#in* favored sons

[zendayacolemann]

Alicent Hightower looking out for her daughter Helaena Targaryen

[bluerosefox]

Fenton Coded

Tim... Tim just stared.

He...

Huh.

He had once entertained the idea that he wasn't really a Drake, a very long time ago when he overheard his mom and dad arguing and some words were said in the heat of the moment, but to be honest Tim always thought the obvious culprit of anyone being his dad would most likely be Bruce (Bruce even admitted he had a small fling with his mother but that was two years before her marriage)

But before little Tim's curiosity could really take hold on the idea, he had saw on the news Robin performing a Grayson flip and the hint of Tim not being a Drake left his mind. Robin was Dick Grayson! And if he was Robin that had to mean Bruce Wayne was Batman!

Then well... his stalking of the Bats started and the rest became history.

But now, as Tim was staring at his own DNA test, something he never bothered to do until that damned Demon brat wanted to make sure he was ONLY blood son of Bruce (and doing a DNA test something even Bruce never thought of doing due to well… how he was towards Tim during his first months as Robin)

He well…

He kinda needs to find out who this Daniel Jackson Fenton is.

(Tim finds out he isn’t a Drake, but also not a Wayne (because Damian wanted to make sure he was only blood son) but is instead a Fenton)

[epiclad]

"On a night of wint'ry fog, the rune of Death was stolen. And the demigods began to fall, starting with Godwyn the Golden." Framed it to juxtapose the piece with Morgott and Mohg.

[jak2gooberglub]

What Jason saw when Bruce walked off after he saved joker instead of him

Context:

Spoiler warning btw for

Batman: Under the Red Hood

batman under the red hood comic was where Jason todd was killed by joker, came back to life and sought revenge on joker, but Batman stopped him before he could truly kill joker. By throwing a bat-arang at his neck

[respectthepetty]

I have a type:

Abandoned by their families,

Left to fend for themselves,

Have a fake birthday,

In love with their older brothers,

Will do anything for them,

Including LEAVING FOR FOUR YEARS,

Buy sentimental pieces of jewelry

Cheers to my sloppy drunks

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Bruce: *humming Daylight*

Jason:

Jason: is thAT FUCKING TAYLOR SWIFT

[earlgodwin]

— If you create us a kingdom, we will write the book of our future. The future of the Church, of the world we live in will be ours, yours, and your children's. You say nothing? Why do you think we wished you a cardinal? So you would be Pope one day. Carve us out a kingdom, Cesare, and be both king and pope. I am stunned into silence.

[alexiethymia]

With the reveal that Aduo didn’t actually want to be the mother of the nation, looks like we now have a concrete path to a happy ending for Jinshi.

Though I actually really want to see him as the Emperor one day (at least for a time), it would be thematically appropriate if Jinshi takes not after the Emperor, but after Gaoshun and becomes the retainer of the future Emperor.

[watcherintheweyr]

desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator

that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.

she is absolutely a victim, in show.

that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.

she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.

[antiph]

Y'know, ever since I stumbled across Epic: The Musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans, I've been somewhat surprised by the fact that there's been a boon in fanfiction relating to Greek Mythology—even if only primarily focused on the events of the Odyssey. Considering that I'm long since over my Greek mythology fixation faze from middle school about half my life ago (I've never read the Percy Jackson series, I just liked how wild the mythos was), I'm mostly indifferent to the topic, but I do have ONE gripe with all the stories I've been coming across lately.

There's this popular interpretation that Athena is Zeus's favorite child, but when you actually get down to assessing all available (AKA surviving) historical accounts/myths regarding the paternal fidelity of Zeus, it's pretty obvious that his favorite kid is Apollo. That being said, I'm pretty sold on the notion that Athena is at least the favorite daughter, with Artemis perhaps being a not-so-close second.

Honestly, percentage wise, I'd say Zeus's love for his kids goes 55% Apollo, 30% Athena, 5% to Artemis, and 10% split in varying degrees between EVERYONE else.

Ares has like -2 points if we only look at his portrayal in the Illiad lol. The Athenian account of him in Myths is NOT kind to him, despite the fact that he's undoubtedly the most decent male Olympian (never raped women, a good father, surprisingly merciful to mortals who genuinely slight him if they manage to impress or best him, and he was the protector of the Amazon women). As funny as it is, while Ares might be Zeus's least-favorite kid, I'd imagine that despite the differences between the two, he'd be Athena's favorite brother.

[sudaca-swag]

el eslabón más débil de latinoamérica: las adolescentes de tiktok que piensan que ser clasista es re gracioso y un orgullo

[fierrochaseist4t]

actually no way in hell batman fans on tiktok are once again claiming that damian's a nepo-baby and bruce's favorite when he has been routinely and repeatedly mistreated by the Entire family, INCLUDING bruce. damian has almost NEVER benefited from being bruce's kid yall have no media literacy whatsoever

[capt-zjaybird]

Hesh n Elias father son relationship coded

[deconstructthesoup]

If this episode did anything, it kind of hammered in for me the fact that the only Bad Kids with biological siblings (until Fabian's half-siblings inevitably show up) are the Bad Kids with absolutely horrible parents

Kristen's the big sister who had to be the protector and left her brothers without a shield despite needing that space to grow, and Adaine's the little sister who grew up being second-best and overlooked, having to teach herself how to live yet still desperate to prove herself

God that is so fucking sad

[dandelion-blues]

#9 What if...

Harumi took Lloyd's destiny, but Destiny didn't like that?

A LEGO Ninjago fanfic

Destiny holds its threads in a tight embrace. Weaving more colors into its grand tapestry while cutting frail strands mercilessly.

But even the dead strands remain, tucked into the corners of the weave because Destiny will never let go of its strings.

Even the smallest, least favored thread has its place. But don't fool yourself into thinking Destiny doesn't play favorites. 

Destiny will always have its favorites after all.

Often people fool themselves into thinking Destiny favors them. Thinking they can demand destiny to let their wildest wishes come true.

Oh, how Destiny laughs at them. So foolish to think Destiny would possibly favor them!

Those who are favored by Destiny always know even if they wish to ignore the truth. 

Destiny favors those destined for greatness. Even if greatness means anguish.

People, of course, then blame Destiny for their subpar lives, and their deaths. 

Foolish they are to think Destiny would care. For all Destiny is possessive, as everything they live is theirs, so too are their deaths.

[Lest Destruction take them, but that’s off topic for today]

Destiny is but a guiding force. A gentle or iron hand is up to the individual.

People may think their paths are set in stone, but no. Their paths are set in pencil, and one's will marks their way in pen.

But Destiny never believed in equal lives and equal struggles. That would make their loom oh so boring, you see.

For gold will always be gold.

And you will always be less.

Still, you have the free will to think you can amount to more.

The will to live.

The will to act.

That is all up to you, my dear.

…

Oh, you think you're so special to be a favored of Destiny’s?

You truly believe you can mess with its tapestry so brazenly, and It will sit back?

…

Ha, Destiny will tear you apart my dear.

…

Power is always so enticing. A taste of the poison that has you addicted without a cure.

*Sigh* I guess you’ll have to learn the hard way.

…

You’ll learn how Destiny is something you’re born into.

No matter how much you strive and hunger, you will never be any better than the sewer rat in Destiny’s eyes.

You’ll never be those treasured threads that Destiny helped spin from Creation. The strings held so tightly and brightly on Its loom.

The strands that It'll never let Destruction take.

…

Now go. Foolishly try to prove you’re favored, you're loved, by dear Destiny.

But don’t say I didn’t warn you.

…

Bye-bye!

××××××××××

Harumi gathers a lot of power to change Destiny, so she is the green ninja adopted daughter of Garmadon, and Lloyd is the abandoned Jade Prince.

Lloyd doesn't know why everything always felt so wrong, like this itch in his body that never went away, but then he meets the ninja, he meets his dad (the good one), and he sees her — the once Jade Princess from his memories, now the green ninja. And he feels furious. Those powers are his birthright, as the grandson of the creator of Ninjago, a descendant of Creation and Destruction in Oni and Dragon ancestry. They will never be her’s, and she’ll soon learn what happens to mortals that play with powers beyond their control.

It’s why Destiny always favored Lloyd, and Harumi was a mere footnote to Destiny, a cockroach that didn’t like to die if you will. It’s Lloyd’s birth rite to be the Green Ninja, and it will never be Harumi’s try as she might to change her destiny.

And so, Lloyd will fight, his will strong and unmovable. He'll fight to save his and his families’ destinies before Harumi threatens the whole loom to collapse with her meddling.

In other words, this a role swap au that Destiny hates and will not allow, but that doesn't mean that It will do all the heavy lifting to get things back on track. No, that's the true Green Ninja's job.

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[earlgodwin]

the borgias truly went off in 2.10 'the confession'. specifically, where devastated rodrigo buries juan with his own hands, being intercut with everyone happy and celebrating lucrezia's betrothal, and being perfectly juxtaposed with dark and light. we get to see how rodrigo always saw juan while carrying his body (and that's probably how he sees all his children) as an innocent little kid instead of a broken soul. which was one of the most touching and well-crafted scenes that have ever aired on tv btw!! the whole sequence is also backed by a moving piece of tragic music that matches how guilty rodrigo feels about making the family hate juan by pressuring his inadequacy, making him full of misguided notions of defending the family's honor that led him to go wild. and setting him up to be envied by cesare. the murder made rodrigo reflect, and the viewers can tell that he has never told his eldest son that he sees himself when he looks at cesare, and that he has always held him in high regard but with a different dream and vision for him, despite cesare's wrong assumption that juan was rodrigo's favorite. and all because he always had a self-loath. to accept cesare as his favorite, he has to accept himself first. plus the cliffhanger? peak cinema imo.