#see also: when i helped a kid and her mom find their youngest sibling/child (who was like 3) when again. not a native spanish speaker

[falesten-iw]

Urgent 🆘️ call: 🚨🍉 Please help..🥺😓🙏

My name is Falastin, and I am a mother of three small children, ages 5 years, 2 years, and 3 months. I am not very good with social media, but I am writing to seek your help to give my family in Gaza the chance to live their lives again.

Due to the ongoing genocide we in Gaza are experiencing, my family need your help to survive, leave Gaza, and find safety.

In november 2023 last year, i lost three of my cousins from my mother's family with their wifes and children's, some of them still under the rubble untill now. 

In mars 2024 this year i lost another 2 cousins in Alshifa hostpital, this shock after three months of the first lose was a big slap into our face, it was a harsh reminder that death didn’t stop, and that none of us is an exception in this genocide, not a woman nor a child, everyone of us is a target to the death machines above our heads.

My family has lost everything. Some of them have tragically passed away, and those who remain are without shelter, moving from one temporary place to another in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Currently "After more than 20 times of being displaced and having to leave our house escaping from rockets and death " they have fled south and are living in a makeshift tent made from plastic bags and torn clothes.

Each day is a battle for survival. Each day, my family wakes up not knowing if they will have food to eat, clean water to drink, or a safe place to rest. Their homes have been wiped, and their children sit sleepless waiting their death. In Gaza, there is no where to seek shelter, no bunkers, nowhere to hide. Gaza is no more than 40 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide with a population of just over two million. Gaza's border is completely surrounded by fences and barbed wire. The only way out of Gaza is to Egypt.

I used to introduce myself as the youngest in the family but in this GENOCIDE I’m a big sister who see her siblings’ future getting lost in front of her eyes, as i see my brothers kids who are still young and supposed to be in school, my mom who is 73 years old unable to find her medicine, as I see them, I made it a mission to myself to save my family or who’s left alive from it, to save their future from all of this and to escape Gaza.

Despite everything, I still have hope to save those who remain of my family. But I need all the help I can get from every person on earth. This challenge is not easy for me, especially since I am not good with social media and i dont have so many follower to reach and ask them for help. However, I am trying, and maybe with your support, the impossible can become possible.

Asking for your help is the only way I have to save my family’s life and future. Your help can be our hope when hope seems far away. Because of that, I appeal to your generosity and compassion, asking for help so that we can gather the necessary funds to help my family.

Photos of "Lina," who was born at the start of the war, and she is now 9 months old. Your donation could give her the chance to survive, leave Gaza, and find safety with her family.

I would like to thank everyone who has donated, shared and supported my campaign so far. Your generosity has given us hope in the darkest of times, and I am deeply grateful.

So far, we have raised 3,950 SEK of our 2,000,000 SEK goal - August 15th. While this is a small step, it is a crucial one, and it shows that together, we can make a difference. We still have a long way to go, and I urge you to continue sharing our story and contributing if you can.

Every donation, no matter the size, brings us closer to saving my family and giving them a chance at life. Please read and act as if it were your family, your mother, your siblings in these conditions. 🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔

Important note: Donation value:

** 1$ = 10.5 Swedish kr

** 10$ = 105 Swedish kr

** 100$ = 1050 Swedish kr

** 1000$ = 10500 Swedish kr

VETTED and shared by 90-ghost, also as no. 282 in The Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser Spreadsheet compiled by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi and shared in the masterpost.

We have also been verified by Al Jazeera News. Here is the video. I added this video today, august 15th. Its showing my cousin and aunt in the hospital, where she shares how the Israeli army airstruck them with their kids. Listen to my aunt Suad "Em Mhammed".

Best regards,

Falastin and her family.

[passiveagreeable]

just now remembering this. like full stop i don't think i've thought anything of this experience since a few days after it happened.

but more than a year ago. i was taking a bus from malaga to granada and one of the station employees came up to me (i was the last person in line to board the bus at this moment) and ask me if i could help out this gentleman (the station man's words precisely, he called him caballero) he was leading with him. and it was immediately evident that this guy was visually impaired or blind.

and well. i was like 'yeah of course' because yeah of course.

and i did, sort of. but i wasn't sure like, how far was too far. with helping. so i only helped minimally. and also i didn't immediately fess up that i didn't speak spanish natively, in fact i don't think i mentioned it at all. (maybe i said i was a student? i can't recall). which i should have said immediately so that he understood that if i said something wrong or weird, it wasn't me getting impatient with him or exasperated over assisting but simply low confidence in my imperfect linguistic grasp (and just overall low confidence, generally, extensively, but nevertheless). or so that i could have asked somebody else to help if he didn't feel comfortable with me and my incompetent ass, which would have been totally fair. i probably should have said that from the get go, really, but it felt like it might have come off as me trying to brush off the task and trying to make excuses to get out of it. yeeeeah, so the two of us basically stood there in silence except when i had to give verbal directions for like "walk forward" "stop" "there's stairs" etc. which were overall pretty stilted, i think.

also, he got off the bus just fine but then i wasn't sure if he wanted help from there, so i let him alone. i'm sure he could have gotten out of the building without issue eventually, but it was taking him a bit of time with the layout, to find the door from the bus stall, whatnot, and everyone was giving him weird looks. which really just rubbed me the wrong way, so after maybe 15 or 30 seconds, i did go up to him and offer to assist him again. so i got him to the taxi area and into a taxi, if i'm remembering the events correctly.

simultaneously a nice experience and a super humiliating one. because like i am literally so👏 dumb👏 and i think way too much but i thought if i said something about not speaking spanish super fluently that i would get in trouble or something. so instead i probably made him feel terrible and was like suuuuuper awkward about helping him. like bitch, if you don't know, just ask what he wants you to do to help, holy fuck.

now i know better, but i would go back and slap myself right in the face if i had the chance.

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

A short list of things I would have changed in HoO

It takes place ten ish years after the end of PJO. Percy and Annabeth aren’t a part of the seven but instead appear as cool older mentors to help out the Lost Hero trio. They both have careers and live in New York and go to Sally’s house for dinner every weekend.

Caleo isn’t a thing. In fact, let’s not even mention Calypso. At most we mention she was freed after the last war as idk proof demigods have some power or something.

More than 1 Asian character. Give this one ADHD and dyslexia bc shocker Asian kids can be disabled as well.

For that matter a properly disabled character. I have a deaf OC I would use if I rewrote the series.

Leo is aroace. His arc is about learning that his self worth doesn’t have to be tied to the people around him and his friends love and care about him and he doesn’t need romance to be complete. His flirting is overcompensation bc he doesn’t feel romantic or sexual attraction and is afraid he’ll be alone forever.

Drew and Piper become friends. Drew’s mean girl bullshit is outdated and boring and it would have been a lot cooler to see her icy exterior thaw and her help Piper with her charmspeck (explaining how Piper learned how to use it to begin with) and take on an older sister role

Neither Leo nor Piper become head councilors to their cabins because that’s dumb

Keep the chapter title style from PJO. It was so fun and one of the highlights of the series for me. The relatable nature of PJO in general was kinda lost in HoO and it’s a shame bc there was such a variety of characters for people to identify with there.

Give Reyna a girlfriend or at least a homoerotic friendship that can become an actual relationship in the next series or something

Frank is 14 and he and Hazel aren’t dating, they just have mutual baby crushes on one another.

For that matter what the fuck was ‘Frank is magically not fat due to Mars’s blessing’ bullshit? Frank is a fat character who stays fat but learns to be confident in himself and his body type.

Stop The Adultification of Hazel 2k23. Hazel is 13, she’s the youngest member of the seven and despite her trauma I think that should be obvious. I think emphasizing her relationship with Nico could be fun here - he’s in his 20s so him taking a more ‘that older sibling who toes the line between parent and sibling’ role here could be fun.

Also, I don’t want Hazel to have Hecate’s blessing or whatever. Between her being a magical horsegirl and the daughter of Pluto there’s already a lot of room to expand on her powers that was never used - I think doing more with her cursed jewels and metals powers and her learning the other aspects of her powers, like Shadow Travel, would be fun.

Instead I think having a daughter of Hecate as a part of the Seven would be cool, because we could still have a witchy character with mist manipulation and magic powers.

Give Jason an actual personality, please. Bro’s been a child solider practically since age 2 and has spent his whole life with the weight of other teenagers’ lives on his shoulders as praetor - give him perfectionism issues and anxiety. We’re told that he’s spent his whole life helping others compromise instead of being his own person - show that. Let his arc end with him deciding to try and live a mortal life and find out who he is beyond being a war general.

Show us that Octavian’s a piece of shit, don’t just tell us.

Leo and Piper are the ones who fall into Tartarus. Nothing romantic ever happens but we get heavy emphasis on their friendship and we get to see their grief over Leo’s mom and Piper’s grandfather respectively

Piper’s grandfather has died a few months ago and she cut her hair herself when her dad didn’t want to let her due to that (correct me if I’m wrong but it’s a tradition in Cherokee culture to cut your hair when a loved one dies, correct?), which is why it’s all uneven. A lot of her insecurities stem from going from growing up in rural Oklaholma (not in a reservation bc there aren’t any there) without much money to suddenly being catapulted into a millionaire Hollywood lifestyle and having everyone criticize everything about her and be really racist, all while her Dad drew farther away from both her and her grandfather. Her arc would be reconnecting with both her culture and Dad and learning to find who she is and her self worth again.

They defeat Gaea in a way that isn’t so anticlimactic and fucking stupid

[foundfam2754]

if criminal minds was a family, my pov

disclaimer: this doesn't include every character from every season, but on the characters that I connected with and fit with my headcanons the most -- i.e., these aren't fact, just how i see it <3

also i.e., pls pls don't be mad if we have different headcanons

the basics:

aaron hotchner: father, single dad, can be strict but will always listen to and be there for his kids, doesn't smile very often but has the BEST, most contagious laugh

david rossi: cool, fun uncle, gave the kids their first sip of alcohol (only when they're 21 though), the more 'chill adult', a playboy, but finally married their aunt krystall who is their favorite

derek morgan-hotchner: oldest child & son, very protective of his siblings, a little bit of a playboy but does settle down, smart without trying

emily prentiss-hotchner: nicknames are em and ems, second oldest, oldest daughter, very smart (smarter than her little brother spencer sometimes) and the most emotionally intelligent of the siblings though this surprises most people because she's very rebellious and very private - opens up to people but with time

jennifer jareau-hotchner : nicknames are JJ and jaje, middle child, quiet and responsible, very popular athlete, surprisingly kind of a badass when her family or friends (especially her little brother and sister) are hurt

spencer reid-hotchner: nickname is spence, youngest son, penelope's twin, very smart with an IQ of 187 and very sensitive, sometimes gets bullied but always protected by older brother derek, a bit nerdy like his twin

penelope garcia-hotchner: nickname are pen, penny and garcie, youngest child and daughter, spencer's twin, a little bit loud and boisterous at times but also very sensitive and kind, great at computers and majored in comp-sci in college

tara lewis, matt simmons, luke alvez: triplets, but not related to the hotchners, though they have been family friends with them for years and are treated as family

luke: very popular, football player and jock but not a playboy at all, a little quiet and secretly a nerd, LOVES musicals and baking

tara: very smart, loves psychology and crime-thrillers, very funny and and a bit of a smart-alec, loves teasing her little brother luke

matt: nickname is matty, very mature, very kind and very responsible, also a football player with his brother, often breaks up the arguments between tara and luke when one or the other takes it too far

other details of the headcanon

aaron is currently dating beth who will hopefully be the family's step-mom soon (aaron has been planning to propose for a long time and the kids keep teasing their dad that it'll never happen)

though derek is a playboy all throughout high school, he eventually settles down with a smart girl on the pre-med track in college named savannah

derek often gets into fights with his dad, especially when he was younger, but that's happens less as he gets older and when he finds comfort in savannah

JJ's been dating her high-school sweetheart, Will, since freshman year, they've already started planning how many kids they want and their names (as it stands: 2 boys and a girl, henry, michael and maggie)

matt has also been dating kristy forever, since high-school and they both want a big family

emily, jj and tara are an unlikely trio of best friends; emily has only ever told the other two her biggest fear

derek, matt and luke are also best friends and often include spencer in their hang-outs

penelope and luke were very 'will they, won't they' for a long time because penelope often resisted luke's charm because she was afraid of getting hurt, but eventally start dating and are everyone's favorite couple

penelope dated a bunch of assholes before luke (kevin, shane, tyler) and is part of the reason why she was afraid to date luke -- luke is aware of this and does her best to treat her like a queen

spencer just started dating max but can see himself marrying this girl; max has helped him come out of his shell

spencer is the older twin by 5 minutes and often holds this over penelope's head

matt is the oldest triplet, then tara and then luke (who is the baby and treated as such by his siblings)

spencer and penelope are built-in best friends and watch doctor-who, marvel and star-trek marathons together -- max and luke join these when each couple starts dating

tara, luke and matt often see aaron/dave as parental figures and lean on them for support

they are all very protective of each other, but everyone is the most protective of penelope

tara and penelope call luke 'lukey' as a nickname to bug him, but he secretly loves it

the eight kids (penelope, luke, matt, tara, emily, jj, spencer, derek) don't have that much of an age gap between them so they are all very close, hang-out a lot and very much fit the found-family trope

dave and aaron take the kids (including matt, tara and luke) on a family trip every year -- 2024 is going to be a beach trip

Okay, I have a lot more, but these are some :) love to hear your thoughts on this

[stinky-winky28]

hey guys I'm back at it with another rambling post

So after my last post when my second hand embarrassment went away (I deleted it a few minutes ago) I sat perched upon a bar stool drinking the finest tap water from my freddy fazbear themed knockoff Stanley and munching on cinnamon Eggo toaster waffles when I was hit with an idea.

I've made all these headcanons about the NPCs, developing their personalities like a mother nurturing her children, so why don't I create a backstory for them as well?

My dearest friends, allow me to introduce my next post, the origin stories for all of the NPCs!

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Barry

I feel like Barry would've been born to a single mother, who has lots of children (most of them with different fathers). He would have 1 sibling that was fully related to him (Lucy from that dream I had), who would be younger than him. He would be the second youngest of all his siblings combined. I also think he would be the only boy.

His mom worked hard to feed all of the children (I'm thinking about 7 in total including Barry), and desperately tried to find a husband that could help her support all the children. Barry's mother always told him that he was the man of the house, and how handsome he was all the time. He developed a big ego and lots of confidence from this. He only got a very basic education, basic math and how to read and write made up most of it. As a result, he's obviously not very intelligent.

Once he was of age, he joined the military to try and help support his family.

Barry compared to the other NPCs is the second youngest

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Jean

Jean was born to a poor family yet again, but since it was in France before the French Revolution, it was much worse. His parents skipped most of their meals to make sure that Jean made it by. He would've had an older brother, but he passed away during infancy. After King Louis was executed, their lives began to improve. Slowly, but better.

Jean met his wife, Angelique, while attending a Sunday mass. They instantly fell in love, and got married after about 6 months of meeting each other. They really hit it off fr. A few years after that, their son Pierre came into the world.

Jean was drafted into the French Army, which he was NOT happy about. He couldn't stand to leave his wife and child behind, but he knew that he had no choice in the matter.

Jean is the oldest of all the NPCs. All of them look up to him (probably because most of them don't have any strong father figures to do so) and he couldn't be more happy to be that.

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Jacob

Jacob was an orphan from a very young age. He doesn't have a single memory of either of his parents, and has no clue if there are any siblings in the mix either. He was placed in an orphanage as a baby, and stayed there until he became of age to be drafted.

He wasn't the most popular in the orphanage, he'd be the punching bag most of the time. When he got his alone time, he'd find a secluded corner to hide in, and crack open a book. He was very quiet, but he loved to read. He taught himself, actually. The nun that worked in the orphanage's library would sneak him books from time to time that he could read I'm his room where no one could see him.

He quickly grew up, and the children who used to pester him quickly stopped. Once he became of age, he was drafted. To be honest, he couldn't have been more happy to get drafted because he was sick of living in the home.

Jacob is right in the middle of the NPCs in terms of age.

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Karl/Klaus/Unnamed Prussian Officer

Karl compared to the other NPCs, had a lavish upbringing. His parents were a very rich Prussian aristocratic family, and he was an only child. He was raised to be very no nonsense, and as a result that's how he acts as an adult. No toys, no fun, no nothing. Also as a result, he has a mix of a sort of rich kid and superiority complex.

As an only child, the pressure was solely put on him to be successful. He was put in the finest schools, given tutors, etc. He didn't really need them, though. He could pick things up easily enough. But anything that he didn't do well on, well... yeah. His parents didn't like that.

Even with all his achievements, his parents deemed it not good enough, and Karl, a failure. They had honestly hoped he would've been amazing at everything, and they regretted not having more kids (which they said to his face). After that, the only thing Karl could contribute to the Littman house (my headcanon last name) was heirs to continue the bloodline. However, Karl refused to be wed to a random woman his parents had picked for him and instead demanded he should be able to join the Prussian Army. They agreed after loads of convincing. He quickly climbed his way up to his rank of officer.

Karl is the youngest of the NPCs.

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American Ferryman (Christopher)

Christopher Bailey was born to a lower middle class family in the state of New York. His parents were massive con artists, and made their 3 children help them with their crimes. Christopher has 3 younger siblings, 1 girl and 2 boys.

The Bailey family traveled all across the east coast, doing different jobs and schemes. Often times, they would even change their names every few times. Christopher couldn't have been more sick of it.

As soon as he was old enough, Christopher finally decided to break away from his family. He joined the army, and never looked back. Well, that's what he likes to say. He's tormented on the inside because he had to leave his siblings to run around and risk their lives just to live.

Christopher is the second oldest of the NPCs.

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If you couldn't tell my original idea was for Karl specifically and I could've written more but I wanted to spare you the time

Also I'm sorry my Ameriferryfans I lost effort and I'm tired but I tried my best 😔

My fingies hurt

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for demanding my extended family do more to help care for my grandmother?

Demand may not be the right word but I’ll let you decide.

So some info and context before I get into it. My grandmother is 90 and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in March. She was given 6-10 months to live. I have one sibling and 6 cousins. My grandmother has 3 living children. I am the youngest (23) the other grandchildren range in age from 27-41. My father and I live close to her and my uncle and his two children live like an hour away. Everyone else is roughly 1800 miles away. My uncle and cousins that live an hour away never spend time with her. She sees them like twice a year. They will not pick up their phones when she calls. They have lied to her in the past saying that events were canceled when they were not because they didn’t want her there. Every single time in the past 4 years that I ask them to do literally anything for her they tell if it’s that important I can do it myself. In 2019 my grandfather died so I quit my job and moved in with my grandmother so she wouldn’t be alone. I planned his funeral and did everything I could to help her. I moved out at the end of 2021 because my dad moved in and I can’t live with him. I go to her house at least 5 days a week to help because my dad does very little for her. I am disabled and I have had major struggles due to that. I am the closest to my grandmother because of living with her and taking care of her. However I did not have a good relationship with her until I was 19. My dad is her least favorite child (I’m not exaggerating she literally says this) and she hated my mom and treated her like crap until 2 years ago. She does not treat anyone else like this. She adores my aunt and uncle and thinks their children are perfect and has always had good relationships with them.

Now that you have some more context here’s the situation. I applied for an out of state job in January and got an offer that I accepted the week before my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. I was supposed to move at the end of May but I moved it until the end July so I would be able to get her situated but that’s the absolute latest I can put it off for. I’m finally at a point that my health is stable enough that I can start actually building my own life. This is an extremely good opportunity that I’ll probably never get again if I pass it up. I’ve been struggling trying to find time to get all my stuff taken care because I do so much over there. My dad and aunt have now taken to saying I’m being selfish for moving. They say I’m the closest and everyone else has a life (job, relationships, kids etc.) so it’s unfair for me to leave her alone when no one else can help. They also said that I’m going to regret not helping or spending time with her. This is when I started getting really pissed. I told them I have been taking care of and spending time with her for the past 3 years. Her other son that lives 40 miles away can help he’s just choosing not to. I told them that they need to figure their shit out on their own. I said that there’s 3 kids and 8 grandkids and I’m the youngest but someone how I’m expected to do the most and I’m not allowed to have a life but everyone else is. They threw in my face that I’m disabled so any life I try to build for myself will fall apart anyway so it’s not the same as my cousins who can maintain it. They kept saying that everyone is so much farther and I’m being unreasonable. I lost it at this point and pointed out that there’s 3 other people who can be here easily that need to start caring because she’s literally dying. Why would you not spend time with someone you know is dying. Also my cousins that live far are all capable of making a trip her to see her and help for a week or so. They all have very well paying jobs, own at least one home and take 3-6 vacations a year. They have the money and time. They can skip a cruise or trip to see their dying grandmother. This is when I found one of them has been in this state fairly close 4 or 5 times to see a friend and will not tell my grandmother because he doesn’t want to “waste his time off” spending time with her. I told my aunt and dad that they have to figure this shit out on their own because I’m absolutely not giving up this huge opportunity when there is 10 other people that refuse to do shit. My grandmother does not want me to give up this job and stay here. She wants me to go so she can see at least some of life I’m trying to build. My mom is backing me up and saying they need to do more instead of putting it all on me. Everyone else in the family is saying I’m a selfish asshole that needs to suck it up and do what I’m supposed to instead of expecting them to drop everything.

So am I the asshole here???

What are these acronyms?

[shinysamurott9]

Headcanon Mythra Kid since we never see them in Xenoblade 3. This is Rex and Mythra's son Milton.

I worked on his design during downtime at work and after finishing the sketch, I ended up writing a full profile for him, covering his personality and relationships with other characters. It is quite long so be aware of that if you want to give it a read.

Initial sketches from work

Milton is a Half Human, Half Blade boy native to Leftheria. He resides in Fonsett Village and is the middle child among his siblings (Mio is the eldest, Glimmer is the youngest, they are all still very close age wise with each of their birthdays being within a period of a few weeks). He is 11 years old at the time of The Intersection. Milton's likes meat and art, with his favourite items being Miracle Parfait and the Board Game Sneak-Thief King.

Milton is a laid back kid who finds himself getting into the most trouble of Rex's kids. He's known for being a bit cheeky and is prone to messing with people, commonly throws out quips and sarcastic jabs at others. He doesn't mean any real harm with this and tries not to go too far with his taunting. Despite his smug and jovial attitude he cares a lot about people close to him, particularly his two half sisters. He does his best to help out where he can even if it's only a little bit. This has seen him compared to his dad a lot but he doesn't mind.

Being Half Blade, Milton has a higher sensitivity to ether and has the ability to manipulate it naturally, similar to High Entia, though he does still need to learn how to use these abilities, unlike a blade awakened from a Core Crystal. As Mythra's kid, he has a rare affinity for Light Type ether, something only a few blades have demonstrated. His favourite move is doing finger guns and shooting a beam of light.

Though he enjoys his ether abilities, he also likes to fight with a broadsword. To that end, Rex has given him a blunt wooden sword to train with along with the promise of a real blade weapon when he's older, if he practices enough.

Due to their closeness with Mio, Milton and Glimmer end up falling into the same friend group, leading them to be close friends with Sena, Taion and Miyabi, as well as the Kevesi side of the Ouroboros friend group, once they meet later down the line.

Relationships:

Rex:

As Milton's dad, Rex cares a lot about him and wants to keep him on the right path. He does his best to teach him and is incredibly proud of him, though he would like him to dial back the cockiness a little.

Milton greatly admires and respects his dad. While he can be a little stubborn with Pyra or Nia, he almost always listens to Rex. He picked up the salvager code from Rex and follows it in the same way.

Mythra:

Mythra is Milton's mother and absolutely adores him. She is known to dote on him a lot and is a little guilty of spoiling him and the other kids. She encourages his good nature and wants him to have fun when he can. When she's not helping Rex with the Garfont Mercenaries, she's helping Milton train with his sword and ether abilities.

While Milton can be a little embarrassed at his Mother's doting, he still loves her immensely. He also sees Mythra as a badass hero after hearing about her adventures with Rex and the rest during Xenoblade 2. Even after he learns about Mythra's many mistakes, namely in Torna, nothing could change his opinion on his mom.

Nia:

Nia is one of Milton stepmothers. Since Milton is the most physically active of the three kids, he's the one that comes to her the most for healing, usually for small things like cuts or a scraped knee. She tries to discourage him from asking healing with small things but finds it hard to turn him down. Nia is really endeared to Milton's jovial nature and finds herself laughing with him a lot.

Milton finds Nia to be the most fun of his four parents lt may be that Nia is where he picked up his sarcasm and quips from. As Nia becpmes more busy with her duties on the Origin project, Milton comes to miss her a lot and treasures the short amou t of time he gets to spend with her.

Pyra:

Pyra is Milton's other stepmother / aunt(?). She finds it endearing that he takes after Rex so much, but would prefer if he toned down his sarcasm and is usually the first to call him on his jabs if he starts pushing it.

While Milton does tend to be scolded by Pyra quite often, he usually admits to his faults even if he's a little hesitant sometimes. Despite this, he doesn't like upsetting Pyra and loves her a lot despite their arguments.

Dromarch:

While Dromarch is mainly loyal to Nia and Mio by extension, he still helps out with raising Milton and Glimmer. He is somewhat bewildered by Milton at times but he enjoys his energy and tries his best to passon his wisdom where possible.

While Milton respects Dromarch, he isn't often eager to hang around with him. Namely when it turns into some kind of lesson or lecture. Where Mio would listen attentively, Milton is easily bored and often misses what Dromarch is trying to teach.

Azurda:

Azurda acts much like a grandad to Milton and the other kids, telling stories and taking them on trips over the sea. Seeing Mythra with Milton in particular brings Azurda great joy as he can see how far Mythra has come due to knowing her since Torna.

Milton thinks it's really cool that he has a giant Titan for a grandad. He loves when Azurda and Rex take him flying over the sea and the land, getting a bird's view of the reformed Alrest and later the lands of Bionis and Mechonis. Like Rex, Milton affectionately refers to Azurda as Gramps.

Mio:

Mio is Milton's older sister. She doesn't take much notice of Milton's teasing, often teasing him back in most cases. It's only later down thevline when he starts teasing her about Noah that he gets much of a reaction from her. Despite this she holds a lot of affection for her younger brother.

Despite the teasing, Milton has a lot of love for his big sister and always has her back. He sees Mio in a similar way to Rex and aspires to be like her. He sees her compassion and resilience as some of her best qualities though he'd rarely say that to her face.

Glimmer:

As Milton's younger sister, she tends to get more teasing than Mio. It may also be because Milton can get more of a rise from her. The two end up bickering a lot with Mio often being the mediator before the parents get involved. Though they care about each other deep down, they'd rarely show it.

Sena:

Sena and Milton have been friends almost as long as she's known Mio. The two are good friends and bond over their training, often doing so together. They often push each other as neither are prone to backing down from challenges. Milton has a small crush on Sena and finds her cute, but he never really pursues it as he finds she doesn't feel the same way.

Taion:

Taion and Milton butt heads a lot. Taion thinks Milton is too thick headed and jovial for his own good. He has called him a simpleton on at least one occasion. Milton thinks he's a bit of a nerd who should lighten up a bit.

Miyabi:

Milton and Miyabi are good friends. Whole Milton's outgoing and friendly nature is a contrast to Miyabi's introversion, they get along well. Miyabi feels more at ease around her friends and often is more open about her interests with them. Milton her fun to listen when she starts rambling about her interests when she opens up about them.

Noah:

Milton makes fun of Noah a lot for being "Mio's boyfriend", often trying to embarass Mio in front of him as well. Despite the jokes, he does genuinely like Noah, as he sees that he's a good guy who makes Mio happy. At times he tries to play wingman for Noah, not realising it's not really necessary given the unique relationship between Noah and Mio. Noah doesn't mind Milton's jabs for the most part and appreciates his attempts to help him out.

Lanz:

Lanz and Milton hit ot off quickly. Both being friends with Sena and a mutual interest in training leads them to bond quickly, establishing a brotherly bond. With Sena they form a trio of muscle heads.

Eunie:

Eunie and Milton are an endless loop sarcastic quips and jabs at each other. Forever throwing jokes at each other's expense back and forth. The endless sarcasm.

Joran:

Milton thinks Joran is cool and tries to get him to come out of his shell. He really likes Joran's taste for creative pieces, such as his carvings and encourages him to keep at it, which is something Joran appreciates.

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

I love the fact that Violet favorite children are colin because he is most like Edmund and Violet he’s a combination of them the romantic side of Edmund and the good kind giving side of violet seeing the best in everyone and always being forgiving, Eloise because she’s most like younger her and Benedict because he looks the most like Edmund which gives her so much comfort. Colin being everyone favourite why wouldn’t he be Daphne book Eloise Benedict all say or show he’s their favorite especially his mother as he should be!

Show Eloise fav is Benedict the fact not a single one of the siblings has Anthony as favorite not bit surprising really he’s always been cruel trying to sell his sister off talking down on belting Benedict about his love for art

I get why Violet who clearly loves him but still not as much as the other older boys because he just got a title after his father di*ed and was gonna decide to k1ll her unborn child the last thing she has connecting her to Edmund, she’s a mother duh ofc she loves him but that’s just to evil also the fact he has the personality that only a mother can love don’t help him not being his siblings favourite always forcing them to do things they don’t want or feel like it really is just heychint that likes him and that’s only because she doesn’t know her beloved big brother tried to end her life before she was even born I know she wouldn’t feel the same if she ever found out about that so kinda wish she finds out in her season that would be a scandal so good for the ton/us!

Love how Colin was the only child to seek out his mom advice on love romance and life anythin really and how she always seeks him out for comfort and for someone to talk too they have such beautiful relationships 🥹🥹

this is Colin talking about love and friendship at their family ball in public when all her children especially the oldest are always running away from her even at home let alone talking to her in public wanting her advice on love that’s on best boy that’s on mama favorite baby!!

I’m sure there’s a study on mothers and their love for their youngest baby boys and Colin violet fit that study

didn’t she tell Anthony to let Colin travel exactly queen tell that money hungry egotistical mogul how her man money is spent just like he would’ve wanted seeing his kids do whatever they want and seeing the world if that is what they wanna spend the money on, like how is he always questioning Colin whenever he wanna travel plz as if he didn’t spend half the fortune on being the town rake I’m need that man to be serious for a minute in his life it’s not even his money but their money her money and his 💀 fathers money at least Colin getting to learn languages cultures and getting life time of knowledge!

[creampuffqueen]

okay done with homework time for more avatar oc lore!!!!

- avatar lusa’s name means ‘midnight’. you’ll never guess what time she was born at

- being from the southern water tribe, which has always been a bit more lax on letting women learn waterbending, she did learn how to fight. sort of. mostly defensive moves, though

- she was brought to the northern water tribe to learn healing

- her healing teacher was a woman named panninguaq, the chief’s eldest daughter

- the chief of the tribe also had twin sons, paruk and panuk

- the twins have a different mom. panninguaq’s mother gave birth to her and then was unable to conceive again. the tribe elders insisted the chief take another wife in order to produce a male heir. they rejoiced when she had two

- panuk is close with his older sister, paruk is not. paruk is the eldest by a few minutes, making him the heir. panuk and panninguaq both feel shirked by him, and so their relationship with him is best described as frosty. lol

- paruk is a decent guy though, and does his best to live up to his duties to the tribe. lusa finds this very admirable, hence why she started falling for him

- to learn earthbending, she was sent to ba sing se to live with the royals while she trained

- lusa kinda sucked at bending tbh. she found it really difficult and was also very hard on herself

- prince haoyu, a nonbender, helped her with her overall confidence, and also was always there to take her mind off bending with something intellectual, like reading or pai sho

- and oopsies he fell in love with her too

- lusa headed to the fire nation to learn firebending from the crown princess, nyzah

- hearing about the avatar’s… warm welcome in the other nations, the firelord’s only instruction to his daughter was: don’t fall in love with her

- nyzah, two weeks later: dad i fell in love with the avatar

- anyway lol

- lusa heads off to the eastern air temple to learn airbending. she meets with chesa, who is one of the youngest spiritual gurus the air nation has seen

- chesa sees that crooked avatar grin and knows she’s done for

- they’re all very funny to me

- so yeah that’s how avatar lusa got her politically complicated polycule

- as for the future

- lusa ends up officially marrying 3/4 of her partners

- people are like ‘can she do that?’ ‘i mean she’s the avatar i guess she can do what she wants’

- the only one she doesn’t marry is nyzah, simply due to the fact that nyzah is an only child and therefore must produce an heir for her country

- nyzah marries a very chill fire nation guy who’s a nice person and a good father, and they remain very friendly even if there’s no romantic love between them

- fun fact: asami and mako and bolin’s mothers can both trace their lineage back to firelord nyzah

- nyzah had a son who became the next firelord, and two younger daughters. one daughter is an ancestor of naoki, one daughter is an ancestor of yasuko

- not that this matters at all, or that they’d ever be able to trace their ancestry back that far. this is like ~1000 years before canon

- but it’s fun

- as for paruk and haoyu’s lines

- lusa did have a few kids

- but all were barred from the lines of succession because there was no accurate way to confirm who their father was. and no royalty was gonna put someone on the throne who they weren’t absolutely sure was supposed to be there

- so paruk’s siblings did in fact sort of get to rule, because one of their heirs got the throne after he died. who’s laughing now

- and haoyu had a younger brother whose kid took the throne. he and his brother were closer though, so he wasn’t nearly as bothered lol

overall though they all lived pretty chill and happy lives

so there you have it 👍

[queenstardusts-blog]

I see people make avatar x cotl crossover so I made a au about it. I add spider in this because he needs love too.

7 years before human arrival back, Eywa decides to make new life for coming war.

Soon each tribes finds strange human babies sleeping near their own spirit tree, The Na'vi see this a sign from The Great Mother to take care of her new children. Na'vi called them "children of souls" because when they sleep, they go to the spiritual world.

Na'vi found out that they are weak to water but they have strong connections with fire and light. Metkayina has a hard time keep them away from the water until they make Abyss masks to swim underwater but the ash people have no problem with that because they live on a volcano(theory).

Omatikaya have experience with humans. Some adopt them but some don't because traumatized from humans. Norm and the scientists see moths as a sign of eywa became self-aware about humanity. Moths learn sign language to communicate with their adopted parents.

Moths see Spider as their big brother and doesn't like that sullys (expect the kids) and some the adults (who aren't their parents) treat Spider as a "stary".

Tulkuns meet the Krills near the metkayina tribes. Tulkuns found out that Krills can both swim and fly. Tulkuns teach the krills to survive in the ocean. The King Krill is the first krill made by Eywa to protect the ocean. Moths can make sidings bond with the krills like metkayina with tulkuns.

When humans arrive back, RDA found out about them and called them moths because they act like a moth. They will kidnap any moths to learn about them and experience on them. Omatikaya must sure that moths never leave the camp without a parent or family member.

When humans hunt tulkuns, the krills attack the humans to protect the tulkuns. Payakan's mom still die because krills arrived too late to stop the humans. Payakan hate the krills for not saving his mom in time. But In the end, he forgive them.

When Spider got kidnapped, Moths were angry that their big brother was taken from them. They learn that no one is going rescue spider. They are piss at Jake and Norm for it. They decide make a message though the spirit tree that The "Great" Tokuk Makto have left their brother in the hands of demons.

Other Moths got the message, they are angry at Jake left their brother in danger. When sully arrives at Awa'atlu, Moths have not tell anyone about the message yet.

Moth!R was adopted by Ronal and Tonowari. They decides to tell their parents about the message. Ronal was in rage that Jake abandoned a child in the jaw of demons, She will never let her kids or any child in hands of demons. Tonowari was determined to rescue spider.

Tonowari and Ronal comfort Jake about spider. Jake tells them that why he flew because he fears spider will tells RDA their secrets and betrayal them. Ronal was really kill him at the spot. Tonowari call him a Monon and that he betrayal spider the other way around. They didn't make sullys leave but they need a plan to save spider and the family is going help them.

Moth!R along with sullys kids. They don't like adult sully after hear the message about them. Moth!R is well known for being the holy child of eywa and have more strength connection with eywa than Kiri.

When Tulkuns and krills arrive, Moths and metkayina were happy to see their spirit siding again. The King Krill also arrives to meet Moth!R, their spirit sibling. They meet the king krill when king krill was injured by humans try to captured them. Tonowari and Ronal were surprises that their youngest child make siding bond with the king krill.

Roa and her son survive because krills save them. But one krill was killed in the process. When metkayina found out about a Krill was murdered by Demons. They were piss.

Moth!R get capture with tuk, tsireya and lo'ak. Payakan and the king krill attack the seadragon.

After the final battle, Tonowari and Ronal adopt Spider in their family. Moth!R was happy to meet spider for the first time. Spider was loved by his new family.

[m0use-brained]

my (super)ordinary life!

as some might know its about two college boys renting an apartment together(by chance) and dealing with the ghost of a Victorian boy who was murdered by his nanny. the story follows the protagonist Xavier who is a "realist" and skeptic and doesnt believe in ghosts at all. his roommate on the other hand dallas is a firm believer and a medium. the little Victorian kid Arch whos trying to get the attention of xavier due to him looking so much like his best friend in life falls short in doing so through little antics. The two go through college with unexplainable things happening(well dallas tries to tell xavier its the ghost with xavier not believing him) until xavier has enough of bad things happening and finally folds and lets dallas do whatever he needed. they go through alot to finally talk to arch(buying equipment is hard when your in college) and THEN try to solve the mystery of who killed arch, to let him feel at peace and not restless anymore

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Government kids??? no name yet- haeaawdjhnThree kids (17 yr old girl, 14 yr old boy and 10 yr old boy) who are all siblings to this last group of people with magical powers end up loosing their parents due to the new government that was implemented recently. But the world for like more then a hundred years now have passed their reign over magic. now magic is only within their brightly colored hair and eyes(bald ppl dont exist). Along with some people having animalistic qualities and other- fanstay qualities. they are still so very human in the aspects of no one has magical powers but they have some extra points towards things like strength if they were a werewolf or something. (they dont change under a full moon they are stuck in the half furry state). anyways. the three kids end up trying to not get captured by the government running all over the place. they go to highschool for a time, then make friends and go to the friends house. a friend dies. some within family drama happens and the oldest sibling fights with the middle child. the oldest gets captured first. the two other siblings go with their owl caretaker(who barely shows up within the story). the youngest seems not to happy with this and escapes to a village somehow untouched by the government and learn about his herritage(somewhat hes like 10). oldest goes through hell to escape and find the middle child and the youngest. turns out hte owl turned the middle kid into the government and winter finding out oliver isnt with the middle she saves the middle and then says a brisk apology as she is on the hunt to find her baby brother. tension between winter and rodger rise but winter is preoccupied with saving oliver. oliver makes frineds with this young girl and her dad and those two help oliver go into the biggest city to try and find winter and rodger. winter and rodger are one step behind as they get into the village. rodger finds out about their family but winter couldnt care less as she is tiredlessly trying to find oliver. its way to much i know and i left out funny goofy government villans that are clear ripoffs of team rocket but in my own funny way...

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Super hero esk story?? idk i called it Switcheroo but thats kinda silly.the protagonist is the top villan's son who goes into the top hero school. (the mom sees how influcened he is to do crime but wants the best life for him. she wants him to choose after also being influenced by what their society deems as noble and good) Zero(protag) dorms with a girl(filing mess up) who is the daughter of number 1 heroic(hero system is different here too) bull's eye. on the news they find out the 3rd heroic on the ranking chart gets kidnapped by zero's mom??? and zero goes to talk with her about it as hes grown attached to the girl he dorms with and saw how upset she'd become. the mom denies it and says this was all a publicity stunt from bull's eye to gain more money and fame. zero says to out them. the mom cant. because no one will ever trust the villains. even if they did what would it do. strike fear into people that even hero's are corrupt and evil will always win? they needed to do something. zero tried to tell the girl but she couldnt believe him. they have a fight. zero ends up trying to do everything in his power to make it up to her. humiliating himself infront of the whole school(but he doesnt care). she accepts his apology and makes sure he isnt injured. he does get in trouble but thats not the point. she hears him out and admits to things shes seen as a kid ever since her parents divorced due to money problems. the premise is they have to take down the two top heroics from inside their ogranization or making them quit by them messing up every save. (prank them so hard they quit). (i dont know the ending yet akjwdnajkw) -

Super hero esk story?? idk i called it Switcheroo but thats kinda silly.the protagonist is the top villan's son who goes into the top hero school. (the mom sees how influcened he is to do crime but wants the best life for him. she wants him to choose after also being influenced by what their society deems as noble and good) Zero(protag) dorms with a girl(filing mess up) who is the daughter of number 1 heroic(hero system is different here too) bull's eye. on the news they find out the 3rd heroic on the ranking chart gets kidnapped by zero's mom??? and zero goes to talk with her about it as hes grown attached to the girl he dorms with and saw how upset she'd become. the mom denies it and says this was all a publicity stunt from bull's eye to gain more money and fame. zero says to out them. the mom cant. because no one will ever trust the villains. even if they did what would it do. strike fear into people that even hero's are corrupt and evil will always win? they needed to do something. zero tried to tell the girl but she couldnt believe him. they have a fight. zero ends up trying to do everything in his power to make it up to her. humiliating himself infront of the whole school(but he doesnt care). she accepts his apology and makes sure he isnt injured. he does get in trouble but thats not the point. she hears him out and admits to things shes seen as a kid ever since her parents divorced due to money problems. the premise is they have to take down the two top heroics from inside their ogranization or making them quit by them messing up every save. (prank them so hard they quit). (i dont know the ending yet akjwdnajkw)

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The Moon's craters

a bunch of billionares go to the moon(or a planet that looks like the moon whatever man) and colonize there. hundreds of years pass and the world is sci-fi and dystopian esk?? the poor live in slums and the rich live near the sky!. people who live on the moon have adapted to look different. and the story follows one poor boy on the moon. hes loved the moon but hated the system. classic. so one day he sneaks on a ship that travel's to earth. there he's traversing through earth to see if it was better then the moon. in fact it is not. its more- kingdom esk?? ever since a war that happened long ago.(they still have tech and use alot of it they just enjoy the structural build of kingdoms) protag finds a prince(after getting a job as a servant) and tells him about the moon and stuff. the prince is grossed out but interested in the rich people's fashion sense and taste. he agrees to go with. he litterally just runs away with like a shit ton of money and buys himself a ticket to the moon. goes to the moon they find out theres a war gonna happen cause they cauiught the protag "kidnapping" a prince??? protag is wanted. best friend sidekick doesnt give a fuck????:? so they get a trip to a different planet to escape it all. find out they are super underdeveloped and the moon have been taking that planet's orphans for testing!>?!?>! they rescue one orphan from a new shipment of orphans about to be sent out. (thats all i have so far lmao) -

SpaceBoots

this follows like a ground of people going about space. spaceboots SB(hes got big ass boots), SpaceGloves SG(shes got big ass gloves), Chat(robot guy who talks like zane from lego ninjao but has the brain compacity of a twitch chat), Hat(he wears hats idfk), Shirt(wears beeeeeeg shirt. the hyper cute person of the group). Dress(guy who loves fashion) along with shirt's cat Skrible(very poorly drawn cat who uhm... cat) i forgor most of the plot but like SB uses his mom's ship to do random things through out the galazy and goes on quest. something is wrong with the spaceship i think and they have to get new parts on planets they havent ever been through. they find out more about- the mom and other family i think while getting parts from people who seem to know their parents and shit? aughh i loved their characters so much ajshdakjhwd

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

5 and Violetta. But this time, can you get something else than Angie babysitting Vilu? Those are really cute but I wanna see what else kinds of babysitting stories you can create.

5 - Someone is babysitting.

Alright - so, babysitting is always interesting in dcla because no one in canon has any child that is of an age where they need a sitter (except for maybe Esmeralda's daughter Ambar. When I think about it, that would be hilarious... but it's not what I will write today). Which means you have 4 options: 1. Go into the future, where someone babysits someone's future kid 2. Have it still be set in the show's present, and create kids for them to babysit. Someone's younger cousin or sibling, maybe. 3. Have it be set in the past, when one of the characters was young and gets babysat by someone. This is one I often pick simply because I just love the idea of Angie bonding with Violetta in her early age, and Violetta causing trouble that Angie needs to fix. 4. Go bananas and let a character randomly get regressed into a kid and then they need to be babysat while someone tries to get them to go back to their normal age. I will choose to have it be set in the past again. This time it's Camila, who is around 8, and her 3 younger sisters. I first thought of having it in the present and let Camila's friends help her babysit her sisters, but I thought it would be way funnier if she also was a part of the kids causing chaos. The babysitter, I first thought it would just be someone random, but to make it more funny: It's Priscila. By the reason being that I think Cami and Ludmi were born around the same time and their mothers hung out when they were babies, and now Priscila is doing her mom a favor... by seeing what happens when kids get raised in an opposite enviroment.

"Thank you SO MUCH for doing this, Priscila!" Mrs Torres said.

"I owe you from the time you babysat Ludmila when I needed to go to an appointment."

"Well, the girls are all in the living room. Girls! We're leaving!"

"Bye!" several voices called back. Priscila was a bit baffled that none of them even went up to wave their parents off. She'd find it a bit rude if her Ludmila would have done that. Nonetheless, these girls must still be pleasant. Not that she knew them very well, and she had not really kept in contact with their mother a lot either besides some brief phone calls and catching up whenever they ran into each other in stores, but how hard could this be?

She stepped into the living room, where four girls sat on the couch, watching TV. The oldest was Camila. She recognized her immediately. She had a little baby in her lap, seemingly the youngest. The other two seemed to be around 5 years old, and was dressed exactly the same. Priscila knew Mrs. Torres had twins, but last time she saw them they were sleeping a stroller when the family was out grocery shopping.

"Hello," she said.

"Hi," Camila said. She and her sisters were way too busy watching whatever kids show was on to even pay attention to her. Priscila glanced at the screen, and frowned.

"What kind of kids show is this?"

"It's not a kids show," one of the twins said. "It's an adult show."

"Why are you watching an adult show?!"

"Lola needs to get cultured," Camila explained, "She will never be anything if she just watches teletubbies."

"Who is Lola?"

Camila stood up, holding the baby. "This is Lola. I'm Camila."

"I know. You've grown so much!"

"And we are Eva and Ada!" said the twins in unison, so you could not tell who was who.

"Quick, sit back down, he's about to shoot him!" Eva or Ada said. Camila excitedly sat back down.

"Look, Lola!" she cooed to the baby, "Violence!"

"No!" Priscila said and instantly turned off the TV. All the girls started to mutter and complain. "How long is your TV time?"

"TV time?" Camila asked. "We just watch TV as long as we feel like it."

"You don't have a TV time? My daughter has a maximum of 1 hour every day, and she needs to take a break after every 20 minutes."

"Your daughter seems to have a very boring life."

Priscila sighed. "Maybe you need something to eat."

-

It turned out, the Torres girls did not have any table manners whatsoever. Priscila expected the baby to eat messily, but she was by far the cleanest out of them all. The twins ate with their hands like wild animals and Camila chewed with an open mouth.

"Is this how you eat in public?" she asked, horrified.

"We're not in public," Camila argued.

"Yeah, and at home we can be free!" Eva or Ada exclaimed, making everyone cheer.

"I think you should have a table manner everywhere..." Priscila said. If this was her own daughter, she'd scold her right away. But since this wasn't her kids, she was so unsure what to do. And it got worse.

"Ada! Think fast!" Eva shouted and threw a meatball on her. Ada laughed and threw it back. The two started to have a food fight.

"Hey, I wanna have a food fight too!" Camila said, and one of the twins threw a carrot on her. The three laughed as they threw more and more food on each other. Their baby sister just stared blankly into thin air and Priscila started to lose her mind.

She stood up and slammed her hands on the table. "ENOUGH!"

The girls stopped.

"It's not okay to throw food at each other. Food is for eating! Look, you scared your little sister."

Camila looked at the baby. "No, we didn't. She just pooped her pants."

The twins giggled and Camila took out Lola from the high chair. "She always does that face when she pooped herself." She sniffed at the baby slightly and then handed her over to Priscila. "Go change her."

"Me?"

"You're the babysitter. We are just kids. We don't know how to change a diaper."

Priscila hesitantly took the baby. "Alright, but you need to clean this up when I am back!"

-

About half an hour later, Priscila came back, barely wanting to hold Lola, as she put her down on the floor. The others noticed Lola was wearing a completely different outfit.

"Why did it take so long?" Camila asked, "For me it just takes a minute."

"Wait, but you said you didn't know how to change diapers?"

Camila smirked, "I was just joking because I wanted you to do it."

Priscila sighed. "Have you cleaned up in the kitchen?"

"Yes."

Priscila went inside. Indeed, the kitchen seemed to be clean. She felt a bit of relief. At least they could do something. She decided to open the cupboard to get a glass. She needed some water. But as she opened the cupboard...

"AAAAAAAAAAAA-"

The girls came running in after hearing the blood curdling scream. They started laughing as they saw Priscila covered in food.

"Did you like our prank?" the twins asked in unison.

"I thought you said you had cleaned it up!"

"We decided to have some fun and put all the food in the cupboard instead!" Camila explained.

They noticed how Priscila's eyes started twitching. They found that to be even more funny.

Priscila stomped into the bathroom to clean herself up. As she got back up again, she was met with a new scenario. The twins had the bright idea to get the toy wagon their little sister used to practice walking to ride down the stairs with. Camila was the one who was pushing, fully into this idea. Lola meanwhile, had been left unattended and was heading towards the DVD-VHS player, planning to lick it. Priscila instantly ran to the baby to get her away. At the same time, Camila pushed the twins down the stairs, and the wagon came in rapid speed, crashing into Priscila.

Everyone was laughing as Priscila was on the floor. But now Priscila truly had enough.

"ALL OF YOU! TO THE COUCH, NOW!"

They all sat down as she tried to take deep breaths.

"No more," she muttered. "You will all sit here until your parents arrive!"

Camila glanced at the window. Then she smirked. "Okay."

-

Not even a minute later, the front door opened.

"We're home!" Mrs Torres announced.

Priscila came up to them. "Oh, thank heavens..."

"Have the girls been good?"

"Well, you see-"

"Aww!"

Priscila was caught off guard. The girl's mother was now staring at the couch, where all the Torres girls "magically" had fallen asleep.

"They must've really tired themselves out. Thank you for babysitting, Priscila."

"I... no problem...?"

The parents went to take off their coats as Priscila got one final glance on the girls. That's when Camila opened her eyes, and gave Priscila a smug, almost evil looking face. She wiggled her eyebrows and then closed her eyes again.

Priscila barely said goodbye, and decided to never set her foot in that house ever again.

[hyperfixation-or-death]

Thinking about a Parallels AU where the main four + Camille are all different ages at the start of the show, and all the dynamics are different because of it.

The only main characters who have met at the start are Sam and Victor, and Sam and Bilal.

Sam is fifteen years old, so he's the closest to his canon age.

Victor is nine years old, so he's the youngest by a lot in this.

Bilal is thirty years old, and he's working with his mom on the tests. He also tutors Sam in math on the weekends.

Romane is nineteen years old, and hasn't met any of the other main characters.

Camille is nine years old, and she and Victor go to the same school.

Episode one starts when Sam is supposed to go to tutoring, but ends up needing to bring Victor with him, because their parents weren't able to pick him up from some activity or other.

I haven't figured out how they get to the woods from there; for the sake of convenience, let's say that cat Romane and Camille feed shows up injured, and they end up following the cat to try and help it? Work in progress.

Anyways, once they're close to the bunker, they run into Romane. Assuming we're going with the cat plot device, because I can't think of anything else right now, Romane was also trying to find the cat. The cat is gone now, though, and they're all about to turn back.

Then Victor notices the bunker (the key is in the door, idk), and wants to go inside. Sam and Bilal don't think it's a good idea, but Romane also wants to go inside for some reason, and the four end up going to check it out.

The test goes off, of course, and the timelines split.

Timeline 1 - Romane and Victor are left in the bunker.

Victor definitely blames himself for the disappearances, since he was the one to suggest going in the bunker in the first place. Romane also definitely blames herself for the disappearances, since Victor is nine years old, and she should have known it was a bad idea, but she didn't, and now this kid's brother is probably dead because of that.

Romane ends up talking to Victor afterwards, and realizes that he goes to school with Camille. The conversation turns to that, and Victor mentions that he's not doing great in some subject or other; a subject Romane happens to be good at. Feeling like it's the absolute least she could do for him, she offers to help him with homework after school.

Since Victor is literally an elementary school child, his parents are not sending him to boarding school. They do become increasingly distant and harsh, and Victor becomes increasingly convinced that they don't care about him.

Victor ends up spending a lot of time at Romane and Camille's house. At first, it's just because Romane's helping him with homework. Then it sinks in that no one else understands what happened in the bunker, and that fact starts playing into their dynamic. Then he starts to become friends with Camille. By the time four years have gone by, Victor and Camille are close friends, and Romane sees Victor as another sibling. (She hasn't moved out yet because a. She's attending university nearby. and b. She doesn't trust Herve and wants to keep an eye on her family.)

Then Vanessa Chassangre dies, and Romane is faced with the possibility of losing her sister. She's trying to figure out if she has any chance at getting custody, when Victor shows up to ask if she wants to go back to the bunker. Neither of them have figured out the correlation with the test in this AU, but they still go, out of sentimentality and curiosity and several other complicated emotions.

Test happens again; Victor and Romane time travel.

Timeline 2 - Romane and Bilal are left in the bunker.

Bilal connects the dots between the tests and the disappearances pretty quickly. He tells his mom. Then he tells Romane.

Bilal decides to try and find a way to save Sam and Victor. This time, it's less out of personal grief and more out of a sense of responsibility for what happened and guilt.

Romane graduates high school feeling completely lost. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, and she can't shake the guilt over what happened.

Haven't planned it out too well, but Bilal and Romane stay in contact. I'm not sure how it's going to work, but he's able to get her accepted for an internship at some point, and she ends up working with Bilal and Sofia.

The three of them continue to work at the time travel. Along the way, Romane becomes close with both Sofia and Bilal, viewing them as family.

Vanessa dies; Herve tries to take Camille. This time, it doesn't work. Romane has a support net, a steady income, and a future in the physics field. Romane gets custody of her sister.

They figure out the time travel. Bilal decides to go back.

Timeline 3 - Sam is left in the bunker; Bilal travels back to this one; Victor and Romane travel back to this one.

Since Bilal was already an adult before the time travel, Sam still recognizes him. He's clearly aged several years, though, which everyone is very confused about. Bilal has his canonical memory loss.

Idk what happens for the first day, but then Romane and Victor show up to the timeline at the same time they do in canon.

I haven't thought about how the plot changes from there, but the timeline where Victor kills Sam and then disappears after time traveling again doesn't happen. The official explanation is that they're able to stop it from happening the first time; the actual explanation is that I can't keep track of that many timelines in an already complicated AU.

Notes on the AU:

Camille ends up being there for the finale's events, both because she's a little older in the AU and because she's friends with Victor in the AU, so she insists on coming with the main characters.

Victor's emotional conflict ends up being roughly the same, because on the one hand, he's had more of a support net for those four years, but on the other, he's younger with more intense emotions, so it all kind of evens out.

For obvious reasons, none of the canon romantic relationships exist, with the exception of Sofia and Lieutenant Retz.

Obviously lots of things are different with this one, but I can't really think of a lot right now because I'm tired, so I might add to this later.

[thecoffeeloverbutterfly90]

I know, I wouldn't be popular, with my opinion... But, I will say it, anyway. I maybe, the only one, but...

Idk, I find it really pathetic, that always the youngest sibling is the one, to blame for literally, everything. I know, it's my opinion but, here I come & go with it. So, I find it -excuse me for, repeat myself - really pathetic, that Brit always blame everything to Jamie Lynn. Like, "she done that, she do this, she does it, etc." Right?

Like, they never ever have, an older brother. But, they have. Idk, his name but, it's not important here. It's important to know, that She only blame, the youngest one of the three of them...

It's called "middle child problem" or something, like that. I guess, is it just because, Jamie Lynn has had her sh*t, together. She has a job at Netflix - working as an actor in the series "Sweet Magnolias" - and is happily married, raising her two daughters. While, Britney is what we know. Her sons, live with their dad & they are totally, embarrased with the behavior of their mom.

Thrust me, when I said we all, would have been in the same, If our mothers do what Britney - posting, weird dancing videos & all the stuff, she post on her Insta. Like, the one with the -prop- knives, right. Have, we see Jamie Lynn do the same in the internet, no we haven't. So, here's the thing. She's literally jelous for JL having her sh*t together & she don't... She literally, states it with the "last" bit of release from her book. I don't blame her, I blame those, who doesn't see clear...

Like, she's the only one of the exploited kids, from the "Mickey Mouse Club" kids, who blame her family, for her own fall. Right? Not, Christina Aguilera who literally, saw her father - Bruce - beat the cr*p out of her mom, till they escaped from him. No, it's Britney, who has a literal family behind her. I know, it's not a perfect one, but at the end of the day, they were there.

She literally, forget she has an elder brother, too. Not, just a younger sister, tho. She's act like, it's all the much younger JL's fault that, she was in lithium & her sis say, something like, they need a "sister talk-show" maybe, as a coping mechanism to help, her or something.

Idk, maybe I miss something, but from the snippets of the upcoming book, there's not a mention of their bro. Only, JL. Like, their brother is non-existent, or something. It's like a weird 2023 version of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" (alongside, the Kourtney & Kim version of it). Right?

Maybe, it's my opinion. But, I feel like I wouldn't be liked, for writing this cuz some people, would think I'm victim-blaming. I don't. I just, say my POV in the latest news. Also, she - Britney - said, she is a Sagittarius and she doesn't like... What she said! I write this, my POV down, because maybe just, maybe there's people out there, who feel something same abt it. I write this down, because I find it literally, pathetic that everyone only blame JL & the fam, for the fall of a grown woman. Because, she wasn't a child, when sh*t happened with her, but a mother of two toddlers. It's not a victim blaming, cause the only ones who I blame here is those, who jump on the troath's of those people, who have a different op in this saga. I was in the "Free Britney" bandwagon. I still love & appraciate her music, but I feel like, she really need some help. Her family, esp her mom Lynn really, wanted to help her & prop not, for the money as everyone believe. But, because at the end of the day, Lynn is the woman who give birth to her, raised her & in her own way loved her. With and ofc, without the money... But, people forget it & only saw it as she propably wants money, desperately or so... They are like, know every little thing, what happened in the family, behind closed doors. But, it's sure they don't.

I wanted to share this, not because I'm a pro & contra on this. But, cuz it literally, bother me that how pathetical people can be for attention. It's a middle child problem, tho. & I'm not blame her. IRL, I'm the youngest of three - I have an older paternal half brother (he's 14 years older, than me) and had one biological brother (who was 2 years older, than me but, he died by an epileptic seizure, before he turned 20.). I'm the only girl (turned 33 in 10.15). Guess, what I wasn't the favourite child, but the unwanted one. My bio brother, was the favourite one. My half bro, was the one, who was succesful & I was literally, jelous of it. I was literally, angry for the fact, that he has all the good things in life. It was until, our dad passed away to learn, how we are similar in one thing. We were, the unwanted children of him. But, at the end of the day when my father was alive, he talk to me nicely. Like, I felt special... and, I didn't say the fact that, my dad - a gifted, talented man of journalist - was an alcoholic. I grown up, with alcoholics - bio dad, the dad who raised my like I'm his own (with his wife, when my bio dad forget to return for me to take me home), two of my uncles from my mom's side and some people, I know from the pub where, I always accompanied my dad... Plus, stepdad. I'm even know woman who are alcoholic or, have to know when they weren't gone. So, it wasn't an easy to be with Jamie (neither was Bruce Aguilera), but somehow his kids managed. Ok, one doesn't and it's literally, both her and Jamie Spears fault. Not, just his. Because, she had a lot of opportunity back then, but... You know! Choose, her fam. Long story, short we are all humans...

We feel, we love, we laugh, we cry, we fell, we get down and do what's possibly on the cards. Cuz, life is to short to blame, everyone for the fact it was us who fell down to that f*cking rabbit hole, not them. Cuz, they live their lives. With & without money, right? Because, life is short to worry abt, the f*cking money problems of the families of peeps, we only know from TV & tabloids. But, yeah. We care, because we are all of human beings...

That's all folks...

[holiciouspursuitofenvy]

It took me a really long fucking time to acknowledge why i can't handle boundaries/end up being manipulative as fuck to real and sometimes online people.

EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE I HAVE TO WALK ON EGGSHELLS WITH! I truly did not understand stand that consciously, i only ever chalked it up to social anxiety. No matter how many times i told myself i wish there was a class on how to talk to people and what people will judge you on.

I grew up with parents who would be gone from home long periods of time (due to their jobs bc we were poor and childhood divorce). And when they came home would either fight eachother or their children (me and my siblings). Belittling us for little things we did or want which oftentimes was extremely normal kid stuff. And because i was the youngest, i was an honorary child of the eldest teenage sister who obviously was a bad mother but also actively bullied me for years.

Not to mention parents who would constantly tell me don't trust anyone, everyone is judging you and out to get you. So they sheltered you home minimizing play time or hanging out with other kids. I actively remember being a kid and trying to set up healthy boundaries like "hey mom, it really hurta me when you yell at me for crying when i get shots or needles, I'm trying my best." And her going "fuck off, you're just sensitive and you need to get over it by now." Or my dad actively triggering me when he does his angry sound tell so i asked him to please do it less and he angrily calls me a child in a long drawn out paragraph and huffs away.

I was/sometimes still am stuck in a toxic cycle of needing to learn how to set up boundaries for myself and telling people, namely my family, to fuck off if they don't. I used to have a hero complex where i would help people at the expense of myself to often but then i said fuck that and now I've made my over defensiveness even more obvious.

But i also couldn't acknowledge this extends to EVERYTHING. In real life when someone says you did a bad thing suddenly it feels like a volcano of the most angry emotions stir inside of me BECAUSE I AM FURIOUS.

I'M FURIOUS that no one acknowledges how hard it was to walk on eggshells all the time. How I'd need to pat myself on the back every time i completed a social interaction successfully or comb through every detail of them to find something to improve on. I never felt i was progressing to normal but that i was stuck incompetent forever.

I get told a lot that I'm very mysterious and never tell anyone anything and this is why. I HAVE MAJOR TRUST ISSUES. This is where the hyper-independence, the closed offness, the combative nature against people i trust especially comes in. Why I'm always surprised people who don't see me everyday or run to me anytime the see me say I'm their friend. I'm sure i came off super cold when i asked them why but i was genuinely surprised. Because being teased, bullied, and dismissed by everyone close to me growing up fucked up my view of people and relationships.

I don't mean for any of this to come off as an excuse but as an explanation. And me trying to reach people who've gone through the same things i have but kept getting back into the cycle of needing to defend yourself by all means possible to people who just said "please stop, i don't like this," or any other variation of you have done something wrong. Especially if you went over the line online and someone said "hey thwt way too over familiar, don't talk to strangers like that." because yea STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET ARE NOT YOUR THERAPIST OR PUNCHING BAGS.

I really need people to understand this isn't from entitlement, it's subconscious mistrust in everyone you meet bc subconsciously i believed everyone was out for me. Someone i needed to defend against before or after they talk to me. No matter how nice and gentle it comes doesn't matter. Everyone has to be lying and think it's the biggest deal in the world actually or this is a greater sign of you being awful all along. Like everone did that to everyone elae. And if anyone just casually calls this narcissism I'm hitting you with a 2x4. Those posts never resonated with me. They felt dismissive for me personally.

I AM ALWAYS IN A PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE VICTORIAN ENGLAND TEA PARTY WITH A BAD REPUTATION. Or better yet I'm always walking on eggshells with people.

Coming from someone who knows they're mentally fucked up but not knowing exactly how for all your life but especially in the past 5+ years of not going to therapy except when it was closeby and free a couple times but never being truly open with them because you learned vulnerability equals dismissal and pain 99% of the time.

So yeah, i highly recommend looking back on your childhood and examining when you were dismissed or had your boundaries broken. Then work on active trust with people and be open to more people because not processing my trauma but trying to steamroll being a functional persom also fucked me up.

[blossomingtoanewme]

Relearning How To Live

Lately I've been thinking about my hyper-independence

Wondering why and what happened for me to be the way I am

They say our childhood experiences effects our brain development

So I spent a significant amount of time reliving the past

I recalled all of the hurtful experiences I had forgotten all about

The main theme being my father

My father walked out of my life when I was only nine

And the only memories I have of him are quite painful to relive

When I was a child my father was never a present parental figure

He was always out working day in and day out

On the encounters I did see him I dreaded it, we all did including my siblings

We didn't love our father rather we feared him

In order to go to a park with family I would often be handed the phone as the youngest

My siblings knew he would say no so they would ask me to call, and sometimes he still would say no

He would never let us eat fast food rather he wouldn't want to spend his money

Once in a blue moon he would get us fast foods, and once in a life time he would get us meals

Usually he stuck with the cheapest items

He was very controlling in what I wore, he believed modesty was key

I had to wear what he approved of around him, but my mother would let me change my outfit whenever I left the house

So from a young age I learned I couldn't enter the house with jeans and had to change into a skirt

He often knew I wore whatever I wanted when he wasn't around so he resorted in what he knew best, to use hurtful words

He would often say hurtful things about my appearance when I wore jeans or short sleeves because he believed that it would get me to stop, it never did

When my family and I came back from our family trip we found cameras in the house that were set up, we were all taken aback because no one approved of it

It turned out he wanted to monitor who came in and out of the house, keep in mind we were all kids

My mother ended up having to take apart the cameras because she never allowed it to be set up

Whenever I was younger he would never let me celebrate my birthday, he said it was against our religion

Its funny now because we were never religious but he would always use that excuse to dictate our actions

He never knew how old I was or when my birthday was, he would often ask my mom when he visited

He never cared to call to check in or visit when they got seperated

He would rarely visit in the course of ten years

Whenever he did he would buy us a ton of groceries as if that made up for the lost time

He would always criticize my moms cooking he never once complimented it

I found that so confusing because my mom was a chef and her food tasted extremely good, but also the fact that he always finished the plate

I never once heard my dad say I love you to any of my siblings including me, i mean that explains why he was an absent father

The first time I had a real conversation with my father was ten years after he walked out, when my parents were getting divorced

We found out he was cheating the whole time he walked out and that he has kids, the oldest was ten

He actually was apart of that child's life, it was the same age he walked out on me

I told my father everything on how I felt and how inexcusable that behavior was, he must of been offended because he said he would never introduce me and my siblings to his other kids ever

I got my first job at sixteen to support my mom and I have been working since

I worked hard in school to a get a full ride scholarship to college because I didn't want to burden my mother with it

I got multiple internships and worked my butt off to be in the deans list and yet I still find myself struggling

Everytime I'm sad all of my emotions pile up and then I start crying about my father and how he left

I am such an anxious person and struggle with affection

I can never ask for help but yet I find myself helping people alot especially when they're going through something I struggled in

I found myself not knowing how to take up space or be confident

I am always struggling with self doubt

It's like I don't know who I am but once thing I do know is that I am very independent and got everywhere on my own

Although I am proud of myself and my success sometimes I wish I could have lived my childhood still

I wish I could've enjoyed high school without working

I wish I could've enjoyed college without worrying about getting internships because I knew I have no one to rely on but me, so I had to work my butt off to get one