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nobody knows how to write succession sex oh my god. please stop writing stewy and kendall snuggling in bed. we all know kenstew aftercare comes in 1 form and 1 form only: kendall crying incredibly loudly and wetly into the pillow while stewy rolls over and watches tiktoks on full volume for about 15 minutes until he stops feeling completely burned out on kendall as a person

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jeremy’s side profile. if you even care

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welcome to my saw trap. i shall present to you a series of premises about succession and ask for you to comment. based on your responses, i

this is a mandatory entrance quiz to my blog i need to know who here can actually have cogent thought about this fucking show

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grabs you by the collar of the shirt and shakes you SUCCESSION SAYS LOVE CAN BE TRANSACTIONAL AND STILL BE LOVE. YOU CAN DEAL AND TRADE AND BUY AND MANEUVER AND IT DOESNT MEAN IT ISN’T LOVE. A LOVE WHERE YOU NEED SOMETHING FROM SOMEONE CAN BE WONDERFUL (tomshiv, kenstewy, conwilla) AND A LOVE THAT IS UNCONDITIONAL CAN BE VILE (the kids and logan). ITS NOT THE NATURE OF THE LOVE THAT MATTERS ITS WHAT YOU DO WITH IT.

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OK IM GOING TO POST A HOT TAKE NOW!!! i think the sibs were actually perfectly capable of inheriting the company. and i think a lot of you guys give logan’s shitty rhetoric with regard to his children being unqualified, like, way more credit than it deserves.

“roman is a moron” “there is something wrong with roman” well, actually, no and no. if asgarov and matsson taught us anything it’s that roman is actually quite politically capable. also, he’s great at delegating and managing people (see jamie laird and even gerri). the second criticism also is literally just very thinly veiled homophobia, it’s genuine nonsense. it’s a reason for logan not to choose roman, not a reason why roman isn’t capable.

“kendall isn’t made for the world” or any variation of “kendall wouldn’t be good at the CEO job” is once again patently false. whenever kendall is tasked with managing waystar it is usually to great success. his alliance with stewy in lifeboats. living+. vaulter when he acquired it and when he gutted it. his friendship with naomi pierce which watered the ground for both PGN deals. there is little evidence that kendall would be fine if not great at CEO, and the fact that he’s “not a killer” is arguably a benefit and not a loss.

even something like “shiv being a woman is a minus” is just a complete lie. it is not a minus for a rich and palatable white woman to run a company like waystar. logan says this to her and then promptly spends the rest of the season begging her desperately to lend her estrogen to his cause, because PGN want a woman CEO, or because waystar is entrenched in a sexual abuse scandal! there is a solid patch of the show where roman and kendall’s favorite shot at shiv is to say that she’s only being considered because of her gender! after season 1 there is almost unanimous agreement that her womanhood is actually a plus.

it baffles me that some people take these criticisms for granted when logan is the father in the Watch These Kids Get Abused By Their Father! show. almost every “reason” he names for why his children can’t lead the company is just a tactic to belittle and hurt them. it is so fucking hurtful to label roman a freak because of his sexual preferences, just like it’s hurtful to say that kendall is incapable after he’s spent his whole life training to be capable, or to reduce siobhan to her sex. “well, the siblings are all incompetent, it never could have been them—” bullshit! the only person who told us that is the person who was determined to keep it from the second they started to want it!

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young old guard you will always be famous

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this post is. going to get me told that i’m a kendall apologist. but i am so like. ok

i think kendall and connor are both entitled to eldest siblinghood. and i also think it’s a huge overstatement to assert that kendall just isn’t the eldest boy and has deluded himself into thinking that he is. they’re just two eldest boys with two different eldest boy experiences?

connor obviously is just. simply logan roy’s first child. there’s not much to argue with there. he also had to deal with logan all alone for a while and seems to have SOME FORM of the eldest child experience of watching those that come after yourself having it easier. but in terms of “eldest sibling” status i waver? that depicts. in MY mind. a relationship between the four that doesn’t exist. connor is both related to the other three and older than them, but his emotional role appears to be more paternal. he’s also a good deal older than them and doesn’t appear to have the more “childish” connections that they have with each other, which are kind of hallmarks of people who came of age together. i mean roman even uses childhood memories of connor as “dad” stories. also we never really see the kind of “heirlike” relationship between logan and connor that makes logan so hard on kendall (though i of course acknowledge that this is because logan’s abuse of connor comes largely in the form of neglect and disinterest)

and kendall by contrast is not his father’s first child, but he is his father’s first child of his second marriage. he apparently spent an amount of his childhood protecting his siblings from their father and, in being the “heir” to waystar, bears the brunt of his father’s high expectations. his love for roman and shiv is less fatherly than connor’s but also more intimate. also it’s not clear to me that connor and kendall have any powerful older-younger dynamic; frankly they seem to stay out of each other’s emotional “jurisdictions” and have, like, mutual respect? you just don’t see much evidence that connor really paved the way for kendall, or that kendall is really relying on connor for guidance or comfort or anything like that. connor made up some of the roy family’s firsts and kendall made up others.

it’s not that i think either connor or kendall is more eldest boy than the other, it’s that i think “THE” eldest boy is a silly title to be handing out when the roys’ family structure just evidently doesn’t support the existence of that kind of role. they are both eldest boys.

oh and obviously kendall trying to claim eldest boy status in order to wrest control of waystar is fucking stupid. but it’s also no more fucking stupid than treating primogeniture as a valid hiring method for a legacy media company’s chief executive role, which i think is the more important point of the two.