#this is your fault mother

[s0fter-sin]

fainting goat hybrid!ghost whose father and brother loved to scare him and make him faint; exploiting a weakness he didn’t understand and didn’t know how to stop. they took sadistic pleasure in watching his body lock up and fall to the ground with no hope of catching himself until he ended up with more bruises and scrapes from falling than from being beaten

that helplessness chafed at him and he forced himself through the drawbacks of his biology to secure a place in the military, even with the prejudice against prey animals. just for him to take a mission in mexico and find himself enduring the “hospitality” of roba who thinks his involuntary paralysis is a great deal of fun; especially when he learns he’s conscious the whole time

what haunts ghost most is his waking autopsy

not the pain of the incisions, not the trauma of watching roba reach into his body and play with his insides, but the knowledge that he couldn't get away because his own body betrayed him. he wasn't put under, no drugs coursed through his system. he didn’t have restraints fitted on him to lock him to the operating table. it wasn’t necessary

roba just had to make him faint first

after digging himself out of his grave, ghost puts himself on a dangerous cocktail of muscle relaxers and other medications; hormones that block hybrid instincts, vasodilators to increase blood flow and stop his muscles locking up, anti-anxiety meds to cut off his surprise response at the root. he puts his body through the wringer to the point that medical is constantly worried for his health and shocked that he isn't regularly OD’ing

but he will never let his body betray him again

[slipperywhenwet0o0]

i think about damien coming from an entirely different culture, and that on top of with his initial rejection by bruce (and murder attempts putting distance between him and tim) making him feel isolated. He’s in an unfamiliar country with unfamiliar customs and unfamiliar people, hes alone and othered.

Then i think about little dick grayson who went through a somewhat similar thing. Romani practices being closed and so they leave with his parents, he’s not in the circus with the people he knows and loves, and i like to think this is the first time dicks been to america ( Haley’s primary touring europe). He’s in an unfamiliar country with unfamiliar customs and unfamiliar people, and before he found out about batman he is alone, in a big empty cold house.

I think about Damian beginning to feel shame at some point over his own culture because bruce is against the league, and his mixed feeling about his mother who loves him dearly but could not protect him, who sent him away.

I think about dick finding pride in his culture when he becomes robin, and later teaching Damian to have pride as well. To be who he is unapologetically, and to not be ashamed of where he comes from or his mother(despite dick and Thalia’s beef which i love)

[marzipanandminutiae]

reading Shirley Jackson's college love letters to her future husband is like watching the heroine go into the basement in a slasher movie

like. girl. I know he's also a big nerd, and probably sometimes takes breaks from incessantly criticizing and trying to change you, but I'm from the future and this relationship is going to suck until you die please dump his ass

(also speaking of dying, Just Say No To Mixing Barbituates and Amphetamines. yes, even if the doctor says it's okay. no reason. celebrate your hypothetical 49th birthday really hard I SAID NO REASON CALM DOWN)

[rapidhighway]

The fics where Knuckles has some cool powers from the master emerald or is like a very special guy who talks to the master emerald are so good but I've been thinking. What if he isn't. He's the guardian of the master emerald, not a user. Sonic is the one who can use the chaos emeralds and is basically the chosen one when it come to chaos energy, and Knuckles just guards it.

I just imagine Knuckles, who's been put on angel island and basically sacrificed his entire life to this thing and never received any form of acknowledgment, who then meets Sonic who's basically a chaos energy magnet. Chaos emeralds love him, master emerald responds to him. Sonic is there to use the energy, Knuckles is to only guard it

[wmnylander]

Feb 14, 2024

[pizzaboat]

Raine seeing some of Eda's older scars, maybe somewhere on her torso, back or chest and they ask her about it, thinking its from an old duel or her being impulsive and doing something adventurous

And Eda is like, "Oh, uh. My mom's cures backfired more than they helped."

They never helped

And Raine has no idea about what Gwen did in the past and they're puzzled and now very concerned and they press a little more and pull the basic details

Eda gives a few examples of her "cures" while she sounds like she's trying to make it sound anecdotal, but her tone is off, and she sounds more irritated and hurt than soundly past it

Knives, poison, etc. I'm convinced her mom would always try to bring the curse out to essentially exorcise, or even kill the beast one time, and Eda has picked up scars from that. She's very lucky limbs detach

And now Raine is very angry at Gwen, and its onsight with her the next time they see her

Eda: she really messed up... but that's in the past now. She apologised for making me feel like a... you know.

Raine: Did she apologise for trying to kill you???

[indigayghost]

Thinking about when Guillermo goes visit his mother again and she'll be like when will you bring tu novio to meet the family and Guillermo will be like my what and she will be like yes! You are so bad mannered he needed to get here by himself! This is not how I educated you Memo

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Katie Maria / Katherine Fabrizio A Poem From the Adult Daughter to the Narcissistic Mother: Not Your Fault, Not Mine, Just Is / pinterest / Annie Ernaux / Christina Bothwell Incessant Dreamer (2022) / pinterest / pinterest / pinterest

[cherry-treelane]

I find it so ironically funny when hardcore Debbie defenders use the defense that she was just a victimised teenage girl (agreed) and then proceed to slander Fiona and express their hatred for her character and lack of sympathy

as if being an adult magically absolves an individual of the horrifying trauma that precedes them and screws up their mentality and actions

funnily enough these people get mad at others for "expecting Debbie to be an innocent angel and hating on her for acting out as a result of trauma" (also agreed, debbie does deserve more sympathy, she can't be expected to grow up to be a perfect saint when she's been through so much) yet seem to hold Fiona to the same unattainable standards and put her on a pedestal as if she wasnt a child that was forced to intensely grow up while never actually being raised

like lets put this into perspective and remember that fiona grew up surrounded by corrupt morals and insanely screwed up behaviour yet still emerged as messed up, yes, but surprisingly good considering the situation she was in??? she had to navigate basic things such as morals and being a good, responsible person on her own. imagine how difficult it must be to lead a bunch of kids, including yourself, with no previous role model or good example of your own to follow. most of the time, she always tried to do what she thought was best and would have the most desirable outcome

[atlasdoe]

i cant decide on a headcannon so help me out

I hc that Evan was the youngest of his siblings and that he had 5 older sisters. They were all born one by one because his father was desperate for a boy

[free-luigi-mangione]

https://www.tumblr.com/free-luigi-mangione/777795471168143360/i-know-theyre-screening-letters-but-i-dont-think?source=share

i'm sorry, maybe i didn't express myself clearly bc english isn't my first language and my brain goes 10000 miles a second lol the person i'm referring to didn't receive any letters from him and she (i'm 99% it's a she lol) didn't post hers, but when his team published his mail catalog she said he received her letter so i went to lurk on her profile (lmao) because we're from the same country so i was curious, and the comments she writes are very cringy and she sounds like she's really young and probably fits the image of "fangirl" we all have. i didn't send him a letter and i don't think i will, but if someone here wants to, please don't write to him like he's your favorite popstar or like you think you know him for real and you think you're going to be bff. that's creepy and i don't think you'd befriend someone who acts like that. just be yourself, this is a chance to connect with someone like you'd do with literally anyone else out there, if you guys vibe then that's great but if you don't it's not the end of the world. and just because i know some people are going to be disappointed, like he has stated recently, it's gonna be impossible to correspond with him regurarly and even if your second/third/etc letter reaches him it will probably be hard for him to remember you because of the volume and the delays. he himself seems to have abandoned the idea of having penpals because of the dalays & backlog, so please don't take it upon him, it's not his fault. write him to lift his spirits and make him laugh!!

((++ i have sm to complain about reddit i'm gonna write you another ask in a while because i'm fumingggg))

ohh when you first said that, i thought that she'd gotten back a response from him and was showing it off and acting cringey, sorry but i just didn't imagine that somehow Luigi receiving a letter would be cause for celebration for the letter writer

also yes!!! everything you said about the letter situation!!! i'd really hope nobody sends him multiple letters all at once but after seeing the letter catalogue, it feels like some people most probably did it and got away with it

[mymarifae]

the middle of the 3.1 main quest for some reason:

[fellator]

I hope the sfth mark analyzers are ready to think about how he uses clarissa as a stand in for his mother

[fox-stuck]

quick comic about being an only child of your abusive mother! scribbled this out last night instead of chugging vodka and blacking out which was a considerably better choice!

sometimes your mother will really say something soooooo cruel and you just gotta keep going with your day 🤷🏼

[marisashinx]

"Sleep, sleep, my dear child. I beg you, in your sleep, walk to the light that guides you."

[pkmoth]

having swap au thoughts. *slaps roof of claus* there's so much mental illness in this guy. im gonna blow up everyone in the room and then myself