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Tom & Shiv | Succession
tomshiv / i'm your man - mitski.
Tomshiv + Hands
actually what if i told you shiv and tom were relationship goals
KENDALL AND SHIV ROY as CAIN & ABEL;
josé saramago / a brother named gethsemane by natalie diaz / after abel by dante émile / jonathan goldstein, ladies and gentlemen, the bible! / cain kills abel by gustave doré / the bible / succession scripts / josé saramago / the orphan and its relations by elizabeth robinson / famous blue raincoat by leonard cohen.
TOM and SHIV at the first and last episode of Succession S4.
can i just say something? at this party here there are maybe 40 of the most important people in america and you have just walked all around, all evening, telling them all that i'm gonna get fired. no, it was implied, lightly, as a little... god! part of a tactical kind of joke. will you explain to me, the joke? because i don't get the fucking joke. MY GOD, TOM! i don't get the joke, i don't get the joke. it was something that he said, that isn't true, that we needed to say. but you stood by his side, and he said it, and you were like "okay, well, that sounds good to me." fuck's sake, i'm not doing this right now. you know i'm in serious trouble, that was a play. you will be okay because you are a tough fucking bitch who will always survive because you do what you need, you will do what — are you even listening? i will be okay? — you will do whatever you need. yeah? really? yeah, you sure you're not projecting, because that is actually you. should we have a real conversation? with a scorpion? no. that was a friendly thing. that was a friendly thing. yeah. sure. real friendly. yeah, no, i'm a scorpion, you're a hyena, you're a... you're a street rat. actually, no, you're a fucking snake. "here's a dead snake to wear as a necktie, tom", "why aren't you laughing?" (pause) i wonder if we shouldn't clear the air. yeah? yeah. sure. i think you can be a very selfish person and i think you find it very hard to think about me — what the fuck? — and i think you shouldn't have even married me, actually. what the fuck? what the ACTUAL fuck? you proposed to me. you proposed at my lowest fucking ebb. my dad was dying, what was i supposed to say? perhaps "no"? i didn't want to hurt your feelings. thanks! thanks for that! yeah, you really kept me safe while you ran off to fuck the phone book. fuck off. you're hick — and then, and then.. — conservative hick — you hid it, you hid it because you were so scared of how fucking awful you are. you were only with me to get to power. you got it now, tom, you've got it! I'M WITH YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU! bullshit, you're fucking me for my DNA, you were fucking me for a fucking ladder because your whole family is striving and parochial. that's not... thats not a fair characterization. no? well, your mom loves me more than she loves you, because she's cracked. you want to... you want to actually clear the air? fine. you betrayed me. YOU WERE GOING TO SEE ME SENT TO FUCKING PRISON, SHIV! AND THEN YOU FOBBED ME OFF WITH THAT FUCKING UNDRINKABLE WINE AND YOU WON'T HAVE MY BABY BECAUSE YOU NEVER EVEN THOUGHT, HONESTLY, THAT YOUD BE WITH ME MORE THAN FOUR FUCKING YEARS, I DON'T THINK! YOU OFFERED TO GO TO JAIL! YOU OFFERED TO GO TO JAIL BECAUSE YOU'RE SERVILE! you're just... YOU'RE SERVILE! YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF THINKING ABOUT ANYBODY OTHER THAN YOURSELF BECAUSE YOUR SENSE OF WHO YOU ARE, SHIV, IS THAT FUCKING THIN! oh yeah you read that in a book, tom? YOU'RE TOO FUCKING TRANSPARENT TO FIND THAT IN A BOOK! you're pathetic, you're pathetic. youre a masochist and you can't even take it. i think you are incapable of love, and i think you are maybe not a good person to have children! well, that's not very nice to say, is it? i'm sorry. i'm sorry, but you... you... you have hurt me more than you can possibly imagine. and you, you took away the last six months i could've had with my dad. no. yes. no! yes. you sucked up to him and you cut me out! it's not my fault that you didn't get his approval. i have given you endless approval and it doesn't fill you up because you're broken. i don't like you. i don't... i don't even care about you. i don't care. have we cleared the air, huh? feel good now? yeah. yeah. fucking great. tip top. you don't deserve me, and you never did. and everything came out of that. so fucking flat.
You want to play bitey?
godddddd like sure bitey is on the nose but it all comes back to 1.06 and Shiv bruising Tom accidentally in the bedroom and then going to Nate in the very same episode and saying "I tried playing with you and you broke." Do you get it? She needs someone she can be angry at and push around and bite without consequence. Because she spends her whole life bottling up her anger so it doesn't get released at the wrong person at the wrong time and get her hurt. Because she's terrified of vulnerability but if you can bite back then it becomes a little less scary. Because relationships should be a fair exchange and she needs to bite and so she needs the other person to bite back so she doesn't have to carry the guilt, but she also needs them to do it on her terms so she never feels like she's given up power. If you bite me and I bite you then it's okay. If we both agree on a wrong thing then it's not wrong.
And then. "I would follow you anywhere Tom Wambsgans" and the mutual laughter. Love isn't real. Love isn't real, right? There's no one in the world who would sacrifice wealth and money and security for someone else, right? Or - maybe that kind of love does exist, but it's not for people like us. How far have we come from "Let's get out let's teach scuba let's become sheep farmers in New Zealand." Was that ever true, really? And now that we've admitted it was all a lie we can laugh about it and we can pretend that actually it's fine. It's fine that we keep hurting each other it's fine that we can't trust each other it's fine that, when the rubber hits the road, both of us have limits on what we'll do for each other. It's fine that the capital comes first and everything else comes second. It's fine that strategy is sexy and it's fine that we're keeping our options open. We're not missing anything because love's not real anyways, and maybe it never was
Marie Howe, The Affliction
miranda july / don delillo / holly warburton / richard siken / aaron diaz / ross gay / robert anton wilson
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SUCCESSION (2018—)
SUCCESSION | S4E03 | Connor’s Wedding
1.10 | 4.01
Love is the last fridge magnet left. Right. How do you mean? Well, I mean that love is… it’s like 28 different things, and they all get lumped in together in this one sack, and there’s a lot of… things in that sack, it needs to get emptied out. There’s fear and jealousy and revenge, control, and… they all get wrapped up in really nice fucking wrapping paper, and it just looks really lovely and nice, but when you open it up…
So this is it, huh?
Hmm, yeah. I guess. We gave it a go.