#About: The Parents

[runawaymarbles]

the "is it ok to have sex when your kids are in the house" thing is so funny to me because like. if you have lived with both of your parents at the same time there's a 99.5% chance they have had sex while you were in the house. if you co-slept then your parents probably had sex while you were in the same bed. this is the gender neutral bathroom debate all over again.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[pangur-and-grim]

here are Belphie's x-rays from a couple weeks ago! I'm not a vet, so I don't know what to zero in on here, but they show a "dilated right sided heart with moderate amount of pericardial effusion".

in other words, the right side of his heart is too big, and there's fluid all around it. which is bad! we don't want fluid!

it's very possible that FIP has messed with his heart (and there is precedence of the virus doing this exact thing), which means that it should improve with more time on the medication. but it's also possible that this is an underlying structural problem. I'm hoping it's the former, because if it's the latter, he'll likely have a shortened lifespan.

the only way to find out is to let him recover from FIP, and then check all his insides again. and in the meantime, he'll be getting plenty of medically prescribed kisses to the forehead!

[dudedidujust]

The daily planet runs a front page article calling superman the light of mankind

Cue the batfam launching a counter campaign in support of Signal,  the real Light of Mankind.

It starts as a joke but quickly derails into an all out war.

[prouvaireafterdark]

listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

[incognitopolls]

"For good" meaning that you had a reasonable expectation that you wouldn't be moving back in with your parents later. For example:

If you moved to college but still returned to your parents' home in between terms, that would NOT count as "for good."

If you moved out expecting it to be "for good" but later had to move back in due to extenuating circumstances (e.g. you lost your job or your housing), count the FIRST time you originally moved out "for good."

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[notherpuppet]

Alastor pulls the “we’re not so different; you and I” card 🤪

Don’t fall for it Vaggie!!!!

[harocat]

I have a theory about gen z and millennials, so please help me out with this poll.

Please make sure to vote as to whether you got vaccinated as a child or not, if you did not get chicken pox. Take care, spread this around, and vaccinate your fucking kids. Poll is not exclusive to any country. Vote no matter where you're from.

[morganbritton132]

The funniest thing Stranger Things could do is reveal that Steve’s parents are like, really liberal. They donate to AIDs research. They were arrested protesting the Vietnam War. They campaigned for Mondale. Steve tells them that Nancy broke up with him and they’re like, “Thank god, that family believes in Reaganomics.”

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission

[rippedcode]

The Parents

Dalton Flintwood

Media, Pennsylvania has been considered home to Dalton since birth. He hasn't escaped really except for vacations. He was born February 5, 1966. An only child and not much contact to family outside his immediate family.

At the age of 12, he had gotten a small job to deliver newspapers before school. It's the start of his career of working at a newspaper company. At 17, he interned at a different newspaper company and found himself working up the chain to being a journalist.

When Dalton was ten, he watched a documentary about UFOs with interviews from government officials and scientists (UFOs: Past, Present, Future). This awoken a strange part of Dalton to the point that he gets a reputation as "Freakwood" when he writes an article about the Old Mill power failure in July of 1984.

At age 25, he was doing an article of mysterious canine deaths when he meets Zhanna Orlov. This meeting is short, but he can't get over her.

Zhanna Orlov

1968, November 5th is when Zhanna is born in Khimki, Russia. Her father, Kazimir Orlov was a high ranked officer in the military corps. He pushed his only daughter to perfection and hammered the idea of her joining the military at a young age. She has a few older brothers, but when she's born they have moved out and joined the corps.

Her father trained her in combat and self-defense to give her the advantage when the time comes. She learned how to use many different types of weapons. Though, when one of her brothers comes home with an injury, she showed interest in taking medical instead of front line.

At 17, news reaches home that her father was killed in Vodyanoi. Reports say he was shot and left for dead, but with the evidence and knowledge of her father, she didn't believe it. She looked into the death and learned of creatures that could fit in folk tales. She was watched by a shadow government for a few months and watched her take down a young Vodyanoy, which is what killed her father.

The T.R.U.S.T. agency had hired her on soon after. She shadows a field officer, but doubles as a medic when needed. When an alert comes in America, Zhanna is called forth due to the Unknown being of Rusalka like. This case takes her to Media, Pennsylvania where she meets Dalton.

Together

With Dalton not being able to leave Zhanna, he finally asks her out. They only date for a few months and quickly get married in October of 1993 due to Zhanna getting pregnant. That following December, she gives birth to Makari and Mikhail, twins.

Only a year after their second kid, Dalton is let go at the newspaper. He knows they can't handle living without a paycheck. Zhanna contacts the agency, hoping she could do something to help keep them above water. She's able to work as an Alert Watcher for a few years until Zhanna is needed on a case. This causes her superiors to tell her family is prohibited due to putting the family at risk of Unknowns finding them.

This issues a spurious story and memory erasure to Dalton and the children in 2000 when the twins are 7. Till this day, the family believe that Dalton had fallen in love with Sophia Nikhos, but had passed away when the twins were 4. With holes and issues with the story, Makari and his siblings question the story and look for the truth.

[hyperblue]

one thing that will always be funny to me about batfam is that jason is forever convinced that dick is bruce's favorite child while all of his siblings know for sure that bruce's favorite child is actually jason

some random reporter: who's your favorite child?

bruce: how DARE YOU imply that i play favorites, i love ALL of my children equally

dick, without missing a bit: oh he absolutely plays favorites, it was jason

tim: rest in peace

[sidewalk-cracks]

The batkids encountering distressed children and calling them "sweetheart", subconsciously mimicking how Bruce would and will call them sweetheart when they're distressed, and not even realizing it?? Don't speak to me. I can't.

[soldrawss]

Something something 16yo 2k12 Mikey gets sucked into a portal and sent into the RISE universe and ends up helping raise the RISE kiddos AU

[maluceh]

the potters