#strained parental relationships

[tostada-turtle]

Like Father, Like Son

[pearlypairings]

new posted chapter :)

In the Shade of Aurelias

check out my chrissy-centered angsty fic that's a fantasy/magic AU for our little Hawkins babes. we're only 3 chapters in and just getting started for that hellcheer slowburn ~

we're getting into the heart of chrissy's world, building up anticipation for what's been hiding in plain sight. nightmares, girl talk, and distant dad advice galore

mood board for chapter three: masks

let me know what vibes with you <3

[lurukifennecfox]

again snippets i won't finish because reasons

Everything was going well which should have been the first clue.

Danny moved to Gotham (Vlad insisted he pay for it and he'd been doing better so he let him have it) he's going to Gotham Academy, he was visiting his old haunt so often people thought Phantom never left! turns out if a ghost is strong enough they can teleport to their haunt and he is strong! even if he never quite got the hang of teleportation aside from returning to his haunt.

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he must have said something wrong because now the halfa was glaring at him with ectoplasm green eyes, he rolled his eyes.

"c'mon stop with the scary eyes" he said it and winced, shit he sounds like Vlad! wait it's not quite Ecto-green, it's diluted? more Lazarus than pure Ecto... that doesn't look healthy is it why he barely can feel his core??? is he really sustaining on Lazarus Water?!

[sefusneezed]

Old Man Archmagos Reminisces, Local Tech Priest Remembers It Completely Different

Bonus: Reminiscended event in question (weird guy scares child by being WAY too into proper machine maintenance ⚙️😇🙏🙏)

Average tuesday for von kuronar, life altering event for kat 😪

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[antiquepearlss]

Do you ever think about how Eugene and Varian both had parents who essentially abandoned them? Eugene having a father who never kept in contact with, nor ever provided for him despite having the means to; and Varian having a mother who chose a to embark on a journey and the Eternal Library over her husband and young son? The fact that despite how different their circumstances are, they can still relate to having absent parental figures?

Because I do.

[asphodelles]

who else played death of the outsider

[chronologically-challenged]

I keep thinking about Mirabelle's home life before becoming a Housemaiden. We don't really get a good idea on what it would have looked like, but we get implications through the lacking. Mainly, I get the implication of a somewhat controlled childhood. There's the anxiety for one. Mainly that anxiety seems to centered around being a burden or not meeting expectations. But I say controlling specifically because Mirabelle emphasizes her lack of skills. Sewing, cooking, planting, art. All of which she either didn't know how to do before or isn't particularly great at now. This isn't even to mention her escapism through novels.

This paints a picture of a Mirabelle, while not necessarily in a toxic household, one where she clearly wasn't fulfilled in life. She wanted more. She wanted to learn about the world and how to live in it. So she took a risk, and she decided to leave her old home, to change, to give her life to Change, and become a Housemaiden.

[mabelmidnight-takeover]

armando reaching out for mike after judy put her gun down is so heartbreaking, that scene has been stuck in my mind for the past week

[the-one-who-lambs]

[hacash]

To provide some context here: the time my mother phoned me up at university way too early on a Sunday morning in a fit of remorse because she felt bad about snapping at me as a toddler and wanted to apologise has become family legend amongst me and my parents (The fact that I was a hungover teenager and responded to this with a very blurry 'I guess? Uh, I mean, I can't even remember this so you clearly didn't scar me for life, please take a deep breath and also I love you' just made the whole thing better).

My mum's always been pretty up front about apologising when she knows she's hurt me so I thought nothing of it when telling my friends this story in a 'lol parents are goofy amirite' sort of way, and I found it fascinating how one girl thought this was totally normal while our other friend was shocked at the very concept and said quite bluntly that she didn't think her mother had ever apologised to her once, about anything, in her life. (Which in turn shocked us etc etc). So now I'm curious: what's the norm is upon the blue hellsite?

[caspersscareschool]

he literally sews his kids stupid little outfits from scratch does anyone even fucking care

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

I've seen many people say Alicent walking away from Aegon, as well as other scenes of her failing to comfort her kids is her "lacking empathy" or something along those lines

I've seen a lot of people say that empathy is a basic human trait, and that "anyone" would've gone to him and provided some form of comfort (e.g hugging, apologising, etc.)

NEED people to recognise that not everyone shows empathy the same way. That not everyone recieves empathy in the same way. There are many reasons to as why Alicent walked away, 1. Maybe she was worried she would only make things worse. 2. maybe she thought he preferred to be left alone.

We can see very clearly the emotions of pain on her face. She wants to help but doesn't know how, she's not really close with her children. So she doesn't know if her providing him comfort by hugging/her presence in the room with him would make things better or worse. E.g, myself- I love my friends and family dearly but sometimes when I'm grieving I need to be left alone and someone coming to talk/hug/be with me, regardless if their intention is to help, will honestly make things worse than better.

There is no one way to show empathy nor one way to receive empathy. I don't think it's fair for people to say this about Alicent when we don't know at all if it would've helped. In my opinion it's a very black and white view of something that is an extremely complex thing.

Grief isn't the same for everyone. Comfort from others isn't always the answer to grief. Grief can be shown in many forms.

It reminds me of how Helaena got a lot of hate after the b&c scene, and people saying she had no empathy/care for her children due to her reaction. Not everyone reacts the same to these things. If you would kick and scream that's valid, but people, like Helaena who would dissociate from shock and trauma are valid as well.

We're all completely different individuals, billions of us. We all experience things and show things different. Just because we may experience things differently, doesn't mean we are lacking of empathy.

In my opinion, the only people who fail to have empathy are the ones who cannot comprehend this.

[lilaccatholic]

Physically I'm here but mentally I'm clawing the eyes out of everyone who talks crap about their children on the internet and posts them in their most vulnerable moments for clout

[t4tozier]

consider: porter meets jace's family. would it be a mess or would porter flex the "paladin IS a charisma caster" so much that jace is like WHO are you

ohhh my god. those three levels of paladin are really pulling the weight here. okay okay this is my first time posting about jace's family in like. a relatively canon au so now i have to decide things.

ik i'm in the minority here but i feel like he actually has a pretty normal family? (normal being subjective of course) but i think he has a high elven mother, human or maybe half-elf father. i was pretty dead set on divine soul jace for a minute at the beginning but now i'm partial to wild magic sorcerer so i think he maybe got that from one of his parents and the other is a ranger. maybe elven ranger mom and wild magic sorcerer dad.

he's definitely an only child to me, so his parents were pretty doting, and it's a huge deal whenever he starts seeing anyone because they want to make sure the person is treating their baby right. when jace is in his 20s, he has a pattern of bringing people home to meet his parents and then, anywhere from a week to a year later, coming to them crying about how it didn't work out or he got tired of them or they got tired of him. and then there's a long stretch of time where they don't hear anything about jace's prospective partners.

so then, when he finally brings porter up to them, they're like. oh?? our boy has finally (maybe) settled down?? and he's like. you Cannot embarrass me okay. i Mean It. and they're like. well. we're going to embarrass you we're your parents.

and porter doesn't really know how to feel. he's met some partners' parents in the past, but not many, and most of them turned their noses up when they found out he was a goliath or a barbarian. so he's kind of on edge actually. and jace simultaneously is trying to comfort him being like no it's fine they're nice i swear and freaking out because he's like i haven't brought anyone home in over a decade they know this is a Big Thing i really need this to go well for everyone involved.

but it actually ends up being...okay?? they set up in the backyard so porter doesn't have to awkwardly make himself fit into their (modest, but not exceedingly large) house, and he brings them a nice bottle of wine that zara recommended and flowers and he is charming, so much so that it does throw jace a little, but it's not even that he's turning it up for jace's parents--he just genuinely is that charismatic when he's not being a dick. and he knows jace wants this to go well--and so does he, okay, he has feelings, too, sue him--so he does his best to be nice. but it's not even that hard, in the end; he bonds with jace's mom over her explorations into the mountains of chaos and only slightly humiliates jace with stories of his surges that his parents then proceed to top with talking about his surges during puberty.

as jace is saying goodbye to his parents that night, they both give him little thumbs up and are like you picked a good one. and jace flushes and goes off to the car as porter comes out of the bathroom, and jace's dad is like so. cliffbreaker. i expect to see a ring on that finger next time you two visit. and porter chuckles a little and nods and says, i'll do my best, sir, and heads out to the car where jace is wine-loose and smiley, and he reaches over to pull porter in for a kiss as he gets in the car and murmurs i love you against his lips and porter grins and kisses him harder before pulling out of the driveway so that he can show jace just how much he means it when he says i love you, too.

[apollos-olives]

i genuinely don't know what to do anymore. i tried using my voice and it was taken away from me in seconds. i gave up weeks of my life in order to share my story, but in the end it was all for waste. i can't even breathe. this is fucking horrible.