Do you think there is anything to take away with how the Roy’s each address the expels of their waste? Shiv spits, Kendall shits, Logan pisses and vomits, and they all leave it for others to take care of but Tom and Roman have technically taken on their excess on their own. Roman cleans his cum off his window and Tom consumes his own cum. So sorry to say these things to you but I am curious
god im so glad im the person you say these things to
so my short answer is yeah, i think this whole show is largely about the disposal of waste (bodily, political, etc) and the examples you list here go along with that. it's interesting with the roys who live these lavish gilded lifestyles but still have, like, dead raccoons in their chimney and they still piss and shit and yerf like the rest of humanity.
to get more detailed, i definitely do read into the specific bodily fluids involved (probably more than the writers do consciously lol, but like... these cultural associations do exist). kendall shitting (expelling black bile) at his emotional turning point in season 2; logan having the phlegmatic piss motif but also yerfing at argestes when he tries to use anger (choler) to win against nan and ends up losing control; roman shown cleaning cum, another fluid you'd associate with phlegm in the classical model. in this sense it's interesting shiv spits after the "rape me" incident: she's really deliberately trying to speak her father's and brothers' businessfuck language, one whose vocabulary is made up partially of (certain) bodily fluids.
in terms of the disposal methods, i have always thought it was funny that tom's defence of the snowballing incident is that it was "like a closed-loop system." i think on this show---as in life---a bodily excretion generally signifies some kind of emotional release, cathartic experience, or important shift. but with the snowballing, as tom notes, all the fluid stays inside him, which means his bachelor party blowjob is kind of robbed of its emotional valence for him. it becomes a humiliation instead of any kind of release. analogously to how shiv is emptionally constipated and therefore rarely shown in bathrooms, tom in 'prague' is emotionally repressed and stuck and therefore can't get his literal fluids flowing. i think for tom this is tied to the way he later expresses his misogynist ownership over shiv's body by fretting over 'wasting' his jizz. his distress about power and his relationships is expressed and shown thru the flow (or lack thereof) of his jizz.
if you expel something bodily and you're a roy, you want that excretion to either accomplish something (shiv spitting, logan pissing) or at least just disappear tidily (kendall shitting, logan yerfing). what you don't want is to have it hanging around inside your own body, or, god forbid, for you to be the one who cleans it up yourself. i think you're right to pair roman and tom in this sense: they're the two characters shown failing to deal with their cum in an appropriate manner according to roy standards.
i also think the cum... motif? is interesting in light of connor's line linking together usury and onanism as "the spilling of good seed" lmfao. pretty much all of the male characters on this show have some degree of masculinity/virility anxiety, but roman and tom are feminised in specific ways, both failing to live up to logan's hierarchical and authoritarian ideal of manhood and both shown taking this out on anyone weaker than them (often greg). so i think the two of them being the ones who swallow and wipe up their own jizz is meaningful insofar as it tells us something about their place on the corporate ladder and logan's disgust for their femininity. (kendall of course is also feminised in logan's language, but this articulates differently and he still usually has an assumed role as the heir apparent that roman and tom haven't been able to usurp yet.)
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