#anyway. i jus have a lot of feelings abt byIer as parents and their little family <3< /div> Explore tagged Tumblr posts

[bylertruther]

Always been a girldad byler truther…but please broaden my mind tell me why I’m wrong

bsdkjfdbj feeling the #pressure rn, but it's just a Vibe that i feel in my heart and soul really.

boys are less likely than girls to get adopted and i think that's something that they (and the universe) would consider when expanding their family. having been lonely outcasts once, feeling unwanted and confused, and thus acting in ways that others couldn't always understand, i feel that their age-old refusal to stand by when recognizing that in others would jump out. they'd be able to relate in different ways and see themselves in a young boy that deserves everything they didn't get.

it's my hc that their first kid is one that's been through a few homes already, and that where others see a "flight risk," mike especially just sees his s2 self. this kid isn't standoffish—he's just afraid to let anyone in because he knows (read: fears) they'll leave again. he's not a problem child—he just craves attention of any kind, whether good or bad, because he never gets any. he's not a bad student—he's just never had anyone believe in him before and thus doesn't see the point. that kind of a thing.

people would write the kid off as a punk, but mike would recognize that that's just how he's learned to express and navigate his pain in a way that is considered acceptable for boys. no one ever heard his cry for help, but he hears this one and he's going to answer it.

hopefully that made sense. obviously this isn't a mike-only operation, nor is relatability or this trauma dependent on gender, but my point is they'd be in a unique position to break certain parenting cycles and do things for a young boy that people didn't do for them when they were his age.

i also enjoy the idea of them having a son as an incidental "fuck you" to the stigma of gay couples adopting same sex children. something about them being perfectly capable of raising a son, no matter what anyone has ever or would ever say, because there isn't a single thing about them that makes them unfit to do so. there will be no derision of whatever interests their son has or question of whether he's "man enough." it'd just be a man, his husband, and their son, all existing in harmony, trying every day to heal the wounds of the past together.

( until their daughter comes along eventually, bc i hc that, too, hehe. :3 )