#r;family ties

[fanaticalthings]

important family group chat discussions

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[twinstxrs]

there’s something so personal about the scene in fantasy high s1e7 where gorgug calls himself stupid & fabian, who up to that point had basically entirely been acting like the bad kids (especially gorgug) were beneath him & had also been the one calling ragh stupid two lines ago, instantly says “okay, do not put yourself down like that. don’t you dare do that to yourself.” like it was obvious he liked the bad kids at that point but the instinct to protect his friends manifesting as an immediate strong refusal of gorgug’s self-deprecating talk kills me. that boy loves his friends so bad oh my god i feel sick.

[dilutedbeanibeans]

yknow, those old guys who made the robots n shit yknow….

anyways henry design is mines and william’s design belongs to @/valentronic !!! her design rocks :]!!!!!!!!

[yoondepity]

bro just went "familial ties? terrifying." 😭 I laughed, not about to start lying

[tillman]

The rough meat ball Immediate family tree but like. Before I realized oh god his kids would be older huh. Thats fucked.

[birdricks]

stooooooop ur bird facts are giving me crazy bo thoughts but specifically the dyeing feathers to be more gender affirming. immediately started thinking abt birddaughter already doing a form of this and that by extension birdperson's far duller plummage could even make him read as gnc among birdpeople....

UEAHHH DEFINITELY W BIRDDAUGHTER. also yessss i do think personallllyyyy theres a lot to b said abt how bp doesnt fit neatly into bird culture anyways like REGARDLESS of being trans … it depends on how you interpret the culture but tbh id definitely consider bp to be gnc in some form ….

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[alchemiclee]

been looking in tags for a few days now to see if anyone else found the whole high cloud quintet and related story to be a bit.....poorly written, nonsensical, contradictory, full of plot holes and loose ends, etc. apparently i'm not the only one. (and i'm not even talking about shipping stuff, because any time I saw someone mad about bad writing, someone always replies to be homophobic and laugh about failed ships. weirdos.) it could have been so good but was thrown into the garbage for the most part (IF you noticed all the plot holes and contradiction. if not, then it's a fine enough story tbh. I expect most people to see it on surface level and not read all the little hidden lore bits and try to piece it together like my autistic brain did. which is ok! enjoy it if you liked it and ignore me 😆)

[toestalucia]

surely aunt will talk to us directly next update copium

[yb-cringe]

I feel like the Nosey Neighbors would fit perfectly for a TMA statement. Someome comes into the Magnus Archives and talks about their neighbors that are always staring at them from a distance while whispering to one another. They've talked to their neighbors a few times before, and they know more than they led on.

i feel like i have no idea what spawned this ask but also i agree so much come back anon i wanna hear more. nosey neighbors are soooo eye influenced youre so right

[a-forxst-of-musxs]

CLOSED STARTER — @blccdharmonyx

— ‧₊˚ ✩ 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄, circe learned about the sirens. the cultures, traditions, and stories of her mother’s childhood. how mother laid with son, father with daughter, or cousin with cousin. these affairs not only kept the bond strong, but the family pure and amongst themselves. that is, until her mother fell in love with her father, a warlock. somehow she was able to break the attraction… and gave birth to twins, her and liara, who was older than her by six minutes. though the times have changed, their traditions didn’t.

however, since time went on, what they feel was normal was frowned upon in society, so whenever someone — or two , perhaps multiple — felt the NEED, they would always be private and behind closed doors. circe wasn’t sure if their family tradition were true or not. that was.. until she went to ask liara to borrow her charger, instead walking in on her own twin…. with one of the cousins ! the younger lebeau quickly shielded her eyes, cheeks flushed full of embarrassment. “oh jeez ! s-sorry. i just — needed to borrow your charger. i’ll come back later. c-carry on!” circe quickly shuts the door and scurried off. were the rumors of her family true? the young girl could feel a strange sense of curiosity — and something else — as she returned to her room.

[onewomancitadel]

For so long I have lived in a land of tranquility that I forgot about all of the 'Raven is a bad mother/Tai is a bad father therefore they should be ushered out of the story quickly and promptly' discourse. Fandom is so much fun but some people want to turn it into the most boring hobby in the world.

Anyway, I think there is something intentionally being done with the fantasy of Summer Rose vs. the painful reality of Raven and I don't think they're being contrasted in a negative way. I fully expect Raven's redemption arc in the story to coincide with more complicated facts about Summer emerging especially in relation to Salem and Grimm-cursing. That neither of them are perfect (and we don't want perfection anyway) is kind of the point and part of growing up is realising that about your parents.

I find it really disquieting that parts of the fandom for years have tried to describe Raven as a deadbeat mother as if a story with mythically-motivated stakes is exactly comparable to the struggles of mothers IRL (though I think honestly a narrative about the difficulties, fears, and pressures of motherhood is interesting, in this setting Raven being a bandit queen and ex-protagonist trying to defeat the Queen of Death makes it more complicated. I am pretty sure her absolute fear of Salem has something to do with her abandoning Yang).

Like... I get that people have complicated issues with their parents that they project onto these stories but the story is obviously interested in humanising her, it's humanised all of the 'bad' parents - chiefly the matriarch/patriarch of the story Ozma and Salem.

I think it's really telling though that we want to pit different types of parents in the story against each other when I don't think the show is really doing that. The story even tried to extend mercy to Jacques and he is probably one of the most onscreen abusive parents in the story - and that mercy was denied by Ironwood (another draconian abusive parental figure to Winter, Weiss, and Penny).

Anyway, I really really really expect anything relating to Summer to also be related to so much else in the story, especially Raven, that it's a shame this type of thing gets watered down... and sometimes characters do bad things but I guess that gets confused with bad character writing? I don't know, I'm much more interested in complicated character relationships and parent-child relationships are obviously doing a lot of work in the story lol. You kind of miss out on most of the story if you're angry about Tai being depressed.

This same demographic will inevitably say Cinder should've continued suffering, being tortured and forced into servitude in the Glass Unicorn (a type of parental abuse in the story) so you know what there was no point to writing this post because it's actually just about inherent likability of a character. Nevermind. Forget I said anything.

[princemick-archive]

dima said kevmick bodyguard au and im-

[deus-ex-mona]

also!!!!!! there’s finally a way to read this guy’s name!!!!! vol 4 be w i n n i n g

[ascalonianlightbringer]

It's been a long time since I first fell in love with pre-Searing Ascalon in Guild Wars: Prophecies. But I'm still nostalgic enough that I periodically visit Ebonhawke just to go home to human Ascalon, and I loved this view of it :)

[master-gatherer]

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