#cost of children

[ssalballoon]

"God, his knees are starting to hurt."

based on @troutsoup's writing! love the exploration of gale's childhood... an extra level of horror that mystra visited him in the form of a child

#mystra even more derogatory than ever before #my favorite line from it is actually “[the dress] must have cost her family a small fortune” #something about it being so inconsequential and innocent... gale has no idea what he's gotten himself into #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 fanart #my art #mystra #drawing children is very hard especially for someone so stern like mystra

[kylejsugarman]

jesse’s natural instinct to be a caretaker is like. it’s something fundamentally Small, but to me it’s the best part of jesse’s character in how soft and subtle it is while still coloring every relationship he has. the way they integrate this aspect of his personality, this instinctive urge to Take Care of people even when they wrong him and even when he’s enacting violence against himself or others, into his character is one of the quietest things in the whole show while still being hugely influential. we get so much from those moments: from “i was the one who drove aunt ginny to her appointments and made her lunch”, from the mentioned interest in sports medicine, from the way he takes walt’s shoes off as he lays him down on the couch in “fly”, from the automatic grab for medical equipment when he realized the cartel doctors were going to prioritize gus over mike. he wants to take care of people, even if he doesn’t always go about it in a “good” way or loses himself along the way.

#syd squeaks #in a lot of ways it’s what makes his fondness and care for children so compelling and genuine and not like. manipulative #jesse cares so much about justice and the innocent and even if it comes at a personal cost he puts his money where his mouth is #breaking bad #jesse pinkman #he is sooooo special to me

[bruciemilf]

Thinking about how well the '' grumpy, beat up middle aged man adopts feral child" trope fits battinson and the batkids but like. In reverse. Especially Damian

#basically i've been thinking about how damian's a child of two different worlds. similar enough to merge but too different to stay #connected. and i'm thinking about him - a child of brutality and love meeting bruce who's both. and it strikes him like thunder #when he realizes he can be both. but he also realizes he must protect bruce at all costs #it also hits me that they're all hyper developed children and bruce is too but -- he hasn't totally fit in shape of a Person yet #bruce wayne #dc #batman #batfamily #batfam #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #text #text post

[shannonsketches]

He's just my favorite bastard yknow?

#ganondorf #oot ganondorf #tfw ur 7'6" and you simply must beat up the children for their education #I'm 90% sure Gan's supposed to be Older in OoT but I'm never gonna not write him as a late 20s-early 30s guy who is just SO unchallenged #he's top of his game and Angry and Self-Assured and like it's deserved he's so competent but god at what cost #I miss writing Gan lol #hire me illumination #sketchesart

[currentlyonstandbi]

#i'm doing my part #people posting in the australia tag are asking what the heck is going on to get us trending at 1 and obvs im not saying it's me but #i am telling my children it was me. where's my order of australia thank u very much for cultural contribution. im having an impact here #and all it cost was the low price of my notifications not knowing peace since <3 #australia

[seanwhites]

imagine someone asking you what your favorite show is and you have to look them dead in the eye and go “oh it’s a gay mafia drama funded by a rich man who really wanted to kiss some dude he met ten years ago and it did so well because of the batshit plot, drama, violence, and sex and now they’re doing a world tour where they sing and dance and strip and kiss each other while being cringefail but also it’s really fun anyways yeah you should watch” like??? i think i would simply have to crawl in a hole and never come out

#it’s my favorite show but at what cost #our children will look upon us going. wtf kind of drugs were you on #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche world tour

[martyrbat]

batman: gotham knights #2

‘Her experience of being trained almost from birth as an assassin leaves her less than fully able to acknowledge her own capacity for good. Not for doing good. But for being good. He knows all of his partners, sometimes better than he knows himself. He knows, for instance, that if Dick—Nightwing—had disobeyed his order to come back to the ship, it would have been because of his need to be useful—and because of his unabating desire to demonstrate his filial loyalty. He knows that if—Tim—Robin—had come back, it would have been because of his empathy, his inability to leave someone else in harm's way. Jason, the one he lost—he was headstrong and disregarded orders as a matter of rebellious individuation. Batman doesn't want to lose another one, which is why he wishes he didn't so well understand what brings this one back.’

#im gonna throw up. #bruce & cass #the recognition of oneself in the other and the despair at knowing what cass feels. #theyre both always going to be children with blood coating their hands and guilt devouring their minds. #they're both always going to blame themselves. bruce for not preventing the deaths of his parents. cass for taking a life. #despite it being irrational. he was a child and thats all they knew and were raised for. #the martyr complexes and how people would call them suicidal for the way they live for others with neglecting their own well-being. #forever heedless of the costs to themselves #they literally make me feel insane GOD !!!!!! #c: batman: gotham knights | i: 2 #crypt's panels #batman #bruce wayne #cassandra cain #batgirl

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Seven, Brienne thought again, despairing. She had no chance against seven, she knew. No chance, and no choice.

She stepped out into the rain, Oathkeeper in hand. “Leave her be. If you want to rape someone, try me.”

- Brienne VII, AFFC

“I know the cost! Last night, gazing into that hearth, I saw things in the flames as well. I saw a king, a crown of fire on his brows, burning … burning, Davos. His own crown consumed his flesh and turned him into ash. Do you think I need Melisandre to tell me what that means? Or you?” The king moved, so his shadow fell upon King’s Landing. “If Joffrey should die … what is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?”

“Everything,” said Davos, softly.

- Davos V, ASOS

Ned had heard enough. “You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?” He pushed back his chair and stood. “Do it yourself, Robert. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least.”

[…]

“I will not be part of murder, Robert. Do as you will, but do not ask me to fix my seal to it.”

For a moment Robert did not seem to understand what Ned was saying. Defiance was not a dish he tasted often. Slowly his face changed as comprehension came. His eyes narrowed and a flush crept up his neck past the velvet collar. He pointed an angry finger at Ned. “You are the King’s Hand, Lord Stark. You will do as I command you, or I’ll find me a Hand who will.”

“I wish him every success.” Ned unfastened the heavy clasp that clutched at the folds of his cloak, the ornate silver hand that was his badge of office. He laid it on the table in front of the king, saddened by the memory of the man who had pinned it on him, the friend he had loved. “I thought you a better man than this, Robert. I thought we had made a nobler king.”

Robert’s face was purple. “Out,” he croaked, choking on his rage. “Out, damn you, I’m done with you. What are you waiting for? Go, run back to Winterfell. And make certain I never look on your face again, or I swear, I’ll have your head on a spike!”

Ned bowed, and turned on his heel without another word.

- Eddard VIII, AGOT

“I know what I swore.” Jon said the words. “I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. Were those the same words you said when you took your vows?”

“They were. As the lord commander knows.”

“Are you certain that I have not forgotten some? The ones about the king and his laws, and how we must defend every foot of his land and cling to each ruined castle? How does that part go?” Jon waited for an answer. None came. “I am the shield that guards the realms of men. Those are the words. So tell me, my lord—what are these wildlings, if not men?”

- Jon XI, ADWD

Them 🫶🏽

#jon snow #brienne of tarth #davos seaworth #eddard stark #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #yeah it’s about defiance #you have tradition of trampling over people who are lesser or weaker #but each of them said no ❤️ #Brienne could’ve left the children on their own but decided to make a stand #Ned is told that one must do terrible things for the good of the realm but he refuses because this little girl’s life is important #davos is told that he must sacrifice one child to save an entire kingdom but he thinks this one child’s life matters #Jon is told that to save the watch he must leave the wildlings to their doom because who will feed them and the watch but Jon says #I swore to protect all men I will not sacrifice some to save others #it’s love and empathy and compassion and the defiance that comes with it #at the great personal cost of one’s own life

[guilty-feminist]

#guilty feminist #the guilty feminist #feminism #feminist #women’s rights #human rights #deborah frances white #woman’s rights #uk politics #uk news #cost of living crisis #children in poverty #childhood #childhood poverty #fuck the tories #conservatives #price cap

[kaeyapilled]

i am still not over the fact arlecchino is referred to as "father" by the house of the hearth kids btw. the gender of it all

#i cant articulate this ugh #its just. the idea that she plays not the role of mother #where nurture and compassion would typically be expected of her #but the role of father. where a more stern and i guess distant sort of love might be typically expected. Yeah #i also dont hate the fact she doesnt seem to be abusive to the kids. i know i said i wanted her to be irredeemably evil but i really dig th #s #i actually really like the direction they seem to be taking? where its like. #shes still The Fatui. shes still using orphaned kids for military missions #but she doesnt go out of her way to harm the children. id say she sort of goes out of her way to *not* do so #AGH IT MAKES ME INSANE!!!! #the fontaine siblings' voicelines about her made me utterly insane. particularly freminet's #leaks skip if u dont wanna know but when he says she doesnt like crying so he avoids shedding tears in front of her at all costs (augh) #but still will say that things got better after the house director changed and she took charge #and that she literally told him that he has to value his own life instead of prioritizing self-sacrifice for loved ones' sakes. or somethin #which i take to be good advice for freminet in particular who has some concerning suicidal tendencies going on in there #anyway yeah arlecchino i am obsessed with you #my posts

[cakemoney]

brennan: so you're in the last standard exam in an alien realm and in the stands you see a bunch of arthur agueforts, they're cheering for you, they're talking to each other, they've got your names written on their chests

editors: zooms in on the two arthur agueforts who are making out because they know how we are

#laughs awkwardly #dimension 20 #fantasy high spoilers #don't mind me i'm talking all the way down here. just pondering the concept of like #i know this is the format of the show and that's how the show works etc etc #but there's also a tragic quality to the fact that. these battle sets were made way beforehand. which means that #the bad kids were always destined to take the last standard exam. they were always going to fail in some way #no matter how hard they worked no matter how much stress they took on no matter how much they've grown #something something bobby dawn's really unlocked the extreme teenage rage in me. the idea of #'problem children' who are set up to fail by the system and then teachers act like their failure 'proves' that they were always bad #you know what i mean? plot device comedy et cetera but i do get really really sad about kids who struggle in school when they don't have to #the support could have been there and would have cost nothing but a bit of time effort empathy but adults withhold it. just to make a point

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

I need to scream about this event (Friends Like These) because I truly was just. Not expecting the impact it would have--I don't remember if I read this one in Japanese???

I've only gotten the first two stories so far but I just.

Jeanne and Mozart are of course, as adorable as ever; there's no question about that. But Jeanne dropping this line:

"It galls me to sound so much like le Comte, but I am grateful to God that I met you."

I. [prolonged error 404 sounds]. I'm not sure there are words to convey the simultaneous endless wheezing laughter but also AWWWWWWWW energy that consumed me in milliseconds. Wildly oscillating between "LMFAO ah yes, sentimentality? Disgusting I'll drink to that (blasts Bring Me To Life)" and "BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM DEEP DOWN AND HE LOVES YOU WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH."

I just can't get over how Jeanne says exactly one thing about liking another person and he's like, 'ew dad gave me cooties >:///// how dare he subject me to the mortifying ordeal of hope.' Jeanne I love you. Jeanne I would die for you. Middle schooler with well-meaning stepfather who begrudgingly accepts his kindness and grows for the better, but would rather perish than admit it. I never knew I needed this found family dynamic so freaking bad until I started playing this game. 11/10 I could watch this forever

More Shenanigans below the cut, + the Shakespeare and Comte Event Story:

Also a sidebar because I just can't help myself, I know I've talked about it before but: Mozart and Jeanne's friendship is so endlessly precious to me????? I love how Mozart is so NO I'M NOT NICE REEEEE (turtles) and Jeanne is like :> bestie. It's so damn cute watching Mozart squirm at being exposed for being sweet and Jeanne just truly grateful someone cares about him?????? How much Jeanne and MC dote on Mozart despite being together, how it only strengthens their friendship? Literally I'm over the moon, nobody touch me I'm tender!!! Jeanne deserves to live peacefully without being a tool of the state/bad actors!!!! Mozart deserves to be loved and happy without being defined by his musical success!!!!!

LIKE. Not to be dramatic but I could watch an entire saga of these two being friends and being adorable. Fresh serotonin every single time. Did I know Jeanne was going to share his food? Absolutely. Did I expect MC to think ahead and pack two lunches? Absolutely not. Was I delighted both times? Beyond what you can imagine!!!!!!!

I'm going to stop here at the risk of repeating myself over and over but wow. Jeanne's capacity to see to the very core of people, for better and worse, and how it lets Mozart be meaningfully seen. Mozart's recognition that Jeanne can mean well to a fault, worried that he might be taken advantage of--and how Jeanne can build trust with someone for the first time without being afraid. Can you hear me wailing and bawling

Naturally, I acquired the Comte and Shakespeare one next. Now, I'm gonna be honest, I saw their names together and went "oh dear God. What am I walking into. Why do I hear boss music????" But I gathered my courage (more like I'm just too feral not to gather info abt Comte, but I digress) and experienced something that left me literally on the floor because I just. Did Not Remotely Expect This Series of Events.

So like. It starts off by being pretty normal and cute and I'm like awwww baby boy (oh he's a little fked up actually) giving gifts to dad. I'm sensing an ulterior motive but right now just let me have this. Also adorable that Comte is struck dumb by it, that's really cute I'm taking notes. And then. I was hit with the veritable ANVIL that was these next few lines:

deep breath Okay. Where to begin.

I LOST IT at the implication that Will was like. Holding back from ending Comte's entire life with mere words. WILL????? WILL P L S??????? (lowkey wanted to hear the roast snickers) Why am I sensing a pattern that Comte loves spicy people??? Love this for me

I also started losing my shit the second MC was mentioned and you could just hear the record scratch/kill bill sirens. Comte really out here like "son say WHAT about MC." I can't get over how he's always so ready to throw down for both MC and Sebas at any moment. Anywho, naturally I come to the conclusion that Will was just trying to one-up Comte to mess with him by giving MC gifts. It was the one thing I did anticipate--and, fool that I was--thought it rendered me safe from what happens next.

DEAR READER. DEAR READER I WAS SO WRONG. I WAS SO TERRIBLY WRONG.

BABY GIRL. BABY GIRL ON WHAT LEVEL IS THIS NORMAL BEHAVIOR. I'M LITERALLY CRYING RN?????? THE FACT THAT I CAN'T TELL IF HE'S JUST BEING SILLY GOOFY OR HE LEGITIMATELY MEANS IT OR SOME COMBINATION OF THE TWO????????

Mans out here like "I lost everything in the war (literally) let me spoil my girlboss dream gf in peace. Vlad took everything in the divorce let me have this pls." I just. The mental image of him chasing Will around the house. The potential implications of him doing this to protect them both (I love you Will but you have. Problems). The HILARIOUS AND DUBIOUS qualifier when he says "dressing up MC is nearly my entire reason for living." Comte I love you more than life itself but that does not make this any more normal. What are you doing my beloved vampire jkhlhalfdhjfg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣��

Also an honorable mention moment, because it was endearing:

Just the img of him wandering around with sparkly eyes and toting home little trinkets for everyone??????? He's so cute, that's the most grandpa behavior I've ever seen. I was chortling when Will was like "sir you made me sit in that cluttered carriage followed by another carriage full of stuff all the way home IT'S TIME FOR REVENGE (affectionate)."

I also love how Comte is like "Do I have a problem? Maybe. Will that stop me? Only when the sun cataclysmically swallows the earth."

Literally half of the members of the house are like "why are you like this" and he just heeheehoos his way out of it. How does he keep getting away with it. Can you tell I love him. Dazai isn't the only clown in this house honks Comte's nose

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp comte #ikevamp saint germain #ikevamp mc #ikevamp mozart #ikevamp jeanne #ikevamp jean #ikevamp shakespeare #man every time i go back to ikevamp its like the first time #idk man the healing from intense trauma and catastrophic overworking just gets to me okay #i wonder if there's just a fundamental ethos to the game that compels me; the idea that genius of any kind is hard-won #that no matter how brilliant someone may seem--there was a cost that may not be apparent at first glance #but they are also just. silly silly guys. mischievous little creachurs #THE DUALITY OF MAN (VAMPIRE?) #im also just endlessly amused by comte's whole “IM NOT UR DAD” #but at the same time him being like “relating to my children emotionally? how about I Give Them This Thing They Like Instead.” #like comte ilysm but that is literally. textbook dad behavior. 0/10 you failed the stealth check #its my comte roasting hours #at the same time trying very hard not to think about the reasons why #namely that he doesn't want to burden everyone with Vlad's beef^TM #i can't help but think about how much keeping his distance is abt protecting them from himself as well #the way he doesn't want to be a burden on anyone else but also yearns so deeply for companionship/connection #how even with mc he frequently notes what she's giving up to be with him/that he's more work than he's worth #:( i wanna hold him my poor sweet mans

[ejlyt]

Have you done your clicks today?

#arab.org #daily click reminder #daily #children #palestine #poverty #refugees #women #environment #charity #free #free charity #seriously it costs nothing #just click the buttons and the ad revenue goes to the charity #takes 5 second #quick #easy

[eroticcannibal]

Being genuine for a moment. No clowning. No mockery.

Most of you would have a child removed from your care in an instant if you genuinely believed what you tell me to do is right. That kind of overbearing, independance-killing, cotton wool and helicopter parenting is ABUSE and children ARE REMOVED when that happens. It also SPECIFICALLY goes against my child's care plan and going against care plans is generally VERY RISKY where custody is concerned.

You're all future child abusers (I fucking hope! Call children's services on yourself NOW if you have access to kids I am begging) and I am never going to listen to you ✌

#word of god #i do know of a case where a toddler was removed because they were... over parented i guess? #like the child could not develop #they were helpless #it was so sad #and the mother just wouldnt listen #because she had this compulsive need to constantly parent #because not parenting for a second would be 'bad' #that child's legs were atrophied #this attitude has a real life cost and children are paying it

[uncanny-tranny]

Can we all collectively start to view parents who post online about the "fuck-ups" their child did as what it is - abusive? I genuinely do not care about the "reason" somebody has for posting their child on the internet, if it can be "solved" in the public court of shame and humiliation, it can be solved in a home that should love them.

Public humiliation is not an appropriate response to a child being a child. If your first line of defense is airing out your dirty laundry to millions of strangers, you are at best not mature enough to be a parent, and at worst, you are completely abusive and should not be a parent, and both options are pretty grim.

#abuse #abuse tw #youth liberation #saw somebody say that the most evil people they know are parents and... yeah. no fucking wonder that person said that #i'm sorry i get that being a parent is hard. i think it is an amazing feat in fact. #but i have so much scorn for parents who decide to leave the parenting to bullies and directly put their children in harm's way #NOWHERE in parenting does it require you to stop parenting and instead go 'well let's have billy bob bully you into submission' #NOWHERE in parenting does it say it's appropriate to gain clout off your kid making kid-level fuck-ups #start treating your children like human beings or i'm going to start biting #if you ever want to know what it's like to be a parent and have your kid block your number and never talk to you - come speak with me #i was the kid who blocked my abusive parent's number completely. i never speak to them. i do not have a nice thing to say to them. #if you would like that to be your future then you are not in the headspace to be a parent #kid's fuck-ups are typically significantly less of a fuck-up than what some of y'all adults do as a fuck-up #so it's like... gain some perspective about what the cost is and what the 'reward' is

[wizardnuke]

astrid and caleb do you ever THINK about them. they're working in the system that failed them. more than that they're working to rip the rot out of the system that failed them from the literal ground zero of it. the soltryce academy and the chair of the archmage of civil influence. i'm sure that wulf pops in to help and/or bash heads and beau is beside caleb every step of the way, but. astrid and caleb. they never got out. do you ever think about how they chose to never get out of there. they're chaining themselves to the tree they're cutting down. they're lighting the gasoline from the center of the room. they know. they know. and they're not at fault (they tortured people they killed their parents- they were brainwashed and tricked! they were extensions of ikithon! that blood is on his hands as much as theirs!) they're not at fault it wasn't their fault, they were children, and now they're the ones who have to make sure that no more children are hurt like they were. by the people that they work with every single day. no one saved them. did they really even save themselves if they're choosing to stay in the lion's den. do you ever think about it.

#NO MORE CHILDREN. at the cost of their own ruined lives #it's awful it's so damn sad to me. they're never going to get out. they don't even want to get out! they find purpose in it! #astrid always wanted that seat! caleb found out that he loves working with kids! #every day they shake hands with thee very people who were at best complicit and at worst actively worked to harm them #and they're looking them dead in the fucking eyes. to be clear. stone cold acknowledgement. smiles that look like snarls. #really. they're not locked in there with the academy and the assembly. all those wizards r locked in there with THEM #And They Know It #the only people they can't manage to look at are each other .