#like 3 or 2 years old

[pincushionx]

Thinking about Hunter’s childhood

I imagine it was pretty morbid but in the sense of that was just his life and it was his normal. He never knew that it was bad or disturbing until he told some “funny” stories to his friends and adults.

Anywho I imagine due to his surroundings, Hunter had a pretty morbid way of playing in that weird kid kinda way (I’m definitely not projecting) lol. I feel like he was pretty talkative and was always asking questions as a child. He’s also witnessed a lot of horrors before experiencing them himself. You can’t tell me this kid wasn’t exposed to so much he wasn’t supposed to, like those kids with unrestricted internet access except he didn’t have internet and actually watched live there in the moment lol. Anywho I’m so glad it was confirmed he was made as a toddler.

[arealtrashact]

Second Verse

Part 1

[salamispots]

drew some creatures at the amnh :0

[nashvillethotchicken]

I stand with Louis no matter what. If either lestat or armand did that shit to me and people talked about me the way they talk about louis on here and on twitter you're gonna see me in history books

[dawndauce]

my brain go brrr I think of him a lot

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[saszor]

Happy Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day !!!

[Image description: A halfBody drawing of two characters with cerebral palsy in a simple art style. The character on the left is smiling while bending their arms close to their chest with curled fingers. They have yellow puffy hair, pale skin and a faded cleft lip scar. They are wearing a yellow hairband, hearing aids and a black crop top with a nonbinary flag pin. They're sitting in a manual wheelchair. The second character is hunched over towards them and has his hand on their shoulder in a friendly manner. He has brown skin, black twists, and a cataract in his right eye. He is wearing a light green hoodie and jeans. He is resting his forearm on a crutch. The background is in muted green and yellow with a ribbon going around the whole image. The ribbon has the disability pride flag colors on it and text that says "25th march". End image description.]

[musashi]

not a narumayo shipper but i believe in their beliefs

[glyndwrgansey]

hugh michael “pookie” jackman

[lafamilledelioncourt]

your honor, i fully recognize that louis is top-tier fucking over armand rn, and rightly so, but--

if y'all don't think louis and daniel would not tag team marius de romanus on sight, drag his 2000-year-old vampire ass by his blond weave into the nearest flammable source, we are simply not watching the same fucking show.

marius is gonna be asking lestat to control his rabid fledgling, and he's gonna be coked out in the corner not doing a damn thing about it.

[almightycato]

WHO WANTS SOME OF THIS!?

[infinityinakiss]

i just think it's so funny when vi and jinx are in the middle of a slap fight and isha attacks vi like vi's actually gonna kill her. honey, it's okay, sisters have to beat the shit out of each other on a regular basis. it's healthy.

[ask-the-rag-dolly]

What's the timespan of all this happening? i haven't really been keeping track of time, but it seems like all this crazy stuff has just been speeding by with no real break to process...

[starcurtain]

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have absolutely no information on how long Aventurine actually spent in slavery.

He fled from the Avgin massacre as a young child, and we didn't see him again until he was a grown adult. I doubt he could have survived entirely on his own at that age and Sigonia's conditions seem too harsh for people to randomly adopt orphans, especially from a rival/outcast clan...

We do know that the master we see on screen was not his only master, because he was purchased from someone else, but we have no idea how many masters he had total before his final one, how many times he could have fled and been recaptured, how many times he was bought and sold...

We do know that Aventurine appears to have been kept on Sigonia or somewhere similarly tribal for those missing years, since his first request to the IPC is for Jade to take him to her "chief," but we don't even know how long Aventurine has been out of slavery. He doesn't look massively different in age from his "trial" with Jade to how he looks in-game now, and he did not rise through the IPC ranks over time like Topaz but won his role directly through his gamble with Jade and then later proving himself on Iymanika.

Basically, all this is leading to a big question: Is it possible that the Aventurine we know is only barely out of slavery? That there may be something like five years or fewer separating him from the wastelands of Sigonia? That he learned all these new behaviors, all this new information about how to operate as a free person in the universe, in what likely amounts to 2-3 years of Jade's guidance and his own hard work?

Man, what an incredible character. Really a standout among my very favorites.

[inkskinned]

one of the things about having an unstable parent is that it can so easily ruin your future. you want to get out, but getting out takes having agency. it takes the resume and the grades and the stellar community service history.

but you have to choose your battles. you know if you sign up for an after-school activity, it'll be okay for a while, so long as the activity is parent-approved and god-fearing. over time, like all things, it will become an argument (i can't keep carting your ass to these things) or a weapon (talk to me like that again, see if you get to go to practice). sometimes, if you love the thing, it's worth it. but you also know better than to love something: that's how they get you. if you ever actually want something, it will always be the center of their attention. they will never stop threatening you with it. telling you of course i'm a good parent, i came to all of those stupid events.

you learn to balance yourself perfectly. you can either have a social life or you can have hobbies. both of these things will be under constant scrutiny. you spend too much time with her, you should be at home with family is equally paired with you're acting like this because you're addicted to what's on that goddamn screen. you cannot ever actually win, so everything falls within a barter system that you calculate before entering: do you want to learn how to drive? if so, you'll need to give up asking for a new laptop, even though yours died. maybe you can work on a computer at the library. of course, that would mean you'd be allowed to go to the library, which would mean something else has to bleed. nothing ever actually comes free.

and that bitter, horrible irony: you could be literally following their orders and it still isn't pretty. they tell you to get a job; they hate that your job keeps you late and gives you access to actual money. they tell you to do better in school; they say no child of mine needs a tutor. they want you to stop being so morose, don't you know there are people who are really suffering - but they revile the idea you might actually need therapy.

you didn't survive that fall the way other people would. you've seen other people scramble and get their way out, however they could. maybe you were made too-soft: the answer didn't come to you easily. it wasn't quick. it was brutal and nasty. some people even asked you why didn't you just work hard and escape during school? and you felt your head spinning. why didn't you? (they control your financial aid. they control your loan status. they love having that kind of thing). maybe in another life you got diagnosed sooner and got the meds you needed to actually focus and got attention from the right teachers who helped you clear hurdles to get up out of here - but for now? here?

the effort of trying. the effort of not-dying. that kind of effort was absolutely agonizing.

[yeagrave]

@redfurrycat and @tgmsunmontue talked about buff Carole in this post and I finally drew it lol