#he’s a sitcom dad!

[crescentmoonrider]

@kkobweek Day 4 - Time travel / Body swap

When Obito decided to experiment with time-travel, he can definitely say he was not expecting to end up babysitting young versions of both himself and Kakashi motherfucking Hatake. And yet, here he was. (Granted, his expectations had been obliterated a while ago by the very existence of the White Fang's ghost, but if Obito didn't find something to complain about, he might just start breaking things instead.) He didn't know what was worse honestly. The complete ineptitude of the child he used to be more than 20 years ago, failing at even basic shuriken trowing, or - No, yeah, scratch that, the five year old version of Kakashi developing a crush on Obito's child self was absolutely worse. That hadn't happened in his original timeline, right ? That was just a consequence of Sakumo nagging him to try and help Kakashi make friends, right ? Right ?

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Aw, Steven looks like such a proud father figure!

Or… brother figure.

Wait… what is he to Seaglass?

I think the comic answers this one pretty well on its own! :)

[thegrandmarsh]

i know it's not the focus like at all, but we should definitely at least acknowledge the fact that kevin is constantly belittling and gaslighting his own father. it's like. it's really not in the forefront and obviously we have bigger fish to fry, but it really shows what kind of person he is. he will take every fucking inch of social advantage he has and use it against every single person in his life, regardless of what their relationship is. like. sorry i know he's the direct cause of a good chunk of kevins misogyny, but. that old man has nowhere to go. he has nothing to do. they make repeated references to his multitude of health conditions that prevent him from extricating himself from kevins life until he finds someone who has independent means who wants to be with him. i think over the course of the show it's pretty obvious that his father loves him as best he can and tries to help him, and it's equally clear that his son simply doesn't care about him except as a glorified cronie

[egophiliac]

#i feel you op i also started initially to read the stories but got busy grinding for events instead 😭 #i also haven't read any of the events not even madguy bc i feel like im gonna miss a lot of context i feel sorry for my boys #although I've recently caught up to ch7 and it made me a stornger more brainrotted madguy fan than before #ppl said it's gonna get more insane later on and im nervous #but so far. the stories are GOOD i highly recommend reading it if you're able to #it's just kamen rider but with extra steps #also to assuage your fear (i hope?) i heard from the grapevines that the change to leon is minimal you can easily miss it (via @chipsncookies)

YES I feel a lot better knowing other people are in the same boat as me! :') as someone who only plays games very casually, the events are fun (and have been a good excuse to get those support stories on characters I was kinda ignoring) but SO distracting -- and they have a connected overarching narrative of their own (make sure you read them in order when you get to them!) so I don't want to skip any. which I guess is to say that my problem is that I'm enjoying the writing too much! how dare they.

overall it definitely has that Kamen Rider tone and feeling I was hoping for and I am VERY pleased with it! I do kinda miss the kitbashy monsters, though otherwise it's basically just Rider But With More Random Scenes of Characters Being Ridiculous At Each Other and that is exactly what I was after. (also exquisite taste, Mad Guys are best guys 🤝)

and as long as I still haven't gotten to episode 13 and can therefore continue to be hilariously naive, let me just say that I know what I'm dreaming of for Leon. he deserves it.

...although I do think it would be VERY funny if they made that whole big "WE WILL BE UPDATING LEON'S SPRITES TO REFLECT STORY CHANGES!!!!" announcement and then it turns out that they just like. hue-shifted his eye color slightly to the right or something. it's not even a big story beat, Leon just decided to try out some color contacts, maybe comb his hair back a little, and we don't have the heart to tell him to stop. :(

[valewritessss]

I felt so seen when I first read pjo and it mentioned Annabeth’s arachnophobia. I used to have so many nightmares when I was younger (probably started when I was around five or six), I would wake up in the middle of the night and be so terrified of moving because I thought there were spiders all over my bed. The shadows on my popcorn ceiling looked like spider figures and I remember just laying there sweating and not making a sound because I thought it would attract the spiders I guess? It was routine for me to shout for my mom—poor her, she would be woken at 2 in the morning like thrice a week— and she’d always shake my sheets and lay with me until I feel asleep. She would also take me to sleep with her and my dad in their massive bed (who was I to say no to the invitation?) and it got to the point where I was embarrassed that I couldn’t sleep a whole night without someone. Occasionally, I still have these nightmares about spiders and I just turn on a light, go to the bathroom, come back, and pretend it never happened.

Idk, just thinking about that. I kind of had forgotten about those nightmares but I don’t play when I see spiders because I know it means I’m going to dream about them.

[the-halfling-prince]

"stop putting The Character in a situation" Um he's from a sitcom, it would be inhumane to take him out of the situations, it's all he knows

[foursaints]

tom riddle as a muggle-raised halfblood orphan is wonderful because you’d THINK his villain origin story is all the horcrux stuff but really it’s just the experience of trying to wrangle a class year of pampered slytherin heirs into one household. tom doesn’t even have a house elf so half of the emergent DE are politely avoiding putting their jackets down on the furniture in fear of getting his plebeian germs on them & grimacing behind his back but telling him it’s all fine, old bean, really, his house is so charmingly quaint :)

1/3 of the death eaters are engaged to each other since childhood, another 1/3 are having affairs, and the remaining third has unimaginably intricate ancient beef that traces back to someone’s great-great-grandfather snubbing another’s at a ministry gala in 1860. but its largely impossible to tell who hates who because they’re all obligated to be backstabby fake-friends with each other. 

just staggering amounts of social skills that tom got them fearing for their lives and wearing cult outfits within the year. could you imagine trying to explain to your terrifying pureblood patriarch father that, sorry, you’re moving out because actually WAY MORE afraid of this random 20-something grad student whose failed lifelong dream was to be a high school teacher. and he wants you to live in his Scooby Doo Villain house and call him a made-up name.  

[redpiperfox]

My whole family of four fitting on mum and dad's bed, decompressing in our own ways together for an hour before bed, that is the ebeneezer I raise and remember as it occurs and for the days when it does not

@shoulderscars

[lilliesm]

I watched it for the gays and they fired my gayboy, how homophobic!!

[loser-of-hearts333]

my guilty pleasure is when sitcoms get sad

[br1ghtestlight]

everytime i see someone complaining about how all adult cartoons are just sex swearing and drugs without any plot or strong characterization etc i think about the best episodes of bob's burgers and get so mad i start seeing red

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

I've talked about this before but Bill's desire to be the perfect sitcom dad irl manifests with his kids in the sense that he isn't there for them in any meaningful way but he DOES do these grand (often public) displays of affection. He'll have quiet conversations with them sometimes and miight play with them occasionally (mostly office with Lizzie or catch with Mikey) but its mostly stuff like buying them that jacket the night before the party or holidays or roadtrips or elaborate breakfasts.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'm going to make you oversleep so that you wake up three hours after you were supposed to take the final exam for your most important class

[king-lena]

they should invent a period that doesn’t feel like dragging around a cursed amulet for at least seven days

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

me fleshing out pietro for lab rats x marvel even though he was only actually in one movie...

(wandavision doesn't really count, partially bc he was in wanda's delusion fantasy world and not real)

[atopvisenyashill]

do love how this is an asoiaf blog but i did not put either show in my top 10 this is the world we live in