#my mom is caring for my Grandmother

[monochromatictoad]

My parents lock their room when neither one is home, and my dad accidentally locked my boy in their room 😭

My poor Honey Bunches 😭

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[houseswife]

wilson saying “I need to do this. for you.” is fucking insane actually. in the same episode where house is deciding whether or not he should commit suicide as a result of wilson’s dying. They are each other’s lines between life and death. humans have a biological instinct to preserve their survival at all costs; house has an addiction that governs his life. but they were willing to forgo all of it for one another, because they couldn’t fathom it being any other way. IM SICK

[drakonovisny]

i only did it twice in my life: once as a kid about 6 years of age and once while drinking on meds i was not supposed to drink on. curious to hear y'all stories 👀

[holocene-sims]

a sneak peek for an upcoming (timeline tbd) update 😊

[smallblueandloud]

also, just to have a record: we had a lovely visita today with my mom's cousins and. i love my family. and i want to learn to cook. and. i always worry so much about whether my family thinks i'm lazy or a failure. and ultimately i have to decouple their approval from my self-esteem or lack thereof. but while i struggle with that. MAN. it's nice to hear that everyone is proud of me and more importantly that they're all understanding of how fucking exhausted i am

[pessimisticprincess]

being a 28 year old grown ass adult with a full time job and pregnant with a whole ass baby - who is mixed - living with a family member who is a condescending know it all with horrible views on life, racist, and also just never ever shuts her fucking mouth is making me feel extremely violent if that’s surprising at all

[wku95]

i dont have any resentment whatsoever towards my sister for this but hearing about how when my sister tells my mom she wants to do a masters my mom says "im so proud of you" but when, after my mom asks me several times "what i plan on doing with myself" after graduation, i say "i don't know because as experience has shown me if i decide on something then the world does some shit completely unexpected preventin me from doing it but i have options like a masters in amsterdam or a teaching exchange in japan or stay in prague and get my teaching specialty certificates and study formal japanese and then later apply for masters in japan or a better job in japan i don't know yet i can't promise you any specific way" she takes it as if i said "im going to fart around and just babysit in prague forever because none of my skills are real and i'm giving up because i'm lazy and don't care about anything" and gets angry at me and then watches me shut down and reply to every expression about my apparent laziness and irrelevance and uselessness with "yeah i guess so" "i see" "yeah" before waiting for her to stop and then walk to my room and silently close the door lay down on my bed and hold my stuffed animal crying silently into it while realizing none of my accomplishments are seen as real or valuable in the slightest to my mother because i will never be as liked as much as my sister or my brother by her It Does make me want to rip all of my hair out scream and cry and run and run a beach restaurant in kochi and change my name to charlotte 清水

[iftitah]

im tired of watching all the stories

[crowrelli]

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[anthonycrowley]

so. the one (1) thing about my grandma’s house. is she has this mattress. i think it’s roughly sixty years old and i literally do not give a shit it’s the most comfortable thing i’ve ever slept on. she said to my mom today i want my neighbors to take anything out of the house that they want when i die and i was like that’s fine except i have first dibs on your rank ass mattress.

[gildedmuse]

So, I just know all of Tumblr was wondering, "hey, you remember that really weird ZoLaw fan with the annoyingly overly stylized post? I wonder if she's seen this and if she has any theories or thoughts, an observation or two?"

Well, allow me to set your wandering mind at ease, fictional Tumblr fan. The answer is: No. No, I really don't.

I have like three hundred.

[I also spent time just trying to track down as many translations as possible. Is Tera A Criminal's Daughter or The Daughter Of Thieving Bandits! These are CLEARLY separate things and can ENTIRELY change how her utter nonpresence in Zoro's life shaped him! Though I can take comfort in knowing that, regardless of what kind of crimes her father was committing they were more important than anything his daughter ever did in her entire life.]

And, hey, as might as well jump right into that whole mess.

1. Wait, Zoro's mom is dead? Thank goodness, I was worried Oda forgot one!

(AKA: Stop. Murdering. Moms.)

I'll go first, I don't mind saying when I was wrong. True, in the past I may have suggested that the vast majority of female characters in One Piece come off as ever so slightly, "leaning into sexist tropes with unadulterated joy; it's the misogynistic tropes equivalent of a child running naked through a grocery store. It's right there, everyone sees it, yet people shut up and continue shopping in part because, well, these days you just expect most people to cover that junk! What would you even say? And if you DO speak up and call out the inappropriate, be prepared for blank stares and tantrums; but THEY don't mind! THEY don't think it's wrong! You're just being mean!"

More or less a direct quote.

However, I see now that I rushed to judgement and the reality of the situation is far more nuanced. With that in mind, I was just wondering if someone could help answer some of the questions I have.

Like: Why does Oda believe that it's illegal for (maternal) female characters to survive other character's backstories?

More importantly, why hasn't someone just reached out to explain the misconception!? It can't be that difficult. If nothing else, just have a lawyer or judge or other expert in censorship on hand. Or is the one of those cases where back in highschool his friends made something up and then kept pretending it was real to see if he'd believe you and not only did he fall for it, it took over 20 years before he learned that, what, no that's not illegal. That would be crazy if it were an actual law. Cause you know, after the first 10 years I think yeah you have to just lean into it. Pretend it's a creative decision on your part and definitely not because you were terrified of being sentenced to a slow and humiliating public death.

Just to be clear that's definitely what's up, right? I mean, I'm struggling to think of another reason....able excuse why a story that I really enjoy keeps playing the same old sexist tropes cards again and again to the point of absurdity. It would just help if I had a valid excus- explanation. I almost mistyped the word explanation.

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So I imagine it went like.

"That's the third mangaka they've had to Publically Execute this week!"

"They've started taking this law way more serious lately."

"This one really deserved it though! I heard his main character has a mother in her late forties!"

"That does seem old to have your first child."

"No, he's the middle of three and 22 years old. The story even has flashbacks of defining moments in his childhood and never once did she try to sacrifice herself for him, get murdered by his enemies, or die in meaningless unrelated accidents."

"Damn, that's cold to be there for all the protagonist core moments and not die and help him develop and grow a character? They must have a very antagonistic relationship. Is she actually the villain."

"Not that we know, and when they asked about this being a possible plot twist since - obviously if she's evil no laws are being broken."

"Well, of course, that's the whole reason Statue 2-dash-57 exists; if creators can show they have consistently been building up to a surprise twist then the female character in question can continue to live so long as she continues to be unrepentant and unlikable until the resolution of her arch by the protagonist."

"That's the thing! Under oath not only did man present no evidence to support her identity as a secret villain, he went on the record stating he wanted to depict their relationship as one of a normal modern 20 year old and his mother."

"That can't be true! What publishing company would even print that!?"

"It gets worse. I told you he was a middle child? Well, according to those who've read the actual manga, his younger sister was really sick as a child."

"Oh, well, at least-"

"It was just a fish allergy. She's perfectly fine."

"Sometimes I feel this law is unnecessarily harsh but.... Then you hear stories like that, and you realize that some people really are monsters."

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

"Takeomi is Sanzu&Senju's half-brother" headcanon, sure

But is the Akashi grandmother biologically related to him or not... Hm....

[tamayokny]

evelyn has cared for me more than any grandmother i've ever had

[angelsdean]

going to lose my mind actually.

[dokjaism]

on the same topic of death does it ever fuck u up the fact that when someone passes away there will be a point in ur life where u will outlive the time u spent with them n in comparison u will live longer without them than with them