#i hate family drama

[kveom]

honestly queen of tears has a lot of stuff that i just..don't care about lmao

[eccentricverbicide]

im so stressed and so sad and so upset, all I do any more is scroll through instagram reels and send them to the same 3 people (ive become that annoying friend)

[devastator1775]

It's been weird day. Family stuff that left a weird buzz in my brain.

[j2x3e]

Do not let Wilhelm cook

[sauvryn]

Yes, this IS just terribly sad, but not for the reasons that everyone thinks. It's sad because it is slander.

Okay so I'm gonna finally talk about this garbage article, because I keep randomly finding it in search results. I need to get it off my chest and Tumblr feels like the safest space for a rant. I am Jason's wife in real life - his legal spouse of almost 10 years. The article that the OP linked to was written by Jason's oldest son from a previous marriage, whom I have never met and didn't have any particular impressions of. Apparently, it was published in December of 2022. Want to know when Jason and I found out about it? May 2023. And we only did because I happened to see a Babylon 5 fan on Facebook post a link to it in response to the B5 animated film announcement, in a reply to another fan wondering why Jason wasn't involved with the project. The fan speculated that it was perhaps because of how Jason was purportedly "difficult to work with" and "his character probably killed off" due to personality changes from his TBI, as it said in the article.

What? I was shaken. I read it.

I told Jason about it. He read it.

It was very painful.

We decided the best course of action was not to give it any more oxygen, though the desire was strong to write a point-by-point rebuttal to the absolutely stunning amount of misinformation, assumptions, and assertions present in the article. Little to none of the information had been verified directly with Jason, nor with his brothers or mother (two of which still don't know about the article, and we are trying to keep it that way for now). There's a lot of "I've heard..." and "I've been told..." in the article. Like, by who? Jason's ex-wife, maybe, who isn't exactly his biggest fan? Who are these sources? I looked on Twitter and apparently a fan brought the article to the attention of JMS (the creator of Babylon 5) and asked if it was true, and JMS said he never saw any aggressive, unprofessional, etc. behavior from Jason. Which is expected because - before TBI or after - that's never been Jason.

I'm not relating much of Jason's personal reactions here because I don't want it getting back to his son and causing additional drama (or, worse, another article) - that's something that needs to be worked out privately between the two of them eventually. As for my own reaction: the article personally angered and saddened me. It - intentionally or not - drags Jason's legacy through the mud with what amounts to honeyed slander while waving a clickbait title to drive traffic by banking on his fame and, worst of all, supposedly is written from a place of "compassion" and "love". It's disgusting to read and does a horrible disservice to fans of Jason by presenting supposed "truths" about his history, personality, and professionalism from what would otherwise reasonably appear to be a reliable source. Sadly, the comments on Medium do not appear to doubt the author's account in the slightest. From what I have heard from the fans I have talked to on Facebook that read it, they hadn't thought to question the article's validity either and some even believed it was published with Jason's knowledge, both of which couldn't be farther from the truth.

Do I think his son actually believes everything that he wrote? Yes, I think this is how he has rationalized his past in order to try and make peace with it.

Do I think his son is being purposely malicious? No. Again, I think he believes he's just telling the truth of his experience and may even believe he's helping others by relating it.

Does any of that make it better? Absolutely not. Ignorant slander is still slander, which is especially hurtful from a child who is likely getting their "facts" from the other divorced parent and the associated relatives.

Anyway, my advice to anyone reading this: if you have issues with a parent about your childhood, at least please try talking to them directly to ask about the reasons behind why they made certain choices that negatively affected you. Don't instead silently look for something to point at (an accident, a mental issue, etc.) to fantasize that parent into a total victim of that condition, in a misguided attempt to banish your anger by artificially transmuting it into pity.

Marcus was my absolute favorite on B5. This is just terribly sad.

[double-gs]

I cant sleep cause when oh when are we gonna talk about how shoto is 100% a child of SA?

It is so heavily implied in the scene of shotos birth, how endeavour looks at her crazed, the fear and fatigue in her own eyes before we hear shotos cries. People do not realise that it was not just physical abuse that Endeavour portrayed towards Rei but also sexual. Even if she was on board with the first three children, Shoto is 100%, as Touya says, a child of calamity.

This is also why it isn't possible for the todoroki family to ever have a happy ending. Because if shoto was a child of SA, in another world where endeavour is normal, he wouldn't have been born.

Thank you and good night

[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

[binvibin]

regulus before he wrote that letter really said “how can i make this all about me?”

[juniperhillpatient]

hate it when there’s already enough characters & they bring in a new one to take up all the attention from the already interesting characters. like ok. no one asked

[suffarustuffaru]

so i talked a bit about reinjulisuba on this blog in the past like in this one ask but now ive made a quick and easy diagram summarizing their whole deal <3

[bonefall]

There's speculation that Floatshimmer's kits are Graysky's, since one of the kits are silver like him, you know, the dude that was made a warrior when she was a kit.

To be fair, Graysky is ridiculously young as well. He might have been described as being ready to be a warrior at the start of ASC, but he was born in Lost Stars and is only a little over a year old at the end of the last arc.

EVERYONE got hit with the Time Travel Beam... in fact. Funfact: RiverClan actually has always had a weird issue with their allegiance cats aging really fast.

Anyway, digressing. If it does pan out to have Graysky as the father...

Eventually I like the idea of Floatshimmer and Graysky being a couple (their names make me think of bright sunshine on a cloudy day, making the waves of the lake twinkle with light), but absolutely not while they're so young. Both of them need at least another year or so.

(At the earliest, have their kits mid-arc, ideally later.)

That said, I'm still willing to shuffle them both a bit to be closer in age. I'm growing interested in the idea that they're like, the cat equivalent of 18 and 19-ish. Young, dumb, impulsive, ended up with kittens looong before they were ready and it's impacting their relationship negatively.

Still deciding, though.

[nocofamilyau]

total drama moment (4/8)

[vegaseatsass]

You know, these past two episodes I was thinking to myself, Su Yin is almost perfect in every way, simply the ideal devoted, protective, loyal, dedicated sworn brother, call him Da-ge indeed!!!, but my one piece of constructive criticism is that he needs to learn how to give real hugs - he does a lot of manful shoulder clasping, but Xiaobao is a shivering chihuahua desperately in need of cuddles and body heat, you gotta HUG THAT BOY - but now I see that Su Yin's hugs are simply reserved for his horrible little gremlin of an imperial cousinwife.

[kimgoeun]

The Atypical Family (Ep.3)

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

Really not having a great day today, wanted to work on the surprise story but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. I hope you all are having a good day though 💜

[cnl0400]

The irony of someone who would only marry for political gain and status to fall in love with someone who Is neither a demon or from a well-off family...