#stories from my parents' childhood
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When you have a very strong one-sided grudge against a specific videogame franchise both your brothers are big fans of because it won't stop copying everything from different folklores and cultures and mythologies and history and stories of specific places
#Genshin. genshin when i catch#SUMERU WHEN I FUCKING CATCH YOU#i forgave the deal with Al-Heithem but now i slowly learns that over half the world building and lore of that place is directly copy pasted#told my brother the bit of stpry of Umroyaar.#and he immediately went ' uhhh appi. you're gonnq hate this but..'#guess what? oh yeah. the infamous Zambeel was also copied. great. that isn't even folklore . Those r popular fantasty#stories from my parents' childhood#sorry genshin fans plz don't mind ne much I'm having a moment here abt so many different things. stories and folklore and other franchises#etc that this game just took and make it their own#there's a difference b/w world building elements & the lore#I'm seeing both being taken here#well... like i said earlier don't mind me too much#just a girl from south asia getting upset abt her region's centuries old mythology & folklore being copied#u wouldn't understand my pain 😭
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When I was a kid (maybe like 6-12) i was very often """misgendered""" as a girl by doctors, cashiers and general adults. Once we had a picture day at school and had photo of me sent back with girly border cause photographers thought of me as a girl lol
I guess all the signs were there I just didn't know what transgender is cause nobody told me
#my parents let me wear long hair because i just liked it that way#i had short hair for maybe like total of 3-4 years in my life#very unpleasant#always enjoyed hanging out with girls#i had this huge crush on this girl who always hanged out with all the boys#we would ride bikes together and skate#we went on like those little four wheeler bikes together a few times#fhdhd i mean nothing ever came from it we just were friends#i heard from my mytual friends that she's lesbian now#makes so much sense honestly#stories from a little rural town in poland#honestly i miss my childhood friends#some of them know im trans and theyre like wow...#so cool...#also i secretely very enjoyed the girl border on my picture#but my classmates were like looooool look at this loser#so i tried to play it tough#hehe
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Why Ratio isn't in Genius Society - theories
Nous regarded him and decided that he's doing fine without them.
Or because he isn't a genius. When he calls himself mediocre, it isn't a humblebrag. He's just a normal human with average intelligence. He achieved everything through hard work (in one of his character stories, his old professor talks about how, even as a kid, he'd wake up very early, exercise, and spend the whole day studying).
That's why he's often frustrated with his students. Like, guys, you are provided with all these opportunities to learn, you can surpass me, why are you squandering them? Or, I sacrificed my childhood and youth to science, why isn't everyone else willing to do the same? (turns out most people only become students to finally enjoy adult life away from their parents and maybe acquire some minimal knowledge and credentials to have a chance of a cushy job in the future.)
BTW, as a teacher, isn't he a self-made emanator of erudition? Not in a mystical Aeon-related sense, but literally—he spreads knowledge.
#honkai star rail#my stuff#dr ratio#granted this isn't how it works in real life#you can't study and do research 24/7 from childhood#unless you are really predisposed to it#or most likely abusive worthless parents are involved#trying to finally 'achieve' something through their child#and it usually doesn't end well for the child#although there is no indication of something dramatic like this#in Ratio's story#he probably did it voluntarily#and again this extreme overwhelming dedication#is the reason he's in Hunt and not Erudition
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y'all it's my sweetheart's birthday today 🥹💗
#and she's currently sleeping next to me in my childhood bed in my childhood home in my country that i haven't been in three years#for... reasons#conveniently the same room i was in when we first texted each other a decade ago and#same room we slept in after she spent the money she earned working two jobs as a teenager and travelling for over 24h to come meet me#the same room i came out to my mum in#the same room we fell in love many lifetimes ago#the same room i studied in and cried in and fought with my mum in and hid from my parents in and now it's#sweet memories rewriting all the ugly#trying to make sense of my childhood again and fix the broken cracks and she's here for me though it all#and she's the best person in the whole world and it's a privilege for anyone to be her friend but to feel the depths of her love like i do?#it's like being under the warm sun every single day#except the sun is an insanely gorgeous hilarious selfless and intelligent woman#and she chose me 🥹#whinysteve the resilient woman you are. tumblr would not handle your life story#but they're extremely lucky to have you on here ❤️
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13/15 is fun right bc he needs to be touched so so so bad bc she basically touch starved herself to death and she neeeeeeeeeeeds his body she Needs his body but no way in a million years do they have the framework to interpret that need as what it is so they assume it's sexual, right? it's gotta be. i need to be inside you bc i need to be touched bc im my own type bc the trust issues are Dire so just fuck me until ive forgotten im a person or remembered how to be one. right?
until one day like weeks months way longer than it should be into this self-destructive self-actualisation self-care routine theyre lying on the floor of the console room catching their breath and she goes "do you think.....do you think pythia's curse is still in effect or is this gonna be a problem"
and hes like "fuck! susan"
#had the thought again the other night like 'wait a minute can timelords conceive with themselves? real selfcest'#and then i remembered i actually wrote a whole fucking fic abt missy tricking the master into giving her a baby#that she then babytrapped the doctor with#like babe <3 insane#but anyway never finished it bc the outcomes i saw was either i had to go write missy raising a child#(had two possible ways for that to go. one with the doctor one without)#(the one without was a childhood marked by repeated kidnapping attempts BY the doctor attempting to 'save' the child from missys parenting)#(also had her meet tecteun at some point just.........for fun. i thought she'd take an interest)#but idk how to write a child. or parenting#and the other option was to have the children die#children bc........missy tried..........like a lot#many times#insanity levels were high#but there was no real end to that either. lik ethe story didnt get to an ending#so that fic is kinda in limbo#in terms of masterdoctor insanity tho. my best work. they were both intensely insane in it#intensely#no matter the way i wrote it go. intensely. mutual traumas reenactment#anyway#is this why they cant conceive do you think#bc otherwise you kinda have to contend with the fact that they could do it with themselves right?#even if they dont do it the human way#i suppose maybe with looms you could already make smth out of just one person's material?#but i feel like with looms it like hussles the dna around a bit. idk if that makes it less a problem#idk also if i made that up#anywayyy
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#okay I'm gonna get a bit personal here lmao#so i used to have a childhood best friend whom I've known basically since he was born lmao (he's 4 years younger)#he's always been like a little brother to me and we used to be inseparable until like 11 years ago#and then the friendship stopped sooo abruptly basically from one day to another#and i literally have no idea to this day why#i mean idk at that point those 4 years were a BIG gap me being 15 and him 11#but I'm not sure if that was it or if his parents didn't like it or some completely different reason#we're actually neighbors and it's crazy to me that we haven't had any in person interaction since then#we say hello if we see each other and wish each other a happy birthday online but that's it#and today me and my dad went over to the neighbors because..#(well I'm not gonna elaborate here because there was some police action in the neighborhood and i felt like i was in an action movie#and that's what brought the neighbors together whatever it's a long story)#and he was there and i realized i miss him lmao#i mean I've always missed him i never stopped missing our friendship#and i really really wanna reach out and say “hey you wanna grab coffee some time?” and just catch up#but I'm scared lol#like what if he says no#what if he doesn't wanna do anything with me#idk the rejection would feel awful a second time#am i being irrational here am i overthinking#maaaan idk#i never share anything too personal here so this feels weird lol#personal
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I was thinking about the fact that it's very funny that my parents had more problems with me being atheist than with me being queer.
Like:
"Sure hon, you have a weird perception of your gender and you could possibly bring home women, men or everything in-between... fine, love is love we will take you to the pride and stuff ^w^. BUT WHAT ABOUT JESUS CHRIST HUH?????"
And when I say they had 'more problems' I mean they were like "ow... so you won't come to church on Sundays with us anymore? At least the holidays?🥺"
like idk it's so funny to me
#sometimes I gotta acknowledge the fact that I'm lucky#if my catholic parents were bigoted I would have had such a shitty childhood and adolescence#I mean adolescence sucked anyway#but it could have been so much worse with shitty parents#steel rambles#also lol I forget how much having been a religious person influenced me?#like lmao “local tumblr user discovers that going to church for 15 years every sunday influenced them in some way”#but like not in a negative way#just in weird ways#funny ways?#like I read the bible thrice in my life#once because I wanted to know the story in general and the book I had was full of pretty pictures so nice#I've always been curious about religions an myths anyway#the second I was 13 and I was proving a point#yes I read the bible to win an argument#one about lesbians never being demonized or even cited in the bible#the third time I read just the apocalypse because it was cool and I wanted to impress a girl with cool references...#“local tumblr user tried to impress a girl with cool quotes from the apocalypse” you can laugh but I have no regrets#I also “complained” to God a lot lool#like dude if you actually exist I'm so sorry for the 15 years of gossips and complaining you had to endure#like idk for example my teacher was being unfair?#me mentally: “see God? see what I have to put up with??? like I can't belive she said that!!!!”#I treated God like an imaginary friend or something I think? am I being blasphemus??#ahahshjshdhfhg
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From the Halloween asks:
✨ - Best Halloween memory?
Ohhhhh hmm. I had a lot of fun trick-or-treating at Disney World while I was a teen, but admittedly the people I usually went with... make it less of a positive memory, in retrospect. One year we did all make homemade Lock, Shock, and Barrel masks and we looked fantastic. lmao
I also have really, really loved some of Sleep No More's Halloween parties, but I've never actually gone on Halloween proper, I don't think...
I lived on a floor full of Ancient Studies/Museum Studies majors when I was a freshman in college and we all watched The Mummy and wrapped each other up in toilet paper and that was fun, too...
Honestly, though, if it comes to like Pure Joy, there was this one year I went trick-or-treating with my best friend in Ohio. We were probably like... idk, 8? And it was the absolute apex of the Wonder Ball craze.
(For my non-American followers, they were sort of like Kinder Eggs but usually had toys relating to popular children's brands like Disney. The toy version was eventually made illegal here just like Kinder Eggs are, lmao. They replaced the toy with shitty candies.)
My dad never let me get one at the grocery store when he let me pick out a treat because they were so expensive (a whole dollar, lmao) so I desperately wanted one. They still had toys in them back then and everyone wanted one. But I'd never gotten one.
So Jody and I go trick-or-treating and we come to this quiet cul-de-sac that apparently no kids went to...? And there was this nice couple there who had clearly decided to go all-out for Halloween and they'd bought an entire box of Wonder Balls. Since no other kids had shown up, they let Jody and I take like five each and it was glorious.
I remember going back to her house and her dad had the Simpsons Halloween special on TV (fun for me as I was not allowed to watch The Simpsons back then) and we broke open our Wonder Balls and had a great night. :')
#while I do not remember them (so they can't be the best memory) some other fun stories from my very young childhood:#my parents dressed me up in increasingly bizarre food-related costumes#like a mouse stuck in a block of cheese and a taco and broccoli and a juice box and a bag of jelly beans#I've seen the pictures and I was EXTREMELY cute#apparently the broccoli one didn't go so hot because mama put me in a green sweatsuit and glued green cotton balls on a shower cap#and had me hold stalks of broccoli#but I really liked broccoli#it was my favorite vegetable#so I kept eating it throughout the night...#so by the end of the night it was... not obvious what I was#also once my dad dressed up as a cow but his face paint scared my sister so much that she locked him out of the house lmao#less fun memory: when my aunt was dying I had to trick-or-treat at a hospital one year#I was a little clown IIRC and I couldn't have been more than about 4#not really sure how it worked out but I do actually remember doing it bc it felt so surreal
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Some pretty silly takes coming out of Batman fandom as to what it's like to be raised by a British person. Bruce wouldn't be unable to speak with an American accent—he's been surrounded by American accents his whole life, and he'd probably avoid drawing unwanted attention.
Much more likely he'd tell his friend at school that he had "rocket salad" for lunch and 20 years later it's the only thing that person remembers about him so they STILL tell that not-actually-funny 'story' to everyone at high society parties. At every party. Until Bruce regularly fantasises about hitting them with an actual rocket.
#clark thinks bruce is in love with his childhood friend from the immediate physiological response upon seeing him#bruce is actually about to have a hate aneurysm because Charles is going to tell the fucking arugula story again isn't he#like it's cute to think of Bruce as having an accent#but that stuff is bullied/peer pressured/unconsciously trained out of 99% of kids under the age of 12#my dad moved young enough that his accent switched to american (& switches back in England)#so I didn't have a parent with a real accent#but I had several other second generation friends (british and otherwise) whose parents had accents#and they didn't have accents either. after being raised their whole lives by people with them.#most kids rely more on their peers and local culture for reference than their adult. consciously or not.#BUT!! so many people are missing out on the other second generation stuff!#I bet he learned his spelling from Alfred#I bet Alfred tried very hard not to use slang but still used regional terms#so 8 year old Bruce would run into the kitchen and ask for a bacon butty#and Alfred would be like. only if it has vegetables in it. I can add lettuce#and then Bruce would make a face because Alfred always adds too much lettuce and not enough butter
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Another thing I loved - and that cut deep - about all of us strangers is how authentically croydon it is. It was apparently the first feature film set and shot in croydon, and my god - the detail from the shitty southern trains adam takes to get in and out (the same shitty southern trains I take), the accuracy of the line names and stations along the way, the feel of the suburbs, the way london is both right there and feels like a faraway land -- it is all so real. I also watched it in a cinema in croydon and when they said "let's go to your favourite place in the world, the next best place after Disneyland: the whitgift centre" we made a collective sound. Our shitty whitgift centre at the heart of this movie. And in a movie whose themes are so close to my heart and lived experience, getting that local feel -- I felt so seen.
#all of us strangers#there is a scene in which adam is on a train going to his parents house in a backward facing seat#which is thematically so poignant bc where he is going IS the past he is going *back*#and at the same time that is exactly how those trains work - sometimes all you get is a backward facing seat#and that authenticity adds worlds to an already exquisite film#and i think that you can connect to even if u arent from croydon or live in croydon#also as many of you know inaccuracies re londons transport network are my ultimate bugbear in stories#so it was extra satisfying#also yes: i am aware the director used his own childhood home as adams
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sorry to the person that sent this ask, i deleted it on accident
anygays.
someone on anon sent an ask saying “why do you want the white lady to be stereotypical?” in reference to this post where i said i reject the canon that she doesn’t care about any of the vessels, just seeing them as tools to seal the radiance and only experiencing shame in the fact that it was her eggs that were used to produce them.
lemme elaborate on what i meant by that.
(tl;dr at the bottom of the post)
(cw: mentions of child neglect + implied child abuse)
it’s not that i want the white lady to be the general fanon stereotype that she’s actually a loving mother to all her kids, including the fallen vessels in the abyss, i simply want her to treat holly like her child because thats what they are. they’re a living being who deserves all the love and more that they never got in their childhood because their parents thought they were effectively a lifeless creature.
now, i project onto them a lot. they’re my #1 blorbo and comfort character in hollow knight, so i give them the same needs i have and write other characters as providing to those needs. that includes parental love from the white lady, their mother.
in my aus, wl isnt a motherly figure to all the vessels — in fact, she’s actually kind of scared of most of them. she only really acts as a parent to holly, because she knows they’re alive and that they literally need it to stay that way. they call her mom, she calls them her child, and she’s grown really attached to them because of that.
wl didn’t initially view holly as her child — before their escape and rescue, to her, they were just another failure. just another impure vessel. she didn’t honestly care about what happened to them, at least not too much (they’re still her spawn, and she felt some guilt in seeing them this way, but she shoved it down and continued acting like everything was fine). but after the fact, holly themself said to her that they genuinely see her as their mother and want her to treat them as her child to make up for the decades of neglect they went through. hearing this, and knowing they’re a living being that literally just wants the love they were never given, and already having an innate desire to protect her young, she agrees to call them ‘child’ despite not fully seeing them like that.
after a while, though, she did start developing a genuine motherly love and connection to them. of course, at this point in time in my main au, holly is still very much trying to impress pk to avoid getting thrown into the abyss and dying (which he wouldn’t do, but they don’t know that), so they never call wl ‘mother’ around him, and they requested that she do the same for them (which she agreed to do bc she doesn’t want them getting hurt any more than they already have been).
tl;dr, im sad and need the comfort so i gave a lore reason for it to happen canonically in my aus.
(also, in twins of void, wl just always loved diligence. she knew right off the bat that they were alive and she decided “fuck it, they’re my child and i love them, the other one is pure they’ll be fine,” despite pk’s wishes for neither of them to form any unnecessary attachments in the case that purity wasn’t pure.)
(in reign of light, she doesn’t want anything to do with moon. something to do with them fusing with radi. more angst fuel for the angst au!)
(also, here’s rol and tov’s basic info post)
#hk#hollow knight#hk wl#hk white lady#the white lady#hk pk#hk pale king#the pale king#hk thk#hk hollow#the hollow knight#hk vessels#hk au#au#my au#cw implied abuse#cw neglect#buggie’s rambles#buggie’s stories#the way i worded this kinda makes it seem like i was neglected/abused#I WASNT i just generally had a traumatic childhood (thanks to public school) and#a lot of my issues kinda stem from my parents not getting me the help i need?#either bc they didnt know what was wrong with me or they just simply couldn’t afford to help#MY OARENTS ARE COOL AND AWESOME DW— i just tend to project onto characters with a lot of childhood trauma#REGARDING their parents#for. some reason.
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Just realized I forgot to post these
#keese draws#oc art#oc#ocs#these guys are from the same story as the grape twins btw#root beer is their cousin and one of the four main characters#dragons beard is merlot's boyfriend and fellow antagonist#and lemon taffy is the older sibling of one of the other main characters who spends most of the story 'kidnapped'#and by kidnapped I mean the super villain polycule asked them if they could help them with some tests and they went 👍#important context! lemon taffy (and their two siblings) are the kids of three superheroes and merlot and fox grape are the kids of four#supervillains both of which are mostly absent for the main story (although the supervillains at least get to be more of side characters)#the heroes are off in space dealing with alien political drama that doesn't matter to the main plot#the two groups have a fairly casual rivalry but they still have genuine beef#merlot and fox grape were left home alone after their parents set out to work on some big project and merlot took the chance to go fuck#off and get a boyfriend to do crime with leaving fox grape desperately trying to find them and get them to come back home#and for the other side root beer was roped into helping rescue lemon taffy by their two younger siblings pop rock and jelly bean#he and pop rock are the main duo on that side with jelly bean being their guy in the chair#merlot and dragons beard are mostly antagonists to those three with fox grape and the other main guy cayenne pepper chasing after them#cayenne is dragon beards childhood friend and I have never drawn him before despite adoring him 😔#hes such a piece of shit I love him#in my old original concepts for him he was going to be an incel but then my brain went but what if. aro. and I instantly hard committed#hes a bitchy asshole who's made all the more annoying by the fact that his anxieties are low key completely justified#hes a sad wet cat abandoned in a cardboard box all alone 😔#oh yeah also worth noting that root beer is a vampire who has a strained relationship with his adoptive dads#oh and dragons beard's parents are a dragon and a royal fae so he has a lot of power that he doesnt know how to use lol#lemon taffy is like. sort of part dragon in a very distant way? their grandma was a failed revival of an old god who was a dragon who made#their dad out of her own magic which included that same magic from the dragon god who was basically made of magic#so he was also sort of part dragon but not really? idk its complicated#merlot and fox grape are miraculously not part dragon somehow despite my track record of making too many ppl dragons in this world#they are however vampires and also directly decend from a god so thats fun
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every so often I remember that my dad legitimately doesn’t believe children exist and I think that’s why tumblr’s my only social media now…
#I thought it was normal but looking back it was a wild way to grow up…#like my parents were very kind and my life was very stable#but I had to memorize facts about economics/literature/politics for my dad. he read me 1984 as a bedtime story. 1984. bedtime story.#I knew I was a kid and I knew that I had to act like I had an adult mind so. yeah#got really concerned with philosophy and morals. childhood was very stressful… I was like Chidi from The Good Place#on the plus side I was always treated with genuine respect#whimsical.txt
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everyone...watch love next door....
#only 2 eps out for now but it literally got me out of my kdrama slump its That good...#sooo many kdramas don't do the childhood friends to lovers trope justice but i have such high hopes for lnd its soooooo good so far#its funny...the main couples r alr clearly separated from ep1 so no fuckass love triangles...the female leads have a great friendship#and such good chemistry if u told me they're bestie irl id believe u..i looooveeeee the bickerisms btwn the leads they're perfect#also haein fits the yearner role so well???? his gaze is soooo pine n yearn...#also im so happy jion finally has a big role in a good show.....fuck my lovely liar that shit was ass finally retribution for my guy of all#time#like he's just a kind hearted nerd in this and he looks good doing it<3 so excited to see how his & moeum's story evolves#also the moeun seokryu seunghyo trio friendship is so fun as well i loved their scenes in ep 2#ALSO. accurate sibling dynamics save me‼️#don't watch it if u quit ur job and moved back home w ur parents recently tho lmao ep2 emotionally devasted me i did cry quite a bit#like why r u in my house suddenly.#anw. watch it!!!!#anna.txt
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despite being extremely against having lots of useless knick knacks and trinkets, I cannot deny or escape my nature as a doll person. i love love love dolls and desire deeply to collect them. i see a doll, and i want it. i see a doll at a thrift store and imagine her happy in my apartment. i stroll down the aisles of dolls in the toy section and have to fight to urge to buy hundreds of dollars worth. i have tried to suppress the truth, but i just can't
#i actually ONLY have 6 dolls in my apartment#but i think i need to rescue some of my childhood ones from my parents house to keep in my apartment also#i also love stuffed animals but that is another story
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Yuanzhi is covered in blood and Shangjue can smell it as soon as he enters the courtyard/grounds.
The tang in the air is almost immediate and assaults his senses with the full force of a hammer to his head.
“Shangjue gege?” Ziyu holds him firmly by the elbow. He shakes his head, looking back up at the empty courtyard in front of him.
Something is wrong.
He quickly unsheathes his sword and Ziyu wordlessly does the same. Heart pounding high in his throat, he rushes in, eyes frantically looking for signs of life.
His feet take him in the direction where the scent of blood is strongest — Yuanzhi’s laboratory.
Shangjue suppresses the panic that gnaws at his heels. Outpacing Ziyu, he doesn’t look back, sprinting to the door.
“Didi! Didi!”
“Ge? Zhiren?”
Yuanzhi peeks his head beyond a screen, looking startled at their entrance. His mouth is a mess of blood and spit that spills all the way down the front of his robes, and Shangjue drops his sword in his rush to pull Yuanzhi into his arms.
“What’s going on?” Yuanzhi coughs, patting at Shangjue’s back with complaint in the scrunch of his nose. “Ge… too tight…!”
“You tell us, Yuanzhi Didi,” Ziyu says, looking around the laboratory. “What’s all this?” Sheathing his sword, he gestures to the array of pots boiling on the multiple burners and the almost wicked way the steam casts the rest of the room.
“Ah.”
Shangjue lets him pull back far enough to frown at him.
“Ah? That’s all you have to say?” Shangjue chides. Lifting his sleeve, he wipes at the blood around Yuanzhi’s mouth, only for him to retch and scramble for a bucket to vomit into.
From behind him, Ziyu quickly goes to pour a fresh cup of tea, while he rubs Yuanzhi’s back.
“It’s just an experiment,” Yuanzhi explains, wheezing when he lifts his head. “Took it a bit too far, ‘s all.”
Shangjue clenches his jaw. Meeting Yuanzhi’s eyes he is only slightly mollified when his Didi looks appropriately cowed at his glare. Ziyu bustles forth with the cup of tea and Shangjue steps back to retrieve his sword.
Hiding his shaking his hands in his sleeves. He takes a moment to calm himself down before he does something stupid in front of their Zhiren like throw Yuanzhi over his knees and spank him for the foolishness.
They’ll have words about this later.
#my journey to you#my journey to you fic#云之羽#gong shangjue x gong yuanzhi#gong shangjue#gong yuanzhi#gab writes stuff#hands up if you have ever vomited blood *hands up*#quick story time: I had a surgery when I was 12 to remove the polyps in my nose & the blood was the back flow from the surgery#me being the anxious hamster I was and am didn’t want to stay in the hospital and basically forced my parents to take me home#took me three tries to get up because every single time I was even remotely vertical I vomited blood#we had to throw my favourite shirt coz it got so much blood on it it couldn’t be washed off#I had a fun childhood lol#had blood in my mouth for a week after so yes. I know the taste of blood in my mouth
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