#happy Mother’s Day to the queen

[toffoliravioli]

she’s that bitch we knew

[the-irreverend]

I know it ain't a lot, but for Mother's Day, I thought I'd make a little tribute to my favourite moms across fiction (and their greatest moments).

[littlebittyhollowbugs]

Mother's Day flowers 🕷️🌸

[peanutsoutofcontext]

Snoopy’s Mother Missy Appreciation Post ❤️

[venluming]

mmmm crazy mom in a crazy world…

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE GOOD MOMS IN MEDIA!

[leonisandmurex]

Mother, Mum, Mamma || Catherine & Charlotte, Elizabeth & Charles, Mary & George, Anne & Zara, Diana & William, Alexandra & Louise

[vincentpalomo]

Happy Mother's Day From Madelyne Pryor💓

[greenqueenhightower]

Ryan Condal: "and she lights three candles, and she says, 'ALeRiE FLoReNT--"

Me: *dies*

[hotstreak2k3]

Since today is Morher’s day, let us take a look back at these mother figures that raised Princess Zelda well.

Even one of them is alive in an alternate timeline.

May Hylia blessed her for happiness!

[cirqueduroyale]

Happy Mother's Day! 🐩💜🐩

[italymystery-swanqueen]

Henry Mills' Moms

Kids can have two moms, these moms can be in love each other and this family representation is appropriate for family show.

[disabled-battlekukku]

happy mother's day yipeeee

[futurebird]

Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy mother’s day to my Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen! She is nearly four years old this summer and the proud mother of nearly 700 beautiful daughters. Here she is today and years ago where her colony had only 30 ants. She has done an amazing job raising a huge colony!

She's so huge and beautiful!

Here is a video from two years ago where this queen enjoys a grooming session from one of the workers. She's like a puppy dog!

When the colony was smaller their queen would carefully monitor each new ant as she emerged as you can see in this video. A single worker making it, or not, can determine if a small colony survives.

Now there are so many (~670 ants) that she can't possibly keep up! Their nest fills two football-sized logs on my bookshelf. Many of the brood are raised in the second nest: those ants never even get to meet the queen.

These ants can have colonies of up to 10,000 or 20,000!

The way young ants hid under their mother when the colony was small is just ... to me it's the essence of what mother's day is all about.

There is something about watching an ant eclose that's so dramatic, they are seeing and feeling as an adult ant for the first time-- they have a whole new body and the world is full of new sensations. It must be terrifying!

Most insects go through this stage alone... but ants always have someone to help to receive them into their new world: their colony.

[joyful-downer]

Happy mother's day to my favourite ex-single mother! 🥧💐💕

[dnangelic]

like it's just the way that outside of the BATB/POTO 'love what's ugly and ostracized' narrative itself cocteau was gay and everybody hated his gall about it, howard ashman was gay and had to conceal it and died of aids after finishing his work for disney's batb.... rather than have dark be homophobic and spitting in the face of his inspirational roots (the sole canon detail i can't stand) it's much much much more interesting for me to both read and write not someone who's meant to be a pervert (in humor) and an agape lover (in serious contextualization) only to turn and say 'no homo' to the crowd every single time but rather, instead of all that, someone who, simultaneously taking daisuke into account, is both extremely firm yet simultaneously insecure in the struggle to establish their identity not only in regards to themselves but also around others.

that applies to a lot, but i've been considering it especially in regards to dark's gender and daisuke's attractions. dark in my portrayal (while overall 500% nonbinary) is closer to someone bi-gender rather than agender; the feminine aspect to him isn't just theatrics, it's actively also part of his entirety to him, (compared to daisuke's passivity; the ten thousand canonical princess allusions,) and even if nobody ever recognizes it in a cognizant way, it is always, always there, the same way that erik blurs and obscures gender in leroux's novel (my second enormous inspiration, sugisaki's outright admitted primary) and sakurai occasionally discusses his relationship as both a performer and a person as well (my third enormous inspiration and sugisaki's secondary,) (see 1, 2.) simply put, the tragedy of (my!) dark does not ever derive from his being able to choose and sit comfortably and confidently with this sort of identity (in fact, it's one of the few things he can stubbornly, viciously decide for himself [alongside daisuke] as essentially a non-human, autonomous 'angel',) it's instead the way that his personality is so strong and 'anti-feminine' in the eyes of convention that said aspect of himself often gets disregarded for strictly masculine (and regardless, further self-contradictory and therefore isolating,) expectations.

dark himself alone does not care if others do not understand him; this is meant to be one of his far more admirable and impressive traits. he's staunchly independent: he knows who he is, what he's supposed to be, and he knows that if he actively presented himself more femininely (crossdressing to 'pass' essentially,) then people's behaviors WOULD be very likely to change around him, but he doesn't even do that because it goes against his overwhelming sense of pride. he never contorts, he never twists himself, what matters to him is that he and he alone understands himself and knows what he is, what he isn't. but he is, without proper support or acceptance, still alone. even bearing a strong character, the stifling loneliness and inherent, underlying self-sense of broken/wrongness of the 'other,' (god's luciferean problem child, the black sheep, the black-leather wearing punk,) is still inflicted on him. dark exists solely for himself, he exists solely for daisuke, which is simultaneously wherein the inversion and insecurities lie: if dark is canonically the live metaphor for all the aspects of daisuke's self that he attempts to and yet cannot possibly, conceivably repress, from his loves to his faults to his shames and his criminal sins as a thief, then the likes of daisuke's own personal confusions in regards to himself and his attempts at intimacy/socialization with others is the other, hidden side of dark's absolute self-confidence; it's every fear of perpetual isolation, misunderstanding, and abandonment for things outside of daisuke's own control.

queerness in relation to the self (transgender allegory) queerness in relation to others (non-hetero-romanticism) mental illness (depression, anxiety,) etc, etc, dark's thematic basis may at its most general simply be "a secret that feels wrong and that you feel you can't really tell anyone or else you'll get in trouble/won't be as liked as much" but it feels much better to give due respect to each of these primary roots.