89 @shesaboozle with zero pressure 💌💌

[baelorbreakbeds]

im watching succession and the roys are basically modern lannisters

logan😷😷 is tywin two evil old men who deserve to be killed by their kids

roman is tyrion my sad traumatised clown sons

shiv is cersei they both think their girlbosses but are actually girlfailures theyre losers💓love that for them

so jaime i think is connor not kendall is that an unpopular opinion

[amourdedove]

thinking about my favorite girlfailure shiv roy

[marianessheridan]

to add a little comment oh shiv's character: I feel like a lot of the succession community fails to interpret the motivations behind the actions of characters like shiv, for example — she is not some kind of misunderstood and misinterpreted genius that goes unseen because of sheer misogyny, she is intrinsically a *girlfailure* (to use internet terms). she acts on her behalf alone and isn't the one seeing ahead all the time or the smartest in the room. she isn't the most experienced or the one with the most administrative ability to run the company. the second she is no longer useful to lukas he discards her and shows what has actually been happening all along: he was the one being disingenuous and using her, essentially. what shiv truly is is a younger, more energetic and slightly more progressive version of her father, a cruel and ruthless and morally broken person, but one that falls behind due to being a victim of misogyny and her own shortsighted vision. she is not a feminist fighter that is ready to risk anything for what she considers correct and rightful, she is indeed willing to risk everything but for her own sake, for the feeling of power her family has deemed to be the most important aspect of life a person can strive for, for the capitalistic benefit that is inherently attached to that power. she is willing to give up all she has done before when her father offers her the company, for example, and also is ready to undermine tom and climb over him both emotionally and in the company while he is on the verge of going to prison. and that's okay. she was never meant to represent the morality of a well-intended person who falls flat due to the cruel corporate culture, she is part of the game — she is, if anything, more morally corrupt than any of the siblings. and, if anything, that makes her character way more complex, nuanced and interesting. I believe shiv is one of the best written characters in the show and is in my top 3 favorites. I absolutely love watching her.

[sea-glass-and-fire]

I've never seen Succession but here's my impression of it from dash osmosis:

it's about a rich old man (named logan I think?) and his three adult children who want to inherit his business when he dies.

The family was estranged but at the beginning the dad's health declined and the adult children came back to try to get the inheritance.

Everyone HATES each other so much. They're all the WORST.

The children are named Shivan (also called shiv) (she doesn't spell it Siobhan so I have no idea how to spell it), tom, and...wait, i think logan is actually one of the children. Is the father named Dan or something?

everyone is very cringefail, except Shiv, who is a girlboss (but also kind of a girlfailure.)

There's also a cousin greg, who's the MOST cringefail. He's really a mess.

WAIT hold on I'm pretty sure he has a Thing(TM) with Shiv's husband, and I'm also pretty sure that people think that Greg and Tom are gonna fuck. so Tom is definitely not Shiv's brother.

I'm gonna be honest I know that the patriarch (...Dave? It's definitely not Dave, right?) has a daughter and two sons but I'll be fucked if I can produce any of their names besides Shiv..

The plot revolves around the family doing Rich People Business Things while being cringefail losers. Presumably at the end one of the adult children of ROY HIS NAME IS ROY I KNEW I WOULD REMEMBER!! will be chosen to inherit the business.

Is Cousin Greg in the running to inherit? Or does he just hang around to provide secondhand embarrassment and sexual tension with Shiv's husband?

Was he like...a business major? Because he really doesn't seem like he's adding that much professionally. But also it doesn't seem all that likely that Roy would choose this absolute drip of a man over his three actual children.

One of the Roy's sons (Logan or The Other One) committed vehicular manslaughter at one point and Roy Made It Go Away with like. expensive lawyers or bribing the judge or whatever rich people do. This did not take the son out of the running to inherit, so apparently everyone else really just sucks at being a human.

I DO get the sense that Shiv should be the one to take over and the only reason her brothers are even being considered is because Roy is sexist.

This whole shitshow just keeps rolling from conference room to conference room, getting in the way of actual work with their bizarre interpersonal drama.

I would therefore like to present my pitch for a spinoff: the head of HR who has to put out their fires finally snaps and turns to a life of crime like joker.

And that's Succession!! I'm definitely fuzzy on some of the details like the names, but I'm actually pretty confident about most of the rest of it.

[shvroyism]

How would you rank the four seasons of Succession from fave to least fave?

1. SEASON 2: this is THE shiv season idc every episode belonged to her and that’s why its perfect + it introduced shiv to waystar and therefore to the main plot (i know a lot of people prefer s1 shiv because she was independent and out of the company but THEY ARE WRONG and people that think like that shouldn’t be allowed to perceive her. you could literally tell the writers didn’t know what to do with her in s1 and nate SUCKS. I love her being a tragic girlfailure) + it has most of my favorite episodes + the beginning of romangerri + peak kenstewy angst + peak kendall angst + best finale + most interesting main conflict (the cruise scandal and sandy/stewy takeover) + SHIV SHIV SHIV

2. season 4: idk, it also has a lot of shiv and i don’t particularly care about episodes 5 and 6 but connor’s wedding and the finale make up for that. It was PURE excellence

3. season 1: the first 5 episodes were all over the place and a little boring (also, not that much shiv compared to the other seasons) but 1x06 ended my sanity and 1x07 is my fav succession episode just for the shiv/logan/kendall fight at the end so YEAH, i think every episode after 1x05 is a masterpiece

4. season 3: i love it, but the kendall and logan conflict should’ve been explored more, the ending of 2x10 set my expectations way too high and the way this storyline unfolded was kind of a let down + i hated the way they ended the stewy takeover + i hated that mattson was introduced because i hate him + i still adore this season and its still 100000/10 for me

[cauldronofmorning]

Top 5 fucked up girlfailures?

I promise to watch Dee and IASIP when I can!

Shiv Roy. My girl can't stop losing, even when she's trying to juggle multiple dad-dates. Love the detail of her hair being messier the more she's struggling.

Kim Wexler. So many mama issues she got a very loving sex mommy with boundaries (thank you Bojack) for a husband. So terrified of talking with him and losing him that she instigates scams instead.

Camille Preaker. Girl... girl.

Thirteenth Doctor. Just tortured herself trying to live up to 12's ideals (when he'd gone through mind bending trauma), really loves dirt.

Speaking of Bojack, Diane Nguyen. She makes me desperately sad.