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Waylon pulls up to a secluded place a bit away from where he's headed and parks his truck, killing the lights and taking a moment to breathe before he gets out. He's been casing this guy for weeks. He knows his schedule in and out. This is going to be the perfect time to grab him and make him pay for all the shit he's done. Violet picked him out because he was a serial abuser, and Waylon was more than happy to oblige in taking care of him.
He follows the man until they're alone, quickly knocking him out and carrying him back to the truck. This should be an easy job, take him somewhere secluded, torture and kill him, dispose of the body, and be on his merry way.
But when he opens the back of the truck, there's more than zip ties and rope waiting for him. He stares at the young girl in his truck bed for several moments. "What the fuck are you doing in my truck?"
@fxirytxlcfxtc
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In 1999, on the 30th anniversary of the first moonwalk, the members of rec.crafts.textiles.needlework shared their memories of the historic event. Transcripts in alt text.
#apollo 11#moon day#usenet#textiles#long post#been saving these for today!#it's incredible to me to hear where everyone was--#the sort of things kids and teens and young adults remember#it's been almost another 30 years since then#i was a little child when this thread was made#kathy m was right-- it does feel further than any moon
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my martha knight au in a nutshell:
Danny/Martha: see up here?
Danny/Martha: *taps skull*
Danny/Martha: intense psychological damage
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Danny/Martha: *upon finding out she's pregnant*
Danny/Martha: oh my god i cant be a mom, I'm fifteen and homeless--
Danny/Martha: im going to be a terrible mother--
Danny/Martha: i live in a cAR--
Danny/Martha: what if the baby inherits my powers? Oh no--
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Danny/Martha post giving birth: i've only had Bruce for a minute and a half but if anything were to happen to him i won't even need to fuse with Vlad, I'm razing this goddamn planet to the ground myself
Danny, to Baby Bruce: you are the last remaining thread of my sanity. I'm going to give you the world :)
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Danny/Martha prior to getting pregnant: Fuck it, if everything in my life has led to this moment, i'm allowed to make one stupid decision. I'm getting drunk and getting laid
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Danny/Martha while Bruce was a toddler: i swear to fucking god i am going to kill the next person who talks to me--
Bruce: hi mommy!! i brought you something!!!
Danny/Martha, immediately flipping on a dime: hi baby!! what do you have?
Bruce, a weird child like his mother: a spider :)
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Danny/Martha, talking to Falcone after he made an unsavory comment at her and Bruce: If you ever come near me or my son again, I will dig up your shithead father's corpse and make you eat his skin.
Danny/Martha: do you understand me
Falcone:... crystal, ma'am
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Danny/Martha new in Gotham: *getting mugged*
Danny/Martha: *grabs man's arm*
Danny/Martha: I AM GOING TO BREAK YOU IN HALF LIKE A TWIG, FUCK BOY, DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH--
(she then proceeds to terrorize Gotham's night life for the next extended period of time, mostly unintentionally)
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Danny/Martha: Danny Fenton?? No. you must be mistaken, my name is Martha Knight.
Danny/Martha: this here is my littlest knight, Bruce.
Danny/Martha: I made him all by myself :]
#if martha could become the joker in one timeline if bruce died then she had to have SOMETHIGN going on up there mentally. im all for it#im a 'martha wayne may have been secretly batshit' truther. subscribing to bruciemilf's portrayal of the wayne parents#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dpxdc#fem danny fenton#female danny fenton#martha knight au#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpxdc au#dp x dc au#dp x dc#giving danny fenton psychological issues since 2022 folks#points at marthadanny: she's a hot mess with unprocessed trauma and psychological prblems. she's hanging on by a thread#LISTEN TO AFTER ALL BY CHRISTINE EBERSOLE THAT SUMS UP MARTHADANNY ENTIRELY#bruce your mom is even crazier than you. how is that possible. her trauma has trauma.#marthadanny: i dont wanna talk about my feelings OR my trauma i want to raise my son. go away#martha: who knew that being a child hero without any support would result in deeply rooted psychological issues and paranoia in spades#marthadanny: im fine (<- experienced liar. is not fine. please god someone restrain her before she claws someone's eyes out)#she has eyebags the size of the savanna and wields red lipstick like a weapon. she's going to rob a rich man blind. she has a baby to feed#what would a mother not do for her child? what heights would a mother not climb.#and you're shaken to your soul with an ache that you cant erase. like the tears you never cried but still keep scrubbing off your face.#there's a pain you cant imagine. the little talk that keeps you wide awake that somehow turns to bold determination that you wont ever make#the same mistake. so you've got to feed your little future and ensure her talent poise and charm might just grow up and save you after all#fun fact bruce and danny's birthdays are exactly one week apart. danny is Feb.12 and Bruce is Feb.19. take that as you will :)
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If ya in the mood: can you do Kon, kid jon and kid Chris please or whenever you can?
Kent household unearthed camcorder footage
#superfam#jon kent#conner kent#chris kent#krypto the superdog#prompt response#<3#imagine how hard it would be to get a kryptonian child to not do dangerous shit#babysitter Kon#complete disregard for canon here but fanon is freedom#and if we follow that thread imagine Clark finding this footage after Chris or Kon is gone#kon el
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Cozy Glow is such an interesting litmus test for die-hard bronies. I was checking r/mlp to prep a post and there’s a discussion post about how she deserved what she got and. How do I tell bronies that children should not be tried as adults. How do I tell bronies that psychopaths and sociopaths deserve human rights and treatment and support. How do I tell bronies that cruel and unusual punishments are bad. How do I tell bronies that the death penalty is wrong. How do I tell bronies that a ruling body should not have absolute say over putting someone to death, least of all a 6-year-old child.
These are all my recent google searches.
#delete later#personal#these are all arguments I saw of why cozy glow deserved it btw#“if she was human she’d be tried as an adult for her felonies idc if she’s a child’ ok but she shouldn’t#“clearly she’s a psychopath so it makes sense she’s evil’ do you even hear yourself#reminder that they redeemed the racist politician trying to keep schools racial segregated because he believed in pony superiority#and not the 6 year old child villain#I don’t even really care about cozy glow she’s not gonna be in the AU but people are so fucking weird about her#“some people are just born evil and can’t be changed’ < actual arguement in the thread. do you hear yourself
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i wonder if it wldnt go back around to loid against all logic looking suspiciously at bond like "did you teacher her?" and bond anxiously shaking his head no
it's giving "the dog ate my homework" 😭😭
"the dog taught my daughter cuss words"
#he'll be hanging on by his last threads if he ever resorts to asking a DOG if it taught a child how to cuss#spy x family#loid forger#bond forger
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I just did this to show an aged up character design of the precious child to be honest.
#why you might ask? i dunno. sometimes i make things complicated for myself I guess.#i'm too lazy to find my of shitty comics thread featuring the child™ so here#if theres a ranking for young mistresses in jianghu. jiang cheng would be conflicted about being happy that his darling girl made it#or angry that teen aged boys ogled at his child.#i also honestly just gave jiang cheng a daughter 'cause I wanted to populate the female species in mdzs.#i didn't think I could use it with the overprotective dad trope but here we are.#jiang cheng#wei wuxian#an oc
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thinking about the character again (cinderpelt) and it's likely unintentional and a result of either her shifting narrative role from young go getter to wise mentor or a shift in how the books display their own politics but i find something really tragic in-universe in how she develops from a character who will actively and willingly break the warrior code when it conflicts with her own morals (immediately lying to cover for graystripe and silverstream, acting in direct defiance of her leadership to nurse littlecloud and whitethroat back to health) but overtime through her role she gradually grows more god-fearing and pious and embodies somewhat of a "starclan is always right, even when they are cruel, and we need to accept that" position
#i dont want to get too into the deeper philosophy behind cinderpelt's arc in twilight bc there's a lot of messier factors there#namely what is potentially intended to be a story about faith and emotional strength in the context of terminal illness#but in warrior cats fate is tied to starclan and starclan is also the theocratic government and the law and the status quo#and i think cinderpelt's character is an interesting microchosm of the influence that proximity to it can have#im interrupting a rant thread on my priv twitter to bring this point here instead but that's not even getting into how like#cinderpelt grew up in the bluestar era where bluestar was rebelling against starclan in a way that directly affected her own life#traumatising her sister with a demeaning name. indirectly killing her cousin. leading to the little+white situation.#leaving her (a child/teen/young adult) in the awkward position of being the ambassador TO starclan#but then when bluestar dies she immediately BECOMES the face of starclan. likely who cinderpelt would often speak with#it's fucked up!!!! theres a lot of implications about her character's relationship to starclan that are really untouched#and it makes sense that they are bc it's all built on headcanon and subtext and entirely unintentional coincidence but STILLL
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Not having the gods be responsible for the Aeor bubbles (Aeubbles) actually felt like a very nice choice to me; I was kind of dreading them turning out to be Erathis’ work or something. Because if the gods did pick and choose who to save, plucking their special followers out above all others, I don’t know if it would feel like a kindness to me! Why does this six year old in a city of horrors get to live while his neighbor dies? For the circumstance of faith? It would be cruel in a way that they haven’t been cruel—at least natural disasters don’t pick favorites. Mount Vesuvius didn’t pretend to be judging the content of anyone’s hearts.
It also gives one last bit of autonomy (and one last final brutal parallel with the gods they hate) to Aeor’s mages. They made something so beautiful and terrible, an awe that brought the god of magic to tears, and even as the gods pulled it down in their ears they had one last paranoid failsafe! One last screw you measure preserving a terrible truth. But just as Asmodeus accuses, Aeor clearly drew distinctions between the people who matter and the people who don’t. That blue bubble we’ve seen in the amphitheater—it’s not any of the panicked masses who were saved in perfect glacial magic, it was the archmage.
At the end of the day, it was Aeor that built a hierarchy to save some people and leave others. They might not have sunk the Titanic but they made sure only the first-class passengers would have access to their last, most desperate life boat. I’m glad the narrative allowed them to have that triumph. In trying to be a godkiller how close must you mold yourself to the shape of a killing kind of god?
#critical role#exu downfall#aeor#cr spoilers#critical role spoilers#similarly I have so many thoughts about the raven Queen’s choice to save hallis#one child among so many#a child who will wake up from a long nap somewhere in exandria#without his mother out of the city he’s lived in his whole life#he had family in the opus ward but that’s gone now too#he’s just one little boy plucked out of the wreckage and left#and she normally wouldn’t but in this case I think she thought it was Owed#and she was still human and grieving her own death and she wanted to be selfishly kind#but there is selfishness in there amid all the threads of fate the duty the grief the rules#a lot going on in that tiny tiny choice
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more for this silly au i got bored
#eeaalc au#ignore the colors my tablet is hanging on by a thread#dsmp#hermitcraft#cubfan#cubfan135#tommyinnit#tommyinnit fanart#watcher tommyinnit#cubfan fanart#cubfan135 fanart#my art#pixxl art#eyes ears and a loudmouth child
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ngl I'm absolutely disgusted by and done with the spam asks supposedly from Palestinians. I don't know or, honestly, care if they are "vetted" or if they're just scams. All I know is they drop super triggering material in my inboxes, unasked for and unblocklistable.
Can we please kill this entire bullshit way of fundraising? I'm begging y'all to stop ever posting them. Make this absolutely useless as a way of outreach.
#unforth rambles#i probably shouldn't post this#but i'm having a really bad mental health day#and to then get greeted with a SAVE MY SON with images of a child in peril#has me almost on my last thread of functionality#if these are legit know that they make it actively less likely that i'll engage with anything related to palestine#simply to protect my mental health#not in the donating way but in the literally interacting with posts way#and if they're not legit what the actual fuck is wrong with some people
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elena ferrante banging us all on the head with a hammer and shouting 'you can't outrun your mother, you only crash into her'
#this thought inspired by tina and imma being their mother's#tina as lila - clever + beloved#imma as lenu - reserved + cautious#SPOILER FOR SEASON 4 LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY#tina is inheriting lila's destiny as the 'lost child'#lila''s greatest fear being dissolving into the margins >>#tina becoming dissolved in those very margins#how do you go back? you can't#also thinking about lila's mother and lenu's mother -#lenu as nunzia (more reserved)#whereas immacolata is more like lila. brash and loud and unafraid of violence#and then the daughters switch#and then...THEY SWITCH AGAIN with lila/tina...#THE DOLLS!! THE DOLLS BEING SWITCHED#elena ferrante has taken a single spool of thread from day ONE#and held onto it#to the very last page of the quartet the last MOMENT#elena ferrante there is no prize that deserves YOU#elena ferrante#my brilliant friend#story of the lost child
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honestly RIP Torbin though, he was a padawan just tagging along when the other Jedi masters went to spy on and retrieve Osha and Mae. He got briefly mindfucked by the witches, and he went on to take an oath of meditation for TEN YEARS because he was wracked with guilt over what happened. And he was a PADAWAN. Very little more than a child himself!!
and Mae convinced him that taking the poison was forgiveness. all he wanted was forgiveness, and he didn't even do anything.
sure we don't know yet about the six years between the fire and his taking the oath, but from what context we're given, it's the test and the subsequent destruction of the coven he seems to feel guilty for.
Unless it wasn't just Mae who set the place on fire and blew everything up, but we don't know that yet. from what we know now, RIP Torbin, who did nothing wrong and was convinced to commit suicide for forgiveness over being a child in the wrong place at the wrong time.
#flowerspeak#the acolyte#the acolyte spoilers#star wars#torbin#mae aniseya#kinda fucked up actually lol#but it's great storytelling to show that hey yeah the jedi are fucked up training and indoctrinating kids but uh.#mae's kinda fucked up too trying to kill her sister and what she's doing now isn't in the clear either#i do hope that not all the witches died though#if they have some kind of reincarnation thing with their practice of the thread like the jedi have force ghosts#bc i would love to see more of them and this side of the lore#honestly tho rip torbin as soon as i saw he was just a padawan i was like. wait.#he's just a bab. tagging along like sol's new padawan. a child. and not the one doing the things.#maybe he fucked up in the six years between then and his meditation tho who knows.
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@hvbris for Mina
The child entered with the same wide-eyed wonder she had seen in so many eyes. They all entered her premises with a sort of naïve expectation, hoping for Hollywood magic and horror movie readings. They were all also convinced that they were either being tormented by the past, cursed, or that they were going to be rich and famous; this one, however, seemed to be neither.
She looked to be a fan. A new age witchy wannabe perhaps?
"Welcome, welcome," Lilia began, putting on an ethereal tone to her voice, setting the scene. "You look troubled, child. Please, sit, tell me what answers you seek. Your true love perhaps? Your success? Do you wish to contact a family member?"
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I really don’t think we should be treating morality as a linear thing in ASOIAF because what often happens is that we start to stray from the actual conversations that we need to be having regarding the depths of making a moral choice and even the circumstances involved. To try and blankly paint any one character as the “most morally good” isn’t really taking us anywhere. And it certainly isn’t helpful when people in this fandom want to try and prove that characters are “grey” but not moral (what does that even mean??) because they did one “bad” thing. If ASOIAF stans were to have their way, then:
Jon is not a morally good person because he threatened Gilly
Dany cannot be considered to be compassionate because she sanctioned torture against the wine seller’s daughters
Arya cant be good because she has killed people
and so on, and so on….
But this is such a draining, and oft times frustrating, conversation to have because you see just how shallow the above listed examples are? Readers are listing only singular instances across a narrative that spans thousand and thousands of pages, and there’s absolutely no context involved. Why did Jon threaten Gilly? Why did Dany resort to torture and at one point did she do it? Who did Arya kill and why? And why do those singular instances negate everything else in their arcs?
What usually happens when we have the 12847647282th unnecessary conversation about who is the “most good” character in ASOIAF is that we start getting blanket statements with no elaboration. And the only people ever considered are Ned, Brienne, and Davos, and sometimes the children like Shireen or Tommen. Mind you, Ned and Davos are not perfect or without their own faults either; much has been said about Ned’s abilities as a father and it’s implied that Davos was not entirely faithful to his wife. And based on her current arc, Brienne will surely have to make morally tough choices regarding oaths and knightly honor. Plus theres the irony of including literal children when they have not been put in situations where they actually have to make morally difficult choices and live with the consequences.
ASOIAF shows us that people who are capable of incredible kindness and compassion are also capable of doing unpleasant things.
Jon threatened Gilly….because he was trying to save another child whom he believed to be at risk of human sacrifice(!!) and was stuck between a rock and a hard place. But why does that singular instance negate the fact that his arc has been about him standing up for the “lesser than”? Why does that negate the fact that he stood up for Sam against a superior when there was nothing to gain for him? Why does it negate the fact that he went out of his way to equip Arya in a way that society would have deemed inappropriate? Why does it negate the fact that he dedicated the entirety of his time as Lord Commander to fight an institution that had upheld racism/xenophobia for millennia? Why should we filter out all those moments of kindness, compassion, and deep empathy that Jon has even without him thinking?
Dany sanctioned torture….but she was trying to solve the murder of an innocent victim AND this brought her no joy. But why does that negate the fact that when she gained unimaginable power, she could’ve high tailed to Westeros to use it to her benefit and become queen, but instead chose to stay in Essos where she has no personal responsibility just so she could fight the institutional evil that is slavery? Why does it negate Dany who went to personally treat plague victims at great risk to herself?
Arya has killed some….but it’s in self defense or in defense of others who are disenfranchised. But why does this negate that she is one of the few people in the series how goes out of her way to show kindness and friendship to those who are not as economically or politically advantaged as she is (e.g., Mycah)? Why does it negate that she took fellow slaves under her protection when she herself had little power to fight for her own survival at Harrenhall? Why does it negate that when she saw those caged soldiers whom she was angry with for their actions, instead of leaving them to die instead offered them the only kindness she could at the moment: a drink of water?
Trying to have arguments about morality but stripping everything down to ‘x character did y bad thing (regardless of context) and that’s why they can’t be good’ is, to be blunt, ridiculous. And it isn’t a particularly interesting way to engage with the text. Character journeys, especially well written ones, are rarely ever in a straight line. There’s amazing highs and terrible lows. GRRM gives us so many characters like Jon, Dany, Arya, Sansa, Ned, etc. who even in their lows, have gleams of compassion and exceptional kindness. It doesn’t do anyone any good to filter those moments out to make the books more digestible; and I’m being a little generous here, because so many readers have a very shallow level of engagement with the series and it shows in conversation. And we also shouldn’t pit these characters unfairly against those who have never been in similarly difficult situations that required them to make hard choices. Because when we do, we start to completely miss the point all together.
#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls#yeah this came out of a particular thread on Reddit and I was just like….🫠 those people can’t be serious fjsnsnssjsb#trying to argue that jon is not a good person because he *checks notes* slept with ygritte and broke his nw vows#yeah let’s crucify a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD for not conforming to absolutely ridiculous norms that have absolutely no bearing to his true purpose#asoiaf stans when a literal child isn’t happy about dumb rules set by a penal colony that’s akin to indentured servitude:#surprised pikachu face#and the audacity to say garlan Tyrell is a better person that Jon or Dany or arya#what books are yall reading????#what has he ever done that’s remotely comparable to these people that proves he is the height of honor or selflessness??#nothing#we know literally nothing about this guy I’m-#tagging#jon snow#daenerys targaryen#arya stark#because it’s relevant in context
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Love that the team continued to uphold Lloyd being extremely mentally unwell at all times. Barely functioning but insisting its fine. Plagued by the visions™. Legitimately had a panic attack when everything started to go wrong. Completely willing to fuck over his entire physiology with weird dragon magic because "yeah that'll probably be helpful later". Waking up screaming and shrugging because its totally normal to have nightmares that horrifying on the regular. A+ on this assignment lads, you've broken Lloyd down to his bare essentials.
#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#lego ninjago#lego ninjago dragons rising#dragons rising#lloyd garmadon#text post#talk#ninjago team#it was WILD to hear lloyd say 'my panic attack' like OH#YEAH THAT IS WHAT THAT WAS. COOL SO WE'RE ACKNOWLEGING IT#lloyd has zero understanding of basic mental health#and the parts he DOES understand he just chooses to ignore bc 'im built different'#my sweet summer child you sure were built different. you were built so different that you need like#triple therapy#lloyd is hanging on by a thread#that thread has snapped multiple times#somehow there is always another thread underneath for him to catch#usually this thread was thrown down by the others to make sure he doesnt fully plunge off the deep end#because frankly if he does it will go one of two ways#hes going to kill everyone in this realm OR himself#the fun part is figuring out if hes gonna do either of those things on purpose or total accident
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