too cool and likeable

chai. early 30s. she/her. i write about succession and eating/body issues

[kencoded-kengirl]

thank you once again succession scripts for making me want to kill myself every day ♥️

[adelidae]

getting up from bed tips

getting up from bed cheats

getting up from bed codes

getting up from bed ending explained

[sesamesesame]

@lemon-lacroix asked: I would loooovee to hear more "no one is surprised that ilya got fat" thoughts... 😁

You know I do, and I'd looove to provide (and hear your thoughts if you wanna riff on this- please!)

He’d been warned more than once that it would catch up to him someday, all teasing jabs to the ribs about what happened to guys like him in retirement, and he'd laughed, and he hadn’t thought himself immune.

It might be, he thought, a sort of badge he’d earn, living long enough to eclipse his athletic potential, settle down, get fat. It might be proof that he’d lived at all, something to other than all the old injuries that would never fully heal. The idea was novel, and comforting.

Drunken eating competitions against his teammates, pre-game sugar and post-game grease, groaning loudly about eating too much, bored airport coffee with caramel whip, helping himself to handfuls of the otherwise-neglected bowls of snack foods at photoshoots because he’s an athlete, not a model, and he was hungry, food is for eating, why not?

A birthday video posted by Marley on instagram of Ilya housing a whole cupcake in one go like a snake swallowing a rat and then winking at the camera.

Someone doesn't want something their partner slipped into their bag? Their captain will eat it. He's not picky, and no one's packing him a lunch.

No more smoking, no more snorting what he's offered, no more sleeping around. Everyone knows he can't give it all up. And a guy's gotta eat to live. He's always gone hard with everything he's done.

No one thought he was going to hold the team pull-up record forever, either. No one blames him for deciding he's done pushing himself to the cliff's edge of his physical potential when he hangs up his jersey. If anything, they're kind of relieved.

[lemon-lacroix]

Omg this is wonderful, angsty and sad and hot. I love the idea of garbage disposal Ilya eating up all the leftovers and unwanted lunches.

Also I saw the notification for your previous ask answer before deletion, and "But he’d also conditioned himself to need the food to placate himself, snacks to keep himself busy and something like satisfied when he came back to his hotel suites alone and everything felt a little too still." is such a hot sentence it almost killed me when I read it on my lunch break, so THANK YOU FOR THAT

I am really loving the idea of Ilya as someone without off brakes, in contrast to Shane who is so tightly controlled. Ilya as Mr. Work Hard Play Hard, oscillating between depressed and living it up, sleeping/grinding and partying/fucking/eating. The latter is, in some ways, a celebration - he's alive - but in other ways an escape, a refusal to confront his own fears of inadequacy and death.

But what's complicated for Ilya, and maybe for the people who know and love him, looks simple to everyone else: he's a hedonist. While everyone else is measuring protein, he's lapping up ice cream that has dripped past the cone and onto his hand. He's always a few more drinks in front of everyone else at the bar, and he's not the one showing up for optional early conditioning drills, choosing instead to sleep in and roll out of bed just before practice starts. And of course, once there, he shows up everyone else with his natural talent. So maybe a few of them are secretly kind of hoping the gluttony and laziness will catch up to him one day. Maybe his father was right (sorry can't help making this overly angsty...)

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

ilya would love putting chips on a sandwich

[evan-buck]

SUCCESSION 2x01 // Succession - Season Two: The Complete Scripts

[timotay-chalamet]

BONUS

[zodiacmac]

i'm sure someone has said this before, but succession and severance actually have something more in common with one another than just a million emmys. both stories have this throughline of an adult child never being enough for their father or, by extension, their father's company. helena and kendall were children who were beaten into submission and indoctrinated by companies that were more like cults, but expected to be fearless leaders and innovators in adulthood.

they were never allowed the freedom to explore life well enough to develop the necessary traits that a leader would actually need to have. a leader needs ingenuity, but they were taught to never express themselves or trust their instincts. a leader needs strength, but they were taught to shrink back at confrontation and acquiesce to others. a leader needs to see the cracks in an industry to see opportunity, but they were taught to never question the world around them.

they were doomed by the narrative before the shows even started.

if kier and logan were both men whose work will have provided their lineage, til the end of time, to be eternally wealthy and complacent because of it, how do jame and logan expect their children to possess the qualities of a fighter?

they are forever children, never able to grow up. raised as followers, not leaders. kept in line like sheep by herding dogs who've never been allowed out of their enclosure, but expected to be able to understand and control the world that they've never been allowed to really see.

[lemon-lacroix]

the trade, ch 3 snippet!

thought I'd finish ch 3 tonight but I didn't and wanted to post some of it anyway before I go to bed

me 🤝 ilya no impulse control

anyway, a little bit of weight gain and angst under the cut!

When the text from Jane comes, its blandness stings. Like Ilya is an old school friend. At least he is still in Russia, where the food is reliably heavy and warm and soaked in the flavors of his youth, so he doesn’t have to think too much about the unanswered message burning a hole in his pocket. He slurps up borscht and lets the soup burn the roof of his mouth. Maybe he should cool it – the soup, the reckless consumption. His waistbands all feel tight lately, even the elastic ones, and when he bends down to tie his skates he can feel a new bulk in the way. Ilya has been observing these changes detachedly, like they are happening to someone else. 

Other people have begun to notice, though. Not just the media and his family, but his coaches, teammates. Chirps have taken on a new edge. He’s been encouraged, both subtly and not, to train harder, to “watch” what he eats. He glares at this next bite of borscht – hah. There you go.

What is not so funny is that if other players have noticed Ilya’s weight gain, even under the layers of his uniform, then certainly so has Shane Hollander.

[ruicui]

oversharing online is so important cus like what if someone needed to know that

[alicentslvr]

succession was protected from the 'tv show collapsing in on itself in the face of network franchising efforts' curse because the portal was right over HBO head quarters. lucy prebble said if anyone sends jesse another email about writing a spinoff, i will make sure kendall closes that swirling pit of nothing in the sky. but only after it swallows you guys whole

[badassdemonsword]

[yesornopolls]

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[gaystardykeco]

hi succession fandom how do we think the roys feel about the ny knicks winning the finals. i personally think kendall is being so performatively excited about it

[lemon-lacroix]

Q: Did you watch the NBA Finals?

Kendall: Fuck yeah. *nods seriously* Biggest, uh... comeback in finals history. Knew the Knicks could do it. They can't fucking keep us down!!!!

Roman: What? No, fuck you. I don't eat up sports slop like all the little piggies oink oink oink

Shiv: I turned it on in the last few minutes. It was fine. Does it really matter who wins these things?

Connor: Willa and I had courtside seats. It was exhilarating! Like the Romans must have felt watching a gladiator match close up.

Tom: I was busy. But I knew they'd win. Greg: Dude, aren't you a Timberwolves fan? Tom, hissing: Shut the fuck up, Greg, you little rat

[bladeebjork]

s3 kendall roy and the sins of his father as he tries to “leave the firm” [read: break the cycle]

- he betrays Logan when he realizes his complicity in the “no real person involved” scandal

- he assumes he is better than logan because he won’t standby in this corporate cover up but he still practices the same toxic corporate behavior as logan when he belittles the primarily female management team he hires

- he treats greg as disposable in the same way logan treats him as disposable

- on his birthday, he even neglects his children’s gifts the same way logan neglects theirs

AND WHEN HE THINKS HE’S LOSING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION HE TRIES TO RECLAIM IT AND FORCE HIS WISHES ON TO OTHERS re: logan not wanting to be surprised by the elevator at his birthday vs kendall forcing every one to drop their coats and phones

this has all probably already been said but im on my rewatch and omfg succession is one of the greatest tv shows in the past decade EASILY

[nodded]

[lemon-lacroix]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander Additional Tags: Weight Gain, Fat Ilya Rozanov, Fat Shaming, specifically from the media and reddit, not Shane (but he likes it), NBA fans will recognize this premise lol Summary:

Ilya gets traded due to concerns about his conditioning. He has half a season to shape up... or to enjoy the time off. Shane knows which of those options he hopes Ilya will choose, but he's not telling.

[postingcards]

mt. tacoma (mt. rainier) seen from tacoma, washington postcard ca. 1900s