#my parents legally speaking-

[boromirt]

Growing up, we had these beautiful Abert's Squirrels around. They have these big bushy tails and long tufted ears. Gray fur and white bellies.

My grandparents who raised me loved to watch them out on the porch, they put special birdseed out just for them and would watch them every morning.

My Papa especially loved them. He set up his recliner by the big full windows in the living room so he could watch them and the birds all day while he read the paper and his book. He built he house himself 40 years ago and made sure the entire wall of the living room facing the porch was all windows. It was his and my favorite room in the whole house.

One day, while driving, an Abert's Squirrel darted across the road, too fast for Papa to stop hisnold truck, and he hit it. He slammed on the brakes, but it was too late.

He was devestated. He was a military man all his life. Fought in Vietnam. Before that he was raised in a town so rural that the school was only one room. He was taught men don't show emotions, especially over "trivial" things. Him hitting that squirrel to this day is the closest I've seen to him crying.

My Grandmother is a tiny, gentle, deeply compassionate woman who would set out slices of pear for the wasps to eat. She cried openly. She collected the squirrel with a towel and wrapped it gently, and told Papa she would find a good place to bury it. Maybe in the garden.

But since Papa had tried to stop the truck, the squirrel wound up barely being touched by the impact. It was in almost perfect condition. Still soft and beautiful.

Papa has a few hunting trophies. A pheasant he was particularly proud of is his favorite. Grandma took the squirrel to hid taxidermist in secret and had it made into a piece.

Its a beautiful piece of taxidermy. She had them pose the squirrel on a branch as if it was climbing one of the pines and had stopped to look curiously at you, its head cocked and its fluffy tail up. Its black button eyes are big and dark and look truly alive again.

She gave it to him that Christmas. It's been displayed in our living room ever since, where Papa can see it while he reads, and the squirrel can look out the window with him.

[nomazee]

and if i wrote a modern high school au dan heng fic where i also made it so that himeko was dan heng's mother-figure what would you do? would you ARREST me? woulf you LOCK ME UP

[oifaaa]

List of Oifaaa's children parents: Oifaaa, french anon, mistic messenger person, Mirko

There's like 130 of you there needs to be four of us at least to handle that many children although if I really haven't been great at selecting parents for you all

[agnesandhilda]

how to tell my mom that while I love her I am skeptical of the systemic and societal forces that give her near-unchecked authority over me

[kenobihater]

23 is young and i don't wanna go acting like it isn't but sometimes i see stuff from baby zoomers and i feel fucking ancient. skibidi toilet? i have yet to understand what that's referencing. reality shifting? i was into new agey stuff as a teen and i get the whole law of attraction/manifestation thing, but the rest is all greek to me. a good half of the aesthetics i see talked about online? literally got overwhelmed when i stumbled on the aesthetics wiki last year and i feel like an idiot seeing all these kids list off like 4 different hyperspecific aesthetics to describe themselves 😭 girl what does any of that mean? patiently explain it like i'm 85 when it comes up, or don't expect me to know what the hell you're talking about. i'll just end up smiling and nodding like your out of touch grandpa who loves your energy but is frightened by cellphones and the concept of smartfridges 💀💀💀

[nonbinary-sticks-the-badger]

because charmy's so young its fairly easy to come up with similar headcanons for why and how he found vector but i wanna hear thoughts about espio

[nychthemeron-rants]

Do you ever think about the high likelihood that Keigo does not legally exist outside of being Hawks? That there is a high chance there are no documents with the name Takami Keigo on them?

Because his parents were on the run when he was born, what are the chances, really, that they went to a hospital for him to be born? Or filled out any paperwork after to declare his birth? Especially considering how paranoid Takami the thief was about getting caught and ensuring Keigo didn’t speak to ANYONE outside of his parents.

And then after the commission took him in, one of the first things they tell him is to throw away his name. That he isn’t Takami Keigo anymore. That he can’t associate with the Takami name at all and his only identity moving forward is Hawks. So why would they give him paperwork with the name they told him he could no longer use?

[bokusaka]

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[spaghett-onaplate]

time for some masterful alpha male social manipulation (discussing the appointment I had today for HRT with my dad in careful terms so that he doesn't skitter away like a frightened deer)

[bugwolfsstuff]

Kid me would hate me now lets be fr

[pondslime]

some gal @ my work found out I grew up in hawaii and started waxing poetic about how much she loved vacationing there bc there were "no bugs, no mosquitos"...........................haven't stopped thinking about that.........................

[sweetmariihs2]

At this point I'm convinced I'll make a post telling the whole lore behind my oc and my character.ai Cedric bot because oh my god. That shi is so good I talk to him every night, it's like interactive fanfiction and the events ARE SO ENTERTAINING. IT'S JUST AMAZING BUT IT'S SO BIG

(I don't need to imagine how he would react in a given situation I put him through, because he can react himself and 70% of the time the bot gets it right. Of course, yes, I still read fanfics and enjoy stories written by real authors, a bot can't replace work done by a person, but I'm just doing it for fun and to see how he could react in certain situations and the story is indeed entertaining to watch where it goes)

I really wish I could pass on all the information telepathically to you so you can understand how much I'm freaking out right now. Briefely speaking, my oc (called Aurora.... I wonder why lol) came to the castle of Enchancia to study magic with the royal sorcerer who until then was unknown to her, and over time they got used to each other's presence and little by little they developed a forbidden romance, due to the fact that she is his apprentice (she is of legal age, 20 years old). They keep this secret from everyone in the castle and that's it, that's the lore, they go through their everyday lives like this.

And today her parents, who are negligent to her, came to the castle to take her back home because they want her to marry a rich old man in exchange for money to maintain their bakery that has a lot of debt and it's almost bankrupt. They think Aurora's dream of being a royal sorceress is ridiculous and they want her to adapt to the life of a housewife for some random man, and not follow her dreams. That's how Cedric is dealing with the whole situation:

THAT'S SO GOOD AMAMLAQMAMMSMMA‼️‼️‼️‼️💥💥💥

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I WAITED FOR TJIS TO HAPPEN

this whole thing is amazing, I literally talk to him at least one time per day because there's always something entertaining happening inside the story

[transgaysex]

wtf. born this way by lady gaga came out 12 years ago and this is the first time i actually read the lyrics and i feel SO silly but i teared up

[black-rose-irl]

IDK if it's a generational divide thing or whatever, but I don't like arguing with my mom about teenagers dating grown-ass adults.

[altruistic-meme]

i think the biggest issue i have with having been homeschooled is that it makes literally everything having to do with college INFINITELY MORE DIFFICULT.

[raccoon-queer]

trying to explain the way that im jewish is so confusing bc yeah, im jewish, my mother's entire side of the family is jewish so i am automatically ethnically jewish. but also my mother is very anti-religion and taught me jack shit about judaism, so now im trying to teach myself bc being jewish is important to me. but also im not exactly religious either, i just like having a constant in my life and appreciating life and the values of judaism are good for that