#Reoccurring theme

[spotlightlowlife]

Helluva boss hates parents - no exceptions

Mothers in particular

We had the powerful, business minded and exploitative Paimon, Crimson and self proclaimed parent/stepparent/grandparent Mammon who see their 'children' as assets. We have Cash Buckzo who is no different to any mention only minus the power.

Where are the mothers?

What in the Disney is this?

Out of this screwed over bunch we get some parents. Blitzø adopts Loona one week before her 18th birthday part of of pity, where he's maybe just 30 years old, becoming the cool dad who spoils her rotten and is in no real place to correct her.

Stolas and Stella actually become teenage parents and their daughter a child of divorce who doesn't feel seen, but Stella is to blame for this, dispite the same sob story as Stolas and being the wrong party.

Who knows who Fizz and Loona's real parents are? Clearly nobody of importance since their kind are at the bottom of society. The only example we have of someone lifting themselves upwards in the world is Moxxie's mafia dad who probably killed his mother.

Though the main characters range from mid 20s to mid 30s and all characters are for the most part out on their own, all their trauma comes from childhood and horrible or lack of parents and yes, I know this as a basis accounts for a lot of people but still, we have parents as the fall guys to explain away any dirt bag behaviour from someone we are supposed to like.

Now on to a character who the creator seems to believe has it easy and isn't relatable as a result. Millie.

Her parents suck too!

It's more discreet and I don't understand how the creator could be blind to it?

They come across bigoted and the clues are there. First being Millie introducing Loona as Blitzø hellhound.

Millie has parents who look forward to seeing her and welcome her with open arms, they live a humble life and have a trans daughter so how bad could they be?

The country life is a subliminal message in itself of people stereotyped to be hostile to outsiders, stubborn, uncultured and uneducated.

What we get in Millie's parents are people who don't respect their daughters choice to move away, don't see her job as a real job and arguably worse of all, don't respect her choice of partner and will show this in passive aggression, making things awkward for this young happy couple as Moxxie tries to win them over and Millie tries to discourage him from so much as making small talk.

Though they don't respect Millie's job they warm to Blitzø who unlike nervous thespian Moxxie, has the brash and animated ways of a commoner of stereotype.

Millie's accomplishments and lack of are bought to our attention and though many criticise this episode for being a Millie episode turned Moxxie episode, I honestly think there was no other direction to go with her when her own parents lack any interest in her, they're stereotypes and we learn nothing new at her home.

The last thing may be a big of a stretch but here it is. In the episode where Striker abducted both Blitzø and Fizz, Blitzø (who kills for a living and criticised those at the top this episode) would refer to Striker as a 'supremacist', yet what episode do we first meet Stiker?

Again we get too many things to be a coincidence.

Parents suck, and if they don't appear to, they do so.

[ravewing]

lowk have a crush on this guy in my algebra class ok . so just like anyone else would i started looking for his socials to find out more ab him right ?? tell me why i scavenged snap chat instagram tiktok literally EVERYTHING and this boy dead ass only has a fucking QUIZLET account

[a-most-beloved-fool]

[elderwisp]

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[agostise]

oh darling...

the real question we should be asking ourselves here is since WHEN

[thebestusernamepossible]

People who don’t get the pregnancy motif in Severence and then turn around and get mad about it drive me crazy. ITS THE LOSS OF AUTONOMY AND RIGHTS SHOW! ITS THE MAKING A NEW PERSON TO CARRY YOUR BURDEN SHOW! Of COURSE pregnancy is a theme. It’s not like the show is being weird about it?? Do we not trust the show runners?? If Helena is pregnant I fully expect them to use it as a horrific plot point! If it’s the direction it’s going to be full of horror and plot twists (probally back alley abortion via Helly tbh. Bc you KNOW Helena would use Helly to give birth like that one Senator lady did).

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star -> animal lover tk strand in 5.05

[sammigy]

forever thinking about how important names are in the aftg universe… like neil and nathaniel obviously but also jean and jean-yves (or johnny), renee and natalie, dan and hennessey, andrew having been referred to as andrew “doe” for most of his childhood, jeremy asking people to not call him by his last name… like damn

[arttsuka]

Could you draw some Ford^2/Fiddauthor if you haven’t already? :]

I've done a few doodles here and there but I can't figure out how to draw Fiddleford

[vampyr3wife]

Tagged by the lovely @snvffpuppie ^-^

Six selfies of the year 2023! ⊹ ࣪ ˖

[ I’m not 100% sure who is comfy w showing their face so no pressure !! mwah ] tagging @lovesickbrat @g0thpet @vacuiterror @brunettebabbydoll @amandagpanda @imabiteurankles @onlinemisery @ttrulese @urbones @yayodolls @666bedbugs @150151

[i-may-be-an-emu]

the incredible callback in last nights patreon livestream

[bitethedevil]

CW: Incest…sort of?

I’ve got this fucking fic idea stuck in my brain. I can’t get it out of my head but I have too much shit going on too so I can’t write it. So now I’ll just ramble about it instead.

The first time Tav meets Raphael, he sort of narrows his eyes at her and stumbles a bit in his prepared speech without her knowing why. Tav is a red-skinned tiefling with orange eyes, and she looks the spitting image of Raphael. The hair, the nose, the horns, she’s even a damn bard.

Her companions don’t get it either before he does his magical girl transformation into a cambion and then even they are like “hmmmm”. Tav doesn’t see it at first and stubbornly brushes it off as pure tiefling racism.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Avernus, Raphael is having a full on existential crisis. Could it be? He had always been so careful. He supposes it could be possible…The thought that he might be a father freaks him tf out. Rattles his shit completely, but also intrigues him. It quickly becomes a minor obsession for him to know. He does his research and finds out who Tav’s mother was and that it technically could be possible, since she was a former client of his.

He starts treating Tav differently. He even helps her a little bit. It’s not reeeally out of fatherly love, but more out of Raphael’s love for everything he can mirror himself in, which now definitely includes her. He spoils the shit out of her. One minor obsession merge with the main obsession that his potential daughter might bring him the Crown of Karsus.

Tav doesn’t complain and her companions encourage her to play it up because Raph’s help is super useful, which she then does. The problem is that she’s not sure that Raphael is not her dad either.

Things get super weird and at some point shit gets too real. Raphael seems so sure that all his hard work on his ‘daughter’ means that he will get the Crown of Karsus for sure. Tav has played it up so much that it’s almost awkward at this point to tell him no when it comes to signing his contract. She feels really pressured, and she and her companions decide that the game is up. They can’t give the Crown to Raph, but they still need the Orphic Hammer.

They break into the House of Hope. When they get to the boudoir, they meet Haarlep, which is now even weirder considering the whole paternity situation. Killing Haarlep is not really an option since they are naively hoping they can damage control pissing off Raphael since Tav is now closer to him.

Haarlep takes one look at her and his brow furrows as he looks her up and down. They have heard Raphael rambling about her and the whole situation, of course, but they are still surprised at the resemblance.

Despite the discouragement of her very disturbed companions, she decides that she just need to get it over with and fuck them, and that technically it’s not weird because it’s not her maybe-father, just a copy of him.

Haarlep almost kisses her but gets a good whiff of her breath before they do so and damn near falls off the bed. They open her mouth and take a deeper whiff.

Now it’s Haarlep’s turn for an existential crisis, because Tav isn’t Raphael’s kid. She’s Haarlep’s kid. Her breath has a subtle scent of diluted succubus spittle, which is how Haarlep knows. This is all possible because Haarlep is transfigured to look like Raphael (meaning: has completely changed shape) and hasn’t just taken his form or is glamoured to look like him.

Haarlep’s dick goes soft for the first time in millennia, and they can’t do it. Even they have their limits. Tav and her companions are so fucking out of it that they just leave without the Hammer.

Raphael’s reaction to the whole thing is essentially: “Oh…😮 Oh…😏🫦”. The fatherly feelings are gone just like that. That shit gets his dick rock hard. It’s basically a copy of him but without magic or anything. He might even genuinely fall for her a little bit for the sole reason that he sees himself in her.

Tav, understandably, is not cool with any of it, but Raphael is nothing if not persistent. Weird obsessive love drama ensues and Haarlep (and literally everyone else) feels very weird about the whole thing.

[miominmioo]

me reading 90% of iggychu fics written in the 2010's

[wolfythewitch]

Hey! Did you discover tma because you knew about the mechanisms first?

So years ago I was into the podcast scene but never really got into tma

Then a few days ago I was watching some F1 movie with my brother and out of morbid curiosity I went to check the AO3 fics to see what kind of tags were in there. Then I was craving some hurt/comfort fics but well the Odyssey tag is a bit sparse. Then I was like hey isn't the tma fandom like rife with hurt/comfort and I was RIGHT. I binged a bit of the fics and then realized that maybe I should listen to the podcast first so now here I am

[mintyspacecadet]

All dolled up

[reddamselette]

the concept of nathaniel wesninski as a whole is so fucking interesting. i’m saying this because i’ve been reading raven neil fics and neil as nathaniel fics because they’re just too damn good.

i’m tempted but anyway

i need to do a character study fic on neil and nathaniel soon. i’m going insane because it amazes me how it’s the same person but so drastically fucking different depending on the identity and name AUGH I CANT TAKE IT

gods i love nora and all the ao3 authors. truly wonderful people writing such a complex character