#even with the complicated family dynamics

[abby-unscripted]

I don’t know how old this post is, but I never got that vibe from the 15 years I spent watching the show. Supernatural was about family. I also feel like the Destiel shippers really tore apart the fandom and created a divide. I’m rewatching for the first time ever all the way through for the first time since it ended, maybe my views will change but I know for me it created tension. Even at conventions I felt like Misha pandered greatly to the Destiel fans. It was funny the first few years but it got bad at the end. Jared started receiving a lot of hate which was hard to watch, he’s one of the sweetest humans and truly loves the fans. I’ve been an mm fanfiction reader for 20 years and I never once felt like shipping them. Their dynamic was different and complicated but I don’t feel like it was romantic. Dean was very straight in my opinion but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the mid and later seasons so I don’t really remember if that changes at any point I can remember. I’ll end this again with supernatural was always about family, which made it special.

Non Destiel Shippers, what stops you from shipping them?

What are the reasons you don't ship them? Im just curious, not looking for a fight.

[h50europe]

Tommy Kinard centered concept for the 9-1-1 Spin-Off (just me having fun)

Seeing Lou in the comedy show with a look similar to 9-1-1 season 2 Tommy sent my muse into a frenzy. Simultaneously, there was this spin-off, so I sat down and wondered, what would I do?

Title: "9-1-1: Golden Gate"

Genre: Drama

Logline: After a heartbreaking breakup, firefighter and pilot Tommy relocates to San Francisco, where he joins the SFFD. As he navigates new challenges and forms new bonds, he must confront his past and deal with personal and professional struggles.

Synopsis: Tommy, a seasoned firefighter and pilot, moves to San Francisco after a painful breakup with his partner, Buck. His impressive reputation quickly earns him a position with the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD). As Tommy adjusts to his new life, he forms new friendships and faces the challenges of a new city and team.

Key Plot Points:

New Beginnings: Tommy's arrival in San Francisco and his first days at the SFFD. He meets his new colleagues and starts to build relationships, though not without encountering some resistance.

Flashbacks: Interspersed throughout the series, flashbacks reveal Tommy's past. We see his early days under Gerrard's command at the 118, his transfer to Harbor Station, and his coming out. These scenes provide context for his current struggles and triumphs.

Critical Emergency: A major emergency results in the tragic loss of one of Tommy's new teammates. This event deeply affects Tommy, leading to a struggle with guilt and grief.

Family Struggles: Tommy's father is suffering from dementia, adding another layer of stress to his life. Flashbacks show the strained relationship between Tommy and his father, complicated by the early death of Tommy's mother.

Heartbreak: Tommy is still reeling from his breakup with Buck. He finds it difficult to move on, and every new man he meets is compared to Buck. This ongoing internal conflict adds depth to his character.

Workplace Challenges: Tommy faces homophobic tendencies from some colleagues, making his integration into the team even more challenging. Despite these obstacles, he remains determined to find his place and peace in this new chapter of his life.

Characters:

Tommy: The protagonist, a skilled firefighter and pilot, dealing with personal and professional challenges.

Buck: Tommy's ex-partner, whose memory haunts Tommy.

Gerrard: Tommy's former commander at the 118, featured in flashbacks.

Tommy's Father: Suffering from dementia, their complicated relationship is explored through flashbacks.

New Teammates: A diverse group of firefighters at the SFFD, some of whom become friends while others present challenges.

Themes:

Resilience: Tommy's journey is one of resilience, as he faces and overcomes numerous challenges.

Identity: The show explores Tommy's identity as a firefighter, a son, and a gay man.

Grief and Healing: The series delves into Tommy's grief over his teammate's death and his breakup, and his path to healing.

Family Dynamics: The complicated relationship between Tommy and his father is a central theme.

Tone: The show balances intense drama with moments of hope and camaraderie, providing a realistic yet uplifting portrayal of Tommy's journey.

[lune-moon-nuit]

I personally dont think it is realistic for will to sit his friends down in the middle of the apocalypse and b like hey guys im gay. Idk is that just me? I def think they might find out or if they do get into a fist fight with the bullies like some people think maybe lucas ans dustin will kinda tell will its okay and realize. I def think will can have a coming out scene to his mom, but i rlly see it all like how the jonathan scene went, where he noticed and went to will first, but of course will takes the support.

I definitely don’t think they’ll have a big coming-out scene where all the characters are present for the ultimate revelation. The Duffer Brothers are far more subtle than that. It would be such a cliché, empty of meaning due to the lack of intimacy, realism, and logical coherence with the storyline.

I don’t think Will is going to have a coming-out scene with his mother because, technically, he already had one with Jonathan. We also know very well that Joyce is a safe mother for Will—she would never abandon or reject him for this. She even said so herself in Season 2 when she shared a memory to bring Will back while he was possessed. She talked about the rainbow spaceship and told him how proud she was of that drawing and of him. That message was not only a subtle nod to Will’s yet-to-be-confirmed homosexuality at the time but, more importantly, a way to show that Joyce loves and accepts him as he is—that she will always be proud of him, no matter what others say.

If there were to be a real coming-out scene with a parent, it would be far more interesting on Mike’s side. We know that Karen is a loving mother who does everything she can to be there for her children, but it’s obvious that she is emotionally distant from both Nancy and Mike (I can’t say for Holly), even if it’s not intentional. The Wheeler family dynamic is… complicated.

That being said, despite her love for her son and despite telling Mike in Season 1 that she wants him to feel safe enough to never hide anything from her (which, by the way, didn’t work, since Mike spends most of the series hiding everything from his parents), can Mike actually feel safe coming out to a mother who supports Reagan and follows the mold of conservative society, with the ideal of the “nuclear family”?

Let’s not forget that being "queer" and "gay" in that era were synonyms for death, danger, disease, vice, sin, etc., for the vast majority of Americans. People literally washed their hands after shaking hands with someone perceived to be gay. So I’d be really curious to see whether Karen and Ted would be comfortable with the idea of their son—the only son in the family, the next "man of the house" after Ted, who is expected to carry on the Wheeler lineage—being gay.

Ted isn’t even a question. Even without being overtly hateful, his line in Season 1 speaks volumes about the ingrained homophobia he holds, even if it’s nonviolent (at least physically and unintentionally, unlike Lonnie). But Karen… would she take it well? I truly can’t say, and I don’t think Mike knows either. That’s what could make the tension in such a scene interesting.

That said, I don’t think there will be any explicit coming out scenes. If anything, it will likely be subtle, with each character reacting through a single line or gesture. We’ll have to wait and see.

It’s really time for Season 5 to arrive.

[wanderer-clarisse]

cousin bonding time (I like to imagine that Maedhros is the one who tied baby Finrod's hair!)

sorry for being suddenly inactive here lately, Things Happened and I haven't really had the time to sit down and draw until this week ;-; hope this little sketch can make up for it!

[fatalism-and-villainy]

Replying now because I have further thoughts now that I've finally reached the episode in this rewatch -

Yeah, he's certainly nothing like his parents. But the language Sarina uses during that scene - she owes him everything, she wants to be the woman he wants her to be - feels very reminiscent of the mindset that his parents undoubtedly impressed upon him. And I suspect that's present on his mind, and is part of why he's so viscerally ashamed of his behaviour (of course, alongside the reason he gives in the episode, namely that he put his own needs ahead of his patient's).

Re: the second paragraph, I do think he was genuinely romantically interested in her, although more as a projection of his own romantic fantasies/fears of loneliness than in her as a person. Significantly, the episode opens with all of his friends being too busy with their families or romantic partners to spend time with him, and it's pretty clear that he's internalized the idea that a romantic relationship is the only way to avoid loneliness. And of course, there's the scene where he tells Miles that he'd always dreamed of meeting another genetically enhanced person who was like him.

Putting his romantic ideals ahead of the actual person he was pursuing was also a problem in his pursuit of Jadzia early on, which she herself implies in Starship Down - she says that he came on too strongly and didn't give her a chance to get to know him. Given both his approach to Sarina and the resurgence of his feelings for Jadzia at the end of s6, I do think he's emotionally backslid into that tendency at this point (likely due to the stress of the war and the negative headspace he seems to be in in the late seasons).

I do agree, however, that Sarina showing up in his quarters was the catalyst for him projecting those fantasies onto her. The part where she gives him breakfast is especially telling, imo - you can tell he's suddenly imagining a a domestic partnership. (And it is a very gendered dynamic, that says a lot about the show's very heteronormative conception of relationships - it feels reminiscent of how the O'Briens' marriage is presented, where there are all these references to Keiko making dinner or saving dinner for Miles, even though she has a career of her own as well.)

Regarding Sarina's perspective, I think she latches onto him because he respects her and treats her like a person in a way that's really unprecedented for her. There's the scene after the surgery where he goes to see her in the cargo bay and she's retreated into herself again, because when she tried to speak up, Jack and the others shut her down. When Julian talks to her, she snaps out of it and smiles (which is honestly really cute) and tells him that the others are used to her being quiet, so "it's easier this way", pretty much passively accepting the role the other augments have placed her into in much the same way she feels she should accept the role Julian wants for her. But something that really comes through in the episode is the complicated truth that Jack and the others clearly love her and feel protective of her, but also have a pattern of not listening to her or taking her seriously, which Julian at that point has consistently done.

That dynamic is present even back in Statistical Probabilities. When he first meets them all, Julian makes a point of saying hello specifically to her, and Jack immediately jumps in and says Sarina can't respond (with the implication that there's no point in Julian talking to her at all). In the scene where they're all drawing inferences about what the Dominion's negotiation strategy is, Julian is the one who notices that Sarina's listening to them and making a contribution to the discussion. And he's able to stop them from going to the Dominion because he convinces Sarina to let him go, when Jack and the others never even considered that she might have motivations or agency of her own in that scenario. So I think she feels so much gratitude towards Julian not only because of the surgery, but also because he affords her thoughts and feelings more legitimacy than she's ever experienced.

And given the paternalistic treatment she's received not just from the staff at the institute but also from the other augments, I really don't think she has any idea how to navigate a more egalitarian friendship or working dynamic, much less a romantic relationship - which is why she doesn't display appropriate boundaries when she shows up in his quarters, and why she doesn't know how to tell him he's being too pushy and intense. It's on Julian to set those boundaries, and of course he drops the ball there.

But there's a really interesting tension in both this episode and Statistical Probabilities wherein Julian obviously has internalized a lot of ableist ideas about productivity and normality and contributing to society (and this shows up even in him taking it for granted that Sarina is fully prepared to leave the institute just because she can pass as "normal" now). But, at the same time, when he's not being waylaid by his own selfish desires, he is genuinely very good at engaging with all the augments, and treating them like they're people. (And there are moments, like when he's telling Sisko that they would be better able to abide by society's rules if they were allowed to live in society, that show signs of him being potentially able to push past the harmful beliefs he's internalized.) That's why one post-canon scenario for him that I yearn for is him pushing for disability rights.

Would you guys burn me at the stake if I say that I think Chrysalis is actually a really important insight into Julian's character and his view on his own life and the people around him at the time it takes place. It's an episode that doesn't hold up today cause of the very ableist writing and kind of shitty moral but I think it's necessary that it's there and also occurs at the time it does in the show

I'll have a more insightful analysis on it one day cause I really want to talk about it (I want to make better researched ds9 analyses with actual clips from the show and whatnot instead of just vaguely referencing events from memory that could be completely wrong but unfortunately I do not have the time to be doing all of that. I would really like to in the future though)

[qaanngi]

Hapee seasonal 🎄

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bros before Ho(oh my god is that Hanguang-Jun?)

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[darkeneddawning]

Escaped clone au

You know all those fics where Danny and Damian are twins but everyone first assumes Danny must be a clone? How about an au where Danny is Damian's clone who escaped the League after he was assumed dead. Damian could even have been the one to have "killed" him, back when Danny was a newly created, fully brainwashed clone minion and trying to kill Damian himself.

Danny gets adopted by the Fentons and canon goes on as normal, until Dan. Witnessing what would happen to the world should he turn evil really drove home to Danny how dangerous he is.

Even if he was confident he could be trusted with his absurd amount of power (which he isn't), what if the League of Assassins found out about him? Does he still have programming triggers from his evil assassin clone conditioning?

So, Danny does the responsible thing: he goes to Batman to turn himself in.

Cue Danny showing up on Bruce's doorstep with ghost hunting equipment, intel on the afterlife, and an almost unbelievable backstory. Somehow he still managed to be more well-adjusted than Damian.

More thoughts under the read more

Here's how I'm thinking Danny leaving the League went down:

After surviving his wounds but failing his mission, Danny (then an unnamed potential Damian replacement) knew there was no point in returning to the League. As a failure, he was meant to be disposed of. He even thought of simply allowing himself to perish, since that was what the League would do.

But he couldn't help but feel as though that would be a waste of a resource. Surely he could be of more use to the League alive than dead?

That tiny bit of rebellious logic is what caused Danny to go into hiding, only living on based on the off chance he would find opportunities to further the League's goals. Obviously, that mentality didn't last long after being exposed to the real world and meeting one Jazz Fenton.

Being adopted by the Fentons was the best cover Danny could have asked for, since any odd behavior he couldn't hide while he was learning how to be "normal" was totally overshadowed by the sheer bizarre eccentricity of his new parents. He was still the neighborhood weird kid, but even that was a major upgrade from disposable tool, so Danny considered it a win.

Anyway, if anyone likes this idea, please feel free to have at it! Interpret it as you please :)

[revvethasmythh]

it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

[taddymason]

"I'm sorry, Nya… I have to do this"

role swap au bc im evil

Isn't it funny how this would be the third time jay faces evil nya btw

[starry-bi-sky]

"Stillborn? No, still born" Danyal au -- VLAD MASTERS THE BITCH HIMSELF

*Points at Vlad* THIS MFER GOT SOME TEEFS TO HIM. !! Okay okay, Vlad Masters in the stillborn au is different compared to most of my other aus in the fact that I am far more heavily leaning into his original ambitions of wanting a family and being desperately lonely. Because you know what wanting a family implies? Wanting to be a parent.

Fucked up father figure that could've been Vlad. Complicated love-hate relationship between the only two halfas in existence.

Danny hates Vlad, but he hates even more that he's genuinely considered his offers of mentorship. Vlad is the only halfa around, and they both have fire cores. Danny has these powers he doesn't understand, can barely comprehend some days, and can't control. But Vlad does. Vlad can. And Vlad wants to help him. He's the only other person who can get close whenever Danny runs too hot. Whenever his igneous hair cracks, splits, and spits back out into magma and his friends can't get close, Vlad can.

His hair is made of magma, which runs so hot that people need specialized suits in order to get near it. He physically cannot get close to the living as a ghost unless he's calm enough for his hair to cool into igneous rock. Which isn't as often as he would like. And sometimes he's too hot for other ghosts to get near unless they have fire cores -- which Vlad has.

There have been many times when Danny's having a meltdown (literally) and gone somewhere to be alone, to let his anger and hurt and loneliness overflow and spill out, that when he's come back to, Vlad's right there with him as an anchor. It's desperately frustrating, it's the only time they can get along. They don't say anything, Danny just turns and clings onto the only person he can touch as a ghost.

Its not fair. Vlad wants to kill his foster dad, and Danny can't let him do that. But he wants to be trained by the man, he wants his help and wants what he can offer. But Vlad can't step away from his revenge long enough to let him. It's just not fair. He thinks for a moment that maybe it could work, and then Vlad does something to remind him that no, it can't.

Vlad Masters sees too much of himself in Daniel Brown -- from the way he holds himself, to the defenses he puts up, his quiet anger that builds and builds and builds until it explodes. That simmers beneath his skin. All the way down to the fact that they have matching cores. This boy is cut from the same cloth as him, and by god does he want to help him. He's always wanted to be a father, and Daniel Brown is too much like him for him to ignore. He genuinely, truly cares about Danny and his wellbeing.

He wants to help him, child just let him help you. Let him kill your foster dad so he can adopt you himself and help with these powers that terrify and intrigue you -- he knows what that's like to have something that you can't control, to have a heat that you can't cool down from. "We're in the same boat you and I, let him help you please."

But his methods are all wrong, and Danny is too much like him -- stubbornness and all -- for him to agree when they oppose each other so greatly. But again, Danny is much like him -- which means that Vlad is equally stubborn, and in every single one of their fights he's parental. He's annoyingly parental. He drops his interest in Maddie to focus his efforts in trying to coax Danny onto his side. It's like trying to get a traumatized cat to trust you, and on some levels it works. It's like he makes some progress, and then moves too quickly and the cat immediately runs off and you have to start back from square one.

TL:DR; Vlad and Danny both want to find family in each other but they're too different to get along and ultimately they are doomed by the narrative to be at constant odds with one another unless one of them is changes, and it doesn't matter who.

[youngpettyqueen]

I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[smile-files]

randall: do you think we're brothers in every universe?

henry: we're not even brothers in this one...

[thesummerstorms]

I'm too tired to formulate thoughts well right now, but I do wonder what Viago and Neve's interactions would look like with a Rook who romanced Neve but doesn't want to leave the Crows/is very personally and professionally loyal to Viago.

[kooki914]

Since you're the Spadesgore guy, how to you think Asgore would interact with Lancer?

Excellent question!! I have to do the self-promotion song and dance but I've unironically written a fic basically dedicated to this, and in other fics in the series Asgore's role in the weird spade family dynamic is explored further.

But to summarize, Asgore is just naturally a dad, and Lancer collects parents, they basically fit like puzzle pieces on that front, but in the nitty gritty Asgore tends to be a gentler parent than Lancer is used to. He actually tries to emotionally support Lancer rather than just financially support him or discipline him or what have you, he's just a guy who likes talking to his kids. And it's not that Lancer doesn't need that, but there's definitely a twinge of confusion because he isn't used to it. All his other parental figures don't give much thought to emotional support unless it's directly brought up, but Asgore pays attention to it! And it pays off in the end, with Lancer learning to tell the difference between a crisis and something that makes him feel bad or vulnerable (which he otherwise doesn't really have a stable standard for), but in the current moment from Lancer's perspective it definitely seems like Asgore can be a debbie downer sometimes.

Also Lancer likes digging holes and Asgore plants stuff in them. Unexpectedly fitting combo. All in all I consider that Spadesgore must be canonized.