#truth season 4

[reunitedinterlude]

dan: can you say anything and then say “gays,” as if that's a type of gay

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: Several drawings of Five from the Umbrella Academy being hugged and/or being shown other forms of physical affection, from each of his siblings (plus Lila). They include: Klaus draping himself over Five's head while Five claws at him and scowls. Allison wrapping Five in a tender hug. Luther carrying Five like a football while Five glares but has giving up on fighting. Diego lifting Five up in a hug while Five looks surprised. Five leaning on Viktor, napping, while Viktor reads a book. Lila scrolling her phone with her legs draped across Five, both of them lying on the floor. End ID.]

I have largely restrained myself from giving Five hugs because he does not hug. But now!!! It's fair game and I'm here to make it everyone else's problem

[too-many-rooks]

I love this moment. He’s beaten, trapped, helpless. he knows it’s over, and he wants them to get on with ending it. Capture, and living with his failure would presumably be worse options than a quick death.

But he’s frightened. His eyes are wet. The blood on his cheeks looks like tear tracks.

The narrative (and the audience,) demands his death for killing Marcus, but it’s hard not feel pity for him in this moment.

You see a young man with no options, indoctrinated by Frank and manipulated from birth to be loyal and obedient and dangerous. This could be River, if things were only slightly different.

He’s not a weapon, he’s not unstoppable, he’s thoroughly and entirely broken; his brothers are dead, and he’s never going home again.

[technicolourtelevision]

Hugo: I'm a little concerned to freelance. Can I get a sign off from Karolina and Roman? Kendall: No, pal. No. Down-low. Just get on it. Unless… You want me to pull out the strap-on?

SUCCESSION || 4x04

[thequeenwechoose]

[ef-1]

tapping the "do you even like Lewis or do you just like shipping him with a white man" sign

[ukiyoebirds]

"And The Truth Will Set You Free"

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[bitchthefuck1]

Tom's line about Shiv being selfish and "find[ing] it very hard to think about me" is actually so telling because while it's absolutely true that she rarely takes his position into consideration, Tom never once thinks about what he can do to help Shiv unless it also benefits him.

Every single time he makes a move or sacrifice that might help her, it's always something that he thinks will give him a leg up. He volunteers to take the fall for cruises, not for Shiv, who is in no way implicated, or even for Waystar, but because he thinks it'll ingratiate him to Logan, and the second it seems like he might have to actually follow through on that, he immediately tries to get out of it and even throws Shiv under the bus. Meanwhile, for all that Shiv disregards his interests, there are a number of things she does that only help him, and she's the one who actually sacrifices something and undermines her position with Logan to beg him not to let Tom go to jail.

It just makes it so clear that no matter how much he might love her (and I think he does, in his own compromised way), for him their relationship was always built on the underlying assumption that it's her job to prop him up, but it's not his job to help her.

[pumpkinrootbeer]

i feel like we kinda miss the whole. catalyst for fiona and lips relationship exploding.

here's your older sister, and here's the only person you've ever been able to trust. she tells you to get out again and again and again, even though you're so afraid that the moment you turn around everything is going to fall apart. getting out, and then getting the rest of them out, is your job. that's what your supposed to do.

neither of you have been able to trust your parents and all you have is each other, and she's telling you to get out. and it's either doom everyone around you by staying, or trust her and leave.

and then, right as you're finally starting to find the rhythm of a world you've beed denied access to your whole life, it's because of her, the only person you've ever been able to trust in you entire existence, because of you leaving and trusting, that your five year old brother almost dies. he's comatose. he's covered in tubes. he might never be the same again. the only person you've ever trusted has done the exact same thing your parents did. Put drugs and alcohol and letting loose above the kids their supposed to take care of.

Is it any wonder Lip stops trusting her. That Lip takes the longest to forgive her. "it wasn't her coke she didn't leave it out" she got high around a toddler and left him near the cocaine. left the cocaine where he could get it. the two other adults picked him up and danced with him with coke on the table. Lip walks in on this after spending an entire day trying to rescue their other brother. His little sister is the one who finds their baby brother.

even discounting that in response to this he has to suddenly start stealing food or else all the kids in the house will starve, or that Fiona suddenly jackrabbits into another person he has to care for instead of someone he can trust, or that he now has to care for a 4 year old, while working a job, and being a full time college student on work study, discounting all of that of course Lip looses faith in his sister. Of course he does.

[laurrelise]

breaking: old man can’t figure out how to put on clothing that isn’t a three piece suit

also dropping the reference pic + a little bonus <3

[willgraham-manwhore]

Reading back the season 4 announcement prediction posts with a tear in my eye and a clown wig on my head :,)

[kleiner-ghost]

[buckingham-ashtray]

I swear I'm won’t even bat an eyelash if they don't canonlize johnlock in s5 cuz like yeah it’s “justice” but honestly who gives a toss if the show creators are such pussies they’re are too scared to show it on screen JOHNLOCK HAVE ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS BE TOGETHER but ISTG IF THEY JUST GIVE UP AND NOT EXPLAIN ALL THE S4 SKULLDUGGERY (pun intended, sue me) OR ONLY GIVE A SHIT ASS SIMPLE EXPLANATION I’M SERIOUSLY GOING TO - [redacted]

[whosstella]

Rudy in his recent post said “For now….” FOR NOW???? What have I been telling y’all??? He WILL be back next season and I don’t want anyone saying any bs abt this.

[orionauriga]

quantum immortality

the umbrella academy | five-centric s4 fix-it | 5k words | gen

“Be realistic,” Booth Five says. “It’s time you face inevitability. The rest of us have.” “No,” Five snarls, appalled at the words and doubly so to hear them in his own voice. “You know who you sound like? The Handler.”

In Max’s Deli, Five comes to a different conclusion.

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tldr: five hargreeves fucking loves and would do anything for his family and he would not lay down and die when told there's nothing he can do to save them.

[accioepiphany]

Choosing to believe 🕯️🕯️

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