#parents tag

[sleepnoises]

[i play the new single by julian baker and TORRES in the car hoping to surprise and delight my julian baker loving mom]

my mom, who it turns out has already seen the music video, in thoughtful tones: TORRES's spouse paints her naked a lot

me: oh is it the woman who does all the paintings??

my mom, with slight hysteria: georgia o'keefe???

me, googling, correct: JENNA GRIBBON!

[campy-mccampface]

Bus Pass: Fancypants Platypus

Name: Fancypants Platypus (formerly Francis Platypus)

Age: 36 at the time of the series

Residence: California, USA

Origin: New York, USA

Occupation: Fashion designer and later social media influencer

Orientation: Gay (like really, really gay)

Significant other(s): No significant ones but many flings

Fancypants Platypus is the third eldest son of the Platypus family. He’s catty, condescending, and self-centered. Like his other siblings, he was brought up in wealth, is a former Bean Scout and bullied Edward, the youngest, mercilessly. He’s a bigshot in the clothing design world, and his new status as a social media influencer has made him a household name. The latter, ironically, has humbled him somewhat and he has since become the only son to make peace with little Edward.

Biography: Canon and Headcanon

Francis Platypus was the third son born to Tony and Susan Platypus. From a very young age he had a keen eye for art, colors, and making himself favored. Tony, who owned and ran a very profitable construction company, had hoped this meant the newest boy would mature into an architect beneath him, but it wasn’t to be. This disappointment (that Tony and only Tony set himself up for, but he’ll never admit it,) would be the first bit of bad blood between them, but it simmered beneath the surface for decades.

For quite some time, Francis was the youngest child, after Chas (aka Cheesley) and Alfredo (aka Alpine.) Francis was the subject of bullying himself from them for his effeminate nature and comparable physical weakness. They took to calling him “Sissy” and “Nance,” and the minute he turned eighteen he spitefully changed his name to “Fancypants Platypus,” by which time he had fully embraced his queerness and was apprenticing in clothing design. They thus couldn’t mock him as they had without complimenting what was shaping up to be a meteoric rise in wealth and stardom of his own. (That’s not to say Tony respected Fancypants becoming self-made and openly gay. Far from it.) When Philip was born, the tradition of the youngest brother being the family punching bag seemed to pass, which made Fancypants secretly very angry at the unequal treatment.

But before that, the Platypus brothers went to Camp Kidney on the other side of the country, in Prickly Pines, California. Tony had gone to camp there himself as a boy, and he got a kick out of sending his materially spoiled boys “to that fucking dump” for a few summers. Only the three eldest boys went at the same time, for Philip and later Edward were too far apart in age. Although Philip went alone, the Platypus brothers’ reputation followed him, and no one messed with him. (Edward wasn’t so privileged with this association when his turn came.)

At camp, Francis was, individually, helpless. He couldn’t make fire, he flinched at the ball during sports, and he found the uniforms drab. He had no option then but to tag along with his brothers for support. For one reason or another, Cheesly and Alpine suddenly forgot to bully Francis and instead made him their rookie when it came to causing grief for other campers. Under their tutelage, Francis gave plenty of wedgies, threw many uniforms into rivers, and even beat up a few campers whom Cheesly and Alpine held down for him. He regards this as the low point of his life.

Five years after Philip came Edward, and at once the tradition of bullying the youngest brother came alive again. Intoxicated by being able to belittle others with his brothers’ help, Francis (and when the name change happened, Fancypants,) partook gleefully. They called Edward every name in the book. They slapped him awake with hands full of shaving cream. Every time he tried to make friends, they found some way to turn them away. And there was, of course, “tetherball.” Tony encouraged all of it, hoping it’d made Edward fight back (and somehow make him a construction company heir, it’s all he thinks of, yeesh.) Susan stayed on the sidelines as much as she disliked what the boys were doing, if only to not get sucked into conflict with Tony.

Edward, doted on as much as he was with gifts and money, was still totally alone and very tired of the whole world. By some act of God, the other brothers never found out about his Veronica doll. Fancypants only found out years later once they made peace, and even then kept it dark from the others considering he had written them off anyway.

From age 18 and on, Fancypants was unstoppable. He worked his way to the very top of the Design Department at the clothing company he worked, becoming its chief by age 30. He had pots of money he had made without his family’s help, was well-liked, and was openly gay. Tony and the other brothers were starting to lose patience with him. He was carving his own path in a way the other brothers, (Cheesly the owner of a chain of gyms, Alpine an NBA all-star,) hadn’t: without fawning over his father and his company in public. This was considered disrespect, and Fancypants rightly refused to stop being his own person. It wasn’t long after the events of “Edward’s Brothers” that Fancypants did indeed break away from the family. They may have hoped that going back to camp to pick on Edward “like old times” would help, but it didn’t.

Fancypants once again was the family black sheep, and he didn’t mind a bit. He even marketed a line of “Black Sheep Woolen Turtlenecks.” That’s just the kind of petty he is. In this new, low-attention span digital age, Fancypants found another avenue for money and fame: social media influencing. He uploaded videos of himself designing, comparing various clothing brands to his own, makeup tutorials, etc., and had millions of followers virtually overnight.

This also exposed him to much online nastiness, and it struck a chord with him. (A very late wakeup call to be sure, but whatever.) He “found” Edward online, and discovered he was out and gay too. At once, Fancypants realized what a jackass he had been, and immediately he set out to find his little brother and make amends if possible. Edward accepted, after first letting Fancypants grovel a bit, and after a bit of awkwardness they’ve since become very tight.

They bond over tea parties, talking smack about their brothers, other people and their fashion choices, having sleepovers and playing tennis on Fancypants’ own personal court at his mansion, and even play dolls together.

Edward’s favorite way to tease Fancypants is to call him a “queer elder.���

[alphaspoetry]

favoritism

Wasn’t favoritism the silent truth every parent denies yet carries in they action? My mother, no different, denies it with a fury, her anger sparking every time I try to call it out. Yet denial does not erase the truth—it lingers in the corners of our lives, etched into every uneven glance, every unbalanced word. Ask the loudest child in the room, and she will tell you. She will tell you how her voice rose to match the walls, desperate to shatter the silence where love once stood, a silence carved by the attention stolen and given elsewhere.

"You’re jealous,” they say.

“We don’t play favorites.”

“You’re cruel for thinking such things.”

"Why can't you love your sibling instead of envying her?"

Jealous? They name it jealousy as if I birthed the envy in my own chest, as if they didn’t sow the seeds of longing and nurture them with their neglect. Did I write this script of pain? Am I the villain in my own story? Is it wrong to feel the ache of an invisible love, the kind given freely to another but withheld from me? Am I wrong for feeling this ache?, for noticing the difference, for questioning why i was never treated right? These questions loop endlessly in my mind, heavy as the silence that follows their denial. Every time I see them smiling together, I feel the tug—a reminder of a love that was never mine.

But am I wrong to feel this way? Perhaps not. For even the unloved have the right to ache. Even the unseen have the right to yearn. And maybe, just maybe, the fault isn’t mine to bear. The truth is simple: love is not a competition, yet they made it one. I didn’t lose because I wasn’t worthy—I lost because they never looked my way.

[vulturefan001]

misc

[bypatia]

gentle parenting my own parents #eldestdaughtercore

[sholawilde]

[ghosted-jazz]

The protagonist of Legends ZA being Sycamore's kid is real TO ME

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Wish I never told anyone so my parents would still love me lmao

[monakisss]

the reverend family and harrow's childhood (based on htn)

[thatrandomblogsays]

Annabeth: I, a child, had to earn Thalia’s love, that’s how the world works! I have to earn my moms love. Love is transactional, you gotta be worthy of it first silly :)

Percy, listening to this on the train

[campy-mccampface]

On the Fly Headcanons #3

—Nurse Leslie only became a nurse because it’s a tradition in his family to enter the medical field. His real passions are cars and writing. He and Slinkman bond over the former.

—Patsy dyes her hair pink; she’s a natural blonde.

—Even though Lumpus and Jane marry, they still live separately as before during summers while they’re still working. A lot of the campers keep forgetting they’re married (my reasoning is the show kind of did too🤭) and that reeeeeally makes Lumpus mad lol.

—Lumpus’ parents are still alive, even though they’re pushing 100. They’re frail but have all their marbles. Lumpus… stopped thinking about them once he was 60ish. When he received a phone call from his mother asking why they weren’t invited to his wedding, Lumpus thought it was a prank call and almost hung up. And that’s how he reconnects with them.

—No-neck’s real name is Jacques. He started going by No-neck because the campers kept mispronouncing it.

—Pothole McPucker died, …like, the same summer he and Jane almost married. (Bozo.)

—Manfred the ex-Navy turtle is still alive.

—Edward’s mom, Susan, bakes a mean lasagna and this is his favorite food. (Cue Ping Pong calling him Garfield.)

—Mort the pelican is Camp Kidney’s archery champion.

—Gordon the bear is petrified of caves. (It’s the stalactites.)

[stars-obsession-pit]

“Mom, why do you think ghosts are intrinsically evil?”

“It’s what the science says, of course!”

“No, I mean like, what were the studies? What did they actually observe”

“Ohh, I get what you mean, Danny! Well across all reputable reports of encounters with the ghosts strong enough to matter, they’ve always attacked first and never responded to attempts at communication! There’s no reason for them to do that if they’re not evil!”

“Huh…”

…

Danny, learning about Ghost Speak and how humans can’t understand it: hmm.

Danny, learning that ghosts greet each other and bond by fighting: hmmm.

[vulturefan001]

Drawing hot moms +50000hp

[jevthejester]

Today is the only day you can reblog this

[7iffer]

Baby boy tiny bee baby