#Mom? Dad? Anybody?
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Writing a college choice chapter and I just got walloped with the memory of my dad making an absurdly detailed spreadsheet with like 4 separate sheets to help me choose which college to go to. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
...but this apple still managed to choose the wrong college.
#I didn't even apply to the state school I ended up transferring to and loving#My guidance counselor made the state school I ended up loving seem like a dumbass school#Bitch I coulda gotten a full scholarship to go there had I applied in the first place!!! Why didn't you encourage me!!#They all knew I was in a 6 month long dissociative state during college shit#WHY DID NOBODY EXPLICITLY TELL ME KSC WAS A GOOD IDEA#Fun fact every time I write a high school AU#It's my attempt to relive my senior year without the trauma and the Extremely Bad Shit and the 6 months of dissociation#So that's why most of my HS AUs are fluffy fun with some angst thrown in#Because my senior year was mostly trauma and angst (it was So Bad) with a little fluffy fun. Prom was great#Anyway this post is to show that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree#Mom wanted me at the elite private school Dad wanted me to Just Choose A School Oh My God Sara#And I wanted to go somewhere with my friends#None of us got what we wanted#I chose UConn while high on NyQuil and I really think someone should have questioned that#Mom? Dad? Anybody?#Come on#Anyway#This turned into an essay#If you reach here send me a song lyric and a pairing and I shall fluff in thanks#Oh Daddums#Also my mom opened like 4 of my college letters without me then burst into my classroom while I was teaching to tell me#Still annoyed about that#'You got waitlisted at your dream school!!' 'COOL THAT'S BAD NEWS IT COULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL I WASN'T TEACHING????'
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The elven siblings is something that can be so very dear to exactly one (1) person who is also me. Here they are left to right: Elrohir, Arwen, Estel and Elladan
#lotr#lord of the rings#lotr art#lotr au#where they are all siblings#I don’t like how they wrote aragorn and arwen’s romantic relationship#also found family solos romance 💪#elrohir#arwen undomiel#lotr arwen#arwen#arwen evenstar#lotr aragorn#aragorn#elladan#fun fact: elrohir and elladan are twins#elrohir is slightly older#elrohir and arwen look like their mom while elladan looks like their dad elrond#estel doesn’t look like anybody lmao#elladan is also certified fun police#THIS IS ALL A HEADCANON
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this is sort of pathetic, but when you were younger, you were sort of puzzled by the cartoon representations of fathers: how a kid would be outside with a mitt, waiting to play catch.
it's not that your father never played catch with you, but you also didn't like when he did. something about a hard ball coming quickly towards your face doesn't seem exciting. not that you'd ever say you don't trust him. you trust him, right?
it's not like he never tried to teach you anything. or never tried to parent. on rare days, a strange person would walk in your father's skin. bright, happy, magnificent. this version of your father was so cheerful and charismatic that you would do anything to keep him. and this is the version of your father that would laugh and gently coax you try again. this is the version of your father that would break down the small elements of a problem and point them out so you have an easier time with them.
as a kid, those days happened more often. but somewhere around 11, you started being too much of a person, and he was often cross about it. when he'd try to sit you down to learn something, you spent the whole time with your shoulders around your ears, nervous, uncertain. terrified because you didn't immediately understand how to navigate something. worried you will run out of his goodwill and then you will have the Other Father back, and you will have ruined a good day for your entire family. something about you being visibly afraid - it just made him angry. he would accuse you of not wanting to learn and storm away.
on tv, it's not like there's a lot of versions of men-who-are-mostly-fathers. they can be good dads, but usually their stories are not told in the household. so it's normal that your father is there, but he's never around. you know he was in the house, somewhere, it's just not that you guys ever... "hung out". he just seemed to get kind of bored of you, annoyed you weren't made in his perfect image. frustrated with how much energy it took to raise a kid. over time, you kind of adopt a bittersweet band around your throat - he knows nothing about me. he says at least i never abandoned my family.
and it's technically - technically - true. he was there for you. sometimes he even made an effort and made it to the big moments; the graduations and the dance recitals. he grins and tells everyone that he taught you. it almost erases the days in between, where he complains because you need a ride to school. the weeks that go by where he doesn't actually ever speak to you. the times you say i am struggling and he says figure it out on your own. i can't help you.
and that's fine! that's all fine. you can call him if you are having a problem with your car. or if you need a ride to the hospital. he loves playing hero, he just doesn't like the actual work that comes with being a father. and you've kind of made your peace with that; because you had to, because you don't want to live your life like he does; the whole world at a managed distance, a little rotating and controlled orb he can witness and take credit for but never truly love.
as an adult, you are rewatching some dumb cartoon - and again, the child standing in the rain, with a mitt, waiting for their father to come play catch. as an adult, there's this strange creeping dread - this little thing? this little thing, and their dad can't even show up for that? oh god, holyshit, it's not about the mitt, is it. oh god, holyshit, your father spent most of your life leaving you hanging.
#spilled ink#writeblr#:) lol . anybody notice how i write about dads in second person exclusively#me: haha silly cartoon#also me: ): this child is not getting what they need#also btw this is about a father but it might apply to any parent or caregiver#there's a really weird space of like#''this person was technically around me but either ignored me or was actively harmful to me''#and like u learn this very strange ritual of like... this person is my parent/caregiver on a technicality#that you almost spend all ur time with them like... tiptoeing and acting as THEIR parent so u don't upset them.#like you're 17 and ur mom is suddenly hit by a wave of wanting to talk to you so she's like :) lets make breakfast together :) and ur like#uhhhhhh okay?? bc you feel like this is absolutely going to go wrong and is why u usually make breakfast alone#and she starts being like: THIS is called a TEASPOON ... & u know all this stuff but you also know to just be very quiet#bc if you say like ''mom ive been making this breakfast every day since i was 13'' she would FREAK OUT and be like#DONT ACT LIKE I NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR YOU DONT ACT LIKE I DONT CARE ABOUT YOU. FUCKING DISRESPECTFUL .#so u have to smile like ur a preschool teacher and be like. OH COOL! i didn't know A CUP existed! tell me MORE! :)
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I have begun my John Dory Deeply Traumatized Dad AU over on AO3, if anyone wants to read it <|:•). Reminder warning, content of the first two chapters includes a somewhat explicit scene of sexual assault, and another of not quite unintentional water torture via dunking. Both scenes are relatively short and there is a guide to skip them. Both scenes take place in chapter 2.
Take care of yourselves and also enjoy my evil machinations!
This is not an incest fic. It does include a few OCs to fill in the important cast.
#jd dtd au#john dory dtd au#the deeply traumatized dad au#trolls#trolls au#trolls floyd#trolls jd#trolls john dory#trolls branch#trolls dreamworks#more art incoming soonish#just started it#also i am ill#but i am ALSO hyperfocusing on this. two chapters in one day#almost 9000 words lol#but i gotta take advantage of the hyperfocus#trolls breek#breek trolls#everybody's queer#also baby trolls decide their own gender at birth. they are free to change it any time#why did i do this?#because gender is a construct when literally anybody can lay eggs#shrug#i mean gender was and will always be a construct#but also in this specific case it's SUPER a construct#floyd is a disney princess#spruce has the power of god and anime on his side#and by that i mean he's everyone's mom#clay becomes a doctor AND a licensed CPA#oh and also king or whatever
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i’ve seen other people sharing their family lore and such on here before and i wanted to share mine because it’s really fucking funny and i will literally never shut up about it. so i used to live out on the (american) west coast with my mom and bio dad, and when i was like 4 (ish) my dad decided to do some fucked up shit (understatement) and so he decided to do the most logical thing possible when faced with court hearings: my father, who i have inherited many fun and interesting mental illnesses from, tried to fake his death in the most cheesy and absurd way possible.
he (again!! in order to escape court hearings) decided to set up his apartment like it was something out of a crime drama. he left dozens of empty beer bottles around, left a really incredibly overdramatic ‘woe is me, my life sucks, the world isn’t worth me’ note for people to find, and then (this is the best part) he left a MAP. on the TABLE. he had CIRCLED A CLIFF ON IT and EXPECTED EVERYONE TO JUST. ACCEPT HE JUMPED OFF???
the way that my mom found out where he even WAS happened because he got caught selling drugs in las vegas with his girlfriend and the cops called her and were like ‘hey is this your husband’ and she was like ‘yeah thanks guys i’ve been trying to prove he disappeared so i can divorce him’ and at that point it had been like a full year and my mom had had to hire a literal private investigator in order to PROVE he was actually gone at all and it wasn’t just her trying to steal money while he was away on a fishing trip or whatever
(she did end up divorcing him btw and remarried to my step dad who very much stepped up <3)
but yeah that’s… how my dad both failed and succeeded faking his own death 👍
#thought this would be a fun one to share#bit of dad lore never hurt anybody#apparently he’s trying to clean up his act recently and like honestly based on his consistency with telling people straight lies 24/7 i-#don’t really think it’s out of line for me to just Not Believe him#i think the best part about all this is that i didnt even hear it from my mom or stepdad or anything#i heard it from my aunt#she just CASUALLY dropped it into conversation like ‘yeah when your dad faked his death to avoid jail-’#and i was like HE DID WHAT?? EXCUSE ME????#then i asked my mom and she confirmed it#so. there’s that#storytime#dad lore
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its always some white suburban family w/ two parents and a teenage daughter who is on her phone too much and an athletic nine to eleven year old brother who is closer to his dad (they never have any problems) and they both do rowdy Boys activities and play sports together while the mom and daughter are having their big emotional fight or whatever. aren't you tired?? How long do we have to accept Surbuan families with a teenager daughter and adolescent son with this exact dynamic in media. Most boring stock tv show family in existence
#if bobs burgers had this dynamic it would Unironically be completely unbearable#love bob and gene's relationship its one of my favorites in the show but the Boy and his immature fun dad dynamic. absolutely cant do it#THE FUN DAD AND MEAN OVERLY STRICT MOM DYNAMIC TOO and the teenage daughter..... when will we be free from heteronormativity#The Son And The Daughter. and it's never a deeper look into that sibling relationship either#nothing that goes beyond a very special episode type vibe anyway. does anybody understand what im talking about#txt
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just figured to do research on my hometown before i moved to where i live now, and not to my shock it was a sundown town? i shouldn't NOT be shocked but yea. black residents who wanted to exercise their right to vote before being physically assaulted and murdered by these white towns, alongside the burning of two black churches and dozens of homes. it recently acknowledged its history and denounced itself as a sundown town, but it has a very long way to go from here.
honestly when i was older i was under the impression central florida was just mad white but. well? it was like that for a reason, wasn't it! no shit lol! <- me to myself
article if youre interested: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/state/2022/06/08/florida-sundown-towns-jay-ocoee-past-racial-legacy/9805440002/ whatever doxxing my old home i dont care. i dont live there anymore its been 10+ years
#tw antiblackness#and on a personal note i can now see why i literally never saw anybody darker than my mom in town growing up#and on a darker note why she'd always get arrested in domestic disputes and not my dad.
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It deeply bothers me that nobody in my life ever responds to messages from me and they often leave me on read even when I'm talking about something really important
On the other hand it leads to some pretty hilarious conversations when days later I send a meme
#idk...am i crazy??#it's not normal to just ignore people when they are talking about experiencing a death right?#this happens to me consistently in pretty much every friend group I'm in#one time i had a breakdown and yelled at my friends and they said 'well we don't know what to say'#idk idk that's not fucking normal like say SOMETHING#my parents are like this too#they don't respond to my messages. my dad once didn't talk to me for over a year#I'm ngl i am deeply fucked up from constantly being ignored by everyone i love#especially when I'm trying to talk about something emotional and they don't respond#in highschool when i told my mom i was cutting myself and showed her my arms she turned her head away and said nothing#I'm pretty sure there is literally nothing i could ever do that would make anybody listen to me#personal#sorry i just....went to send my friends that meme and realized they left me on read when i was talking about my cousin dying#literally saying ANYTHING is better than saying nothing#sonetimes i feel like I don't matter and theres no reason for me to exist
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Um actually, I inhereted all my "masculine" attributes from my mom, so jot that down
#when you're a woman they call that being a bitch#ngl i kinda like it I'm gonna keep that part of ~womanhood~#my dad is very passive and emotional. when he's sad my mom and I get confused and a lil scared#not because there's a reason to be scared we're just both emotionally stunted#and don't know what to do#she's the reason I'm so direct and never let anybody walk all over me#(affectionate)
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burst into tears while petting the 2 remaining cats. i am having a normal one tonight gang
#mom constantly talks about wanting to put one of them down for being 'super sick and about to pass any day now'#(freddie just has anxiety and lets be real here he's probably traumatized from living his whole life in this house with these people)#and dad never really liked cats my whole life#sara at least wanders around the house so she's probably getting pet at least sometimes#does anybody else know how much freddie loves getting his ears rubbed?#does anybody else go down to his hiding places to pet him and tell him he's pretty?#if i weren't so fucking allergic to animals and if my landlord allowed it i'd take them both with me in a heartbeat#my zyrtec is Barely keeping up as it is and i'm only here for 1 night#part of me wants to stay longer to give the animals more kisses but idk if that would be good for any of us (especially me)
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for an ex anorexic i cook with a lotttt of oil. idk its how im raised. its funny running away from home yr first chance n then years down the road recalling how your beautiful mom made our meals and mimicking that. i loved cooking with her like shes afraid of cancer so back in the 90s she went unprocessed basically. they cooled up lately but we made our own bread and tortillas my whole childhood it was kinda awesome. some people might describe her as an "almond mom" and she was, almonds was a viable snack in our household, but to me she was more of an olive oil and garlic mom
#we never had a microwave for instance#i should talk to her now im grown. when i was a kiddo struggling w my own shit my dad let me know my mom got a lil bulimic after my older#brothers pregnancy. cos she gained a lot. i was the 2nd child she was very healthy eats only while i was being cooked.#i was the lowest birthweight of my three other siblings by a full pound or more#ive always been healthy#but as far as i know my siblings never developed eating disorders#idk its just interesting cos i think my mom did while she was pregnant with me#im not blameful at all how could i be. i just feel bad moving so far away once i could. like i was a teen who couldn't offer anything to#anybody#and its high time i get to know my beautiful mom and love her like shes loved me
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there is nothing quite like bringing up a consistent point of your anxiety and being met with "shut up" bc you've been anxious about it for ages and if your family hears one more word of it, they just. get mad.
#mikey talks#another thing to get stoned about ig#probably not tonight but friday?? that's anybodies guess#bc I don't like taking edibles multiple days in a row and I got high last night bc of another thing#so I gotta pace it out#at least my mom doesn't get mad at me for the anxiety though#just my dad and sister
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(some of) my absolutely ridiculous object oc notes that i wrote down in an actual notebook for safekeeping & doodles. not even a percentage of a percentage of everything i have written down about them but i like doodling them sometimes on actual paper and its like a "show bible" type of reference book to help..... other people understand the general vibe of the characters?? i have much more in depth notes on various online platforms because of course lmao
#rainbow's parents still being friends and being totally cool with each other#vs her representing his dad and his new family is so funny to me. like its not even anger or betrayal her mom projected onto her or anythinf#she's just Like That. for no reason#obsessed with her mind <3#txt#object ocs#Does anybody know what the japanese on rainbow's page says. i dont LMAO#like i did when i originally wrote it but i dont remember now. it was the japanese symbols for her name and..... something??#maybe art related
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looking back on it i do think my childhood was engineered in a lab to make a really maladjusted person
#switching schools multiple times epr year bejng homeschooled off and on literally even like. the play i did JFNFJG#me playing with my dads handcuffs and locking myself up and then the next day im building fairy houses and shit. what on earth...#This is not mentioning the horrors of living with 2 people who need 2 get divorced so badly but theyve both never rly dated anybody else so#they just cant divorce now bc theyre so far in it. this is nottt mentioning the horrors of both of your parents using you to vent abt how#much they hate their spouse. when youre like 9#<- it was like kinda fun bc I also got to bitch abt my parents bc i had gripes witj both of them. but also its so exhausting. everyy convo#i have with my dad if i even Mention my mom its immediately Ugh infuckjng hate her i hate that she did that and its like . ok i was judt#sharing a funny story . would u guys please divorce eachother and get over yourselves
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??? Plenty of straight women believed and defended Johnny Depp (despite all the evidence that he was an abusive piece of shit)
A lot of women have internalised misogyny and inherently believe men over women
You see it all the time in fan spaces
These things can be true simultaneously !!
I know this is a thing that happens because it happened to my dad. His job? Lost. His friends? Left him. Nobody (other than our family, which is more than most can say in this situation) beleived my dad when he said he would never do that to my mother or to his kids. My dad would never do anything like that, to anyone, for many reasons. I know this for a fact.
Its a thing that happens. Its not every time (heavens no), but it still happens. Lots of women get beelived immediately.
It also doesnt need to be brought to court! Its mostly just rumour spreading, from whst ive seen firsthand and been told.
Women dont beleived often, but when they do if theyre lying it causes all sorts of problems.
And btw, i am saying this as a sexual absue victim who didnt get help for years because nobody beleived her. So i have seen and been through both sides of the story.
#Its weird !! when i was sexually abused (my dad was thr one who put a stop to it) nobody beleived me and it took YEARS to get any help#but my mom told me dads friend he raped her and she got beelived immediatrly no questions asked#it was like she just got to ruin his life with 1 lie all at once and dad coudlnt do anything#also im not saying youre proving my point about people not understanding that women can do bad things sometimes#and that anybody talking about it gets labled as a woman hating misogynist#but thats exactly what im saying#i hope you can understand what im saying in my posts#lemme know if i gotta clarify anything#also funny you bring up the amber depp situation bc that was ... a woman ... lying to ruin a mans life ...#and the man needing to defend himself ... because its innocent until proven guilty until youre a man#like he did garner a lot of support. but he is also a celebrity! most situations where its a woman vs man dont happen in court#with hudnreds of thousands of people chiming in with their opinions!#like from what id seen amber did a LOT of lying and there was also some truth in there#but it was always stuff amber did back (iirc its been a while)#tacos askbox#vent#vent post#<- not a vent but upsetting things so tagging it thaf
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not to complain about my family every day im here but my mom loves to hide peoples' shit or throw it away, and then claim to never have seen it and not know what you're talking about. it really fucked with my perception of reality growing up and now as an adult it just pisses me off!! when something goes missing we All know who did it and we have to pretend it's fine and normal
#my dad calls it “put away.”#when mom “puts something away” it's rarely seen again. and we have to be ok with her claiming to never have seen it#no wonder i hate living with anybody lmao! i Do freak out whenever something isn't where i put it last bc im used to shit just Going Missin#let me tell you something. shit in my apartment is Always somewhere where i can fucking find it. always.
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