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animalinvestigator · 4 months

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hey! i havent had tumblr for a while but ive been thinking about cathys eldest sister who wants to run away when she turns 18. is she equipped at all to deal with the outside world? all of the kids seem pretty isolated. ty!

hello anonymous -- first of all let me just say, i am really touched that you remembered my story, and even a pretty minor character in it, and remained so interested that you sent this ask even after being away. really it means a lot more to me than i could ever articulate, i was so stunned and happy that you would. i appreciate it a lot. i really hope someday i can make the story real so that you'll be able to have all these answers without tumblr asks, LOL.

which made me think about -- how mysterious do i want to be to make sure everything still stays fresh if i ever do write it , lol. i thought for a bit about this, and i think i can still say plenty of things without giving away any plot beats or information i havent already shared. espescially about the character youre inquiring on ! so: about bridget.

even though bridget is a side character whose arc plays out largely incidentally in the background of the story, she's definitely the supporting cast member i've thought about most, because she shares a lot in common with catherine, but her motivation to escape is from a completely different perspective, and her approach is entirely different as well because of that.... i'm not sure how much i've talked about catherine's family's history, but they haven't always lived where they live, and they haven't always been as isolated as they are ; bridget is one of the few kids in the family who is old enough to remember a time when she was marginally less secluded from the world, where she was permitted to have relationships among a slightly broader community, instead of having no one and nothing outside of the nuclear family. this, combined with the amount of time she's spent living the way that she does, and the increased responsibility /mistreatment she incurred by being born first, leads her to a feeling that is shared between only her and cathy among her siblings, that something is deeply, implacably wrong with the only world she's ever known, and an abstract need to "run away" as a result.

UNLIKE cathy, bridget has the perspective to know that there does exist a world outside(though she's never been part of it) that she can run away to. because of this, and due to the repertoire she has built up over the years by adequately obeying her parents and avoiding their scrutiny, and her general grew-up-too-fast big sister maturity, she has the increased freedom and general skills she needs to actually enact an escape plan . to get to the meat of your question, though, that definitely does not translate exactly to being able to survive well and easily when she leaves. basically the only thing bridget has ever been is a homemaker, essentially; her days are commanded by the needs of her siblings and the demands of her parents, and there's little room for developing any sense of agency outside of her role as fill-in mother to the younger children in the family. i can't imagine there's anything she even wants to do when she gets out -- she wouldn't have any idea how to want things in the first place -- she has been actively discouraged from learning administrative adult tasks even as mundane as shopping for herself or driving a car out of a desire to keep her subserviant, and she has no safe grown-ups in her life to teach her these skills. she has no education outside of her family's """"homeschooling"""", and when she leaves, she will have no access to her legal paperwork, and no funds or resources whatsoever. which is all to say: bridget knows how to take care of herself and take care of her siblings and take care of her household, but she doesn't know how to be a human being, and she has none of the prerequesites that society would expect from her. even as the /least/ isolated member of the household, she's been completely cut off from any ability to develop as a person, form external relationships, and live without relying on her parents, because that's how catherine's parents maintain their sense of control.

so, the long and short of it is this: the reason that catherine's family is the way it is (and ESPESCIALLY in the case of bridget, whose obedience they rely upon to keep the household running smoothly) is that catherine's parents want to raise adult children, who are simultaneously competent enough to personally benefit the parents in keeping up appearances and in putting in less work themselves, and also so completley reliant on them ideologically, financially, and emotionally that they have no hope of surviving in the outside world. thta's the situation bridget is in when she decides to escape.

that being said, i think she's alright... much like cathy, i try to keep my own ideas for "what happens to this character" private, because i would really like to leave it at "there's no right answer". the main emotion i'm writing this story from is a feeling of lack of closure -- a story where nothing good happens, everyone is worse off at the end, and the main character is left all alone with her memories, wondering for the rest of her life if any of it even happened, not knowing if anything turned out okay, and having to carve out a place to live in that painful ambiguity... that being said, my hope for my own characters is that they'll have a happy ending in the audience's head.. and i feel like i can strongly picture bridget living in a big city somewhere very far away long after catherine's story ends, coming home after work to a tiny , mostly empty apartment, her own space, and thinking for the first time that she can finally breathe.

thank you so much again for your inquiry <3

#ocs #<33 :3 #hope its not too wordy

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serethereal · 1 year

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i have this disease called i will open your message and get distracted and forget to reply and then the notification will be gone so i will not have replied for ages and you will think i am ignoring you but. i am not. it’s incurable

#sooorrryyy… (said like shiv season 3 episode 2 minute 33:12)

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ineed-to-sleep · 5 months

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Collection of memes with mostly my tav/astarion to keep myself sane

#I'm not even gonna ask if any of these have already been done the answer is probably yes fjckkckck #does not matter tho I llovve them <33 #bg3 #bg3 tav #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #tavstarion #sleepyscribble #oc.nawen #ship: narion

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basketobread · 7 months

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sometimes when the enemy is at like 1 hp, i like to hit them with some good ol vicious mockery because nothing is funnier to me than actually obliterating someone into the next life with a yo mama joke

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foop204 · 3 months

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Ok but what if snails

#grian #geminitay #grian fanart #geminitay fanart #hermitcraft fanart #hermitcraft #hc #hermitblr #art #myart #:3 #:33

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triona-tribblescore · 2 months

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Nightly mandatory fluffy Huskerdust doodle 😤🧡

Kneading and a massage~

#nothing rly extra to say!#OH ACTUALLY #this was lowkey inspired by the HC of husk having chronic backpains cause of his wings #lowkey makes sense cause his posture is so bad lol #that or he's just a cat with shrimp disease-#anyway!! im going to sleep #MWAH HUGS FOR YOU THOUGH <33 #huskerdust #angel dust #husk #angel dust fanart #husk fanart #huskerdust fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #tribbleart #<3

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its-elioo · 3 months

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Okay, since my last post UNEXPECTEDLY blew up, I'm gifting you all with more random doodles of this AU.

I really have to think of a name for this squad, hm hm.

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saewokhrisz · 6 months

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someone requested akechi as a shadow supression weapon and i had to draw it immedietly

#it works so perfectly too with his prince outfits colours #i just think he looks stellar <33 #persona 5 #persona #goro akechi #ren amamiya #shuake #akeshu #persona 3 #my art #fanart

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sleepy-hawks · 1 month

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Shouting into the void

Does anyone want some rarepair? 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

#fallout #fallout amazon prime #ella purnell #wip #my art #doodle #the ghoul #cooper howard #lucy x ghoul #lucy mcclane #fallout new vegas #fallout 3 #vault 33 #lucy mclean

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acti-nerdington · 1 year

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Splatoon patch notes will be like "decreased sloopy goopy fire rate by 0.2%" and the community will just be like "dead weapon, fuck the devs, how could they do this"

#splatoon 3 #splatoon #im not in the competitive meta so maybe 5/60 of a second is super huge but idk lol it seems silly to get so worked up about #the stamper getting a 33% ink efficiency decrease is a big oof tho i can understand that

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nova-rpv · 2 months

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a bunch of doodles to make up for my wips 👍