#they just call each other cousins

[spookberry]

one pun name is a coincidence, seven though....

#monster high #danny phantom #half normie au #comic #my art #idk im back at it #i wanted to draw something simple cuz im sick and this is what came to mind #in half normie au the Wolf family arent actually tucker's cousins #they just call each other cousins #kinda like danielle is actually a clone and just says shes danny's cousin #except the wolfs are just old family friends who have reached cousin status

[adios-gatos]

i show my love for things via ocs

bonnies based on electric mayhem from the muppets but also very vaguely dolly parton :3

#welcome home #welcome home arg #welcome home oc #i saw the lil music guy concept art [that i dont think is canon?] but i like to think theyre cousins #or rather they call each other cuz and no one actually knows if theyre related or if its just a nickname #3-28-23

[pansear-doodles]

#sadly i did not grow up with the papa louie games #i fucking love games where you get to customize shit and or own a pet #but sometimes i just play flash games that were cutesy and or pleasing to look at #i didnt like games where it has membership on it because it was so limiting to me as a child and i was poor #so i was very spotty with club penguin animal jam and moshi monsters but i still played them at some points nonetheless #for the multiplayer ones i would often play them with my cousin we would all sit on the same computer butting each others heads #newgrounds was too inappropriate for us at the time so i didnt grow up with that. just flash games found in a website called y8 and y3 #i miss the facebook games so dearly. happy pets was destroyed to the ground by corporate greed and laziness. #horror shooter and generally gory games disturb me as a child. i would rather look for games with cute and easy going themes #anyway ill be surprised if theres someone out there who has played all of these games.

[kouhaiofcolor]

I really miss the natural hair community & watching natural hair content generally. That was so good for Black Women; we were thriving at it, too. And as rapidly as it rose to popularity, it’s crazy how dead the whole concept is now. I think it had more to do w all the division created over routines around maintenance than anything else. Everybody was entirely too pushy w trying to make what worked for them personally a staple for taking care of textured hair in general — & that shit walked so that colorism, featurism, texturism & misogynoir could run. Now the same ppl who was riding the wave a few years ago & swearing by all these products, brands, sponsors, wash day & styling methods have put natural hair away as a concept entirely.

Also, why the hell did we waste all that energy prefacing everything w, “Stop doing this and do these things for your hair to grow to tailbone length overnight🤡” — just to go right back to weave and perms? All that researching for what? All the dedication to disproving antiblack/misogynoir notions about Black hair for what? All the redefining of protective styles for what? All the trying to unlearn the belief structures around the colonization of Black hair for what? What did we teach ourselves fr? How did we make things any easier for Black Women and little Black girls? It’s tragic af. The Natural Hair Community/Movement is dead, it seems like. I don’t think we fought hard enough to prevent what happened to it honestly :\

#this isn’t to call out or demoralize weave or perms or anything like that either #I don’t think there’s anything wrong w black women doing any of that #but on the flip side I do kind of feel like #maybe weave is a bit of a crutch for us? #even w an understanding of it being a conditioning via white supremacy & antiblackness #I just don’t understand why it was smothered as a movement #& why black women seem to have like…. kind of just rolled over with it? #it was legitimately good for us before everyone else went to bandwagoning for relevance #and I get that too #but I still feel like we did a poor job at defending & teaching each other first & foremost #non black people definitely got in the way of that #but we also got in each other’s way ourselves #everyone I used to be subscribed to on yt for natural hair content stepped away from it #even those w natural hair grown & maintained beyond their waist or whatnot #the switch right back to unhealthy means of taking care of textured hair was flipped so easily #it just saddens me cus we were working at doing better #esteeming ourselves #our nieces #our daughters #our female cousins and mothers and aunties about the way we take care of our hair #and fell just short of actually taking something tangible from it #it wasn’t about having longer hair #it was about giving textured hair representation in ways it mattered #we were so driven in this & it was beautiful #there is no movement or dedication to this in 2024 tho #proud of black women who were independent thinkers & didn’t fall off w all the chaos #them trends had ppl clambering all over each other #& it ultimately killed the movement #nowadays you don’t even hear from the non black women who were vulturing for clout #i be floored w how sparse any content true to the hash tags are anymore

[pansyfemme]

my first social media was actually wattpad tho. i was a big fan of the ‘art book’ and roleplay community on wattpad. had twenty followers and felt insanely powerful

#like i didnt go there to read fanfiction #i would either post my drawings as images like. one each chapter and look at others #or roleplay in the comments of other people’s books #people often call wattpad ‘a fanfiction website’ but i don’t really think thats accurate #like people were so fucking creative with it #its not a wonder i ended up preferring blogging to other social media its in my roots. i love a public diary what can i say #i was never a deviantart or pinterest user but tried to be and failed over and over again #i just couldnt get into it #i had an instagram briefly age 12 after my cousins insisted but i deleted it quickly #and didn’t get a new one until i was like 16 lol i dont give a fuck about that app #tiktok i got during quarentine and hate but wont delete bc i love the vegan cooking videos so much #(and the pencil case tours) #i post to both ig and tiktok but my hearts not in it it feels wrong

[sashimiyas]

isagi’s hackles raise if any one of his friends calls you by your name. bc who the fuck are you to them? you’re his girl. say it how it is.

#reinas.inretrograde #bachira sits down and asks ‘how’s y/n?’ and isagi chokes before glaring at him. ‘do you mean My Girl? #anyways this is bc of you roma. i will always be thinking about this #he gets so sussed out. texts you immediately asking why bachira’s calling you by your name and you’re like ???? bc it’s my name???? #also i wish ‘heart’ as a petname read cuter. maybe it’s just a me thing. bc i think heart as yours and isagi’s pet names would be so fitting #my cousin and her husband call each other heart. like heart ko (my heart) but i feel like it sounds better in the filipino accent #i’m gonna play with it #also thanks for the congratulations guys! i will respond hopefully either during the road trip or tomorrow night if i’m not too tired! #i’m not ignoring anyone! i’ve just had. another day of life to live!

[mugentakeda]

this is how i think azula is with lu ten

#the ancient sibling tradition of calling each other ugly for no reason #azula: (deep sigh) lu ten: What Now. azula: im just so sad. because my cousin is so ugly. lu ten: Oh wow

[as-salty-as-the-sea]

*throws my headcanon at you and ducks away*

idk what my thought process was behind this other than they were both redheads and had songs about love and stuff (*ﾟ益ﾟ)ゞ

i think that since jack didn't have a lot of friends growing up due to night swan's protection, the only people he could see were his relatives and since the bride was a similar age to him they hit it off.

i have a few more hcs below the cut, and feel free to add ur own too i'd love to check them out (*・ε・*)

- they're both pretty popular in the danceverse and would regularly shout each other out and start fake beef lolol

- when they were younger, they would do each other's makeup with night swan's makeup lol

- when it was out that the bride was going through her divorce with the rasputin coach, jack was the first one to comfort her (and also talk tons of smack about rasputin)

- they like to make fun of each other's fashion a lot, but are secretly very influenced by each other

#just dance #just dance 2023 #jd jack rose #jd the bride #jd locked out of heaven #jd sweet but psycho #just dance fanart #digital art #sorry if they look more like siblings than cousins i got really lazy with picking colors lol #it was like 2am when i did this 😭😭 #anyways is anyone else annoyed that she's called 'the bride' #i kinda get why the jd team would call her that #since she's been a reoccuring character #and probably a lot of pressure to name her #but ye its a little annoying referring to her as 'the bride' #is she even a bride anymore? since she got divorced lol #deep jd thoughts #anyways people who make hcs of jd characters' relationships who've originally had nothing to do with each other are rlly cool #and i think we as a society should keep doing that #saltydraws

[sherlokiness]

"Half brothers," Jon corrected.

And

"Our half brother," Sansa corrected, soft and precise.

I'm glad Jon and Sansa correct other people about this because it's really gonna be useful when they get married and someone accuses them of incest. They're cousins, so technically it's not incest.

#anyway #pretty sure they treated each other as cousins very early on #like you don't see Jon calling Sansa his little sister #ever #like he does with arya #loves each other as part of the family #but not like siblings #just like cousins #jonsa

[emile-hides]

I’m so obsessed with the Mario family and while I’m a very hard Uncle Tony stan I’m also insanely obsessed with Auntie Marie and her daughter. I want to know all about them.

#Mario Movie #I know I know she's called Mario and Luigi's 'Neice' but come on #This is a family of 9 we have two different full group scenes with them #there's no way there's a 10th family member we haven't seen who's this kid's parents #And she looks a LOT like Marie brown eyes and lighter reddish hair than everyone else's dark brown #She's their cousin but she's like 11 years younger than them so she's more like a niece do you understand #I've been calling her Louisianna in reference to their Super Show cousin Marianna #Because we already have too many Ma names in this family lets get another Lou #I would also be down for calling her Marilyn sense that's their Niece from the super Show #Whatever whatever I just adore them both to no end you don't understand #I'm also mental about the flower on the back of her hat is it a Daisy reference? Why?? #It's 4am I'm trying not to go too insane about this whole thing #I ALSO love Uncle Arthur btw don't get me wrong he's INCREDIBLE #I love the stupid lean he does at the beginning of the scene I want him to fall out of his chair #I love that he and Tony play off each other SO hard they're SO mean #idk how people thought Arthur and Pa Mario were twins when Tony and Arthur are Right There being clearly stupid close knit #This entire family is so funny never change and also tell me everything about you #Give me the Super Show reboot Nintendo I am BEGGING

[ambyandony]

" 'violence isn't the answer' listen buddy his question was 'are you some kind of d*ke' and the answer was im going to set your house on fire."

The Mascelle family is full of normal and very well-adjusted individuals who like to use their runt little brother's head as an armrest and embarrass him in front of his boyfriend

tiziano is mostly concerned about squalos mental well-being in relation to his upbringing

[ID: The minicomic features Squalo, Tiziano, and Squalo's elder sister (OC) Tigre, who resembles Squalo, although significantly taller; with short, messy hair, bangs sideswept to the right and stripes of darker colour going down to her nape; she has a stud nose piercing and two tiger-stripe-like marks on her cheek, and is wearing a athletic tee.

The first panel shows Squalo, looking offscreen with a slightly agitated looking expression, holding a red lighter and saying, "Tigre got in trouble fer tryn'a set the school on fire, so…".

The next panel shows someone snatching the lighter out of his hand, saying "gimme that", to which Squalo responds with a shout of "OI!!".

The third panel shows Tigre, rolling her eyes with a scowl, gesturing indignantly and repeating Squalo's words mockingly, " "Tryn'a".."

The fourth panel shows Tigre, deadpan, now holding a box of cigarettes alongside the lighter, saying "brother, i did set the school on fire."

The fifth panel shows Tigre, a cigarette now lit in her mouth, leaning one arm on a very annoyed Squalo's head, while her other hand grabs one of his, stopping him from trying to snatch the cigarette out of her mouth. She says, "An' I didn't "get in trouble", I got arrested.", whilst Squalo snaps, "Quit that, would'ja?!" (presumably referring to the smoking as he tries unsuccessfully to snatch the cigarette).

The sixth panel shows a bewildered-looking Tiziano, who, after a small pause of silence, asks, "how long ago was this?" o which Tigre, holding up two fingers and presumably leaning a bit harder on Squalo's head, replies, "age 13 and 19, it happened twice." Tiziano says, "dare i ask why?" and Tigre responds, "teach called me a d*ke". He asks, "both times?" and she responds "Nah, but tha' otha' time was along th' same lines still."

The final panel shows Squalo attempting to remove his sister's arm from his head, shouting, "GET OFF'A ME YER GETTIN' ASH IN MY HAIR!"]

#even the non stand user mascelles are dangerous #they dont need psychic powers theyll straight up hit you with a skillet throw your body in the ocean #they dont stop each other either theyre just like hang on give me five minutes before you kill him ill call cousin lampreda #golden wind #il vento d'oro #vento aureo #jjba fanart #jjba #jjba vento aureo #squatizi #jjba squalo #squalo and tiziano #tiziano #squalo #shitposting #memecomic #minicomic #tigre mascelle #amby draws #my art #the mascelle family #jjba oc #vento aureo oc

[swear2g-d]

finally reading a book my friends have been pushing me to read for years now and not one of them mentioned incest being a huge part of it

#am i just not refined enough to move past that #they're literally cousins. they call each other brother. like??? #also out of all the reviews i've read only like three of them mention it

[chandralia]

Dudebros think they can just slap the word “rivals” on bkdk and call it a title but it’s so much more complex than that. Even THEY don’t know wtf to call their relationship and neither of them fully understand wtf their feelings are towards the other. Anytime they’re asked about their relationship (whether it be in the manga or light novels) they either can’t give a straight answer or they settle for “childhood friends”. Whether it be platonic or romantic, their relationship is far too complex for a simple one word title and a lot of fans kinda refuse to delve into their relationship development out of fear of other fans thinking they ship the two. When in reality you truly can’t understand what’s happening in mha without understanding that the relationship between katsuki and izuku is not only extremely complicated from the readers standpoint but, also near inexplainable from their own POVs.

dudebros can say “rivals” but when we say rivals we mean it in a better more intellectual way sdhdhdhjdg

And yeah a permanent staple is “childhood friends” but beyond that?? none of these words (rivals, friends, classmates, acquaintances) hit the mark alone. EVEN BKDK WOULD THINK THAT. They’re dubbed as proper rivals, but idk… something about the obsession, the self-sacrificial tendencies, the fear of losing the other, the rage at the other’s pain, and the constant mimicry through admiration is A LOT ! (but because they’re two boys people put a cap on it)

antis know there’s more substance to bkdk’s dynamic, but they don’t like it, so they just say “Bakugo HATES Deku” because it’s easier.

#you show them important turning points in bkdk’s evolution and ask ‘what does this mean then?’ and without fail it’s always: #‘they’re just rivals it’s brotherly they’re just friends they hate each other they would do that for anyone they’re cousins actually’ #and it’s not just their dynamic being complex it’s usually someone’s blatant homophobia or refusal to acknowledge other perspectives #despite bkdks breaking it down in bite size peices and somehow getting headcanons and theories correct in the process #because oooo surprise surprise your life experiences can affect how you perceive media #so much subtext and nuance CAN go over someone’s head and that’s okay #but don’t call the people who ARE able to pick up on it delirious #WE’RE JUST AS SHOCKED AS THEY ARE #dhdkdhsjf #which is objectively WEIRD right???????? #out of all the ways to navigate/understand these characters… it’s shipping them that does it?? #which brings us back to Hori’s intention which is either he’s limited in what he can do with these two #OR we just got really really really lucky with guessing things correctly every single time #bkdk #dkbk #bakudeku #dekubaku #:’) #hehe

[feluka]

uhhh. cousin marriage tw?

i hate that cousin marriage is very encouraged here because as a kid i loved to hang out with my one cousin who's around my age and he was a really cool friend to me and we shared a music taste and loved to play together all the time and i always remembered him fondly until my parents casually dropped the fact that they were planning to make us get married when we were older and now every time i remember him i'm like 😐😐😐😐 literally all my memories with him are tarnished forever lmao

fortunately all my other cousins are very young so i don't have to worry about that. i love playing video games and doodling with them they're so much fun to hang out with :)

#arab parents are dedicated to never making you comfy with your relatives. they just gotta make it weird!! #i got 2 other cousins who are close to my age but we never see each other because they hate me lol #last time i saw them one of them broke my glasses in half and called me a bitch and that was that!

[bloody-wonder]

3, 4 and 7 for the ask x

thanks for the ask!📚

3. What’s something you read recently and wanted to argue with (either with the book or the author or the fans)?

buckle up for a good ol' book rant!

so the dreamhealers series - a cozy slice of life scifantasy story about two neurodivergent individuals forming a queerplatonic partnership - is, it turns out, the origin story of the characters which the author mca hogarth has conceived a long time before as side characters in a completely different arc in her peltedverse. i assume she started developing said arc when she was a teen and wrote the dreamhealers when she was already an adult. the result is two stories that tonally and structurally couldn't be more different but that both feature these two characters which naturally resulted in characterization consistency problems. you can't take a weird lil guy from a pastoral novel where everyone just vibes and put him into a high stakes high fantasy plot without it taking a toll on their personality. now, this is not a problem if you finish the dreamhealers and just stop after book 4, however comma goodreads shows that there's this novella following the last book and you assume it's gonna be some sort of cute epilogue and you pick it up and it turns out it's not that but rather a short backstory of the characters mca hogarth wrote for her high stakes arc BEFORE she wrote the full version of their backstory aka the dreamhealers. are you still following? anyways i read the novella and was appalled at how jarring the difference is between jahir and vasiht'h in the series and this novella which, if you read in the order i'm reading in, basically serves as a link between the dreamhealers and prince's game. on the one hand, it's cool to see how much mca hogarth grew as a writer and how much more nuanced and relatable she made her characters in the course of their development. but on the other, it made me have unpleasant ruminations about what is canon and what isn't. this novella feels like a retcon designed to make jahir and vasiht'h fit a new narrative. however, it was written before the dreamhealers - does that then make dreamhealers a retcon and not as canon? both things can't be canon bc jahir and vasiht'h in the series would never do things they do in the novella. which makes it feel like a fanfic written by someone who doesn't understand the source material.

phew did it feel good to get all of this off my chest! tl dr please read the dreamhealers but under no circumstances read "family"

4. What are your top 3 comfort reads?

to be completely honest i don't typically re-read books for comfort purposes. that's what fanfics are for!✨ the top 3 i used to re-read the most (but not in quite a while tho) are lessons (aftg), astray (captive prince) and this unfinished theseus/the minotaur fic which i believe was called asterius und which, as i was distraught to discover, had been privated by the author😭 such tasteful monsterfucking literature i have never known before or since

7. What book do you love but usually not recommend because it’s weird or intense, etc?

i love aftg but i will rather bleach my soul by reading that fandom's discourse again than recommend it to anyone. and to be clear, it's not bc i think the seires is weird or poorly written or not good enough for general audiences - it's bc no one is worthy of studying the sacred texts except for me and a couple other initiated intellectuals

book ask

#book tag #with comfort reads i need instant gratification that only my fave fanfics can provide #the family novella is wrong on many levels but ngl the aroace qpp stuff felt the most heinous to me #and i can't even be mad cause ik it's not bc the author suddenly changed her mind about them #on the contrary it's bc she wrote the prequel series later in her life #when she had better understanding of what aroaceness and qpp can look like #i was specifically irritated by them calling each other brother - and she improved on that too #vasiht'h says in dreamhearth they're the very best of friends closer than any brother or lover #and in dreamstorm he calls jahir my forever-friend #so she clearly gave some thought to more appropriate nomenclature lol #and jahir's thing with his cousin who he never mentions throughout the dreamhealers books is just. major ew vibes #and she improved on that too! #in the piano short story she found a very elegant way to make a point of him not really being aroace without being gross about it #but does all that improvement really matter if she published the other stuff and it's canon too? #at least make this novella not show as part of dreamhealers so that people aren't left with a sour taste in their mouth #all of this is aggravated by the novella's high rating bc i assume most people read it long ago #when the dreamhealers didn't exist yet and they had nothing to compare it to #but even so i think i would've disliked it #it just does feel like it was conceived by a teenager #who has like. weird kinks and notions #so i will probably not try prince's game any time soon #since it's tainted by bad!jahir and wrong!vasiht'h #but i do want to see an eldritch who fucks so ig my next stop in the peltedverse is earthrise

[theriverdalereviewer]

REALIZED SOMETHING CRAZY ABOUT MYSELF…

#so fun fact about me: i really don’t give a fuck about having friends like that #I mean I do mostly in the form of my cousins who I’ve grown up with #and a handful of people I’m friends with either through my sisters or that I have miraculously befriended myself #but in general I’m someone who rarely tries to maintain a close relationship with them #like if we drifted off and never spoke to each other again I don’t think I would gaf #which I know sounds psychotic but hear me out #ok since I was in elementary school I’ve had a series of weird friendships #in middle school there was this girl named patty who was my friend but the moment they called me their best friend I got freaked out #and was relieved when the friendship started to weaken naturally #and looking back I’m not sure why I was freaked out but I was #and then I also had my friend Alicia who I was genuinely besties with like we used to text everyday in the seventh grade #and then in eighth grade despite nothing changing we just grew apart and stopped talking to each other #oddly I don’t even know why #and even when we would hang out it wasn’t the same I wish I knew why #and in 8th grade I somehow became friends with a girl I used to despise 😭 #she who shall not be named was ‘popular’ I guess and honestly a huge fucking mean girl #but I think I liked the fact that she was nice to me cause it was pretty rare that she would be to anyone else #and we became friends but we very often butted heads #I mean what I liked was that she was kind and protective at times #and then other times a flat out mean and jealous psycho #anyways once high school was over I ✂️ her off like there was no tomorrow #like I had no interest in being her friend after that because I was just fed up with her #and yeah since my school days I have always just been okay with drifting apart #and don’t even bother to have a friendship breakup #like it doesn’t even make me sad to see a relationship fade away when it does #I’m just like good times :D but who gaf #and sometimes I disengage before the friendship has even broken up #like I’m also scared of the feeling of abandonment that I’ve already coached myself to be okay with the thought of losing them #AND I DONT KNOW WHERE THIS BEHAVIOR CAME FROM???