#tough mothers

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Blue Book Stack

I was able to go through my books today and get all of my blue books for a book stack! I love Sundays like this where I can just look at my books and realize what it is I actually have. Now, onto the books!

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (I have a hard cover copy in @just0nemorepage Traveling Book Project)

The Science of Sherlock Holmes by Stewart Ross

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kaus

Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson

Tough Mothers by Jason Porath

I've read most of these books, all of them good and wonderful. Which of these have you read? Did you enjoy them?

#blue book stack #blue books #books #booklr #book stack #the adventures of sherlock holmes #amelia unabridged #the phantom tollbooth #spinning silver #the science of sherlock holmes #ink amd bone #an absolutely remarkable thing #the shape of water #pan's labyrinth #arcanum unbounded #tough mothers #book talk

[readtilyoudie]

My mom was born in Kentucky in the 1940s. It was not a world with a place for women like her. She spent years trying to fit in—she was a cheerleader!—all the while suspecting that there was something different about her, that she was some sort of aberration. It wasn’t until she was in her thirties that she began to flourish. She eschewed the expectations put on her and started doing what she wanted to do. Before long, she had her own job; she was a published author; her art was gaining notice; she had become that intensely capable person I’ve described to you. Faced with a world with no place for her, she carved her own place out of granite. And at that moment, as all doors opened to her, she asked herself: What do I really want out of life? Who do I choose to be?

And she chose to be my mom.

She never looked back on that choice. But I did. I remember catching glimpses of the life she’d had before, of all that she’d put down to raise me and my brothers. I continually meditated on the magnitude of that choice, unable to hold it in my head. Had she been only half herself all this time? Had she pushed her own personality, her likes and dislikes, dreams and goals, to the side, just to give me the best life possible? Is that the sacrifice all mothers make? Is it worth it? Was I worth it? 

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs (Rejected Princesses) by Jason Porath

#book quote #tough mothers #amazing stories of history's mightiest matriarchs #rejected princesses #jason porath #history #nonfiction #feminism #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr

[alienssstufff]

posting Danganronpa to give you a lil scare and keep you on your toes

#stufffsart #kokichi ouma #komaeda nagito #Danganronpa #dr #super danganronpa 2 #new danganronpa v3 #sdr2 #ndrv3 #I forgor the red swirly thing on his shirt idc #mia sorry y’all been hard at work and taking care of my awful dr son #it’s tough out being a single mother

[annephibia]

it took me a bit to warm up to how childish fern is sometimes- shouldnt a full-fledged mage and young adult know better than to pout when something annoys her? but then i realized something important.

fern is childish because frieren treats her like a child.

and i dont mean she does it in a condescending way or that it discredits parts of fern's maturity, of course not. but when fern feels down and she starts pouting and giving people the silent treatment, frieren gives her whatever she asks for. buys her a good meal, snacks, goes for a walk. its how a parent would give in to their child and give them a toy to calm them down. and fern hasnt grown out of it because frieren hasnt stopped spoiling her like that.

#mother daughter of all time #sure fern is tough and smart and mature in a lot of ways #but also she was raised an only child w a mother figure whos inexperienced at parenting #its cuteee #sousou no frieren #frieren #fern #frieren beyond journey's end

[gjatheshroom]

doodle idea if you wanted! Yor and Anya dancing and Anya is standing on Yor's feet like a child would do with a parent!

Genius idea! When Spy Wars intro comes on :)

#anya forger #yor forger #mother daughter time on this tough times #spy x family fanart #spy x family #sxf #tippy toe dance

[rain-coat-killer]

Open up.

#all for one bnha #afo #yoichi shigaraki #my hero academia #mha #spoilers #technically #bnha 407 #my art #its tough being a single mother from birth in these trying times #also he killed so many rats and people to get those chips

[fluffypotatey]

I find it deeply aesthetically pleasing, character-wise, that Arthur and Merlin are both very much like their mothers, which is especially meaningful in Arthur's case since he's never known his mother beyond a single painfully brief meeting in "Sins of the Father."

Not only does Arthur look like Ygraine (which adds several layers to the clusterfuck of his and Uther's relationship) but it's clear that he takes after her temperament, too. Yes, he sometimes shows his father's temper, and yes, he does stupid things when he's in a temper, but unlike Uther, who literally took his prejudices to his grave and beyond, Arthur never stays mad at people, and he's overall a far more caring and kind person than his father, which is an interesting case of nature vs nurture.

And then on the other hand, we have Hunith, who told a mounted, armed brigand to go fuck himself, later fought another (also armed) brigand with a twig broom, harboured fugitives on multiple occasions, and raised an illegal magic child out of wedlock, and Merlin "Fuck the Police" Ambrosius, who got in a fistfight, got thrown in jail for the fistfight, called the prince a bitch to his face in a public market square, got in a second, armed fight all within his first 48 hours in Camelot, and then committed treason on a daily basis for the next 10+ years, compared to Balinor, who became a weird antisocial hermit that lived in a cave for twenty years.

couldn't have said it better myself bestie

also, there's a reason hunith and ygraine never met in the show. their dynamic duo would outshine everyone, they'd be unstoppable, untouchable, I FEEL ROBBED

#ahem anyway #yes they do take after their mothers and yes this does provide insight in how merlin and arthur complement one another #and like i just have such a soft heart at the thought of arthur wanting to know about his mother and asking the staff what he can #maybe he asks the older knights who treat him like a nephew they never had and one of the most common thing they'll say is #“ygraine was kind and cared for her people” #“ygraine was not one to abandon the needy when times got tough” #“ygraine saw her role as monarch as one of service and not greed for power” #and mini arthur internalized that shit i accept NO criticism #merlin was a total mama's boy as we all saw and she had him drinking that anarchy juice since he was small #hunith was merlin's first hero and fuck i'm crying #bye i'm too soft for this #bbc merlin #headcanons #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #hunith #ygraine #hunith & ygraine would have totally wreaked some shit if they ever met i assure you it is a CRIME (to me) THAT SUCH A DUO NEVER *gunshots*

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Looking back, I desperately wish the concept of non-binary gender was something I knew about when growing up. Like maybe I wouldn't have gone through such an intense "not like other girls" phase as a kid if I knew that "not like other girls" was a wider option.

#nonbinary #i was always the butchiest girl and preferred to spend time with dudes because then I was able to be tough #i was about as genderfucky as you could get away with in the boonies #wearing my one suit to all the dances and shit like that #so i didn't want to be a girl as it was defined for me #and did not want to become a woman like my mother #but I also knew I didn't want to be a dude either #i just wanted to be comfortably me #which i am still working on to this day #but anyway I wish that I could have started examining what the concept of nonbinary could mean for me much much earlier in life #queer #queer musings

[caitlynmeow]

Modern AU:

When Bela started going to university there was the inevitable question: “why here and not Cambridge or Harvard?”

Many excuses were used to answer the question, but the real answer is Alcina looking at her daughter (this is only done with close family like only Miranda and the other Lords) and saying “She couldn’t handle living on an hour and a half away campus, why do you think she can handle living abroad on her own?”

Because Bela tried. She even has a huge apartment near campus to stay in. She did move there, actually. But on the first night, she drove back to the castle because she felt very homesick and couldn’t possibly spend the night there.

Alcina is a no-pressure mom and also very indulging so she didn’t try to force Bela to tough it out and stay at the apartment. Because she was also having a hard time accepting that one of her babies was old enough to live on her own.

So if Bela feels better staying at home, then she stays at home.

Bela only stayed at the apartment during midterms and finals because she needed the extra time to study and be close to campus (during those times Cass would go with her because wants to keep her sister company and also have access to the university library and all the extra resources that she can use to excel even further in high school). But other than that Bela stayed at the castle and the driver would drive to and back from university every day.

#try as they might to act all tough and independent but they’re all clingy babies who can’t handle being away from their mother #they just can't sleep somewhere for long without their mother being there #and yes this applies for all of them #even cass needed a transition period because getting married doesn’t mean she’ll just move out of her house (she’s an idiot leave her alone #house dimitrescu #cassandra dimitrescu #resident evil village #daniela dimitrescu #resident evil 8 #bela dimitrescu #re8 #alcina dimitrescu #headcanon

[silverj0]

I made an updated version of my previous meme. New prediction for 3.3, Nahida adopts Scaramouche.

#tough I guess the family never started much with raiden either #nearly lost it when he called ei mother #anyway nahida help this poor boy #genshin impact #genshin memes #genshin spoilers #kind of #genshin impact spoilers #raiden shogun #nahida #kusanali #scaramouche #wanderer #yae miko #ei #my posts #memes

[molagboop]

I sketched a thing while I was up at an unreasonable hour.

#comic #raven beak #samus #samus aran #grey voice #old bird #metroid #metroid dread #she is three years old and just wanted to see Grey Voice #he's cool and tall #but the minute she enters the room BLAM there it is some motherfucker who's even TALLER than he is #it's tough when you're a kid and you're small and your parents died less than 2 months ago one of them right in front of you #she doesn't know if this stranger is nice like Grandpa Bird or of he's mean like the guy who ate her mother #and height is another thing he has in common with the purple pterodactyl! but he's not eating Grey Voice so he must be okay #anyways Samus likes Grey Voice because he smells nice and his robes are soft. he doesn't play with her often like Grandpa Bird does #but she'd like to change that. so she tries by putting in the effort herself. and she drags grandpa bird all over looking for him #she does this at least twice a week #chozo #unfortunately for Old Bird's ailing knees. but he tries his best. #i can only imagine the rest of their conversation #grey voice is gonna have a time explaining how he and old bird adopted this orphan kid off the side of the road like an abandoned puppy #meanwhile raven beak is giving him a hard time like 'ayy i thought you said you were sterile' #he's very interested in seeing how this develops #his gracious hosts aren't exactly getting any younger and they haven't been keeping up with their cardio #but they've got the gumption and he thinks they can pull it off. the kid making it long enough to leave the nest i mean.

[ransomdemands]

yknow sometimes the way trans women talk about testosterone and being on estrogen is indistinguishable from the way terfs try to convince afab people not to start hrt

this is not a criticism mind you, their experiences are their own and completely legitimate, it's just a matter of competing needs - they need a safe space to talk about their dysphoria and how testosterone makes them feel and i need to not hear about how i am destroying my body with hrt

ordinarily these things are pretty insular to transfem circles but since instagram has been feeding me transfem content i'm seeing it more and more and yet again the algorithm is fucking me

#ransomrambles #like a friend of mine in absolute genuineness told me how my skin was gonna stop being soft and my hair was gonna thin out #and she obviously wasn't trying to dissuade me from hrt .... but like ..... thanks for leading with that mate #with estrogen it's the - no downsides- people often say there aren't many downsides to taking e - save some erectile dysfunction #but when it's the other way it's - make sure you're really sure cause you're permanently ruining your body forever #like i get that - my skin feels so soft now - is an estrogen experience ..... but the reverse framing is not helping anyone here #that's just all you hear about testosterone hrt - a list of downsides you'll have to cope with #idk this isn't a fully constructed thought #like i said trans girls deserve the space to have that conversation #i just need to not be in that space cause it obviously hits me differently #but man the sheer volume of trans girls talking about the /damage/ t has done to them .... in dis tinguishable #the aside to this is also a lot of girls being like i realized i was a girl cause of xyzq #and the list is the same as the one my mother used to be like - see you must be a girl #so it's just tough #competing access needs are hard to manage #and that's why life is best on the curate your own experience webbed site

[carefulfears]

thinking about scully sitting on the floor of mulder’s apartment just holding him as he wept after his mother’s death and after she told him through tears that it’s time to stop. it’s time to stop looking for his sister.

and how she had already told him that once, seven years earlier, a month into their partnership, when she chased him out of a police station and told him to stop running after his sister because it won’t bring her back.

she called after him to just stop, because she’s the scientist, and that’s the logical conclusion that she had reached.

except later that night, he told her why he does it. that he’s been closing his eyes and walking into that room, thinking maybe, when he opens them, his sister will be there, since he was 12 years old. “every day” of his life.

and she never told him to stop again.

until seven years later, when she rocked him on the floor, and then the next day was asked “why do you want to bring all this back up now?” and answered, “someone owes it to mulder.”

so she started looking. she reopened files, she tracked down records, she went to his mother’s house to dig through the trash. she confronted CSM about what he knew, she flew to california, she held hands and prayed.

she looked at mulder and said “it hurts me to tell you this” and stayed steady in the truth anyway. she listened to him read to her about a 14-year-old girl’s pain, held his hand and told him to get some sleep. she stayed up, kept looking, and found it. “i got it, mulder. i couldn’t believe it when i saw it. it was like it was looking for me.”

the police report from when samantha ran away.

she read the hospital records, went to the home of the nurse who signed the intake report, asked him if he wanted her to go herself.

she left him by the car and walked up and knocked, asked about a patient in 1979. she listened as the nurse described how “you couldn’t forget her or how frightened she was. scared for her sweet life.” and the man who came for her, who wouldn’t put out his cigarette.

earlier the day before, she had been told to just stop. “word of advice, me to you: let it be. you know, there’s some wounds that are just too painful ever to be reopened.”

and she had responded, “this particular wound has never healed. and mulder deserves closure.”

after seven years, she knows now, that you can’t just stop chasing. she knows how heavy grief is, and she‘s seen the effects of carrying it alone. of walking into the worst night of your life every day, eyes closed, hopeful.

you can’t just stop, and you can’t really have closure, but you can help someone carry it.

and ultimately, that’s what made this the end of the road. sometimes the heaviest burden of grief is feeling that pain is all there is left of someone, and that alleviating it would be to abandon them.

scully’s right, this wound has never closed, but there’s freedom in shared remembrance and shared dedication. she doesn’t ask him to stop until he’s ready to know the truth, and she’s willing to find it. she doesn’t ask him to rest until it’s safe for him to, because it’s not forgetting samantha. she knows and she remembers.

#i’m having a tough week thank you all for your consideration #i forgot that that police report file just found her. god #these girls love mulder so much #they’re always working in tandem #it means so much esp with the death of his mother that someone else in the world just remembers #it’s mulder in the pilot saying ‘no one ever talked about it’ and how everyone just pretended she never existed #it’s the childhood photos that scully sees burnt in the trash #everyone tried to just erase her from existence so much that mulder had to dedicate his entire life to remembering her #but it’s lighter now #someone else knows #someone else knows that they spent their summers playing baseball and that they argued over the tv and that he’s looked for her #in every room that he has ever been in #someone else knows what happened to her and the horror that she suffered and how she wrote that they didn’t even treat her like a person #how she wrote that she just wishes she could see her brother’s face #sometimes that matters more than any reveal or any truth or any conspiracy #she’s going to be remembered and she’s going to be thought of and loved #even if he goes home and gets some sleep #even if he stops looking #txf.txt #closure #sein und zeit

[darkdragon768]

Meanwhile on Twitter:

Nintendo shares with us that there's currently running a Q&A with the Pikmin devs, they said 'next to looking cute they shall show some eeriness too' and added this drawing:

Yea, those pikmin for sure do not look cute.

Further on, someone added another quote stating that they watched some movie for inspiration and well...

That looks like a rather fucked up movie.

I guess this franchise is secretly a horror game. I mean, y'all remember this one dungeon in the second game?

#dragon's stupid thoughts #pikmin 4 #pikmin #I mean I'm all in for another dark game like majoras mask or twilight princess #or a masquerade game like mother 3 which has a colourful and happy seemingly pixelstyle but the story behind it being rather tough #or a more serious and 'mature' game like pokemon black (2) and white (2) #anyway I'm very excited and can't wait for Friday

[zappedbyzabka]

Thinking about how Laura was desperate and found an abusive man to help her and how Johnny did the very same thing.

#Like mother like son #I want to know more about her #Was she also a firecracker like her son? She did yell but that doesn’t necessarily mean she was. I wonder if she was more soft spoken #and Johnny saw her get walked all over. was like a mini version of her at 12 before meeting Kreese and realized he needed to be tough #Took him to a road that was half his mother’s mistakes and half his father’s #Anyway. looking at my Johnny never let the kick get to his ego and he became a rich wife with spoiled kids au #johnny lawrence

[cervidaecorpse]

It's raining men Velgearians.

#yugioh go rush #shitpost #myuda velgear #dinois velgear #zwijo zir velgear #yudias velgear #kuaidul velgear #a deer draws #was listening to the song and got struck by lightning (metaphorically speaking) #not only is the creator a shady *insert curse word* but he also lacked creativity after a while #but i suppose we've still got our “tall blond dark and lean” #“rough and tough and strong and mean” #...more or less #...wait would that mean the creator is mother nature? #he did “rearrange the sky” of sorts #what have i done? #great now i have to put a spoiler tag in this #yugioh go rush spoilers