#abusive grandmothers

[thedepressedweasel]

Earlier last morning, my evil grandmother had the gall to take out the recyclables through the back door in my "room" when she could've at least waited until my egg donor got up to make coffee for herself to take it out through the front door instead. Then when she opened the storm door while refusing to put it down on the mat and saw the black mold inside the slot of said door, whereafter she said to my face that she needed another slave, that the storm door was still dirty and that I should always clean it, but first of all, that storm door is actually made out of double glass, just like the rest of her house windows combined, yet when I told her about it, she refused to hear it. Then she said that I should be her new slave and stop being "lazy" start cleaning up all of the mess inside the storm door's slot and when I told her that I wasn't going to clean it up after her, that I was just burnt out from everything (including school), that it's not my house to clean and that she needed to clean it up herself, that was when she suddenly threw a loud temper tantrum and started screaming and cussing in my face, during which she not only called me names, but literally screamed in my face that I was nobody, that I was lower than dirt and that she hoped I would marry an abusive man who would beat me up for not cleaning after him.

Now, I don't care if this post might get me called "spoiled" because I'm actually a good offspring, since I help my egg donor around the house when she needs it most. But no, my evil grandmother just wanted another slave to cook for her and clean up after her at all times.

And don't get me started on talking to my sperm donor about taking a bus to school and back! I can never have a single adult conversation with him because I know that even if I say "please" in a polite way, he'll still throw loud ass temper tantrums as well, so the only thing I can do about it is have my uncle try to help me out in addition to taking a bus to school and back behind my sperm donor's back.

I can't wait to move out or at least graduate from my crummy community college and transfer to my dream school in my favorite city and never see them again!

[peachhoneii]

What hits me some days is Stan and Ford have never processed the fact their father was emotionally (if physically) abusive. No way you can tell me that Filbrick Pines wasn't at least emotionally neglectful.

Stan outright says his dad never threw catch with him. He created the footbot to experience the act of throwing catch. Ford refused to build it for him. A lot of his emotional issues stem from his damaged relationship with his dad. It's absolutely tragic, but what's worse is that as horrible as Filbrick was to him, Stan doesn't really look back on his dad negatively.

He sees his dad as a tough bricklayer who tried to toughen him up in the world. It doesn't come to him that his dad wronged him as a parent, y'know. The man kicked him out of their own home and disowned him for an accident, and there's still a measure of respect in Stan's voice when he talks about his dad. You can hear it.

We usually say Ford was the golden child, and while that may be true, probably is, that doesn't mean anything positive for Ford either. I highly doubt Filbrick was an attentive parent to Ford. He didn't care about Ford's academic success.

Until this. "I'm impressed." Ford's absolute delight implies this isn't a regular occurrence, despite the numerous awards he's won over the years. It takes a school principal telling him that Ford may earn potential millions for Filbrick to demonstrate any pride in his son.

I wouldn't be surprised if Stan got more attention from Filbrick because he was always in trouble and probably increased his troublemaking so his father could give him attention. Ford just stayed on the side as the smarter, quieter kid.

From The Book of Bill, we can infer that Stanford didn't return home frequently, if at all. Bill lies. We know he lies. He also spits truths, especially when he aims to hurt you. He picks at your insecurities. Your dad won't want you coming home if you don't have millions. The fact Bill weaponized this tells me that not giving his family money, not being the millionaire his father wanted him to be definitely sits on Ford.

Stan wanted money to be welcome back into the family.

Ford knew money was the cost for his dad to value him, but he prioritized his passion for research over that. Even so, the decision haunts him.

Crazy thing is Filbrick has probably been dead for 20+ years, and his abuse of his children lingers in them as 60 something year old men. They still don't realize it. They can't even contextualize that their father was abusive, and that hurts me. That's so sad.

[bookshelfdreams]

do it. gimme the Izzy straight-coded meta 👀

I feel like I need to preface this by saying that Actually, Izzy Is Straightcoded would be the inflammatory clickbait title I'd give this if it were written to draw traffic & ad revenue to my shitty website. So don't take that term too seriously.

There has been a lot of ink spilled about Izzy thinking he's in a story where one can only be subtextually queer. Some even by yours truly, but the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. What would be the purpose of queercoding Izzy?

In general, villains* aren't queercoded to show that men being attracted to other men is bad. It's often the outcome; but it's not why the trope exists. It exists because cishet people tend to be (and are encouraged to be) profoundly uncomfortable with gender nonconformity, and so, making a character gnc becomes a quick and easy way to make him appear twisted and untrustworthy. If he** can't even obey the fundamental rules of his own gender (rules that are inherent and unchangeable!) what other rules does he disobey?

Or: If a man is insufficiently masculine, he can't be trusted to have morals. The villain isn't gnc because that's an evil trait to have; rather, the gender nonconformity is a symptom of his evilness. Being evil is what enables him to embrace his feminine side, and embracing his feminine side is what others him and marks him as a villain.

This only really works when he's contrasted with a hero (or heroine) who is Doing Gender Correctly. The villain is foul to highlight how good the hero is. The Hero will be honest and straightforward, brave, physically powerful; the Queercoded Villain treacherous, cowardly, and physically weak. The hero is a Proper Man, a Good Person. The villain an Improper Man, and therefore, a Bad Person.

Of course ofmd fundamentally rejects this. The shorthand wouldn't work, because ofmd simply doesn't think effeminacy is creepy. It's uninterested in moralizing self-expression; it just lets people be how they are. There's a wide range of expressions of masculinity on this show, and none of it is inherently bad. People are allowed to be hypermasculine, flamboyant, and anything inbetween, can express their gender in whatever manner they want, and it's all fine - as long as they are authentic about it. Be however you are, but be yourself, and this is what Izzy fails at. The repression marks him as a villain. The strict adherence to what he thinks a Real Man Pirate ought to be like. He's very preoccupied with enforcing a traditional (and toxic) masculinity on himself and others. It's no coincidence the characters he antagonizes the most - Stede and Lucius - are also the most effeminate ones. And I know, I know anglophones have a much more casual relationship to twat and cunt, those don't nearly feel as uncomfortable for y'all as they do for me, so I don't want to assign too much significance here, but he is the only character who constantly uses this kind of language, and also the one who uses the most gender&sexuality based slurs (as far as I remember).

All of this while being clearly, obviously queer himself! I do not feel like I need to explain this; his flustered reaction when Lucius asks him if he's ever been sketched speaks for itself. The fact that he meets Stede and immediately slices his shirt off of him, speaks for itself. And so on.

Izzy isn't straightcoded in the sense that the story wants us to believe he's exclusively attracted to women. Much like a queercoded villain doesn't need to be shown to be attracted to men (and can even be shown to be attracted exclusively to women!) to still be queercoded. He's straightcoded in the sense that he's a stand-in for restrictive and toxic gender roles that society enforces on people. He buys into the idea that there's a way of Doing Gender Wrong, and this is presented as a tragic character flaw. Something he has to overcome to be able to do the thing that actually marks a hero in this show: express himself authentically.

Part of why I found his death so moving is because it enables him to set right the toxicity he spread. His rehabilitation arc was about himself; about finally allowing himself to be, accepting love, accepting community. His death was about taking responsibility. About fully recognizing the hurt he caused. Looking death in the face enables him to finally abandon the last shreds of that toxicity, to apologize and be granted forgiveness. In the end, he was not beyond saving, and the harm he has done will be healed.

*Izzy is introduced as an antagonist to both Stede and the central romance of this romcom. I'm not gonna debate this; if you disagree, fine, but you clearly have such a fundamentally wrong different view of the show that it's pointless for us to try and convince each other.

**of course Queercoded Female Villains exist s well, but they are a whole different can of worms and less relevant to this discussion

[she-is-ovarit]

Elders, seniors, old people, the aged... they are usually the first to advocate for children and emphasize that children are important and to take care of them because they are the future. And we can do better to advocate for old people and respect that they are important too, and to take care of them because they have lived through human history we have never experienced. Children are the future and elders are our history.

[wildbasil]

not contacting my mother on her birthday has, i think, finally hammered home to her that i was serious about going no contact. after all, sulking and ignoring is one of her favourite tactics, so i suppose it's normal she'd assume that's what i was doing.

but now that she's realised i'm serious, she's started getting relatives to contact me to say she's seriously ill. it's very predictable.

[nerianasims]

Staying out of it staying out of it staying out of it persuading them is impossible anyway I've never managed to staying out of it staying out of it

Okay fuck you I LOVE MY HUSBAND STOP SLANDERING HIM YOU FUCKWIT RADFEMS

Cis, straight, white, male, Floridian husband who voted for Harris and has been persuading people to support women's rights his whole life. Who takes care of my disabled ass all the time, and has been particularly taking care of me for the past more than a month while I've been in a crash. Also when I'm well enough for sex, sex with him is not only amazing physically but also a spiritual experience so shut the fuck up about that too.

I'm sorry I'm trying to stay out of things especially when I know I can't really get through to people I just. Urgh.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in my grandmother’s attic with some strange old man. She locked me in there as a punishment because I failed a test and she knows I hate the dark.

[angeltannis]

Love going over my grandmother’s house to try to take care of her and having my drunk uncle call me an ugly lesbian cunt like 25 times because I pointed out that he hadn’t fed her yet again

[imaginarianisms]

[kenakostarcat16]

don't get mad at me but this audio is so funny to me even as a therian💀 like ik it's upsetting sometimes but like damn chill out vro💀😨

[thedepressedweasel]

My evil grandmother is one of the worst child abusers that I know. Just yesterday evening, I was going to eat some creamy potato and pea soup with some ciabatta bread outside in the deck until I saw her going through her bills and deliberately taking her sweet ass time and enjoying it. I tried to make her hurry up and she said no in addition to deliberately speaking RuZZian to my face with the intention of being spiteful to me And I threatened her that if she wouldn;t stop speaking RuZZian, I would send her back to the former Soviet Union where she belongs and she said that she always wanted to move back to RuZZia forever and that she actually hated living in America; she also said that Vladimir Putin is the most wonderful man in the world and that she would love to have him as her president instead of Joe Biden.

And I just--

[eye-of-yelough]

oh and on the subject of johanna hezenkoss i think she would’ve been SO MUCH FUN as a campy comic relief villain if the other veilguard villains weren’t also ridiculously shallow and impossible to take seriously

[pergaminaa]

Modern au

One instance of Asterin being protective over Manon happened one evening:

The girls were out drinking and having fun. Manon was feeling tired so she wanted to leave, but she was tipsy/ slightly drunk so she shouldn’t be driving. She also didn’t want to inconvenience anyone (Sorrel insisted) and figured that she could get an Uber to take her home so it’s fine!

Anyway, while in the Uber, her slightly drunken brain realized the driver was driving past the actual way to her place. She sent her current location to Asterin and really, one look at the map she could see the driver going into those narrower less populated roads.

Trying to kidnap Manon? He has another thing coming. Asterin got in her car and sped towards the Uber. She pressed harder on the accelerator, passing him and stopping her car sideways, forcing him to stop.

But it’s Asterin, she won’t stop there. She left her car and went to confront him, demanding that he answers where exactly he was taking Manon because this is certainly not a road that would take anyone anywhere around the city.

Also luckily, Sorrel was only a few minutes behind so she handled the man. Because honestly, what is Asterin thinking being so aggressive? He could possibly be armed and this won’t end well. She just needs to get Manon out of the car and make sure Asterin doesn’t get them all murdered because she can’t keep her temper in check.

So Sorrel took over talking, being nice and non-threatening while Asterin got Manon and they all just left.

[junglejim4322]

you always have negative things to say about the women in your life but positive about the men

Taylor swift come off anon we can discuss the statements I’ve made about you

[compressednerve]

When you enter adulthood and you begin unrepressing the memories that you've been receiving hints about your entire life; things that only barely scratched the surface of your awareness

[rhysnolastname]

My grandparents refused to come down here to South Florida and stayed in Tampa, they say they’re out of storm surge reach but like. There’s no certainty in anything when it comes to a massive hurricane. They just had Helene. I just wished they’d come down here and be safe.