Người ta luôn chăm chỉ, nỗ lực để cho con có một tương lai tốt nhất nhưng lại quên cố gắng, nỗ lực để cho con có một tuổi thơ đẹp nhất. Tương lai quan trọng, nhưng tuổi thơ của con quan trọng hơn.
"Tuổi thơ là nơi cất giữ những hồi ức tháng năm tươi đẹp của mọi thế hệ" và "Đời sẽ dịu dàng hơn biết mấy nếu tuổi thơ là hạnh phúc". Ký ức tuổi thơ hạnh phúc chính là điểm tựa vững chắc, là niềm khích lệ lớn lao để mỗi người hướng tới thành công, tới những điều ý nghĩa, tốt đẹp trong cuộc đời.
Đừng biến tuổi thơ của con chỉ gói gọn trong chiếc màn hình điện thoại và 2 chữ “học tập”. Hãy dành thật nhiều thời gian bên con, tổ chức cho con thật nhiều thật nhiều chuyến khám phá, trãi nghiệm thế giới xung quanh. Nếu con có một tương lai “tươi sáng” theo định nghĩa của người lớn nhưng trong ký ức tuổi thơ lại thiếu vắng đi sự hiện diện của bố mẹ thì cũng chẳng còn ý nghĩa gì nữa!
When Danny decides to reincarnate, centuries after his adventures, he chooses a random Dimension of Heroes and Villains.
He's expecting adventure! Heroics! A life worth bragging about in the Afterlife!
He wakes up in a tube, staring down at surprised teen heroes as they release him and another person.
Later, he finds out that he's a clone of Batman and Superman, and the other clone is of Superman and Lex Luthor.
He came into this world expecting adventures, not a weird custody battle about him and his brother (because that's what Conner is) between two A-List superheroes.
i love your riddle design so much, he's so pointy and british. so gracious. do you think he would enjoy a brazilian goiabada
thank you! ❤️🖤❤️ it's just. important to me on a level I can't explain that Riddle have an extremely pointy nose that he can stick into everyone else's business.
also goiabada is sweet and fruity and red, I think he would like it very much indeed!
not me stealth-editing because I forgot his antenna whoops
Really fucked up that, when they’re young, Patrick and Art are SO tactile with each other, so comfortable sharing the same space. Art lets Patrick touch him and move him and physically overwhelm him and easily acquiesces to it, if not outright enjoys it.
Then in the present, they’ve been so far out of each other’s orbit for so long, held such animosity that when they have their moment alone in the sauna, Art physically recoils from Patrick’s close proximity! It’s so painful to watch because even as Patrick’s goading him, it’s so obvious he wants to be able to get back into Art’s space. But Art has erected all these walls around himself, he refuses to give Patrick an inch or even admit to missing how close they used to be!
AND THEN we see Art and Tashi later and he wants her to hold him, to be gentle with him, and just TOUCH him. Like, he does miss that kind of close physical contact! He either doesn’t know how to ask for it or is uncomfortable being that openly vulnerable. Worth noting that he pretty much always defers to Tashi in regard to initiating physical intimacy (with their first kiss, though he does state his desire, SHE has to be the one to make the first move). And it seems pretty obvious that Tashi herself isn’t comfortable providing that intimacy, whereas Patrick actively seeks to provide it (the hug/forehead kiss after their win together in the early years, dragging the stool closer to him).
Art has tried very hard to act like he doesn’t need physical affection and even though his discipline and devotion to Tashi has made him a stronger tennis player, it’s made him a hollow person, which, in turn, has kept him from becoming a GREAT tennis player.
All of this, of course, is why the ending hits so damn hard.
A sketch of Replica Leo immediately after his EPF Interview in this scene, but before being reunited with his brothers here. I hope to dive more into the fallout of such a defining moment in Leo's young life and how it would go on to affect him once I get my Patreon up. In the meantime. Enjoy the little angsty sneak peek.