#parental sacrifices

[gpstudios]

Celebrating Respect for Parents Day: Honoring Our Pillars of Strength 🌸👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Happy Respect for Parents Day! 🌸👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Celebrate and honor the invaluable role of parents. Spend quality time, express gratitude, and cherish the special bond of family. #RespectForParentsDay #FamilyBonds

Introduction Happy Respect for Parents Day! 🌸👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Celebrated annually on August 1st, Respect for Parents Day is dedicated to recognizing and honoring the invaluable role that parents play in our lives. This special day encourages us to show gratitude, appreciation, and respect for the love, support, and guidance our parents provide. Whether biological, adoptive, or chosen, parents shape our…

[foreverfearlessred]

my favourite genre of post-race Charles Leclerc win is Charles finding Arthur at the barrier, seeing Arthur looking at him with such joy in his eyes and then Charles messing up his hair

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Behold, a Bunny!

(for @alliechickfic on twitter)

[copia]

"Sister to Psalty—skip the grand entrance. Send him directly to video." "What video?"

— for @ghelullu

[inspiredrawaw]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how you draw Cosmo and Wanda, especially Cosmo, he’s so kissable! 🥰

Wanda agrees ;] I like to think Cosmos wings do a flutter when happy or excited

but thank you so much!!! :D

[snidy]

a little ideation collage about failstates viktor and the concept of anamnesis (both the philosophical and theological meaning) i made while planning/writing

[graciethegreat]

I noticed Kubo likes to match up Captains and Lieutenant like little puzzle pieces that contrast and compliment each other, but I never really thought about why Rukia was chosen to be Ukitake’s lieutenant.

Then I remembered how much Rukia’s life SUCKED at the time she joined Squad 13. She went totally no-contact with the only friend she had and her new family was cold and distant to her. What she needed most at this time was a place she felt loved, something Squad 13 provided her in tenfold. The reason why Rukia was chosen for Squad 13 was Ukitake’s and Kaien’s unrelenting kindness when Rukia was at her lowest. It all comes to head in this one scene:

When Rukia is too afraid to even speak to Byakuya, and in complete contrast to him, Ukitake shows her compassion and understanding. I imagine Squad 13 was like a home away from home for Rukia, a place where she is loved.

[missescalientee]

@fluffykitty149 cuz I forgot to open my asks but still wanted to answer your question!!

Lief Anders of the Explorer Au also known as "The Anders who lived." Due to the fact that his other self dies heroically while protecting Jade and Lief during trollstice (the same one that took Branch's grandma)

This version of Anders gets to grow old and as he does his vocal chords get worse so he chooses to primarily use sign unless he really can't.

Mr. Anders gets there before Floyd and stays to help both of them, then during the escape Floyd blames himself for not going back for Clay who never makes it out of the tunnels. Branch is just a bit more well adjusted since Floyd came back and he has a stable father figure (no shade to JD or Floyd in the main au they just were also struggling so it hindered their ability to help properly)

Branch is also copying Floyd's bangs a bit and failing XD

The two have a good relationship with Mr. Anders who continues to be the Dad who stepped up as he starts a foster program for young trolls who are in similar situations to Branch.

[writer-room]

Honestly the funniest thing about TDP to me is that Rayla for some reason always thinks Callum isn't 100% ride-or-die with her on any given situation. Seriously, she could decide she's jumping off a cliff and he'd do it too--oh wait.

I get that half of it is 'protecting' him but like. Girl he has been ready to die and kill for you since the first snake chain incident. It has not lightened up since. In fact its gotten worse. She's his special little guy and if anything happens to her he will kill everyone in the room and then himself. She physically cannot ever sacrifice herself for anyone because Callum WILL be following her straight into the afterlife in no less than a minute. I'm fully convinced he can and would go even further than Claudia and he'd barely have to think on it for five seconds before shrugging like "damn this sucks, can't believe I have to turn evil" "you literally don't have to--" "no I'm gonna"

And honestly I think that's peak teenagers first girlfriend behavior.

[tavina-writes]

I started writing yet another tag essay in the notes of a different post where OP posited that the reason established relationships that are rock solid or functional are hard to write and find in fiction because there's missing tension due to the lack of will they won't they, and how one way to solve this in a story is to make the characters insane about each other. (The post is here.)

And don't get me wrong! I like when characters are a little or a lot unhinged about each other! and I also like relationships that self destruct, tragedies that end badly, and all that jazz I enjoy these things a lot! They're good things!

But I'm thinking about relationship tension again and how like, okay yes sometimes we want our characters confess they're in love with each other and get together and sail off into a soft epilogue, etc. This too is love!

But I think fundamentally to deny the fact that two (or more) people can love each other deeply, be totally committed to each other, and yet still have difficulties and life problems to tackle together is an underexplored facet of romance. The mundane of this is where the real romance lies on our day to day as people, and I find this so...rarely? tackled in fiction?

Maybe this is because I'm ace, but I feel that there's a distinct? vibe to these sorts of mature and enduring romances where like, the love is there, the commitment is there, but we still have moments we need to work for it because that's life and we work for it because we find each other worth it.

What is more romantic than compromise with someone you care for deeply? What is more romantic than tackling problems together and trying to come to an agreement and sometimes not being able to but still having done your best and accepted the outcome anyway?

What is a long lasting relationship that isn't about give and take and growing together or coming apart? Aren't those stories interesting? How could any long lasting relationship where people are deeply in love with each other be boring when like, to BE in a relationship with someone for ten, twenty, thirty, sixty years and come out the other side of that saying 'you're the one, you're still the one, you've always been the one' is one of the most wild and rare type of relationships to have?

What sort of sacrifice and compromise and work it takes to build that sort of relationship, isn't that interesting? To persist despite moments of doubt and periods of despair and all the work it takes in mundanity? all the trials a relationship like that has to survive and has survived, isn't that still tension? isn't that still interesting?

Maybe it's just me that I find this more interesting than "will they? won't they?" Either they will or they won't but when I'm reading a romance they mostly will! But do they have what it takes to stay there? And if they do isn't that one of the most interesting things in the world to look at?

Isn't that also love?

[its-leethee]

--3x08 // 7x09

They've given us a great gift. A chance to keep living

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

". . .Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of Beren and Lúthien" "Then Dior arose, and about his neck he clasped the Nauglamir, and now he appeared as the fairest of all the children of the world, of threefold race: of the Edain, and of the Eldar, and of the Maiar of the Blessed Realm." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of the Ruin of Doriath" "For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"

@halfelvenweek day 1 ⇢ doriathrim || THE LINE OF LÚTHIEN

[ID: a picspam comprised of 18 images, separated into three sets. The first set is purple, the second is green, and the third is brown. All have black accenting.

1: A branch of white and purple blossoms / 2: Valentine Alvarez, an indigenous mexican model with brown skin and long black hair. They are looking at the viewer with a serious expression, wearing dangling earrings that reach their shoulders and a purple shirt / 3: Purple crystals / 4: Tall dark and light purple text reads "lúthien" in all caps on a black background / 5: A small bird perched on a rock. It is silhouetted against the dark sky and its head is framed by a circle of purple light / 6: A night sky filled with stars and glowing dust, framed by tree branches / 7: Philip Bread, a kiowa/comanche/blackfoot model with brown skin and long black hair. He is shown slightly from below against a green background, looking at the viewer with a serious expression / 8: Green light filtering into a cave / 9: Same format as Image 4, but the text is green and reads "dior" / 10: A spiderweb among mossy rocks, glistening with dew / 11: A painting of a person dressed in elaborate green robes / 12: The figure of a person silhouetted beneath a spotlight / 13: The mist of a waterfall falling among brown rocks / 14: Zentyatze Echeverria, a oaxacan model with brown skin and dark hair. She is a white dress and a large wreath of corn husks, and looking down / 15: Two brown pelicans on water / 16: Same format as Images 4 and 9, but the text is brown and reads "elwing" / 17: A black and white image of a person underwater / 18: An ornate room with columns and wall tiling //End ID]

[frozen-orbit]

I didn't expect this movie to hit me this hard AT ALL 😭😭😭😭😭 Literally changed my brain chemistry for good 🙏🏻 thank you Pixar

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: My husband doesn’t want to instil his fear of spiders on our son so he, very calmly, reports them to me like some kinda mob boss. “Jes, theres a situation near the sink. I need you to take care of it. Immediately. No loose ends. I want proof when the job is done”

Jesper: I have tried to tell him spiders are important for the ecosystem he likes so much, but he’s certain that theres ‘no space for an ecosystem in the kitchen’

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks]

The entity pauses, turning back to inspect their newest familiar as a low growl of hunger emanates from the child's stomach. The human, no older than ten, looks back to meet their gaze with sheepish embarrassment and the entity sighs internally.

The ancient one searches through their seemingly endless library of memories for somewhere safe to pause and gather sustenance.

[kindaasrikal]

I love how jay and kai are excluded in the trauma circles in some way because Jay has never died/was assumed dead and Kai has never turned into something he wasn’t before.