#family is shit

[owlfromthemeadow]

Having a hard time today. Life kinda sucks atm, and I don't know when I can start making art again and genuinely enjoy it.

[lifewithcraig]

So sweet

The thing about being "sweet" is that people perceive it as an invitation.

An invitation to belittle you.

To lie to you.

To take.

And take.

And take from you.

To act without consent toward and on behalf of you.

To play with your life recklessly like a belligerent God.

And every year that passes, every year you are forced to live among other people, you feel just a little less whole than you did the year before.

Until one day, you wake up and realize you're not sweet at all.

You're just the bitter rind of the person you used to be.

And every kind smile and soft spoken word thereafter is just... artificial sweetener.

The illusion of something real that is not actually there.

Not anymore.

[theycallmeaspen]

Someone being a family member does not make them hurting you okay. Just because you share blood it does not give them the right to spill yours.

[angry-regrets]

Hey why don't you just stay at home instead of working with me?

You Left Me

Your Aunt is working with me now so I don't need you but occasionally!

Your Pushing Me Out And Rehiring Her As Your Right Hand Person.

Hey your Younger Cousin may come to work with us so I won't need you.

You Fucking Left Me In The Middle Of An Eternal Void, Left Me, Starved Me, Watched Me Slowly Die. And You Said You Needed Me. You Need Me Like I Need To See Red.

[fretbored34]

And then there are uncles who are murderers 🤷‍♀️

[bury-me-alive]

I DONT CARE ABOUT ANYBODY

FUCK ALL MY FAMILY AND SHIT

I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF BECAUSE I'M SICK OF MYSELF AND ALL OF YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES

[mlishe]

One day I’ll despise and I’ll be finally free

[sh0rtf4t4nd3pr3ss3d]

i hate that i have to listen to my parents talk shit abt my brother for not wanting to talk to them and "fake loving" them bc i acc know what he's been through and worse and when i grow up and start to earn my own money im gonna do the same.

[wishingintotheunknown]

How I love being a punching bag for my family

[sunnyinthebuilding]

nobody actually cares about me

[ace-dodo]

My dad made me cry and instead of listening to my point of view he just yelled at me for crying

I'll never try to communicate in this family again 🥳🥳

[afrobloospace]

In the grand scheme of things, we are a family that fails to show up for each other.

Not during loss. Not during celebration.

[lifewithcraig]

My dad is the sun. My mom is the moon.

My dad was like the sun – like I suppose most dads are. On the surface, he was bright and sunny and commanded attention. His smile, his laugh were warm and infectious and could light up a room.

But there was something dark and sinister beneath that sunny facade. Something hot and tempered and cancerous. As though if you stood too close, you would burn.

My mom, on the other hand, was like the moon in the night sky. Something quiet and subtle but absolutely divine and delightful.

She had her moods, much like the lunar phases. There were times she felt so close. And others where she felt distant and far away.

She was tender and mysterious all at once. And although she was not so expansive as to take up as much space as the sun, she was the brightest light during my darkest nights.

I guess you could say I was always more of a night person.

[sunnis-shinis]

i love characters who smoke but i wish people would actually show the side effects of smoking affecting them. like depending on how much they smoke they should just go into a comically long coughing fit mid-sentence

[stickyvoidpaper]

Dick : Jasons been more, relaxed lately. It's unsettling.

Tim : Yeah, I've started spiking his water with mood stabilizers.

Dick : What

Tim : I've been thinking of doing it to the wider gotham water supply. Think about the crime rates.

[solarwreathe]

let’s not talk about this, ever