#i need to spin a wheel

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(Valentina's POV)

My family finally managed to congregate for our family vacation! My mum insisted on a picture of the 10 of us, as she usually does, for her ever growing picture albums. She also prints and mails them to some of our older relatives along with letters. It's such a blessing that we were able to all make it this year, usually there's one or two that can't make it for whatever reason. Since there's so many of us, we split up around 3 cabins and then rented the lounge cabin so we could have a space to eat anf fellowship.

Conner & Jarrett have officially graduated from high school, meaning that our mum is officially done homeschooling! After more than 30 years of teaching she's officially retired, so we had a little party to celebrate on our first night there. I arranged for 2 cakes, one for the boys then another for mum so they could all be cut (also because there were around 30 of us that would actually be eating the cake)

When the 5 new grandkids were born, my mum was there when Sullivan (Sabrina) was born and met the two sets of twins (David & Abel, Michael & Makenna) a few weeks after they were born, but dad hadn't met them yet, so this was the official meeting for them. Jarrod & Madison were there along with the twins, but there were asleep when these pictures were taken so they did a separate meeting.

It was great having all of the sister's here, Kelsey also made the trip up with us from Brindleton bay as her first 'official' holiday with the family. It's so great that the postpartum ladies made the effort to join the trip, it's so great to be around all the babies. Can you imagine that between the 7 of us that are married, we've had a collective 19 children, an if you count the twins celeste is pregnant with that's 21! I guess the Lord decided that this year is the year of the twin, there's about to be 3 sets of twins in the family.

The happy couple were also celebrated on the trip, Kelsey is such a sweet girl and we can't wait for her to join the family. They've decided to have the wedding at the start of the winter, just a few weeks after Harvestfest. Since a few of us are local to the area, we've been able to help with the planning and will be hosting friends and family who'll be coming in to town for the wedding.

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Something something, living rent free in my mind and such, anyway I love them.

[sewer-dwelling-cryptid]

thinking about the fact needle was eliminated the same episode pencil joined back in and grieving

[moeblob]

Does anyone remember when I would draw Glenn being a lil shit to his dad? Anyone?

[wishchip106]

soulmate behavior tbh

sick of them

why do they do this to me

[cecoeur]

it's hell on earth to be heavenly them's the breaks, they don't come gently

[octonauts-lover]

I love how they have this little chore chart- I can imagine all of them having a favorite chore to do and getting kind of sad when the wheel doesn't pick them to do it. But I'm kind of confused over what Inkling's chore is? Is it gardening?

From what I can tell, the jobs are:

Gub cleaning

Oiling the joints of the Octopod

Watering the garden pod

Hammering out dents

Mopping

Washing dishes (on that note I headcannon that Shellington probably uses gloves to avoid touching all that wet food)

Tightening bolts? Or just general repairs

[aerithisms]

zuko's redemption arc is very good, it is beloved for a reason, but it's also poisoned discussion on redemptions in fandom in such an annoying and exhausting way. people always talk about the idea of "deserving" when it comes to redemption and at least some of this feels like it stems from atla depicting zuko as having originally been a kindhearted child who got corrupted into bad behaviour by abuse. therefore he "deserved" to get redeemed because he was always a good person deep down.

there is obviously nothing wrong with this being the way zuko's character is written but because it's the most beloved redemption arc in all of fandom now everyone thinks every character with a redemption arc has to have secretly been a good person all along. as though arcs about characters seeking redemption aren't actually about exploring people changing, they're just about confirming their inherently good nature. i think this is a very shallow way to think about human beings and a very boring way to write fictional characters!!!

the question of whether it's a good idea to give a character a redemption arc shouldn't be about whether they "deserve" it. the whole point of redemption is that the character starts out a bad person at the beginning of the arc, and we explore what it takes for them to change. it's bizarre that so many people in fandom have taken the stance that people don't really change, they're either bad or they're not, and redemption arcs are only for exposing the goodness that was already inside people.

the question of whether it's a good idea to give a character a redemption arc should be about whether it's the most compelling direction for that character and whether it aligns with the themes of the story. that's all. it's not a question of morality as if the characters are real people, it's a question of what the story is about and is trying to communicate. sometimes this means it would be mean spirited and ill fitting with the themes not to give a character a redemption arc. sometimes it means a character who has yet to show any modicum of remorse or kindheartedness will receive a redemption arc, because the story is interested in how that person could possibly change. and sometimes it means a character who does show signs of goodness may never get to realise that, and will never change their ways. it depends what the story is trying to say and what makes for the most interesting and fitting character journey for that story. because the character is not real and is first and foremost a tool to communicate that story.

[elodieunderglass]

I can't resist bothering you with more questions. I'm sorry! I want to put Killie in a basket and carry him around with me like a purse dog. Did Charlie always know that he wasn't going to be a horse pilot forever and that he would find a way out of his family's net, or was he never going to escape if him being kicked out hadn't forced him into it? My heart breaks for him a bit, even though he seems the most well-adjusted person in that family. How old was he when he ended up on his own?

(In reference to Killie the jockey OC, crown prince of a horse-obsessed family, and his identical twin brother Charlie, who was disowned/ escaped the orbit of the Horse Planet)

You are never a bother. Nobody could be anything but grateful to have such insightful, brave, witty and inspiring people to talk about their OCs with! Are you kidding?

That’s such a good and deep question - I don’t think that Charlie knows the answer himself. He certainly was quite a talented apprentice jockey. In terms of his place in the family, his parents and siblings all adored him - he is warm and charming and funny - and thought they understood him. He has that special child-of-rotten-parents survival-mode sensitivity to reading a room, that in Charlie translates into useful skills, like “changing the mood of the room” and “sensing what people want him to say”.

But Charlie has a strong sense of identity, and with it, a hard internal limit on personal sacrifice; there are parts of Charlie you can’t have.

And despite being a fifth-generation jockey of impeccable pedigree, the whole “stoic, fearless, impervious to pain” thing appears to be a state of mind - not a physiology thing, but a mental one, engendered by passion for the sport. Charlie has had passages of his life where he’s carried off the Jockey Constitution (TM), but a problem with armouring yourself with a mental state is that if you are an especially clever little liar yourself, like Charlie, you catch on to the trick.

And the sport is inextricable from the horses in their family. So Charlie stormed out (was thrown out) of both family and sport… but I think he does like horses and he was good at it. And it would’ve been hard, in that family, in that immersive and passionate world, to break out naturally - especially when you are so beautifully built for it. It would again come down to Charlie’s strong sense of self.

I think a lot of his sense of identity and resistance came, early on, from connecting honestly with his bisexuality. He’s clever and sneaky, and likes mind games and code-switching and putting on characters, and when he realised the necessity of masking early on, it felt like a secret identity. He was simply Built Different, and couldn’t change it, so he made a game of tap-dancing on the tightrope.

Then he left to build that secret identity into his real self, on purpose, and he threw himself into The Opposite of Being a Jockey. He was not only the first in their family to go to university, he went into academia. He covered his bills by bartending and busking (take that, Dad). He eats cake. He is valued for his mind and brain. He is NOT COMPETITIVE AT ALL. HE’S COLLABORATIVE, EVEN.

…He was just about eighteen. And perhaps it affected him more deeply than he’d say. But what saved him - what always would save Charlie - was a sense of identity.

[captainmvf]

Saichan's always had this pretty design or I might just be a sucker for bright colors.

[icys-junkyard]

au where snubbull doesnt die in a fire on-screen in that one movie

the wheel gave me snubbull and the first thing i thought of was that time snubbull died. sorry snubbull fans.

[angelfoodscake]

AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHJSDFJEJNFJKAJAJDFS??????!!!!!??!??

[mbirnsings-71]

*sips my drink* God I love being a multishipper sometimes.

[marzipanandminutiae]

still no word back on the well-paid stitcher job and I'm losing my mind

please. please let this be the thing that finally breaks the cycle. I can't keep going as I am now and it's hard to see any way out. I need something in my life to change for the better- not that my life is unbearable, but I've been stagnating where I am for so long. I want to have the first full-time job of my goddamn life (at 31, which. you can see why I'm clawing the walls here)

I've had. one. ONE. interview for a full-time position in 8 years of looking. and now this. and it's been a week with no response. and I'm scared this is going to end up being nothing, too

what's wrong with me? why does no-one want me for anything? why will no-one even give me a chance?

[myriad-rainbows]

Recent brainwave: "pizzas" is a great mnemonic for handspinning, specifically twist direction. First spin multiple z-twist singles, then spin them together into one s-twist yarn. (I can't even count the number of times I've set my spindle whirling and then immediately gone "oh shit is that the right way?")

[pollsnatural]

Nobody knows that polls where you have to spin the wheel were invented in Supernatural fandom...