#to my dad

[theghostofaname]

A father is supposed to protect his children, but you never have. You didn't protect us from our mother or her pedo of a boyfriend. You couldn't even save us from yourself. And now you finally have a chance to help your daughter, stand up for her in a place where you are respected, where your words could matter. And you still do nothing. What kind of father does that make you? What kind of man? Kind of person?

[lucyintheskeye]

My favorite poem is when my dad and I stood under the dry July sun and picked blackberries off the neighbor’s bush until our lips and fingers were stained the same bruising purple

[sindreaming]

Since I got the news for my dad…

I havnt been the same since.

I’m so fucking emotional.

I never been like this.

I’ve always been strong.

But these news tear me down.

I try to be strong.

But the knot in my throat hurts.

The tears just come out.

I can’t hold them back.

I just know this shit hurts.

I have lots to complete.

And I feel like I havnt proved nothing to him.

I havnt had kids.

I want to give him grand children.

This shit hurts.

I have so much to do.

Before you leave me old man.

I beg you.

Please don’t leave me yet.

I fucking need you papa.

Te amo dad.

I pray and I won’t stop.

[asphodelpoetry]

it won’t matter how far i run,

i’m forever your child;

the same way a wolf eats its brother when starving,

i’ll come crawling back when called.

[bluebellhairpin]

I was so so brave just now.

[rebirtht0earth]

i hope you're at peace now. i hope there is no more suffering or pain or torment plaguing your soul. i hope you are happy and relieved and free. i hope you are so authentically you, in a way you couldn't be in life. i hope your guilt ridden mind is put to ease and your burdens released. i hope you are filled with love, so much that it fills all the cracks with gold and makes you whole again.

i hope you have everything you always wanted and i hope you know i forgive you and love you and understand now. i hope you know i'm sorry for how i was when i was younger and you were still here. i hope you know that last "i love you" was a declaration of forgiveness; a wish for your soul to be at peace.

i hope you know that i can always feel you near and i hope you know that you're the first i think of when i think of my guardian angels. i know you have helped me from the other side and i know you always watch over me.

i hope you are at peace

[wishfulsketching]

Silco and his terror of a daughter

[valtsv]

stuck between "psychological horror statement" and "objectively the funniest thing you could say to your real flesh and blood dad" in the father's day card aisle

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[byjove]

cis people will say “I found out I’m having a baby girl at my anatomy scan and I’m experiencing gender disappointment” but be mad when you say “who knows? maybe you’ll end up with a son anyway”

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[twinliches]

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

it's a beautiful bonding activity, but the "creative" fixes have turned our house into a quasihaunted escape room like contraption where everything works, but only in the wonkiest of ways. you need a huge block of iron to turn on the stove. the oven only works if a specific clock is plugged in. the bread machine has a huge wood block just stapled to it that has become foundational to its function. sometimes when you use the toaster the doorbell rings. and that's just the kitchen.

it's all fun and games until you have guests over and you have to lay out the rules of the house like it's a fucking board game. welcome to the beautiful guest room. don't pull out the couch yourself you need a screwdriver for that, and that metal rod makes the lamp work so don't move it. it also made me a terrifying roommate in college, because it makes me think i can fix anything with enough hubris and a drill. you want to call the landlord about a leaky faucet? as if. one time my dad made me install a new power socket because we ran our of extension cords

[blenselche]

well it finally happened

so my dad is almost 80, this man's been making Spirk content since Star Trek started airing basically

he never knew ao3 existed, he just thought people stopped writing fanfic when ff.net died, like it was a fad that had outgrown him or smth

he clicked an ao3 link in my pinned last night, realizing that they were in fact clickable

he's mad at me for not telling him earlier. "I don't have a lot of years left in me and there's so much to read"

he's gonna spend his whole retirement reading trek fanfic now jesus christ

[imagine-darksiders]

He a little confused but he's got spirit

[hotroadkill]

collection

[lokutofu]

World’s Greatest Detective fails to correctly identify his children 😭