#cw: death of an infant

[ikemenomegas]

Getou and Kids

Omega!Getou Suguru x Alpha!Reader

replying to this ask: So, can I please have a request for Omega Suguru? How does he behave around kids? We know that he basically adopted two girls, but had he ever wanted to have biological kids? Some of headcanons ❤ Love your work ❤

c/w: omegaverse, mentions of male pregnancy

There's a little bit of irony between Satoru and Suguru's "parenting styles". As in neither of them are good at it, but Satoru puts up too many boundaries with his adopted children and Suguru puts up too few. However, Satoru's kids are able to discern what he will do, call him by his first name, and have some sense of his ethics, versus what little we see of Mimiko and Nanako, they're devoted but Suguru likely treats them to one of the masks he shows to most people.

Around children in general, Suguru is sweet. When they're not his so any pressure of discipline or dealing with them long-term doesn't fall on his shoulders and attempting to make a good impression on people is a second nature, so parents tend to like him.

With his own kids, he's generally the more permissive parent. Without Alpha around, he spoils Mimiko and Nanako rotten and doesn't push their training because he thinks he needs to take on the "protector" role all on his own and he understandably doesn't want them to become sorcerers. He was very young when he found them, and he tried to help them have a "normal life", even though they weren't normal children. It sort of backfires on him later, but the girls grew up knowing that they were loved by someone who would kill to keep them safe so there's that.

Suguru could happily stay home all day, and then the next day, and the next day and the next… as long as the people he likes show up at home once in a while he never feels the need to go out haha. The power of a super introvert. This is worse after he defects because he also hates going out among normal people. The girls drag him out to play games, go get food, go to amusement parks or other attractions. He's attentive to their needs so it's never like they're out of groceries etc, but he hates going out for normal stuff and as soon as he's able never steps into anything as mundane as a store unless the kids beg him for it. That's why the girls grew up so spoiled, Suguru went out of his way to keep them away from normal human things.

When his Alpha comes with him, together they do a better job of balancing the girls' upbringing. Suguru encourages Alpha to became more like a parent and less like a mentor, and they talk through a lot of Alpha's and Suguru's own trauma with the sorcerer mentors they interacted with before enrolling in the technical college so they don't repeat those mistakes. Alpha also is able to take over the girls' education in normal and sorcerer matters when Suguru is away so they aren't ignorant of the things they might encounter while around him.

As a parent, Suguru is the one who the girls will complain to if Alpha sent them to do homework and they don't want to do it. He will get them to do normal people homework because he does know literacy and such is important, but if they beg off sorcerer training he just lets them.

Suguru grew up in a small countryside township, so he likes to take the kids out to the countryside for fresh air and to get away from people for a while. He prefers the city or places with no people at all, too many bad memories associated with small towns, so he'll give the girls money to go buy fresh produce or send someone else out to buy it, but he often cuts up snacks for them himself. It's Alpha the kids beg for junkfood because Suguru is always giving them healthy stuff to eat, and when he realizes, he starts to give them popsicles and stuff.

Suguru has a beautiful reading voice, and he's the one who usually does bedtime stories with the kids or who gets begged to help them with their reading homework.

As an omega, but even before presenting, Suguru always imagined that he'd have kids. He didn't necessarily think about when he would have them or really how many, he didn't imagine an ideal type of person to mate with or what his role would be as a parent. Part of it is social expectations, but he didn't think that he would mind one way or the other if he had children, he thought he's okay having kids if he finds someone he likes.

It does cross his mind that if he got to have you and Satoru, probably he'd have both of your children. Suguru knew that Satoru didn't like the idea of being indisposed for weeks or months if he had a baby and modern technology makes it much easier for less fertile pairings to have their own children. He has a bit of a fantasy about having Satoru's child and then yours. However, again I don't think desire to have children in particular plays into it, he just knows that it will be a requirement and he wants to do it.

If he leaves and the alpha doesn't go with him, he never has children. If alpha goes with him, then the only way he has children is on accident. They don't plan to have biological kids when the situation is so unstable with the cult and Suguru's plans.

In the case of an accidental pregnancy... I imagine he has a boy and you should hope the baby is a sorcerer, because if it's not, Alpha probably has to leave with him. (Not that Suguru would... kill his own infant and the relationship of an adult with their child is different than one with their parents but I don't think Alpha could stomach knowing it could be a later possibility or that Suguru would always be conflicted about a non-sorcerer child. At minimum, the kid would need to be able to see curses and to control their cursed energy. Suguru doesn't care if they have a technique or are even proficient enough to be a sorcerer, I think having a normal human child might just break his brain and a lot of other things.)

[rustic-space-fiddle]

Forgive me.

[mammoth-clangen]

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Me: I'll cull the Kindred down to 3 so i don't have many characters to deal with!

RNG: *immediately throws 5 new characters at me*

Me: ....

I like the colours in this one uvu

Sorry everything is sad, im working on moon 3 rn (keeping 1 moon of buffer) and i promise there will be more than just sabercats being depressing on main c':

This moon is very self indulgent, almost every panel has some silly paleo detail that makes me happy cx

[txttletale]

i'm just blocking anyone i see handwringing over (nonexistent) leftist 'cheering on' of (wholly unsourced, baseless accusations of) mass rape / infant beheadings / whatever atrocity propaganda du jour has come straight out of the mouth of a likud politician with absolutely no corroboration even from the incredibly biased Western media

[reasonsforhope]

“A Nigerian mom found out the hard way that jaundice is still a dangerous disease in Africa—but now she’s putting an end to the infant disease with her new tech startup, making solar-powered cribs.

After her traumatic experience with jaundice as a new mother, Virtue Oboro pivoted 180° in her professional life, in an effort to help prevent the terrifying situation from befalling other moms.

Oboro’s son, Tombra, was just 48 hours old when he had to be rushed to the NICU, suffering from a build-up of bilirubin, which causes yellow skin and can lead to permanent damage or even death.

The treatment is fairly simple... blue-light phototherapy.

Virtue’s hospital had no phototherapy devices, so Tombra had to receive a risky emergency blood transfusion. Her son would make a full recovery, but Virtue was changed by the experience.

“I felt like some of the things I experienced could have been avoided,” the visual designer told CNN. “I thought, is there something I could do to make the pain less for the babies and the mothers?”

What could a visual designer do? She designed the Crib A’Glow and named her new company Tiny Hearts.

The portable, deployable phototherapy unit is powered by the sun, and costs one-sixth the price of a normal phototherapy crib—and is manufactured in her homeland of Nigeria.

Virtue’s husband had some experience working with solar panels before, so he lent a hand to the visual designer, who was busy navigating the unknown waters of a new profession. She worked with a pediatrician through the design process to ensure all the details would benefit the tiny babies.

Two years ago, Crib A’Glow picked up a $50,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson through the Africa Innovation Challenge, and the Crib A’Glow can now be found in 500 hospitals across Nigeria and neighboring Ghana. Already it has been used on 300,000 babies.

Virtue, who has also become a 2022 awardee for The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, says a further 200,000 babies were saved from jaundice by deploying the cribs to rural areas—no hospitals or electricity needed.” -via Good News Network, 3/9/22

[liauditore]

dug up some old art of a webcomic concept I was really attached to circa 2022. veryyy tempted to have a try and reviving it now that I'm a little more accustomed to managing scope

extra stuff unrelated to the above but from the same project. just to further cement the vibe of the whole thing (heed the tags!)

(spot the life series cameos^^)

Alot of this stuff was for what I planned to be my graduation film at the time, but due to several factors one of which being covid it was a really stressful time and I ended up pretty much not finishing it. That semester left me with a lot of bad associations with these characters and their story, which was probably the main contributing reason I ended up not being able to look them in the eye for ages. Which is very ironic considering this was supposed to be my relatively less ambitious "starter" webcomic.

Now that it's been awhile though the nostalgia's starting to sink in and I find myself thinking about hehe my OCs <3 <3 again. But at the same time oh, the horrors..... the horrors I experienced............

Kicks rocks. whatever man. Maybe one day

[emyn-arnens]

And Dark Things Silent Crept Beneath

Prompt: Mirkwood + the shadows grew long in the forest + hunting for @tolkienhorrorweek (tagging @tolkienocweek as well)

Summary: “The wood was full of the rumour of him, dreadful tales even among beasts and birds. The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles.” — The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past"

Something preys upon the Woodmen of Mirkwood.

Rating: T

Word Count: 7.9k

Warnings: Infant death, suicide

Do not venture into the forest alone.

Keep to the Old Forest Road and do not stray from the path, no matter what catches your eye.

Do not look into the eyes of any creature that watches you from the gloom.

And never, ever wander past the eaves of the forest after nightfall. You will not return.

These were the rules of the Woodmen, and so were the children of the forest taught from the time they bounced upon their parents’ knees. The rules kept the Woodmen safe, for as long as they minded the forest, the forest minded them. It was an uneasy partnership, but it had held for many generations (barring the troublesome youths who sought to prove that they had no need for the safety of the rules, and who had soon learned otherwise). The Woodmen kept their end of the bargain; the forest kept its.

It had held until the first of the young livestock had been killed, dragged away in a trail of blood in the dead of night. It had held until the killings continued, and the malevolence of the forest—or of some creature within it—could not be denied.

Read the rest on AO3.

[gemini-forest]

CW: infant death, miscarriage

We know Jayden had a miscarriage and didn't handle it well. But how did Leo handle it?

CW: Grief

Yeah he really didn't handle it well either. He was morning for a while in private. He didn't want Jayden or really anyone to see him cry.

But he cried for a good long while.

[imembarressedsohere]

Claudia and Lestat Edit.

also on instagram.

[wastheheart]

Horizon: Zero Dawn

@silcntsinners asked: “I’m sorry for your… loss.” (hello & thank you!)

It always startles her whenever she meets someone else at the small, quaint church Carlisle had chosen for her son's resting place. She sees people, of course, but her child's grave is apart from the others, tucked away in a quiet place beneath a tree that blooms with cherry blossoms in the spring.

She's not sure how long she's been standing here. Long since dead flowers are clasped against her chest, a new amalgamation of flowers freshly trimmed, placed and watered adorning the otherwise grey headstone.

The date will give it away— 1921. Has it really been that long?

And so, as she finally lifts her head to greet the face of the voice she heared, Esme lies. "Thank you, but he was my grandmother's son... I tend to his grave when I can, to keep both their memories alive." Her gaze can't help but journey back to the name, so recently refreshed to keep it from fading. Then, a grain of truth. "She never got over losing him."

[muppetjackrackham]

Okay I need more Sweeney Todd I'm in shambles about the revival currently. What Sweeney headcanons do you have please share and please elaborate !!! Angst goofy stuff whatever it is I Would Like To Hear

oh anon do i have some headcanons for you

sweeney lost his mother to scarlet fever as a child. his father died from cholera not long after, leaving him an orphan without many prospects. he became an apprentice to a barber on fleet street, who offered him a place to stay and an hourly wage until eventually he too passed away, leaving his home and his fortune to the boy. eventually he had made enough of a name for himself that his business attracted anyone in the central london area, highborn and lowborn.

lucy was initially born into high society and lived quite comfortably for most of her life. her father was a merchant and a sailor who worked for the east india company up until his untimely death at sea in the late 1850s. she then moved to london and lived with her grandmother where she worked as a washerwoman until she met and married benjamin barker.

lucy was always very fond of books. her father had taught her how to read at a young age and ever since she always seemed to have one with her wherever she went. her favourite books were often horror stories and gothic novels such as mary shelley's frankenstein, the vampyre by john william polidori, and various short stories by edgar allen poe.

before they had johanna, lucy was originally pregnant with another child; a daughter she and benjamin planned to name annabel lee, after their favourite poem. unfortunately due to birthing complications she died in the womb and was born stillborn. they buried her on a hill by the sea and had carved on her tomb: for the moon never beams / without bringing me dreams / of the beautiful annabel lee.

both sweeney and mrs. lovett have killed at least one person prior to the events of sweeney todd.

lucy's maiden name is winthrop.

there is a brief honeymoon period that happens between act one and act two where sweeney and mrs. lovett are rather domestic with one another that lasts for a few months or so.

sweeney sometimes mumbles in his sleep about lucy when he's in bed with mrs. lovett. she has heard him on more than one occasion.

mrs. lovett and sweeney have both used lucy as a means of coping in one way or another: for sweeney, he sometimes pretends mrs. lovett is lucy to try and regain some sense of normalcy, while mrs. lovett pretends she herself is lucy as a means of holding onto whatever scraps of affection sweeney has given her.

[independent-variables]

have some more of '17 contemplating parenthood <3

He dreamed of Ventress every night. Not about the baby, not after the first time, only the knife and her cold, pale hands. But twice he caught himself thinking of it while mindlessly attaching his number to reports. The little C-class cadet, barefoot and all in blue, soaked in his blood.   Never in the entirety of his short life had he considered pregnancy as something he could experience. Sexual reproduction was not a factor of clone existence. Was not supposed to be. He did not want to think about being pregnant. He did not want to think about the thing growing inside him. He especially did not want to think about it as a thing that could grow into a person.   Prime had had a son, supposedly. '17 had never seen him. If the kid had actually existed, he hadn’t been allowed anywhere near the A-class wing.  The A-class model had been discontinued after a single generation; the B-class trial batches hadn’t survived the gestational period. But C-class was still in production. Twelve generations, hundreds of thousands of batches per generation. With almost half a million produced each year, even a minuscule margin of error was reflected in thousands of discarded fetuses. One in a hundred cadets didn't make it through basic training. One in a thousand didn’t make it out of their specialty track. With millions of soldiers active in the field, even a minuscule casualty rate was reflected in hundreds of thousands of corpses. There was nothing special about killing a clone.  This was not a clone.   This fetus was not a thing that could be disposed of because of an imperfection or an inconvenience. It was a combination of two beings’ genetics. It was growing in a womb. It wasn’t anywhere close to term, but if he left it alone long enough it would be born. But still. Half of those genes were clone genes.   It didn’t matter who or what the other parent was. Any child who inherited his genetics would inherit everything wrong with his body, with his life. If by some misguided Jedi intervention he was forced to carry the thing to term, he would not be able to protect it. The Kaminoans owned his DNA and the Republic owned him, they would own his child too. If it lived, it would be sent to Kamino. Maybe to be studied as the anomaly it was. Maybe to be placed in a batch with other little clones, dozens of them in blue, to grow in pain; beaten into being a soldier.   Clones grew up loyal to the Republic, or they did not grow up at all. He’d rather this one not grow up at all.  

[mammoth-clangen]

What happened to the third child, TELL ME-

It was just failure to thrive

+ Poppy had a very difficult birth, which raises infant mortality in irl animals too!

[autumnhobbit]

after the absolute delight that is the little house episode ‘albert is addicted to morphine’ we have another absolute delight of an episode, ‘laura’s infant son dies’

[reasonsforhope]

"In cities across the country, people of color, many of them low income, live in neighborhoods criss-crossed by major thoroughfares and highways.

The housing there is often cheaper — it’s not considered particularly desirable to wake up amid traffic fumes and fall asleep to the rumble of vehicles over asphalt.

But the price of living there is steep: Exhaust from all those cars and trucks leads to higher rates of childhood asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary ailments. Many people die younger than they otherwise would have, and the medical costs and time lost to illness contributes to their poverty.

Imagine if none of those cars and trucks emitted any fumes at all, running instead on an electric charge. That would make a staggering difference in the trajectory, quality, and length of millions of lives, particularly those of young people growing up near freeways and other sources of air pollution, according to a study from the American Lung Association.

The study, released [February 28, 2024], found that a widespread transition to EVs could avoid nearly 3 million asthma attacks and hundreds of infant deaths, in addition to millions of lower and upper respiratory ailments...

Prior research by the American Lung Association found that 120 million people in the U.S. breathe unhealthy air daily, and 72 million live near a major trucking route — though, Barret added, there’s no safe threshold for air pollution. It affects everyone.

Bipartisan efforts to strengthen clean air standards have already made a difference across the country. In California, which, under the Clean Air Act, can set state rules stronger than national standards, 100 percent of new cars sold there must be zero emission by 2035.

[Note: The article doesn't explain this, but that is actually a much bigger deal than just California. Basically, due to historically extra terrible pollution, California is the only state that's allowed to allowed to set stronger emissions rules than the US government sets. However, one of the rules in the Clean Air Act is that any other state can choose to follow California's standards instead of the US government's. And California by itself is the world's fifth largest economy - ahead of all but four countries. So, between those two things, when California sets stricter standards for cars, they effects ripple outward massively, far beyond the state's borders.]

Truck manufacturers are, according to the state’s Air Resources Board, already exceeding anticipated zero-emissions truck sales, putting them two years ahead of schedule...

Other states have begun to take action, too, often reaching across partisan lines to do so. Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, and Rhode Island adopted zero-emissions standards as of the end of 2023.

The Biden administration is taking similar steps, though it has slowed its progress after automakers and United Auto Workers pressured the administration to relax some of its more stringent EV transition requirements.

While Barret finds efforts to support the electrification of passenger vehicles exciting, he said the greatest culprits are diesel trucks. “These are 5 to 10 percent of the vehicles on the road, but they’re generating the majority of smog-forming emissions of ozone and nitrogen,” Barret said...

Lately, there’s been significant progress on truck decarbonization. The Biden administration has made promises to ensure that 30 percent of all big rigs sold are electric by 2030...

Such measures, combined with an increase in public EV charging stations, vehicle tax credits, and other incentives, could change American highways, not to mention health, for good."

-via GoodGoodGood, February 28, 2024

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

If you think about it, it's pretty gutsy/insane that The Decemberists decided to open their very first LP with a song narrated from the point of view of a dead baby rotting in a ditch.