#and then my parents were the same
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*sobbing about how maybe my parents aren't that bad and I'm overdramatic and stupid and should just suck it up because really they didn't do anything terrible*
people online: Horrid Henry's parents are awfully abusive and they're the worst parents in cartoon media, they're bad parents
me:
#mine#I'm just. hmbmbmbntjgjg okay#I guess that inspires confidence?#like Henry's parents kinda just yell at him a lot... even when he's being good they blame him for things#and people online are like that's abusive#and then my parents were the same#and also worse in some areas-#if anything I'm less like Henry though. that would be my brother#I'm pretty sure he's got a whole complex about being blamed for things#and treated like he's the worst#while I'm like Peter. the good child. the golden child#and I always hated seeing my brother get treated like that#like my mom will just trash talk him the second he leaves the room#talking about how she wants him dead#and turn to me and pressure me into agreeing#and then probably remark on how good I am for not being Like That#... I should rewatch Horrid Henry 😍#I think I'll look at it with fresh eyes#as a kid I watched it just thinking that they were really unfair to Henry sometimes#I didn't love the parents but I didn't think they were THAT awful either
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Please, Not Him
Watched the mirror scene one night and got possessed to draw this. Hehe, enjoy! :))
#looooooooove me some stan angst#its stan and ford having vastly different childhoods while having the same parents for me#they were traumatized differently#(also lowkey probably glass child shermie too)#stan being the self identified patient/problem child by his dad#gravity falls#gravity falls fanart#grunkle stan fanart#stanley pines#grunkle stan#stan pines#stangst#stan twins#stanford pines#gravity falls stanley#young stan pines#young stanley#filbrick pines#mullet stan#tw implied abuse#my art#cryptic art#cryptic underground
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Luke and Leia would not be the same people if they had grown up with their bio parents. If they had grown up with their bio parents, they would've grown up in the suburbs. Luke is like that because he grew up as a gay kid in the middle of nowhere tuning up 20-year-old cars he could then drive around without a proper licence while five different gangs roamed around. Leia is like that because she was raised by people in their forties who were on the radical left. They are not the same.
#listen up I was raised by parents who were in their twenties when I was born#while my siblings are being raised by parents who are in their fifties rn#we are not the same lmaooo#sw#Luke Skywalker#Leia Organa#Owen Lars#Beru Whitesun#Bail Organa#Breha Organa
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He's gotta zoom!
Bug Fact: Giant wētā are endemic to New Zealand and many species are alpine specialists. They are also as big as a gerbil 😳. Photos Below
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He eat carrot. 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥺 also he is super duper endangered do not hurt him
#if you are freaked out by crickets I do not recommend reading more lmao#Also its official u-u Dewi's parents are divorced.#Call back to like- 30 pages ago! Dewi knows how to get out of here. He aint that dumb. Plus he can climb#does this page look a little empty to you? Same. But I aint drawing more. Lets just say were focusing on the dialogue and characters#art#my art#hollow knight#hollow knight au#hollow knight hornet#hollow knight comic#dewi's adventures in hollow knight#dewi#hollow knight spoilers
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Do you remember running? The purity of the air around. / Im a child humming into the clarity of black space.
#disco elysium#kim kitsuragi#jean vicquemare#harry du bois#they all had uniquely sad childhoods I think#Kim raised in a moral intern/delorian orphanage with all the other chidlren who’s parents were killed by the very same inst.#Jean was treated like he was diseased for the scaring left by the pox#he grew his hair out to hide behind but that only brought on a new type of bullying#Harry was so hard to picture as a child!#it made me very sad to realize he’s unrecognizable without all the damage from years of alcohol abuse#as for his sad childhood we know he was in gangs with boys who all ended up dying young#my art
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do people who have listened to taz balance but not graduation Know that it was HEAVILY IMPLIED that lup and barry eventually adopted a lil sorcerer child who got disowned by his family for his natural necromancy magic, and they taught him how to use his powers for good and were overall great parents that he looks back on fondly
(and said child grew up to be a dimension-hopping lich, caretaker of the dead, and very sweet adoptive father of a major npc)
#eliot posts#taz#the adventure zone#taz balance#taz graduation#lup taaco#barry bluejeans#blupjeans#like they never specifically say ''my parents are barry and lup'' so it's left up to interpretation but#he says he came from another world other than nua (nua is the name of the grad world like faerun is the balance world)#he says both his parents were highly skilled necromancers that ''travelled'' a lot because of their work#he says that inter-planar travel runs in the family#and he likes to bake#also travis apparently said on a livestrean that he got something carved by magnus for his daughter#it's a fun little easter egg for balance enjoyers but kept vague enough where it's like. you don't have to know about balance to enjoy it#anyway tho it's adorable cuz he talks about how much of a positive impact his parents made on him#and how he wanted to emulate them when raising his own daughter#and he's a good dad and his daughter loves him (also she is an absolute delight i love her#and like the only older adult to look at our college-aged protagonists and be like#''yeah it's messed up that you have to deal with all of this you're so young you're the same age as my child i will help however i can''#like balance easter egg aside gordy is one of my fav graduation npcs (behind his daughter rainer who is my fav)
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Ice was the one to teach Bradley to drive.
They found a quiet parking lot, and he slowly but clearly walked bradley through the functions. (he learnt in a manuel). Ice was a very calm teacher, he knew Bradley needed to be able to figure it out himself, so the older man just sat quietly, giving some guidance when he needed it.
Bradley managed to learn pretty fast because of this and within no time he was driving on the road confidently. Ice trusted bradley to keep them safe, and only really intervened when it was really necessary or Bradley asked for help.
But when Mav tried to drive with him, a few months into having his learners permit, it didn’t go so well. He had trouble letting go and seemed to feel the need to tell Bradley what to do every two seconds and it really irked the teen.
Bradley would be taking a turn, and Mav would point out every detail of what he needed to do, when to indicate, when to slow down (more often than not it was way before he even needed to think of hitting the breaks). There was a lot of grabbing the door, flinching, and mumbled prayers, and because of this Bradley would tend to get into a reckless headspace, and it would just spiral from there. He would get snarky and talk back whenever Maverick would tell him what to do, and both of them would end up in pretty pissy moods by the end of the drive.
After the first few times, Mav gave up driving with Bradley, and left that to Ice. It was decided that they had plenty of other hobbies to could bond over. It was only after Bradley had his p’s for a while that they started driving together again, and Mav still had to forcefully calm himself down.
#in case you couldn’t tell i’ve got the same vibes with my parents-#mav and brad were definitely the hotheads#ice had to struggle to mediate#top gun#top gun maverick#pete maverick mitchell#bradley rooster bradshaw#tom iceman kazansky#icemav#maverick#rooster#bradley bradshaw#iceman#top gun headcanons#tassieshcs
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i really don't know how to feel about fics/aus where it turns out that sj's treatment of lbh is his own fault because he didn't speak up about issues with other disciples, genuinely misbehaved etc and also later (as bingge) lied about how much he actually got punished and in truth it wasn't any more than any other disciple, and that sj didn't know about the fake manual, when all of this is explicitly against canon.
yqy adresses this when sy wakes up, telling sqq to stop being so mean to lbh. in the sj extra, he himself says that lbh should have died a long time ago bleeding from the seven apertures due to the fake manual. sy says that pidw explicitly states that lbh was punished WAAAY more than any other disciple, and in those conditions obviously noone would tell their teacher about being bullied??
idk i understand altering canon for the sake of telling a story but... somehow it feels like a disservice to sj's character to ignore canon and water him down for the sake of making his redemption easier. and villifying lbh, which is what these fics inevitably end up doing, is also messed up - he was around 11 when he joined cqm. that's a CHILD. no matter how you look at it, sqq's "treatment" of lbh is neglect at best, horrible abuse at worst, and in modern times it would put him in jail faster than you could blink. giving him a realistic redemption arc is difficult, if not impossible, but if you truly love him with all his flaws and faults, isn't it worth the effort?
#and do NOT get me started on the hypothetical sy/sj confrontation#it would get physical so fast#i think it would actually be a pretty even fight? sy in sqq's body probably has approximately the same martial abilities#so it would be down to sj fighting dirty vs sy fuelled by pure rage#because sy would NOT go omg sj gege poor meowmeow 🥺#like. my parents were assholes to me when i was little (obvs not to sj's degree)#and my friends STILL hate them#and in sy's case. THAT'S HIS HUSBAND!!!!!#svsss#sj#sqq#lbh#svsss meta#shen qingqiu#shen jiu#miao#argument ammunition#meta yapping
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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.
#leverageposting#leverage#sophie devereaux#particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school#or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think#she’s dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks#she’s dead too. like. astrid wasn’t the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself#as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund#her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one#or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. that’s#bc of a single vague sentence on john rogers’ blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random#hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that she’s trans which i’ve seen a few times#in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. he’s never asked.#she is here now and that’s all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer#enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth#name bc it’s not Her anymore… she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. she’s so much more than whatever happened.#lvg
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every time gricko semi-mockingly imitates kremy by going 'and then kremy'll be like 'waddadoo waddadoo fellas etc.', years get added to my lifespan and my skin clears
#kremy is my favorite and I think we should all make relentless fun of him for being as he is at all times <3#once upon a witchlight#legends of avantris#gricko grimgrin#kremy lecroux#the power balance as it were between gricko and kremy is really weird and interesting#like when gricko puts his foot down about something that concerns one of the others or the whole group kremy tends to listen#they are the two oldest people in the krew I suppose. and despite having some common sense frost lacks the gravitas#(due to being a bABY a little in his twenties kitten boy what the fuck!!! you ever remember that gricko is like... twice as old as frost.#incredible and wild) to really stand up to kremy a lot of the time#and obviously. torbek is torbek lol#kremy and gideon are a bit more of their own thing within the group and kremy does listen to gideon within that#but honestly they seem to be pretty on the same wavelength about a lot of the big stuff too haha#just partnership stuff <3#but when it's the whole group gricko is often the opposing 'other parent' to kremy's awful team mom antics#and it's really interesting#kremy *definitely* does not respect him in the conventional sense lmao but he does listen now and then#these characters can have dynamics and interactions so complicated and weird as a treat (a treat FOR ME!)
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End of Empathy (time for violence)
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan jingyi#jin ling#lan sizhui#We are back to the present! Honestly I think I'm going to try and truncate the rest of this arc.#I LOVE yi-city and I really appreciate all of the support the yi-city lovers have given me. And the patience of those who aren't.#But it's been two months. And I need to move this along </3#Anyways; I love the start of ep 3 so much. The worried concern of the juniors is so cute#but the crown jewel by far is wwx responding like a parent that's very hungover but trying so hard to be nice about it#like 'shhh shhhh guys hi I'm up now. Can you keep the volume down. Can you get me some water and my sunglasses from the glovebox.'#and of course the incredible wham line of 'Xue Yang Must Die.'#'Is YX irredeemable? I'm pro 'everyone is capable of change and deserves a chance.' So Im of the camp of 'if he had the opportunity...maybe#The issue is that this setting has no structure to provide those opportunities. You are perceived as a threat therefor you must die#XY is a very interesting parallel to the YLLZ because they both meet the same fate: outsiders determining that they need to be killed#plus both did war crimes. I know it's easy to forget the YLLZ actually did do some of the things he was accused of (most wrong)#but wwx also has blood on his hands. He also sought revenge in pretty twisted ways. Both were given opportunities to step away and refused#The difference is that we empathize with and like XXC & SL and A-Qing. The Narrative says they were wronged and that is an injustice.'
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This peculiar guy has vexed me
I think it would be funny if Bill and Steve knew each other before Euclydia was destroyed and Bill just had an insane hatred for him for not really any good reason. I've been thinking it would be interesting if Bill took his "strange eye" as a sign that he's different and special, it was his eye that allowed him to see the 3rd dimension after all, and the fact that Steve has the same abnormality attacks that belief which infuriates him. In all honesty, Bill probably used the "he's not like all the other shapes" mentality to cope to some degree.
#bill cipher#pyramid steve#gravity falls#book of bill#I imagine Bill and Steve's parents forcing them to have a playdate because neither of them have friends#also they were probably like “oh you both have the same eye you have something in common!”#meanwhile Bill was not having it. just big and mean#my art
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#you#...#you...#Congrats with surviving... I hope it wasn't too bad...#We had something similar last year#We live in a kind of a distant village#And our streets are connected to one heating system#And it was so cold last year that this station just broke#Me and my sister have been without water electricity and heat first day *giggle* It was funny to wear 2 complects of cloths and jacket#It was... like... -14 inside of home? *giggle*#On the second day we at least got electricity back and got a little heater (We were separated from parents so the have been calling 3#times per day XDD) We closed all doors to not let the heat outside#Since we got sick and couldn't take a shower#We were able to go to school but we looked like shit XDD#Then we were lying next 2 days like potatoes in one room with a heater... it felt awful XDD#They couldn't fix the main heating system for almost 3 days#It was... funny.... never want to experience the same again and hope you will not too
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if I had a nickel for every time some blonde guy inexplicably got a child I’d have two nickels but it’s strange that it happened twice
#kotaro lives alone#digital art#my art#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#kotaro lives alone is about adults who didn’t get enough parental love when they were children doing their best to make sure this kid never#grows up feeling the same as them and through him they learn how to love and feel again and I cannot stop crying ;_;#kotaro lives alone fanart#sato kotaro#karino#what is this dudes full name again lol?#the other duo is mob and reigen btw lol#also the amount of criminally offensive side eyes they give each other is so funny
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something that peeves me in fiction – in a setting where society that hasn't mostly eliminated scarcity, anyway – is when someone really kindhearted takes in a near stranger in need (e.g. orphan, ex slave) and that person is their only project to whom they can give a lot of care. irl I feel like everyone who's exceptionally nice, or at least bad at drawing a line for their own health, has a full case load and is close to burnout
I don't mind this at all when there's a good plot reason for why X should be helping Y in particular and isn't already overbooked; I feel some ugh when X is depicted as someone who'd always help people in Y's shoes but has mysteriously evaded all other supplicants.
I'm pro-fantasy but this kind of moral fantasy strikes me as a bit uglier than the others: you can be a nurturing figure who gives unconditional help without running something so unphotogenic as a vetting interview or cost/benefit analysis, but you'll never be overwhelmed, either
#rambl#also would enjoy it if X took in Y and the scene was played as a 'and now you are my only son' vibe and then. Y comes home.#and X's house is full of other orphans who are going to eat him alive#conversely i think a vetting interview could be played really well – no one WANTS to do that! (hence people's numbers for strangers#helped extensively being either 0 or 10+) but if an adopter is weird enough... like 'orphan boy. answer my riddles twenty'#and that interaction uncomfortably reverberates for years afterwards in what naturally morphs into a familial relationship? oh!#like yes. you are my dad now. and you have three other kids (your limit) who were grilled the same way. and we love each other but#we all started off on a footing that was maximally inimical to simulating unconditional parental love.
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juvie buddies
#alek art#td duncan#td mal#total drama#total drama all stars#(if i want to get technical)#2024#duncan is around 15 here... mal is around 16#ive thought really hard about them these past few days . in my brain they actually knew each other and canon is different#duncan and mike got along really well. in juvie mal refused to speak to anyone about anything and would fight as many people as he could .#he wanted to stay in there and far away from home . they get roomed together and duncan is the first person who mal can talk to . he isnt#scared of him . he relates to him a lot . like -> wow we both act out for attention and people think we are terrible because of it#duncan being a mentally ill teenager seeing mal an also very mentally ill teenager thought 'i can fix him' . mike and duncan speak too here#i cant really see anyone else fronting besides those two . their brain was on lockdown and mike wanted out so bad . i see manitoba as a#gatekeeper so hed handle some sessions with their psych. i want to say they (duncan and mike) get moved to a psyche ward just because#i have more knowledge on being in one and how it goes ... but yeah i like duncan mal a lot . this art isnt ship whatsoever though 🙏 i dont#see them as a couple their dynamic is just better as friends imo#but anyways in all stars they obviously recognize each other but have an unspoken agreement not to say anything abt it#duncan is a known criminal but mike isnt like that . mike hadnt even told zoey about that part of his life . so duncan wanted to respect his#privacy -> then mal starts hurting people and he has to step in . mal isnt a good person by any means but i dont think he was that bad in#juvie . so duncan had to come to terms that his friend wasnt the same person he was years ago (in all stars duncan is ~18 and i think mike#is almost 20... so it had been a while since they last talked)#them getting each other like no other and being in pain because they couldnt really speak . i see them having a conversation still in moon#madness abt their past and history . god i just think abt them and their wasted potential wdym mike and duncan were in juvie together#duncan was in for trespassing or destruction of private property or something really dumb . mal fought his parent(s) and got in for assault#mal was already in when duncan was placed . and duncan was let out early on good behavior + his parents (dad) mostly did it to teach him a#lesson . wrong of them or otherwise . so mal was just kinda stuck there until they realized he was actually not right in the head . think he#knew abt their DID but was only diagnosed in juvie and had to go from there . tbh he shouldve been tried as an adult but td logic . doesnt#matter dw guys . mike gets the 'was put on random meds that made him go braindead' treatment bc that was me . post mental hospital abilify#had me messed up
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