#Jesus will take care of it all

[wolfwarrior142]

Aaravos with his first child: *loves her so deeply, profoundly devastated for a century after she's unfairly killed, causes chaos for centuries after*

Aaravos with his second child: Fuck this little freak lol

[charles-jpg]

say it back, you never say it back | jj maybank + pope heyward

[psalms-and-spells]

You ever follow cool Christian’s and then they post something and your like “Oh…. You genuinely believe in thought crimes… okay.”

[missycolorful]

I think I'll just say this: I don't agree when people call any of the islanders "bad parents" just because their parenting is flawed.

Like, parents and their parenting is flawed. Inherently. One parent cannot meet all the demands of their child; it is literally impossible. As humans are imperfect, there will always be something missing or lacking in one's parenting. Hell, sometimes even two parents can't meet all their child's needs, depending on their personalities. If that's the case, then I guess all parents are bad parents. But that's not the case, so I don't get why people are so adamant when they see that a parent isn't handling things 100% perfectly and go "wow this person's parenting sucks."

And this is even more so when you take into account... pretty much everything going on in Quesadilla island. These people never really planned to be parents, yet here they are! And this island is out to kill these kids, so it's also a dangerous game of survival now, too! There are horrors around pretty much every corner. Plus, outside or inside forces are making the islanders suffer very often. The islanders are never okay. How they take care of their children is going to be different just by the very basis of their environment. The standards of parenting are different here. Their relationships with people, including their children, were never going to be 100% healthy or positive or okay. It's just not possible.

so, no, I don't think that just cause, say, q!Tubbo or q!Phil aren't great in regards to their emotional intelligence and often isolate themselves, or when any other parents in general don't handle what their children are going through perfectly, that they're bad parents. That kinda statement feels like it diminishes pretty much all the hard work and effort and love they put into taking care of their kids and even kids that aren't their own. Tubbo gives his everything for Sunny, and was/is an active babysitter for a lot of other eggs. Phil works so hard to love and teach survival to and take care of his two eggs equally. (Like, being 'basically' a single parent, of one or WORSE, two, is already hard enough in the real world - imagine being one on this fucking hellscape they're on).

Like, I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out the parents' flaws. Their flaws make them human, and it'd be foolish to disregard their humanity. And it's interesting to analyze their flaws and what they say about the character, and how they impact their family. There's nuance there, and it should be discussed.

But I think when you're just going "oh, they're bad at parenting in general" because they fumble the bag in other departments lacks nuance. Sure, if you're just saying "they're bad when it comes to certain aspects of parenting," that's a different story, because that's understanding their flaws while recognizing that those flaws don't define all of their parenting. But to just say they're bad at it in general isn't productive analysis of their characters in any way. I haven't watched q!Phil take care of his egg for a whole year (followed by a second egg more consistently shortly after) only for people to shit on his parenting just because his lack emotional intelligence is more noticeable as of recent due to all the trauma and bullshit he's endured. And I haven't seen q!Tubbo put his whole heart into taking care of Sunny as well as multiple other eggs, being Chayanne and Tallulah's reliable godfather, just for people to put down his efforts because he's not always great at more emotionally in depth conversations. They're good parents in a lot of ways, and those strengths shouldn't be discredited just because they aren't good at other things. Their characters deserve way better than that.

tldr these parents are all good in many regards and are just trying their damn best in the worst of circumstances, can we cut them just a bit of slack, please?

[yardsards]

people love an "i'll take care of you" "it's rotten work" "not to me, not if it's you" character dynamic until the character who needs to be taken care of is disabled. then it's supposedly fucked up and toxic for a person to have to take care of someone else.

[fiona-fififi]

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[louisisalarrie]

classic zolos being fucking awful to zayn again. why do they even stan him at this point? they’re acting as if cancelling a show doesn’t have massive repercussions to everyone involved, like… it’s not something that’s taken lightly. they suck sooooooo much

[youvegot-timetogrow]

Viktor goes through immeasurable amounts of pain and a change that literally remakes his biological composition, forever altering the very nature of his being both physiologically and psychologically, after years upon years of a rapidly advancing illness that left him with months to live while slaving away in a lab for the progress of a city that could not and would not ever help him, sees his colleague literally reduced to ash in front of his very eyes by the thing that is both his life's work and his only chance of survival, all the while his supposed partner is too busy politicking to realise what the hell is going on with him until it's too bloody late

... So how is it that as soon as he comes back from the grave the only things I see discussed are... his ships??? The "affection" line with Jayce, him seeing Sky as the manifestation of the hexcore...surely there's more to it than romance??

Sure the divorce jokes are funny as hell and the implications of the affection between Jayce and Viktor are layered but surely we're not going to reduce that line to merely an admission of feelings of sorts? He was his lab partner and was too self absorbed to realise Viktor was literally decaying and dying in front of him. Viktor was on a ticking clock and Jayce was too taken by his political career to prioritise his partner's literal life. Would that not infuriate you?

The Sky thing is possibly even worse because like... She literally died in front of him, directly because of his actions? Like she was a full person and now she's not anymore and she had dreams and aspirations and ideas that he (and we the audience by extension: reminder that we don't know shit about Sky!! She's barely a character!!! And I believe that's intentional!!!) never knew about and now all those possibilities are gone because of him? Would that not break you? Not to mention that for all we know part of her might still linger inside the hexcore. Is she really there? Is he ascribing some ulterior meaning to her as the one he could not save? Why does she not wear glasses anymore? Is that what she looked like or is Viktor making her up into something she was never?

All this being said listen I'm not the fandom police and people can enjoy and interpret media however they want to! Ship away!! but is there really nothing more to those scenes than that?

[necrotic-nephilim]

Hey there, are you ok?

hey! thank you for checking up on me, this was really sweet!

i SWEAR i did not die. i just got a bit busy doing SladeRobin Week (which i will finish so help me god-) as well as things in my real life. i'm still trying to find the balance of like. fandom creation and working. i am very lucky to have the living situation that i do rn, but it is the sort of schedule where i do have to be ready to watch a baby at really any given point so. it's a tricky balance right now, but i'm going to be active here again! maybe not as many asks answered a day as before, but i want to try to answer like, a few a day and whatnot.

i also think i got briefly overwhelmed, in that i got more asks faster than i answered them. which is the opposite of a problem and something i'm very lucky for! but it did make it difficult for me to keep up and know what to answer next. (this is *not* a discouragement to sending asks! i love them all and pls send as many as you want! i just am a little slow sometimes so i appreciate the patience! <3)

so! i'm back and i'm good, ty for asking! we are back to the regularly scheduled programming <3

[bamboozled-distress]

Alfred ready to fuck up nightwings kneecaps so that he can’t leave till hes healed properly is probably one of the only good things that came out from war games 😭 and this is probably the most in character thing that’s come from anyone in the entire event

[mylove-thresher]

I am going to shoot myself in the head

[pup-pee]

woaG,,,

[goldkirk]

I feel like I’m crazy on and off because of the dissociation ramping back up again, BUT this time I’m still managing to do somatic processing on and off, so I’m still making progress loosening up some muscles and gaining range of motion (and range of sensation and memories). That’s pretty cool. Progress does happen I guess

[wiirocku]

Philippians 4:19 (NLT) - And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from His glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

[wormshirt]

The Doctor needs one of those classes they give to expecting/hopeful parents but for humans. Get their ass enrolled in a parenting course. And everytime they get a new companion he has to retake the course.