howl’s moving castle (2004)

i miss you more than i remember you.

[ahsteria]

look @star1ights

[transmutationisms]

were any cycles broken in the finale?

honestly i don't really use that word when i talk about this show because i think the framework is reductive and obfuscates the actual origins of the violence in question, and the finale is a good example to talk about that. roman and kendall both got out of the company, and neither is capable of becoming logan in any full sense. yet we can see how both of them are continuing to define themselves in relation to logan and his standards for them. kendall rewriting the waiter's death, the hug where they both sort of collaborate to worsen roman's injury—these things aren't negated by them losing control of the company. meanwhile shiv is still in it, and i know many people want to read her as fully 'getting mommed', but there are also nuances there: her business-marriage has never been the same as caroline and logan's, and caroline was coerced into having kids whereas shiv did actually decide to keep hers before telling anyone about it. all three of them are still defining themselves in terms of logan's company and standards for them. yet it would be overly simplistic to just say that they've slotted themselves into some pre-defined inherited roles. the system that's still trapping them, fundamentally, is not just logan but the larger capitalist structure he and his company-turned-family were always embedded in. nothing about that structure has changed with matsson's takeover; he's just a new face and brand name. the roy family and their inherited trauma and violence have always been a result of this much larger social and political-economic structure, and those are the circumstances that need to change for any 'freedom' beyond the simplistic fantasy of just escaping this single violent corporation.

[stewyhosseini-bf]

siblings !

[stewyhosseini-bf]

more sibling slay!

[finitevariety]

staggering out of a succession episode covered in blood

[visenyaism]

and of COURSE it ended pointing “no real person involved” pointing back at the Roys. Tom the winner being an empty fucking suit. Roman admitting they are ALL bullshit they are not real they are hollow. Kendall confessing if he’s not CEO he is nothing. Shiv reduced to a human vote and a wife and a mother. Greg literally getting bought like a piece of antique furniture. None of them are real people because they never were to Logan!!!!!

[endiness]

[siohbhanroy]

TOM and SHIV at the first and last episode of Succession S4.

[yourfirstwife-deactivated202509]

NO but Colin being the only other person alive who knew for sure that Kendall DID kill someone and that knowledge following Kendall like his own shadow in that last scene. Jesse Armstrong I am in your yard.

[hotch-girl]

roman, tom, shiv, and kendall final scenes

SUCCESSION — 4.10 “WITH OPEN EYES”

[successiondaily]

SUCCESSION (4.10) | WITH OPEN EYES

[carolsturka]

[jessebloom]

antigone by jean anouilh // brother, sister, rival, friend: how siblings shape one another’s lives by joshua a. krisch // a brother named gethsemane by natalie diaz

[nicollekidman]

[loustatdivorce]

that's it guys the portal won succession

[shivroygirls]

goodbye succession (2018-2023) and thank you for giving us the best scene in television history

[tomwambsmilk]

How fucked is it though that shivs choice was between Kendall and Tom like. You can have your brother-father or you can have your husband-father but either way you are never escaping your father

[kazs-inej]

shit show at the f*ck factory // with open eyes