#man i love bobby so much

[thefrsers]

#she was so flabbergasted😭😭

[mischiefbuckley]

MY CORE FOUR ❤️

[stormsandskies]

im collecting girl dad characters like they’re pokémon cards

look at the fathers (i know spencer isn’t a father but shhhh)

[strryhaze]

bobby & david kennedy

“There was some level on which David tapped his father’s sensitivity. You would find him walking with David or with his arm around David. David just seemed to need it.”

— chuck mcdermott.

“If his father’s death hit David harder than the others, it was because there had been a special bond between them—both were the runts of the litter, sandwiched into the middle of a large family. He was the only one in the family who hadn’t been enthusiastic about the run for the presidency. For weeks after his father’s announcement, David had been plagued by recurring nightmares about Bobby’s death. Distraught over episodes that seemed premonitory, and missing the special attention his father had given him, David had gotten in trouble for throwing rocks at cars passing by Hickory Hill. The day of the California primary, he had joined his father in Los Angeles. The two of them had been swimming and he had felt himself being carried out by the undertow when his father grabbed him, scraping his own head on the ocean floor as he reached for David’s slippery arm. With a teenager’s melodrama, David had decided that he owed his father a life and would look for an opportunity to pay him back in the years ahead. That night as he sat in front of the television set in his room in the Ambassador Hotel and watched [his father] bleeding on the floor downstairs, one of the thoughts he had was that the debt would be forever undischarged.”

“As the worst year of their young lives came to a close, they decided to surprise their mother at Christmas with a book comprised of letters about their father. David’s said: ‘Daddy was very funny in church because he would embarrass all of us by singing very loud. Daddy did not have a very good voice. There will be no more football with Daddy, no more swimming with him, no more riding and no more camping with him. But he was the best father there ever was and I would rather have him for a father for the length of time I did than any other father for a million years.”

— the kennedy’s, peter collier & david horowitz.

“David looked at himself in those pictures like they were a strange sort of mirror. He looked at them half a dozen times at least, mesmerized by them, and he kept asking me questions. There was a tremendous desire to know his father, to really know him.”

— john seigenthaler.

“David and Bobby were so close. They were inseparable. David was small, a runt like Bobby had been.” Ethel then explained to Noelle (her secretary) that David had always been a very sensitive youngster, very introverted, "not like the other boys. He and I would go and pick flowers while his brothers were killing each other with their crazy games", Ethel recalled with a smile.

— ethel kennedy.

“I think about death a lot. Time hasn’t erased the death of my father from my mind. My family thinks I’m no good and that I’ll never beat my problem. They’ve written me off. I’m trying to get it together, but it’s so difficult. I’m having a terrible time at it. And the thing I want most in the world is the approval of my family, but they want nothing to do with me. All I want is to be with my father.”

— david kennedy, april 1984.

“Like his family, his friends had all wondered at one time or another if he would kill himself; but when it finally came his death was nonetheless shocking. ‘I keep asking myself why. Why David? Why now? All I can come up with is that maybe his father was looking down from heaven and saw all the hell these people were putting him through and said, ‘Come on, You’ve suffered enough. It’s time you were up here with me.’”

— nancy narleski.

Years after David Kennedy’s death, his cousin, Patrick Kennedy recalled a haunting and heartbreaking recollection he had with his father, Teddy, sitting beside his cousin’s casket: “My father remembered Bobby telling him that, as a father, he needed to spend more time with David. He also recounted a story Uncle Bobby had told him just before his own death. On the day before the California primary, the Robert Kennedys had gone swimming in Malibu, to relax together. David had been knocked over by a wave and got caught in the undertow, and his father had come to his rescue. When Uncle Bobby told my father this story, he talked about ‘the undertow’ in broader terms, how there was an undertow in life and David, who was only then thirteen, already seemed vulnerable to it. And then, just hours later, Uncle Bobby was murdered as David watched the TV coverage in their hotel room upstairs. It was unbelievably poignant to hear my father tell this story. David was in the casket next to us. And I wasn’t that much older than David when his father worried whether he could survive the undertow.”

[starnana7]

“john winchester did his best” Okay but his best still wasn’t good enough :/ and like i get it he lost his wife the love of his life whatever .. but in the end dean ended up raising a child while he himself was a child and that just wasn’t fair i’m sorry … and if he was just a little bit negligent maybe it wouldn’t be so bad yk but man was literally abusive like all the hints of john’s bad behavior when he drunk, how angry he got, the werewolves marks, how he let dean rot in jail for stealing Food so that they could eat (mostly sam, actually), just so many fucked up things that i really just can’t forgive him.. and the sad thing is that he actually used to be so good yk he never wanted to bring his sons into that life but in the end not only did he brought them but he turned them into soldiers, into weapons, and no matter how much you want to defend him or how much “it was necessary”, you just never do that to kids.. and it just makes me so sad. like give me that children so I myself can raise them yk just poor babies :( specially poor dean :( he took all the responsibility and like 90% of the reasons that he turned out the way he is is bc of john like all “his bad traits” can just be attributed to the way john raised (or not raised) him

[deadnatura11]

Season 8 3-Part Premiere reminding the audience why Bathena is THAT IT COUPLE

[roe-and-memory]

nascar’s occasional runs in the 24 hours of le mans have me thinking about that deleted cars 2 concept and another way us content creators for cars could use it…

think 2009, the piston cup racing series picking three drivers (preferably lightning, cal, and bobby) to run a le mans race overseas in france (obviously, because thats where le mans is.) the shenanigans that would ensue.. after each turn they take they end up falling asleep in random places in the infield or pit area (i imagine the crew running to find one of them for the next switch and finding lmq and cal or bobby sleeping on top of each other, completely conked out) and its just CHAOS. they survive the race, however, and even if they dont win they still have a bunch of memorable pictures from both the race AND the adventure in france (paid for by the PCRS of course)

[byfulcrums]

i've been thinking about lesbian scott summers because the other day i made a jeanscott drawing where scott was a girl and like. how would it affect her, as a character, and how would it affect her relationship with other people (namely jean)?

scott's already canonically 'nervous' when it comes to his attraction to women. he's always like, "is this safe? it's not, it's not safe" until actively proven otherwise and EVEN THEN he's still like that (whyyy), and sure it might be because of his deadly eyes but add the lesbian into it. this shit takes place in the 60s, 70s, add the lesbian into it

[pusangkambing]

The conversation between gegg and bobby made cry. Bobby admitting he wanted to kill charlie for killing Tilin, to forgiving him because he didnt want to hold on to that hate forever and because of his acceptance of his own inevitable death, then telling all of this to Gegg who he didnt know was actually Charlie and Charlie actually gaining some sort of closure because Bobby forgave him and saying that this was one of the nicest days he had in a long time can you see these tears can you hear me sob I am in shambles

[mischiefbuckley]

my man Bobby yes yes yes love to see it 😭

[ellickalways]

trying to understand the current 911 storylines through only tumblr content without having ever watched the show might be the hardest thing i’ve ever had to do.

[blizzardsuplex]

The Undisputed Era being themselves from THE UNDISPUTED ERA “FACE” OFF WITH EACH OTHER - UUDD VS., 02/20/2020

[jackharkness]

The Invisible Man (2000-2002) - S01E08 “The Value of Secrets”

[remnantglow]

i'm rereading the expanse and it's absolutely wild how james essay corey can write some of the most interesting+compelling female characters in fiction and then turn around and be like 'ok now let me fetishize her for a second tho'

[ratatatastic]

thinking a lot about ekky organising a fishing trip (the sturgeon tagging trip if you will) for some of the boys back in like february-ish* and with the knowledge that ekky has taken forsy out deepsea fishing this season do you know what its like going oh so he took him lakefishing in BC...oh okay

and also we got this shot of ekky manning a rod while forsy stands behind him like thats not- okay

[mattoidmeerkat]

Making myself even more sad by thinking about how Little Bobby thought that his mother and brother were leaving his dad because of his alcoholism (and not because it wasn't safe for them to be around him) and then Big Bobby desperately trying to fight his own addictions only to worry that he was gonna lose his first and second family the same way. Always trying to be strong and beat the addiction by himself. Lying to keep Marcy from leaving. Keeping Athena completely out of his AA life until it all blew up.