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again, only halfway through orv but i have to wonder.
Why is Yoo Junghyuk a gamer. wh
i know its probably just in service of Way's of Survival's isekai subversion thing and whatnot but. did- does YJH game? why is he a PRO gamer did he stream? was he in esports? what games did he play. I just cannot imagine this man playing a video game. i guess hes so changed by the third regression that hes left his gamer past behind but like. what emotes would he have in his chat. Does he talk while he plays? i cant picture him talking. whats wrong with him
#this is ignoring the fact that i think everyone in the novel just like. spawned when the subway scenario happened-#pretty sure they didn't exist before the scenarios#but. does ways of survival go into his backstory? does he have backstory besides dead parents and being a gamer?#ough im just thinking about orv so much dude#when im not reading it im thinking about it#like. the fear that courses through my veins everytime KDJ uses character list on like yoo sangah or lee gilyoung or whoever is. oh my god#ough i could write fucking essays about this shit#pj yells#hi everyone if youre reading this go read orv
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my adderal wore off time to be in the worst mood ever
#i’m so mad about my ex rn for no reason except i remembered the one time he took me and his best friend of 6 years to the same concert#and then proceeded to ONLY talk to his best friend and i was ignored the ENTIRE 5 HOURS WE HUNG OUT#and when his mom picked me up from school- he didn’t even fucking go to school that day#so fucking rude and disrespectful like cmon. BRINGING YOUR BESTFRIEND WHO HAD ALREADY GONE TO A CONCERT WITH YOU THAT WEEK TO THIS?#SO I COULD FEEL SO BAD ABT BEING INVITED? FUCK YOU#i’m. still very mad about this#i get so annoyed with his existence#HES SUCH A BRAT i literally go to an expensive private school and he rarely shows up just because “he doesn’t want too”#THIS SCHOOL COSTS SO MUCH MONEY AND YOU JUST DECIDE TO NOT SHOW UP AFTER UR PARENTS PAY FOR YOU TO GO??????#UR SO FUCKING ENTITLED YOU LITTLE BRATTY BITCH WHO INSISTS ON SAYING SLURS AND THAT UR OPPRESSED BC UR TRANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#u are white and very privileged shut the fuck up [insert his name here]#sorry. i had to get this out of my system#personal post#nats calla lilies
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i simply think that every person who has ever given me trauma should die immediately ❤️☺️
#personal#do NOT debate with me on this i will ignore and block you im not feeling particularly generous or tolerant rn#mmm fuck men (derogatory) ❤️#also fuck people who yell constantly#also for flavour peppering it in there#fuck family#mmmmm i would happily commit crimes to seperate myself from my#mmmm#mmm love living your whole life clinging on to unrealistic yet maybe possible hopes and dreams since theres still time and possibilities#and then#having gone thru every possible route of life which solidifies the fact that none of those things will ever happen#and somehow you end up in aworse position tjan where you started#love it love bad parenting#absolutely love not having a single thing to live for#live in the moment? yeah fuck man i dont really got achoice now do i since the is literally#nothing aside from this monotone existance of being triggered asfuck everyday and having people act like they want you to live as#an empty husk of a person who somehow does all tasks lke a fucking robot#loving fuck you to both my parents and sibling and the new person#you did fuck all for me with all your bullshit
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On the other hand, and moving away from direct Mechanisms Discourse (which I prefer to not get over involved in tbh but also this ISN'T about that it's just jumping off it) - it absolutely is deeply classist to assume that somebody is illiterate or ignorant because of poverty/assumed poverty, and that's a huge problem. but also I think on a broader social level (at least in the UK) there is an idea in the left that it's classist to acknowledge the connection between poverty and illiteracy, while the truth is that illiteracy is a problem of poverty (poverty not in the sense of just Not Having Money but in the sense of system denial of adequate resources). Poverty doesn't = illiteracy but illiteracy is very much a problem of poverty - not a failure of a marginalised individual but a failure of the system marginalising them.
Adult illiteracy is a surprisingly large issue in eg both rural and urban Scotland, but it's not because poor people are stupid, ignorant or unwilling to learn - it's because schools are inadequate or inaccessible, classes are managed not taught, teachers are stretched thin and schools are underfunded so don't have resources to help struggling students, if you get to secondary school still unable to read and write you're completely locked out of the educational system unless you can access a school with the resources to teach you individually, and because of this, classism and a lack of support, poorer kids are more likely to switch off school as early as possible.
Social geography is also a big issue. In urban areas, schools in poorer areas get bad reputations, so they're underfunded, so they do worse, so they're funded less, etc, until they're a bare minimum of staff just trying to get through the day in collapsing buildings with no resources and five textbooks. Where better-funded schools can afford teaching assistants, 1:1 support for struggling students, decent food provision for kids, follow-up on children in need of support at home, more teachers for smaller classes, maybe counseling and psychological support, maybe Special Educational Needs classes for older kids to work on basic literacy and numeracy to catch up, worse-funded schools have one underpaid unsupported teacher trying to manage a class of 35 kids with wildly different needs. They don't have the resources to help support kids with issues that might affect their schooling, like parental abuse or neglect, trauma, a parent in prison, care responsibilities, hunger, homelessness, neurodiversities that affect their ability to learn in the prescribed way, learning disabilities like dyslexia, physical health issues including visual or auditory impairments...all things that when supported are highly surmountable but when unsupported often end up with children being perceived and treated as stupid, disruptive or evil. The problem then compounds itself because the kids are badly treated which makes them more disruptive and less able to learn, and more and more work is needed to help them which teachers continue to not have any capacity or resources for.
Rural poverty comes with its own schooling issues as well, in that poverty is generally correlated with remoteness. Poor rural communities are often hours away from population centres, so either you have tiny highly local schools serving a handful of families where a single teacher needs to invent lesson plans that somehow balance the needs of 11 year olds and 4 year olds of all abilities, or your kids need to somehow get into town every morning before you get to work, which may mean dropping them off at 6am, having to part pay for buses, taxis or ferries, sending them on their own, or leaving them with friends and family, and realistically the way that often shakes down is that they don't go. You teach them at home, and they may not even exist for the truancy office to know about.
Literacy is also connected to family culture. Both my parents were people with degrees from educated families, and my mum was a full time parent, and the result is that school didn't teach me to read - I was already a confident and enthusiastic reader. Even richer families may hire tutors for small children, pay for extracurricular learning, etc. The poorer a family is, the more likely neither parent is available to spend time reading with their kids, because they're working full time - at that economic level a single income household is almost entirely unviable so either both parents work or there's a single parent working extra hours or they're just exhausted from worrying about the bills and what's sold to them as a personal failure to look after their family.
One thing it's easy to forget is that while people in the UK still do drop out of school in their teens to work, a generation ago it was almost the norm for a lot of communities (especially the children of farmers, miners and factory workers) to have left school well before the end of compulsory education, both because of school being a hostile space and because of the need for an additional income. Now as well as then, a lot of kids drop out to work as unpaid carers, disproportionately in poorer families that can't afford private care or therapeutic support. Literacy aside, generations of leaving school with no qualifications doesn't tend to teach you that formal learning is as important as experience and vocational learning, and you don't expect to finish anyway so why put yourself through misery trying to do well? But it includes literacy. I grew up in a former mining area and a lot of people my dad's age and older were literate enough to read signs and football results, but took adult classes in middle age or later to get past the pointing finger and moving lips. and if you're parents don't or can't read, it's a lot harder for you to learn.
There's a lot of classism and shame tied up in the roots of illiteracy. Teachers and governments and schoolmates will often have vocally expressed low expectations of poorer students; a rich child who does poorly at school has problems, a poor child who does poorly at school is a problem child. They're often treated with hostility and aggression from infancy and any anger or disinterest in school is often treated not as a problem to be solved but as proof that you were right to deem them a write-off. Poorer or more neglected children (or children for whom English is a second language) will often be deemed "stupid" by their peers, and start at a disadvantage because of the issues around early childhood learning in families where parents are overstretched.
Kids learn not to admit that they don't know or understand something, because if you start school unable to read and write and do basic maths when a lot of kids your age are already confident, you get mocked and called stupid and lazy by your peers, and treated with frustration by your teachers. So kids learn to avoid people noticing that they need help. That means that school, which could help a lot, isn't somewhere you can go for help but a source of huge anxiety and pain - more so when you factor in the background radiation of classism that only grows as you get older around not having the right clothes, the right toys, the right experiences, my mum says your mum's a ragger, my mum says I shouldn't hang out with you because you're a bad lot - so again kids switch off very early and see education as something to survive not something helpful.
The same is very much true of adult literacy. A lot of adults are very shamed and embarrassed to admit that they struggle with reading and writing - a lot of parents particularly want to be able to teach their kids to read, but aren't confident readers themselves, and feel too stupid and embarrassed to admit out loud that they can't read well, let alone to seek out and endure adult literacy classes that are a constant reminder of their perceived failure and ignorance (and can also be excruciating. Books for adult literacy learning are not nearly widespread enough and a lot of intelligent experienced adults are subjected to reading Spot the Dog and similar books targeted at small children's interests). Adult literacy classes also cost time and also money, so a lot of people only have the space for them after retirement, if at all.
And increasingly, illiteracy (or lack of fluency in English) increases poverty and marginalisation, and thus the chances of inherited literacy problems. Reading information, filling out forms and accessing the internet in a meaningful way are all massively limited by illiteracy, and you need those skills to access welfare, to access medical care, to avoid exploitative loans, to deal with any service providers, etc. Most jobs above minimum wage and a lot below require a fairly high level of literacy, whether it's office work or reading an instructional memo on a building site or reading drink instructions in McDonalds. Illiteracy is a huge barrier between somebody and the rest of the world, especially in a modern world that just assumes universal literacy, and especially especially as more and more of life involves the internet, texting, WhatsApp, email, and so on - it's becoming harder and harder for people with limited literacy to be fully involved in society. And that means the only mobility is downwards, and that exacerbates all the problems that lead to adult illiteracy.
People who can't read after the age of 6 or so are treated as stupid. People who can't read fluently when they're adults are seen as stupid and almost subhuman. There's so much shame and personal judgement attached to difficulty reading, but the fact that illiteracy is almost exclusively linked to poverty and deprivation is pretty conclusive. Illiteracy isn't about the failure or stupidity of the individual, it's about the lack of support, care and respect afforded to poor people at all stages of their life. Being illiterate doesn't make you stupid - many people are highly intelligent, creative, capable, thoughtful, and illiterate. I know people who can immediately solve complex engineering problems on the fly but take ten minutes to write down a sentence of instruction. It isn't classist to say that illiteracy is caused by poverty - it's both classist and inaccurate to say that illiteracy says anything about the worth, intelligence or personhood of the poor, that it's a result of a desire to be ignorant, or that it's evidence that people are poor because they're stupid, incapable, ignorant or bad parents. The link between poverty and illiteracy is the problem of classism and bigotry, no more no less, and we deal with it by working against the ideas that both poverty and lack of education are a reflection of individual worth.
Illiteracy isn't a problem of intelligence, it's a problem of education, and that matters because education is not inherent. it's something that has to be provided and maintained by parents, by the state, by the community. you're not born educated. you are educated. except more than a quarter of the Scottish population isn't educated, because the system doesn't give a fuck about them and actively excludes them or accidentally leaves them behind.
#idl why i wrote this I'm just very angry about how we as a culture treat adult illiteracy in the uk#which is to say - we don't#we ignore it and think about it as a problem of the past or of other countries#and if we do encounter it we treat illiterate people as uniquely stupid and ignorant#as if it's a personal not systemic problem#26.7% of people in Scotland are either illiterate or have severe issues with literacy#16.4% in the uk as a whole#it's this invisible symptom of deprivation that nobody fucking talks about#less than half of people in prison have basic literacy and numeracy skills#and that's not because only stupid people end up in prison it's because illiteracy is a symptom of the poverty pipeline#and i don't think there's current data on this but I'd guess we're going to see an ongoing dip in literacy rates#correlated with austerity from 2010 on#because child poverty and child hunger in this country has consistently steeply climbed since then#and you don't. learn well. when you're hungry.#and also i anticipate a drop in literacy associated with Covid. it's two years where kids without existing literacy skills#parents who are home and consistent internet access have really been unable to engage with a lot of classes#and teachers have been even less able to offer meaningful personalised support#and two years is SO LONG in early years. being set back two years compared to other students can affect your education your whole life.
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*bites my shirt*
its for the grade its for the grade its for the
#catholicism tw#contraceptives are fine#the prescribed one atleast but since thats frowned upon we got street contraceptives that come from who knows where#stop judging the love and purity of a couple based on what they do in the bedroom#your reasoning is#it was god's choice when there's an unplanned pregnancy#but then its a risk the parent had to take when they died during labor#or you blame them for negligence for being unable to provide for that child#a child that they couldnt keep because they were either emotionally or financially unable to provide for#ignore the fact that their life is full of suffering what important is that their alive#fuck off#a child that they didnt want in the first place because they were either emotionally or financially not ready to provide for them#your church loves the poor because their faith is all they have and exploit their unconditional devotion for financial gain#you dont attempt to educate them or introduce them to alternatives because god forbid they get a drop of outside knowledge#if jesus died for our sins why do you feel obligated to pound your followers into conformity using fear#where is the freedom if your choices are narrowed down to either a lavish after life or endless and fiery torment#i hate it here#i want to eat glass#rants#what ive been saying may not be making sense so tldr you should not feel guilty for prioritizing your existing family or spouse's needs#than the space baby that wouldnt be capable of experiencing anything until theyve fully formed#this is also queued
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my parents (mostly my mom) don’t rlly acknowledge my little sister when she talks and so now anytime she tells them a story, I’ll pretend she was talking to me and engage with her. bc I refuse to let her grow up thinking nobody cares what she has to say
she’s just a little kid who’s excited to tell us about the diving board at the pool. i know she’s talked your ear off already but just at least pretend to care , geez
#I know she talks a lot#of course she does she’s a KID#the least you can do is give them the courtesy of eye contact and pretending you care#y’all preach respect until it comes to kids and then all of a sudden respect doesn’t exist#even if you’re annoyed with how much she’s talking or how much detail she’s given#let her talk#she’s excited to share this with you and you’re just looking at your phone#she might lose that excitement and happiness if you ignore her like that#my parents hated how much I talked and now I don’t talk at all#or at least not to them
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I dont normally do this but ya know, fuck it. its one of those days and I’m angry so ya posting this here cus fuck it this shit needs to go somewhere and why not here?
anyways I was goin through Steam in looking for the news section of Slime rancher to check for updates, and I habitually checked the discussions section because the new layout thing sill throws me, I will one day get used to it and but today was not that day.
TLDR the title of the first discussion intrigues me so I give it a lil looksie some douche canoe on there was like asking around if anyone had a mod that removes the chicken eating aspect from meat eating slimes because the jackass let his (I’m assuming its a dude) four year old bro play it, and as you can expect when he saw a Slime which eats meat gobble a chicken he Cried and got upset because they have that fucking 0-100 because everything is the worst at that age.
and in thinking his mod idea was silly I suggested hey, use this as a learning experience for nature and ecosystem cycles, ya know the whole predation thing and how its a gruesome and necessary aspect of thriving Ecosystems, either that or cut out Slime rancher altogether until the toddler is old enough to handle such things in games and switch to something more toddler friendly. and basically pointed out that a cartoonish art style doesn't always mean for kids and pointed out a game that has a cartoonish art style that will fuck up anyone that plays it as an example.
Naturally they went all huffy and defensive and basically did the whole Karen thing of “don't tell me how to Raise my bro and don't force him to learn” and followed some speil about how the kid gets asked what he wants so his voice has agency or whatever and therefore can play whatever videogame he wants and that he UNDERSTANDS NATURE. BITCH HE IS FOUR. Name one Ecologist whos Four. no really go do it, I can wait. but you know what? fuck that.
Kids need to learn the weight of No. imbed the weight of No. make; NO. the Full sentence it deserves to be.
you are going to encounter shit you find unpleasant and don't like, and the world isn't going to bow to you to pop it out of existence to appease you just because you don't like it. its going to stare you in the eyes and say;
“swallow it down or choke, you cant do shit about this so Deal with it”
the world and Nature is fucking metal as hell, they take no prisoners, it will chew you up and spit you out, step on you and scrape you off on a doormat with no shits given. and thats why we have game age rating so little jimmy fuckup can get a smack on the ass for playing a game above his age rating.
I just hate it when you give someone a simple suggestion that negates their problem and they fucking jump down your throats, its so fucking annoying.
it was a COULD.
Not a SHOULD you fucking Overreative wankstain.
#and people wonder why I hate people#no Im not going to have kids#Decided long ago not to be a parent#because dude I can barely look after myself as is#and you want me to have a mini me?#that I'll ALSO have to look after?#NO THANK YOU#you can take your babymaking and Stick it right up your nose#and like cmon dude#when Gondor calls for aid#it doesn't get the right to bitch at Rohan for only bringing cavalry#and I wasn't the only one who thought that guy was being dumb#ESRB rating exist for a fucking reason#and its grinds my gears when people ignore it
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Whoooooo, love feeling useless :)))
#god i hate it when my anxiety is making me worry over completely reasonable stuff in my circumstances#it makes it so much harder to know when it's actually just fucking with me#why can't i just go back to kindergarden and be an ignorant fuck again#why the fuck do i have to be 'mature for my age'#why the fuck do i have to be 'a good kid'#why the fuck do i have to be more adult than actual adults#why the fuck are parents such assholes#why the fuck is so much shit normalised#why the fuck is tramatising your kid okay#why the fuck do i have to watch my friends struggle and hate themselves because of assholes#why the fuck do i have to stand the micro agression and all the bs they say about the youth and the lgbtq+ community#why the fuck do i have to put up a fight just to exist#boo rambles#sad vampire hours#shut up boo
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really cannot stress that if you dont want kids or if you’re not prepared to have them then please don’t
#like.... zude#and when people are like 'i dont need parenting classes or parenting books or a developmental class !!!!1 i'll be fine w/o any resources !!#PLS . do you know what you're saying ?? do you know what youre getting into?????#it's kinda . annoying how people think having a kid is soooooooooooo easy and that they dont need much prior knowledge like . h#i remember hearing people like irl and in media saying they're better than parenting resources and i remem not really thinking much abt it#when i was younger but like ???? let go of your pride !!!!!!!!#parenting classes are there for a reason..... these resources EXIST for a reason!!!!#literally who is taught how to raise a child . if you dont delve into all that info . like#and youre not doing your kids any good by ignoring that.... like#i took One dev psych class and wow..... i learned so much that i did not know#like one thing that'll stick with me esp bc i relate to it is like . when kids are growing up it's important to not intervene every time#when they're trying to learn how to do something . and tell them that they're wrong etc because that will stunt their growth and they can#end up becoming scared/hesitant to learn things and do things on their own and become dependent or wait to be told what to do like#zude . and people will do that maybe bc they care or bc it's easier than waiting to see what your child will do idkbut !! not what youre#suppoed to do . and ppl have probably made so many mistakes through their parenting journey without even knowing and end up hurting their#children and hindering their growth more than they know and it's like UGH . get over yourselves and take it upon yourselves to learn about#children and how to raise them and how they grow and develop if you are going to have them#and don't have kids just for the sake of having kids or bc they're simply cute and you want to fucking play dress up and have a cute kid#lmao speaking from exp literally remem my mom constantly saying that she wanted a girl bc she wanted to dress them up all cute and when she#saw girls at the store dressed up pretty she was so gel like are you kidding me ? im not here to serve that kind of purpose and she was sooo#disappointed to find that i didn't 'turn out the way she wanted' like o how is that a surprise . that i turned out diff than u imagined#and it's just so annoying how ppl are having kids just bc everyone else is and when they have their own issues that are unresolved and they#end up taking them out on their kids like god..... like i was literally thinking last night like do i want kids ??? ive been thinking no for#the past few years and honestly i still dont think so like . there's no reason that i can think of like i literally cannot think of a solid#reason why and its not that i dont like them but i dont have a strong urge or anything to have them plus i really dont think im capable lmao#and just ugh so ughhh that my mom has all these srs issues and that we had to deal with it just bc she wanted kids 'bc they're cute' and my#brother lives knowing this as he was born first like . how sad . how sad to believe that you were born unwanted . he jokes abt it but still#and i was born for the most superficial fucking reason ever lol and for her to be upset that i didnt turn out the way she wanted lol how is#that on me maybe you should have been a better parent ! im not mad abt being alive though im mad @ her for . being like This#anyway waow super long took a diff direction but . dont have kids if you're not prepared or aware of what comes with it please and thank uwu
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y'all ever just *is directly hurt by family's actions and words* *is directly hurt by family's actions and words* *is directly hurt by family's actions and words* *is directly hurt b
#hhhhh#sexy of my parents to kick me out on my birthday if i'm not working at least 20 hrs a week#also tell me i cant be a lesbian And nonbinary and ignore me when i say that enby lesbians#have existed for and will exist for a long time#also tell me i need to shave to be clean#which literally.... isnt true#i was like uh hair wouldnt grow on your body if it wasnt meant to be there??#and they were like no its gross and unsanitary#Whatever I Guess#okay to rb#elliot lore
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#it’s a really shitty feeling when your girlfriend gets hurt#but it’s even shittier when she’s not out to her parents#so for all the hosptial appointments her mum takes her to you can’t go cause to them you don’t really exist#so instead you get to wait at home worrying and feeling p useless#feel free to ignore this i’m just being emo and needed to rant somewhere#screaming into the void seemed like a good option
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[Image description: A tweet by Empress JAH (@/10LettersDeep) reading “idc what childless ppl think about parenting.” This is quote-retweeted by Miss Shawn! FKA @thepbg (@/MsCaShawn) with a response reading, “Parenting may not be a universal experience, but childhood is.” /end ID]
Finally someeone put this to words.
It doesn’t matter if you have kids or not- it’s quite possible that your thoughts on childrearing are valid bc you remember being a child and tbh the ppl who act all put upon and pissy about ppl who don’t have kids saying anything about childrearing strike me as odd bc they act like they literally do not identify w children nor do they remember being one.
#someone in the notes made the valid point that sometimes these comments are like#'well if *i* were a parent i'd never let my child watch television' that are just sanctimonious and ignorant about like#the compromises that become necessary in a world in which we don't all have unlimited time and energy#and also just not understanding that raising a child is a dynamic process and you can't really predict#what a kid who doesn't exist yet is gonna like or need or be open to#so yeah i get that#it's one thing to be like 'i was raised by tv because my parents neglected me and i don't think parents should do that'#and quite another to be like 'anyone who allows their child to set their eyes upon a screen is a bad lazy uncaring parent'#like there's nuance#but i feel like the tweet is not about that. it's about childless people having opinions of any kind about parenting#i hate it that my parents discount everything i say about their shitty parenting of my siblings just because i don't have kids#okay but i know what it's like to be a kid in your household? how is that not the most relevant possible perspective to this situation???#parenting#family stuff#described
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being the poor friend is shit bc u just constantly feel like a pathetic charity case and ur always letting everyone down because they have to offer to buy everything for u because you cant afford it and u always end up owing them money and spending every hour of every day stressing about it and even when you can afford xmas/bday presents etc theyre always shit and you feel like it’ll make them think you don’t care about them
#and i know that if your friends dont like u bc ur poor theyre not ur friends#but that doesnt stop it from feeling like shit#im so fucking done w not having money lol and ik thats kinda different now because i have a better paying job and student loans#but i dont really mean it like that#i mean having to constantly stress about money and knowing that a lot of the things u want to do will never be an option because of money#bc tbh i need to drop out of uni bc it is literally going to kill me but so will staying at home much longer i have to move out yknow#but i need to stay in uni to move out#otherwise i wont have the funding for rent#bc even if i work full time it wont be nearly enough#and im really fucking angry because someone was like '''just get your parents to pay the extra rent and then pay them back'''#thats so fucking ignorant shut the fuck up#im glad ur parents can bail u out when ur in shit but my mother has already spent my childhood skipping meals so i could eat#why the fuck would i turn round and ask her to sacrifice more for me#especially when she has even less now than she did before#idk being poor makes ur whole existence feel like such a burden for everyone else#and i hate how ignorant rich people are i hate them thinking they understand#i dont mean like all rich ppl are evil they should die lmao but like seriously#think before u speak jfc#im going to get so fucking high that idk how to feel anymore and then im gonna sleep for the rest of my life goodbye
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love lost - aemond targaryen.
pairing: Aemond Targaryen x reader.
warnings: mentions of rape.
summary: you are forced to see Aemond after six long years much to your dismay after finding out you are still to be wed to him.
word count: 2200+
a/n: reader is adopted by Rhaenyra and Daemon. I personally couldn't force myself to write such direct incest lol.
gif credit: @useraelin (X)
An incessant ringing sounds in your ears, a mild throbbing in the back of your head signalling the start of an oncoming headache as your mother Rhaenyra reaffirms what you had most hoped no longer stood.
“No, no, no,” you mumble in your seat, shaking your head in denial and pushing your palms into your eyes.
“I thought-,” you cut yourself off, leaning back in your chair and pinching at the bridge of your nose. “I thought when we left King’s Landing that my betrothal to Aemond Targaryen would be null and void.”
“Now, why would you think that?” Daemon raises a barely visible brow at you.
“Because it’s been six years!” you argue, fixing your sharp gaze on your parents.
“Six long years since we’ve left King’s Landing and not once was there mention of my betrothal to him. One would naturally assume that it ceases to exist especially when another was put forward. Albeit he is not longer but, that's not the point. Now, suddenly because we have to go back, I’m to find out that I am still to be wed to that halfwit.”
“That halfwit is to be your husband,” Daemon mocks.
Your cheeks burn in anger, but you say nothing to him, knowing it would get you nowhere. Instead, you intentionally turn your now softened gaze to Rhaenyra in the hopes of garnering some sympathy from her for she knew what it was once like to be in your position.
“Mother, please,” you plead but, your gaze hardens just as quickly as it softened when she’s blocked from your view by Daemon.
“That’s enough. You like your siblings will do your duty to this family. So be it if that duty means marrying Aemond Targaryen then that is your duty and that is the end of this conversation.”
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You sigh heavily into your drink, eyes downcast and watching the amber liquid slosh against the glass of your cup as you swivel it around in your grip. The false niceties for the sake of your adoptive…. Grandfather? Uncle? You weren’t sure what to call him since your mother married Daemon but, the false niceties had taken its toll and you simply couldn’t feign friendliness any longer as you sat beside your betrothed who’d been ignoring you all night.
“Is there a problem?” Aemond bites out, head turning to finally acknowledge you.
“Yes,” you sigh dramatically into your drink for what you think to be the hundredth time that night.
Swivelling the cup one last time, you drain it of its remaining liquid then place it on the table, laying your hand flat at its base and looking back at Aemond. You narrow your eyes at him, briefly mimicking the look of annoyance on his face which is met with a scowl. While he scowls at you, you take the time to study his features, observing all the way in which his face had changed since the last time you saw him in Driftmark.
Your relationship with Aemond hadn’t always been like this. There was a time when the prospect of being married to one another was all the two of you had wanted. Of course, things had changed when you had steadfastly stood by your brothers (and at the time, cousins) the night Aemond lost his eye. Perhaps you were to blame for the downfall of the relationship between you two - many did say you should've stood by him. But then you remembered his promise.
“You are the problem,” you groan.
You probably wouldn’t be so bold if you hadn’t been steadily becoming more wine drunk with little to no filter standing between your thoughts and your mouth and if Aemond wasn’t irritated with you before, you were certain he was now. What was otherwise a handsome face marred by the ugly twist of his mouth. If looks could kill…
He says nothing right away, his face relaxing back into the cool expression he seemed to always wear nowadays, and you steel yourself for whatever insult he’s sure to throw at you but, it doesn’t come.
Your… conversation interrupted by a hand being placed over your own on the table, and you sober immediately, skin crawling at the older Targaryen boy. You had made it a point to avoid him the entire night, well aware of his indecencies. But, as Helaena danced with your younger brother, Aegon had you cornered between himself and Aemond and if Aemond’s behaviour towards you tonight was anything to go by, he would be of no help.
“Y/N,” Aegon practically coos at you, and it takes everything for you to stop yourself from vomiting all the wine you had drunk, on him.
“Aegon,” you speak with a clipped tone.
Instead of being deterred by your lack of response, Aegon takes it upon himself to drag his chair closer to you. You don’t realise you were moving too until your chair knocks into Aemond’s, your own knee knocking into his thigh. If Aegon could sense your revulsion, he didn’t show it. Although you were sure the depraved boy was likely finding joy in it.
“It’s been so long. Had I known you would blossom into such a beautiful young thing who enjoyed indulging in the cup as much as I did, I might have asked that your hand be given to me instead of young Aemond’s here,” he caresses your hand between both of his.
“Although I hear my brother is in the business of making people who are not him in your life disappear,” he chuckles, eyes flickering to Aemond.
“And if you were not my brother, I would make you disappear too,” Aemond grins. “Now remove your hands from Y/N or I will remove them from you.”
You groan in disgust, standing abruptly in your chair. Perhaps you should've been grateful for Aemond's defence but, it only served as a reminder of what he had done in the past. The sound of the chair’s scrapes are lost amongst the noise, everyone else too engrossed in their own doings to know what was happening at your end of the table and, you use it to your advantage to sit yourself amongst your younger siblings.
“Seven hells,” you exhale loudly, slumping in your new seat.
“Not having fun, sister?” Luke asks, filling your cup for you.
You nod in gratitude, taking the cup in hand, “oh brother, you have no idea.”
Leaning closer to him, you speak low enough for only your siblings to hear, “let’s just say I would give an eye to be anywhere else but here.”
Laughter erupts amongst you all, catching the eye of Aegon and briefly Aemond but, the night carries on. Everything fine for a few more moments until all hell broke loose with Aemond’s final tribute.
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The quiet of the Red Keep during the night is a stark contrast to its bustling nature throughout the day. The only sounds being the echo of your shoes on the stone pavements as you navigate the secret passageways back to your room. The long walk much needed to clear your thoughts after the turn supper had taken and then the argument with your mother and Daemon that followed.
While you thought the obvious outcome would be to call off your betrothal to Aemond after the insults flung at your brothers, your mother thought otherwise with the seeming resurgence of her friendship with Alicent.
The heavy door creaks on its hinges and closes with a dull thud as you try but fail to be quiet, hoping that no one in your family would hear it from their rooms. But that becomes the furthest thing from your mind when Aemond Targaryen is sitting in front of the fireplace of your room.
“I do believe you have a fireplace in your own rooms,” you quip.
Crossing the room to the large bed, you finger at the night gown laid out by your handmaidens – all of them now gone to bed due to the late hour.
“It’s dangerous enough as it is to be wondering the grounds of the Red Keep during the hour of the owl and yet you also insist on doing it alone,” he scolds from where he sits, gaze fixed intensely on the flames and ignoring your earlier comment.
You breathe a short laugh.
“and yet,” you mock. “I wasn’t alone, was I?”
Turning to face him, he’s already looking back at you as your fingers close around the end of the bedframe.
“Mmm… someone has to look out for you.”
“Is that what you call it?” you narrow your eyes at him, fingers now tapping irritably against the wooden frame.
“If you have something to say… say it,” Aemond taunts.
You open your mouth ready to fire back but, hesitate. In your sober state, you were able to actually hold a conversation but, you didn’t hold the same bravado you did earlier in the evening and quite frankly you just wanted to sleep. You roll your eyes, turning your back on him and sweeping your hair over your shoulder.
“Help me undress, my handmaidens have gone to bed,” you call him over.
You wait patiently, tension thickening as he gets closer, each step heavy and purposeful. When his fingers brush at the hair at the base of your neck, goosebumps spread across your skin.
“You anger with me is misplaced,” Aemond mutters gruffly.
He begins to undo the back of your dress, trying to focus on being careful in undoing the intricate design that holds it together and not your exposed skin.
“I hardly think so after what you did at supper earlier tonight.”
“Tonight?” he tuts, his hand pausing to graze the partially exposed skin of your back. “Tonight, is not why you’re angry with me.”
A shiver runs down your spine at his touch. You want to protest but, have no energy to. It would be a losing fight anyway because he’s right, it wasn’t why you were angry with him but, saying it out loud made you feel silly. When you don’t respond, Aemond continues.
“Between the two of us, if anyone should be holding onto anger and grudges it should be me. You did lie about what happened that night Luke took my eye,” he reminds you.
“I made amends for that,” you defend.
“I know. Sapphires. Which I’ve grown quite fond of.”
Sapphires indeed, ones you had sent him in various shapes and sizes in place of his eye. An apology without apologising.
Turning to face him, you place a hand on his chest, the other reaching for his eyepatch. You don’t worry about your dress or dignity, knowing that he hadn’t undone enough of it for it to fall.
You wait for him to pull away from your touch, but he doesn’t. You allow your hand to gently touch the leather eye patch, waiting a beat before finally removing it. The scar might’ve been hideous on any other face and, it is hideous but, it doesn’t do anything to take away from his appearance. He certainly doesn’t look the beast that so, many claim.
“I loved him truly,” you drop your hands to your side. “the last one that you took from me. He made me happy.”
“Your happiness with him was fleeting,” he utters, eyes trained on you as he tucks a stray strand of hair behind your ear. His hand trails down to your cheek, caressing softly before it continues its journey along your jawline and finally resting at the base of your neck.
“So, you can stop feigning anger with me.”
“How did we get here?” you mumble, searching his eyes.
The tension suffocates the two of you. Aemond’s breath fanning across your lips and, you don’t even know when he got so close. His lips ghost yours and you involuntarily lean into him but, you're held back by his hand that has snaked its way from the front of your neck to the back.
“We loved one another once. We will learn to love one another again,” and with that Aemond closes the distance between your lips.
The kiss is desperate but tender and, he holds you to him like he will never let you go.
For all that he has done, promises that he made to ensure that you would not be happy after undeniably going against him, he still carries a torch for you – his love is not lost and when you kiss him back with as much urgency and fervour, he knows your love for him is not either.
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Just imagine Bakugou with a daughter that has daddy issues because of him.
Him and you never got married. You were only boyfriend and girlfriend for a couple of months until you got pregnant and he broke up with you.
Bakugou is too obsessed with his career. Specifically, obsessed with achieving the number 1 spot in the hero rankings. "I can't have a kid now. I'm too young and have a goal. Abort it or i'm gone."
You don't and he leaves like he warned he would. What gets him to start coming around is his parents.
At first, he is there for your daughter's big moments, birthdays and other stuff and your daughter loves him a lot, always excited for every weekend at his house and for the weekly trips to his agency. The bakusquad and her grandparents adore her and she them.
Your daughter's six when he gets another woman pregnant and marries her a few months later.
Everything starts going downhill from there.
Bakugou starts visiting less and less. His visits every week become a visit once a month. He also stops responding to your texts and stops calling to see how your kid's doing. Whenever she sees him on TV, talking about his wife and son, she starts crying a river, wondering why he's not around anymore and is there for the son.
It hurts you too, seeing him married to another woman. What's so special about her anyway? You get pregnant, he leaves. She gets pregnant, he stays and marries her on the spot.
Sooner or later, your daughter's sadness and love turns to bitterness and jealousy. Is she not enough for him? Is her quirk not flashy enough? Isn't she a good kid? Why does the other child require so much of his attention?
It not fair and when Bakugou starts playing dad again, it's too late. The damage has been done and is irreparable. Mitsuki and Masaru try to heal your daughter's emotional wounds but their efforts are useless.
She stops calling him dad, for starters. She stops responding to his texts and calls. Whenever he suggests to pick her up from school or to take her to his agency or house to spend some time together, she refuses. She refuses everything he suggests, even quirk training.
She was so excited about quirk training with him when she turned four and got her quirk... he remembers it like it was yesterday.
Your daughter doesn't truly hate him, though. She doesn't stop calling him dad or responding to his calls and texts because she hates him. She just doesn't want to be hurt again. Doesn't want to feel that kind of pain again.
She wants to make Bakugou feel what she felt during the two years he was away. She succeeds that by refusing to call him dad. She succeeds that by refusing to spend time with him. She succeeds that by ignoring his very existence.
She's sixteen and in the hero course, just to prove how better of a hero she's than him. She calls him "Bakugou-san" now and every time he calls to see how she's doing. It hurts, and Bakugou tries not to flinch everytime she calls him that to his face.
#bakugou x reader#bakugou katsuki x reader#bakugou x y/n#bakugou x reader angst#bakugou imagines#bakugou drabble#bakugou angst#bakusquad#bnha imagines#mha imagines#bnha bakugou katsuki#mha bakugou katsuki
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getting real fucking tired of the way otherwise progressive people insist on leaving disabled people out of their activism
#just saw a post like 'straight cis people will never know what it's like to question whether their parents love them unconditionally!'#which is blatant fucking bullshit lmao#yes pretty much every queer person does have to question whether or not their parents will love them unconditionally even queer#and it's fair to say that straight cis people won't understand what it's like to get kicked out of their house for their gender/orientation#but the post specifically said 'straight cis people will never question whether their parents love them unconditionally'#and tbh fuck you??? autistic kids exist??????#do you not know about cure culture???#do you not know about ABA???#do you not know about the entire subculture of autism moms???#are we really going to dismiss the fact that there's entire movements dedicated to trying to deny autistic kids who they really are#and instead train them to be as neurotypical as possible#to the point where people will literally MURDER their kids in attempts to 'cure' them??????#are we???? really going to ignore that???????????#and that's not even getting into the slew of other mental health problems that could make parents abandon their kids#which especially people with demonized mental illnesses/neurodiversities like DID or schizophrenia are at risk for#(which isn't even getting into the attitudes on mental health in non-western countries)#(which I'm not equipped to really do but oooohhh boy)#and I'm sure the same thing happens to kids/people with physical disabilities#seriously a parent's love is often conditional to having the most normal expected kid they can possibly get#and to claim that only LGBT+ people know the pain of questioning whether your parents still love you if you're not their ideal#is blatant fucking erasure of ableism#anyway this is not the only thing i've seen lately it's just the most recent one#it's also trends like calling things ~so diverse~ when disabled people aren't mentioned or actively ridiculed#(and yes something can be diverse and progressive even while doing that but you need to acknowledge those issues)#(not sweep them under the fucking rug or wave them off with 'but they did so well otherwise!!!')#(strangely enough being good with race/queer issues doesn't automatically give you a free pass on being ableist who'd've thought)#or just plain not fucking mentioning us ever#i just want people to put some fucking effort into supporting us for a goddamn change#personal#my posts
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