#the man has abandonment issues and you cant find the balls to say goodbye in person?
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people really need to stop leaving ted with only a note as their goodbye
#like seriously come on#the man has abandonment issues and you cant find the balls to say goodbye in person?#ted lasso#ted lasso spoilers#ted lasso season 3#sharon fieldstone#dr sharon fieldstone#dottie lasso
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ć jamie lee curtis. sixty-one. cis woman. she/her. ļæ½ļæ½ļæ½ oh heavens, is that JUDITH MILLER from FAIR LANE i see roaming around mapleview? minnie mayās always calling them -CYNICAL & -SELFISH. i happen to think theyāre not that bad! theyāre a pretty cool āRETIREDā ACTRESS Ā and every time iāve seen them, theyāve always been +MAGNETIC & +WITTY. i hope i see them around again! ć may. 21. est. she/her.Ā ć
hello my pals ! after a very long day, i am finally here with an intro for a sexy lowkey demon !
BACKGROUND:
triggers: emotional abuse, brief mention of war, brief mention of considered abortion, substance abuse, brief implication of child neglect, brief mentions of death (but like.... from old age)
Soā¦ Iām currently too tired to do the āwhole chart,ā butā¦ a Sagittarius. Know this.
Now, to understand our dear Judith, you must first understand her parents. Her mother was a wealthy young woman, progressive in her views on social issuesā¦ for the time. Nonetheless, she was expected to hold up the standards of the time. Her father was the younger brother of a man deemed āa great soldierā who died fighting in WWII. Followed by the memory of him and his own parentsā obsession with the man, he placed pressure on himself to live up to that standard. Shame there was no warā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦.
They met at Judithās motherās debutante ball and hit it off. It was, what they perceived to be, a match made in heaven. But thatās always easy to say ā itās harder to prove when a good night culminates in an unexpected pregnancy. To avoid any public scandal on her part, Judithās mother and father married before she began showing and moved to Mapleview where she would become an excellent mother and he would live up to his brotherās standards byā¦ he was still figuring it outā¦ maybe making the next great scientific advancement? or writing the next great American novel?
Sadly, in spite of her lifetimeās worth of training, Judithās motherā¦ proved to lack natural maternal instinct. Perhaps it was passed down from her own mother, transgenerational trauma beginning long, long, long ago. Judithās father was so consumed with his grand ideas that he hadnāt the time to help! Between becoming the next Walt Whitman one day and the next Albert Einstein the next, all while working for his father-in-law, he just didnāt have any time at all!
Their marriage grew strained and, as Judith grew, they made it even clearer that she was the cause. If she, herself, didnāt do something spectacular with her life, then it was all for nothing!
Her father wasnāt forced into the Vietnam War as a part of the drafting lottery. No, as it grew bigger, as the army grew more desperate, as she began slowly maturing, as his marriage continued falling apart, he voluntarily entered in 1965, when Judith was seven. Before drafting even began!
Before he entered the war, Judith was the victim of plenty of degrading remarks and the occasional Unusually Odd Punishment (think bojack horseman w like beatrice seeing ~7y/o bojack take a cigarette and forcing him to smoke all of it bc he couldnāt waste a perfectly good cigarette!). However, the remarks grew more biting after he left for āthe war effort.ā The two moved back to California, her motherās birthplace, to be closer to her motherās father ā an even better source of income when his sympathies were being played on.
...but it was suddenly back-to-work, no-sympathies-for-you when the war ended and Judithās father was still aliveā¦ and, furthermore, when the war was lost.Ā
With her parentsā marriage worse off than ever, Judithās unconscious attempts to please them and live up to their expectations began sooner than they would have had the war been won. Or had her father been shot.Ā
Probably.
Commercials began at seventeen, but they werenāt impressive. Minor roles began at eighteen, but they werenāt impressive. It wasnāt until she was picked up by an actual agent at twenty that she began actually shining, so to speak.Ā
Which is actually a great accidental pun on my part, as her first big role was, much like JLCās, in one of the first slasher movies ever made. Hoorah! But it still wasnāt impressive. It wasnāt big or prestigious, Katharine Hepburn wouldnāt have taken the role.Ā
But what was even less impressive?Ā
The pregnancy that followed shortly thereafter.Ā
Her first thought was to find a doctor who āspecializedā in such āinconveniences.ā Between the knowledge that a lack of maternal instinct ran in her blood, all women in her lineage getting mistreated to the point that they were simply unfit, as well as the knowledge that she would have to immediately quit the career that had just begun if she wanted to raise the childā¦Ā
But the father wound up being a hurdle. He was meant to be a one-night-stand, but he started showing upā¦ againā¦ and againā¦ and againā¦ until she relented and confessed to him that she was pregnant with his child (so she assumed, at least). He was insistent that she keep itā¦ so the compromise became she wouldnāt abort it, but she would immediately hand it off to the man to raise on his own.
Daniel, named by his father, was born. Judith kept in occasional contact, but ultimately tried to leave that chapter behind her.
After that small bump in the road, her agent began lining up more career offers for her. They ranged from OK-I-guess to Not-Katharine-Hepburn-But-Close-Enough. So she clearly went for the latter ones!
Now, for someone who tried to stay clear-headed enoughā¦ it became pretty hard as she grew more popular, was invited to more parties, andā¦ given the decade, was surrounded by cocaine! Thus began some more god-awful decisions, a list so long even Leo Tolstoy would put it down before he could finish reading it.
A few years through her increasingly successful career and she found out that sheās gotten pregnant yet again, this time being the result of a one-night-stand had during a borderline bender. For a few days, she obviously considered abortion again. Butā¦ how good would it be for her image if she cleaned up and had the babyā¦ and, who knows! maybe she would break the chain of terrible mothers! if she was willing to sacrifice hedonism, then she was clearly doing something right! andā¦ she also felt some remorse for barely keeping in contact with Danielā¦ so hoorah! replacement!
Turns out she also didnāt have that mothering instinct :\
But it was not, at all, for lack of trying. She never intentionally mistreated her child, Mia (named for Mia Farrow) ā she had family days with her and hung out with her andā¦ tried to figure out how to bond with her. She was never cruel like her mother or her motherās mother or motherās motherās mother, so on and so forth and what have you, butā¦ she was Innocently Insensitive. Still caught up in The Scene, there were some nights that wereā¦ very loud when she forgot Mia was trying to sleep and invited a bunch of people over.Ā
Some hedonistic tendencies returned and she found herself allowing a nanny to care for the child more and more often. Never malicious, never cruel, even asked Danny Devito to be Miaās godfatherā¦ but still wound up being a really bad mom.
When Mia moved out, she was beginning to realize she was too old to continue going down the road she was on ā to continue making the same mistakes over and over. One child was college-aged, the other wasā¦ somewhat older, although sheād lost track of the years. Yeah, she sent birthday cards and made calls every year, but time had just begun blurring togetherā¦
As a side-note, this was also around the time she was encouraged to write a memoir. She wound up having to get a memoirist which is a wc!!
The ābest thing possibleā happened when her mother died a year ago. Her father had already passed, but that was in Fresno ā a quick trip. Her mother died in Mapleview, where her roots were laid. Also pls picture her eulogy for her mother like the eulogy in āFree Churro.ā Anyway...
So what did Judith do?
Up and disappeared!Ā
It wouldāve been a really excellent publicity stuntā¦ if sheād ever returned.Ā
She likes to pretend sheāll never return to Los Angeles. The mountain air is so clean and crisp, life is so much simpler, people are so much lessā¦ corrupt.
Alasā¦ somewhere in the back of her mind, has many plans to return to her old life. But she needs to make amends first, right?
TL;DR:
(tread lightly if any triggers underĀ ābackstoryā are triggers for you!)
born in mapleview. parents were awful but also it was a case of transgenerational trauma so there are nuances there. fatherĀ āabandonedā her and her mom to go fight in the vietnam war bc he wasnāt able to fight in wwii like his brother. came back and joined them in fresno and judithās mom was likeĀ āwell u guys lost.... cant say it was unexpected with someone like u fighting :\ā judith was likeĀ āwell iāve learned iām what ruined their marriage even tho iām also the reason they got married so guess iāll go make something of myself bc i want them to be proud.ā eventually got cast in a halloween-esque movie, because of course. got pregnant, yeetād it to the father,Ā āitā being daniel. became a class-a hedonist. got pregnant again, but got clean and kept her, named her āmiaā. was a pretty good mom for a while, then forgot that kids werenātĀ āusedā to the 1980s/90s equivalent of modern-day raves. mia left for college. judith was likeĀ āwait,,, im too old 2 keep living this life omg.ā mom died a year ago. was likeĀ āoh wow perfect excuse to come back to mapleview and pretend i never lived in los angeles ever in my entire life goodbye all ties and connections!!!ā
PERSONALITY/MISC.:
spent the majority of her life trying to live up to the expectations set by her mom when she basically saidĀ āyou better be something great to make up for being aliveā + trying to unconsciously make up forĀ āruiningā her parentsā marriage.
ngl family took inspiration from the sugarman-horseman family in bojack horseman bc i just finished rewatching it and :\ i miss it :\ which, in turn, means thereās a tiny bit of muse inspo from the eponymous, but,,,,,,,, like she may not be a good person,,,,,,, but if uāve so much as seen up to s2e11,,,,, she aint THAT bad.
further basis was fictional director kelsey jannings (of such fame asĀ āwomen who love women who love recyclingā) when she said that celebrities tend to stagnate at the age they got famous. and judith got famous when she was 20.
I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO MAKE IT EXCESSIVELY CLEAR THAT SHE NEVER HAD MALICIOUS INTENTS TOWARDS HER CHILDREN. she just knew she wasnāt ready to be a mother with daniel - it was terrible timing and she genuinely worried about how she would be as a mother ( considering how poor maternal instincts were... basically passed down through generations ) - and she didnāt know how to connect with mia, especially as an addict in the hollywood machine that was literally filled with drugs, thus proving her hypothesis that she would be a poor mother correct. like... I JUST NEED TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THERE WAS NO ABUSE INVOLVED. SHE AT LEAST DID BETTER THAN HER MOTHER WITH THAT ASPECT.
but, as marina once said,Ā ā[sheās] now becoming [her] own self-fulfilled prophecy. oh, oh no! oh no! oh no!ā
saddie disguised as a baddie.
also spent the majority of her life as an absolute hedonist. remains one, but is currently clean and trying to remain that way... maybe...
wants to be good so very bad, but doesnāt know how to be.
in spite of said hedonistic and escapist tendencies, she does have a very strong work-ethic. you know. thanks to both her parents + her capricorn moon.
no way to avoid saying sheās selfish, though. no way to.
CONNECTION IDEAS:
** all are open to any gender
her other child (a wc on the main!)
her memoirist (a wc on the main!)
her childhood friend from when she was still living in mapleview (a wc on the main!)
some fans! idk!
arm candy. pls. sheās bi so. they can be a himbo or a herbo or a thembo.Ā
you see sheās decently older than all of the characters so i feel like most of this will rely on brainstorming and/or chemistry in threads
FEEL FREE TO EITHER LIKE THIS OR HMU 2 PLOT!!
#mapleviewintro#judith .#judith | intro .#this got so long ahsdlkfjasn#also. for all u aesthetic fans. i apologize for the capital letters i copied and pasted it all directly from google drive and.#did not feel like going back and correcting all of it afhskjdlajs#also!! there's a tl;dr at the bottom j bc. i accidentally wrote the next great american novel.
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