#pinkmaned

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

"on the way home I wrote a poem / you said 'what a mind' / it happens all the time" -> "when anyone called me 'lovely' / they were finding ways not to praise me" 😔

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[loverboyromanroy]

ok hi hope you don't mind a commentary but the ask you got made me think! i feel like roman and gerri’s storyline is a genuine addition to the main story, given how much she has been impacting his personal growth for the past two seasons. the show might be at a point where they could end their plotline but i honestly don’t think that’s going to happen! there’s a lot of room for development right now, their situation is pretty delicious and imo the writers are fools if they won’t focus even a little bit on roman and gerri’s changed dynamic. gerri’s not a family member but she offers that little outsider’s view to the whole mess despite being fully tangled in it herself too. gerri is also arguably a very popular character, not to mention the fact they already have approximately 1.5 female characters so it’d also be very dumb of them to not continue with the plot.

oh no please jump in! i totally agree with your points...and also thank you for reminding me of a point i meant to include in my last answer – gerri isn't family...but isn't she? she's shiv's godmother and she's arguably logan's most trusted ally (in rewatching season 1, the pilot is meant to make you give that title to frank but then they spend the rest of season 1 showing logan's reliance on gerri specifically – she's at his right-hand position during vote of no confidence, she's his spy and then surrogate at shiv's wedding, he literally likes and values her more than the other c-suite folks). i think that alone is enough to legitimize her as folded into the family when it comes to our central story...add in her very complicated relationship with roman in s2 & s3 and we do really have a lot of ground left to cover going forward 👀

also adding in a couple of relevant replies from that last ask:

@wonderpommey said: I think the only thing I heard was Kieran saying Jessee thought it could be interesting to have to have Roman be bi. They obviously followed the actors connection and embraced Roman and Gerri but pretty sure they want to go back to their original idea. that being said they’ve attached themselves to Roman and Gerri in a big way so doubt they can fully let it go. at least I hope not!

yes! that jumped out to me from the official succession podcast (on my main pre-sideblog 💀) and even at the time i found the way they decided that they couldn't have that be part of roman's whole thing like...a little dismissive? i was actually really glad they seemed to have circled back to it in season three (the trainer jerk off sessions anecdote coming back, the homoerotic bathroom scenes) and i hope they continue to peel back the layers of that part of his characterization in season four, especially given the way logan (and shiv and everyone) was hammering home his psychosexual problems in the last two episodes of season three.

@pinkmaned said: I read in an interview with Kieran that Tabitha’s job was basically corporate mentorship, but the scenes explaining that were cut. that gives me the feeling that they had planned for some of the beats of the Gerri arc to happen with Tabs, but with the chemistry between J. and Kieran I think they ended up giving it to Gerri.

oooh thank you for this tidbit! that makes a lot of sense for where season 1 ends with tabitha (his WILD marriage proposal after only knowing her for a week lol) and i could see in hindsight how they made that hand off in 2x03 (by having gerri step in and literally say "don't get your business advice from tabitha when i'm right here")...i did love tabs and thought she was a good and fun partner for roman, but god i can't imagine that season 2 storyline playing out with anyone other than gerri/j

[loverboyromanroy]

Jumping on the Greg convo, I think Greg is the embodiment of the ''shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" idea, where basically in instances of familial wealth the grandchildren don't know how to handle themselves and end up with nothing. I think Ewan would have kept him on despite the difference in principles and his flip-flopping if Greg had... any kind of ambition or showed any desire to actually work for the lifestyle. ("Because... you have to take yourself seriously") The Roys are "bad" at their jobs, sure, but they take the company so seriously while Greg is just kind of there to drink champagne and wait for everyone to die/gift him things lol.

Obviously there's nuance to his storyline, but it's pretty clearly there to show how toxic the allure of wealth/power is, especially if you view it as something you innately deserve. (I also think this is why he and Tom are such a natural team, since they're both coming from a similar place of like... "Minor" wealth and trying to navigate this entirely different universe the Roys live in. I could see Tom hanging onto some kind of ~status~, but I don't think Greg is going to end up with anything at the end of it all.)

i think you're spot on with this! greg provide us with an outsider's perspective of a "regular" person thrown into their world, but at the same time a cautionary tale about blindly following power without having any real conviction. him and tom are both outsiders that found themselves inside without any real solid plan of where to go from there, which also makes me think that they'll fall back on each other this season as things continue to dissolve for them...

i personally just feel like greg always has these little butterfly wing moments where something he does ends up having these INSANE consequences on the rest of the show (him connecting kendall with the waiter in 1x10, everything with the cruise papers, etc), which makes him an outlier for me when i'm trying to predict what happens next 👀

[lovetechnique]

megggg!!! you are one of the most delightful ppl I get to see on my dash 💖💖 I hope your birthday treats you well and that this year brings you everything you want and more!!!

awww stoppp thank you that’s so sweet!!! I really appreciate it :) <3 mwah!

[acorrespondence]

wait I had no idea you were the one who wrote I put my heavy heart in you.... literally THEE justified fic par excellence!!! like truly one of my no. 1 fics of all time, thank you so much for writing it!!!!

Yep, that’s me! That’s so kind of you to say, thank you so much! I’m really glad you’re enjoying it! I have put so much love and work into it so it’s really really rewarding to see it connecting with people so deeply. And that it’s one of your favorite fics of all time… what a high compliment! Thanks for sending this it pretty much made my day :)

[josephfrancismazzelloiii]

SFDGS thank you, this actually summarizes my thoughts about as good as my long meandering post could

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pinkmaned replied to your post “omg im watching the hawaii terrace house (never watched terrace house...”

LOVE terrace house.... It's so nice to see people just like, solve their problems like adults lmao?

lol yes thats what i like about it im like “oh yeah thats how i’d react/do things too” and its very satisfying to have people actually communicate with each other bc its so rare in both fiction and reality

[exai]

pinkmaned replied to your post: harry potter was cool but his dark materials was...

It’s the BEST god it feels stupid rare to run into others that have read the books

honestly as a kid i didnt know many people who did read it...a lot of ppl i later became friends with turned out to have though? maybe it means something..