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Multifandom mess. Not a spoiler-free blog. Header @mccoswin

[wallofgoats]

no way daily mail posted this expecting people not to find it funny as hell

[dailyflicks]

THE MENU Dir. Mark Mylod

[jesusislove]

[sergle]

[homoidiotic]

i Love vaccines, autism, abortions, homosexuals, sex changes and crime

[greelin]

often horror will ask the question “what if there was a strange man outside your door?” and my answer is Well i would not like that very much. real life is like this, too

[tay-swifts]

✧ SANDRA OH attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards (March 12, 2023)

[romulussy]

[tomwambsmilk]

Lied about logging off. what if I said something really controversial instead

[tomwambsmilk]

"It's not my fault you didn't get his approval" is terrible and indefensible but I don't think it's objectively worse than anything shiv has said or done to tom over the course of their relationship

[tomwambsmilk]

at the end of the day this is a marriage between two people who are too dysfunctional and self-involved to avoid inflicting serious emotional damage on each other. shiv's treatment of tom doesn't justify his actions (although it does explain them), but also logan's abuse doesn't justify shiv's treatment of tom (although it does explain it). neither of them have the awareness to actually break the cycle because they're too focused on the ways they've personally been harmed to see the bigger picture. and that's why their season 4 confrontation is going to make me want to blow my brains out

[tomwambsmilk]

Here's the thing. I don't think Tom actually knows that Shiv sacrificed Logan's approval to try and keep him out of prison because actually telling him that would require far too much vulnerability on her part. It would be an admission of the kind of love that could be used against her and so is fundamentally unsafe. However. "It's not my fault you couldn't get his approval" is still an insane line because it's both so insightful and so fucking stupid at the same time. Yeah he completely understands that this whole thing is about the Roy kids getting Logan's approval and yet somehow does NOT understand that "getting Logan's approval" is a fundamentally different thing for them than it is for him because Logan's not his actual literal father. He knows that the struggle for Logan's approval is one of the core issues at the heart of his marriage and yet it doesn't occur to him that Logan may have intentionally driven a wedge between Tom and Shiv because no one is allowed to love anyone else more than they love Logan.

And most importantly. Tom understands the game perfectly well and yet is still operating under the delusion that the game is in any way fair. Which gets to a really key thing about Tom, which is that Tom has fully bought into the idea that capitalism is a meritocracy. If you're successful it's because you've worked harder and played the game better than everyone else. That's why he tags the kid out in episode 1 - you can't have a million dollars you didn't earn by getting a real home run. It's why handing off the work of shredding the documents is "giving someone an opportunity to shine". It's why he assumes everyone else at ATN is just parroting values they think are lucrative, much like he is, and that they don't actually believe what they're saying. It's why Tom insists that it's someone else's fault he fucked up the congressional hearings. It's why he offers to go to prison instead of going to the DOJ. Because capitalism is a game and if you play the game right you pass go and get your $200 and then eventually you win. As he rises through the ranks the game gets dirtier and dirtier than he expected, but it's still a game and the rule is that if you get Logan's approval you win.

And that's why he can sit there and calmly say "It's not my fault you didn't get his approval" like this is at all a sane or rational thing to say to your wife about her father. Because all he did was play the game and he played it better than Shiv, and now he's reaping the rewards and she isn't, and this is how the world works because the world is a meritocracy and he shouldn't be held personally responsible for that. And he's so fixated on the idea that the world is still, somehow, a meritocracy, that he's utterly blinded not just to his own privilege but to Logan's caprice and it simply does not occur to him that Shiv could have lost Logan's approval through absolutely no fault of her own - and it absolutely does not occur to him that the same thing could happen to him

[saipng]

i am physically unwell

[midnineties]

80’s windbreakers moodboard

[thenightblogsuccessioneth]

[toastbutteregg]

[mirunalives]

tom wambsgans line deliveries that are always rotating in my head

[kenloganroy]

Shut up. Easy. Sorry.

SUCCESSION (2018-2023) 2.07: Return

[sacred-portal]

[cherryberg]

[fairycosmos]

can't believe i am going to die someday LOL. well back to sitting in my bedroom