SUCCESSION — 4x10, With Open Eyes — Jeremy Strong (x, x)

Succession 4.10, "With Open Eyes"; John Steinbeck, East of Eden

The most tragic thing this episode to me is Kendall recanting his confession. That was the one real thing he’d offered his siblings, and he took it back, and now he can’t un-take it back. And they’d given him something real in return, the best version of tenderness they could muster, and now that’s gone too. Kendall was never going to be CEO, but maybe he could’ve been a less lonely man, less apart from the world. (Or maybe not, the trick to tragedies is they always seem avoidable and inevitable at the same time.) Kendall, alone, Colin trailing behind him…he did get to be his dad in the end 

I don’t simply mean this about the sibling relationship btw like yes probably the sibling relationships reset and the grand betrayal and physical violence is all just another thing and la di da I just think Kendall will never be able to talk about the death of Andrew Dodds with another person, like that is lost to him FOREVER, and that’s just….a really really lonely place to be!!!!!!!!!!!!

it does not matter if you have a genuine desire to do good (kendall) or a deep capacity for love (roman) or have comparatively progressive politics and are a victim of the misogynistic environment your father created (shiv). because if your sense of self is so intrinsically tied to oppressive capitalist structures, what good are your best impulses, your love, your decency? waystar is them and they are waystar what does any kindness they possess actually matter if they are only capable of acting upon it within the framework of the fascistic, patriarchal corporation that they have no desire to escape?

Me when I'm gay

i am so serious when i say we as young adults are so starved and deprived of community

like we as a generation - i'm talking especially young adults who are just entering the workforce - are so so lonely! i think about it all the time. between the incoming recession and cost of living crisis + the rise of wfh + processing pandemic trauma so many of us live deeply isolated lives and i think we deserve better...i'm working fully remote and i consider myself lucky because i do have friends that i see regularly but there's a hunger for that place you can go to to be around people in an organic but meaningful way to you that is not being addressed rn! we now more than ever need communities!

Don’t worry. Your father is only your father until one of you forgets.

aestheticosyy

FKA twigs at Victor & Rolf ‘Eau de parfum’ launch

How is driving so fucking normalized I'm going to fucking die and kill people with me this event happens every day

cars should have been something we tried for one summer in 1921 and then we go "oh this is fucked up let's try a other way"

I think indeed dot com should have a comment section

"no salary listed hmmm....... 🤔🤔🤔"

"BACHELORS DEGREE TO WORK RETAIL PLEASE SAY SIKE"

"'fast-paced high-energy environment' just say it's toxic"

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

This quote from the women’s suffrage memorial in Knoxville is as prescient as ever given the current climate.