#adoption-and-attitude

[thepersonalwords]

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

DaShanne Stokes

[funstyle]

When i was a kid and we got guinea pigs i remember being like "god damn my dad is really excited about these guinea pigs" but i get it now. Imagine the rush being like 40 in a loveless marriage with a job u hate but suddenly u have guinea pigs

[stealingyourbones]

Demon Twins AU that focuses on the discrimination and bullying that Danny faces from being a kid who appeared out of nowhere, evidently adopted, and is impacted from his reactions to the world as a former League Assassin and the culture shock that would come from it forever imprinted on the minds of his peers and fellow Amity Parkers.

[theodaione-incorrect-quotes]

Snape: Potter, I’ve left a letter telling your guardian not to worry— Harry: They won’t. Snape: that you’re safe— Harry: That’ll just depress them. Snape: —and you’ll see them in a few weeks. Harry: Do we have to?

[meangreennunseen]

Part of me wants to give Dorn a wife. Just because I want to crack that man's skull as a wallnut.

[sarenhale]

I made a new elden ring character to play with my friends! His name is Krzysiek, he's a bandit, and he's from the far away fantasy lands of Poland

[komsomolka]

the fact that it seems that a lot of families (in yankland at least) willing to adopt are conservative christian households and for them it has missionary character aka to indoctrinate as many kids as possible to their cult🤐

[vaguely-concerned]

making myself a proper healthy & delicious dinner like 'lucanis dellamorte would be so proud of me. not that he has a fucking leg to stand on because he's almost certainly slept all of 50 minutes in the last 48 hours and is more caffeine than man right now, but still'

[saitoakirachan-fangirls]

The concept of Akechi and the Niijima being siblings is so funny because Makoto is actually two months older than Goro. You just know she would pull rank and play up her "responsible and sensible onee-chan" side. Depending on whether they grew up together, Goro could either have a soft spot for her act, or he could be the nastiest, meanest little brat about it.

[deconstructthesoup]

I think Niko would get Crystal and the boys into Drawtectives

[cartoonybus]

the salon squad, on and off the clock

[thanatika]

people on that child support post are talking as if patho classic daniil is great with kids and it's pathologic 2 daniil that people are getting this negative idea of him from, which got me thinking...

daniil's main characterization of how he treats kids in patho 2 comes from artemy's POV of him, which is biased against daniil due to daniil making a really dickish first impression, and is also based off of unreliable narrator accounts:

first by some kids outside of rubin's house who lead artemy to believe that daniil refused to treat poisoned children when it was actually just dying dogs, which can be followed by artemy confronting daniil himself where he continues to misunderstand the situation and assumes daniil is calling children animals, until he finally visits the kids' warehouse and learns it was just the soul-and-a-halves' pets. which, obviously it would be a nice thing to save pets from dying, but he really ISN'T a veterinarian and there's a deadly plague starting. he's doing triage.

and then another early incident with the kid in the warehouse dying of sand pest, where notkin passes along a message telling artemy not to bother trying to save him that makes him sound very dismissive ("Don't waste your time on Patches, it's over for him"). reading between the lines though, it's pretty clear that he came to that conclusion not because he doesn't want to save people from the sand pest, but because this is a seemingly incurable disease with no medical cure, and at that point he probably hasn't had the chance to test the schmowders on himself so would have no reason to believe in their effectiveness, and assesses that loading patches up with drugs will just kill him. which, he's literally correct! whether you treat him with tinctures, pills, or a whole schmowder, patches dies that night. obviously trying to treat him or at least ease his suffering is a morally good dead, but you can also see the implied basis of daniil's actions, that every second is precious in the early stages of trying to prevent a widespread outbreak, so you shouldn't waste time on a patient who ultimately can't be saved. (which fits in really well not only with his arc in both games where he comes to the conclusion that the whole town is unsalvageable, but with the bigger emphasis on time management and manipulation that his remake has been described as having. hell, maybe from daniil's POV he knows for certain that patches will die due to whatever time manipulation that's going on with him, and that spending the time on that patient allows for a larger disaster to happen elsewhere). so, the situation is framed by notkin (understandably, because he's just a kid and that's his friend dying) and artemy (because he's honestly pretty petty about daniil) as just "the bachelor is an asshole and abandoned these kids" when it's more of a genuine ethical quandary.

he's also pretty rude and dismissive in how he talks about grace to artemy later on, but again, it's pretty clear that he's not just being a hater to a 15 year old for no reason, the point he's making is that she shouldn't be left in charge of a graveyard filled with potentially bio-hazardous corpses.

all that to say, the main canon info about how he treats children in patho 2 basically comes from the fact that a lot of kids end up disliking him, because he's extremely pragmatic to the point of being heartless, but still ultimately pretty understandable in what he's trying to do (stop a plague).

meanwhile when we do get to see his POV in the marble nest, i would say the way he treats children is pretty much consistent with how he talks to them in pathologic classic -- if anything, he's a bit nicer to them? he has some fed-up, yelling sort of dialogue options to the kids, but pretty much all of those are based on being upset that they're out breaking quarantine and putting themselves at risk of death. meanwhile other dialogue options make him come off very much willing to humor them and talk to them on their level. and when another adult is much harsher about the kids being irresponsible, he defends them, with no dialogue option to agree with corporal punishment:

meanwhile in pathologic classic, i do think that on the whole daniil is pretty nice to kids and willing to go out of his way to protect or help them (to the point of risking death, such as the late game sidequest where he can agree to go take on several soldiers to keep the father of two children from being wrongly executed). but he does also have some really unkind and spiteful dialogue options, like some of what he says to clara both in his own route and hers, and on the topic of corporal punishment...

[incesthemes]

this is a little known fact but john steinbeck was actually thinking about sam and dean when he was writing east of eden

[ducksoup17]

I cant believe these live in my house with me

[wolfwarrior142]

It's heartbreaking to watch Claudia walk around with her staff before Terry makes her prosthetic. She's clearly struggling and it makes her look even more emotionally shattered while using it.

But also my nurse brain screams every time that she NEEDS to use it on her DOMINANT side. You need your weight centered on the good leg, not the affected one! Makes walking easier so your weight is put in the middle rather than on either side of your affected leg! Reduces the chance of pain developing in your unaffected leg too! You also won't look so slumped over that way! And it'll reduce your chance of falling because less of your weight will be put on your mobility aid and more on your unaffected leg!

But then I have to remind myself that she's only a young adult and probably never learned that and is Going Through It so she may not be able to think straight enough to realize that. Doesn't have a medical professional around to teach her. And she's also, ya know, a fictional character. (And the writers/animators either did it for the emotional aspect or cuz they don't realize that either)

Hasn't happened a lot, but the amount of times stuff has happened in the show that made my trained nurse brain go !!!!!!! is more than I would have expected. And this is the second time for Claudia.

[selfidentifiednerdyprude]

None of you know what it's like to hear "everyone is someone's type" and feel actively threatened