#started somewhere and rambled

[ohtoburden]

thinking about my dad breaking down crying in the car while driving me to school when he and my mom were separated, and how he said he still loved her.

like, did he?

wouldn't he have listened to her when she talked about how his family was treating her badly? wouldn't he have stepped in? wouldn't he have taken her side in enforcing punishment for us kids when we did something wrong? being the sole bread winner, when you agreed to that dynamic before marriage, isn't enough.

mom had the qualifications to work, she could have done it. she wanted to do it but she thought that if it was with dad, she'd be happy to have kids and be a stay at home parent.

and she cheated on him, because she felt he wasn't there for her emotionally, after all those years. it's it cheating if you don't feel like the relationship is real anymore? if you feel abandoned in it?

i mean personally yeah, it's cheating. have it out with the man and leave him, christ. but also i sort of understand her.

i don't know what kind of love has you so absent from your relationship, so unable to communicate or change or compromise or discuss when possible are first brought up, but then somehow has you break down to your kid about years later.

also man, i don't know what an appropriate relationship with your parents is supposed to be like, but that moment was so baffling. i always thought my parents were ill-matched. that they got into fights all the time. i didn't understand why they'd married. and i was a teenager dealing with so many issues, it just felt so stupid.

like, why are you breaking down to me, 16, currently suicidal, traumatised by your and mom's parenting, engaging in self destruction behind closed bathroom and bedroom doors. what on earth are you doing. what was i supposed to do with that? what was i supposed to do about it? we were on the way to school, for christ's sake. i had just a normal full day of classes ahead. i was 16. what the hell.

and now later as an adult. after my parents finally fully separated. before my dad found someone new to see. him coming to my room at 3 in the morning to check on me, but i'm always awake at those hours, so we end up talking. and we talk about his life and mine but in such a way that i am somehow basically a therapist.

who opens up to their 23 year old about being bullied in grade school, and that they've never told literally anyone else. not his parents, not his siblings, not his friends. how am i the first person you tell about this? that's so sad for him, that it took me for him to finally find someone to open up to. it took me being me, but also him not having a Wife he could pretend everything was ok with. that his lofe was exactly where he wanted it to he.

because as soon as he started seeing his new partner the pseudo therapy sessions with me stopped, of course. as soon as he started seeing her he was fine! i can't remember if i told him about the issues he gave me before or after he started seeing her, but that talk was in the daytime. you know, like a normal conversation. jesus christ.

[bluerosefox]

Protective Instincts

Hmmmmmmmmm

Idea.

So we all mostly headcanon that Jason was around tiny Damian when in the League right? And if we do demon!twins or siblings Danny they meet too?

Well what if, now hear me out, what if while taking care of them Jason notices early on how Danyal, or as he likes to be called Danny, doesn't seem to have the heart to be an assassin compared to Damian. And even under the pits influence and the LOA teachings, Jason's protective instincts of protecting kids is still strong. And notices how... lack the protection around Danny is compared to Damian, the true heir.

What if, when Jason leaves the League to start his revenge against Bruce, he fakes Danny's death by killing off the little 'guards' he did have and takes the kid with him.

But as he goes to Gotham Jason has to decide.

Drop the kid off in a good family, give him a new identity and keep him hidden or keep the kid and raise them?

[dailygihun]

day 12 || underrated trio in my humble opinion (just lineart under the cut cuz im stuck on which to post)

[verflares]

collection of some loz origin au stuff i've been chipping away at for awhile now ^_^ with a healthy amount of dunmeshi insp for good measure LOL (the ooccoo isnt relevant she's just here for size comparison purposes)

feat my beloved good friend @linkvcr's hylia design also. because i am obsessed with her and you should be too 🫵

[lazylittledragon]

hi i'm unw el l

[latimeria-fell-from-heaven]

omg opinions on mr reca,

he’s literally >:3, mr. reca is full of silly whimsy and i need to study him under a microscope. he’s such a pathetic unhinged freak and i LOVE that for him <33

but he don’t get pussy, that silly little man gets the biggest strap-on up his ass <33 you could get mr. reca to cum in his pants from just steeping on him a couple of times, and now he’s hooked. he’d hump your foot like the depraved dog he is and drool n pant when you press down even harder. he REEKS of obsessive masochist vibes, dude would constantly follow you around like a lost puppy and refuse to leave you alone.

might as well get yourself your very own personal dog <33

[odd-chips]

So I've been teasing this character in my tags/posts for a while, and she's finally hereeee. Anyways WHOOPS, another self indulgent Lethal Company character who is basically the Wario version of [Cap'n]!

Meet Echo and her crewmates: Orion (goggle'd circle-shaped one), Spade (short one with big arms), and Guy (shapely GNC one). Being the opposite of Cap'n's crew, they're all men EXCEPT for Echo!

At first, she started out as a grown woman having a one-sided, very pathetic beef with Cap'n, but she evolved into an angry teenager who projects all of her issues onto someone who literally doesn't know she exists (and subsequently does something horrible to herself to rectify this weird beef). Did it work? Well no, come on, look at her, now she's even worse GOKJDFMKDF

And when I say "one-sided", I mean it. Genuinely Cap'n doesn't know who she is, like, at all. I think the first time they meet will be the inevitable werewolf fight between the two of them when things get out of hand.

Anyways I love the kidnapper fox, but alas, she was too swag for this world, RIP to a real one that lasted a month and a half. u_u)!!

[that-faerie-in-the-corner]

broke: Polites holds Astyanax in the underworld woke: Hector holds Astyanax in the underworld (or yknow any member of his actual family who love him) bespoke: Iphigenia holds Astyanax in the underworld

[feelbokkie]

I took a nap as soon as I got home from work earlier and took a bunch of medication because I have a bad cold rn…tell my why I went to my notes app and found roughly 600 words of an angsty comfort sick fic for IN??

Like this is the first sentence

And apparently, from what I’ve read so far of what medicated me wrote so far, is that the only reason why he was worried is because while he was at dance practice he got a single text that just said “sleep at the dorm tonight” and when he tried to call reader they kept ignoring his call. And he’s spiraling trying to figure out what he did to make reader mad at him and that reader is going to break up with him. But all the while, reader woke up sick and texted him that so he wouldn’t go over and get sick but kind of knocked out before sending a second text. And from there, idk bc it looks like I fell asleep too

[ohitslen]

Uni AU where Kni and Vash have an argument and Kni is like “so what? Are you just gonna walk away from the issue???” And Vash just goes “YEAH ACTUALLY I AM” and just walks out of the house and leave Kni there sooo bewildered

Vash drives to his house and feels so accomplished and good about standing up to Kni and then cries inconsolably on the living room floor where Wolfwood finds him and lays down in there with him while he scrolls through his phone. He says nothing until Vash has let it all out and they go to buy burgers and eat them on the sidewalk

[rynli]

Suddenly seized with visions of DE if Harry had kept his horse instead of trading it for an MC

[rivvyribbons]

tthe funny thing about olnf mcs is that they're usually their best self during step three.. (glances at ames second who i will be dragging through thhe mud even more once she turns 18)

[reinabeestudio]

Gathering courage

[damiduck]

Tim is one of those people that get such baby fever it's crazy. Also, he sees teen moms and yeah, he realises they probably have it very hard, but also,,, look at them. He's so fucking envious it's insane.

And one day after a league member brought their new baby to meet the team or sum, Tim is fucking done. He's tried so hard to fight it, but in the end he's no all powerful being. So, he slams open the door to Bruce's study and without prompting, "you have got to put a baby in me." And Bruce, without even looking up, goes "we can't baby".

Tim frantically fumbles over his words as he tries to explain they can just really really pretend and he really needs this bruce c'mon.

They've dabbled in a little bit of Tim's breeding kink before, but Bruce was always adamant about condoms and Tim has been on two forms of birth control for years (better to be absolutely prepared for anything in the field).

That night Tim begs and pleads (and edges) Bruce until he gives in and they do it without a condom. Bruce says he will pull out however. But he with how much Tim riled him up and the newer feeling of Tim's pretty pussy around him fully bare, Bruce can't even last a minute, and he would never leave his baby so empty so soon. He also can't help his hips stuttering forward as he's cumming, blames it on Tim locking his legs around him.

It should be fine, right? It has been for the past two years (and yea maybe Bruce has been poking tiny, inconspicuous holes in the condoms for almost as long as they've been doing this, he just can't stand the thought of his sweet little baby Timmy with anyone else besides him, so this is the way to make sure of that). Except Tim stopped taking his birth control a year ago, and had the implant taken out a few months prior. He knew a baby, Bruce's baby especially, would help not only him but the whole family. He had to do it. For completely selfless reasons ofcourse!!

So yeah, maybe theyve been trying to baby trap eachother for years/months now,,, but neither expected this time to actually catch....

[tired-shadow1]

I put a cut here because I ramble a lot and don't want to clog up the tags.

Drdt is so well written, I can't help but find myself liking and getting attached to all the characters even though I am well aware of the fate that likely awaits most of the cast.

It's rare that a series is able to get me so emotionally invested in the entire cast, but the characters are all so charming, and they play off one another so well, and they are all characters with multiple dimensions to them that have unique personalities and flaws.

they don't just feel like one-notecharacters. They are all complex characters with multiple layers to them they all have their flaws, and none of them are entirely good people, and that makes them feel more real and less artificial, and it's what gives characters traits that people can relate to which in tern makes them care even more about the characters.

I think as I finished watching chapter 2 and am progressing through my rewatch, I realized just how much I love this series and its characters, and I would gladly wait 5 or more years for chapter 3 if that's what the Dev needs to be in his best mental and physical health.

[fruitsofhell]

I used to be one of those guys when I first joined the Kirby fandom, but everytime I hear a discussion of the series writing that starts with "So the Lore is InSaNe-" and not like, "Kirby has a fun writing style that takes advantage of its cute exterior to tell cool stories that reward player's curiosity and leave lots of room for imagination-" I cringe so goddamn hard.

I kinda just hate that people approach things that encourage investment when they don't expect it as inherently absurd. Like it is fun to joke about how absurd Kirby lore can be, but it really often comes with an air of disrespect or exhaustion rather than like, appreciation that these games are made by people who want to tell interesting stories when they could easily make as much money just making polished enough fluffy kiddy platformers. And when it's not met with exhaustion, it's met with - like I said before - that tone that it's stupid for a series like this TO have devs who care about writing stuff for it. Which is a whole other thing about people not respecting things made to appeal to kiddie aesthetic or tone.

Maybe the state of low-stakes YouTube video essays just blows cause people play up ignorance and disbelief for engagement, but like I STG I hear people use this tone for like actual narrative based games sometimes. Some people don't like... appreciate when a game is made by people who care a shitton in ways that aren't direct gameplay feedback. And they especially don't appreciate it when it comes from something with any sense of tonal dissonance intentional or not.

Anyways, I love games made by insane people. I love games made by teams who feel like they wanna make something work or say something so bad. I love that energy, especially when invested into something that could easily rest on its laurels or which obviously won't be taken seriously. I love this in a lot of classic campy 2000s games, I love this in insanely niche yet passionate fanworks, and I love it in the Kirby series and its writing. Can we please stop talking about it like it's an annoyance or complete joke?