#and fighting the mother obviously

[rosykims]

can confirm sigrun is so so so much funnier and more perfect when ur playing a warden who acts like this unironically. felt genuinely read to filth when she said this

#oc: elspeth #tay plays dao #i think sigrun helps elles come to terms with going back into the deep roads after the main game #for a few hours descending the knotwood - visibly dissassociating w stress - she comes too long enough to be like. annoyed #at this person who by all accounts has experienced exactly what she and other grim fucked up legionnaires have gone through #except shes still happy go lucky about everything???? #so shes like ok she must be new lol. BUT EVEN THEN SHES LIKE. HOW TF ARE YOU STILL LIKE. HAPPY LOL #i think the idea of someone not being afraid of the deep roads bc they actually take the legion's concept of Already Being Dead seriously #is SO interesting and helpful to her and she adopts the same sort of mindset as well. to cope #she looks to dwarven example a lot as a warden but esp this mission and then afterwards sealing up the tunnel in vigils keep #and fighting the mother obviously #anyway we as a collective are not stanning sigrun hard enough i love her so bad

[batcavescolony]

I feel like people aren't getting it. In. The. Books. Perseus. Jackson. Is. An. Unreliable. Narrator. This goes for everything he thinks. Percy loves his mother, so he writes her praises. In the show we get to see what Sally does from an outside POV not filtered through a child that idolizes his mother. It's not ooc for Sally to act like she does in the show. she's a single mother raising a neurodivergent, Demigod, and she's scared that when the Gods get to him they'll corrupt him. She's not suddenly a girl boss we're getting to see her for how she is.

#percy jackson #sally jackson #“sHe sToOd uP tO gABe sHe wOuLdnT dO tHat' she did it because percy needed to get to montock so she could tell him about how hes a demigod #sally as a character will do anything for her son. gabe being abusive doesnt negate what she needs to. do for her son. in in the book the #second gabe was no longer needed she turned him into a statue and sold him to to the highest bidder. she was putting up with the abuse for #percys sake. and this is then woman that grebbed a gun and started fighting in the battle of Manhattan. shes not weak. you can be two things #she can be motherly and strong. and obviously she has her douts. she thinks shes failing. she called posiden when it was too much and he #reassured her she was doing her best and she needs to do what she thinks is best. and we are only seeing some scenes #we're seeing whats relevant to the plot and whats relative is sally preparing Percy. and she obviously cares for her son and her son for her #she has to be a good mother cus percy is literally going to the underworld to save her. just stfu about the book #ive read the books to but some of you are awful. like no adaptation is to the letter. somethings had to be cut or glossed over and some are #changed because money or that a book is a different medium then a show or movie! you cant do everything cus its impossible. #were in a completely different pov. we're not in Percys head seeing his thoughts. #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #batcavescolony watches

[gerrydelano]

it's been like 10 hours and i am still thinking about gerry child experimentation canon. fuck my entire life

#r.txt #confirmed in tmagp which i do not listen to and will not listen to but i was Shown The Evidence #this also confirms that he's a candidate for DID in addition to his already extremely traumatic Rest Of Canon Story Don't Fight Me On It #because he would have been 7-11 years old #probably Closer to 11 though if he was one of the last ones experimented on before the institute burned down #so not DID forming but certainly contributing to the highly likely prior split! his mother is mary keay! he had baby trauma #almost never seen a character more likely to have DID than him and i have seen a good handful #now i'm just on my soapbox about how common DID actually is in our society given the huge prevalence of childhood trauma #anyway. this is the spiral i was sent on because of this new information #still won't be listening to the new thing but i can't resist objectively horrible facts about my poor fucking baby #they did the milgram experiment on him! and he scored low! because obviously! #empathy index 95%! baby!!!! #ugh. ugh! #the things this could have influenced in pbrrrrr. in TSP!!!! fuck! #if i really did just bring pbr back out of nowhere it'd fit right into the scene i was gonna do in the next chapter which is insane #uuuugh

[jackietaylorgf]

i literally wont stand for the dawniefication of callie. the most annoying character in yellowjackets??? multiple people saying they wish she didnt exist and they hate her and she's just in the way and they want her to die. are you insane?? she is a Child living in the shadow of her mom's dead best friend that she never knew because her she froze to death in the wilderness years before callie was born. she is a little girl whose entire world got fucked up because she found out her mom is a murderer and her dad is a (bad) blackmailer and now they've all been backed into trying to cover up a murder. her whole life just got upended against her will. of course shes going to lash out on her parents and break up with her high school boyfriend and lie about staying at a friend's house and go to a bar she's not supposed to be at and date an older man she's not supposed to be seeing. even if it's destructive it's something she can control! the comfortable boring Safe life she thought she had was ripped away from her so yeah she's doing reckless shit without thinking about the consequences bc that's all she Can do.

it's dawn summers being voted the most annoying character on television ever all over again. you people just hate teenage girls when they act like teenage girls.

#obviously i didnt watch buffy as it aired bc i was negative 3 years old but i was so shocked when i read that people Viscerally Hated dawn. #AND SHES JUST LIKE HER MOTHER. AND JUST LIKE JACKIE. #do you think teen shauna slept with jeff because she was a master manipulator who wanted to ruin jackie's life? NO. #she never intended for jackie to find out! she did it because things were changing and jackie was making decisions about her for her. #also the gay stuff. her desire for jackie runs so deep that she cant separate it from jealousy and she can't pinpoint what she wants etc. #not really my point rn. #so she fucked her boyfriend because thats a decision She could make about Her Own Life and Her Own Body. #i know headlines are supposed to be provocative but that one Is the most annoying. actually. #i didnt read the article bc the headline pissed me off too bad #dawn summers and callie sadecki i will live fight and die for you both. my best friends. #yellowjackets #callie #ri.txt

[maculategiraffe]

rereading flowers in the attic and it's actually way more shocking now than when I was a teen. I guess in that way where when you're a kid you're like "ah yes, the horrors, I am familiar" but when you're a grownup you reread narnia and go "good god aslan they're CHILDREN"

#books #for some reason as a child i was like 'well obviously their mother can't protect them from HER mother. you can't fight mom' #flowers in the attic

[taviacoolcat]

as much as i love fics or hcs where neil kicks ass, i also think it's so funny that he repeatedly states in canon that he's only good at picking fights and not winning them

#cat talks #we love you self aware king! #also i don't think neil is helpless in a fight but i think on the run he was obviously more worried about. running #plus he had his mother to protect him. so it makes sense to me! #aftg #neil josten #the foxhole court #my neil tag

[moe-broey]

THE MILFS ARE FIIIIIIIIIGHTINGGGGGGGGGG

#feh #and. sothis #i feel legally obligated to join henriette's team obviously #and you know as far as moms go henriette isn't bad! just a bit absent (obvs due to the nature of her position) #but also something that has always stuck w me about her is ..... there is something off. about her. #like i don't think she's a bad person or even a bad mom. she just seems like. she's hiding something. #i have always been equally put off and intrigued by her. #LIKE. OKAY ANOTHER THOUGHT i think i've voiced before but when sharena comes off as 'fake nice' #it doesn't FEEL fake. it feels overplayed and forced but it's so geniune actually. she is just fighting for her life #to pass a social interaction and make a new friend #meanwhile henriette's 'fake nice' feels like. she knows something all of us don't. she knows something that died w gustav. #she has always felt. foreboding. #also doesn't help though that i inherently distrust mother figures LMFAOOOOO #LIKE. coin flip between 'oh she's a good mom i'm gonna cry forever now' and setting off my fight or flight response LMFAO #no need to dig into that! #fe henriette #<- just for henriette thoughts

[the-redhead-in-a-dress]

La'an's Academy graduation is coming up. Una lets her know she'll be there.

[Sort of a sequel to a fic I'm writing about Una's Star Fleet graduation, but I had this scene in my head and it doesn't fit in the fic except as an addendum and so it is here]

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“It’s just graduation, I don't mind being by myself." La'an said, as if graduating top of your class was just another day.

The young woman watched as Una's immaculately preened brows furrowed in disagreement through the subspace call view screen.

“I’ll be there.” The older woman insisted.

“It’s fine Chief, I won't be the only one there alone. And really it's just a formality, Did you know you don't actually have to be there to receive your commission? If I wanted to I could just get a shuttle and get a head start on work instead."

Una sighed as memories surfaced in her mind of similar words flowing from her own mouth on a subspace call to Chris long ago. La'an was far too like her for her own good.

“Everybody needs somebody," Well now she was just copying Chris. "And I’ll be there for you." Una replied firmly. "Chris commandeered a shuttle and crossed the galaxy on unearned shore leave for mine. I can make it from spacedock at Starbase V.” 

“You’re serious?” La’an raised an eyebrow. "He did that?"

She had never met the man, but Una talked about Chris a lot when recounting her exploits in Star Fleet. La'an had assumed for a long time they were married, or at least in a very long and serious relationship, even if it wasn't necessarily monogamous, but Una had clarified some time ago that they were purely friends. La'an didn't exactly buy it, but had never directly questioned her mentor about her relationship. Maybe it would make more sense when she finally met the man in the flesh, Maybe he had a revolting smell or a furry tail?

“Mmmhmm.” Una pursed her lips, not looking up from the PADD in front of her as she looked up the best route back to Earth for La'an's graduation.

“He must have liked you a lot Chief.” La'an added softly, gently prying without really prying.

“He did.” The older woman agreed, but did not expand. “And I like you a lot," She added, looking up at La'an firmly, conveying her sincerity in her eyes. "So I’ll be there next Saturday, that’s a promise.” 

“Okay.” La’an couldn’t help but slip a smile on her face in response.

Una grinned back. “See you in a week.” 

Before then, she needed to comm Chris and ask him where exactly he’d managed to get that star necklace he’d given her for her graduation. She needed another one, ASAP. 

#st snw #star trek snw #la'an noonien singh #una chin riley #la'an x una #pikeone #pikeuna #chris pike #star fleet academy #Obviously read with your own lenses but the writer's view is #soft una x Chris romantic relationship and firm friendship #and a una x la'an mother/daughter relationship #una will fight for her babygirl #la'an is babygirl #chris pike/number one

[jmeldog]

“The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” Genesis 4:10

#duel masters #duema #duel masters 2019 #this mel's art #owie the edge #I love my sons “Cain and Abel parallels” #where’s the other half of the parallel…? oh he’s… y’know……. he’s doing fine probably. #they really put Cap Lastname through so many horrors and little man just kept pretending everything was okay #I still feel a little insane that like? no one knows his brother is dead? he didn’t tell them? like ??? ever?????? #like yannow your twin brother who is the only family you have besides a computer mother who made you for the sake of saving their world #your twin brother who you were born to be at odds with over what was the correct way to save your world #your twin brother who died to protect you from aforementioned computer mother trying to kill you #your twin brother who you obviously miss and never wanted to fight in the first place #you don’t need to tell anyone or cry on anyone’s shoulder about that I guess #I think the reason he got stupider and lost his depth in King anime was because of that sevenfold curse thing from God in the Bible tbh

[ambrozians]

jade being an example of how quickly the child sidekick idea can devolve into complete weaponization of a child and how that experience carries into adulthood is one of the reasons why she is a great narrative foil for the titans, particularly the fab five.

none of the fab five's mentors are perfect parents and/or teachers. each of them have made mistakes that have hurt their children but, at the end of the day, they love and care about them, and they are also fundamentally good people who want to see good in the world. meanwhile, wen chang saw a little girl whose goal was to survive by any means necessary and was terrified of being forced back into the life she escaped. instead of nurturing her and helping her to overcome her fear, he manipulated her and dehumanized her. wen might claim that he loves her but that "love" is warped because he feels as though her created her (cheshire, rather). anything or anyone who reminds her that she is, in fact, a person capable of emotion and all the things that come with humanity is a threat to his "creation".

#💭 #jade nguyen #if jade had better options at that age (or at any age for that matter) #she would not be in the situation she is today #but it was either go with wen and have food clothes shelter etc #or continue to go at it alone knowing that not even staying alive was guaranteed #roy knows this and that's why he'll never write her off as evil or beyond saving #obviously the nature of her interactions w/ the other titans is very different #but i think if they knew the story behind 'cheshire' and why she is the way that she is #i think they would begin to understand her more and why roy fights for her sm #apart from her being the mother of his kid lol

[gingerjolover]

You say you don’t have favorites but how do we know that you don’t? 🤔

Also I’m thinking of coming off anon but idkkk

hahahaha i wouldn’t say i have “favorites” but i have a core group of mutuals who i talk to a lot of the time! like during the day and off tumblr and stuff

if you’re more comfy you can always send me a message first! safe space here babies and of course there’s noooo pressure, whatever works for you <3

#anon cutie #i would love for you to come off anon #but you obviously have to want to #also it’s like does a real mother have favorites? #no? #maybe? #there’s a hierarchy maybe? #R is at the top because if I don’t put this in the tags she will literally fight me

[saving-people-haunting-things]

It's really interesting to contrast how tumblr fandom feels about Sam and Dean versus how Jared and Jensen do. I'm not talking about their opinions as the actors, really, but their perspectives as men who are Sam and Dean's age who would've grown up in a culture similar to them. Like, so many people on tumblr are frustrated by how Sam and Dean never talk about their feelings or how they aren't open about how much they love each other, while Jared and Jensen have both said that they think that Sam and Dean talk about their feelings and show affection for each other and it's a highlight of the show. A part of me wonders how much of that is just PR talk or them projecting, and how much of it is just that their perspective is probably very different from that of the younger tumblr crowd that tends to complain about the boys being "emotionally constipated."

It kind of makes me want to show my dad a couple episodes and ask him about it, but he's already told me he won't watch it because he's still butthurt that Jensen left Smallville to be on Supernatural which apparently ruined an arc that had been set up??? Idk, yeah.

#when you consider the type of masculine culture that they grew up in (the type that hunting very obviously embodies) #these guys are actually like super sappy lol #i think this also relates to the the whole ''on no they punch each other sometimes!'' debates that go on #where tumblr people are just so scandalized that they do that #when like some guys (not that it's right) just actually don't see it as a big deal #my grandfather and two of his brothers once got in a fight and punched a hole in the wall and their mother called it ''a little scuffle'' #it's just like a generational cultural difference i think and not enough people put sam and dean's actions into the context of what kind of #people they are and how they were raised #my commentary

[andorerso]

it's really too bad we didn't get a Maarva vs Cassian in the Andor fist fights

#i think it would have been interesting because would cass fight his mother? obviously not #but would he win theoretically? very much yes #and i think it would have been poetic for her to finally lose against her son #shut up sissi

[kyouka-supremacy]

Throwback to that time I was watching the anime for the first time and watched the last two episodes of season 3 with my mother on call because I was so excited about the sskk I just had to share it with someone, even if that someone didn't know absolutely anything about the rest of the plot

#For context she doesn't know anything about bsd and I spent the whole time explaining what was happening on screen #Also I was too excited and thought they would have dedicated two episodes to the sskk scenes from the cannibalism arc which... #They obviously didn't do so I had to explain my mother– #why this old man in traditional Japanese clothes was fighting a ghost of a little girl holding a giant needle #It was funny. We managed to watch ten minutes in total but I still appreciate the effort ahah #sskk #bsd #bsd s3 #mine #q. #05/07/22

[exquisiteagony]

obvs i’m still a finnish music rpf blog but i do have the asoiaf brainrot and have been writing little fics i never shared since like 2015 so

#currently rhaenyra having a girl who was her firstborn and lived despite visenya targ eating her namesakes from beyond the grave is my thin #atm #but also this visenya has so much wrong with her #got ‘the mark of the dragon’ red scaly birthmark in a world that celebrates female beauty. dragon dreams. blind in one eye #is sad and weepy until after she moves to dragonstone and finds og visenya’s witchcraft rooms #becomes super valyrian devout (probably involves self harm) and emotionless #engaged to aemond #then decides to do an aerea and go to valyria but she needs a mighty dragon so she has the insane idea of claiming cannibal #if it works she goes to valyria and gets infected with fireworms so gets cannibal to dump her in the first icy lake she finds to freeze the #then spends like six months in skagos before going home to marry #anyway aemond is the normal one in that marriage and it’s so funny because he’s so far from normal #also she’s an utter wire mother fight me on that #i speak! #but she loves helaena and so adores jaehaera. maybe gets her marriage to aegon 3 annulled and takes her to dragonstone to wed her to her so #and weds jaeharea to her son (who is obviously called maegor) #also after the greens lose aemond winds up becoming the embodiment of ‘yes honey’ to her in the hopes their marriage will save his life #she doesn’t give a shit about him tho she is just weirdly devotional to the valyrian gods and her son and his wife #basically she’s unhinged and no one is doing it like her and we love that for her #also shes definitely a manic alcoholic

[susandsnell]

Don’t talk to me about your blorbos’ obscurity when my blorbo doesn’t even canonically have a name 

#the moth diaries #that movie is not canon thank you for your understanding <3 #do i mean the moth diaries narrator or the second mrs de winter? #answer is yes #moth diaries narrator is the character Ever #obviously sapphic jewish girl grieving her mercurial father fighting her mother and struggling to find the line between vampires and madness #encompassing all the pettiness and ugliness and agony and joy of adolescence marred by grief #pretentious and yet so clearly a child #an outsider in a WASP school #an outsider even though she's popular and loved by her peers #viciously protective