#and keep her family by ACCEPTING it

[backjustforberena]

You know had Rhaenys wanted to, she could have started a war over her own claim. Corlys would have 100% backed his wife and they do have a fleet and dragons etc. But the fact that she didn’t shows her fundamental character imo.

#because she totally could have gone OFF #forget the great council #forget it all #it was her RIGHT #it was also something she'd been led to believe was hers from birth #she'd done everything right #she'd got an heir #she'd married a great lord #she was incredibly smart and political and has a dragon #literally called THE RED QUEEN #she has all this power #but to wage war... for what? #power? wealth? PRIDE? #rhaenys avoided war #because she would rather serve the realm by not BREAKING it #and keep her family by ACCEPTING it #urgh #feelings #rhaenys targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon

[hookechoes]

jj and spence reading a magazine together they are siblings your honor

#you know he was reading slower so she could keep up #criminal minds #jj jarreau #spencer reid #when my sister would go on the family computer and i would just watch her do stuff on the internet and vice versa...same hat #and no i do NOT accept the later season plotpoint of jj being in love with spencer as canon. thank you

[jilyandbambi]

so a Yellowjackets AU where mari says something to get herself kicked out of the cabin, and she dies of exposure and gets eaten at the bachanalian banquet instead of Jackie, who LIVES, who's there at Shauna's side when she goes into labor, stroking her hair and letting Shauna squeeze her hand hard enough to sprain her fingers, who keeps Shauna calm enough she has a (comparatively!!!!!!) easier delivery, who is the reason the(ir) baby lives.

who finally, after months of feeling adrift and useless because she’s not a hunter or a butcher or a prophet or a captain (anymore) finds her purpose in the wilderness. who painstaking sews patchwork baby onesies and cloth diapers from the girls' spare clothes (Offerings, not donations). who makes a baby sling from animal pelts and backpack straps. who makes a rattle from sticks and pinecones and some light blue pebbles Jackie found by the lake one day and saved. who makes sure the cabin stays warm and clean for Luke Dylan (from 90210--they couldn't decide whether to go with the actor or the character).

who builds them another shelter from blankets and animal hides after the cabin burns down. who keeps shauna and their baby warm through that first terrible winter and the one that followed.

and one day in 1998, Canadian forest rangers happen upon that American high school soccer team that went missing 2 years back. they find a group of starving teens and a baby, a little over a year old, two of the girls wrapped around him--and each other

and when the rescue team tries to separate them the one with tangled, golden brown hair bears her teeth and Growls

#yellowjackets #shaunajackie #yellowjackets au #premise up for adoption bc Im too busy to do anything more with this #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #in my head: they go back and live at jackie's house #it's bigger + Jackie's family has the $$ to keep reporters off their property so the girls are safer there #when it’s discovered that jeff is the father. jeff--who was raised right--starts going to school part time #while working full time at the furniture store #soon becoming assistant manager #jackie's parents BEG her to go to rutgers. not to give up her future for a baby that's not even hers #that belongs to the bf and bff who BETRAYED her no less #(jackie stops talking to them for a month. not for bringing up the cheating thing) #(for daring to say that LD isnt hers' too) #jackie does eventually go to Rutgers though #but not bc her mom promises to stop giving shauna a hard time #she decides to go when Shauna finally tells her about applying to Brown and getting her acceptance letter days before they left #they never would've been roommates at Rutgers. she isn't leaving Shauna behind. she never has #shauna makes a joke about having a hot meal ready every day when jackie comes home #jeff saves up enough money for a dowm payment for a nice house with a lawn and a yard #for him shauna&jackie and the baby--BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED RIGHT #he and jackie build a backuard playset for Luke (Dylan's his middle name. It's also Jeffs mothers maiden name it all worked out) #yes sometimes they have threesomes #no Randy. Jeff's NOT going to talk about it w you #(he was raised right!!!!!) #a few years down the line Shauna gets pregnant again #all 3 of their parents' heads tilt to the side #but they keep it amongs themselves so they can keep seeing Luke and baby Callie #little house in the wilderness au

[clonerightsagenda]

Protector of the Small had to make Kel close personal friends with the next king and queen otherwise she would've ended up leading a peasant revolt.

#Kel's innate sense of fairness and treating everyone equally #vs. being stuck in a fantasy novel with a monarchy #which will win #yes I KNOW part of the genre is accepting the whole 'good king' concept as part of the setting #however how long can Kel keep going 'well there are SOME good nobles'... #iirc her family was only elevated possibly even within her lifetime or right before her birth #which influences her perspective #my point being if you take away the convenient friendly good king #Kel's sense of fair play and tendency to accumulate adoptees would put her at the head of a rebellion by the time she's 30 #the only other thing stopping her is her choice to remain stubbornly loyal to systems that don't treat her well #tortall #perpetual perpetual ladies night

[devilsskettle]

there’s also just Something About female characters who are jealous of the men around them for getting to behave in certain ways that they just can’t. like you can just act like that? you don’t have to maintain a carefully curated and constructed image of yourself to present to the world so people don’t treat you like shit? i’m not gonna universalize but i do believe most women feel this way at least at some point in their lives, i feel it all of the time and it drives me fucking insane

#that’s the thing with kie from outer banks for me like. she just wants to be allowed to act like the guys and just like. fuck around i guess #like just to hang out and to do whatever she wants and like to be herself and still be accepted #like she is tone deaf when it comes to like. complaining about her supportive family and better-than-stable financial situation lol #but she feels so trapped! and so alienated! and she can’t escape this role she keeps getting trapped in! #as a Daughter! or a Love Interest! #and like a big part of that is actually kind of just Bad Writing lol but i will take what i want from this story lol #i am going through the scraps i am scavenging it for working parts i am creating meaning where the writers forgot to etc #anyway aaaaaaaaa

[weaverofink]

#kon el #superboy #conner kent #pls let me know ur thoughts!! i have my trans girl kon design down but idk what to call her #i kinda love wendy but also idk if it fits her vibe. #on the other hand. i have an aunt named connie so i also kinda hate that one #candy is one i thought of that might be cute. still kind of close to conner without being too similar #i think she probably keeps the name kon bc it sounds pretty gender neutral and its really important to her #bc clark gave it to her as a way to accept her into his family

[wheelercore]

My toxic trait is that i dont think steve is really in love with nancy, hes in love with nancy the "angel". I mean its a constant point in st that love is about sticking it through with that person even when times get hard and not projecting this unrealistic image onto them that they cant live up to. And like... what steve tells nancy about his "dream"... thats not what nancy wants and thats not who she is. I think steve is still hung up on the quiet demure passive nancy he was with in s1 when she was pretending to be not the person she really is. And its interesting considering how "angel" is a motif used to signify the unrealistic standards women are held up to, by men in particular but enforced by other women eg mothers, and how nancy is all up in that rosemary symbolism in s1. Anyways this isnt a steve hate post this is an aro steve post.

#i think abt how like. we learn 3 things about steves family and its that 1) steves mom would rather go off to make sure #steves dad doesnt cheat than to stay home with steve and keep her son company #2) steves dad is harsh on him and makes him do things he doesnt really want to do and his mother doesnt seem to stop that #okay 2 things idk #like yeah no wonder hes hung up on nancy the angel he thinks he can be fulfilled only of he gets into a relationship with someone wholl #be tied to him by 6 kids and will stick by him. which is a really good thing that he found an accepting relationship outside of romance #misc

[male-duckk]

just listened to the lost boys novelization and some of my highlights include: sam biting michael being the reason theyre running around the house, sam quoting bruce when they get to the boardwalk because hes overdressed ("i wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face"), high michael staring at dwayne skateboarding and wondering when marko would come with the food (real), david making a move on michael to be inturrupted by marko with the food, sam tearing off a leaf of grandpas marijuana and trying to smoke it, star saying the boys are her family multiple times, star biting michaels neck when theyre making out multiple times, david catching michael after he falls off the bridge, paul trying to cheer up star, and michael saying david looks like the lord of the vampires when he first sees him in the final battle

#the lost boys #anyway it was p fun #it has a lot from lucys pov which i wasnt expecting and liked #and also more star 🤤🤤 #i looove star #when put into the perspective of vampire=queer her pov is so sad😭😭 #she talks abt how the boys are her family and she wanted to be one of them until she met michael and now she wants to live a “normal” life #to me its like she was finally accepting herself and now shes going back on all that😢😢 #i just love her ok #also theres quite a bit of sam stuff thats not in the movie which is fun #also also 95% of michael and stars povs is just them thirsting after each other so keep that in mind if you dont like that

[ciderjacks]

thinking about how Dulcie essentially got suspended for being a lesbian again. It’s a reoccurring theme almost, that she’s “allowed” to be a member of society, but if she steps out of line or says the wrong thing or stands her ground, she gets that permission to be an equal stripped from her. She’s allowed to be a detective, but the second she calls out Hastings for being violent and corrupt and also literally violating the fucking law, he tells her she’s “probably working alongside the women” and that her being gay makes her inherently untrustworthy to work on this case, Because she’s probably too caught up in her alleged attraction to these women that she can’t judge properly. (Yet he said that straight men would be better fit…)

She gets on the nerves of the old money people in deadloch, and it’s immediately ”your kind is ruining this place”. It’s “you dykes have no respect”, it’s “I don’t like you, you lesbian”.

(No spoilers since it’s a whole plot point but you also see this really clearly with Skye)

she’s expected to keep her head down and behave, both at her job and in her wider community. She’s expected to deal with constant little aggressions, constant lack of respect, constant abuse and ostracizing, and never stand up for herself.

And that’s not even mentioning how blatantly misogynist and corrupt Hastings and really the whole system is, the way he uses the case as an excuse to attack a marginalized group, the way he uses his power as a cop to violently raid and detain, the unnecessary destruction he causes and the way he treats Eddie and Dulcie (especially Dulcie, who he regularly screams at, forces into silence, and discriminates against)

This also intersects with the B-plot, with how Margaret makes a big show of accepting and supporting Miranda as an aboriginal woman, but really just wants to make her as close to white as she can. She targets Miranda bc she feels like she can Assimilate her, and when Miranda decides to embrace her heritage and her real family, that supposed support and acceptance is immediately burned away.

The messaging and themes of this show are so insanely well done wow

#deadloch #misogyny #lesbophobia #colonialism #Thinking about being a temporary resident but never allowed a real home in a community #Like Ofc Dulcie has her friends and Miranda has her family #But within their wider community they’re expected to walk on eggshells #And one wrong move gets them thrown out #Bc the “acceptance” is proclaimed through clenched teeth #Spoilers #<— mild. If I wasn’t trying to keep certain things unspoiled I would’ve gone way more in depth

[denkies]

I know that thematically speaking, Miri is going to go back to Rei and Kazuki. The point of the entire show is found family. But episode 10 SHATTERED my heart into a million pieces and I started crying.

And this is more incentive for Rei to kill his dad. This man is the reason why Miri had to leave, he basically took their daughter from them. Neither Kazuki or Rei are going to just roll over and let that happen. Maybe Rei would have, before Miri, but she changed him. He's going to have the strength to stand up to his dad, because to be loved is to be changed.

#he even tells her that she changed him. this ep is SO mirroring ep 1 with the kitten #because Rei didn't put up a fight when Kazuki told him they couldn't keep it. he let Kazuki take it away‚ and give it to someone else. #but Miri has changed Rei. and this isn't just a stray kitten he found outside‚ this is his DAUGHTER that was taken from him. #Kyu-chan had the right idea‚ doing what he thought would keep Miri safe. but he is TRULY underestimating how much Rei and Kazuki love Miri #he seems to think that they were just playing family‚ and that everything will to back to normal when Miri is gone #but it won't be. they will never be truly happy without Miri. missions aren't going to suddenly be perfect! they just lost their daughter! #and it's because of this ultimatum‚ ''give up your daughter and be miserable‚ or keep her and she dies'' #that i truly think that Rei is going to kill his father. he's not going to accept this ultimatum‚ because he has changed #buddy daddies #buddy daddies 10 #suwa rei #rei suwa #kurusu kazuki #kazuki kurusu #kazurei #reikazu #a.txt

[bumblingbabooshka]

Icheb, Naomi, Miral and T'Meni

#st voyager #st voyager art #I redesigned Icheb to make him more alien-y....butterfly inspo v_v I hate butterflies they freak me out #Icheb #Naomi Wildman #T'Meni #Miral Torres #Miral Pairs #I personally don't think Miral or Icheb become Starfleet #or I think it'd be neat but Icheb DID make it into the academy but he had a rough time and once he learned they didn't accept Seven he quit #So now he works in a general lab and can focus exclusively on astrophysics while also being a consultant about borg tech #Miral seems like she'd have a complicated relationship with Starfleet what with her parents' history #& T'Meni has no dog in this fight she's gonna marry a spa owner and be a spa heiress her life's breezy v_v #Naomi seems like she'd do well in Starfleet and like she'd have a more complicated relationship with Earth...Earth took her from #the only family she ever knew and also made them all miserable - fuck Earth all my homies hate Earth #Naomi is exceedingly calm and clear headed during emergencies and I think younger ensigns would quickly rely on her...weird big sister type #friends with borg...won't shut up about how good something called 'leola root stew' is...keeps joking about how she died once #Icheb and Naomi Wildman - wildest birth mythos ever. Kids who should be dead but aren't. #Miral & T'Meni frenemies....only two kids at the family function type of tenuous friendship #bea art tag #Icheb's eye isn't a trait inherent to his species

[softshuji]

Any men out there wanna pretend to be my bf to get my parents off my case about marriage? I am so so serious right now.

#my mom gave me a really really lonf lecture and upset me because her and my dad want me to start thinking about settling down ans getting #married. again. cos this comes up all the time. ans I reiterated that i do wanna marry and have kids. i know im 26 years old why do they' #think im also not aware of this??? like i suddenly forgot my own age and have my head in the clouds all the time. and i got so heated cos i #said they only believe in that in theory. in reality neither of them have accepted the idea od my leaving home or the idea of mw being with #a man. and they start freaking out if they even find out i talk to them so to say they want me to get married is so fucking naive #ans when i mentioned this and that they're more than ok w mt brothers talking tp women she said that if i wanted to settle down she could #talk to dad and they could “go about finding someone for me” and I've never been so pissed #i got so upset. why does everyone keep saying this to me. as if anyone my dad knows could ever be a half decent man #and the truth is they don't care if im in a happy marriage they've accepted that i won't be they only care that im gone and saving face in #front of family. that's all. it's always reputation it's always “what will people say?” #not once did love come up. not once did shw even imply that i should marryfor love #or that they hope i love someone and marry them. because they're more happy with the idea of me marrying for the sake of it than #they are at the idea of me finding genuine lovw #im not a fucking broodmare im not here to push out babies for the sake od reputation. #and then i said nor being married isn't the end of the world and she said “it's important that you settle down” #and i said im unwavering in my principles. she can call mw high maintenance like she loves doing but I'm not wavering on the #kind of man i want to be with and when i do marry him i want it to bw genuine. because be loves me and vice versa not because im ticking off #somethin from a damn checklist to appease them. and if being unwavering on my principles means staying unmarried then so be it. #my obligations are to god and myself and that's it #and y'know what??? i am in love with a boy already #and yet they don't care that i wanna be in love at all. no im just a puppet to follow a certain narrative in life live according to evergone #else has and that's it. #im done. #and then she tried to apologise by getting me a slice of cake and that somehow made me feel worse. #i dont want an apology. i want to be heard and actually listened to for once. i want someone to ask what i want. to actually give a shit #and love me cos it's me. not cos im some thing to further an agenda. or some toy or puppet that does your bidding. #is it so much??? to just want to be loved in return? to marry and live according to how i want to?? ans not want anyone to make these #decision's for me? #ruined my whole day.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

I swear I try not to comment stuff every time I watch an episode of Golden Girls, but they make it so hard. Take this conversation between Rose and her daughter Kirsten from S1E16 The Truth Will Out:

"Well, I thought, why would anyone who could afford to be totally independent want to live with someone else?" "Kirsten, I think there's something I should explain." "You don't have to, Mom. I understand perfectly. Meeting Blanche and Dorothy explains everything."

Like, come on. Kirsten obviously thinks they're romantically involved. This has to be intentionally cryptic.

#kudos to her for being so accepting of her mother's relationship! #... at least until s7 when she says they're not her family #but that's another kirsten entirely lmao #this episode is already so. i was *dead* from the moment dorothy greeted rose in the kitchen at the beginning #she was so enthusiastic and happy to see her :') i love them sm #and then she's been all over blanche the entire episode long #rose keeping her will in the cookie jar because that way charlie is still in the cookie jar as he always was... i can't cope... #and blanche took rose's behaviour seriously! ...admittedly for the wrong reasons but still!! she's worried! #her sequin socks :') she's so precious i love her sm #the golden girls #golden wives #miami watch thread

[dykeza]

Ichigo being a stay at home dad who works online is so in character for him actually…… he’s the type of dad to enforce 1 hour of no screen time outside playing in the yard and/or playground. He texts Orihime goofy pictures of Kazui jumping around in some water fixture in the local park and carries him home soaked to the bone and shivering with the biggest smile on his face and then they eat ice cream and wait for Orihime to get home so they can have family game night.

#I cannot see how someone can dislike ichihime and their beloved baby boy #they’re so silly!! #honestly I think a lot of it comes from forgetting Ichigo isn’t Just his badassery and trauma and stubbornness #Ichigo is goofy and funny and likes playing games and has shown how genuinely warm and welcomed/welcoming he is around Hime #and a lot of the times when I see posts referencing how Orihime is bad for him or is like… a creep or whatever #I can’t help but notice that it just. doesn’t sound like Ichigo at all #Ichigo Kurosaki is full of love and compassion and he adores everything around him #he loves and honors even the most evil of people and recognizes others struggles even if he can’t relate #there isn’t a single thing about him that conveys this supposed dislike for Orihime or this discontent with his life #Ichigo is like. a happy person #he suffers and he endures so much and he keeps finding new ways to love and understand others #he fights so hard to be happy… so why can’t people except that maybe he is? #at some point you just have to accept that a character can be content #Ichigo is married to Orihime. he works from home. he adores his son and his wife and his family #and like. that’s okay? there doesn’t need to be some deep reason. you don’t need to try and drag even more character out of him #he has enough!!!!!! he has more than enough character to go around!! #please let Ichigo Kurosaki love his wife and his son… and also let Rukia do the same #I know I just now mention her but this tangent is directed towards the Weird ichirukis I see poking around on twt and tumblr #Rukia is happy with her husband!!! she likes Renji!!!! she likes him so much in fact that she married him and had a kid with him #Rukia and Ichigo both are very hardheaded characters and if they’re unhappy with their circumstances THEYLL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT #they’re not scared to be honest with themselves and others anymore!! they’re very vocal about their opinions if you haven’t noticed yet #some of the first things we learn about both of them is that they aren’t scared to speak their mind #I am fucking certain that if they happened to Not Want to end up with their respective spouses they would’ve just. not married them #idk what copium ichirukis that don’t like Renji and/or Orihime are smoking I really don’t #you love these characters so much and yet you discredit one of their most recognizable traits!!! their readiness to DO WHAT THEY WANT!!!!!! #they’ve proven time and time again thag they do whatever they want within reason #there is not a possible universe where either of these characters would sit quietly and let themselves be unhappy for the sake of the others #because they’ve learned. and they’ve grown. and they trust Renji/Orihime enough to understand their decisions becuase it’s in the fucking— #—text how much they respect and trust them to understand their feelings #this ramble is too long I’ve reached 30 tags URASHIN CANON GOODNIHHT AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAA

[the-way-astray]

i would’ve accepted a book 9.5 if it had been from marella’s pov and started where stellarlune ended (like unlocked did with legacy).

#kotlc #NO BUT THINK ABOUT IT #we’d see marella’s realization that she found what fintan wanted and now has the information necessary to find out what happened to her mom #and then she’s like. wait. i gotta get out of this elysian situation first whoopsie daisy. but we could find out WHAT HAPPENED TO HER MOM #more fintan content and more four horsegirls content and WE’D SEE MARELLA’S FAMILY DYNAMICS (ESPECIALLY HER MOM) THROUGH HER EYES #and also marella’s stuffed animal :) bonus i guess #could be like unlocked where it switches between sophie and marella to keep some amount of connection to the main series #shannon messenger i am outside your house don’t ask how i got here but #the pov choice being marella was so obvious literally who cares about what keefe was doing in the forbidden cities #i should be past this but i’m still cyclicing through the stages of grief and haven’t quite reached acceptance yet lads #hhhhhhhhhh grieving over the marella pov book we never had and were never going to have #am i going to read unraveled? absolutely. i will eat up any canon kotlc content i can get my grubby little hands on #will i like it? right now i’m thinking no but hey maybe shannon will surprise me

[arsonistshub-a]

so i know this is gonna sound a little heartless of me but

i kinda think personally it's better shadowheart let her parents die?

no i dont consider what she did murder, yes technically she "killed" them but idk. I feel like at some point she and they deserve to move on

because also think of just how fucked up mentally thats going to make everyone

shadowheart living with her parents, getting sudden painful memories of how she torture them coming back? remembering all the times she hurt them and how traumatized her parents might be from their daughter having tortured them for literally decades---

like... idk dudes. i know theres the whole "but they're family and family can make it through anything" but also they kinda. wanna die. they're happy and content with their life and shadowheart in a way completes her whole thing of accepting loss *with hope* that things can get better. she by letting her parents pass on becomes both sides of the goddess's same coin

freed from shar's influence fully accepting the grief of her family, her life, what she could have had and that loss

but not allowing it to consume her, and live a better life for her and to live on knowing her family loved her and will be watching over her through the moon goddess

i feel like this ending works so much better for shadowheart to be a selune cleric as she follows the goddess that finally gave her family peace even if they had to trudge through shar's BS

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #i love her ok #i think people need to realize though loss is something that has to happen #it will always happen #we can only try and accept it and continue on healthily #carrying the love and memories we have #shadowheart letting her parents die fulfils their wishes of wanting to rest #and knows that her new path as a selune cleric is blessed by her family #and by selune's daughter #she can still always keep her family with her in the moon goddess's light #just as her family always held hope its now her time to carry their torch and let them rest