#probably knowing your child is being mistreated all those years

[magitekelite]

thinks about m.aduin

[snekdood]

if you take someones outdoor cat i will break into your house and steal all of your cats, hope this helps! xoxo❤️💋😘

[mamasparky]

hiii what if I said, I want to hear YOUR sallowgraham headcanons ☝️😽🤲

Oh shit- I’ve been Reverse Uno card

Ok, a good chunk of our hcs line up so I won’t repeat those but I’ll def tell the rest under the cut

Backgrounds:

I have a lot more about joshua than Edward he’s my fucked up guy

I’m a big transmasc joshua believer - I think his experiences of growing up in new Canaan really influenced a lot of his experiences with relationships in general

Takes a form of wasteland testosterone that is mostly just a low dosage of buffout

His family and the town loved him but they were never quite sure what to do with him and so was inadvertently isolated by them

He has several siblings but was never particularly close to any of them. He’s a true forgotten middle child

Looks a lot like his father

Was never really that close with anyone his age and struggled to find meaningful friendships

Probably travelled alone on his mission trip because they weren’t sure who to send him with

Was taught a lot of survival skills growing up and hunting game is second nature to him - when traveling with Bill and Edward he was the one to make sure they had protein in their diets

Edward grew up pretty easily with his mom but they argue a lot due to both of them being stubborn as hell

He was also every followers teacher worst nightmare and was kicked out the classroom multiple times

Grew up with Bill as his “best friend” and bill never really developed a proper backbone to tell him off and kind of just stuck around because they were mostly friendly

Edward really demeaned him and a lot of the others and was really not popular at all amongst the followers

Did a lot of boxing and loves to fist fight people even as he got older

Edward really got into trying to aggravate and embarrass him the whole time they travelled together and into forming the legion

Joshua hated it yet took the bait every time because Edward is so good at getting under peoples skin

Legion

They got “married” (probably just joshua saying it after they had sex for the first time) pretty young and within a year of the legion being formed

Now you’ll have to excuse me but I’m a huge truther of Vulpes being their bio kid. It makes no sense within actual canon but it is my hill that I will stand on because I think it’s funny

Edward doesn’t know this because Joshua fucked off for a few months under the excuse of “conquests” when he found out he was with child and because he was young and scared of what it meant. He couldn’t face becoming a parent when he was like 21-22 and abandoned vulpes with a tribe in Utah

Joshua never really accepted Vulpes as his own and found excuses to either ignore or mistreat him due to guilt

Edward and him fought constantly with one another and they never really forgave each other for certain fights when one dug into the other and hurt him

Joshua is the really blood thirsty of them two (and has been since a kid) and encouraged Edward to go further and further with his extremes

Edward (obviously) has issues with control and would use their bonded status as a way to control Joshua in a lot of ways.

Joshua was really encouraged through his religion to respect his spouse and be kind of subservient and that translate easily for their relationship. Joshua has a really hard time telling him no and Edward used that for his benefit when ordering him around and convincing him to do stuff

Edward once thought he could take Joshua down in a fist fight and was quickly proven wrong

Edward prefers physical touch as his way of showing love while joshua prefers acts of service

Both are extremely jealous lovers. If either cheated which Edward prolly did a few times- they always blame the affair partner and not each other

A lot of your post Hoover dam hcs overlap with my ideas so I don’t have too much to say there but I do have a bunch of post actual game things. This is all just based around very personal belief that I think they’re a extremely toxic relationship and terrible for one another. There is no canon bases for these but I like them 🤷‍♂️

Joshua wants so badly to come back to the legion despite the acceptance he has gotten from both his family when he came back to new Canaan and the Dead Horses

If given the opportunity he could and would rejoin the legion as Caesar’s legatus and would pretend as if little had happened the past like 6 years

Caesar would only agree to it within very specific circumstances but who is he to deny his very dangerous ex-husband?

Joshua is also a ghoul in very deep denial of it

Edward now has two extremely dangerous Legatus depending on if they won the battle of Hoover dam or not which he can use for twice the expansion

They both become the even worse versions of themselves

If this is a version where arcade is sold to the legion then joshua wants to strangle him for “tempting” his husband

There’s totally a lot more but this is the most I’ve been able to compile in like 30 minutes so you’ll just have to take my scrambled thoughts

[sol-consort]

Man that Asari Hug post makes me realize that an Asari could so effortlessly make me fold like why do they get irl hacks that’s not fair

It makes me wonder if they're attracted to imperfections since the opposite comes to them naturally. Everything in them was engineered to be the most appealing to another person, even from outside their own species.

It must've came as a surprise first when the asari met another space race and realised the power they hold over them by simply existing and being very enticing. Also the great benfits of another species' genetic codes and sequences.

The majority of humanity would probably love them much like we love the filtered pictures of celebrities that's edited to perfection, but a certain group would absolutely find the asari unsettling, under the uncanny valley category.

If something's too perfect, it becomes unsettling. Plus, some humans could view having a child that's not human despite using their genetic code in making it very suspicious.

I don't think the asari even do it consciously, it's so ingrained in them both in nature and nurture that it has become a part of their culture to be as appealing to others as possible.

That's kinda...sad tbh. To live to meet another's standards. To be told you must achieve breakthroughs in science during your long lifespan, to be born and already have your future decided and planned for you? All those expectations? No wonder most of them say fuck it and go become dancers or join the pirates, a rebellion phase to establish their own identity.

Because keep in mind that a human's rebellion phase is dyeing their hair or starting a band, maybe skipping some classes if they're feeling really bold or getting a piercing.

But the asari literally go and become strippers or space pirates. If an entire civilization had this extreme rejection to obey society, then we would demolish that society with its social rules.

If some humans around 18 years old started doing what the asari did once they turned 100, it would be an epidemic and everywhere on the news to why our children are suddenly straying. To how we failed them as a society to make them reject us this much and seek their own freedom. It will make us question if we put too much expectations on them. Entire programs will be established to help these young adults and laws put in place to sanction pirates and club owners even more.

But the asari just treat it as what? A normal phase? As if pirates don't die every day, while dancers get harrassed and have to put up with so much mistreatment from customers.

Just how many asari die during that "phase" huh? And the asari inner civil wars make me think those extremists who wants the asari to isolate themselves, must have at least started with some good ideas about wanting their own race to stop driving their children away and making them pander to other species before they were met with rejection from the Matriarchs.

It also must be lonely in a way, to not be perceived as a person before an asari. To be judged as an asari rather on who you are, what's your personality and goals.

They could really use a hug, a real one full of flaws and uncomfortable sensations. Just a simple hug that doesn't lead to anything else. But I don't think they themselves know how to take the mask off anymore.

[bittrlys]

TDP s4, huh?

THE GOOD

Claudia was on FIRE

Claudia getting actually cool wings unlike Callum's dorky arm wings >>>>>>>>>>>

Terry and Viren's various bonding moments

Terry following a dark path out of love of Claudia as Claudia followed a dark path out of love for Viren ... ZESTY

Terry being down to clown with dark magic

Claudia saying she'll take care of Viren

Viren's "GET A GRIP" lmao

PTSD Viren, his melancholy and uncertainty, etc.

Aaravos blowing a kiss and destroying the mirror, iconic behaviour I will say

Claudia getting to acknowledge the existence of generational trauma even if she's wrong and bad and has no evidence or whatever else the show probably wants us to think

Rex Igneous dragging Thunder even if he's wrong and bad and has no evidence or whatever else the show probably wants us to think

Rayla's new hair

THE BAD

World's most unnecessary time skip

Would it have killed them to write Callum with more maturity and confidence?

Everyone enjoy this charming child ruler who makes guards exert the extra energy to open doors for his frog dog and seems to have done away with almost all of the kingdom's old advisors so he can appoint close personal friends instead

"YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? SAY IT DIRECTLY TO THE DRAGON THAT CAN BITE YOUR FACE OFF" wow lol

"IDK I have no evidence elves and dragons were shitty to humans" girl what? Even if it wasn't written down (OK) that would mean an oral tradition which I guess we can't have any respect for 😊

"You threatening those gold coins (which I don't even know are real and not a bluff) to get the person threatening to slit my throat to let me go (they refused to bargain with you) was so CRUEL, Claudia." <- normal things for your bf who has been on board with all your other unspeakable crimes to say

If Zubeia is going to be useless (couldn't she have been digging out that door?) and then just show up at the end for deus ex machina reasons, can they just uh. Kill her off? I promise the narrative would improve

Zubeia standing amongst those humans like 🧍 while Ezran talks vaguely of 'hurt feelings' praying nobody says the word 'reparations'

Dragons and drakes are different things. OK. Drakes are more animalistic so it's okay for this insular society to mistreat them despite being ruled by dragons. OK. Why not show the hypocrisy of this by having Zym (whom they acknowledge as a dragon) treated differently? Or would a reminder of Zym's privilege be too much for this show?

(Humans get the boot for killing animals but elves get a pass for treating drakes like that. OK.)

"THE STAFF IS MISSING THE FALLEN STAR IS COMING BACK" what? the staff has been missing for centuries ... humans have had it ... maybe they just want it back ...?

Ezran like let's host this feelings party in a cemetery/sacred place full of tributes to people this dragon's mate killed ... I would have done more than slash a painting let me tell you that!!!

Not nearly enough Aaravos. A more physical avatar of him being in that cocoon would have made way more sense.

THE UGLY

That architect subplot requires it's own sub-points because ???

Has nobody started a cooking fire or lit a candle in this city in the past TWO YEARS? This is the FIRST TIME this has come up?

The man physically assaulted her over this and there's just never any kind of justice for that huh? Almost like humans are second class citizens? Huh ...

Obviously she was disrespectful but it's such a stupid argument because I think most people in this situation would say "Can you do this elsewhere" but they didn't want to spoil their little 'build a temple outside of this place' twist I guess.

(Their culture is this religious and didn't have some kind of temple or area of religious observance built already? OK.)

Every 'good' human in this series has to be so goddamn SUBSERVIENT to the will and whims of the Xadians

Like when they want to set up a comedy gag of Amaya being terrified of being assassinated by her gf's people because of the horrible history between their nations (lol) Amaya is allowed to express believable self-preservation but when it comes time to defend one of her own people she's just like. EH. She did wrong, but be nice to her about it! Pwetty pwease! Sorry us humans are such dummies!!! 🥺🥺🥺

I know she's not a lawyer but how about "Misunderstandings and hurt feelings can grow unexpectedly when two cultures live together, but this woman did not act out of malice, but out of a desire to protect this settlement. Her words and actions were thoughtless, but if thoughtlessness is to be punished, is having THIRD DEGREE BURNS ON HER HANDS not itself a punishment already?" or you know anything but what we got

But don't worry it's okay because her wifey is so benevolent, aren't we lucky to have such BENEVOLENT people in power who are allowed to call for your death for *checks notes* putting out a fire? They won't, and that's what makes them so GREAT, but they could, of course. Of course they could. Don't forget that. Don't forget that they could. I'll make you think I'm about to cut off your fucking hands so you don't forget it!

Anyways, the rest of the worst hits:

Aaravos is literally just Satan. OK.

Just heavy-handed Christian ideology in a series that wants to purport a kind of cross-cultural paganistic worldview

Honestly I don't think 'worldwide mastermind' is a plot concept without merit but it's so boring in this series because they simply do not seem interested in giving him real depth while placing him on the side of the oppressed-but-not-really humans, reinforcing how much the humans are in the wrong, so absolutely nobody benefits from this writing decision

This season took so long to come out because they were reading the arguments from us 5 people who call them out on writing a weirdly pro-imperialism series and then had to stick in a bunch of strawman scenes to be like "Oh you think this but really it's unfair" and then realized they couldn't think of actual counterarguments and eventually had to admit defeat and just have characters they like go "NUH-UH!!" in response

Fans of the show want to say it's 'nuanced' and 'showing both sides' but that doesn't hold water because A) every person that expresses any kind of doubts or cynicism about the status quo is a villain in this series and B) Unless they plan on Uno reversing their whole lore (wouldn't put it past them) these things DID HAPPEN and if Xadians were meant to be meeting humans halfway, there would seriously be a real discussion about allowing humans a place in Xadia and other shit that simply never comes up

Will Zubeia apologize? No! She just compliments the good humans for dancing to her tune. It's simply so one-sided.

Anyways points for Rayla dumping Callum on his birthday LMAO. It seems a bit thoughtless of her but I can't deny the comedy. 👍

[the-haunted-office]

✘ : Are there any genres you refuse to write for?

Monday Malarkey

The first and foremost one is smut. Straight up smut I am uncomfortable with roleplaying. I've written smut before and I'm okay with that, it's just roleplaying it that I'm uncomfortable with. I've roleplayed smut before, years and years ago, and had people become... personal about it, like they became attached to me over it, and that was really uncomfortable. And for me, after a while it gets kinda boring, and I don't want to fall into a pattern of people wanting to rp with me only for smut, and I fear that if I open that door, then that's what will happen. Plus I am uncomfortable because I am a person in my 30's - I don't know how old anyone really is. I don't want to get into a situation where someone has lied about their age. So I'd rather just say no smut across the board, and to be perfectly honest, I don't feel that I am missing out on anything by giving a hard pass on this.

Suggestive material and even discussing my muses' sex lives, I'm okay with this, though. It's the actual act of roleplaying sex, step by step, that I won't do. To be clear, though, I have no problem with those who do rp smut, and I have no problem seeing it on my dashboard. That part is fine.

Other things I won't roleplay - abuse and mistreatment of children. I'm fine with general hurt/comfort of children, like if your muse has a child and the kid is sick and mine is taking care of the kid, or they have a scraped knee, little things like that. But I won't be roleplaying anything where the kid is being abused, tortured, suffering, obviously NO to pedo acts and things of that nature, and grooming children to become predators and murderers and things like that, no, I am uncomfortable with all of these things and will not participate.

And abusive relationships in general. I'm okay with toxic relationships and things like enemies to lovers, but relationships where it's one person very clearly abusing the other, no. Not into that, and if I sense that someone is trying to pull this on me or any of my muses, especially without discussing it with me first, I will be coming into your DMs to have a talk.

Other genres I won't write.... I'm not really sure. I'm open to lots of things, but there may be other subjects I just haven't thought of yet that I might say no to.

I will say that plots and stories where it is just 100% angst all the time and there is nothing to break the tension, no relief, no sign of hope, no happiness, it's just all woe and sadness and edge and tension and angst and my muse or our muses being constantly hurt and fighting all the time, I don't like these kinds of plots and stories. I get fatigued. I need joy to break it all up. If there's nothing rewarding out of it, I will probably back out of things at some point. And yes, I have had this come up before, where I've had to back out of things because it's just been nothing but a big trauma fest and it's... not fun for me. :/

[anoncryinginthecorner]

(1/?) My Name is Carved in Stone, But Where is Yours?

In Teyvat, stories about vision holders range from the domestic to the supernatural. So come one, come all - let us hear about the legend of the Orphan who saved Teyvat but died alone. 

More than 600 years ago, according to the Liyue Qixing’s records, there was an orphan who joined the House of the Hearth. At the time, the House was not the warm place you now know it as. Nay, it was an arena, with the children killing each other for the title of King and their Mother’s affections. The winners would walk away with the spoils of victory and the Mother’s praise; The losers would lose their life in the battle. Surprised? We only know of this from the House’s leader after this was abolished. As you may already know, around the same time, the King at the time, Lyney, released the records of the House being an arena before his time. But who’s to say he didn’t continue the tradition? He probably was brought up under it. 

But I digress. The story of the Orphan is not his. It is of the mysterious Arlecchino, whom Lyney refers to as Father. Hard to imagine the greatest magician who ever graced Teyvat as a child, is it not? Just like the pied piper who lures children into the depths of the woods, he captivated children with his magic and led them into the House. But before Lyney took over, his father, Arlecchino, ran the house. 

Arlecchino was a ruthless man. As the previous King of the House, before Lyney changed its rules, he had already killed many before even leaving the House. It’s rumoured that he was responsible for no less than a hundred deaths before even stepping foot out of the house, a true monster who kills their family. Many things are unknown about Arlecchino, but one that is true is that he is a descendant of the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri’ah, one that fell more than a millenia ago. As he inherited its curse, it would be difficult to maintain the murderous intent its cursed flames possessed. Another confirmed fact would be that he killed his Mother and most of his siblings. A true psychopath. One who took care of other Orphans to appear benevolent.

But even monsters can do good. It’s likely that Lyney still harbors some form of affection for his Father when he recorded into the annals of history that Arlecchino was the one who ended the Heavenly Principles. Cursed as he may have been, he probably still stood no chance against them. However, there is no realistic way that a monster like him would have sided with Teyvat when he had all to gain by siding with Teyvat’s oppressors. He likely even joined the fight against Lyney and the Star Traveller. Lyney probably purged that fight from the record to not sully the House’s name, I am sure of it. 

But that’s not the worst part of the Orphan. The worst part is this - that he killed his wife with his bare hands, in the cruelest way possible. I know, I know, everybody knows this part of the legend, so stop giving me those looks. For the uninitiated children who are listening upstairs, take this advice. Boys, don’t mistreat your spouse. Girls, run if your spouse ever hits you or threatens to kill you. Don’t be like the poor wife of the Orphan, who was not only killed by her husband, but also had her body cut open in all ways by her husband and defiled after. 

And was she devoted to him too! You can find her letters to her husband, donated by Lyney, in Snezhnaya’s National Museum! According to the Magician himself, most of the letters were destroyed after her death, but he managed to save some, and donated them to the Museum. We all know why the Orphan burned them - who would want to keep souvenirs of their victim? I certainly wouldn’t, but you wouldn’t find me killing my wife anyway. 

And the lesser known part, open your ears ladies and gentlemen, was that they had a daughter! Can you believe it? A monster having a child? But the daughter is likely dead, most likely killed by her Father, given from the lack of her records. The Great Magician has never brought up his sibling in any recorded sitting, beyond her existence, so it is safe to say that she was killed by her Father before she even had a chance to grow up. Not all parents deserve their children. 

But we end our legend with the death of the Orphan. He was killed by the Spiderflower Martial Goddess and sealed in an unknown location. Why was he killed, you may ask, beyond the obvious? He started developing a taste for human flesh! Many a child had gone missing in the villages where the Orphan had resided in, to the point even the Gods had to step in! 

– a transcript of a popular Teyvatian legend, provided by <REDACTED> to Lingwen Palace

…

Spending your time in Lingwen Palace’s Case Record Archives was not what you had envisioned yourself doing in your immortal life. It was tedious, boring and nothing short of soul draining. How Lingwen herself had managed to keep this Archive up for the past two millenia, you wouldn’t dare to imagine, though the sleepy, panda eyed junior officials who ferried stacks of scrolls around gave you a slight hint. 

It’s all because THAT Ghost King had decided to become a problem again. The Dire Balemoon, Arlecchino. And you had been assigned to take care of him by Heaven’s reigning leader, Xielian. Why he chose you and not the Spiderflower Goddess, who had sealed that Ghost before, was beyond you, as said Goddess had all but begged to take care of the incident. But Xielian’s word was final, and nobody was going to argue with him when Hua Cheng was right there. 

Definitely not you. A relatively young Goddess who didn’t know if she was a Martial Goddess or a Civil Goddess, or even her own actual title, because Somebody had decided your memories weren’t worth bringing to Heaven with you. The Spiderflower Goddess had already been extremely helpful in helping establish your own (albeit pathetic) presence in Heaven, so settling this in her place would be the least you could do, at the very least. 

…Or so you had thought, until you realise that there was almost nothing in the Archives about this Ghost that was worth a pinch of salt. Mortal legends were almost always inaccurate, save for excessively obvious details, as you had learned. There was that incident about a country mistaking Xielian and Hua Cheng to be Brothers instead of Husbands - an unfortunate nation that burned down a mere half century after it was established. However, they were the best lead that you had now, as Arlecchino may as well have been an actual Ghost from how missing he was from the archives. 

You groaned. Looks like you’ll be spending another year here, trying to find out more about this Ghost before you could deal with him. 

[hoperays-song]

Character Deep Dive: Klaus, Ryan and the Dance Troupe

Finally, it is done! I hope y’all enjoy this deep dive!! Just please read the trigger warnings first. Seriously, read the trigger warnings first. Cannot stress that enough. Also shout out to my beta readers, y’all are amazing!!!

- <3 Gooseless

Character Deep Dive: Klaus, Ryan and the Dance Troupe

*TW: This deep dive will mention abuse, grooming, misuse of power, and manipulation. All the events and actions mentioned are based on real world events told to me by friends in the dance industry and my personal experience and research into the industry as well. However, this is just a theory based on my analysis and the analysis done by others. No hate to the people who actually like this character. Again, just a theory. Also, there were two attempted murders on screen as well as implying other murders had taken place in the second movie, so I feel like this theory (while very dark) isn’t the darkest the series could go and is therefore not that out of place. DO NOT READ IF SENSITIVE TO ANYTHING PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. Also, no, this is not Klaus friendly. What about anything I’ve ever posted would make you think it is? That man gave me multiple panic attacks and made me go back to therapy for a bit because it reminded me of stuff, so nope, not going to be friendly. *

 As someone who was in dance my entire childhood and was raised by someone who was a dancer for 14 years, I always enjoy watching the representation of the dance world in media. I’m constantly looking for small details that allude to the real-world dance culture and I was ecstatic to note that in Sing 2 we got to see some of those cultural aspects as well as a wide range of diversity within the dance class itself. However, less than forty seconds in, I noticed what would become my main issue with the movie itself, the character Klaus. 

Klaus’s actions were shown to be antagonistic and cruel, yes, but the fact that they were brushed off at the end of the movie to allow him to continue to work with a student he was shown on screen to physically, verbally, and emotionally abuse for the simple reason of “he now knows what he’s capable of and won’t underestimate him again after that performance”. The thing with Klaus is that the major issue wasn’t his underestimating of Johnny’s abilities, it was the very blatant abuse and belittlement that was a constant part of his class. It was bad enough to cause Johnny to have at least one panic attack, and that’s Johnny. A kid who was raised in an extremely high stress situation and is used to being dragged through Buster’s bad and typically very dangerous ideas. Within the course of the first movie, we saw him chased by cops, trapped in a flooding building, and face down a group of potentially dangerous gang members. And while he seemed more than slightly worried and a good bit scared in some of those scenes, it was never enough to cause him to have a panic attack (at least not onscreen).

Yet, when you put him in Klaus’s class for two weeks and he ends up having panic attacks and is clearly extremely burnt out to the point other characters start to notice. You have to ask, what is going on there? Well, after analyzing (probably way too much) everything about Klaus and the dancers I could and doing a ton of research, this is the conclusion I’ve drawn.

 Analysis and Allegations

The actions we see from the character Klaus are far from just concerning. Not only do we see Klaus verbally berate and belittle his students, but we also see him physically hit them. No matter what modern media tells you, these are not normal in the dance world. That’s just blatant verbal, emotional, and physical abuse> It should not be tolerated or seen as normal under any circumstances. And, what’s worse is Johnny’s almost definitely not the youngest in that room. One of them, yes, but most likely not the absolute youngest. Most professional dancers report their first official contract at the age of 18. However, troupes are known to have members as young as 15 years old. And since Klaus was hired as choreographer and was able to produce a troupe on such short notice (literally canonically overnight), those are probably all his current students, meaning those kids could be as young as 12 (the age when most professional dancers report starting to circle the professional sphere, however dance classes can start as young as 2 years old). That is further backed up by the fact that every student stayed.

Now I understand that that statement itself might seem weird, however, contrary to popular opinion, dancers are some of the most terrifying people I have ever had the genuine pleasure of meeting. It’s a cut-throat industry and dancers are a lot of times forced to learn to stand up for themselves against abusive choreographers and directors that don’t actually value them. Most dancers I know would have just walked out the moment they saw how Klaus was treating the others, let alone if he started treating them that way. It’s very much an industry based on self-worth to survive. So, the fact that everyone in that class stayed told me that not only were they used to Klaus’s abuse, but they were also more than likely conditioned to take it. 

Like I said, most dancers tend to be extremely good at sticking up for themselves. Sadly however, as in the majority of athletics industries, grooming is a huge problem in dance. As I previously mentioned, dance classes can start as young as 2 years old with most professional dancers reporting to have started seriously training at the 4–6-year-old range. That means that young children, I can’t emphasize that enough that these are children, are being exposed to Klaus’s abuse on a daily basis (Choreographers typically are also teachers at a dance school and since anyone with common sense would fire him to avoid a lawsuit, I would believe that Klaus owns the school). And as anyone who has interacted with a child before can attest, they are incredibly trusting. So, if they were told by an authority figure that they’ve been told they can trust, like say a teacher, that something is normal and not a big deal and they’re lucky enough to have a nice teacher as others are worse, they’re going to believe it.

Even if as they get older and realize that they were lied to and are in fact being mistreated, a lot of times they feel trapped or have no support systems outside of the people involved in the bad situation. Especially if you have been going to a specialized school where everyone around you has been going through the same thing and your contact with people outside it is extremely limited. This can be made worse by the power held by higher ups in the dance industry (choreographers, casting directors, etc.). Those higher ups completely control the lifeline of everything in the industry. One bad word from one can seriously be a career ender. Not only that, but those people tend to be more successful, more in the public eye, and therefore can sway public opinion against whoever might have spoken up with ease as well as making court cases where poor dancers are going up against vastly successful higher ups a literal nightmare for the dancers. A lot of times they cannot afford a good attorney and will end up losing the case or being hushed by settlements that they desperately need due to a lack of work.  

         Therefore, I believe that even if Klaus’s abuse of his students has been brought to light before, it more than likely was swept under the rug. And I believe his abuse of Johnny was evidence proving that theory. Why? Well, Johnny is different than every other student in that room. Not just because he’s never danced before, but because he is not a permeant member of Klaus’s Troupe. He’s only there for the run of the show. And if you are struggling to see why that might be important, let me explain. Johnny has no stake in Klaus’s success. He will not be affected if Klaus’s name is dragged through the mud. He will not be out of a job if Klaus is fired. What Johnny is, as Klaus and every member of that Troupe must know, is a close, personal friend of the director and absolutely can affect their employment status if he wants. He can have them fired and replaced with a different group the next day if he really wanted to beg Buster for a new teacher. Klaus knew this and still chose to target and abuse Johnny. He knew how risky that was and he still did it. That shows to me that he’s gotten away with that kind of thing before. He’s more than likely done this to several other rookies and not faced consequences. And if he’s willing to do it to them, people with no reliance on his success, he definitely is willing to do it to his students, who are relying on him for essentially everything. If Klaus’s reputation is ruined, so is theirs and their resume will probably not get them as far. If Klaus goes under, they suddenly are out of jobs in a city known for its competitive performing job market. If they speak up, they’ll be fired, and Klaus’s reputation will absolutely carry him through any court case they may try. They are very likely end up homeless and hungry if they lose their jobs with him. Klaus has all the power. And he knows it.

         Those are the primary reasons I believe that not only did Klaus physically, verbally, emotionally, and mentally abuse his students, he more than likely is guilty of several much more sinister crimes like grooming and misuse of power.

 Ryan, The Primary Victim

          This part of my theory is where it gets a little more intricate. In dance, there’s a role in most organizations known as the Principal Dancer. The Principal Dancer is the top dancer in that company and frequently are given not only solos but starring roles in shows the company is hired to perform. Starting to sound familiar? That’s because that’s exactly what we see happen to Ryan. Ryan is given the role of being Johnny’s dance partner in the duet, one of the starring roles in the scene of a show being put on by a head of the entertainment industry. However, when we look at the students during this announcement, none of them look surprised. Ryan seems to have been the choice that everyone was expecting. On top of that, Ryan is the only one of Klaus’s students to publicly receive praise in front of the others, something that again doesn’t seem to surprise anyone. Klaus wasn’t doing that just to make Johnny feel bad (he would have pointed out how other students were doing better than him too), he clearly has praised Ryan before. Ryan is Klaus’s Principal Dancer. And upon realizing that, I immediately started to worry for him.

         Principal Dancers are often used as the example for all other students to follow. They stand at the head of the barre during warmups and help other students during practice. They can even help the teacher/choreographer with the choreography and the class overall. Essentially, they can tend to take on the role of a teaching assistant. And rather unsurprisingly at this point, we see Ryan doing just that during the practice scenes. While we never see them doing group warmups on barre, we do see Ryan seemingly helping another student correct their pose when Johnny shows up late for class. In fact, he’s the only student not doing those poses and is instead walking between the others as if checking what they’re doing. He also then proceeds to do the fight scene choreography perfectly. And while we might be meant to brush that off as “oh, he’s a talented dancer, of course he can do the choreo perfectly”, I’m here to tell you that essentially no one can do choreo absolutely perfectly on their first full run through. And that’s what it’s hinted at being, especially for Ryan. Johnny might have learned bits and pieces of the fight scene choreo before that point, however, Ryan’s role was announced in that very scene, and he was still able to do the choreography perfectly. That means that Ryan had practiced that choreo before, more than likely numerous times till he was able to do it flawlessly. And that means, he was more than likely practicing alone, or at least without Johnny (a neutral third party who would note and potentially protest any abuse), with Klaus.

         We know that Klaus has hit his students before, hell we see him do it multiple times in the movie itself, and we know that he also verbally and emotionally berates his students on the regular. We can see by how his students react to this, how scared they look, that they too are targets. And statistically, the person closest to the abuser is typically their primary victim. In this instance, we know the person closest to Klaus within the troupe is Ryan.

         What’s more, the behaviors of Ryan and Klaus within the movie hint to this fact as well (this is probably where I go into over analysis but I’m too far deep in this rabbit hole now so). For starters, let’s look at the scene where Johnny, Buster, and Gunter enter the training room. The first thought that blared through my mind was their shoes. If you didn’t know, street shoes are not allowed on practice room floors, like ever. It can wear down the flooring and therefore make it extremely dangerous for the dancers. So, the fact that the dancers didn’t say anything in of itself was odd, but then again, the Principal Dancer might have been the one expected to speak up in that instance since it involved the show’s director. Speaking of the Principal Dancer, Ryan is the one dancer we do not see in that opening scene. He’s nowhere to be found and neither is Klaus. Now, Klaus being gone on the first day of a show isn’t that surprising. Choreographers have a lot of people they have to talk to such as the director, the publicity manager, the wardrobe department, etc. but Ryan being missing is odd. For one, he would technically be, at least honorarily judging by the troupe’s dynamic, in charge while Klaus is gone, and two, there’s no way they didn’t know they would be getting their new dancer (Johnny) that morning. Having no one there to formally met him or tell him the expectations would spell disaster to a cohesive first practice. And yet Ryan is missing. He could have just stepped out for a moment, true, or been helping Klaus with something, but we never see him being treated as an assistant choreographer so that seems a bit far-fetched to me. Therefore, I have chosen to believe theory three: he wasn’t allowed to be there.

         Now some of you might realize where this theory is headed, but still, let’s keep going. Why wouldn’t a Principal Dancer, the top performer in the company, be allowed to be there when the new student was introduced for the first time? I don’t think it was due to the new student, it was due to who would be there with him. Johnny didn’t walk into that practice studio alone, he walked in with the director and the screen writer, two people of power on set. What’s more is that those two are currently being backed by one of the heads of the biggest entertainment industries in what’s hinted at being the world. They have power and they can use it. If Ryan would have said something to them, perhaps warning them of what Klaus is like or asking for help, they would immediately have them removed from the show and done anything in their power to help Ryan. Therefore, Klaus kept Ryan close or might have even sent him out to do something to avoid him saying anything that could hurt his image. And what’s more, I think Ryan would have. Let’s look at Ryan’s behaviors throughout the movie now, shall we?

         First off, I will admit Ryan is a character with one to two lines and a surprisingly limited amount of screen time for actually being decently important to the plot (though he might have more/close to the same amount screen time than Alfonso if I remember correctly. I’ll have to check.). The first time we actually see Ryan, it’s at Crystal’s Auditions. However, he’s not auditioning. From what I can see (and common fan theories) he’s there to support someone, maybe a friend, maybe a child of a sponsor of the dance company. And he’s also more than likely supposed to be networking for the company as well, getting these potential rich sponsors to like him enough to support Klaus’s company. That is a job assigned to Principal Dancers at certain companies after all. In the scene where we see Ryan, we actually notice him mostly paying attention to Johnny (yes, I do ship them, no, that is not where this is going, nice try). In fact, we see him look him up and down and watch him the entire time he’s in the room. Why is that important for non-shipping reasons? Because there is no way Ryan did not recognize Johnny the next day when he showed up in Klaus’s class. He saw him as a janitor and the next time he sees him apparently his director is friends with Clay Calloway, and they can put on an award-winning show with only three weeks of prep? Yeah, there’s no way Ryan didn’t know that wasn’t a lie. He knew they snuck in. And he didn’t say anything. Klaus would have absolutely used that as ammo against Johnny if he knew and we don’t know enough about the other troupe members to know if they would have told him if Ryan had mentioned it, so it’s a decently safe assumption that he didn’t say a word. He was willing to protect them and their secrets, no questions asked.                                                                                           

         Now, onto where we actually see a fair bit of Ryan, the dance classes. This is where we finally see Ryan being acknowledged as the Principal Dancer as well as a surprising amount of his personality. For starters, we can tell he’s extremely patient and dedicated. He never seems annoyed or upset that Johnny’s struggling so much to the point they have to go long. He is just calm and steady, doing the choreo over and over again the exact same way so Johnny can get used to the same movements. He also has clearly been dancing since he was a kid to reach the rank of Principal Dancer when he’s as young as he is (I always though he and Johnny were close in age, 18-19 years old). So, what do we now know about Ryan? That he’s trustworthy, patient, and very dedicated.

         Now on to why this personality we see hints to Ryan actually being a threat to Klaus’s reputation. Ryan doesn’t act like Klaus. And why does that mean Ryan doesn’t agree with Klaus’s views? Well, a lot of times when people of similar ideologies and behaviors are together, they amplify those traits in each other (think about things like political rallies or groups of friends). Or think of how couples who have been together a long time develop the same habits or how kids mimic their caretakers (and since Ryan is Klaus’s Principal Dancer and probably been training with him for years that probably the closest fit). However, Ryan’s mannerisms and personality seem to be the exact opposites of his teacher’s. He’s even willing to sneak into Crystal Theatre to help them put on the show apparently behind Klaus’s back, seeming to lead the other students there. He doesn’t align himself with his teacher’s ideology towards Johnny at all. In fact, we see him being extremely supportive of the other boy during the show and practices. At this point, it’s pretty clear to me that Ryan has definitely grown disillusioned with whatever Klaus probably told him as a young student and in fact seems to rebel against his teacher’s wishes constantly. He wouldn’t have held back if he had been alone with Buster and Gunter that day. He would have warned them.

         You might be asking “So if this is the case, why hasn’t Klaus fired him then?” Well, simple, sponsors. Remember how I said earlier that Principal Dancers are commonly used for networking between different troupes? Well, as we can observe, Ryan seems to be a very friendly and outgoing guy. He seems like the kind of person who can make friends quickly and easily. And while that is great for making those networking connections, it also means those connections are more than likely fonder of Ryan, a cheerful and friendly young adult, then Klaus, who is shown to be a perfectionist and egotistical. If Klaus was to fire Ryan (especially since I don’t think Ryan would sign an NDA), Ryan would more than likely go to those sponsors and ask for help. He likely could financially cripple the troupe if he wanted to. Klaus is kinda stuck with him at this point.

         And that being stuck with him, especially since Ryan is almost definitely under contract, spells worse news for Ryan. If he leaves and breaks contract, he can be sued, and that lawsuit would probably destroy his future in the dance industry. And if he stays, Klaus more than likely is going to target him even more to try to eliminate the chances of Ryan saying anything (gaslighting, scarily common these days). Ryan is trapped between abuse and essentially financial desolation for the foreseeable future.

        That wraps up by deep dive into the theory that sprung to life after watching the interactions and behaviors of the dance troupe and Klaus in Sing 2. And in the case of a TL:DR scenario, I believe that Klaus has committed much worse crimes than what we’re shown on screen and I believe that Ryan is his primary victim.

[pattysplaceofplaces]

Idea: Y/N(preferably female) as a new teacher at VILE and immediately students and staff alike are talking about her. Like, she's just so beautiful! Some people are even freaked out because she just looks so unreal. Let's just say that Y/N's used to people commenting on her appearance because thats all people care to talk about when she also really smart and kind. What would it look like if Maelstrom had feelings for her?

Enchantress

Professor Maelstrom x Fem Reader

[Author’s Note: Is it bad this got me out of my writer’s block haha?

Also book idea: Maelstrom escapes prison and lives his evil life alone until he adopts a child in need. His morals get a bit better but once a villain always a villain.]

     Finally. Alone. Gunnar wasn’t the most sociable with people and his patience ran thin with all the failed missions lately. Yet now, it was the least of his worries. He stared at the Jellyfish swimming calmly in their wall-sized tank but that couldn’t ease his rushing mind like usual. 

He was no fool, he studied human psychology and habits religiously. Gunnar even used to be a therapist. He let out a sigh of frustration as his upper half leaned on his table. “Out of all the people it had to be me?” He grumbled to himself, “Out of all the people why am I in love?” It was embarrassing to think out loud. That an evil genius like himself was being played by love like a puppet. 

He stood up and went to his shelf, crouching down to the filing cabinet below and grabbing a specific manilla folder. 

Gunnar knew it probably wouldn’t be good for his mind to go through it once again but he had to know why he liked you so much. 

The moment he opened it he was greeted to your picture. You were a few years younger than him yet you rivaled Aphrodite with your beauty. Maybe it was no coincidence you were his first love, with your looks you could very well be a vampire or maybe even a succubus. With the way you could charm a whole island he really wouldn’t be surprised. 

Reading your story once more was always interesting. Y/n L/n, a wealthy woman created and governed many charity organizations. Things started to change as those you worked with seemed more eager to pocket the money and mistreat the people your organizations were supposed to benefit. Then you were fired from your own company and you snapped. You realized the hard way that this world was a cruel place, it was easier being the villain and caring for villains. 

Your story was tragic yet he was happy with the way things turned out. You were the only faculty member that didn’t annoy him in some way. Sweet and considerate yet very capable. 

A knock on his door brought him out of his thoughts with a grunt of annoyance. Usually Bellum and Brunt would simply barge into his room when they needed something so the one knocking on his door was either Cleo or you. 

“Enter.” He spoke clearly as he put your file away and readjusted his posture. 

Gunnar won the bittersweet lottery because it was you who knocked upon his door. “Good evening Gunnar, I hope this isn’t a bad time.” You entered the room with your hands folded, face showing a delicate expression of kindness. “It’s never a bad time my dear, how may I be of service?” 

You walked up to him, each step clicking against the hard floor. “The others want to hold a faculty and we need to take a vote about other recent matters.” You haven’t apart of VILE for very long, barely a month yet you always handled business quite well. 

“Thank you for alerting me, I’ll be there shortly.” You nodded with an understanding smile. “Take your time you seem a bit dazed.” With that you turned on your heel and left him in his room alone. 

What an enchantress you were.

[nightmare-dreamt]

Gosh I really loved your account its very good writing and so detailed!

Well anyway let's cut to the chase I would like a matchup

Fandoms:welcome home spy family dangarompa

My appearance: I have long curly brown hair, brown eyes, I'm chubby and I'm a girl, my skin color is white, height 5'0

My sign is Pisces, and I'm infp and I'm Brazilian, I'm from the Gothic subculture

Sexuality: pansexual

Favorite colors: black, pink, purple

Age: 15 years old

My personality: I tend to make a lot of jokes and be sarcastic even at inappropriate times it's not on purpose and it's just my way of dealing with life situations I'm quite shy at first but when I get intimate I become much louder and talking about being loud I talk too loud and laugh too loud, I'm the type of person who often thinks too much before doing something and I also often do things without thinking which ends up causing me to get hurt there was even one time I ended up in the hospital because of it ,I like to be kind and polite to people but I will also treat people the same way they treat me if the person is kind to me I will be kind to them but if the person is cold to me then I will be cold to them no matter whoever the person is, I have some anger issues and I get irritated very easily so I end up being rude and talking a lot louder (and also because of these anger issues I can end up getting into some fights) I know this is a problem so I'm trying to deal with it, I'm the therapist friend I don't mind people venting to me even if I don't know the person and it's very likely that I hug the person to make them feel better since for me hugs always make things better ( but I won't hug the person if they don't feel comfortable) and as much as I can deal with other people's emotions I don't know how to deal with my own emotions and I have difficulties to vent in a healthy way that does not harm me, I I'm also a bit lazy and introverted I like to go out for fun but I need to have some time alone (it's practically a necessity), I've never been in a romantic relationship and if someone showed any interest in me it's very likely that I wouldn't I would know very well how to react and I would probably be very shy even though I don't like it but if I've been dating the person for a while I wouldn't be so shy anymore and I wouldn't have a problem flirting all the time or being bolder.

Love language: physical touch and quality time, and compliments

I like: food (mainly sweets), music (I like all musical genres), drawing, reading books, anything in the horror genre (books, movies, cartoons, etc……) animals or anything let it be cute, see criminal cases on youtube, my independence

I hate: mistreatment of animals, mathematics, clichéd and stereotyped horror movies that force me to do something I don't want to, any kind of prejudice (racism, homophobia, machismo, etc…), child abuse.

Matchup for Star!

A/n: Thank you for the request and I am deeply sorry to day that the dangaronpa part I hard written got DELETED. If you want I can do another one, but for now enjoy your match up!

Welcome Home: Julie Joyful

When moving into the neighborhood, you weren't expecting everyone to be so friendly towards you and so communicative asking so many questions. She was asking the most, very curious about the new neighbor, wanting to know everything about you. You were shy at first to them, making very little conversation with them, but the more you hung out with her your true colors showed and she loved both sides of you.

When the two of you met, her first thought was doing your hair and styling it into different things, but she truly fell for you when you agreed to let her do those things. Many days are spent with her just doing your hair and putting it into various styles.

One of her clients disappeared out of nowhere and she doesn't know why and it's been bringing her down as of lately, but when her lovely girlfriend appears ready to comfort her. The two of you spend hours together, cuddling and talking about your guy's days trying to make the blonde go back to her old self.

She's definitely a big fan of outdoor dates and spending time in the sun, but she's a even bigger fan of dates indoors where it's just the two of you being able to sit close together with no one else around.

Spy X Family: Yor Forger

When Yor heard one of your jokes, you were shocked not actually meaning to say something like that, but you were even more shocked when she laughed. You now make all sorts of jokes with her, some that get people to turn their heads with a questionable look, but she always laughs at them and that makes you happy.

You remember when Yor had gotten a job offering and the two of you moved in with the Forger family, it was definitely something at first. You were babysitting Anya when a bunch of people rushed in taking the two of you, but it wasn't long before your loving wife came and got the two of you

There have been times when people snap at the people they care for and it's normal, but there's also always pain and sadness when it happens. When you Snapped at Yor, you immediately realized your mistake and apologized profusely for not meaning to have done such a thing, but she didn't react angrily and instead patted your head telling you to let all of your emotions out.

[moriartyluver]

Bro the worst part is that Albert probably started thinking all that ‘they deserve to die’ shit years ago so his brother was like 8-10, maybe even younger while Albert’s thinking about going all Itachi Uchiha💀

Countess Moriarty definitely had some shit going on cuz jfc girlie always seemed so on edge and jumpy

Also considering the era, I would not be surprised if she was on something but called it ‘medication’, and honestly if it wasn’t for the abuse and mistreatment she gave Liam and Louis, I’d feel more bad for her

Oddly enough though, out of Albert’s whole family the one I hated the most was his father even tho he barely did shit💀

YOURE SO RIGHT THO, FL IS SUCH A GIRLS GIRL

She probably felt so bad when she found out about Frida too😭

Cringy y/ns are horrifying, especially the ‘tiny’ misogynistic ones

Like listen, I understand being shorter or smaller than a guy, and it’s completely fine if you like feeling protected or wtv it is, but what the fuck do you mean you could feel his short ass 6inch cock reach the inside of your head???

Or when they complain about OTHER girls wearing dresses and being feminine, like omfg

🎀.

Albert’s been insane for god knows how long. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if countess Moriarty was diagnosed with hysteria or got a lobotomy or something like that. Not that her abusing liam was valid but I wouldn’t be surprised if she had theorised he might have been an illegitimate child or something and that’s why they had to adopt him and Louis.

Bro I swear in the manga version of their origin story, u never really see Albert’s dad like more than once when he was judging og William for all his friends. He saw his two adopted children were being abused and didn’t care and only really did it for the sake of charity or “Nobellesse oblige”

If fl was there I think frida would have had a bit more of a chance bc she would feel safer talking to a woman about her whole situation rather than a man who looked like a uni student.

Tiny y/ns have forever pissed me off. I’m like 5”2 and quite slim but you would never EVER catch me going “I’m so short 🥺” I’d rather die

You will also never catch me writing anything specific about height (unless there’s another character that’s obviously going to be taller because of physical abnormalities or whatever) anytime is use “she looked up at him”/ “he looked down at her” is if they’re sitting down or some shit because not everyone is short omg

Almost equally bad if they make yn tall and honestly can be just as annoying. Just use neutral language to describe a y/n and it’s not that hard.

Those fanfics where he has a 12 inch ‘member’ 💀 and y/n is short as hell so she gets fucking impaled 💀 💀

I swear the first time I ever read a fic with a cringey y/n, I wanted to jump into my phone and smack the shit out of her. Draco doesn’t love your ocean blue orbs and messy bun of blond hair & your 4”11 size

Even tho I was a bit of a messy kid, I was still hella feminine and loved dresses (despite the fact my mum would cut my hair to make me look like a boy 💀) I will never understand pick me girls who hate pink or feminine stuff. Please get a life 🙏

[lemonhemlock]

It is never said in the text that Alys pointed out every member of house Strong to Aemond and to be fair, I don't think he needs her to do it although, who knows, he could've used her to do just that on purpose. I'm sure there are other servants unrelated to them who could do it as well. We simply don't know anything about her relationship with her trueborn family, however all the insane stans have already decided that it must have been really, really bad since she's a bastard, with some suggesting that the Strongs were actively abusing her thus making Aemond the prince charming who came in and "saved" her from her evil bad family. Basically the damsel in distress trope, I guess? Sure, it's very possible they were on bad terms but why they insist it's canon when the source material doesn't confirm it either way? Obviously, they are doing this to whitewash the ship and make it less toxic. I personally find this angle - with her taking an active part in her family's massacre - quite distasteful and I admit I would probably not find her a good person if she does that in the show. I get that she may have been treated badly by the Strongs (the adult ones), but all of them? I doubt it. Some of the Strongs killed by Aemond were young boys (the illustration in The Rise Of The Dragon definitely shows a young boy about to be executed) who were presumably innocent, children Alys herself most likely nursed? Am I really supposed she hated them as well or that she didn't care at all about them being executed? Strong bastards were killed as well, so why am I supposed to believe she didn't care either about them? Surely she must have had some empathy for them since I find it hard to believe that she was discriminated against and abused by her family for her bastardy status yet the other Strong bastards weren't.

So I went to check my sources and, you're right, it's never spelled in the text that Alys pointed out her kin, so I must have misremembered that, because she is never described as particularly bothered by the swift and bloody end of her family either, even though she may even have nursed some of those children herself or at least performed some child care for them, like you mentioned. I don't know how we're supposed to feel about this, even if, say, the Strongs mistreated her, because the complete annihilation of their line is also very much disproportionate to their supposed crime. Also considering that they were innocent of the accusation Aemond pinned on them. Even if they were guilty, like you said, surely the children could not have been considered complicit? The more I think about it, the ickier it gets.

So, while, yes, Alys being actively involved in their downfall is yet to be decisively proven, the reason I'm inclined to give credence to this line of thought is the fact that it seems kind of unbelievable to fall in love with the man who killed your entire family, no matter how much of a wet-cat god-fearing women-respecting momma's boy he proves to be later? And even if you were on bad terms with said family. It's a very extreme thing. You can hardly notch this up to some Pride & Prejudice type of misunderstanding.

So, if we accept that Alys empathized with her brutally murdered relatives, we kind of have to exclude her catching feelings for him later? Or, if she does get to a point of emotion, it surely must be closer to a Stockholm Syndrome type of situation? Which is an entirely different can of worms, like the dynamic changes to Aemond being the abuser or the one in charge, if you prefer. Take into consideration that this entire relationship escalates very quickly. The Dance barely lasts three (?) years, Aemond and Alys know each for less than a year tops (did someone make a timeline for these events yet? I'm iffy on the actual dates). In any case, they're not engaged in some lifelong reconciliation, rehabilitation and therapy sessions here for their supposedly mutually-consensual relationship to become less dicey on Alys' side.

[ruminate88]

Coming from a place of pain? (Overcoming labels from childhood)

So my exes obviously had childhood trauma and so they inflicted pain on me. I believe that.

Then, they give me pain and now I am in a marriage needing to heal. My fear is I will hurt my husband because I’m hurting but yet, I’m older. I’m wiser. I understand where the pain came from and I also understand how it feels to be broken and I would not want that for my husband, so that keeps me from wanting to hurt him…

The differences between me and my exes: They had their pain early, when their brains are still developing. How you are being treated or taught in the very early stages of your brain developing, that’s effecting you. In school, in the 2nd grade, I’m labeled by the system with a “learning disability” and I’m labeled “adhd” and I carried those things with me for years. My mom worked so hard to break me free from those labels, as she wanted me to function like other teenagers. At 14, she’s choosing to homeschool me and she’s telling me, “You do not have a learning disability. You are smart and you are capable.” She’s speaking positive things into me but my brain has already accepted the labels and I’m stuck in this helpless mindset. (Words have power)

all my life, I have worked so hard to get past what school “labeled me” as. I can’t speak for my exes. I don’t know what they understand, what they are self aware of or what support system they do or do not have. I imagine by them abusing me mentally, they must have mental issues of their own. They just come from a place of pain I know nothing about.

You can’t work on something you’re not even aware it exist OR if you have been conditioned early on to accept mistreatment or you learn to adapt in chaos. Having a supportive mother in my life to work to break me free from the labels of my past, that’s helped but she knows it’s got to be me. I’ve got to get over it and I can. I believe life happens in the way it’s meant to and you can choose to grow or stay where you are.

I could easily stay in the mindset of “oh I’m too stupid” but I don’t want to!!! I try so hard. That label tries to scream doubts into my ears every day and I try to ignore the lies about me. I try so hard to open myself up to new information as much as I can, even when it scares me or I don’t comprehend it. I do fear people will think I’m stupid and it’s stopped me from doing so much more in my life but here I am not giving up ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 (often situations trigger me to go into the I’m stupid mode)

I can not speak on my exe’s behalf because I simply do not know their stories. I will never understand their childhood and I’m not meant to. I can only represent my own and work on my own. (But I do feel bad for them.)

I do care and some people would probably tell me not to care at all. Love is bigger than anything. I’ve always felt that and I won’t change that BUT now I’m wiser in realizing you can’t trust everyone and when you feel something in your gut is wrong, you HAVE to obey it. I didn’t. “People pleasing” is NOT the same as “loving people”. Trust me, people pleasing can actually be a selfish act. I was there. I was selfish in wanting my exes to accept me and choose me at all cost. I did not stop to consider why they were the way they were. Just pay me attention and want me. ❤️‍🩹 (not giving them excuses or saying abusing people is okay please understand that)

I can only speak on my own behalf and say whatever took place in your childhood DOES affect you but you can learn from it and grow. You can overcome whatever it is and be better. I’m also not saying my pain was less than whatever pain my exes had. Just that, I’m emotionally mature to deal with it and it happened later in life when I’m already grown enough to deal with it. As a child, there is so much you don’t understand ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 everyday is another day to try again in life! Do NOT give up 🙏🏻

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday (although there is one joke tucked in there.)

37% of the web is porn.

Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.

Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.

More than 70% of all apologies are meaningless.

Smoking a cigarette causes damage in minutes, not years.

On average, a four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

Dancing has been proven to build confidence and release stress.

The honeycomb in Crunchie bars has to be sliced by jets of hot oil.

William Shakespeare was the first person to use insults about people's mothers.

The nicest people tend to often be the ones who have been mistreated the most.

People who stay busy (even with pointless tasks) tend to be happier than those who don't.

If everyone in the world washed their hands properly, we could save one million lives a year.

Women are better at remembering pretty girls' faces because they are seen as potential threats.

One of the best things in life is seeing a smile on a person’s face and knowing that you put it there.

Missing someone causes insomnia. The frustration of being without that person keeps you awake at night.

A study found that a woman is far more likely to give a stranger her phone number if he is holding a guitar.

An Egyptian city was discovered underwater in 2013 after being lost for 1,200 years in the Mediterranean Sea.

Researchers estimate that two-thirds of humans have no idea what they're good at or what their strengths are.

In 2014, a man from Arizona stole a diamond that was worth $160,000 and traded it for $20 worth of weed.

“My only regret is not having invented the condom, the most beautiful item of clothing.” (Jean Paul Gaultier)

The Norwegian navy have barcodes on the sides of their ships, so that when they return to port they can Scandinavian.

During the opening weekend of the film ‘Oppenheimer’, a cinema in India accidentally played it with the ‘Barbie’ subtitles.

Good relationships don't just happen. They take time, patience and two people getting through all the hard times together.

If someone has something bad to say about you, it's probably because they have nothing good to say about themselves.

The title of Aerosmith's song ‘Walk This Way’ was taken from a line spoken by Marty Feldman in the movie 'Young Frankenstein'.

When you have a crush on someone, your brain overlooks and ignores the flaws of that person causing them to appear ‘perfect’.

Intelligent men and women are easily annoyed by people in general but tend to say nothing in an attempt to avoid meaningless arguments.

Hundreds of years ago, humans would go to sleep early, wake up in the middle of the night to perform tasks, then go back to a ‘second sleep’.

Eating chocolate while studying will help the brain retain new information more easily and has been directly linked to higher test scores.

In 2016, a local restaurant offered a percentage discount on your bill equal to the score difference between two college football teams. The University of Michigan ended up winning 78-0.

In 2020, a national park in Thailand started sending visitors’ litter back to them in the post along with a note stating: ‘You forgot these things at Khao Yai National Park’.

Three of the most common drivers of involuntary singlehood: a) Not knowing how to flirt correctly, b) An inability to tell when someone is interested in you, c) A lack of effort.

In 1986, the owner of Harrods in London tried to sue a restaurant in a small town in New Zealand for using the name Harrods. In response, every business in the town also changed their name to Harrods.

CV Writing 1.01. How would you add, “I changed a light bulb” to your CV? “Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents.”

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When we sleep in unfamiliar surroundings, only half of our brain gets a good night's rest while the other half stands guard. This is called the first-night effect. It's thought to be a protective mechanism that keeps us alert to potential dangers in unfamiliar environments.

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

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I'm Home (Bo Sinclair x Reader) Part II

I know that Trudy was probably the one that made the bedroom but I don’t care and I headcanon that Vincent made it and I won’t take criticism for that :)

| Ambrose is different then when you were originally here. But you didn't come back for Ambrose. |

Warnings: Hinted AFAB or fem presenting reader, House of Wax canon typical violence, talks of death and murder, hinted child abuse. (Let me know if I missed anything or to add tags)

Pairings: Bo Sinclair x Reader, Lester Sinclair & Reader, Vincent Sinclair & Reader

(i) (here) (iii)

Not my gif!

You had made your way over the river with Lester, the other being much more careful of your own steps than you were. You noticed the town sign, welcoming people to Ambrose with its population number probably the same if not less since you were removed from your home. Despite it’s desolate roads, you could hear sounds of dogs and kids playing, cars going off and people talking. Those were the sounds you expected to hear, but…

There were no visuals to back it up.

“Where’s the sound coming from, Lester?”

“It’s all rigged up, the town.” He muttered walking next to you with his hands in his pockets. “It’s just the four of us, and, well, five now.”

“Five?”

“Well you’re here, and Jonesy, well she’s around here somewhere.” Lester didn’t do much to look around for whoever Jonesy was. “She’s a lil’ black and white pitbull. We think? She kinda, uh, came with another group but they was mistreating her.”

“Past tense?” You noted.

“We don’t like strangers.” Lester swallowed. “Vincent likes to use ‘em to keep up his art.”

You looked up past the church and looked at the House of Wax. “He makes ‘em into figures?” Lester nodded his head. “Bo helps?”

“He, uh, enjoys it.” Lester muttered.

“The wax thing?” You furrowed your eyebrows.

“Not, no.” Lester looked at you. “I won’t let ‘im do anything to you but he liked it when pretty girls came through.” It clicked in your head. Bo had always been sadistic and possessive. Pile on the fact that he was lonely… “He won’t touch ya, if ya don’t wan’ ‘im to.” Lester was sure about it. “I was thinking we go see Vincent first, but-”

“I’d like that.” You said, a smile on your face. You’re not going to lie, you’re concerned about Bo and Lester is probably doing the same thing he did all those years ago, relying on familiar connections to keep you safe from Bo’s wrath. “Were you gonna let them turn me to wax?” You asked as you started walking up to the house.

“I was, til I knew who you was.” Lester was always honest with you or he didn’t talk, it’s good to know he hasn’t seemed to change much. “I ain’t gonna let either of them hurt you. You’ll come wit’ me if it comes to it.”

“I appreciate that, Lester.” You responded as you walked through the empty streets. You can’t imagine how lonely these boys were, but at the same time, it was kind of self-inflicted, and Vincent wasn’t really extroverted enough to need anyone except for his family. “What happened, after your Ma…” You trailed off, not knowing what to say.

“We got separated is what Bo’ll tell ya.” Lester continued walking, you staying in pace with him. “But we stayed at the house. Doc was- Bo did it.” You want to be surprised, but you’d seen the chairs and Bo was not a forgiving man. Lester watched your face. “He made sure we stayed together after that.”

“You were all safe?” You asked. Lester seemed shocked that that was what you had taken away from his words.

“Yea’.” He muttered as the two of you came up the hill in front of the House of Wax. “You wanna come in, knowing…” He trailed off, looking at your face.

“I wanna see Vinny’s work.” He nodded his head at your answer and opened the door, ignoring the closed signposted on the handle. “He kept it in shape.” You say, noting the effort and the new people around, the piano just off the side room.

“Yea’, he did.” Lester started walking down the corridor that was roped off. It led to stairs that went down. “His workshops down ‘ere. It connects to the house.”

“How long ago did you guys start doing this?” You asked.

“A few years after the sugar mill went down. People left ‘cause there was no money. But we didn’t.”

You hurried your steps to walk next to Lester down the stairs, you grabbed his arm and squeezed. Your boys were abandoned by everyone. Even you. “I’m sorry I left.” You whispered.

“Ain’t your fault.” Lester said, a sad smile pulled across his face. “Just glad you’re back.” You smiled back at him. As you descended further down, you could feel the heat that was being pumped through.

“Me too.” You looked around as you came out of the tunnel to the workshop, looking at the chair that was sitting in the middle of the room as well as a huge vat of hot wax being kept warm over a flame. “He spend all his time down here?” You asked Lester.

“I’m outta town too much to answer that.” Lester answered, looking a bit guilty. “Gotta get supplies.

“You help, Lester. I’m sure they’re thankful.”

It must be your voices that drew Vincent out from his hiding place. If Lester was telling the truth, he wasn’t around town much, so he would have no reason to be showing a person, or victim you guess, the workshop where they were going to die. You don’t even see him, if you’re honest, it’s just a shadow moving when the flame flickers.

“Vincent?” You called out, letting go of Lester’s arm and stepping forward. “It’s Y/N.” You looked back at Lester, unsure of what to say, he nodded his head at you, encouraging. “I’m sorry, I left. I didn’t even want to go, to be honest. I got forced but, I’m back now. I don’t-” You see his mask pop out slowly from behind a corner, his hair long and plenty of flyaways. You speak softer. “I don’t plan on leaving Vin.” He moved closer towards you, his boots crunching over the pavement in the basement under the town. His movements are slow, cautious, as he tread towards you, but you can tell he’s not looking at you.

“It’s ‘em, Vincent.” You heard Lester say, but you didn’t turn around to look at him. You just stared at Vincent.

“Can I hug you, Vin?” You asked, your arms opened up and like a cat, he flung himself toward you. Despite him being taller, he buried himself into your chest, lifting you up as you laughed. He dropped you and you found yourself in a similar position to when you reunited with Lester, your head under his chin, his chin on your head.

“I missed you so much.” You mumbled into his chest as you burrowed in further. He tried to rasp a sound out but you hushed him. “I know, Vin. Don’t hurt yourself.” You don’t even try to pull away from the man who is much taller compared to Lester. “Lester told me about your art. Are you happy with it?” You felt him nod atop your head. “I’m glad.”

You pull away as Vincent does and you grip his bicep and hold him in place. “Bo’s not forcing you to do anything?” You asked, with a raised eyebrow but he shakes his head. You loosen your grip. “I’m glad.” You said as you moved your hand down his arm and grip at his hand, pulling him along so that you could walk to Lester, who looked a little bit awkward standing there. You grabbed his hand as well.

“Two of my best friends back in one day. I’m not letting either of you outta my site for another week.” You said. Lester chuffed at your words but turned red and you smiled at both of them while squeezing their hands. “I know down this way leads to the house but can you come show me some of your art, Vin?” He nodded his head and then you turned back to Lester. “Wanna come to?” Lester looked past you for a second.

“You gonna show ‘em upstairs?” He asked, Vincent must have answered before Lester looked back at you. “I might just wait in the entrance.”

You looked at him. “You sure?” But Lester smiled, a twinkle in his eye you were glad to see again.

“Yeah.” You walked up the stairwell from the basement, away from the workshop and into the reception area. “I’ll be here.” Lester gave your hand a squeeze before he let it go. You let Vincent take the lead. He removed the rope with ease and then continued to lead you up the stairs. Vincent continued to take you through the corridor on the second floor.

There was a single door at the end of the short corridor, which Vincent stopped in front of. Just like everything else in this place, it was completely made of wax. He motioned for you to open it. You pushed it open, cautious not to let your hands touch it for too long. The first thing you saw was a bedroom similar to the master bedrooms that dotted Ambrose houses. It was as you moved your sight from the windows to the corner of the room that your heart melted. “Vin.” You gasped. “You make that?”

He shied away but nodded. It was a small wax crib with a set of conjoined twins in it, one attached to the back of another’s head. Vincent and Bo. Bo and Vincent.

“It’s incredible.” You move towards the crib, careful not to touch anything or step too heavy. “You did amazing. Your Ma would be proud.” He stepped closer behind you, his footsteps still light and cautious around you, scared to spook you away. You felt his hands, rough with callouses from his work, grip your hips before they came around to your stomach. You leant back against him. Vincent and Lester were more touchy with their affection and you welcomed the older man's hug.

You heard him try to rasp something out and turned around. “You thinking about Bo, Vin?” He nodded and you smiled. Vincent couldn’t speak because of how he was born. He only really tried to make sounds when extremely emotionally or trying to talk about Bo. “You want me to see him?” You asked and he paused but shook his head. “You scared of me seeing him?” Another moment, this time even more tense than before, but he nodded.

You grip Vincent’s wrists, a no touch place for Bo, but a comfort for Vincent, and squeeze slightly. “I know you love him, you and Lester both. But I also know you won’t let him hurt me.” You paused for a second before continuing. “I want to see him alone for the first time.”

A rasp of disapproval from Vincent.

“I’ll scream if something goes wrong but if I’m to stick around, Bo needs to know I'm still me. That he doesn't scare me.” You let go of Vincent, and stepped back. “This place doesn’t scare me.” You gestured around. “This is your art, this is your life. If I want to be in it, I can’t be hiding from Bo.”

A moment passed but you know that Vincent knows your right. Bo is an important part of Ambrose, there’s no town if Bo’s not here.

“We should head back down to Lester. I’ll talk with Bo before it gets too dark out. You head out of the room, Vincent following you and closing the door behind you. You held your hand out as he came towards you and the both of you walked down the stairs.

You smiled as you saw Lester waiting at the reception, leaning in the besk with both his elbows. “So, where’s your brother waiting to lure me to?” You asked, a small, cheeky smile on your face.

Lester turned around to face you, a forced smile on his face at the topic of conversation. “Prob’ly at the church. Make you feel bad for walkin’ in on a funeral.”

You nodded, Vincent still holding on to you as you made it to the bottom of the stairs. “I want to talk to him alone.”

“He’ll think you’re a tourist-“

“I’m okay with that. I want him to underestimate me.” You looked at Vincent and smiled with Vincent’s comfort in mind, before turning back to Lester with the same smile. “I said it to Vin, I’ll say it to you. If I stick around Bo’s gotta know I’m not scared.”

Lester looked unsure but knew it was true. It had been one of the first things Lester had told you about Bo all those years ago.

“If you show Bo a weakness, he’ll use it.”

Lester looked you over for a minute then nodded. “Be safe.” He said. “But we’re staying out here.”

“Of course.” You said as you walked towards the exit of the House of Wax. “I’ll even leave the door open.”

The walk felt quicker than before, with two thirds of the Sinclair brothers now on your side, you now had to deal with the worst one of them all. You had done it once, you knew that you could do it again, deep down Bo was the same person, just with even more trauma and walls around his gooey, frustrating inside.

As you came to the gates, you could hear the organ music loud and clear. You were impressed by the amount of effort that the boys had put into making this seem realistic. You knew that they were brilliant in their own ways but the care they had put into this was unique and terrifying.

You opened the door to hear a priest talk about the deceased, the hinges squeaked loudly as you moved inside the church not even trying to be quiet, and as you promised Lester and Vincent, you left the door open as you walked further inside the church. Bo was on his knees in front of the coffin as he turned his head around to face you, confusion and annoyance clear in his face.

The sounds of sniffing and quiet sobs filled your ears as your hand traced over the pews that people were seated on. You looked back at Bo, a smile on your face.

“They’re well crafted.”

“You’re interrupting.” He drawled, but you could tell underneath he was hiding his harsher accent. You’d win when you brought that out of him again.

“No one else seems bothered.” You pointed out, sitting down on one of the pews and leaning back into it. “Well maybe the priest but his eyesight hasn’t left the door since I’ve got here.” Bo got up from kneeling, as he looked down for a second and then back up. “Do I get a pamphlet?” You asked, your voice sweet.

“I lost someone and you’re in here mocking me?” You can tell by his smile and the chuff to his voice that he’s trying to keep friendly, but his eyes are cold.

“The only two people left alive that you care about are standing outside this church.”

He walked closer to you, his steps harsh and a predatory snarl on his face. He stopped at your pew and leant down. Instead of leaning back like he wanted you to do, you used the side of the pew to lift yourself up, his right hand grabbing your neck as you came up to his ear. “You might be baptized but you don’t believe in God, purely cause you think you are one.”

“You can’t lie to me, Bo Sinclair.” You grabbed his wrist and pulled him down. He caught himself on the pew, grabbing the backboard of it with his left hand as you lowered yourself to lie down on the bench. “Lester said you liked pretty things.”

“You don’t know me.” He growled out as his knee came up between your legs. You pulled your hand away from his wrist but not before running a thumb over the suit where you knew his scars were.

“But I do.” You looked up at his eyes, cold and yet they made you feel so hot. You felt yourself clench, a shiver down your back as you imagined what he looked like underneath the suit and tie. You reached your left leg up around his back and pulled him closer to you, his now hard length pressed against you and you moaned. “Fuck, Bo.”

He growled. “You think your gonna live because I fuck you?”

You smiled and brought your hand up to his head, careful on the sensitive part on the back of his head. “I think I’m gonna live cause you fucking like me.”

You’re quick to pull him in. As you kissed his lips, you opened to allow his tongue to invade yours, his teeth pulling at your lips. You felt his clothed dick start to grind into you as you moan into the kiss, trying to lift your hips up to get more friction.

Bo’s movements weren’t gentle, he was rough as he ran his right hand down and squeezed your hip as he continued to grind on you. “Fuck, oh fuck.” He growled out into your mouth.

You moaned back in agreement before you pulled back and rested your head on the bench. Bo’s eyes were blown, his pupils dilated, his face slightly flushed. “You took my first kiss at a funeral. Let’s not have sex at one.” You pulled your leg down and sat up as you placed a kiss on Bo’s cheek.

“I fuckin’ what.” Bo said, incredulously.

“I mean, it was a few years ago, but surely it wasn’t that bad.” You responded with a laugh. It clicked in Bo’s head.

“Y/N.”

You smirked back at him, noticing his dick twitch in his pants.

“Hiya baby.”

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Jung Woo Young (Ateez) Ideal Partner Characteristics based on Tarot Reading

Hello and welcome!

I’m Kleo and I’m here to present some k-pop related tarot readings to you.

Disclaimer:

I would like to state that all these readings have a purely entertainment nature and their purpose is to bring some fun into my and hopefully yours lives. I have never ever met any of the idols / actors / celebrities in my readings, I don’t know them personally. Tarot reading isn’t an exact science and I can never guarantee any of it. Most of it is my intuition mixed with fantasy. Don’t take these readings seriously and don’t base any important decisions on tarot readings only, use your common sense.

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Reading Info:

Rating: 18+

Reading Type: Single - Couple

Requested: Yes - No

Deck: Crow Tarot

Spread: Ideal Partner

Questions:

Body

Heart

Spirit

Soul

Time

Place

Full Name: Jung Woo Young

Stage Name: Wooyoung

Group: Ateez

Jung Woo Young

(Wooyoung - Ateez)

Deck: Crow Tarot

Spread: Ideal Partner

Body - XVIII The Moon

Wooyoung’s ideal partner is likely a person with some deeply rooted self-esteem issues. They might come as extremely shy, awkward and anxious. They are likely to wear dull and inconspicuous clothes, trying to hide in the shadows and corners. It might be caused by them being mistreated or shamed when growing up. Now they simply don’t feel comfortable in their own body and would prefer to hide from anyone’s sight.

Heart - 0 The Fool

Wooyoung’s perfect match might have issues when with people but they surely have a rich and meaningful inner world of their own. At heart they are curious and with a child-like enthusiasm. They might even come as naive and they surely are in a way fragile and soft at heart. They probably have rather exciting and adventurous ideas and can explore a variety of subjects with undying curiosity but they will forever feel like weirdos or outcasts.

Spirit - Queen of Wands

Wooyoung’s significant other is likely a spiritually very active and colourful person. They are likely interested in a variety of spiritual activities, they like to explore the unknown and combine and mix the philosophies. They are likely enthusiastic about these and can connect with people alike. It’s very likely that their yoga, tarot or wicca circle (or any other kind of group) is the only place where they are able to cheer up and express themselves freely.

Soul - 3 of Pentacles

Deep down in their soul, Wooyoung’s ideal partner is a skillful craftsman / woman. They have all those fantastic ideas but they are likely to bring them into reality as well when it matters to them. They are able to easily team up with people with the same interest and it’s very likely that any collaboration they are engaged in will come to fruition.

Time - 10 of Wands

Wooyoung is likely to meet his significant other in the time of need, when he’s busy with millions of tasks and needs someone reliable he could delegate some of his work to. It’s possible his ideal partner is his coworker or someone working in services, Wooyoung might hire them to help him out (do the taxes, organise a party, clean the house, design his living room…). He’s likely to grow fond of this person and maybe even get astonished why he didn’t notice them sooner (obviously because they were hiding in the shadows and corners as we said).

Place - VIII Strength

If Wooyoung decides to share one space with his ideal partner, it’s gonna become a safe place for both of them. Wooyoung is likely to encourage his loved one to open up a bit, get out of their shell and become more courageous. He’s not going to pressure them, though, only gently mending what was broken, empowering their self-esteem step by step. Their home is likely to be comfortable for both of them but very private. Wooyoung might be a popular guy but his home is his private lair and he’s likely to meet his friends outside.

This was actually pretty interesting. I wouldn't expect this kind of result for Wooyoung. I would kinda expect he will go for a wild extrovert to match him but seems like our boy has some finer and more complex taste.

Thank you for reading!

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