#since it’s said(?) that lark and Rebecca got together before sparrow and Rebecca got married

[mytholinerd]

I’ve been thinking more recently (shocker I know I never use my brain cells) and most of the stuff that has been on my mind is dungeons and daddies

Specifically the character of Normal Oak and why his arc and character resonate with so many listeners.

Disclaimer: I am not will campos nor am I Anthony Burch of the hit podcast dungeons and daddies, I am just a random guy making silly head canons and projecting this also has spoilers so be warned.

As someone who is neurodivergent and also projects onto normal this is the conclusion that I’ve come to

Growing up as neurodivergent I’ve always felt off from my classmates, any attempts I’ve made to try and relate to my classmates,I’d end up getting weird looks from them that I didn’t understand at the time.

It wasn’t until I was an adult that I fully understood why I felt so out of place in my own life among people was because of something in my brain that I was born with and couldn’t control, and even possibly passed down from my own parents.

Now this is where the oaks come in. Now the oaks family arc has sorta been raising my children differently than my own parents raised me.

Which isn’t what I’m really focusing on in this post but it does kind of relate,

Normal grew up under the belief that he was normal and the desire to want to fit in and be loved because he even probably back then didn’t know that’s what he wanted.

(Example the Dante inferno parody of episode )

It isn’t until his own (possible) father sparrow tells him about his own fears about normal not being normal while under the influence of the doodler brain haze.

After that normal is thrown into a panic of trying to be normal but failing.

It gets to the point where he even goes to the doodler in his brain as a reason why he’s like this, and why he hasn’t felt the love and support he desperately needs from his family.

Now I know other neurodivergent people like me can relate to the feeling of being outcasted by the things in their brain that they can’t control, even by the people who they care about closest to them.

And I think the same goes for why Henry and the twins were also such fan favorites due to their own internal struggles with their upbringing and how they are.

And it’s why I believe the character of normal and his arc resonates with so many people who’ve felt the same way as him.

TLDR: I project onto normal oak cause his arc reminds me of my own feelings and life as a neurodivergent person and wanting to be normal, and examine why people like him so much.

[officialgleamstar]

#omg but what about hero/Taylor and hero/hermie? 👀🤔#actually never mind I just saw the time please do not talk about hero/anyone until you’ve had a sleep my love I beg 🙏🙏🙏 (via @isadora-greenhall)

yeah i did skip hero (and the spouses, and also dee) because it was 4:15 am and i needed to sleep LOL, i added almost for a reason! i can circle back to them but im not gonna be exhaustive with ships, ill just list what interests me and vaguely try to be briefer because i have things to do before work

bill/christine - probably not surprising with my fascination with bill and also with divorce in dndads as a general theme, but im obsessed with these two. i think about them a LOT more than i tend to elaborate on. everyone go listen to PWR CPLE by the worriers right now and think about christine

christine/dee - i love this ship, it makes me laugh. i dont know how to verbalize any of my thoughts on this ship, since it is massively speculation, but i think theyre awesome. they would argue and then kiss about it

hencedes - GOD I LOVE HENRY AND MERCEDES. i think theyre so perfectly suited for each other, theres a reason why theyre the only two characters i color code with the exact same color gbfhjdghfdj theyre perfect!! i like them with mercedes being more laidback to balance out henry's neuroticism, and i like the thought that they both function much better as a pair than separately

morglenn - imagine me with a deeply haunted expression. i both love and hate morglenn HJFKHGKJDH i love their dynamic so much. i hate that glenn got together with morgan again. however it also makes me laugh so much and glenn is the king of "no character development" (absolutely simmering with character development under the surface) so i also love it. and also they fight demons together. fucking badass

morgan/jodie - biting my tongue so i dont start talking about mnmoms i have. so. many thoughts on these two. god. i think most of my friends know this, lol, but i find their entire marriage way more interesting with the idea that morgan... also sucked, which i dont think is entirely popular but its just way more fun and feels more realistic to me. i absolutely adore morgan, shes just also the type of woman to marry both glenn and jodie and that does not equal a person who is easy to be around LMAO i really like morgan as a character who pushes and pushes and pushes, from everything from her ambitions to her sense of humor. absolutely the type of person to lie about something extremely obvious as a joke, and keep lying about it, and lie about it for a month straight because she finds it funny. and i think that would drive jodie crazy, and i think morgan would just find that even funnier. shes also impulsive, which jodie is as well, but i think theyd really piss each other off with how it manifests in each of them. and also, ive said this before, but i dont think theyre like, blow up argument types? i think theyre both way more the type to be furious but never talk about it, refuse to admit theres something wrong because theyre both too proud to say their marriage is bad, so they just... ignore each other for days on end besides making snippy comments at each other ITS BAD. THEYRE BAD FOR EACH OTHER AND I LIKE IT A LOT i have endless thoughts on these two forever, sorry this is so long compared to everything else

mercedes/morgan - all of my thoughts on these two stem from this one fic where morgan and glenn go to a swingers party. its so good

okay i was gonna do . nicky/cass, sparrow/rebecca, lark/rebecca, hero/taylor, and hero/hermie next but . augh . things arent going well today, ill try to come back tomorrow but here take this for now

Yeah yeah yeah I'd love to hear your thoughts on the dynamics!!!

OKAY. SO. To restate myself: I THINK (almost) EVERY OAK AND CLOSE/FOSTER SHIP IS SO INTERESTING. They always have something fun going on … and also they’re always bi4bi which is deeply important to me. Sorry if any of this is hard to understand I am so so tired XD

Meryl and Hildy are the only two where I’ve not really dedicated thought to them. However, I could absolutely see them as like… you know that trope of a Casanova desperately chasing after the only woman who isn’t interested in him? THAT. THEY ARE THAT TO ME. Hildy is too focused on her career for men and it drives Meryl crazy

My thoughts on Barry and Bill should not be said in a public setting but I will provide this

Barry is gray and bill is blue. He should fuck that old man (purposefully ambiguous on who I mean). Anyways

My feelings on Glennry are. Well explored LMAO They’re my favorite ship! I know they can be super toxic as a ship, but I do really love them, most of all, as a ship where both parties fight tooth and nail to get better for the other. Because they understand each other and care for one another and the other person is just so so so fucking worth it to them. It makes me happy :]

Henry/Jodie is like, a sleeper agent in my mind. I think they have the capacity to be so fuckin compelling but I’m usually dedicating too much time to Glennry and Rodie to think about it. I LOVE these two though. I’m not usually a huge fan of Jodie struggling with his sexuality (it’s just funnier to me if he dated Scam with no hesitation.) but I’m in love with it specifically for Henry/Jodie contexts. Something about Henry being so loose and free with his sexuality contrasted with Jodie being so buttoned up about everything makes me so fhdksgajdhskdh!!! And of course, it is canon in that one AU-of-an-AU for MnMoms LMAO

Nark <3 one of my original ships and one I’ve been thinking about a lot this weekend. The PEAK of adhd boyfriend/autism boyfriend in my mind. As I said the other day - I love them as established but ambiguous. No one knows what their relationship is, least of all them, but it has been going on for years. I find them really interesting but I don’t tend to agree with some of the like, I dunno, trademark features of popular Nark dynamics? I think Nicky is the type to do anything to get approval from those who cares about, way more so than I’ve seen some people give him credit for (more, maybe they give him too much credit? Wording LOL), and I think Lark feels intense guilt for the mere act of existing, and I think these two characteristics are SO fun to throw up against each other. Also I know Nicky is a cool alt demon boy when they’re teens, but he’s still a cop’s son and I LOOOVE that in contrast to Lark’s hot-to-those-in-his-age-group brooding and general delinquency vibes (ie (our only real example) swapping places with his twin so he can risk his life LMAO). GOD SORRY IM RAMBLING ABOUT NARK NOW I like them. A lot

In contrast to Nark, I think the general consensus on Lovesong is awesome. Sparrow and Nicky liked each other so much as teenagers, they were an adorable T4T couple, they’re adhd boyfriend/autism girlfriend, and now they’re the worlds messiest exes ever and it’s everyone’s problem <3 ohhh sword to throat scene, you will ALWAYS be famous. I also love them with a dynamic of like… Sparrow being much more confident around Nicky, but struggling a lot in general social interactions. Something about her blossoming and opening up when around Nicky in particular, and maybe neither of them even notice at first… but then one day it clicks. They’re just SO comfortable around each other and I love thinking about like. The details of how that relationship dissolves, and how much worse it must have made the betrayal. Their current antagonism is made so so so interesting, especially when Sparrow is such a pushover to everyone BUT Nicky… OUGH. LOVE THEM!!!! (do you guys like how I automatically trans fem Sparrow in Lovesong settings specifically LMAO)

Oakworthy is another one I’ve talked about at length. They are two bugs I am raising in captivity together and they keep trying to each other, so I have to separate them, but I put them back together anyways. Because thIS IS HOW OAKWORTHY CAN STILL WIN-!! I love these two, fully immersed in the fantasy that they’re going to fix things and get together in the end. I think the fact that they both have such strong identity issues but in different ways - Hermie has no idea who he truly is and tries on a million masks to compensate, while Normal tries so desperately to be someone else but his true identity always shows in the end - makes for a REEEALLY interesting dynamic. They both try so hard to be who the other person wants, and fail to realize that what the other wants is for them to be themselves. Makes me crazy

AND FINALLY. NORMAL/TAYLOR. Tayloak <3 only something I’ve started thinking about, like… in the past few weeks XD but I think they’re REALLY FUN. Obviously there’s this massive aspect of Normals jealousy of (and over) Taylor, which can be fun to play with in a “do I want him or do I want to be him” way! I think those types of crushes are SO funny in fiction. And also. Once again. They fit the autism x adhd dynamic except this time, they’re both high energy. Tackling as a love language. To me.

Obviously, all of this is just my personal opinion!!! I do not pretend to know these characters better than anybody else (except Jodie.) and this is just my interpretation of these ships :] if people have wildly different opinions I’d love to hear em as well, just be nice LOL