Tomshiv - Blog Posts
PAIRING: lesbians!tomshiv
SUMMARY:
remembered in S4 when Tom mentioned flying to France to Shiv, something about a silk shirt and "do you like this? do you like this?" and then I wrote that moment in France except they're lesbians? yeah!
PAIRING: more about Shiv and Tom, pre-impending-divorce with a tomgreg lean
SUMMARY:
“I've been thinking, I think I'd like to sleep with …” he paused, “Greg.”
He prepared for scepticism, a fundamental objection riddled with snarkiness, but what he got instead was Shiv bringing her iPad back up into her lap to her virtual planner and asking, expectantly, “when?”
Inspired by THIS conversation here between Jesse Armstrong and Lucy Prebble.
the thing about Shiv is that she will only feel secure in a relationship if she’s the dominant one but - at the same time - she won’t respect people who are submissive to her. When she married tom, she felt secure but she didn’t really respect him - she didn’t see him as an equal. Now that he sold her out to Logan, she’ll respect him but she won’t ever feel secure with him again.
tom wambgans telling his assistant he wants to marry him then trying to baby-trap his wife mere days later is why hes one of the fictional characters of all time
do you guys feel shiv's total trust in tom, but manifesting not as love but in how she picked him over nate because nate broke when she tried playing with him but she said that line to tom with absolute certainty that he's better, that he's stronger than that
people will be quick to say shiv underestimates tom and while that's true for his business experience, she overestimates his toughness as seen by her frequent pleas of "i need you"
to shiv, tom is her rock, tom is the guy she met when she was at the lowest point in her life, tom is strong and he can take being played with and she can "build a home thinking she's strong there" but she also undermines the implications of how a marriage is a teamwork and so nothing important can be build if she doesn't put in her own share of the work