#why must family exist?

[dudewhoturnedoutthelights]

I need time to recharge socially but I work in retail and I must visit family tomorrow.

Pray for me.

[robotpussy]

good morning, good afternoon and good night. death to Israel, death to the monarchy and death to every landlord ever

[spaceyfeline]

i know i dont post anything to tumblr ever usually but uhhhthe autism has me by the throat? so. noncanon siffrin family!! first image has siffrin having a great ole breakdown after finding a drawing he did of him & his family (when he was like. 7 lol) in a glass bottle, second photo is of their younger sister, phoebe! color (and a shitpost) + more information on the family under the cut

so phoebe. dear darling girl. she's rock-paper type and is super into research and stuff! like a scientist but she can kick your ass. love her a lot. she's about 6 years younger than siffrin is!

also in the drawing that i didn't mention is siffrin and phoebe's parents, mama rhea (she/her, left, missing an eye!) and baba dione (they/them, right) i love these guys so much. yes all of them are named after saturn's moons, thank lati @cryptidlatias for them (siffrin's born name was janus. none of them remember that, though.)

[crowcryptds]

🐓 bok bok!

[zirconpetals]

So Sameth & Maximus were absentee dads huh

[pinkeoni]

I wonder still why you guys try so hard to make Karen or Ted as mildly homophobic. It is never going to happen. The reason they vote for Reagan is because they are a white upper middle class family. It doesnt necessate that they are homophobic. You dont have to invent new angst stuff for Mike's character, believe me.

But why is it so hard to believe that a conservative family from the 1980’s could possibly be mildly homophobic? And trust me, I think that a show with an active AIDS metaphor is not going to have Reagan/Bush signs as set pieces just to establish wealth.

It’s true that being white and middle class doesn’t necessitate that they be homophobic, my own parents are white and middle class and they aren’t conservative (not really an apt comparison as my parents exist now in 2023 and Ted and Karen exist in the 1980’s) But that’s also why we are given shorthand to flesh them out such as yes, Reagan/Bush signs in the yard and Karen name dropping Margaret Thatcher.

Also I think people may be interpreting calling the Wheelers mildly homophobic with calling them abusive. There are those who interpret Ted and Karen as such, which I think is waaaaaaaay off the mark. Not every homophobe in the show is going to act like Lonnie, but not every character is going to be like Steve when reacting to such things. I can still believe that Mike may find emotional comfort in his mom, and I can also still believe that he may be reasonably hesitant with coming out to her.

The show could surprise me and he could still come out to her, but I think it would all come down to how they handle it. I don’t think that Karen would suddenly become a violent and abusive homophobic bully, but I could totally believe her saying things that may come off as ignorant or not have a perfect reaction.

I can only speak for myself, but the reason for advocating for a scenario like this isn’t about “iventing angst” for Mike’s character but about trying to appeal to the queer experience at that time and wanting to see a show that can be uplifting to queer people while still acknowledging some of the very real experiences of that time. (which the show is already trying to do, btw)

[featherymainffins]

Me when I have plans but my head looks like a trashcan on fire and like 3 separate "mes" are arguing with me about said plans

[unproduciblesmackdown]

really also wendy's "good ending" centering around a beautiful (presumably terrible as usual) Family(tm) Meal is sure like, an expression of that idea that it's beautiful & not terrible of Superiors to just pay any kind of attention to their Inferiors....wendy gets to have family dinner As Deserved because these are Her Kids who have gotta show up when she feels like it's family dinner time, not even a question that they wouldn't. and despite that, even as the "good" parent of the two, wendy's attention to her children is of the "minimal maintenance / occasional Exceptional demand" kind, it sure Is that "good" that wendy chooses to do any of that ever, or to be like okay we're having this family meal now with me because i want that. like it was Good that chuck sr. wants to do whatever he does to his son because, right there, that's His Kid, so. family as a hierarchy is definitely beautiful, why not psuedo marriages like when some epic guy with true claims to being a Real Man is like yeah sure i guess i want to have this woman, therein lies perhaps some beautiful redemption for that man if this woman is magnanimous & not like too inadequate or selfish as to not motivate him to Better himself, or not Try to do so. wendy sure won't break with axe fully ever no matter what, which would've been selfish of her (had to be a reason she didn't go to superhell with him that Didn't damage his ego, as is apparently always the case in turning down any winner around here. Taken For Granted you will of course grant them access to whatever they want, like dragging you along on their banishment when like, has this guy talked to his ex wife about his kids before doing this? who knows. or that one kid he projected on? well that doesn't count, nice of you to do the Performance of being unconditional support man, but no problem if you forget he exists. that's not Your Kid in any way that's supposed to play into your power like Your Family (ft. kids you own))

[thebirdandhersong]

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[the-casbah-way]

i found loads of pictures of my uncle i am going 2 cry

[i-want-to-be-a-poet]

[fragiledate]

that feeling of invisibility is so horrible

[artekai]

They talk to each other like this on a daily basis (canon) (real and true)

[randomnameless]

Something I found out re-reading the script and typing about FE Tellius in general :

In the final chapter of FE10's Part 3, when Pelleas is dead, Almedha explains a bit of backgroud information to Miccy and the DB peeps - the convo flows differently if Pelleas is alive or was killed earlier on, but for this post, I'll use the convo she has when Pelleas died, aka when Almedha is at her lowest point ever :

Tauroneo: “I remember the horror of that disease. King Ashnard took the throne after the plague killed most of the royal family, including his father. The tragedy is still fresh in my mind.” Almedha: “That was no disease. It was the curse of a blood pact.” Tauroneo: “What?!” Almedha: “It was all plotted by my husband in a bid to claim the throne of Daein. He used the curse… to steal the lives of his family and citizens…”

tfw no dakimakura for Ashnard :(

Almedha: “Ashnard, he… always worried about the future of a world without equals. He was born an outstanding man, wise beyond his age, yet could never become king. So to shape his ideal world, he decided to resort to underhanded schemes. That’s right… he tricked his father into signing a blood pact with a traveling wise man.”

Note that Almedha still calls him an outstanding man, "wise beyond his age" after dropping earlier how he fucking killed his family and several randoms to gain the throne - it's just some "underhanded scheme" uwu.

-> bar showing Almedha has interesting feelings regarding Ashnard even after everything that happened to her, her son and her brother, she knew Ashnard was the kind of dude who would kill his family and his randoms to get the throne, and yet still remained by his side. That mutual attraction must have been hella strong!

Anyways, we have a follow up about who or what the "traveling wise man" did :

Tauroneo: “Who was he!? That wise man…?” Almedha: “I do not know the details… To cure my illness, that man gathered at Daein the most bizarre people on the continent… Izuka was one of those people. He said he was a scholar studying the properties of wildlife… but, in truth he was nothing more than a madman hell bent on developing biological weapons… Oh ho ho ho.”

What illness is Almedha refering to ? The "cannot transform in a laguz anymore" illness?

So, timeline wise we have :

Ashnard and Almedha meet, they develop a "strong mutual attraction", Ashnard meets Lekain and tricks his dad to sign a blood pact with Lekain so the royal family dies and he gets his ticket for the throne (random peons dying is just some unfortunate casualty!), Soren is born, Almedha becomes "ill".

Lekain gathers randoms at Daein, including fucking Izuka, to officially search for a "cure" to her illness or "study the properties of wildlife" - but actually starts to work on his Feral Ones project...

Soren has no stats, so Ashnard "reject" him and later casts Almedha away, but not before using Soren, as a bait, to lure Rajaion and ultimately turn him - and a red dragon platoon - in a Feral One.

The Tellius recollection book says she had a mental and emotional shock after losing her powers AND after witnessing Rajaion becoming Ashnard's mount.

So is Almedha going all "lol." actually representing how broken she is? At this point, her son was killed, she's still sure Rajaion died because of her and connected 2+2 = 4 : while Solon pretended to look for a cure to heal her, he was actually refining the Feral One drug to use on her older brother.

Despite everything, she doesn't seem to have a particular resentment at Ashnard, nor call him names. Almedha might lash out at random people (Miccy, Tauroneo), but imo, she sees herself as the biggest reason why the tragedy (the loss of her son, her brother, etc etc) happened - and I can't really shake away the feeling that it is fueled by her sudden loss of power.

Tl;Dr : Almedha, per that book, "descended into madness" when she lost her powers due to mating with a Beorc (and witnessing Rajaion turned into a Feral One).

Peak anti-racism duology : Laguz can die twice when they procreate with a Beorc, first they become "crippled", and second, they lose their mind. Very Progressive (tm) writing.

[flippedorbit]

can i have one night that isn’t absolute shit. just one is all i ask

[unhonestlymirror]

From the outside it may seem that I am an ungrateful crazy daughter, who bursts into tears and closes herself every time my mom "does a step" towards me. I just... spent so many power and time to get such result that now I don't have any to make even one more tiniest step towards.