#fambly dynamics

[shallowseeker]

You know what my favorite thing about Sam is? Even though he and Cas butt heads and don't exactly get along, Sam usually takes Cas's side. It's hilarious.

Sam would absolutely stab Cas in the back, and THEN turn around and take his side.

Kind of like [OMITTED]

8x22:

SAM: Dude, go easy on Cas, okay. He's one of the good guys. DEAN: Dude, if anybody else – I mean anybody – pulled that kind of crap, I would stab them in their neck on principle. Why should I give him a free pass? SAM: Because it's Cas.

7x01, fresh off stabbing him in the back BTW:

SAM: Dean, look, I know you think that Cas is gone -- DEAN: It's 'cause he is. SAM: He's not! He's in there somewhere, Dean. I know it. DEAN: No, you don't. SAM: No, I don't. But, look, I was pretty far gone sometimes myself...

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SAM (praying): Hey, Castiel. Um... Maybe this is pointless. Look... I don't know if any part of you even cares, but, um, I still think you're one of us, deep down. I mean, way, way, way off the reservation, but... Look, we still have till dawn to stop this. Let us help. Please.

On the one hand, it's easier for Sam not to take Cas's betrayal so personally. He saw the betrayal coming, so he wasn't made a fool of. And also, he's not in love with Cas, so that helps him keep the emotional pain at something of a distance. There's not the same kinda tension.

On the other, Sam is a rebellious-coded child who remains vulnerable to authority figures for much of his run, shown with how fanboy he was over the angels to loving having a past-in-common with John Winchester. He loves to see himself IN the father figure, and he loves to make excuses FOR the father figure. It's one of the most delicious things about Sam (and Lucifer, via his own words.

I think Sam is has a tendency to take the father's and the husband's "side," really, even in that one episode with James Marsters 7x05 Shut Up, Dr. Phil.

Which makes me think about how Lucifer is rebellious in terms of behavior, but says he actually always wanted to belong and please his dad:

LUCIFER from 13x13: No. No I always wanted to fit in, please a father I couldn’t please. And now I’m gonna be a father. Probably screw it up like he did.

AND I can't remember of find the episode, but I know Lucifer starts speaking of God different after he has a son on the way, suddenly cutting him a whole lot of slack.

I love Sam and Lucifer's twin struggles. So crunchy!

#OMITTED being john winchester ofc #sam will always make excuses for dad #he's more likely to scapegoat dean #THE ONE WHO STAYED #which is also like john in spnwin #getting mad at millie in lieu of getting mad at henry #and CLAIRE NOVAK in angel heart getting mad at amelia in lieu of getting mad at castiel [or jimmy] #fambly dynamics

[sillylittleguyinatrenchcoat]

IN HONOUR OF CAT DROPPING here’s a compilation of some old kazui memes bc i’m too lazy to make more <3 i love one man!!!!

#GAY KAZUI TRUTHERS WE WOONNNNNNN #i dont wanna hear anyone call that theory dumb. we were right all along. like his vd almost outright confirms it #i CRIED while listening to it his va did such a good job #BUT I DIGRESS. THE MV???????? INSANEEE #legit my favorite mv ever? like fr? its def in my top 3 #ive been waiting for so long and im not disappointed at all. the song is a bop #and the visuals!!!!! KAZUI EATING A DOVE!!!!! SMOKING!!!! #deco actually made kazui just for me btw. not many ppl know it but its true #aaaaa i fell even more in love w/ him after the vd and mv…. his philosophy abt lying is so interesting and understandable #but anyway. at some point ill make more of these im just lazy!!! but i love kazui sm. #also yuno/kazui father/daughter dynamic>>>>>>>>> they are fambly….. #milgram #milgram memes #kazui mukuhara

[thatoneluckybee]

Oh my, a WONDERFUL fanart! I love this! I’m going to like and reblog and OH GREAT HEAVENS (tags reveal it is shipart of a minor and adults)

#WHYYY??? #DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING???? #stopPPP STOP STOP #i just want a normal keiji and sara fanart piece. one. #let them have their dynamic #KEISARA JUMPSCARE IN THE GTAGS IM GOING TO CRY #WHY IS THIS FANDOM LIKE THIS???????? #fambles #yttd #your turn to die

[crimeronan]

GENUINELY I think before Luz came out to Camila in canon she would assume they were together in some way because like. There is an older boy who absolutely fits the type of fantasy character Luz’s childhood fantasy crushes would likely be on I can ABSOLUTELY see some sort of shenanigans like Camila trying to fish for information from Vee who is sworn to secrecy on the Lumity subject until Luz comes out officially and she’s just like “hm. Who can say really”

this is hilarious. BIG fan of the hexsquad being so generally snuggly and close in the human world that camila's like "i..... have no idea which of you are dating. bc you're all always falling asleep on and drooling on each other. who wants popcorn?"

#the perfect dynamic. #replies #toh #toh fambly #lavender winter #horrible mindscape trauma pals #camila noceda

[taffy-glitch]

Mizuk from aitsf :3

zuki my best friend zuki!!!!!!! i think about her so much.

#aitsf #aini #to be clear 'they work better as part of a dynamic' bc #themes of fambly #you understand #jort post

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I think I've said this twice in different places but imo the ideal age difference between Jason and Tim is actually 4 years because of the narrative irony of Tim being the same age Jason was when he died at the time of the whole Titans Tower thing. I just think it makes sense. also a 4 year age difference is peak comedy because in my experience that's the MOST annoying age separation, like enough of a gap that Jason thinks of Tim as a kid but also not enough for Tim to think of Jay as that much older than him. Jason calls him "kid" or something and Tim whips around like yOU'RE BARELY EVEN AN ADULT. peak comedic potential alongside peak narrative sensibility

#thinking about themb again..... the boys..... #fambly dynamics.......... yeah #Lu rambles #batfam #tim drake #jason todd #meta finding tag #sorta???

[saviourkingslut]

was struggling with piano really badly lately, playing felt stilted and i kept making a lot of mistakes and it frustrated me so bad, then i watched a twoset vid where they paraphrased beethoven who said smth like you can miss a note but playing a note without intent is punishable by death or whatever, anyway, i was like ohh right you gotta put that emo in the playing and not think abt the technique too much and ive been imagining victorian/edwardian people yearning and courting and falling in love like im watching a series in my head and what do you know. nocturne op 9 no ii has never sounded so sweet

#i play around with it too. sometimes they only fall in love. #sometimes i imagine them idk marrying or getting a child and having fambly time #or even having chaste victorian sex lmaoojust to see what that does to different parts of the piece. #been imagining stuff for the rest of my repertoire too it's working well #ofc i still make mistakes but they bother me less. bc im satisfied with the vibes. there's emotion and it is good #my number one rule is the sheet music does not decide the tempo. i do #my number two rule is i look at the dynamics and rit. and accel. directions #and if i do not like them we are doing it my way. my piece now. #curry rambles

[tomboyyyaoi]

didnt put this in my thoughts post bc i forgor but brad considering vash's arm his masterpiece and getting grumbly at him for always breaking it is very sweet

#i love their little fambly dynamic...

[flockrest]

directly referring to this / @gloryseized

     For all that's changed in these past moon phases ( and wow, is it a lot ), Tulin still starts moulting exactly one whole winter from his last shed feather. It's kinda funny, 'cause being the Sage of Wind can feel like such a grand undertaking that he almost forgets these little things can happen to him. S'not usually something he makes a big deal of, anyway — not when everyone goes through the same thing, asks the same questions, and gives the same ol' answers.

     'Cept this time, over a dinner of seafood curry, when Cree picks up one of his fallen quills to hand back to him with a teasing, "Got anyone special to preen this winter?" — it's not the same ol' answer that comes fresh to Tulin's mind.

     It creeps on him slow, like if a Chuchu knew how to hunt. Fragments of maybe-connected thoughts that emerge so casually as Molli turns to repeat the question, even more teasing-teasing-teasing — then it pounces. Creeping like a Chuchu; hitting him like a lit bomb arrow.

     Maybe he does have someone special to preen this winter. Special enough to wanna give one of his feathers to when he isn't his mum or dad or Molli or Uncle Harth or nest or even, technically, flock.

     Tulin's not sure how to feel 'bout it.

     On one wing — a friend! Stars, a really, really close friend that's special enough to be more, one he's happy to be able to love lots! Happy to have fought with when his home needed it! Happy to continue fighting with now! Happy to have travelled with, and seen an awful lotta awesome stuff with, and done so many impossibly cool things with, and learnt so much from as a warrior and not-a-warrior, and—

     "It sounds like you've already figured out how you 'feel about it', Tulin," Mum gently tells him, in the split second it takes for him to take a breath from all his babbling.

     "So...it's okay?" Some part of him knows he doesn't need to, but he peeks up at her and Dad with a chick's eyes — the ones he swore off of — 'cause he really wants this to be okay. Like, really badly needs this to be okay. "With you guys?"

     Dad smiles real soft, and that's a yes if Tulin ever saw one.

     Turns out, there's a lotta preparations you gotta do before you can invite a Hylian over for a full preening.

     Most of it's the same as preparing to fully preen a Rito — like the collecting, the painting, the dying, and the weaving he leaves to Kido 'cause he wants his cords to look good. But there's also stuff like getting used to a specific hook-and-thread for Hylian hair, and trying to do the same with Hylian hair itself when you don't have any of it just lying 'round for practice.

     Eh. Tulin makes it work.

     By the time his guest of honour finally returns to their peaks, with how fluttery and restless Tulin's gotten, everybody knows to leave their hero be until he's done with him. Which is great! 'Cause, um. It's a while.

     Link's hair feels how it looks. Soft and a little fluffy, a lot thinner and harder to grab at than his own feathers. He ends up using his beak waaaay more than he thought he'd have to, but Link doesn't complain 'bout being preened like a hatchling, so he doesn't think to apologise for it. He chats when he can in between fixing up braids and pulling stupidly fine hair through bead openings, 'bout stuff like what he's been up to, what Link's been up to, did Link know Molli's got another new idea for her arrows, has Link gone to see that pretty, pink tree by the village's entrance, and everything else under the sun shining into the aerie.

     Before he knows it, he's tying off practically the last scrap of real free space left on Link's head with a cinch of his beak. He leans back, sorta tired, but — gazing upon all that he's put into those golden locks, at everything he's saying bright and loud and bombastically clear to everyone who'd bother to look ( and oh, they'd look, alright! ) — with a heart that feels almost worryingly full.

     He can't stop grinning as Hyrule's hero assesses his work. He traces it out with his touch, looks at it this way and that. Tulin doubts Link knows this when nobody's probably sat down and explained it to him, but the colours are important. 'Course they are. And, y'know, he doubts Link knows this even more: but to be given a Rito's quill is to be claimed.

     As flock, yeah, duh.

     As nest, though, too.

     For the one who believed in and took him to do what nobody else could in a time they needed it most; for the one who has given him another amazing something and someone to chase after ever since he was a fledgling; for the one who trusts in and— and loves him enough to sit here for ages and ages and ages 'til he's all done with his preening—

     For Link, it's as his big brother.

     ( "Yeah, you better love it!" Tulin laughs, a joke and earnest sincerity all at once. He returns the, "thank you, thank you," 'cause Link really was sat there for a while without a break — stars know he wouldn't be able to do the same without, like, exploding or something.

     Then Link's hands do something weird.

     T...wind. Huh? Is that...? He tilts his head, the question unvoiced but plainly written all over his beak: what's that s'pposed to mean? )

#gloryseized #* arrowhead / study. #( YEAH. IT'S A STUDY. IT'S A STUDY YOU'RE MY MAIN THIS DEVELOPMENT CAN COUNT AS SOLID BLOG CANON IT'S A STUDY WAAAH #MY HEART IS ACHING IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY OVER THESE TWO I AM!!! SO!!!! #HILARY. I LITERALLY CANNOT SAY THIS ENOUGH: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME EXPLORE THIS DYNAMIC WITH YOU #THIS IS THE HAPPIEST WRITING HAS MADE ME IN A LONG WHILE [SOBBING] THEY ARE FAMBLY!! ) #* windsong / ic. #* ic / para. #* v / song of the taming. #long post cw #* gloryseized & tulin / you don't gotta fight all by yourself‚ y'know!

[beast-feast]

Awiayhuhghygg......I wish it weren't so late I want to do something with Sia/the Nowhere King........

#fambly dynamic of one fucked up beast some ratty street demon and a baby girl. love wins #not art #I'm almost at the S2 finale and I'm gonna bawl a little harder this time #implied selfshipping

[stealingpotatoes]

star wars etc tags masterpost!!!

realised i've been slowly amassing a load of sw tags that aren't AUs so can't go on the AU masterpost but should be noted SOMEWHERE! so...

TECHNICALLY CANON-ISH STUFF ??? sometimes

eldritch skywalkers (actually exploring the fact the skywalkers are half/quarter Force)

luke's jedi academy (what it says on the tin)

^^ merricaldemy (merrin & cal jfo helping out!)

skywalkers & naberries (luke & leia w padmé's family post-rotj!!)

force ghosts (on the tin!)

mand'alor din djarin (ok maybe this isn't ""actually""" canon but its canon to me)

GROUPS/DYNAMICS

naboo handmaidens (self explanatorily padmé's handmaidens)

jedi temple (ok less a group, but yep. tcw jedi in the temple!)

disaster trio (tcw protagonists)

other lineage groups: mace-depa-kanan-ezra, yaddle-jaro-cal

space twins (luke & leia)

aunt soka (ahsoka being the twins' aunt)

handmaitwins (the handmaidens and luke & leia)

skywalker family (most/the whole fambly together!!)

the last (4) jedi (ahsoka, cal, luke and ezra! basically subsect of the luke academy stuff)

tl4j mandos (Din & Sabine!)

aaand all ships are under their normal ship names, im not listing them here loll

#housekeeping

[shallowseeker]

Dean's farewell tour + avoiding Cas, Part 1

SPN 14x11, 14x12, 14x14:

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

When Dean has decided to "check out" of the fight in 14x11 Damaged Goods and 14x12 Prophet and Loss, we get a wonderful tale of leaning on your brother and mother to find strength to face your battles. Dean goes on a little farewell tour and starts to open up to friends and family, mustering up physical affection and attempting the important emotional conversations surrounding regrets/love that he's always wanted to communicate with them (outlined below).

Cas n' Jack, sidestepped:

But when Dean decides to throw himself into the ocean, he leaves out Cas and Jack. Why? Because, as he admits in 14x12, he can't afford to get "shaky:"

Sam, for all his emotional analytics, fails to recognize the gravity of this giant omission. Omission is admission. Cas and Jack are the things that would get Dean not to jump into the ocean. That's why Dean is avoiding them. Dean doesn't want to get emotional and change his mind. Sam, bless him, has a great deal of cognitive empathy, but he misses giant neon signs like this pretty often during the course of Supernatural. (Geez, I love that about him.)

Here, Sam is stuck in a childish arrested development. That is, he assumes Mary and Dean are mostly focused on Sam himself and thus Sam holds the most sway on family decision-making.

Sam often seems to lack a high degree of natural emotional empathy. He has to work at it. (I think Dean and Cas seem to connect more with other characters: they often showcase true emotional empathy and are typically a little more insightful. Soulless Jack aside, this is a trait Jack shares with Dean and Cas.)

Sam will miss the point when Cas tentatively suggests that he himself speak with Dean. With time ticking away, Sam'd rather have Cas on research duty, and that's not impractical, per se…

Next to Sam, Cas is THE guy for coming up with creative solutions, so Sam wants him looking for Sergei and angel-speed-reading through the Lore. The only time Sam breaks with wanting Cas on strategy will be in terminal SPN, in episode 15x17: "Just get home."

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At the end of 14x11, Dean will tell Sam that he's the last person he can be around, perhaps the even only person who can talk him out of this. This could be true. So why is Dean avoiding Cas then?

A) Cas holds more sway than Dean can admit to others, it's a sway he can barely even face.

B) Maybe Dean believes Cas can't talk him out if it, but Dean can't emotionally handle a big farewell without accidentally telling Cas...things. The last time Dean tried, there was a time pressure: Amara. Dean was able to safely deliver a neutral best friend-brothers-in-arms speech. This time, he fears it won't go that smoothly.

Now, he's either afraid he'll say too much to Cas...or too little. It's distinctiy different in character to the others. Dean even seems to get a little flustered in 14x12 when Cas calls him on the phone.

It’s a glaring tell.

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Sam:

Previously, in 14x11, when Dean is processing his goodbye to Sam, he hugs him, something that immediately sets off Sam's spidey senses, as they're not a "huggy" family. Dean hugs Sam:

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Sam sounds the alarm to Mary (and presumably to Cas):

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Later in 14x12, Dean is able to drudge out his practices, heavy Big Goodbye speech to Sam, apologizing for their childhood and letting loose a lifetime of regrets. Indirectly, he's telling Sam he loves him. This is a pretty remarkable show of emotion, one that Dean will mirror with Mary during their cooking adventure.

Dean digs up his deepest emotions surrounding his history with Sam and opens up about them here:

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Donna:

In 14x11, with Mary and Donna, Dean is partially motivated to make use of the cabin, but he emotionally cannot resist including Donna is his goodbye tour.

They chat about relationships and kids over burgers.

Dean resists big emotional speeches with Donna. Despite her ditzy act, she's too astute.

But he is warm and physically affectionate--this is Dean's actual default when handling emotion he can actually bear to handle:

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Mary and Cas next...

#dean and emotions #spn 14x11 #spn 14x12 #dean's farewell tour #my takes #my meta #spn scripts #spn fambly #tfw dynamics

[kagoutiss]

So I am having SO MANY thoughts about the twinrova and how they’re a couple centuries old and so would’ve lived through multiple rulers before “serving” ganondorf.

Like they raised him, what was their agenda? Did they have plans spanning multiple sovereigns to secure their power over the gerudo? Did they have the Omni man “what’s another century we’ll just raise the next one” kind of feelings towards him if he didn’t become their puppet or weapon?

So much thot not enough brain space this rot is taking over me

ooooooogh twinrova brainrot is strong in me too…..yeah because if they’re ~400 years old and OoT ganondorf was still just in his twenties at the time, and a male gerudo child is born every century, then presumably they could’ve been in the position of raising said children multiple times? i think i remember seeing a take somewhere that considered the idea of twinrova’s role in the gerudo being similar to that of impa serving as an attendant/mentor to zelda, and i think that’s a really cool idea. there’s probably also a lot of potential angst to be found in these little old witches who may have cared for previous gerudo princes, and would have had the incredible responsibility of keeping them safe in childhood, while also training them in witchcraft and war strategy, and advising them in their kingship as adults. because if that’s the case, they would’ve seen those princes live and die multiple times too

it kinda makes you wonder if their love for ganondorf is so obsessive in part because they know firsthand how painful it is to lose a child, to live long enough to outlive to your children multiple times. tbh, i feel like them using ganondorf as their proxy for everything, and trying to make him an all-powerful being at any cost, is more a product of their love for him, than it is a litmus test of whether they‘ll love him or not? and by this i don’t mean they’re like,,, a healthy family by any means, like you can still easily apply terms like abuse and trauma-bonding to parts of their dynamic, imo. i think kotake & koume love ganondorf genuinely, and always have, and that the sentiment is mutual. it’s just that they’re willing to go to very extreme lengths to protect/empower ganon in the ways they believe are necessary, because they are very aware of how important he is, to them and the gerudo as a whole. and ironically, a lot of the time, this desperation ends up being not at all conducive to his safety, or sanity, or happiness

like…raising him with expectations and standards that are completely unreasonable for any human being, that turn him into an ambition-driven nutjob who invents lightning magic & masters all types of weaponry & plays a pipe organ, while also having virtually no ability to form genuine relationships with people other than his mothers. or them trying to make him into an impervious, all-powerful being by trying to take divine power, which sometimes inadvertently turns the rational parts of his brain into soup and sets them on fire. or them trying to revive him after death in the downfall timeline by sacrificing themselves, inadvertently bringing him back wrong, and sentencing him to an existence he never would’ve originally wanted

idk. they’re really fun and also heartbreaking to think about. he engraves their names into his weapons, they willfully die just for the possibility of allowing him to live again. their familial relationship seems to be the most important bond in the lives of everyone involved in it, at the expense of any other kind of connections in their lives. he’s their figurative puppet in a few ways, and will break himself over and over if it means meeting their expectations, but i doubt any of them see it that way. everyone involved gets extremely hurt in one way or another, no matter what, often in an attempt to do the opposite, out of love and fear. little fucked up witch fambly……it’s so much

#ask #twinrova #koume #kotake #ganondorf #thank u anon i got thinking about them again……..aauuugh (wails)

[thatoneluckybee]

and finally some (platonic or romantic up to you) saranzu for the soul

#i like them platonic but i can see why they’re shipped i love the dynamic #fambles #all nankidai sketches btw!!!! #sara chidouin #saranzu #anzu kinashi #your turn to die #yttd #nankidai sketches

[crimeronan]

Just curious but who of the adults would you want to adopt Hunter?

ultimately darius but the thing is i believe in polycule shipping people in every piece of media i ever interact with ever. so my ultimate endgame is eda, raine, darius, camila, and potentially alador all tangled in an ephemeral multifaceted relationship that involves cohabitation for the kids & in which they're all on the verge of killing each other all the time. that is the funniest and best endgame for hunter imo 🥰

#i just think the adults in toh all have such funny and interesting dynamics together that it's a Waste not to make them share space #replies #toh #toh fambly #hunter toh #darius deamonne

[rising-volteccers]

HZ035 thoughts and spoilers under the cut.

Man, I really missed this crew! It's fun to see the more realistic aspects of running an airship, namely that they have to be mindful that they have funds and at all times. Seeing Liko and Ann interact warms my heart, as well as the glimpse in how Liko attends her classes! It seems she has to make a presentation about bonds, thus turning her to look at Friede and Cap as a prime example.

Speaking of these two, it's so fun to see their dynamic! For all they trust each other, they also clash from time to time. Somehow it's even funnier than Cap's weakness is apparently being allergic to the word cute. This Pikachu can go toe to toe with a lot of foes but call him cute and he's sneezing too much to be a threat. Hopefully the Explorers don't figure this particular weakness out haha!

Roy and Liko stepping up to help Cap is so nice to see! This group is FAMBLY and they look out for one another! I do love seeing Friede's professor side peeking out again. Seeing his strong bond with Cap that they know to pretend to have a fight so Cap can leave quietly just made me smile. Despite them butting heads, ultimately these two have a solid bond where they trust one another!

Man this scene made me smile so widely! I love these two so much! Definitely keeping this at the back of my mind for future fics hehe

All in all, an episode that I enjoy!

#Pokemon Horizons #Anipoke spoilers #Pokeani spoilers #Hana speaks