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From Conversations with Major Dick Winters

I just think it’s kinda crazy when Winters passed, the author’s daughter’s consoling words are like don’t be sad he is reunited with Nixon.

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dick winters. poster boy. former vocal lover of goldbricking. ymca frequenter. turned his nose at the idea of paratroopers (changed his mind. thought they were hot anyway). part-time horse girl. body shamed himself and others—hated his face, lowkey loooved his torso. preferred to be without shirt. best friends with the mistress of his boy best friend’s father. thought cheese was evil but daydreamed about ice cream at the eto. legs man. jock but never in varsity. forced to date by his frat. did not fit into said frat. can’t flirt (hasn’t found that manual). was called a “fruit salad” at a club (it was allegedly the ribbons on dick’s pinks and greens. had to drag nix away from starting a fight). supposedly preferred redheads but is historically known for baring his whole ass soul to dark-haired individuals. awkward. wore his situationship’s dog tags at war. lover of a good, crisp photocopy. his face was on a wheaties cereal box and in republican newspapers. nixon household (stanhope’s and grace’s) had him on speed dial. carried a list of e company’s ailments after the war. “powerful muscles, powerful mind” helicopter mom but didn’t know it. a bitch and knew it. loved a catch phrase. left the world with all his love for easy company and one lewis nixon iii.

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She just has this regal empress energy 👑. I can’t help but imagine that every time they needed someone to play queen, they went “oh can anybody contact Jodhi May?” 😅

jodhi may as empress natalya arat corrino in dune: prophecy - requested by anonymous

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Have never watched Wednesday, but agree with this ✊

Arguably, there are few things that we would call an indisputable canon in the Addams Family:

- they are close, loving and very supportive family unit - Gomez and Morticia are madly in love - they love all things macabre - they are not afraid of violence, death, dying, fighting etc. (Yes, yes I'm still salty about that bullshit swordfighting scene in Netflix's Wednesday)

And of course, Christina Ricci pretty much established what is perceived as canon for the character of Wednesday Addams.

Other than that? There's not much set in stone. Continuity? Please, TAF wouldn't know continuity if it stepped on it, things are all over freaking ship, so it's very likely that, as a fan, you will love some iterations of Addams Family and hate others, that is completely normal, not all content is created for you. Let's accept that.

At this point, with the success of Netflix Wednesday this fandom reached its, arguably, largest audience. Whether you hate or love the new show, is irrelevant - it's success is indisputable, and it brought a lot of new fans, often completely new generation of fans who will interact with the Addams Family in a completely new and different way than you or me or Jerry next door.

Does it irk you that creators and more and more fans focus on Morticia solely as a mother figure? Yeah, it irks me too, no really, it annoys the hell out of me but at the same time... it's my freaking problem not anyone else's, the least of all the new fans, and allow me to explain why:

How we react to any given character is deeply, deeply personal. We come to the show with our own, unique set of experiences and those experiences will largely inform which characters we're going to relate to and what those character will mean to us. It can be and, very very often is, completely irrelevant to canon.

So say, each iteration of Mortcia is slightly or even vastly different from the other but some people will inevitably see her as a surrogate mother figure (or Gomez and Morticia as dream parents, whatever) and there can be a number of reasons for that, maybe some folks just didn't have great parents, maybe they had no parents, maybe... whatever - it doesn't matter, they are allowed to see that character as parent figures even if others don't.

Do I see Morticia as a mother figure? Nope. Never did, never will, although she's a fantastic mother. To me personally, she was always a representation of bad ass, empowered femininity - a strong female role model. I adored her since I was about 6 or 8 years old but she was never a mother figure to me. I love how she's happy and content in her role as a wife and a mother - that's her thing, she adores her family and that's where her focus is and she's absolutely unapologetic about it.  She's like a really awesome, badass housewife, she's telling you to do you, irregardless what the current trends for women in society are, but especially, at the time when women were told to have it all blah blah blah, and being a housewife was all but frowned upon -  Morticia's like no thank you, fuck that shit (except those odd times when she wants to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade). And I always loved that, to me she exemplified the true meaning of feminism - the right to chose whatever the hell you want to do in life as a woman. Career woman? Go girl. Housewife? Awesome, if that's what makes you happy.

Where am I going with all this?

Bottom line, do you want to ship Wenclair - hon, ship them to your heart content if that's what brings you joy or helps you feel represented. Do you want to ship Gomez and Morticia ? - bless your little, tender heart, join the club! You want Morticia to be your surrogate mother - go ahead, enjoy! Do you want those characters to be the representation of your experience as a gay, trans, neurodivergent person? - baby, go for it. Especially if it helps you go through some really tough shit.

Yes, your personal fanon might disagree with mine, it might even piss me off - I might hate everything about it and secretely bitch about it to likeminded fandom members, and I do. I might hate your take on the Addams Family altogether - but remember! that's not your problem, it's mine. You do you, whoever you are.

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Not my headcannon or anything (I can see it though), I’m just a bit shocked I found my three ultimate ships in one post. I thought I was alone in loving couples who act like they’ve been married for 100000 years and are still madly in love with each other 🥹 I love my niche not so niche couples

Random headcanons:

Thenamesh: are both asexual and are happy in their asexual marriage. Also they were a couple longer than Ikaris und Sersi. I don’t make the rules.

Caskett: in the last scene before the epilogue they were at peace (they were dying holding each others hands) and she was also pregnant at the time with lily. Lilys second name is Johanna after Kate’s mom

Gorticia: they vowed to each other that they would die together while they made a blood oath.

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#flirting with your wife

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You think you're gonna have all the time in the world... but nobody does - 3x13 (deleted scene) / 4x20 x

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Season 8:

Espo and Ryan: Why are Beckett and Castle sitting with their backs to each other?

Lanie: They got in a fight.

Espo and Ryan: Then why are they still holding hands?

Lanie: Because Castle gets sad when they fight.

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Can we talk about how extremely proud of Beckett Castle is? Like he never hesitates to say that she is the best detective, everytime some new character is wowed by Beckett in the negotiation room he would say “you haven’t seen nothing yet”, and it is clear that he isn’t just saying she’s extraordinary, he believes it. Who can blame him? Kate Beckett is an absolute badass 😮‍💨

Anyway, everyone is going crazy over the new TV show romcom “nobody wants this” when the male character said to the female character “I can handle you”. Castle is here to say that not only can he handles her, you guys so cannot handle her 😁

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DARVEY / CASKETT

6x11, “She's Gone”

5x01, “After the Storm”

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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Also dude is a total masochist, having hot wings burning his entire inside while he remains unaffected on the outside is entirely the torture he wants and super on brand 😅

ive said it before n i'll say it again

beard would have the time of his life on hot ones

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