#andrew is good with kids

[maladaptivedaydreamerlala]

Wymack sitting at the funeral of Riko, the dude who was his estranged son’s codependent brother, who treated him as a pet and mentally and physically abused and tortured him for years. The same dude who also physically abused and orchestrated the gang rape of said estranged son’s best friend. Who then blackmailed one of your players, who knew your son from years back, and let Riko beat the shit out of him over Christmas break because he didn’t want his situation-ship to get hurt, who is your estranged brothers codependent bestie and protector - who riko also orchestrated the abuse of anyway. And then your team proceeded to beat him in the championships, where he tried to kill one said player before the other broke his arm and then his brother who runs the Japanese mafia killed him and framed it as a suicide. And now you sitting next to said estranged son, who people blame his death on, watching him grieve this absolute psychopath cause that’s just how much he fucked him up.

Wymack: *thank god this isn’t awkward or anything*

[erwinsvow]

Okay okay it doesn’t make sense within the context of the show but shhhh

Arranged marriage with pope.

Please hear me out. He’s so awkward and off putting and you’re so nice and innocent. Everyone is scared for you because well… look at him. But pope is just so obsessed with you. Staring at you 24/7. He touches you because he can. I imagine him trying so hard to delicately brush hair out of your face to be romantic but he just kinda ends up looking like the terminator

you have truly appealed to my ancestral roots. how did you know arranged marriage is my favorite thing in the world. there is really no canon context in the show where this makes sense but youre right, we are rolling with it because that is what i am here for. it'd have to be some sort of business transaction/deal with some other family... definitely some family that does not care about you and very old schooly decides to trade you away in order to get the codys to do jobs maybe... or a really big job where they can't have anyone snitching on them so the traditional way to go about it is to tie the deal with marriage.. idk. unnecessary context! the real answer here is just as you said—hulking, lumbering season four jacked andrew. there's no real 'wedding' which he doesn't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. it has to be him because duh he's the oldest. they probably try to get j to do it after a brief moment of thinking maybe it's not the best idea to give pope a wife but i think i could imagine j spinning it around and convincing the others it would be the best for andrew because it'd be stable and whatnot. i think andrew assumes you'd be some bad-tempered spoiled child of criminals like his own family. gets very uneasy at first seeing how quiet you are and how you can't meet his eyes and just little things that tell him you were not what he was picturing at all. maybe you made dessert for everyone and help clean the table after eating and while everyone's talking you just go start washing dishes to escape the conversation. and he'd already be in there cleaning so maybe you both realize you were very mistaken about the other. i like that a lot! i loooove arranged marriage aus gaaah. the niceness and innocence only grows. maybe you two get to see each other a few times before going to town hall to sign papers—you wear a white skirt with a pretty top but he was really itching to see you in a white dress. it's okay though, once you two are married he envisions a future where he can get you whatever you want in the security of your home with him. everyone's cracking jokes about you and him but he has a new mission in life now, which is protecting his wife. i imagine he takes it very very seriously. i can imagine reader being very very nervous and not sure what andrew's personality is really like because she hasn't heard the best things. mean taunts about how her new husband is a beast and she'll be lucky to stay in one piece. i mean you have to consider his reputation to outsiders too. he's just a big softie inside though once he trusts her and i think he innately does since they're bonded together now.

fondness has to grow and fear has to leave before anything happens. you unlearn flinching when you turn around to find him waiting for you already, realize how much he cares about you when he comes home with something you had mentioned in passing yesterday. and since there's a new small home for you both, he tells you to decorate it how you'd like and helps you with house hold things like putting up curtains and moving furniture to lay down a rug. just very cutesy domestic life. i think it would soften you both up a lot. and also i think he wouldn't sleep with you right away, even if you were open to it. he sees it as something more special than that since you two are married. in fact i imagine a month in, after lingering touches and lots of staring (all the time, when he's supposed to be laying out the rug he stops since he got to where you're standing and gets distracted by your legs and your hand hovering and especially distracted when he sees the wedding band on your ring finger. in the store when you're holding up two options asking him to pick his favorite, doesn't answer just keeps staring. when you're washing dishes and ask him to bring you his coffee cup and he just stares realizing this is how domestic bliss feels) anyways after a month of that and andrew trying to be a cutesy husband but it's more of an endearing sort of awkward (let's be real, would this not work on you?? it would on me) i think you'd be begging for it (you've been begging for it since the first week when you saw how big his arms get when he's lifting something for you and how veiny they are at night when you fall asleep next to each other) and only then would he complete his duties as a husband. alternatively, the entire house is so cute and set up now and it just feels like a home and you two have a routine and you feel like a real husband and wife and now with everything in place he finally feels ready to give you a baby because isn't that the point of marriage after all <3

[jonny-be-gewd]

Jon as Coop

Your Friends & Neighbors 1.06 | The Things You Lost Along the Way

[trash-tzar]

Can somebody ask Nora what the difference between the exy pro league and major league is, I'm trying to fix her sport.

[okjii]

“Nora wrote Kevin straight!” this, “Bi Kevin can still win!” that. what about the secret third option of Aroace Icon Kevin Day

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Andy from breakfast club liked the crazy girl alternative more! We all shout in unison!!

And I don’t blame him ily crazy girls y’all rock y’all make the world a better place fr

if I were a poet I’d write “ode to crazy girls” and so would Andy Clark 😌

[kibber-cat]

Electraaaaaaaa

[thesecondsanctuary]

So wait……. I’ve been thinking abt the hidden tape behind chujins grave again and like. Who put it there… I don’t think it could have been anyone other than chujin or axis (ceroba didnt know abt axis so it can’t have been her) but chujin couldn’t have done it because he would be dead lol, so it was definitely axis, right? But I swear chujin sent him back to the steamworks before his death… so. Like. Did chujin order axis to stick around just long enough to hide the tape, then return to the steamworks?

[bloomfish]

ive decided the comics arent that bad actually

[love-songs-for-emma]

don't get me wrong,, i have Sobbed throughout my watch of buffy the vampire slayer. there are deaths that had me wrecked through entire episodes. but. even though i didn't cry for him in the moment,, the most upsetting death for me thus far is absolutely jonathan. my god. he was trying so hard. through and through to the end, he believed in the good of people, in helping and loving people,, even if they'd never think twice about him. he was beaten down on and alone and still,, still,, there are things he did that ultimately saved the world and i doubt the scoobies or anyone will ever know it :(

[ninyard]

hiii, for the ask game!

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~ @rekikiri

hmm. if i were to say something that involved andrew + his relationship with kids would you guys cancel me. i don't personally see andreil having kids/fostering/whatever and while i think andrew would love his nieces/nephews i don't know how good he actually would be with kids

[liaisun]

if andrew and aaron grew up in foster care together it would be some baudelaire orphan a series of unfortunate events type of childhood

[marigoldsramb1lings]

The coffin of Andy and leley is the perfect example of a self fulfilling prophecy. (Analysis)

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So first off, to explain for all the folks that haven’t taken a psychology class before or just never heard of the term.

The concept of a self fulfilling prophecy is that when someone believes something about themselves or is told they are something about themselves by others is a certain way or trait, it can cause people to do those actions because they are already expected to do it.

I think this term perfectly explains how Andrew and leley became how they are in the present of the game.

When we are shown in the vision room some memories from Renee’s point of view we see that her views of her children are negative and just plain awful given the fact all she’s had Andrew do for her (raise Ashley, and poach money off of him in this exact memory) and Ashley she’s never actually bothered to spend any time with because she was “too difficult”.

Renee sees Andrew as a disappointment and Ashley as an embarrassment.

We already know Ashley and Andrew are aware of how fake their family is and Ashley already thinks deeply as a child that nobody likes her, not even Andrew who she likely spends all her time with at that age.

All of these points basically tell us outright that Renee was NOT subtle in anyway about how she saw her children.(even if she tried to be children are notoriously good at picking up on their adults feelings, most children tend to be more emotionally aware than ADULTS in there lives)

So here we have a household where the mom basically forces her children to only be reliant on each other, seeing Ashley as this weird and difficult child (so of course later Ashley knowing this does things that pisses her mom off like getting a job at the massage parlor, I know it’s hinted it’s to make Andrew jealous because of his relationship with Julia but REALLY the mom outright says she doesn’t approve and thinks Ashley is doing this to get a rise out of her, so Ashley goes through with the job to both spite her mother, and because she’s being pushed so hard to get a job)

This pushing dynamic with Renee and Ashley makes it so Ashley acts out because that’s all that’s EXPECTED from her.

Then we have Andrew being expected to reign in his sister all the time (this of course leads to the Nina incident because the MOM forced them to be together so much that Ashley latched on to the ONLY constant person in her life so much she couldn’t stand even the thought of not being in the most important thing that persons life).

Andrew gets older and after the packed he makes with Ashley he resents Ashley obviously by other dialogues like how he doesn’t say “no” or disagree with Ashley’s assumption that he hates her now. But also I think he resented Renee after it too (of course he would resent a lot, the fact Renee forced him to be responsible for his sister, which forced him to even be with Ashley near that warehouse in the first place, maybe resented his father for sitting back and not intervening in their lives when he should have, it’s really no wonder he ends up so explosive with his stress in the current events of the game, it doesn’t make it ok, but it makes sense)

Then the final glaring thing of the taboos parts of Andrew and leley’s relationship, for one of we look back at that one picture where Renee catches Andy and leley sleeping in the same bed.

it really doesn’t look that bad on first glance, they’re not undressed or touching any place they shouldn’t be touching. They’re just holding each other (like yeah we know Andrew peeps on Ashley and stuff in some memories but honestly in any normal household or if we didn’t know that Andrew felt that way by now, this would look like to siblings just comforting each other, especially in a household as toxic as there’s where they really only had each other)

And the mom immediately jumps to their relationship being inappropriate because of this at first glance, innocent moment between siblings.

Which makes me wonder if possibly the mom started making these assumptions earlier in Andrew and Lesley’s lives, like would the mom snap at them for maybe hugging a bit too long as adolescence, or make a snide remark about how disgusting the display is (like how in episode two she makes a snide remark about how they should probably find two different places to live as if she didn’t leave them alone in the apartment together when she had the chance) when really nothing was going on at that point in their lives?

What if the reason Andrew even started thinking of Ashley the way he does now (cause remember in the seen where leley convinces Andy to join her in ‘punishing’ Nina, Andrew says he doesn’t really think of her as a ‘lady’ at that point in time) is because of how much his mom misread their relationship and scandalized any NORMAL contact he had with leyley, making it seem like he should be seeing Ashley that way because his mom is EXPECTING him to see her that way.

Anyway my tldr, I have a strong feeling most of the toxicity in Ashley and Andrew’s relationship and the taboo stuff that happens between them, probably wouldn’t have happened if their MOM didn’t always treat them like they were doing something wrong, just by existing together (like it wasn’t something she literally forced onto them in the first place)

[chaoticninjar]

Just watched a non replica amdram cats performace!! Not gonna dox myself lol but here’s what I can remember

There were four cats preshow wondering around, misto and I can’t figure out who else! He jumped onto one of the seats as people were going to sit down and refused to move off, there was also a scrap between two of them and they they all ran backstage

During jellicle songs a few of them came on with big balls of yarn attached to a bouncy string if that makes sense it was silly they had colours contrasting to their costume (vicky had black, misto had white)

Naming of cats was sung in turn (munkustrap then bomba then I don’t remember) which was cool! They also changed some of the names around bc there were a new cats added

White cat solo was between Victoria and a smaller white cat?? They mirrored each other, I saw it as Vicky dancing with her younger self, more reminiscing about her childhood rather than the usual growing into adulthood

Gumbie cat didn’t have a beetle tattoo but they had the classic tap cane, changed the choreography but it still worked!

Bustopher came in on like a vertical sardine tin?? They also used it for deut to sit on during moments of happiness

Instead of pekes they had a macavity scare and did a reprise esque thing of macavity

Pas de deux was between Victoria and alonzo

Grizz had a pristine sparkly light grey dress on underneath her ragged coat which I thought was a nice touch

Genuinely my only criticism is they had cats on during memory? Like they were sat down dancing which I get from an interest point of view but deut wasn’t even on stage? Like the whole point is deut hears memory which prompts moments of happiness? But grizz still ate I can’t complain

Jelly was almost playing babysitter to a very mischievous gus (who wore a dressing gown!) like made him sit on a seat, fussed over him and then ushered him off again at the end only for him to run back on to sing the final verse lol

They did the replace growltiger with pekes thing with Gus as rumpus, but they sung the start and end to the melody of growltiger, deffo made it more dramatic like red lighting n whatnot

They made the skimble train! I wasn’t sure if they would but they made it out of like sewer lids, car steering wheels, a lamp, door frames, etc

Macavity hypnotised all cats sans Demeter, munkustrap and I believe Jemima and made them dance before taking deut

They put misto on a trampoline!!!! Honestly I thought it made a great alternative to the conjuring turns, maybe 8 cats sat around him with lights on their hands similar to mistos jacket, he also summoned deut from under the trampoline

During addressing of cats tugger was leaning on alonzo at the back and shoved alonzo towards deut so that he could be closer to him!

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[merry-andrews]

Jinx and her dad again because I can't get enough of them.

[much-the-millers-kid]

Every time I see something about how no one should have any Nazi memorabillia, I think of that Vin Diesel movie "The Pacifier" where Vin is playing some military guy (I think either a Marine or Navy Seal) and he's supposed to protect these kids while their mom deals with all the covert op stuff their dad did.

And he starts seeing the teenage son come home with nazi stuff, particularly the arm band, and so he follows the kid to a secret meeting, and it turns out to be a rehearsal for The Sound of Music, which takes place as the nazis invaded Austria and very much paints the nazis as the bad guys (if you've seen the gif of Christopher Plummer ripping up a nazi flag, it's from the movie version of The Sound of Music). But anyway yeah this kid knows nazis are bad but he's playing one in a musical, shame on the costume crew for letting cast members take the arm bands home.

I'd love to have some good message to end this with but I've got nothing. If you're part of a production of The Sound of Music, Cabaret, The Producers, or anything else with nazis keep all your nazi shit at the theatre, I guess? Learn about the past so we aren't doomed to repeat it, but also make sure it can't be mistaken for celebrating atrocities?