#WATCHING THEIR CHILD GROW UP

[lyralit]

heartbreak prompts off taylor swift lyrics

"they tell you that you're lucky but you're so confused, cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used" the lucky one

"you've got your demons and darling, they all look like me" sad beautiful tragic

"how long will it be cute? all this crying in my room?" nothing new

"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky...now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life." tolerate it

"no one knows how much I miss her" the very first night

"that's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend" Cornelia street

"how's your heart after breaking mine?" mr perfectly fine

"desperate people find faith" soon you'll get better

"if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?" death by a thousand cuts

"god rest my soul, I miss who I used to be" would've could've should've

"trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch" death by a thousand cuts

"I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye" I almost do

"won't let no one break your heart...and even though you want to, please try to never grow up" never grow up

"I guess sometimes we all get just what we wanted" midnight rain

"so I'll say words I don't believe" bigger than the whole sky

"all love ever does is break, and burn, and end." begin again

"just because you're clean don't mean you don't miss it" clean

"you drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleeding" cardigan

"I never was ready, so I watch you go" champagne problems

"I won't ask you to wait if you don't ask me to stay" tis the damn season

"wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days? always a bigger bed to climb into..." innocent

"I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it" all too well

"and I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home." my tears ricochet

"should've kept every grocery store receipt, cause every scrap of yo would be taken from me..." marjorie

"so I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep, and I'll watch you forget me like I used to feel you breathe..." last kiss

#LAST KISS #BUT IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PARENT #WATCHING THEIR CHILD GROW UP #AND MOVE AWAY #this is too much #writing prompts #lyralit #prompts #prompt list #Taylor swift #heartbreak prompts #song lyrics

[parvuls]

no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.

#omgcp #omgcheckplease #zimbits #watch me write this post as the into to my three part essay series: #Enough Talking About Bad Bob; Let's Talk About Growing Up As A Conventionally Unattractive Child Of A Model/Actress #I genuinely don't understand how ugly baby jack and fat teen jack aren't talked about more #do NOT tell me fatphobia did not affect jack's childhood. I simply do not believe it for a second #anyway zimbits are the true love blueprint they invented healthy relationships etc. etc. #meta #text

[despazito]

Idk I think if you're depicting any animal semi-seriously in media the least you can do for it is to try searching for some references in a natural setting. Especially in a medium like animation, referencing behavior is just as important as physiology. Sometimes the clearest photos of a species are in a very distressing context for the animal. Some people only know certain animals for how they look/behave under extreme stress. This is why I love camera trap footage so much as reference.

What I'm saying is if you're tasked with designing and animating an otter or a fox and your only videos referencing them in motion where captive pet videos I'm gonna be disappointed

You can tell when someone's put thought and effort into their depiction of a species, no amount of rigging or polygons can create believable animal behaviour*. Like to me the aristocats is a really cute movie because despite being anthropomorphized the kittens still behave like cute kittens!!

It's hard to find modern animation with great animal acting similar to Kahl's. It's either fully anthro movement or behaves like a dog, and I do think this oversaturation has some negative effects on our relationship with animals. Our society has become so based in narratives and stories and so many of our stories have misleading or fabricated beliefs about animals and how they behave

*except for that guy who made a program in C++ to simulate starling murmurations

#im not saying Ferdinand the bull is directly contributing to buffalo harassment in Yellowstone #but when youre not shown or told anything but Ferdinand and Babe you lose some flight instinct lol #when Ferdinand was created many Americans still lived on farms around animals #the joke is that bulls are aggressive and he isn't!!!! #a child born today could seriously grow up watching Ferdinand not knowing a real bull can fucking kill the shit out of you into adulthood #perhaps even parenthood

[lesbianspeedy]

BECOMING SCIENTIFICALLY UNETHICAL FOR GAY LOVE?? KIRA MANNING I KNOW WHICH AUNT IS YOUR FAVOURITE AND THAT BITCH IS FRENCH!!!

#orphan black echoes #orphan black spoilers #ob:e spoilers #ob echoes spoilers #on episode five #having a lot of feelings about a lot of things #do i think id enjoy this show if it was a standalone world? maybe not as much. #but it aint so im vibing! go kira go! #kira being like my childhood was literally ruined by human cloning and unethical science. but now im like 45 and bored so! #go you little slightly possessed child #in an unrelated thought #u think sarah felix and cosima watched kira grow up into a butch lesbian and were like. did we do this... #TYPING THIS AS I WATCH THE END OF THE EPISODE #NO!!! NO!! THE 'DO I KNOW YOU?' CAME #BACK TO BITE ME IN THE ASS NO!!! #I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT!!! #im going to throw up #i cant live like this #THE YEAR IS 2023 AND NEW ORPHAN BLACK CONTENT NOW HAS ME IN A CHOKEHOLD ARE WE SURE ITS NOT 2018 #OUGH

[subsequentibis]

having now seen the sea beast and some reactions to it: i think it is actually very important and meaningful that the story didn’t have maisie become like a sea monster biologist! i think it’s really important that they decided to simply stop interacting with the creatures at all and leave the deeper waters to them. i think people forget or aren’t aware of the ways science and scientific pursuit has propped up or been used as a justification for imperialism and expansionism and colonialism. it’s not a neutral profession or goal. of course for us, the audience, it would have been really fun and cool and interesting to learn more about the creatures and maybe even see humans bonding with them, but that’s really not in line with the message of the movie and it’s honestly refreshing that they went that route.

#ignore me #the sea beast #the sea beast spoilers #also the generational captaincy is a cycle of generational violence and trauma! so it's significant that they broke that! #it Means Something! #it's the difference between reformation and abolition and sometimes you just gotta destroy a system if it's harmful and helping no one #and also maisie is a child who's had to grow up way too fast so i think it's significant that she gets to just be a kid at the end #she gets to be Done and she gets to go to a nice home with a loving adoptive parent figure #GOOD FUCKIN MOVIE BTW WATCH IT

[obihoe]

naruto people need to become a bit more creative w their dreams for the future at some point i think like it cant be that literally every child who wants to make something out of themselves only dreams of becoming hokage. how about being a weapons manufacturer. build huge fucking scythes and kunais and other cool ninja shit. become a teacher. a trainer for magical animals. something like that. like something thats actually cool sgsgsgs and there cannot be 50 hokage per generation anyway

#posts #naruto #i mean i guess it makes sense since youre raised to admire the hokage #so every child grows up thinking this is the highest goal u can reach #and its ur duty to protect ur people etc. these tags are becoming too serious for the silliness of this post sgsgsfs #but im watching the tsunade retrieval arc rn and she was thinking abt nawaki and dan and like both of them #Of Course they also dreamt abt becoming hokage lol. like both of them #and its treated as such an honourable goal like the characters with honorable aspirations are always connected to the hokage dream #how abt coming up with something new for once LOL #u know who had the correct goal? shikamaru #i dont like him so much but his plan for the future was literally just to be some guy who is chilling #a ninja who goes on missions and looks at the sky and just chills #THATS a good goal. lol

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’ #i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be

[toastybugguy]

“Once I had a child He was wilder than moonlight He could do it all Like he'd been here before” — Vashti Bunyan, “Here Before”

For @scottappreciation’s Scott McCall Week 2023 — Day Four: Relationships

#I GOT IT DONE !!! #had to do mama McCall for day four #and also add my fave mother-child song. go listen to it rn it’s so soft and beautiful #looking at this makes me so happy #this felt semi personal to make bc they remind me a lot of me and my mom at times so. augh they just give me all those good warm feels !! #watching her boy grow up.. #more of me projecting onto trans Scott because it just fits SO well #also I FINALLY GOT TO DRAW MELISSA LETS GOOOO i love you melissa mccall you’re one of the moms ever #teen wolf #scott mccall #scottmccallweek23 #melissa mccall #trans scott mccall #teen wolf fanart #fanart #toastytag

[jasontoddssuper]

This fandom topic is very important to me and infuriating with how it's discussed as an irl person who's got tons of younger friends that they refer to siblings as with eachother and play a parent part to because a lot of them have or had abusive parents-Wether it's shipping the first kind or calling the second pr*ship,y'all are both wrong and dumb as hell.You've never had this type of dynamic with someone in your life,you're not the expert on it you think you are💀The difference is that one's an adult and someone who's either a child compared to them or an actual one and the other is two kids who're two tears apart tops and it's so deeply unserious to act like they're equivalents because something something a teen being mature for their age means they're actually an adult and this is A Progressive Mentality Ackstually.Go OUTSIDE‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

#'B-BUT JASON/GUS IS AN ADULT NOW AND PERCY ISN'T MUCH OLDER THAN NICO!!!'1.dick and hunter watched them grow up and helped raise them #and 2.literally the last time we saw percy in the current canon timeline she was 18-read:an ADULT and nico's was at 15-read:a CHILD #keep your weird little fantasies out of children's media(and yes wfa specifically is children's media and most batman comics are all ages) #antiproship #antijaydick #antiguster #antipercico #punkflower #legitallurance #kataang #dick grayson #jason todd #hunter noceda-deammone #gus porter #percy jackson #nico di angelo #miles morales #hobie brown #allura #lance vld #aang #katara #batfam #toh #pjo #spiderman #vld #atla geekery #all the characters in this are trans and autistic + percy and dick are transfem specifically(hence the she/her pronouns for percy) #letters from summer

[softboiledwonderland]

So, has anyone survived reading about Nobby in Night Watch with their heart intact or? Asking for a friend

#he's thinking of becoming a soldier IF he grows up #and his dad was once sober for two days together and made him toy soldiers #and he's the same cheeky grimy little rascal of indeterminate species!!! that we love!!! #only he's a CHILD and he's crying and vimes gave him a spoon to have as his very own #nobby nobbs #I can't believe what this book is doing to me #night watch #terry pratchett #discworld

[perenlop]

looking at wc excerpts is so exhausting bc ill hear secondhand stuff from the fandom about female characters and their situations and go “wow i kinda hope she interacts with this other female character, i think they’d get along really well” and then i do find excerpts where they interact and they hate each other because the erins will scream and die before letting two grown unrelated female characters have a nice interaction post omen of the stars apparently

#like even the ones that DO get along inevitably get boy drama at some point #anyways. wtf dovewing and tawnypelt should be friends not tawnypelt hating her for being an outsider who stole her baby #sparkpelt and twigbranch should be really close given she watched her grow up and saved her life and defended her all the time #not sparkpelt just arbitrarily hating her and being antagonistic towards her for the sake of contrived conflict to make alderheart look good #brackenwing should be sympathetic to and care about palebird when her mate is antagonizing her and their child while she has ppd #not mocking her for naming her dead child #like apparently bristlefrost and spotfur got along but do they even count when they also had petty boy drama #why does everyone in this series have to be so mean to each other even within their own clans like why cant anyone have friends #or even friends that last beyond one or two books #echoed voice

[katiebell]

Gideon killing crux, who was so cruel to her, and having a breakdown over the revenge not feeling good broke me btw

#gideon nav #tlt spoilers #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #forget all the stuff with harrow. that awful fuck was so abusive and watching Gideon find out you can’t take that pain away… #oh I’m howling she didn’t fucking deserve that #the way she tried to drag some… repentance out of him by throwing in his face that she’s literally the child of god and he still called her #worthless ohhhh im so sick. she believes it she believes she’s worthless and this was the one thing she learned about herself she staunchly #believes finally has some worth - finally would change how she was treated growing up - and that worthless worm throws it right back to her #face AUGHHH #he didn’t even give her the grace of the fantasy of ‘they would respect me if they knew. they’re REGRET it if they knew’. TAMSYN MUIR IM GON #NA GET YOU

[theotherrichardpapen]

there being next to no established canon backstory for basically anyone in this film is tonnes of fun cause you can say stuff like 'i think nigel had a brother he accidentally killed when they were both children' and there's nothing to dispute it

#who's to say otherwise? greg? HA! you can gaslight that man into believing whatever you want he understands so little of his own film #coming up with my own reasons as to why his father dislikes him so much #like minds #nigel colbie #like minds 2006 #originally when i wrote this it was younger brother but now i'm like . older? i mean there's something to be said #about the idea of the older brother .the protector . being responsible for the death of the younger one #but then i started thinking along the lines of a baldr loki sort of situation. where the older one is the golden child #so perfect and pure and bright #and the younger has something irrefutably wrong with them. they're wicked and rotten and wrong #and they end up being responsible for the death of the child beloved by both their parents #and from there the resentment festers and grows #maybe john should've taken better care to make sure his guns were always locked away properly #maybe it wasn't as much of an accident as nigel led them all to believe #anyway .watch someone jump in and point directly to canon info that refutes this . i have not watched the film in awhile

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[piosplayhouse]

Actually all my other svsss characters in mdzs universe thoughts pale in comparison to the truth: if Shen Yuan was in mdzs he would sit Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian down for a 4 hour long lecture about how much women struggle on a daily basis and how Jiang Yanli deserves a 2 month long spa break and weekly therapy sessions

#when i read this back it FEELS like im making sy out to be a better person than he is but to be honest. i do think he would see jyl for who #she is (traumatized parentified child) and he would be PISSED about it #he has the benefit of being a pampered younger child who has had to grow up and reflect on how much elder sibling figures try #through watching qijiu's story #and he also had a part in raising 2 girls (nyy and his sister) who he tbh just wants to be happy #so yeah. i do think shen yuan is a good guy . that doesnt erase how hes also super cringe though dont worry guys #svsss #scumbag self saving system #mdzs #sqq #shen qingqiu #mxtx crossover #scum villain's self saving system #mo dao zu shi

[himbeaux-on-ice]

hot take, heavily penalizing teenagers for causing each other head injuries, even unintentionally, is good, actually, and the nhl could stand to take a page from the iihf book on the way that standard is upheld (for all ages).

“how are you gonna prepare them for the nhl if the rules are different?!” this is not an nhl run event. this is not the george parros department of player safety or the gary bettman league. this is not the ‘nhl prospect practice and preparation tournament’, this is the world junior hockey championship. it is its own entity unto itself and for its own ends, it is not just a stepping stone for your favourite budding superstars to gain prestige and fanfare before they move on to the only “big league” that north american hockey fans consider significant or meaningful. it plays a larger role in the development of not only players, but also of entire hockey training programs in countries where hockey, even men’s hockey, is an under-funded or less established sport.

not all of these kids are going to go on to be nhl players. ALL of them should get the chance to grow up to be adults who don’t have their quality of life degraded by lingering head injuries and cte.

miss me with your tough guy bullshit. good grief.

#if you start being dumb on this post I will turn reblogs off #i coach a sport where we’ve also had to wrestle with increased awareness of head injuries #and how that changes our procedures and gear #I was an athlete in our no-helmet era and I am a coach in our helmet era now. I have seen both sides #I have sat at the center and in both sides of the helmet debate within my own sport. I have taken the education modules. #I have seen my friends get severe concussions right in front of me as a teen and the effects of that #I have sat watch on a concussed child as an adult. waking her every three hours. to make sure *she could still wake up* #every head strike is a potentially irreversible injury. brain cells don’t grow back no matter how macho you are. get a fucking grip. #world junior hockey championship #world juniors