#and no grandparents are alive

[marzipanandminutiae]

quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women

"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)

"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)

"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)

#history #when they were still alive to defend themselves #maybe- much as I rag on modern historical fiction -we've gotten a bit closer to the truth than our grandparents did #see this is one reason I love studying the Victorian era (besides hoarding their detritus like a dragon I mean what) #it just is One Of The Eras Of All Time in pop culture #and it means so much to so many people that getting to the real human bottom of it fascinates me #spoiler: it boils down to 'people were people and always have been'

[transmasccofee]

does anyone ever think about this scene

#the grandparents like We’ve been alive a lomg time we womt judge :) and then. #saiki k

[saintirulan]

LANDED IN JAPAAAAN 🐸 now i just have to get to the dorm without collapsing (2 hours of sleep to my name, three luggage, at least another 2 hours to get there :D)

#hi maybe i'll start talking a bit through posts to let you know im alive #also FORGIVE ME #for being a disaster with dms #between this big ass move my grandparents my health my heart my brain everything has been a lot #and i have absolutely let them sit for so long. im so sorry. ill come back with sakura flower pics <333 #irene.🇯🇵

[mustangs-flames]

Thinking about how fucked up it is that in htb au, Mark is alive but Sarah thinks he's dead. That he's been dead for 17 years. Her grandparents don't talk about him. There are no photos. The bedroom she vaguely remembers him having is just a spare room filled with junk. She remembers how he left one day after she went crying to her grandparents, telling them he'd shoved her, that he'd hurt her and by the time she came back from the hospital with stitches Mark was gone.

And she blamed herself for that even though it wasn't her fault.

She waited for him to come back home for months, sitting by the window when it was too cold to be outside, waiting on the porch whenever she could. Hoping he was going to turn that corner at any second and he'd be home again. And she could tell him how sorry she was for making him go away. How she wasn't angry at him for having pushed her that day. That she loves him, she loves him, she loves him.

But that day never comes. And those words are never exchanged. And when she asks her grandparents if Mark was dead they don't tell her he's alive. And she has to live with that guilt - telling herself that if she hadn't been such a baby, if she hadn't annoyed her brother that day, then he'd still be here. All she has left of him is a stuffed toy she doesn't remember him giving her and the scar left behind from that argument.

She lives with that for 17 years - the idea that she drove her brother away and got him killed. 17 years.

Anyway, yeah, I'm so normal about this AU you guys, I swear-

#hail true body au #tmc #tmc au #htb sarah #htb mark #meanwhile mark is still alive somewhere with a found family and she got left behind #he left her behind #and she can't help but feel that it's because he hates her #that he's never let go of that argument that happened 17 years ago #that she was and still is a bad sister #that she was never worth coming home for #that she grew up in his shadow all that time - trying to make up for killing him by living the life he should've had the chance to #and all that time he was alive. all that time she mourned a brother who never came back for her #and it's hard not to be bitter and so easy to be goddamn angry about that #she is so so angry #i am so normal about the heathcliff siblings in this au- gdjdbksdgjs #sorry for the rambling #anyway. fuck the reeds. shittest grandparents ever.

[esterigermaine]

I have so many questions about Astarion's birth family that it isn't even funny.

I wonder what sort of relationship/dynamic they all had before his death, I wonder how they reacted, if they knew he was "alive" as a spawn the entire time and just ignored it because that creature wasn't their son/brother/nephew anymore, how they would react if told he had spent 200 years suffering. Most of all, I wonder if they would accept (or be proud of) the man he became at the end of the game.

#astarion #i mean the grave being pretty overgrown is kind of telling that no one is taking care of it anymore #but was he estranged? did his family move away? was there a period where they took care of it and thought about him? #did they feel guilt thinking there could have been something they could have done to save him or keep the gurs from attacking? #do they still think of him as a baby Elf because he was killed so young despite the fact he has literally been undead for 200 years? #did they die as well? #this concept has so much potential for angst and fluff depending on the type or relationship they had #and if they accept him as the vampire spawn he is if they are still around and alive #which I mean it is highly likely he has family still around #because Elves live a ridiculously long time #239/240 is still young enough to have siblings parents and maybe even grandparents out there #could you imagine him meeting a neice or nephew and them telling him stories that their parent told to them about uncle Astarion? #like someone cared enough to keep his memory alive and teaching family he never got to meet about him

[breakfastteatime]

Feel free to stick more details in the tags ^_^

#sunday night curiosity with breakfast tea #tumblr polls #my great grandparents would've all been born in the mid to late 1800s #my grandparents were all born in the 1900s - 1910s #my mum said only her grandmother was alive by the time she was born in the 50s #also the idea that some people meet and spend time with great grandparents is mindblowing to me lol #heck it blows my mind that several of my friends still have grandparents #we're all in our late 30s so these people are OOOOOOLD

[vind3miat0r]

my Obscura oc's family lore goes CRAZY

#imagine thinking ur dad is dead #then finding out from your questionably magic-supportive grandparents that “oh yeah hes alive lol we've been in contact with him” #RIGHT AFTER YOUR MOM DIES #bro #redacted asmr #redactedverse #redactedaudio #redacted obscura #redacted ocs #vinn says fandom things #vinn says really dumb stuff #vinn yapping #vinn's ocs

[apileofmoss]

have i ever mentioned that the grimm brothers are like my great great great great uncles or something

#i need to talk with my uncle and get our family tree down but like my mom's dad's aunt's maiden name was grimm #obviously a lot of people could say this they were alive a While ago but yknow its cool its silly #when i was younger i was obsessed with this fact and told it to my teachers i dont think they believed me which like #shrug yeah #i wish i couldve met my oma and opa but they died before i was Born but my aunt describes oma as a sort of baba yaga cuz she was a little #crazy #but they seem like they were the type of people to have so many cool stories #especially with my opa being russian #also im saying My opa and oma but they were my moms grandparents they wouldve been my great grandparents #anyways moss family lore drop tune in next time #mossy's mumblings

[markantonys]

ghost grandma showing up at the club with her whole ghost polycule is such a vibe

#if there's one thing these four loved while alive it was going to the club! so nothing could be more fitting :') #meanwhile poor grandson is just trying to get a new years' first kiss with his childhood-friend-to-almost-lover #(not pictured. rest assured said love interest is MUCH cuter than any of the random townies in this screenshot!) #but i guess Ghost Grandparents were like 'we HAVE to witness this budding baby gay romance we need all the tea' #anyway i'm embarrassed to say i cried real tears when these four died djkfjg so i'm so happy to see them again!

[kirango-rouge]

If Rya is truly Rykard's offspring, it'd mean she is Marika's last descendant still alive to this date who can perpetuate her blood if you do her happy-ending quest.

#elden ring #rya #zorayas #semantics i know #but cmon ranni godwyn malenia and miquella are more dead than alive at this point #and i'm pretty much sure they can no longer have a descendance #since millicent and her sisters perish-bloomed #and if you consider's gostoc's cut lines as non canon #and since she's also a descendant of rennala #it'd mean that if rya has a decendance one of them could be born empyrean one day enventually #idk just food for thought in the er fandom #just neat to imagine a nameless hero in a far ahead era meeting with rya's great-great-something child #and rykard and tanith would be proud grandparents i'm sure

[soryualeksi]

People honest to fuck keep telling me "But Hamas WANTS this war/as many Palestinians to be killed as possible!"

And like.

??????

So we are now doing EXACTLY what we convinced ourselves some Evil Enemy Force is secretly or not so secretly wanting us to do - commit absolute atrocities and human rights violations en masse - because at least we're doing it for. what. To bring Peace and Democracy? Enlightened Western Values? Freedom from the Evil Enemy Force that DEMANDS we do exactly the brutality we're getting away with?????

What kind of logic system is this supposed to be???

"Every Muslim should come out and publicly Condemn Hamas, else they're basically Terrorists - oh but don't you see, Hamas WANTED us to bomb this NICU, they DEMANDED we leave these babies on ventilators to starve, suffocate and ROT surrounded by the things their now-also-dead parents brought them, HAMAS wants us to do all of this and so we obliged! All hail the Western Democracies and their endless pursuit of human rights and liberty!!!"

You lie to me that "we" are the bastion of humanity's human rights, but your definition of "human" doesn't include even NICU babies if they are inconvenient (and don't fall under your definition of "Western").

Fuck all of this.

"Hamas wants this, so that's what we should do. Oh but anyone criticising this bombing campaign in any way is Hamas AND A TERRORIST!!! MORE BOMBS!!!"

#fuck the entire system #i feel so so so so so so fucking stupid #germany is on the forefront of course in hopes of magically making the crime of the holocaust go away #by trying to pass it onto whoever is convenient #the conspiracy theory that ACTUALLY 'The Arabs' MADE nazi germany carry out the holocaust is spreading #insane shit just insane just absolutely bloodthirsty monstrous #no our grandparents and great grandparents and people who are still alive very much thought the holocaust was a good idea #you can't wash this from your family history by murdering Palestinian preemies now #for western democracy of course #despicable #german guilt #palestine genocide #'hamas made me do it!' you are a joke #but a dark and murderous one #all bombing of civilians always is bad and you will never convince me that one atrocity against humans gets justified by another #in 10 years time when crocodile tears roll and this is rightfully treated as a murder campaign against millions of people based on culture #i hope you'll be haunted by their shadow telling you 'you knew and you were complicit' #we are all complicit #favoured in the world order again that we made up by might is right #western supremacy bullshit #genocide

[fitzrove]

Rip Rudolf, today you've been dead for 135 slu-

#ahshgdhdghhdfhghf #kronprinz rudolf #it's been a while #like my great-great-grandparents were alive (ie children) in those times but that's the closest #but yeah makes you think #history

[haahka]

i could pay big money to rush to see my family (and back) in a fully packed chaos train for 3 days over christmas, or i could actually rest for 4 days alone. decision needs to be made like now before the big money for the train tickets becomes even bigger money.

#i hate living like this. why do i not have anything better to do at this age. #so its massive guilt if i dont go see my grandparents while theyre still alive #but some the family relationships are so strained these days that itll be agony to have to spend 3 days with them all #and then go immediately back to work #theres no going back to how it was back in the day #but sitting home alone isnt exactly festive either. this is when i wish i had some sort of life the most #so there actually could be like. good options. not just 2 bad ones.

[very-lost-hobbit]

Merry Christmas, especially to Ukrainians. And to the Diaspora, many of whom have had a second Christmas for generations. May we all have health hope and safety this year.

#Merry christmas to the mutuals and followers who celebrate and a happy day to those who don't too obviously love you guys #I 100% understand why they've switched but I will miss 'Ukrainian Christmas' :( #I liked it better than western christmas. I wonder what my grandparents would do if they were alive #obviously this sentiment for everyone else too but this is very specifically about me being Diaspora and trying to adjust to the change #me #kat gets personal

[bigmammallama5]

My grandmother is the same way - I come over and move her sewing machine and then find money folded into a little heart or butterfly tucked into my bag. My grandfather, though? I fixed their toilet and changed a light bulb in the ceiling fan and when he walked me out to my car he handed me a fifty and said "Don't tell Grandma but today you get the BIG milkshake!"

That's so cute omg skfjghsf

#ask me stuff! #my grandparents on my dads side pay me with food and sometimes some scotch #which is just as good as money imo #my 93 yo grandmother on my moms side i never expected anything from bc it would also be in the form of food or treats #granddaddy would do the same when he was still alive #but also shes 93 now and in a retirement home and im just happy to see her and help her get her walker wheels over bumps

[goodeye-cyborg]

"We just started wearing masks again" WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOURE 83 GODDAMN YEARS OLD WHY DID YOU STOP MASKING WHY DIDN'T YOU MASK AT THE CONCERTS YOU WENT TO OR THE PLANE YOU WERE ON LAST YEAR OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU SMOKE HALF A PACK A DAY AND YOUR HUSBAND'S HEART IS MOSTLY JUST PLASTIC AND PRAYERS AT THIS POINT FUCKING GOD DAMN IT-

Oh hey I texted with my grandma today and it went very well... Why yes she DID used to be a nurse and should fucking know better

#WHY AM I MASKING UP TO KEEP OTHER PEOPLES GRANDPARENTS ALIVE WHEN MINE WANNA DIE SO BAD