#success in love and marriage

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration from Success in Love and Marriage by Robert A. Rawlins. Detroit: Home Institute, Detroit Evening Times. n.d.

[sweetmilkbread]

Gone Girl (2014) / Succession (2018-2023)

[wulfhalls]

same dynamic. to me

[helianthus21]

honestly if there's one change book to TV that I'm super grateful for it's ageing up Daniel Molloy. that wet sack of a boy needed to ripen to reach Bogosian!Daniel level of sass

[peeta-mellark]

OLIVIA BAKER ALL AMERICAN 6x13 "Victory Lap"

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

3x4 | 4x10 

[cowboysmp3]

ok not to be insane but the whole tom putting the bidding sticker on greg situ is SO indicative of their entire relationship bc its all about Tom’s desire for control and ownership over something (due to him feeling powerless and out of control in his relationship with shiv). Him putting that sticker on Greg wasnt just a hehe ill look after you way it was much more ‘I own you. You are reliant on me now and I OWN you’. Which is a sentiment that is the very FABRIC of their relationship, calling back to the ‘I will not let go of what is mine’ water bottle scene. Obsessed actually

[javelinbk]

John: Is with a girl for four years, she falls pregnant, they get married = baby-trapped!

Paul: Is with a girl on and off for a few months, she falls pregnant, they get married = romance of the century!

[ladyluscinia]

Shout out to whoever said one of Shiv's visceral, emotional reasons was that Tom would never be able to take the moral high ground in their relationship again. Because exactly!

Shiv still might be fucked in the business sense because Tom is a puppet and Matsson doesn't respect her, but in terms of her marriage... She still wants him even after the worst things have been said, and the "worst thing" he was most upset by was that she repeatedly left him out to dry in pursuit of her own power. Well, now it doesn't matter how valid his complaints were! He can never make that particular point again without the most loaded silence of his life! And on top of that, he's added another betrayal of her. That new imbalance more than anything is what will derail the divorce, and make it so she's NOT meekly coming home and begging him to let her stay as his housewife or whatever.

Business power is still up in the air, but she's taken a huge amount of private power back. It was an emotional move driven more by hurt than logic, but she's still done it!

And I do appreciate the TomGreg parallel here, too, because Greg has always been Tom's solution to feeling like Shiv was above him. His own personal Roy to lord over. Their friction was coming from Greg growing an ego around the Roy name and trying to leverage himself out from under Tom's thumb. Well, now he's fucked it! It's not Royco anymore! Greg doesn't have Matsson's backing, his name is worthless, and he overplayed himself into a certain death situation. And then here's Tom, letting him stay despite the betrayal but only because Tom bought him.

Tom got the crown, Shiv got the marital upper hand to help her deal with that, and Tom got Greg to help him deal with that.

They are so fucking dysfunctional but maybe TomShiv can make this work 😘

[kelvingemstone]

shiv and tom r so good because. she's the girl of your dreams. the one in all the magazines you looked at since you were a child, yes, that specific one. you pulled her out of a pit, you made yourself useful to her, and she showed you her heart, and now you're in love. it's the love story of your dreams. but then you wake up, and that's not all of her: she is callous and she has her boot right on your neck and she will never acknowledge anything but you being in her debt. you wake in increments and you realise that her world has made you into a paper-mache man, and you have acquiesced to it, because you love her, and you love your story. you love the luxury that comes with it, the exclusive ICU ward you proposed to her in, the fuckall-big estate you were married in, the penthouse you've got your marital bed in, the vineyard you own which sends you boxes of wine. the waking takes a while, but when it's done you realise that she doesn't need you for any of it, that it comes as easy to her as birthright, and you've simply gone out of style. you've both said too many truths and the love story is cracked and gone because you wanted to, for once in your life, have something more than her. and so she leaves, but she likes that grasping part of you, so she comes back, and it repeats till you realise: there is something of you inside of her, literally. you've sunk your claws in and she's scrambling. you've got the girl, the company, and the child. it's the love story of your dreams.

[lambergeier]

adding jack antonoff to the list of people i gotta send ten dollars to, for some walking around money. i disrespected his strange desire acoustic remaster (because it's bad) but hey can i say: this guys puts on one of the best live shows i've ever seen

[whoblewboobear]

I know it doesn’t pan out but good for Claudia for being like “we should just kill him.” Like yeah girl kill him PLEASE. If Lestat gets to be a little bitch, Claudia and Louis can and should be allowed to wanna kill him about it as a treat 🥰 also I am cheering every time Lestat shows up in a new robe. So far I’ve counted three. They’re all very cute he looks so cozy.

Time for the finale~

[amygdalae]

also i gotta say Greg this season of sucksession has become an even nastier more vulgar little snake than ever. to the point where i no longer find his awkward bumbling nature endearing. I used to kinda adore him now I just hope he falls into a deep pit causing his unnaturally long frame to fold up like a shitty capitalist accordion

[ghostdrinkssoup]

I’D CASTRATE AND MARRY YOU IN A HEARTBEAT ????? TOM ????????? (← POV you just watched lion in the meadow for the first time and by you I mean me because what the fuck guys)

[lucy-moderatz]

[imaginarianisms]

more asoiaf comparisons, parallels & antiparallels to the first dance of the dragons vs the second & final dance of the dragons (& possibly the sixth blackfyre rebellion): the blacks being daenerys i targaryen's supporters, the golds being aegon vi targaryen's supporters, tommen baratheon being a close equivalent to gaemon palehair & his mother essie & sylvenna sand which may be interpreted as a parallel with queen cersei lannister & taena merryweather of myr, trystane truefyre being a close equivalent to aegon/young griff & perkin being jon connington & the shepherd being the new high septon the high sparrow, dalton greyjoy being euron i greyjoy's ancestor & the latter surpassing him, alyn waters later alyn velaryon resembling aurane waters later aurane velaryon & finishing what their ancestors started. history repeats itself.