#childhood favourite

[zippocreed501]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The dog days are over.

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[wizardhex]

From "I Spy Christmas: A Book of Picture Riddles", Walter Wick

[polvsketchbook]

Leto's twins

[14dayswithyou]

a few months ago you talked about playing mouthwashing and I was curious if you had any head-cannons for the characters if they got sent to that universe

pls tell ren he's adorable and he owes me 19 dollars

⌞♥⌝ They would be friends I think :3

[childhoodtheme]

I can't believe childhood is over. SUCCESSION (2018-2023)

[theelvishfiddler]

03 Turtle Posting

[demaparbat-hp]

I believe July is trying to tell you something, Nico.

[tucaneggs]

who even is that guy

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

This little flashback scene from the Pilot continues to haunt me.

Stede’s separated from his family physically reflecting his feelings of isolation, but I also think there’s a further psychological theme here. It’s a play within a play, and Stede is the audience. He’s watching a version of childhood which he never received.

Mary is a nurturing mother. She is interested in her children’s opinions. She asks questions, listens to their answers, and validates their responses. Children’s worlds are different to adults’, so discussing a favourite horse might seem trivial, but to a child it’s important, pitched at their level. Mary understands this and engages appropriately.

Alma’s response is a lovely one. She likes Halifax best because he’s ‘very pretty and very fast’.

Mary validates Alma’s response, but Stede doesn’t or can’t do this. It’s not that a parent shouldn’t offer their opinion here on a favourite animal, but it’s how Stede does it. He interjects in a way that interrupts Mary and almost overrides Alma’s answer. In fact, the way he just shouts out, is more in keeping with how Louis might respond, agewise.

I think there’s two things going on here. Stede never had this kind of parenting, it’s never been modelled to him. No one ever sat around a dinner table when he was a boy and asked him his favourite animals. Nobody asked Stede his opinion on anything. So when he sees his own children being nurtured, the broken child within him jumps in awkwardly with his own response. It’s an arrested development as well as possibly being linked to neurodivergence.

The second interesting thing is his answer. Stede perceives himself not to possess the qualities of being ‘pretty’ (good-looking) or ‘fast’ (athletic), but I think he knows he is ‘kind’, or has the potential to be. And so his favourite animal displays those qualities or is projected to have them. It’s an attempt at self-validation. But further, it’s what Stede is looking for too. He is yearning for kindness in life. His blurting out is a cry for help. And so a fun conversation becomes all about Stede’s trauma.

The family stare at him, not so much because of the answer, but because it is such a gut response, out of sync with the tone and power dynamics of the conversation, with Stede aligning with the children. Stede, as many broken people do, has moved the conversation away from his own children and onto himself and his unmet needs. Not because he’s selfish, but because he’s hurting and traumatised.

Mary doesn’t know what to do; so after a stare of contempt and confusion, she ignores Stede, and redirects back to the children with a conversation about favourite pigs.

And Stede’s just left hanging. A still broken child. A stranger in his own life.

Link to how Stede wins at life in the end

[castielsprostate]

i really hope cats know it's a kiss when you kiss them. i need them to know it's a kiss

[ratatatastic]

THE HELSINKI DATE HAS EXPANDED UPON DEAR LORD HAVE MERCY.

[antiparticular]

the fact that astral plane sky looks different to alive sky is driving me insane.

her nose and eyebrows are wrong.

she was built from viktor's memory (either by the hexcore for manipulation or by him as a manifestation of his guilt idk), but he never actually looked at her enough to remember her face properly. he never cared about her as a person, only what she represented for him - his guilt, his humanity. he didn't give her a second thought until she died. "I'll miss our talks" (not even I'll miss you) "no you won't".

[amazingdeadfish]

Shadowpuppet Valentines

Attempted to complete as many prompts from this list (Idk who this came from I will try to find out soon but if anybody knows please tell me 🙏 through either comments or DMs) as I could these past few days:

Staring off strong with Day One (featuring shadowpuppet yuri), Cuddling:

Day Three: Love Letters

Day Seven: Childhood Friends

Day Twenty Four: Fan Children

(Bonus for this day, for all you BAV readers):

[edennill-archived]

If you asked Maedhros when Fingon became his best friend, he'd say he liked him well enough before but it was probably codified sometime around the other's second coming of age.

If you asked Fingon... well, he was two years old when, asked who his best friend was, without any deliberation he replied Maitimo.

[lilithofpenandbook]

"Tell your baby that I'm your baby" but it's Severus watching as Sirius laughs and jokes with Minerva and Albus and he's calling her "Minnie" and she swats at him with a laugh and says it seems Azkaban didn't kill that cheeky streak of his now did it "ye wee sugar-tongued menace" but when Severus says anything even slightly disrespectful like that she scolds him and tells him to remember who his elders are, and Sirius is there and he's making her laugh, Sirius is there calling her "Aunt Minerva" after that and she's calling him her "lad" but that's what Severus gets to call her, Severus is supposed to be Minerva's "lad", but it only took a few moments for him to have what Severus has taken 13 years to catch even a tiny little piece of, Minerva's taken it away to give to Sirius at once, and there's Albus just smiling and his eyes are twinkling like stars like they've never twinkled at Severus, he can't remember if Albus ever looked at him like that, and it only took a short while for Sirius to once again have the favour, the love, that Severus has spent over a decade trying to earn even a fraction of, he's their golden boy again, he gets to sit with them and laugh with them and call them his mates, he's their boy, even though Severus has done everything he can, yet no, it's Sirius who they love effortless, it's Sirius who didn't need to do a thing to earn it, it's Sirius who has now taken his place, Sirius is their "snarky lad" now, he's come in and taken it all.

And neither of the two seem to care that Severus is the one who's supposed to be theirs.