#Biological Legacy

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Greenery Day: Celebrating Nature and Discovery

[aingeal98]

Can't stop thinking of the tragedy of agents of shield and how yeah you can find your found family in a spy organisation but due to the nature of the work it's almost always bound to end in tragedy.

Daisy connected with Ward and he used her and betrayed her.

Fitz was her family and friend for 4 seasons only to end up using and betraying her and dying without any resolution, unlike Ward who she at least got closure with via shooting him.

Simmons was one of the people she trusted most for 4 and a half seasons, "us against the world" until the trauma warped Simmons to the point she could only focus on Fitz and would warp and justify anything to continue loving him. And unlike Fitz she didn't die so there was just this undercurrent for the rest of the show like I still love you and would die for you but I can't trust you the same anymore because I know you would take your husband's side no matter what he did to me. Sometimes it's just the two of us and it's like nothing's changed and other times you're selfish and self centered and willing to sacrifice everyone around you for Fitz. I want it to be us against the world but it isn't anymore. You chose and so even though I love you I need to move on.

Coulson loved Daisy so much. They were the central relationship of the show. But he died, and he's gone and it wasn't fully his choice but it's still one more original team member she's lost.

And then there's May. The final original member, the one Daisy had the hardest time connecting with initially. And now it's just the two of them. May stood by her and May died protecting her and May came back and is still there, just a phone call away. Daisy is off in space, doing what she does best in the face of a lifetime of suffering. She's fighting the good fight and helping people who need it and she's got a partner and a sister who she can trust and with no bad blood remaining.

But if they go back to earth for a pit stop or homesickness or for any other reason, she'll have May waiting for her. Daisy went from alone to the one on her team now with the most roots, a mother and a brother waiting for her every time she comes home to earth. Maybe four out of five times putting your hope and found family heart into your shady spy organisation coworkers ends in tragedy. But maybe that one time it doesn't makes it all worth it.

[kacievvbbbb]

The plight of fictional mothers is something that will always stick out to me. Like either you die for the plot or you are forgotten by it. Fathers are something to be chased after a mystery to be solved. Mothers are a blimp that was once there and is now simply not.

She has no identity outside of mother sometimes barely even a name.

[tangledinink]

I’m a bit of a nerd about biology so I do have some potential ideas about how Donnie would know about the kiddos. While regular turtles will nest for all their eggs, fertile or not, donnie doesn’t seem to have that instinct. The unfertilized eggs to him seem to be similar to a human on their period. So when the eggs are fertilized, maybe he does have that nesting instinct. Like he subconsciously knows and gets a severe bout of anxiety about making sure to have a good safe nest for these eggs. There could also be some kind of mystic thing that can be done to confirm his suspicions.

waves arms. biology!

i think both leo and donnie do have some degree of a 'nesting instinct' when they're on their cycle even now, they just don't currently have the chance to answer it. but i guess when they're typically on their cycle it's akin to their instincts gently being like, 'hey, uhm, a little burrow might be nice...' but when there's actually a baby on board, it's more like 'DIG A FUCKING HOLE IN THE GROUND AND GET IN IT, N O W MOTHERFUCKER. WE NEED SOFT BLANKETS AND DARKNESS RIGHT THIS INS T AN T.'

which does probably come with a great deal of anxiety, restlessness, etc. there would also probably be more human-ish symptoms, such as not bleeding (or producing any unfertilized eggs) as expected, morning sickness, and other general hormone fuckiness. and i'm sure that between the forces of science and mystics combined, they could figure out some sort of ninja turtle pregnancy test.

[yuridovewing]

razorverse!ivypool is gonna be a self destructive girlie but i promise i mean it endearingly and not out of malice for the character

[plumbob-pudding]

After their ride, both Willie and Oliver were in good spirits. Oliver couldn't say he saw why Papa liked horses as much as he did but it felt good to be laughing and joking with him as if no time had passed at all.

As they walked up the path to the ranch, Oliver spotted an older woman and two children. They seemed to be waving hello so he waved back bemused, until Father left his side and went over to join them.

Father picked the little boy up, put his arm around the younger girl and smiled warmly at the older woman. To Oliver, they looked like a family but he knew that couldn't be right, Papa wouldn't have replaced them right?

However, to his dismay, his assumption was right. Papa smiled nervously and gestured to each of the strangers, but they weren't strangers to him, they were his family. Blood rushed through Oliver's ears as he ran off without a look back. Bertie and Lucy were right not to come after all.

[likealittleheartbeat]

“[Gay physique artist George Quaintance’s] isolation pushed him to read history, and his imagination allowed him to identify with the characters and events he found there. ‘I came to feel and to know all the past great events and the many lives I was sure I was mixed up with in some way through a thousand years of History.�� He wasn’t sure if this understanding came from his books, his dreams, or even what he believed to be his former lives. Whatever its source, he felt that we all have ‘a background of knowledge that has nothing to do with our parents or our direct ancestry.’ Although Quaintance’s understanding verged on the paranormal, he was describing a sense of an imagined common cultural past, one not conveyed by one’s immediate family. It was a vision in harmony with the mission of the [physique pictorial] Grecian Guild, which also posited a collective, imaged past distinct from one’s biological ancestry. But rather than rely on scholarly argument or historical exegesis, Quaintance felt a visceral commonality with the past.”

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay

[lucyshypemaster]

alden dropping one of the biggest lores in kotlc and then never mentioning it again

[my-maehem]

Yo what up— I got bored so meet my new OC’s

✨Taiwo and Osun Adeyemi✨

They are identical twins but Osun is an Albino. Is this possible? Who knows…? Seriously— who knows. I want to know…

[gravitasmalfunction]

No shade on Chu Yue, who is a great character and I loved her, but what I wanted out of the epilogue was to see where my girl Yang Ying was at and be reassured everyone's hard work paid off personally for her and politically for the two states.

[burned-lariat]

I don’t agree Trina having a baby = Trina never being able to have a degree or a job that she wants in the future. Does it make it 1million times harder… absolutely. But if Alexis, Laura and now Liz, Kevin etc were willing to step up to help with Ace it really shouldn’t be any different for the Cassedine heir. If I didn’t read spoilers (and they actually took the funeral seriously), Trina being pregnant would make Spencer’s demise more believable. It keeps the Cassedine line going 🤷🏾‍♀️

Yeah, that's my thing. Realistically, it makes things harder. But on this show, at least under this former regime, she'd never get back on the wagon. They reduced women's roles to traditional BS. And yeah, since Ace is next in line now (until Spencer returns), he is the heir who needs a name change.

[agentscamander-romanoff]

I am interested if foundlings are taking surnames of their caretaker? Because I am really confused. It's quiet easy with kids like Grogu,who doesn't have surname,but what about those who did? I think maybe they have a choice and if they refuse,they create their own clan like Din did,but that is simply my hypothesis and I want canon explanation.

[lifefruit]

visited her sister in san myshuno :]

[joshuaalbert]

i regret to inform you i am once again thinking about bev's weird changeling kid jack who stays in the medical field both bc his mom's legacy is worth something and because he has a genuine interest in solid physiology rather than being a professional nepotism baby. i do not give a fuck about canon jack ii but the version that lives in my head and uses the newfound stability at the end of the series to go to medical school and both his mother and his adopted father are very proud of him and there's a joke about "doctor crusher" and they both turn around....he compels me a little.

[chicago-geniza]

Turning 30 very soon and thinking about the future and transition and such and the tl;dr is avoid Brain Jail but mostly I am thinking about how dad (1951-2010)'s obituary says "He received a BA from Harvard in 1972, a master's from Yale and a JD from Cornell" as an opening salvo, is curt about his accomplishments and coy about his lack of relationships, and dad's brother, who was not given up for closed adoption at birth despite similarly difficult poverty/immigration circumstances and similar developmental disabilities that run very strongly in our family, lived from 1947-2019 and his obituary opens "Terry will be remembered as a happy person that everybody loved." My views on LEGAL family abolition are very strident and my views on the immediate post-WWII period and how the US exploited immigrants through the adoption system and how this was reduplicated in the 70s-90s in Korea, Vietnam, and VERY CRITICALLY, the uhhh Asian border regions of Russia in the 90s, and how I see it in almost everyone I grew up with make me so insane I don't know what to do

Like you cannot talk about family abolition without talking about international and critically TRANSRACIAL adoption without talking about Christian missionaries without talking about the criteria for diagnosing genetic disease without talking about CLOSED adoption without talking about the history of the birth certificate and the passport without talking about the eugenic history of the medical profession without talking about [I am Gong Show'd off the stage]

[vveakfish]

see the thing abt jon is that i WANT to like him. i was never like, invested in Supersons™ but i liked their dynamic, and having stories centered around Kid Heroes was fun.

and its like. i dont hate the kid. and while i think his speedrunning childhood into his teen years was a cop out, theres interesting things that could be done with his character through it (and Damian’s too)

THE ISSUE IS that everything comes back to him.

hes a character with relatively limited history, and in an attempt to Make Him More Substantial, other characters are changed, shifted, erased, or molded around him. And its like cool ok. write your stories abt this new superman, have fun with it, but why do other characters have suffer for it?