#Trigger warning child abuse

[sirenium]

people who 'joke' about being glad their fathers beat them when met with the fact queer people exist live a sad existence. I'm sorry a teen who uses fox/foxself makes you think that child abuse is in any way okay, and I'm sorry you went through that. But yeah that's where my sympathy stops lmfao, stop bullying queer kids because you have a dad that wouldn't accept you if you explored your identity in any way that isn't the norm.

[baku-usagi]

It's so hard not to truly blossom to hate Christianity when you come out of it. The obsession with evil, and the devil and his presumed role in the behavior of children.

I grew up in a corporal punishment home.

All my friends in the church we were part of were out through physical discipline. I don't believe Christians make good parents. They treat children like objects and animals.

And now, I've found myself seeing the ruby franke case and I'm just so sick and devastated. Those poor babies. Those poor babies.

The diary of this woman calling these children possessed, tormenting them.

It's not at all suprising that she considers herself a good Christian woman.

I hope she gets tortured to death in prison for what she put her kids through.

God I hope she does. Christians shouldn't be allowed to have kids if they're going to abuse them and project their weird moral system onto them before they've even grown old enough to develope impulse Control.

Sick sick sick

[renee-writer]

Love Comes First Chapter 8

AO3

Trigger warning for child abuse

“Promise?” Her eyes are intense. Tabby swallows hard before nodding, “Thank you. I had to talk to someone but …”

 

“My da could…”

 

“You promised.” Her best mate reminds her.

 

“I know and I will keep it.”

 

That night she lays looking up at the ceiling. She can’t sleep her thoughts to heavy on what Sarah told her.

 

“It wouldn’t be telling if I prayed about it.” She whispers.

 

“What wouldn’t be?” Startled, she turns and looks at her sister.

 

“I thought you were asleep.”

“I was. Got up to pee. Came back and saw you. What’s on your mind?”

 

She shakes her head. “I can’t tell. I promised Sarah.”

 

“If it is bad enough to keep you awake, you need to share it with someone.”

 

“I am by praying about it.” Tabby argues back.

 

“Okay. Just know I am here.” Tabby smiles over at her.

 

“Thanks Faith.” Aye she drives her crazy sometimes. But, for the big things, she can always rely on her sister and her God.

 

“God, You know. Everything. What Sarah told me. I don’t know why she is going through this but, You can stop it, right? Not to be bad but why haven’t You then? This is bad, real bad. Can’t You just do something?” She sighs, “You have, aye? She told me. But God, I promised her I wouldn’t  say anything. It is to much though. Maybe I could tell da and he could help. She might be mad at me but … I got to, right? Aye, I do. Thank you God. Jesus Name, Amen.”

 

The next morning

 

“Da, may I speak to you?” He frowns at her serious tone before taking her arm and leading her into his home office.

 

“Aye Tabby. You know you can always speak to me.”

 

“I made a promise but, I prayed on it last night and I feel it is alright to break it.”

 

“A promise to who?”

 

“Sarah. She told me something. It’s bad but...” she starts to pace the room, “I thought I could help her by keeping it. I can’t. It’s to big for me.”

 

“Tabitha, whatever it is, it is alright to share with me. Children, ah, young women, aren’t  meant to bear adult problems.” He feels his heart pound. His children have always came to him for small problems. This, he knows, isn’t small.

 

“Aye, I can’t. Da, her own father is touching her baby sister. She saw him one day. He didn’t see her.” It was a relief to place it in his hands.

 

“Touching?” he needs to make sure.

 

“In a bad way, a sexual way.” It is whispered, her head down, her red hair covering her blushing face.

 

Jamie says a quick prayer before responding. “I am glad you told me,” He takes her face in his hand, “I know it was hard for you.”

 

“I promised her I would keep the secret.” Tears start dripping on his hand. He swallows hard.

 

“Promises are important but so is protection. You did the right thing, you know that right?” She nods, “There are some things you can’t keep to yourself. “

 

“She is going to hate me.”

 

He can’t deny it. “Aye but not forever. She knew they need help. That is why she shared it with you.  Do you think she thought you could help?” He waits for her head shake, “ she told you praying you would share it with someone who could help.”

 

Her soft sobs turn to hiccups. “That makes sense.”

 

“I am going to help. I promise.”

 

“I know da. Thank you.” She hugs him and hurries off to clean her face before her siblings wake up.

 

Jamie takes a seat on the couch, his head going into his hands, his fervent prayers rising to heaven.

 

“Jamie?” He doesn’t know how long he sat there in prayer until Claire ‘s voice draws him back to the present.

 

When he looks up, the look on his face draws her down by his side.  He tries to smile at her. “It isn’t our children.” He takes her hand.

 

“What is it? Or can you tell me?” Sometimes he can’t.

 

“Keep Sarah and her family in your prayers.” It is all he can tell her. She nods.

 

“Serious?”

 

“Very. I need to talk to Murtagh.”

“I love you.” She hugs him and he feels the beginning of her bump.

 

“I love you.” He gently kisses her before heading out to talk to his Godfather who is also the local police chief.

 

“Jamie lad, what can I do for you?” he can tell by the serious look on his face it isn’t simply a social call.

 

“Tabby told me something about her mate, Sarah MacDonald. Something she witnessed.”

 

He nods and opens a new page on his computer. “I am listening.”

 

“Her father, she saw him molesting her baby sister. I believe she is around six.”

 

He frowns. “Is she sure. I mean, about what she saw?”

 

“I haven’t spoken to her. It was better to report to you, wasn’t it?”

 

“Aye. Let’s go speak to the family.”

 

It is a Saturday and they find all the MacDonald’s home.

 

“Pastor Fraser,” the father opens the door, “what can I help you with?”

 

Jamie looks at him in a different way now.  The idea that he had let Tabby spend the night with Sarah now has him feeling sick.

 

“Mr. MacDonald, I am Murtagh Fitzgibbons, police chief. We need to speak to you and your children.”

 

His happy demeanor immediately fades. Arms cross. “About what?”

 

“Just to clear a few things up,”  Murtagh isn’t intimated, “may we come in or would you like to  discuss this in front of the neighbor’s?”

 

“Fine. Come in, “ He takes Jamie’s arm as they walk past, “What is this about?”

 

“Please take your hand off of me.” 

 

Sarah, at seeing them, immediately turns white and Jamie knows what she told Tabby is true.

 

“Sarah, it is okay.”

 

“She promised not to tell!”

 

“What is going on?” Mrs. MacDonald pulls her child up against her side.

 

Jane, her sister, runs over to her mam and buries her face in her clothes.

 

“Mr. MacDonald, are you going to make your daughters tell me? Or are you going to be a man?”

 

“Dan, what in the world is going on?” his wife holds her weeping children close.

 

“I have no idea.”

 

Sarah can stand no more. “Stop it dad! I saw. I saw you with Jane, what you were doing to her.”

 

“What!” His wife stares at him. Head drops as he shuffles his feet.

 

“She lies. I never…”

 

“You had her touching your penis and you were touching her too.” Sarah whispers.

 

“Daddy’s wee makes yogurt.” Jane says, her tiny voice barely heard. Nevertheless, her statement drops like a bomb.

 

“Dan MacDonald, you are under arrest for felony child molestation.”

 

“She will be okay, won’t she da?” He sits with Tabby after seeing to the family. Nelly MacDonald had fainted after her baby’s statement. An ambulance was called out and she was treated for shock. The  girls were then taken to their pediatrician to be examined.

 

Thank God both are found free of STD and any other physical issues from their father’s  abuse. To no ones surprise, it turns out that he has also abused Sarah, stopping when she started to grow up.

 

“With time. She will need your support.”

 

“If she will even talk to me.” She buries her face in her hands.

 

“She will. She is relieved. Didn’t  want to see Jane continuing to go through this.”

 

He holds her as she cries.

[fizziepopangel]

Theories with Fizzie: The abuse of Bilzerian boys

Trigger warning: Please read with caution, as the title states, this will be going into my thoughts and theory on the abuse of the boys in the Bilzerian family, and while I don't believe this post to be graphic, the subject matter is heavy and involves minors which can be triggering for some. Proceed past this line with caution❤️

Ok, I know that anyone who has seen the show is like “Fizzie, anyone with eyes can see that Jay and his brothers are deeply neglected and abused”, but because of how the abuse is usually shown in a dark humor way, I think it's played down to a way that some people don't realize that Jay and his brother might have been abused by more people than we realize….

Jay Bilzerian is a funny guy, and the abuse of his character is often the butt of a lot of jokes in Big Mouth, but how deep does that abuse really go? Over the seasons, we get small glimpses into Jay's disturbing home life through jokes and in one of the singular somewhat Jay-centric episodes we get in the early seasons, “Sleepover: A Harrowing Ordeal of Emotional Brutality” we learn two very important things: Jay is abused by his brothers and neglected by his mom. Now, I know this may seem like something small in the grand scheme of things, but this actually tells us a lot about the inner workings of the Bilzerian family. You see dear readers, in this singular episode, we learn that Jay’s mom (Jenna) isn’t abusive in the sense that she’s verbally cutting down her boys at every turn or putting her hands on them, rather she’s neglectful and absent as a parent despite her presence in the physical home. Down the line we learn that her neglect likely stems from her dependence on the substances she self medicates with. Stay with me now, I’m not excusing the neglect of her children, but I think that Jenna’s dependence on substances is a result of abuse she’s also suffering, and considering her sewing room seems to be a sort of safe haven for her, it’s likely that while locked away in her little safe space, drunk or high, she isn’t fully aware of just how bad her boys are to each other. I know there are times that she seems fully aware of it, but I think that through her haze of numbing her own hurt, Jenna doesn’t has the cognitive function to actually grasp how her boys are being brought up or why it’s an issue.

So this brings us to the 2nd thing that the sleepover episode shows us: that the abuse Jay faces at the hands of his older brothers is child on child sexual abuse (COCSA). Sexual abuse in general is sickening, but I think there’s something especially chilling about COCSA because in many accounts, it tends to be something that was a learned behavior through abuse that the abuser suffered that they either don’t realize is wrong when they begin to imitate it with other children, or in some cases, it can be something that the children are encouraged to do to others by their own abusers…. Why does this matter?  Other than being a clear indicator of why Jay is the way he is, this also points to the abuse being something that isn’t just happening with him. I believe that while actively abusing their younger brother, Val and Kurt have also been victims of abuse, and likely still are. Again, I’m not giving Val and Kurt a pass on how they treat their younger sibling, but I think it gives a lot of insight into why the pair are the way they are with him…. But that brings us to another question: 

With Jenna being more neglectful than abusive, who is hurting the Bilzerian boys?

The obvious answer here would be their father, Guy Bilzerian, since we see do see him putting his sons down verbally, and we have accounts of Jay talking about his dad’s history of cheating on his wife and Jay being present for the aftermath… Do I think that Guy is abusing his kids? Yeah, I do. Do I think that he’s enforcing the boys abusing each other and pushing really poor core values and ideas on them? Also yes… Do I think that the abuse suffered at his hands is the abuse that pushes his boys to act the way they do? Not entirely.

Hear me out: Guy Bizerian is a piece of garbage who objectifies women and neglects the dozens of children he’s fathered…. But it also seems that unlike his wife, Guy doesn’t actually spend a ton of time in the home with Jay, Curt, and Val to dish out the kind of abuse that I think would foster the acts Jay and his brothers commit in the show. I could see Guy being the type to put his hands on his kids out of anger and be very heavy handed with punishments when he’s around to “parent”, but given the little we know about him, I don’t see any of the punishments he may dish out to his boys as being even remotely sexual in nature. Guy Bilzerian, to me, seems more like Terry Milkovich in Shameless; the type of man who could possibly be homophobic enough to punish his children for being gay by making them fuck a woman (we don’t see Guy enough to know how he feels about LGBT+ people or issues in the show, I’m going solely based off the vibes I get from his character through my multiple rewatches of the show), but I don’t think Guy would ever put his hands on his boys in a way that could be portrayed as sexual in nature and I don’t see him encouraging his boys to “act gay” in any derogatory way because Guy Bilzerian is a man very focused on appearance and reputation. He doesn’t care about how his family looks, or how he looks as a husband or father, but he does care that he looks like a pimpin’ ladies man with money, which gives him that sleazy vibe that everyone gets from him, and I don’t think he would risk that reputation by having sexual abuse allegations with his sons come out. But this beg the question again: 

Who is abusing the Bilzerian boys?

The answer? Well, Jay actually says something in season 5’s episode “Thanksgiving” that actually makes me think that while Guy and Jenna haven’t been sexually abusing their boys themselves, they are both bringing people into the Bilzerian home who abuse their children, and I think that they may even bring these people into their home knowing that it’ll happen. In season 5, episode 5 of Big Mouth, Jay tells Nick, “Hey, don’t talk to Uncle Jay like that. You treat me with respect!” in response to Nick telling him that he wouldn’t be considered to be Nick’s uncle just because Leah and Val are dating, and he does it while snapping his belt and approaching Nick in a very menacing manner…. I didn’t think too much about it in my first, second, or even third rewatch of the show; laughing at the humor in it the way most do. But with the approach of the new and final season, I’ve been rewatching the show again and actually refreshing myself on the characters and plotlines in preparation for the last season, and I realized that this scene actually had a slightly darker tone to it than just the laughable “jay is dumb and doesn’t know what he’s talking about” bit. Growing up, I had uncles and aunts and cousins who my family had over constantly; I saw some of them daily and we were so close that I didn’t realize that these people had absolutely no actual biological or even marital relations to my family. It was work friends of my grandmother’s who watched my mom and her siblings grow up, highschool friends of my parents and their kids who were about my age, friends from church that I grew up with and never remembered not having around. And this isn’t super uncommon, there’s a lot of people who are introduced that way to kids by their parents when the real explanation is too long or complicated or when their parents just feel like that person is their family… This is also a trope in media that is used to convey that a parent is having an affair with someone or is seeing someone that they don’t think their child is ready to accept as their parent’s partner, they bring them over and introduce them to the kiddos as “Uncle Jake” or “Aunt Tammy” because that person is about to be inserted into the child’s life in what is usually a long term way. And after rewatching season 2 of Big Mouth, I realized that Jenna is really comfortable and confident in approaching Coach Steve for sexual companionship, meaning that he is likely not the first man she’s had over that isn’t her husband, and after seeing Jay react the way he did with Nick in season 5’s thanksgiving episode, I think that Jenna probably introduced her previous partners to her kids as “Uncle _____”,  and if Jay’s little bit as Uncle Jay to Nick says anything, I think that more than a couple of these so called uncles Mrs. Bilzerian had over through the years have treated Jay and his brothers similarly to that…. And while this places a lot of blame for letting these people around the Bilzerian brothers on Jenna, we know from Jay’s own accounts that Guy isn’t shy about having his children around to see his dirty dog behavior he participates in with his own partners, even taking Jay to drop the women he’s screwing to planned parenthood for abortions and emergency contraceptives, and that he brings clients from his business as an attorney to his personal home (which would further normalize criminal behavior in their home and likely make their home horribly unsafe since it seems that Guy will take any case regardless of innocence or the fact that he’s supposed to be DUI attorney).

Jay’s parents cheating on each other doesn’t automatically mean that they also let their other partners abuse their kids, but if we look at the state of their marriage and them as individuals, it’s clear that neither one of them are present in their kids lives most of the time, so they might not know that these people are physically/sexually/verbally abusing their kids…. But it’s also likely that they may know and just not stop it, which would normalize a lot of the behavior they see and create this ideology in their developing minds of “if it’s not being stopped, then doing abc, xyz, and lmnop, is ok”, and then the boys continuing down that path until we get the COCSA we see being portrayed in the show between Jay’s older brothers and him, and the odd and creepy behavior we see from Jay through the seasons. If that is the case, and Jay’s parents do know that their children are being abused, I genuinely think that Guy is the type to not care and pass off parenting as his wife’s job, probably saying that it wouldn’t happen if she took carer of the kids or that its her job to know what’s happening in the home with the kids (despite the fact that men tend to be the ones portrayed as protectors and we know that he’s opening his home to host clients and he’s an attorney who likely has criminal clients), I also think that if the abuse occurring is happening at the hands of men Jenna invited into the house, Guy would paint her as a monster and claim to have not known what vile people his wife let around their children. And if Jenna knows, and she knows that the abuse is being done by men she brings into the home as her sexual partners, I think she’s letting it happen because it may keep the men coming back, and while she would know deep down that they wouldn’t be the type of men that are coming back for her, I think her depression and self worth are bad enough that she would have the mentality that being with someone like that was better than being alone…. And if Jenna knows that the abuse of their children is happening at the hands of people her husband have brought into their house, I honestly think that she’d be too afraid of Guy to speak up on behalf of her kids, which would likely add to her substance use since she would attempt to numb that pain and forget that it was happening since I think that she would feel pretty powerless in that situation.

The abuse of the Bilzerian boys is honestly really heartbreaking to me because I think that all three boys could be really wonderful kids, Jay himself is actually a very sweet kid if you watch the show and set aside the emotional dysregulation and creepy freak stuff that has attached itself to his character, but if my dark theory here is correct, I’m not sure how much of a chance these kids will have at normalcy in their world until they get out of the Bilzerian house of horrors.

[louiseannbenjamin72]

"I can't, I have adhd" Trigger warning, child abuse.

Those words were spoken many years ago, by my youngest sibling as a child. They still haunt me to this day. I was diagnosed myself, finally last year. Going back in time, looking at what I was like as a child, and what happened over the years… yes it makes sense that I have adhd. I was sitting here, trying to focus a little bit, and the rabbits in my brain decided to dance. I now have 2…

[nipuni]

OUGUHH I'VE READ 'THE PILLOWMAN' 😭😭😭😭 It was absolutely brilliant and I'm already drawing about it lmao. Katurian K. Katurian I love you aaaaaaaa. It is horrifically tragic but also funny, thought provoking and Kafkaesque. It's also a very short and easy read. Here it is if you want to read it too!! The next time I'm in London I'm breaking into the National Theatre Archive to watch the original production with David as Katurian just look at him!!

[neon-candies]

Happy Halloween!

Warnings for: Child abuse, emotional abuse, unhealthy relationship

Angel probably has this nightmare frequently after Annie was "born". And he probably tried to avoid talking about it at first. But it gets to a point where he can't even hide his fears and concerns. However that's a conversation for another time.

(Here's the continuation, I forgot to add: A Nightmare Sequel)

[dianagj-art]

This idea got out of hand way too quickly but I have no regrets<3

Isn't it fun to think that with all the crossovers One would actually have a support system of friends that care about him?

Coin Toss Michael by @gemini-forest

Bonus!

[erinwantstowrite]

the sneak pics have me wondering why peter feel the need to keep apologizing all the time ? is it because adults used to get mad at him all the time ?

yeah he has a LOTTT of unpacking to do with that. he still thinks that because he did things like this, it gave the adults around him the excuse to yell at/say nasty things to him. peter goes into a lot of detail with Dick about his previous foster homes in chapter 15, and this time Dick knows he has to ask because Peter's response to Dick and Wally realizing he knew about the "glitches" in some way and didn't tell Dick is absolutely heartbreaking

[matutito]

i digitized this post from @nerves-nebula tm(n)t version. its been months since i last drew these guys aaaaughh

mike doods

[woaheyeradioboy]

I genuinely don't fucking care what you like in fiction. I don't care how disgusting, heinous, or "illegal" (not actually) it is, as long as you aren't agreeing with it or acting out things you read in a non-roleplay/fiction setting.

TW: Rape, Child Abuse, Pedophilia, Age gaps, Abuse, Bestiality, Grooming, Incest, and similar content

You can read about someone being raped. You can read about a child being raped. You can read about incest. You can read about pedophilic incest. You can read about someone fucking a dog. You can read about someone being raped by an animal. You can read about someone grooming someone else. You can read about horrible power imbalances. You can read about Victim x Abuser. You can read about gang rape. You can read all of that and more, whether the content is "romanticizing" or "sexualizing" it or putting it in a "positive light", because I do believe if you're reading these things you are capable enough to not have your morals and "respect" of laws immediately broken because you didn't get told 100 different times during the story how bad the content was.

You can read WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT, however you want, forever and ever. Don't act out the fiction in real life unless roleplaying with another consent adult (or teenager within your age range if you're not 18+) and it DOESN'T MATTER.

Fiction can affect reality, but usually only if you're allowing it to. Children oftentimes shouldn't be online but even if they are, it is never an authors fault or the people who enjoy the fiction the author writes that the child ends up exposed to bad things. If someone who is mentally unwell and cannot separate fiction and reality due to this is online and is affected by these things, it is not the authors fault or the fault of the people who enjoy the authors fiction.

If something that someone else wrote affects someone else in a bad way, it is not the authors fault.

Censorship of fiction is bad no matter what, and if you want to censor any form of fiction you are automatically already getting closer to people like transphobes and racists and ableists, because being pro-censorship ALWAYS leads down the same exact rabbit hole of puritan beliefs and controlling others.

[corporalmoth]

misbehaviour punishment

[duskyashe]

CAMP NANO DAY 6

[chapter 4] [AO3]

(please see tags for trigger warnings)

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It was a little known fact that Bruce Wayne hadn't only fostered his boys. As one of the few above-the-board trained and highly experienced foster parents in Gotham, Bruce had actually fostered dozens of children from all kinds of situations over the years. The only kids the press ever actually found out about were the ones he legally gained custody of, in one way or another, due to stringent privacy policies set in place back when he'd applied to be a foster parent for Dick.

Sometimes Bruce is able to keep in contact with his former foster kids, and he's always happy when that's the case, but other times he loses complete contact with them and can't legally track them down again. It's those children, outside of the ones he's legally able to claim as his own, that he worries about relentlessly. But even among those kids, there's two he worries about the most.

Jasmine Madeline Fenton and her younger brother Daniel Jackson Fenton had come into Bruce's life and home when Dick was thirteen. They weren't the first kids he'd fostered since adopting Dick, but they were the most impactful. Jazz was six, her hair was freshly cut and washed, her clothes neat and a bit on the baggy side, and her backpack still had a tag on it. Danny was three, he, too, had freshly cut and washed hair, his clothes were brand new, and his diaper bag was fully stocked.

Jazz was six and her clothes hung off her frame. She had bags under eyes and didn't know how to brush or wash her own hair. The backpack she had when she walked in his front doors was the very first new thing she'd ever seen that her parents hadn't immediately cannibalized for their experiments.

Danny was three and hadn't been given a real bath in almost a year. His clothes were all either too small or his sister's hand-me-downs. His diaper hadn't been changed in over six hours.

Bruce had been so sure he was going to be awarded permanent custody of the two. There had obviously been criminal neglect going on in that household at least, it should have been child's play to gain permanent custody of them. His lawyer and the children's case manager had assured them their case was practically airtight.

The kids had only been in his custody for two weeks before the state awarded full parental rights to the Drs Fenton. Jazz had only barely started getting used to eating three times a day again. Danny had just started smiling whenever Dick played peekaboo with him. And the courts sent. Them. Back. A month later and the Fenton's moved without a word, leaving behind not a single trace. It was almost as though they'd vanished.

Dick had been devastated. Alfred was crushed. And Bruce? Bruce experienced the five stages of grief for the second time in his life twice over. For years, he had private investigators searching everywhere he could think of for the siblings, desperately hoping to find even the slimmest glimmer of hope that they were alright, that they were still alive.

Jason coming into the household lessened some of that pain and desperation, especially after Bruce obtained full custody of him, but the tension between Dick and Jason drove the lingering tension between Dick and Bruce to critical levels. Argument after argument, fight after fight, all about the same topic: Why did Jason get adopted when Jazz and Danny were still out here?

Eventually the tension exploded in one of the worst ways possible, and the family was reduced back down to three. The first six months after Jason's funeral, Bruce refused to take on any new children. He even asked the private investigators to only contact him if they definitively found proof of the kids. The pain, the grief, the guilt was just too much for him. He'd failed Jazz and Danny, and he'd failed Jason, too. He couldn't handle failing yet another child.

Then Tim showed up, too tiny and too determined to get his way. The shock of seeing the obvious evidence of yet more criminal neglect from his own neighbors drew Bruce out of his downward spiral just enough to realize he needed help. Tim was right, he had been killing himself with his work, and doing so was the exact opposite of what Jazz, Danny, or Jason would have wanted from him. He notified CPS of a possible situation he was keeping an eye on, as well as the fact that he was pulling himself back together so he'd be able to reapply to be a foster parent, and then sought the help of a therapist sworn to absolute secrecy with the help of multiple NDAs.

A year later, he was reinstated as a foster parent, awarded first temporary, then later full, custody of Tim. He fostered a pair of blonde little girls for a few nights before an aunt was found in Vineland, New Jersey, who got custody instead. About a month after them, he fostered a ten year old boy for a week before his dad regained custody. He even fostered Tim's friend, Stephanie Brown, for two months while her mom went through rehab.

And then Red Hood came to town.

Between trying to track down and figure out who Red Hood was, Bruce also took on twin eight year old boys for about five days, a fifteen year old girl for two and a half weeks, a pair of cousins for ten days, and three siblings for a night. When Red Hood was finally revealed to be a revived Jason, angry at the thought that Bruce had replaced him and missing a few key memories, it had been two years since the last time he'd heard from the private investigators he'd hired eleven years prior. After weeks of careful negotiation and peace talks between Bruce and Jason, the family of four was well on their way to being the family of five they legally were, when Bruce decided it was time to get back in contact with the team he'd left in charge of the investigation looking for the Fentons. They only had a potential sighting of the Fentons at a class reunion in Wisconsin a few months prior, but any sighting was better than what they'd had for most of the eleven years prior, so Bruce asked them to double down and see what came from it.

Two weeks later, there was a knock on the manor door. It was the middle of a torrential downpour, one of the worst thunderstorms Gotham had seen in years, yet there was undeniably someone knocking at the door. Bruce, who'd been passing through the entry hall on a late evening stroll through the manor, was the one to answer the door.

She was in her late teens, her hair was long, wet, and stuck to the side of her face, her clothes in poor repair with splotches of dark red and neon green on them, and her backpack was worn and frayed. He was in his early teens, he, too, had long, wet hair that stuck to his face, his clothes were rags and barely hanging onto him with more of those dark red and neon green splotches, and his duffle bag was stuffed to the gills.

"Mr Wayne?" Jasmine Madeline Fenton asked, voice quivering as the two of them huddled on his doorstep, Daniel Jackson Fenton's eyes drooping to half mast from exhaustion. "We need your help. Our parents are trying to murder us."

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I'm not gonna lie, it took me forever to figure out what I wanted to write today, but once I decided on this, it just wrote itself (⁠^⁠_⁠^⁠メ⁠) I actually got the idea for this fic from a prompt @evandarya had posted in the Batpham server a while back, which I absolutely loved and just had to write, so this ficlet is dedicated to them (not that they're aware of it yet lol)

Once again, I have no idea if I'll ever continue this ficlet, for my muse is fickle and likes to play favorites ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I might get lucky and get sudden inspiration for a sequel for this, or I might not, who knows? Honestly, if anyone wants to add onto this, go right ahead lol that'd be amazing.

[irlangelsdiary]

Facts about intrafamiliar sexual abuse, COCSA, and CSA.

• COCSA can happen with children of any age, but potential incidents can increase as children enter puberty and adolescence.

• 40% of Children who were sexually abused the perpetrator was older and or more powerful

• 5% of children have been affected by sibling sexual abuse.

• It is one of the lowest disclosed forms of sexual abuse, meaning the statistics around this are likely to be higher.

• More than 90% of abusers are people children know, love and trust.

• 30-40% of victims are abused by a family member.

[ninadove]

Miraculous’ story is so deeply intertwined with the notions of child abuse and neglect that they kickstarted the entire plot.

I hate Master Fu. You hate Master Fu. We all hate Master Fu. But that doesn’t change the fact that, at some point, he was a child who was:

Abandoned by his parents so he could fulfill a mission he never chose; in the process, he was ripped from his siblings and isolated from other children, exactly like the Senticousins were.

Put through intense training — like all Sentikids, but especially Kagami — and deprived of food and rest by his guardians (Get it? Guardians?) on at least one occasion, as a way to prove his worth.

Left alone to deal with the strong negative emotions that such a treatment would inevitably stir up in a young child (his only support, his apprentice’s staff, becoming home to Feast’s amok as he yearns for companionship).

The result? Utter chaos and destruction, which led to the loss of the two Miraculous that are very explicitly linked to emotions and control. And, of course, deadly damage to the Peacock, which is what got us into this mess in the first place.

DISCLAIMER:

I am aware that the Order of the Guardians was inspired by actual religious practices in Tibet and am in no way condemning these. However the show, through Master Fu’s perspective, clearly wants us to understand that this was a Bad Thing That Happened and that the consequences continue to haunt our heroes nearly 200 years after the fact.

And haunt our heroes they do: Master Fu (who had literal decades to fix his mistake — don’t get me wrong, I still hate the guy) is forcing the same responsibilities that broke him on two innocent kids — especially on poor Marinette, who is just as unprepared to deal with them as he was back then.

The cycle keeps repeating itself.

[erinwantstowrite]

Do you know roughly how much of chapter 15 are gonna be like content warnings or about peters child abuse? I'm trying to avoid as much of the triggering content as I can but I also want to read as much of the chapter as I safely can

If not do you know roughly where in the chapter that content is gonna be?

i will put be putting trigger warnings before the chapter with more detail (because i haven't written a particular scene yet so i don't know the specifics of what i'll need to mention), but i can give a general idea

(this will be below the cut. please take care of yourself. i will be talking about child abuse in many forms. there's four paragraphs, giving a general statement about the content, but will not be going into detail)

it's going to get very heavy. peter alludes to a lot of things he's been through with foster parents. in the first scene, peter has a physical reaction and starts apologizing, dick and wally both reassure him and have a talk about it, so peter will feel safe. peter does not notice that he even has this reaction. but it opens the door to dick having to ask questions so that he DOESN'T accidentally trigger peter, and that's most of the chapter. scene 1, and scene 3/4 (while there's not a break, this scene will feel like 2 different scenes, and the second part is where this is brought up) will be talking about the child abuse with dick, because dick asks about it

peter will not be having flashbacks or going into extreme detail, but he will be talking about it and some of the specifics with dick. he'll talk about the different foster parents he had, he'll talk about just how many people in his life died, he'll talk about the impact that it had on him, etc. he'll also be talking about various forms of child abuse, both physical and mental, from multiple foster parents. but he won't be talking about what westcott did beyond the day that peter ran away. peter is not ready to talk about the SA, so he won't be doing so. there will be a fic in the LoF series that delves into that (but again I'll say that I will not be including flashbacks nor describing in detail what happened to him. it will be talked about, peter will be having reactions and working through it, but i do not want to write the actual scene of it happening. and in that fic, which is a while from now, dick will also be talking about his own SA).

And I really, really have to mention that Peter's narration on this topic is unreliable and biased. the way that he views his trauma is not the way that he should, he still has a lot to go with healing from his past. His narration could be triggering because of how he views himself. he thinks that how he went about this was stupid, but no one around peter will think the same. dick will talk to him about this and peter's viewpoint will start to shift. but in the beginning, it's very sad to see

I hope to do this topic justice and in a way that doesn't hurt any of my readers. I have people that will look over this chapter to make sure that I do, but that responsibility falls on me. I value you all and I care about your well being. I get a lot of asks talking about how they can relate to Peter in LoF, and please know that even if I don't respond to these asks (potentially triggering topics) I see you and I hear you. I'm so sorry that you were left behind and hurt. You didn't deserve what happened to you, no one does. You are important and I'm glad you're with us today. Please take care of yourself. If you find that reading chapter 15 will be too much, I understand completely. I will be putting a summary of the chapter on my page to give an overview of what happened but without the details. It will be a clinical transcript of sorts.