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Brother From The Same Childhood -- Chapter 1
Characters: Swap!Grem, Swap!Nikolai (@bowlerhatwearer) Swap!M0u5e, Swap!????????????
Summary: On what was supposed to be a fun, quiet movie night during a downpour, Grem and Nikolai encounter somebody more familiar than they think.
Pitter-patter-pitter-patter-pitter-patter.
The rain outside hit the window with their pleasant little rhythm.
Nikolai Akdow-Mewton lounged on the couch and listened, sighing contentedly.
It was a Tuesday night in March, about 9:50 pm. His child, M0u5e had decided to go to bed early. Grementine, his beloved husband and life partner, was busy getting something from their bedroom.
It was Impromptu Movie Night.
Grem's 37th birthday had been only a little over a week prior, and their friend Mothgo had given them a $50 gift card to their favourite VHS shop-- Valley Tapes. As such, Grem had spent the entire card in three trips.
Tonight, they’d be watching something that Grem had told Nikolai he would “like a whole damn lot, I promise!”
He didn’t doubt them.
They were going to put on some popcorn, too. Grementine never watches the popcorn, though— they preferred to spend the two minutes with their face snuggled against his shoulder as they purred lovingly. Secretly, he wished that Gremmy would actually watch the popcorn… but he liked cuddles more than pointing that out.
Nikolai then heard the familiar sound of small feet thumping against the floorboards, as Grem ran out of the bedroom and leaped onto the couch.
Something was hidden behind his back.
“Hi Nik!!” They chirped at him with glee.
“Hello, strawberry.” Nikolai replied, using his pet name for Grem.
The cat sat closer to him, still hiding something.
“Soooo ya know that VHS store I’m single handed keeping open?” They started.
The human rolled his eyes lovingly. “Yes, I’m aware of Valley Tapes.”
“Wellllll… I got something new for us to watch now. It’s the thing I said you’d like.”
“Oh, really? This is a big surprise to me.” He joked.
It was now Grems turn to roll his eyes as he produced the item behind his back.
It was a VHS case. On the cover was a young woman— a Jack Russell terrier, Nik thought— with a look of anguish and tragedy on her face. The dress she wore was ruffled, red, and fancy. To her right was a badger man, equally as anguished. His clothes were just as fancy (if a little plainer) and he carried a musket. In the background was a large, fancy grey brick house, surrounded by luscious green grass and trees. The flowery writing on the cover read ‘Love on Briggenbury Manor’.
Nikolai couldn’t help chuckling as he took it in.
“Grementine, what is this?” He asked, amusement coating his every word.
The cat made a huffy noise. “It’s a cult classic, Nikolai. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted and more.”
“Do tell.”
“It’s about tragedy and love in Victorian era England! It’s about the lovely upper class Anabellizabeth Williambury and her upper middle class boytoy Roginald Depperdander, and their relationship. But there’s hardships, Nik— HARDSHIPS! There’s a gigantic class divide between them—“ Grems hands started flapping a bit as they spoke more— “What with Anabells family being able to afford imported tea, and Roginalds family having to grow their own. Plus, the Crimean War has being going on, and Roggie has been sent to go. So while Anabel laments during the summer in the manor, she at least has three bosom chums to play with— her aunt Lady Jessica Victoria Waltenbaltenchester III who owns the manor. She has a mysteriously dead husband and a lifetime of wisdom to share. There’s also Nancy Stratforduponavon, one of the manors maids and Anabels personal servant. Her real name is Helena and her family used to be rich but everyone keeps forgetting her name. There’s also the BAD GUY… Gilbert Pettyburrow! His father, Wilbert Pettyburrow IV, owns land in ~America~, and Gilbert’s wants to kiss up on her and take her there! While that’s going on we learn that rich people have problems too. It’s great.”
Grem took several deep breaths after he finished infodumping.
Nikolai couldn't help but narrow his eyes a bit.
"... and why is this a cult classic?"
"Uh, because it's great? And also historically inaccurate?"
"It is?"
"Yeah. The Crimean War ended in March of 1856, but the movie takes place in the summer of that year."
"Grem, I love you, but I still can't see how this got a following."
"Maybe if ya watched the freaking movie, ya'd know!"
Nikolai scritched Grem's head, getting a purr from the feline.
"Alright, Grem, I believe you. Let's watch the movie."
The cat jumped up excitedly, tail swishing around.
"Great! I'll close the curtains and make the popcorn, you sit there and look handsome."
Nikolai giggled behind his hand as Grem scurried over to the window.
As they grabbed the curtains, however... they saw something outside.
Grem squinted a bit to get a look.
A figure was slowly walking down the sidewalk, slightly obscured by the heavy rain. They looked like they had something on their back.
Grem muttered confusions under his breath. Who the hell would be walking outside right now?
"Um, sweetie pie?" Grem called behind him, "There's someone outside in the rain."
From the couch, Nikolai looked towards the window with a raised eyebrow.
"Really? It's a strange time to go on a walk, let alone the rain."
"Yeah..."
Grem looked back at the window as the person got a bit closer.
The person had... spikes? Or quills, and a backpack. Probably a hedgehog or porcupine or something. The backpack had a pattern on it. It looked like... Spongebob? The soaked t-shirt they wore had a Nickelodeon logo, too. The sweatpants weren't special, though.
Plus, they seemed a bit short-- about Grem's height.
The cat hummed in concern before looking back at Nikolai.
"Nikolai, I... I think we should let em in."
Nik sat up, visibly a bit concerned.
"Grementine, are you sure that's a good idea?" he asked, "We don't know who this is at all. This may not end very well."
"But... I think that's a kid out there."
Nikolai, still looking concerned, came up to the window and took a look.
The person outside had stopped walking. They were standing and shivering, arms hugged tightly around their torso.
Nikolai made his own hum.
"... you may be right, strawberry." he admitted.
Grem and Nikolai were silent for a moment, still watching the outsider.
Finally, Grem spoke up again.
"So... should we?"
"I think that... would be best."
Grem nodded and hurried to the door, opening it and letting in the cold, wet night air.
"Hey!" he called out to the outsider.
The person looked at Grem just as they took another step.
They were a hedgehog (... and purple, for some reason). The face on them was one of fear and sogginess.
"... Hello." they called back.
The voice was a little high pitched, but it sounded like it was on the verge of deepening. In a puberty-ish way.
Ok, that IS a kid. Shit, Grem thought to themself. He shouted again.
"What are you doing out in the rain?!"
The kid looked off to the side. The fear deepened on their face.
They didn't reply for several seconds... barring a loud cough.
Grem gave the kid a look of sympathy as they shouted once more.
"Are you a runaway?"
The kids face creased with worry fast enough for Grem to know.
They looked down as they spoke again. Not a shout, but just loud enough for Grem to hear--
"... Please don't call the police."
The poor kid.
Grem looked back into his nice warm house, Nik looking at him expectantly.
He looked back at the teenager in the rain.
"Look... I'm not gonna call the police. Just-- come out of the rain for a bit. Come inside. We have blankets and no rain."
The kid looked unsure. Several thoughts seemed to race in their mind as they said nothing for a bit.
Eventually, they responded.
"... Are you sure it's okay?" they asked, uneasy, "I don't wanna be a bother."
"Don't worry 'bout it. If ya stay out here, you'll catch your death-- or worse, pneumonia!"
The kid looked down to their shoes.
Finally, they shrugged.
"... Okay."
...........................
The kid was now on their couch.
He (he had informed Grem of pronouns when asked) had a blanket draped over and wrapped around his shivering form, and a mug of hot cocoa in his hands.
Grem could see other things about the kid. His eyes had a sort of... sadness to them. His quills were pretty messy, like he hadn't brushed 'em in a while. His arms were pretty skinny, too. In fact, his clothes seemed to just hang off him.
Nikolai sat next to him with a look of concern, cup of decaf coffee in hand.
"Thanks for letting me sit for a while." the boy spoke, taking a sip of his cocoa.
"Nothin' to it," Grem replied, "EVERYONE should have shelter in this weather."
"I coulda found a bus shelter. Slept on the bench."
"No offense kid, but ya'd probably die if ya did that."
"... You have a point."
"Even if you did find a comfortable bus shelter, what would you eat?" Nikolai added.
The kid pulled up his backpack.
"Don't worry about me. I come prepared!"
He started pulling things from the bag.
Soon, on the living room table, there were several things-- half a box of crackers, a jar of peanut butter, a bag of crumbled bills and coins, a bottle of water about a quarter full, and a pocket knife.
Nothing else.
Nikolai's face turned to one of alarm.
"Did... is that all you packed?" he inquired.
The boys face turned red with embarassment. "... I could have bought food at the Dollar Tree."
Nikolai, though flabbergasted, tried to keep a steady voice as he spoke again.
"Kid... this is not a meal. This-- this isn't even a snack. As our guest, I insist on making you something warm. Even if it's just instant mac n cheese, or a frozen pizza."
The boy gave him a surprised look... surprised yet grateful.
"Mac and cheese, if that's okay."
He nodded. "But of course."
Nikolai got up, went to the kitchen, and began the preparation.
While he made the food, he periodically looked into the living room. Though all he really saw was Grem and the boy talking, he kind of noticed something... the kid seemed more comfortable talking to Grem than him.
Nikolai wasn't entirely sure why. Maybe it was because he was human? Maybe it was the visible scars?
He tried not to think about it.
In roughly 15 minutes, Nikolai returned to the living room with a bowl of Kraft Dinner for the kid, along with a fork.
He placed it on the coffee table with a flourish and a "bon appetit."
The boy thanked him, and took a bite of the macaroni... before tearing into it like a starving lion.
Nikolai couldn't help but watch the teen devour the shit out of the mac and cheese. He'd never seen someone eat mac and cheese so ferociously before. Him and Grem's friend/next door neighbour, Mothgo, made absolutely delicious mac and cheese, and not even Grem ate it that fast.
He really was starving.
Once the boy came up for air (and subsequently ate the last bite), Nikolai could only say, "... do you want seconds?"
He gave Nik a smile.
"Yes please, mister."
"I'll get it!" Grem piped up.
As the cat scurried into the kitchen, Nikolai sat next to the boy again.
"Hey," he began, "You seem quite desperate, yes? How much money did you have left in that baggie?"
The boy opened his mouth... but closed it as he reached for the sandwich baggie. He silently counted the money before answering.
"$12.55."
"That's not enough to get by, young man." he said, a grimness in his tone.
"I mean... they have a dollar menu at McDonalds, right?" the boy suggested sheepishly.
"But then what? What happens when you run out?"
"I'm almost 15, I can get a job! Probably. I can hang out in a homeless shelter and-- and get a job doing something."
Nikolai shook his head. "You'd still need a resume. You'd need contacts for the resume, too."
The boy said nothing as Grem came back with more macaroni.
Nik looked at Grementine for a second, before going over to him.
"Grem, can we talk privately?" he whispered to his husband.
"Oh, yeah sure." The cat replied, equally quiet.
While the boy in their house tore into the second bowl, Grem and Nikolai went to the kitchen where they continued whispering.
"Grem, I think this kid really did run away from something. I don't know what, but... just look at him. He seems pretty desperate. I think it would be in his best interest if-- if we could maybe let him stay for the night. Maybe tomorrow, too. We still have the air mattress, yeah? He could sleep on that. I just... I think something's wrong."
Grem gained a thoughtful look. Nikolai was pretty sure what it was about-- they both (unfortunately) knew a lot about scary situations and wanting to leave them. They shared some stories of desperation, too.
Finally, Grem took a deep breath.
"You're right, that's a good idea. Let's go tell the kid."
Both of them went back to the living room. Grem cleared his throat, making the kid turn around as macaroni fell out of his stuffed mouth.
"Kid, me and my hubby here just had a talk. We were wondering... did ya maybe want to stay the night? It's no problem for us, if you're wondering. We got an air mattress and some pillows and blankets. It's gonna be raining all night, and we'd rather see ya somewhere warm and safe."
The kid swallowed his food as a look of relief and... and safety appeared on him. Like he wasn't used to it.
"That... that would be amazing. Yeah." he breathed out.
"Good!" chirped Nikolai. He went back to sitting on the couch and picked up his coffee again, taking small sips.
Grem hopped up onto the couch on the kid's other side.
"Hey, what's your name, by the way?" they inquired. "Still not gonna call the police, by the way-- just curious."
A deep frown appeared on the kid's face as he sighed and responded.
"Quillin.
"Quillin Mewton."
#brother from the same childhood#swap au#original story#fiction#grem#dr grementine mewton#nikolai akdow#nikolai#swap!grem#swap!nikolai#nikogrem#swap!quillin#quillin mewton
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While still fixated on TMNT at large, I am especially not able to stop thinking about Bad End Ninja Turtles, an au comic by @butterfilledpockets. 2003's "Same as it Never Was" Raph may not have ever experienced the Ninja Tribunal arc, AND I don't think Rise movie Leo still has his powers, so maybe this was just as much of a surprise for the both of them as it was for Ronin. at least we know for sursies Don-bot has seen magic shit before.
#teenage mutant ninja turtles#TMNT#tmnt 2003#tmnt 2012#Tmnt the last ronin#rise of the tmnt#future leo#The last Ronin#bad end ninja turtles#It is surprisingly hard to find refs of Raph in either his tribunal markings or his dragon form so this is from super low res crispy fuckin#jpegs and my precious childhood memories.#I think Rise Leo is probably extremely used to dodging a raph who can double his size in seconds#his ancient little brother instincts kicked in#Same as it never was is still my fav 03 episode its so good#Digital#sketches
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Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me
(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)
The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!
Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned
Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...
And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?
With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.
Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.
(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)
But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book
#im wearing this tinfoil hat with pride i know something is up!!!!#like three things in one letter??? ...i mean the handwriting is another thing but for another reason that i already mentioned elsewhere#(of course i also love the idea of same coin theory being flat out the reason why stan's perceiving the book differently)#gf meta#stanley pines#stan pines#ford pines#book of bill#bill cipher#also i'm still kinda annoyed that pacifica got a letter over candy and grenda cos like.... she didn't really do anything in w3 lmao#meanwhile grenda literally ripped bill's eye out and the girls were the main ones holding him off!!! give them respect hirsch!!!!#they helped with the unicorn spell!!!! they're an extended part of the group!!!! they saved stan before!! give my girls respect!!!!!!#also some folks are assuming that the 'miss you' message was directed at mcgucket but if it was for him#i feel like it'd be scribbled on the page itself and not be part of college ford notes in the bg (and ford would use a different cipher)#mind you the photo itself is a day after he met mcgucket so there's no reason why ford would direct it at him#they literally just became besties!!!#and this is a ford recently estranged from his brother and is still trying to convince himself he only feels anger towards him#(i saw some saying that ford shared the bro code with mcgucket too and im ??? theres an entire page about him hiding his childhood stuff#i get there's the 'oh disney!!!' easter egg now but ford at that time was pretty touchy about anything regarding stan#(alex saying that if mcgucket had found his stan o war photo ford wouldve lied and#brushed it off as an inspiration to his career in science instead admitting that he's holding onto it cos he misses his twin)#plus he'd show another recent code that wasn't made by literally kids if he really wanted to share one imo#but also j3 is him using them to hide info from mcgucket!!!)#two sides of the same dollar bill#thisisnotawebsitedotcom
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Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.
For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do “what Lou Jitsu would do” and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.
And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi Yōroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws “Skully” as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.
I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes they’d love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the “Face” of the group and shoulder the attention even if it’s potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt raph#rottmnt leo#rise Raph#rise leo#I really do love this bit of character writing a ton#again it’s so small but like this is consistent!#little Raph just wanted to have fun with his bros 😭#Leo immediately coming in with the save both times (and more - remember Bug Busters?)#I really love too how none of them pointed fingers like#it was Understood that Leo would speak for them#listen there’s a reason Leo is the Face Man and it’s NOT just because he’s got a pretty face#he can talk both himself and his fam out of situations and I wish we saw it even more because it’s amazing to witness#circling back to Raph his bold nature is something I ADORE about him but I don’t see it brought up a lot which makes me so sad#like this boy is a RAPHAEL he is bold!!#and it’s cute too how the other bros immediately go along with it too#imo the Raph in these tot flashback is the same Raph that glues them all together as a bonding exercise#side note but damn…Leo saves them from punishment in the tot short and immediately gets jumped 😔#but yeah man I think a Lot about the little dynamics between the bros and how those dynamics could have first came into being#Leo being the face of the team and having been it since childhood-#-makes all the moments of immediately choosing to sacrifice himself when HE royally messes up all the more notable#if it’s one bro or the whole group individually he’s more chill about it but often still lets himself be the talker to get them out of it#he will do his damndest to get his brothers and himself out of trouble but once they’re in it he’s in the front with a smile#his own safety be damned#Raph is actually the same in that respect - he’ll jump into danger fists first but all bets are off when a brother is in danger#and like how Leo’s been the face - as the eldest Raph has been the de facto leader of sorts#he’s the one who is shown to make up their games! and I think that’s very cute#anyway their clashing in the movie is so interesting for a lot of reasons but one of them is that it shows how-#-even a longstanding dynamic like Raph and Leo’s that’s WORKED for so long is still susceptible to flaws…and to time
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james got used to putting a glass of water on sirius’ bedside table when they dormed together because he knew that sirius always woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares and needed a drink of water
so when they all graduate and move out, james still gets a glass of water every night—but this time he’s not bringing it to sirius
he’s placing it on his own bedside table for when the other black brother wakes from a nightmare and needs water to fall back asleep
#yes sirius and regulus have the same nightmares from childhood#no i am not okay#marauders#jegulus#cute little headcanon#and by cute i mean i’m crying myself to sleep#regulus black#sunseeker#james potter#harry potter#sirius black#black brothers#starchaser#marauders era
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something something daemon was sixteen when alyssane made him marry something something he was uprooted from his home and forced to live in an entirely new kingdom with someone he hated and who hated him back something something every time he did something that viserys didn't like he was kicked out of the only home he had and sent away something something daemon fought for viserys but viserys never fought for daemon something something daemon has targaryen daughter syndrome
#if daemon haters could please refrain from blaming teenage boy (at the time) for acting out against his controlling family#no this is not abuse or misogyny apologism its called sympathy and empathy for a character's shitty childhood/adolescence#its called giving daemon's character and decisions context that the show conveniently refuses to address#can i complain about the choice of casting an actress who looks younger than matt smith when rhea was more likely the same age/older?#there's a reason daemon is grrm's fave and that reason is bc he is the visenya-coded daughter and also the ever loyal brother#fire and blood#f&b#pro daemon targaryen#pro daemon#daemon targaryen#the rogue prince#prince daemon targaryen#hotd#hotd critical
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okay i need feedback from the autism mentall illness website um. this is going to read like an AITA post. brother vs half-sister (who are currently my dependents do to their own individual disabilities + ptsd/depression) spat i will skim the details on but i'm worried my sister will discount my take since i'm not autistic myself so. am i crazy to call it ableist to look at an autistic person (23) who is clearly going through it dealing w long term depression, a world that doesn't give a shit abt him, unemployment, very self-isolated and burnt out barely leaving his room because the world is an ableist dumpster fire with zero opportunities for him, and then bring up childhood abuse he's suffered and his diagnosis as reasonable factors on top of this to worry he'll [checks notes] abuse my cat just to hurt me or even worse have a breakdown and kill me and his other sibling in a violent episode, a train of thought i probably wouldn't even be having were he not [checks notes] mad at me for the first time in my life?
like i don't have any other read on this kind of fear-based characterization other than ableism. like those are very real things in his life but she never points out any current violent behavior, of which there are none, only the one (1) instance of him lashing out when he was like 14 and Officially Diagnosed Low Empathy she thinks is a concern and Hateful Looks toward her since he stopped getting along with her, that's it. i tried explaining to her why i, someone who's lived w him his entire life, can vouch for how unlikely he is to do anything like that, especially when it's again not based on anything he's actually currently doing except for isolating in a way that is much more indicative of him potentially being a danger to himself than anyone else, and being cold towards her specifically, and i thought she had let it go, but when i brought it up off-hand in a conversation tangentially related, she continued to defend and justify her Concern about the potential directions his behavior could lead to because [checks notes] other people in similar situations have lashed out and killed their entire families according to. true crime books or videos she's watched on youtube as far as i'm aware. ignoring the fact that her and i have had the same or Worse childhood abuse and have acted similarly isolated in the past, or for her literally just as currently as him, and she's not expressed any worry past or present about either of us doing anything like that, in my opinion obviously because i haven't cut her off due to our differences like he decided to. like am i big sibling biased because this is pissing me off so bad.
#j.txt#autism#ableism#very sorry to hang all my dirty laundry like this but she is absolutely the type of person to not take accusations of ableism seriously#due to being disabled/traumatized herself and i. feel like she thinks just because she's fixated on and consumed so much about like#mental disorders and illness and whatever she thinks she's an expert on it#enough to like. non-gendered equivalent mansplain peoples' own traumas and disorders to them lol which she has done to me as well#my brother actually last i checked felt like his diagnosis wasn't even accurate#but to me knowing our mom was v ableist antivax about her understanding of autism and a very neurotypical definition of it#it makes sense if the criterias or definitions don't feel accurate to him#idk. IDK#um. if this gets no engagement i'll delete it rather quick probably i just#don't wanna talk out of my ass when i'm not even autistic yk#i'm very aware i can be biased about him vs her because i actually grew up w him and he's younger than us but like#i havent heard him use her own diagnosis and childhood trauma and ugly moments in this way to justify his bad faith characterizations of he#so it's very much. just something she's doing. if my brother started doin it too i'd have the same conversation but he hasn't which i think#is u.m Telling <3#like She's the one actually complaining about how he assumes the worst of her in everything she does now and it makes her feel awful#meanwhile she. probably doesn't say any of this to Him but boy has she talked about it with me!#if it's not obvious we are all very mentally ill trapped in a house 2gether trying to save up to move so we can get away from each other lo
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The Shuttle AU where Nigel Anstruthers is even more devious and DOESN'T separate Rosalie from her family, and he pretends to be nice and good and even invites Bettina to spend her school holidays at Stornham Court one year.
(That last one was not his best idea, tbh.)
Through chance, circumstance, or maybe the weaving hand of Fate, Bettina Vanderpoel and James Hubert John Fergus Saltyre meet, speak, and quickly discover their mutual distaste for Sir Nigel Anstruthers...
Anyway I call this one Jem and Bett Ruin Nigel's Life (Ten Years Ahead of Schedule)
#the shuttle#jessica's random thoughts#it's in my head as kind of this reluctant-allies dynamic#Betty thinks he's is a snob#he thinks she's a spoiled brat#but they both think Nigel needs to be taken down a peg or two#and so they team up to get in touch with her father without Nigel reading Betty's letters#and maybe Betty snoops around to find records of where the money Nigel is getting from the Vanderpoels is ACTUALLY going#or something#anyway the point is that Nigel gets taken down by a couple of kids#BUT they never actually get along with each other#and then rosy goes back to the vanderpoels in new york so there's no reason for Betty to be in england#so they don't see each other again#and then years later Nigel dies of being a jerk or something#and Betty goes with Rosy and Ughtred back to Stornham to help fix it up and make things better#and meets saltyre (now mount dunstan) and they still have the same falling-in-love-but-not-admitting-it thing as in the book#but there's also the comedic backstory of being reluctant allies against her evil brother in law#you've heard of childhood friends to lovers now get ready for childhood enemies to lovers#and when they meet on the boat during the accident Betty thinks he's vaguely familiar#and then when she sees him in the park she realizes OH HEY IT'S JEM!#and he's like *awkward pause* '....hi?'#and then everyone in the neighborhood is like ''Oh that's mount Dunstan. he's a bad lot.''#and Betty is like ''lol no?? like yeah he's grumpy a lot but we worked against the forces of evil together as children#so I can guarantee that he's very much not a jerk like the rest of his family was.''#and everyone's like ''okaaaay then?''#idk I just think it would be funny
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Happy childhood memories <3
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No one:
Me: So what about the Koskelas as kids 🥺🥺💙
I bet Ilmo would be the one who usually ended up pretty bruised from all the shenanigans he'd pull and trees he'd try to climb even if he was still too short😭
#my doodles#alan wake 2#koskela brothers#ilmo koskela#jaakko koskela#clothes lowkey inspired by the movie from peter franzén which is a semi biographical movie about his childhood#I also noticed that this is almost the exact same pose as the promo material for the koskelas#my posts#i usually dont draw children but i simply had to
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Explaining to my parents why I need subtitles when watching movies/TV and my mother just looks at me and sighs and is like. Maybe we should have you tested. Immediately offer to write her a list and she's like do you have a spare 3k. (No. All my money is going towards getting out of this house)
But I think it's safe to say that your daughter who struggled socially her whole life, can't sleep without the Right Amount of noise/clothing/temperature, and had to be banned from talking about Wizard101 in the house because it was quite literally the only thing she enjoyed, might have been eligible for some sort of evaluation when she was still a child. Instead of using it as a funny haha we don't really care joke now that she's struggling with various different things as an adult.
#sleeptalks#this is a point and laugh situation because if i laugh its not as upsetting. i do in fact have a running list. of thinkgs that make life#difficult for me/various flags that really couldn't have been missed#the banned from w101 talk was true by the way i was so annoying as a kid talking about my only interest that i wasnt allowed to talk abt#the computer period#the part of me that spends a lot of time analysing why my life is like it is and rationalising stuff can probably trace it back to the fact#my brother was really really sick as a kid so my (glaringly obvious) issues were put on the back burner for most of my childhood#and when i was a teenager and able to better articulate my increasing distress i was suddenly old enough to deal with it myself so why#would my parents bother??#anywho. since i refuse to process my own emotions i simply filter it all through ocs#so enjoy having the same complex relationship with your parents#siblings and ypur own brain#wizard101 character Stephanie MerryWeather. enjoy processing my issues for me!!!
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Curious about your sibling au. Do Nevin and Drew ever figure out they’re related?
Nop
Ironically they both claim to be ‘platonic soulmate’ or friends by destiny smt like that but they never thought if they are actually related
#they coincidentally went to the same kindergarten and became childhood best friends#nev is way too stubborn to take a dna test cuz he doesn’t care if drew is related to him or not he will always care for drew in a different#way from others#but a lot of people do ask if they’re brothers/twins and nev told them to F off#ibvs#drew jovel#nevin jovel#sibling au#we are curiosity
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without doubt one of the worst things about bratz dolls is that you cannot display them without shoes bc they look weird as fuck. stumpy ass bitches
#tales from diana#i bought some bratz w a walmart giftcard my brother got me for my birthday... like months ago#my birthday is in april so i probably bought them like may or june#i opened yasmin today and i really gotta wash her hair it's a gelly mess#lookin like a rat's nest fuckin... it's bad mga wtf#it's the forever bratz yasmin from this year btw not a reproduction#i did also get the reproduction of campfire felicia bc it was also there and the same price#and like honestly she was lookin so cute and tbh she was a better deal lol she came w two outfits so yeah#you know yasmin was my favorite design of the forever bratz but the doll itself is somewhat cheaper than i was expecting her to be#ppl always praise mga for having higher quality than playline barbie these days but like... i kept thinking#hmmm if this had come out in the 2000s this doll would've had a fabric purse and not a hard plastic one#this lace on the front would actually be able to open and not just be glued there#whatever she's still cute i really love her#but i did have that first experience in such a long time. like since childhood. where i just take off some bratz shoes#and i'm like NO FEET! NO FEET! NO FEET! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH#PUT IT BACK!!!!!!#they look more than just naked. they look injured#i used to treat my bratz clothing completely differently than my barbie clothing as a kid bc they felt so much less interchangeable lol#i had a million barbies and a million barbie outfits and i really did not care to keep anything on a particular doll#w my couple of bratz that i had in childhood i really had to be careful where those outfit pieces ended up. couldnt leave em undressed#i suppose that still hasn't changed#you know one of these days i have to get myself a new funk-n-glow jade. she was my first bratz#but also one of these days....... i gotta wash yasmin's hair 😒
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*draws something for the first time in a while. “Man I suck at drawing! Maybe go back to being good at it if I draw more!”
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“Oh I got a neat idea for a drawing! Surely I have gotten better by now!” Loop post
#this revelation brought to you by the one and only#midnight brainrot#probably could not of put these things together without the malaise of a mind awake at 3 am again despite saying that they’re ”trying to fix#their sleep schedule ~”#bah. I say things yet never do them. my brain always blocks any sort of progress with ”just one more video”#even fun and enjoyment bends the knee to this declaration#even other YouTube videos!#when I do break it I end up back where I was because like asking for literally anything my brain does so much pushback that it feels#inherently wrong on a fundamental level#I don’t think I’m depressed I like life too much and enjoy existence#is this my brain punishing me for not dying before reaching adulthood like I always thought I would? or is it punishment for not constantly#going from the end of high school to another school like I planned because my purpose in life was to learn and go to school until I die#now I am left without purpose. literally wandering my house like a ghost when no one’s home#I say the two same things to my brother when he gets home so much that he once made a joke about me being an npc#and the worse part is. it wasn’t about that dumb TikTok brainrot meme thing. no it was because I say the exact same things the exact same wa#y every time he gets home. worse more is I can think of several other ways that that statement could be more accurate that he doesn’t know a#bout#I wish to game but never do#I want to make art and such but I never do#I went to an art class for years when I was a kid for Pete’s sake!#my parents complain about my hair being too long and I agree but I still want it long I just always kept it short because of simple ma#maintenance. the only reason I ever grew it out was to keep warm I. the winter!#I spent my childhood with self imposed utilitarianism for no reason#no reason to expand my horizons and explore myself because I thought of myself as a lesser being that was fated to die randomly before#I could reproduce.#oh my goodness the reproduction thing! I thought I was straight for the longest time because I had to be#because the purpose of a person is to reproduce. yet I was all like”I can’t reproduce as I am autistic and would taint my offspring. I am a#genetic dead end and deserve to have the effect of natural selection take place”#through tv show mimicry and being a utilitarian little git I forced myself to be straight for years#and the worse part is I KNEW GAY PEOPLE EXISTED AND I ENVYED THEM FOR NOT HAVING TO REPRODUCE OH MY GOD IS THIS WHAT KARKAT FELT LIKE? NO I
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When will the liulao slander end
#ppl desperately grasping at literal non canon shit to be like wahh they're brothers#or referring to (also not canon) a shared ancestor from 500 yrs ago#in that case nobody who lives in the same region could date each other lol#just say you don't like them it's so much easier#john tobias has clarified multiple times they r legit just childhood friends#stop dog piling artists and writers over nothing!!!#fandom is so disgustingly hostile and i hate how all of them feel justified in spreading misinformation for mfing ship wars#cringe#raiden has said lao was like a son to him but no one whines abt railao smfh
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I know i might have a weird taste for music but i didn't think it was that bad until i gave a lift to my brother and he kept begging be for a normal song after being forced to listen to nyan cat for not even 30 seconds...
And than two trucks started playing...
I just kept skipping through my playlist the whole ride and this is my fun playlist too :((
#my brother has no tastes in music whatsoever so he isnt that good of a reference#but still#the things he made me skip except it progressively gets worse:#any vocaloid songs (because he hates miku for some reason...)#any fnaf songs (because “its not 2018 anymore”)#any lemon demon song (because it has the word demon in the artist name)#any mitsuki song (because he thought it was miku and refused to listen to me saying it was a- not miku and b- serious just like he asked)#any mother mother song because its “boring”???#any of the initial D songs i have (deja vu and running in the 90s) (because i would rash the car for sure)#we didn't start the fire (because it wasnt the marvel version???)#the theme song from one of our childhood shows (because the voice isnt exactly the same as the real thing)#star wars OSTs (cantina band and duel of fates) (because apparently its not serious enough)#any marina song or dollyrots song (because its women singing... i kid you not... hes like “oh its woman it cant be good” istg)#“fairytale” and “europe sky” (because “its not 2020 anymore???)#any song by glass animal (because it started too slow so it was boring)#and other songs like “discord” “my ordinary life” “rasputine” “we dont sleep at night” etc etc because“theyre not real songs#the only song he didn't complain about was mr blue sky... why? because it played in one of his favourite movies#he complained about QUEEN- Like he let it play but he complained about bohemian rhapsody being boring????#my brother is a disappointment to music...#like i feel like leaking the playlist just to prove a point but i trying to not be too petty... i might idk...#like i asked him if he wanted me to switch and put on my heavy metal playlist and he said if i did he was gonna die...#like touch some grass dude-#anyway#music
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sometimes i entertain the thought of like. everything ending up okay and then i get even more scared and anxious and idk why
#like what if i get a stable job what if i dont have to worry about everyone the way i do rn#what if i do manage to move out what if i do come out and its okay and what if i do get the#confidence to build new relationships and stuff and what if i can cope with my friend moving interstate#and what if my parents splitting becomes the new norm for me and i can manage it and dont break down every second day#and what if i manage to actually work on my original wip on the side#and what if idk i can get published as well#and what if i can come to terms with and move on from all the things that happened in childhood#and what if my brother and i are okay and we can actually have good conversations and what if#im able to reconnect with my cousin and maintain our relationship despite all#and what if my parents are civil with eachother and i can see them in the same room and not worry about whats going to happen#and i can be in their presence without wanting to rio my skin off and i can relax and not mediate every single conversation#and what if i can hug them and what if my friends are right and im not actually a burden#and what if i can still be friends with them and or be at peace with changing relationships#and what if i do manage to pay off all my student debt and other loans i'll probably incur#and what if its like. okay. like.#its such a scary thought and it kight be because it seems so far off and the possibility of it being okay means#that i need to survive this and get through this and thats just another expectation put on me and maybe its scary because#i dont know if i'll be able to meet this expectation either yknow like#its. its a good thing but it seems so stupidly out of reach#you cant imagine what you dont know etcetc#anyways. assignments first existential dread or whatever later#kat talks
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