touch starved

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I feel like if tomgreg does happen it'll be a situation like greg complaining about his love foibles and tom will be like "Well are you a good kisser, Greg? Show me. Show me. Stop making it weird, just show me. Are you gay or something? Fucking kiss me. Show me."

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Everyone drawing this comparison but nobody seems to remember how that episode ended in season 1 ....

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For me its the fact that tom has spent the entire series angling for genuine love and affection and there's no transfer within this power structure that can give him that. Not even CEO.

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It breaks my heart that Tom STILL gave Shiv one last chance. When she called he asked her for the 1000th time "what about me? Where do I fit in?" His final test. She failed.

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Tom listening to mr Brightside like....wait this is literally me tho

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Tom wasn't asking Greg "who has ever looked after you in this fucking family?" He was asking himself.

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Thinking tom and Greg's handshake from the finale will be after Tom gets the call that he's the new interim CEO and its him telling Greg "I'll look after you, seriously" as a mirror of 1x02, but this time he'll do it right. Because Tom's learned that he is many things but he is not someone who enjoys passing down pain. No matter how hard he tries to be, he is not someone who kicks dogs. He's the person that will keep petting even after he's gotten bit. I'll look after you and this time I mean it.

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PSYCHIC. "who has ever looked after you in this fucking family?"

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Thinking tom and Greg's handshake from the finale will be after Tom gets the call that he's the new interim CEO and its him telling Greg "I'll look after you, seriously" as a mirror of 1x02, but this time he'll do it right. Because Tom's learned that he is many things but he is not someone who enjoys passing down pain. No matter how hard he tries to be, he is not someone who kicks dogs. He's the person that will keep petting even after he's gotten bit. I'll look after you and this time I mean it.

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Got a lot of tom and greg's hands not touching vibes from this episode I gotta be honest

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The fact that tom said "well....do what you want to *me*" as a way of asking shiv to prove she does in fact WANT him.....and she interpreted it as permission for cruelty and looked in his fucking face and told him she doesnt love or want him.....

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I once read this short story about a guy who could only get off by imagining his penis was a knife that his partners were repeatedly stabbing themselves on. That he was so irresistible they would eagerly welcome this pain, administer it to themselves even.

Shiv reminds me of that.

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not to look too deeply into a joke line, but it honestly makes so much sense that tom would be good in bed. Shiv is so touch/love repulsed that the only way she could actually enjoy repeated sex with 1 partner would be getting railed. It cannot feel like an act of love. If someone were to habitually treat her tenderly she would vomit on their million threadcount silk sheets.

Ditto why she cheats. She's not looking for sex. The only person she's ever fucked is herself, and that is by design.

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for Connor roy to likely have watched his mother swept aside like garbage while his father started a new life with some cold new woman....for conner roy to step aside and make room for three new children.....for Connor roy to know that his father almost certainly loves shiv/kendal/roman more than him...for Connor roy to know that his father almost certainly doesn’t love shiv/kendal/roman *enough* or properly.....for Connor roy to mature early in order to become some kind of father figure for the three golden children he could never live up to in his dads eyes....for Connor roy to set aside advancement and prioritize taking the kids fishing and camping and building some semblance of a normal childhood he never had ... for Connor roy to cave into the pressure and finally pick a dream based on what his family might find suitable.......for CONNOR ROY to do all of that and his thanks is to be the laughingstock of the family because of how irrelevant and stupid he is to *dare* not compete against the people he loves ....

willa is right, maybe show him some FUCKING RESPECT

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

yooooo...which one of you wrote this shit omgggggg 

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no offense but men will never understand the female experience of having sex with a guy in order to hurt someone else or gain power or feel less drunk and lonely or whatever other good reason you had at the time, only to realize he has a dick the size of a red sequoia and fucks like a bullet train 

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me for the rest of the series: wonder if this will be the episode where tom proves it....