Crying, Gerri Kellman you will always be famous
I'm generally of the opinion that trying to resurrect prematurely cancelled shows is like necromancy—odds are they'll come back wrong.
Except for Galavant. Any Galavant revivial will be funnier the longer it stayed cancelled.
Tags pass peer review, etc, because they SO perfectly capture the spirit of the show.
i just love it when some of you fucks reblog a post about egyptian antiquities dug up by egyptian teams with shit like "wow cool! now put that back!". are you so completely lost in your kneejerk responses about museums that you're really gonna tell the egyptians to put their own shit back into the ground? or when were you going to admit to the fact you don't know what the fuck you're talking about but just want to feel like a Good White Person or whatever
ALTHey. Hey…look at me, yeah? Do not ever do this in my fucking presence. Not only is it fucking disrespectful to the Egyptians digging up their own history, but it perpetuates the “ooooh exotic land of poc with spooky black magic curses” racist bullshit. Mummy curses were made up in the 1920s to sell papers. They aren’t real. Learn to not speak on topics you don’t understand or only have the barest bones of thanks to memes.
And let's not even start about how a) any non-Egyptian team has to get express permission from the Egyptian government to dig in Egypt and b) artefacts haven't been allowed to leave the country without permission for over a century either. Genuinely this attitude is so fucking condescending and ignorant of literally everything regarding Egyptian antiquities.
things that are gay according to logan roy: vehicular manslaughter, having happy (made up) childhood memories of your dad, telling your wife you love her
not to be mean but that one post that's going around about how kendall & shiv are just like logan bc they're Abusive Killers while roman is like him bc he's abused and thrown away like. please i can't do this. stop making me see this shit
I’ve been trying to leave Rome for a few weeks now, but all their roads have this weird design flaw
Hotelius Californium…
such a dulce et decorum place…
Scans from Peter "Ratty" Hince's upcoming book, Queen Uncovered – look at these gorgeous new shots! 🤍🖤
the responses i’ve seen to shiv’s ending seem very quick to write her off as just another sad victim of the cycle, which isn’t without truth BUT!!! that is not even remotely the summation of shiv’s story.
i don’t think she votes yes to “save kendall” or to try to finally set her brothers free. and i don’t think her main concern was that ken was becoming their dad. she absolutely noticed and didn’t love it, but that was not her motivation in betraying him. she was thinking about herself.
it’s tempting to make a martyr out of her as she is the only female child and we see her suffer the onslaught of misogyny that comes with that. but to make her into a saintlike figure who got beat takes away the power and intelligence behind her decision.
at this point she’s stuck between two non ideal choices, but she recognizes that they have accidentally made her the single most important player in the game. because while she can’t have the outcome she’d prefer, she has the power to decide the fates of everyone else. the written off lone woman now holds in her hands the fate of every man in her life.
so she thinks about the long term benefits of both options and realizes that one side leaves her completely without any leverage.
her brothers have proven to her multiple times in the last few days alone that they will cut her out and walk all over her the first chance they get. siding with them leaves her nothing to bargain with. she would just have to hope that ken would actually take care of her. and that level of vulnerability is not only unacceptable to her, it’s stupid. and shiv fuckin roy is not stupid.
so she thinks about the other side and about what she actually wants for her life. and against her better judgment, it’s becomes unfortunately clear that she wants tom. the way she wants him is not altogether loving or even good but it is necessary to her. she sees relationships as having winners and losers and she chose this man specifically so that she could be confident in her ability to win. except now he’s grown some balls and made himself unavailable to her.
she may not like the way her husband is evolving but she already placed her bets on him, so she’s sure as hell not losing to him now. there’s also a part of her that feels intrigued by this new man she’s married to. it’s interesting to have a sparring partner in him instead of having to looking for excitement outside of their marriage.
so for maybe the first time ever, she processes what tom has said to her and thinks about what he actually wants.
he needs her to prove that she cares. he needs to know that she is capable of sacrifice. if she can’t find it within herself to do this for him, then she will lose him, and by extension, she will lose.
siding with tom gives her the opportunity to once and for all make a grand-stand gesture of love, but more importantly, it creates leverage for her. never again will he be able to hold the moral high ground over her head. never again can he say she doesn’t love him. never again can he call her selfish or uncaring. above all, he can never betray her again, because she just removed all of his moral justification for turning on her. he doesn’t realize it yet, but she’s just taken back all the power in their relationship. just in a more subtle way than she’s used to operating.
and just like that, she has the ceo of a multi billion dollar company in her pocket, while situating herself as the only descendant of logan roy to still be playing the game, having removed her brothers from the equation permanently. she may still be far from the top but she’s creating a path for herself to climb.
so yes, she’ll let tom play king for a day, and she’ll have his baby and say “congratulations,” and play the gracious wife, but tomorrow is a new day with lots of room to maneuver. and when her husband puts out his hand, she’ll place her own on top. but she won’t grasp it because she doesn’t need to.
