#becoming parents one baby at a time

[varpusvaras]

Alderaan, 4.25 p.m, sometime after the war has ended

Breha: Oh, Fox is back from his trip to Kamino, let's go meet up with him at the docks!

Bail: Welcome back home, love, how was the-

Fox: Yes?

Bail & Breha:

The extremely adorable baby clone Fox is holding:

Fox: Oh, yeah. I forgot to tell you beforehand, I am so sorry. It all happened so suddenly

Breha: Oh, we don't mind, we just didn't know that they were releasing any of the cadets from Kamino yet

Fox: They aren't

Bail: ...did you ask if you could take him?

Fox: No, because they would've said no. No one will know, though, because what are they going to do? A DNA-test? I'm his dad, of course he has the same DNA as I do.

Bail:

Breha:

Baby: Bwah

Breha: What am I the Queen for if not for forging papers

#becoming parents one baby at a time #Fox: he looks so much like his buir. which is me. it makes perfect sense #Fox has his hands full of trying to keep all the overeager uncles from stealing the baby all the time #he keeps telling them to either get or make their own #Rex is the only one who behaves and it's only because he has his own hands full with the twins #since he doesn't trust Anakin as a stay at home dad after he saw how he did with Ahsoka #Bly is certainly trying to make his own very enthusiasticly but no one wants to hear about that #anyway the papers are legit. look they are signed by the queen herself #star wars #the clone wars #commander fox #bail organa #breha organa #bail/breha/fox

[turtleblogatlast]

Big Mama must have lost some serious standing in the yokai underworld because it’s gotten apparent that she keeps being beaten by a small group of teenagers and the occasional rat man, and when it’s not them then she’s taking L’s from her own schemes working against her.

And in the ensuing power vacuum, the Hamatos accidentally become the most feared crime family known to all the big bads of the Hidden City.

After all, they’ve publicly outplayed Big Mama multiple times, a couple of them have taken out the heads of two of the most well known criminal organizations, one took out Heinous Green, two are responsible for the destruction of Witch Town, they have ties to both the infamous Baron Draxum and Captain Piel, they won the Doom Dome death race, they’re Battle Nexus Champions, they’ve displayed insane feats of power and defeated impossibly strong enemies, most of them have been to jail, and they regularly mingle with humans.

You can just imagine the notoriety they’d accumulate from word of mouth alone.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rise of the tmnt #I didn’t even list everything the Hamatos are MENACES #it’s so funny #bonus if none of the Hamatos realize how terrifying their presence in the Hidden City has become #every time Leo goes to bother Hueso the guy just has his head in his hands like Pepino…I JUST got my brother out of crime…and now you???’ #Leo’s just like ‘lmao what crime’ #meanwhile a trail of destruction follows them wherever they go #just look at the library smh #the small time yokai villains hearing about how scary the fam is and having two different reactions #one being no way are we talking about the same babies tripping over themselves and barely beating anyone #the other is oh god I barely escaped with my LIFE huh #sunita listening to all the worry her parents have about this new ‘Hamato Family’ and laughing inside #she tells April and April keeps it a secret to see how long it takes the others to realize it #when accused of crime Donnie accidentally and largely unprompted starts denying his digital asset thefts and then has to deny he denied it #when he learns of what is thought of them Raph has a crisis the poor boy #Mikey’s happy they’re ‘known for being a family!:)’ #he - kinda terrifyingly - kinda likes the thought of that lol #Leo: 🤔 think I could go back to that hair spa then? (no) #in their defense while they are MENACES society is ALSO a menace to THEM

[distressed-bird]

Kalina is the most interesting character to me because of all she has going on…

she is Cassandra’s familiar, she is simultaneously a pet and a friend and a servant and a family to a goddexx that is simultaneously her owner and friend and creator and parent and her god and reason to be—Kalina’s relationship to Cassandra is hard to put a name or label on (since what does being a familiar even mean?) but the bottomline is that this cat loves her deity enough to put everything and everyone on the line for her…

And adding in that she is a child of divorce. So to speak. I am extremely normal and haven’t been driven mad by the detail that baby itty bitty kitty Kalina was at Cassandra’s wedding to Ankarna and is remembered to have been toddling after her as she walked down the aisle…

Kalina will be the death of me /lh

#fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #kalina #oh my god and the fact Kalina was there at that wedding—there at the period of time where Ankarna was alive and still a known god and not #presumed dead… this makes the Sylvairean Heresy even WORSE of a life event for Kalina and Cassandra… #the existence of baby kalina implies that Cassandra *raised* Kalina… and the fact they were married means that Kalina wouldn’t have been #raised by only Cassandra but *also* Ankarna. #you are Kalina and one of your parents just was killed by your uncle—their domains were too alike—and you can never talk about them again. #you can never speak their name—share in their memory—the only place they exist is quietly in your memories that must go unspoken due to #Oblivata Mori. And there’s nothing you can do about it… #And then the followers and clerics of your remaining parent start trying to kill her—being mislead by the followers of your goddexx’ sister #Cassandra is the only family Kalina has left—and Kalina’s sentience leds me to think she agreed to become a Curse #kalina let herself be unmade and changed to keep Cassandra alive… and even as the shell of herself—a familiar once but now a living plague— #is so deeply loyal and only interested in what is to the benefit of her *everything*… even if they are currently a Walking Corpse. #Kalina dislike Kristen so much because Kristen is just not being a good cleric and is in the precarious spot of being Cassandra’s only #follower… but ultimately won’t harm or attack Kristen—killing herself first—because Kristen is the only one keeping Cassandra uncorrupted. #yeah im crazy about the relationship and history between a cat familiar and her witch goddess and the layers of their relationship

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

headcanon that scorpius was a sick child and was in and out of hospital constantly, perhaps related to astoria's blood curse but not directly. his immune system isnt very strong, and everytime he gets sick they're terrified that it's the blood curse but also whatever else it could be, because it's always so sudden and so intense and they call healers over to the house who recommend this delirious feverish 4 year old is hospitalised immediately, and you'd think it'd get easier to some extent because they'd be used to it, but everytime they feel like this is it, this is the time he'll walk in to the hospital and not walk out again

#this headcanon has no purpose im just thinking of scorpius in bed like a sickly victorian child with scarlet fever or something #asking if he'll make it to sunrise lmfao #so then he hates hospitals with a passion #my friend from school was in them constantly he was even a make a wish kid and he can not fucking stand the places so #headcanon scorpius becomes a healer anyway lmao #im sick and this is how im coping by putting baby scorp in hospital lmfao #it just made draco that little bit more protective #lucius made an insensitive comment about it once and draco was ready to throw hands #this headcanon doesnt really go anywhere ive just decided scorpius was a sick child #he has sick child energy lmfao #he still knows some of his doctors/healers because he was there so frequently #just imaging lil scorp in a hospital bed and draco and astoria are sleeping in the room on like uncomfortable chairs and the fever finally #breaks and hes like uh daddy im hungry and its like 4am but draco couldnt care less cause scorp hasnt been able to eat anything for days #let alone ask for food directly and baby scorp is wondering why his parents are acting so damn weird just cause he asked for some toast #but once hes grown up whenever he gets sick its on such a lower level than what it used to be when he was a kid because his immune system #got better that he struggles to gauge when other people would usually stop trying to do daily activities and albus has to start wrestling #scorpius back to bed instead of going to class cause scorpius really youre practically dying and hes like pfff you wanna see dying? use tha #timeturner one more time and go back to see me at literally any point between 2 and 10 i am FINE #(he absolutely was not fine) #scorpius malfoy #albus potter #draco malfoy #hpcc #scorbus #this is so many tags im so sorry

[goodobservationshirley]

KJ being confrontational with Mac - 1x02 // 1x05

#paper girls #papergirlsedit #someone asked for a 'kj touches mac' gifset #and someone else for a 'kj and mac bickering' one #and one of these is coming but #while looking for these i found these two scenes very interesting #because kj and mac do bicker a lot #but it's almost never seriously confrontational #mainly because kj is so obviously fond of mac #even when mac is being an asshole or parroting her father's bigoted beliefs #kj is gentle with her #but there are two instances where kj becomes physically confrontational with mac #the second instance is very obviously and textually a result of gay panic #but i believe the first one is also! #kj is not antagonizing mac because mac wants to leave #i think she's doing so because just before that she has talked about remembering seeing mac for the first time #and mac called her a stalker for it #which i'm pretty sure hit a chord with kj #because a baby kj who feels so completely trapped by her parents' expectations #would have no doubt looked at someone as seemingly carefree as mac with admiration #like even beyond the crush aspect of it #i do believe kj has probably been very aware of mac's existence for a long time #and being called a stalker for it would for sure bring on some gay panic regardless of kj's level of awareness #anyway #kj's 'fight or flight' response is very firmly set on fight #and i love her #*mine

[catboyidia]

imagining young sephiroth somehow stumbling upon vincent and pulling out the picture of lucrecia, showing it to vincent while asking him if he’s seen his mother “jenova”…

#vin would probably think sephs fucking with him and try to absolutely annihilate baby seph on the spot… #or the better option: vin then takes in seph and becomes his dad and they live happily ever after and nothing bad ever happens :) #that feels like the highly unlikely outcome… but one can wish… (I NEED BABY SEPH TO HAVE A HAPPY LIFE WITH A FATHER FIGURE OR SOMETHING AAA) #i actually kind of want to know how vin would react… i don’t imagine he would take it particularly well… #although i also believe it depends on what time frame of vins life it happens in… #i love vincent dearly… meaning i need to make him suffer (lovingly) and emotionally torment him (lovingly) #i also really like thinking about dadcent… he would be a good dad :( a little strange and clumsy parenting but overall (accidentally) good #jesus these tags are longer than the post! its so much easier to talk in the tags though for some reason… oops… #ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #ever crisis #sephiroth #young sephiroth #vincent valentine

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#sorry im thinking abt death again #because it's weird to think that ive been in the room. maybe a meter away from someone as they died #that someone being my mom. its just weird. the time in the hospital feels like it happened in some dark little pocket universe detached from #time. a calm room and then the soft blips of a monitor then the nurse rushing in to say she'd passed #i dont kno y ppl use that phrase: passed on. i mean i do. it softens the topic. makes it sound peaceful. ive yet to use it. i just say she #died bc thats what happened. is that insensitive? i dunno. when i was home i realized that i come off as much stranger than i think. the way #my family see me doesnt fit how i see myself. i dont kno what to do with that. i dunno. theyre all together today #for an early easter. and im halfway across the country again. nose so stuffy ive had to mouth breathe for the last 3 days #and again. everything feels the same as it did before but also profoundly different. sometimes i cry in the mornings. or when i think abt #future vacations she wont be there for. bc in the end she quickly slipped away in a way that couldn't be described as peaceful until her #last half a day. and all i can think about in that tiny room is how scary it would be to lose control like that #and how its not fair and she didnt deserve to die only halfway through a lifetime. but its not about fair and its not about deserving. #sometimes bad things just happen. that's life. and now i own a book called motherless daughters. and now im standing with the countless #others who've lost their moms too early. ive already become aware of 3 ppl in my daily life who are in the same club #i keep thinking about this moment that happened between my parents at the hospital. apparently my dad was helping her get cleaned up and her #stomach was so bloated she looked like she had a bby in there. which my dad said. and my mom apparently said: but it's a baby no one want. i #dont kno y that upsets me so much. all the things i heard abt her being in the hospital before i got there upset me. and the rest of my #family was there to see it. so i have the least traumatic version of the story. and i got almost 27 years with her. except my sisters #probably got more time with her bc i spent so much time away. or maybe not. i dunno. #i dunno. im just sad that shes gone and sad that it was drawn out even a little bit. 6 days isnt long but im sure it felt like an eternity. #again not fair. nothings fair. 53 years of unfairness culminating in a tragedy. she would hate me characterizing it like that. she lived a #full life as they say. full with an asterisk on account of length #unrelated

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Just applied for a summer childcare position (like for a camp type thing) that pays 20–28 dollars an hour based on qualifications (I should be towards the end of that scale because I work in a school; and the only requirement the job lists is to be 16 and have experience with children). So hopefully they’ll consider me. That would be wonderful.

#I hate applying for jobs so much. Everyone uses a different website that makes you sign up for newsletters that clog your email #that you have to manually unsubscribe to #But yeah that’s way more than I get paid as a para lol #which is kind of sad because being a para or teacher is a lot more strenuous and complex than supervising kids during structured play #Because usually the kids enjoy stuff like rock climbing and swimming #so you don’t have to guide them through ten different layers of mental gymnastics to complete their work #or sometimes physically keep them from leaving the learning area after every problem they complete #(of course I do the last thing very gently; and I don’t like having to carry kids from under tables back to their seats #but they’re not going to learn anything if they stay underneath tables all day long… that kind of defeats the purpose of being in school. #I give a lot of verbal warnings before too. Some kids just refuse to learn all the time regardless of their mood because it’s funny to them #Anyway: Kids should not be playing video games past bedtime on a fucking Oculus Rift #Like seriously the tech withdrawal in some of these babies is palpable #Horrifying #Anyway this summer job will be a breeze if I get it #Hopefully no one will be begging me for chromebooks during rock climbing #(I know it sounds like I’m irritated with the kids; and I am. But it’s more irritation with their parents letting them become addicted #to iPads for the sake of convenience; and also frustration directed at capitalism that makes the parents so tired #that they let the iPad babysit their kids so they can rest. It’s the whole system man. It’s fucked.)

[regallibellbright]

Precure fans for the first, oh, 75% of the show, hearing the early voice clip for Cure Majesty: So is this gonna be a Cure Ace or Cure Felice situation?

Ellee: Both.

#precure blogging #hirogaru sky precure #I will say I am both glad for this and feel kinda awkward for her parents #take care of baby for like. What seems to be months given the timeline? #like Ellee’s acted like she turned one when the show started but Elleelain seemingly only created her a year ago. #and so within like a couple months she gets kidnapped and taken to Earth. #and then it ultimately becomes clear she has to live on Earth for the foreseeable future. #(and for a lot of that time they were comatose too) so they’ve missed a ton of milestones #and then suddenly she gains the ability to become a teenager. #like yeah obviously they continue to be her parents and family and will do so once the show’s done #but yeah they really did get VERY LITTLE TIME to parent because she skipped over the literal entirety of childhood overnight. #… at least given she turns back when hungry they might get to experience it the slow way after?

[13eyond13]

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#as somebody who is unfortunately probably older than a lot of other people here by now #lemme just do my thing and dispense wisdom nobody asked for once more #guess what adults also still crave that parenting they never got when they were younger too #or perhaps that overindulgent parenting that they got spoiled by and addicted to #emotionally my 88 year old grandma is still a child on the inside looking for her dad to tell her she did a good job #and if you don't take steps to be aware of it #and to cultivate self-worth and solace in something other than receiving that one specific thing #and learn to be present with the people around you and how to focus on what you can give to others as much as what you can receive #that craving never really goes away #you can spend your entire life with tunnel vision chasing it #the older people in your life probably still feel that craving just as strongly as you do #they just had to eventually come to terms with it somehow carry on and start trying to take care of the younger people as best they can #definitely hilarious when you realize you're like the parent figure to people when you're like omg no i still didn't get to be the baby yet #and often times you also will become the parent figure to people much older than yourself as well #including (perhaps) eventually your own parents #anyways i would say that explains a lot about the dumbness of adults of all ages #it definitely sucks but #i think the nice thing to do is to try to give the younger people more of the understanding and support that will hopefully help them #be well-adjusted and prepare #for their own fun times in their 20s and beyond #if you can #seeing it more as building community rather than engaging in competition is the goal for me these days #p

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

A couple of the nurses on my unit are doing a study on moral distress, so at least one shift a week they’ll pass out surveys to rank how morally distressed you’re feeling and why. Monday night was one such night (when I was caring for the very sick baby in my last post). I was very busy and barely had time to sit and chart for longer than 20mins at a stretch. The nurse came up to me at the end of the shift, “George, did you get a chance to fill out your survey?” She knew full well that I hadn’t.

Me, “Sure fucking didn’t.” and I handed back the blank survey to her. She just laughed and walked away with it. 

#nurblr #nicu #moral distress #it can be hard caring for these kids #especially ones that we perceive to have no or very low quality of life #or a futile hospitalization #we actually had quite a few deaths recently #but as a level IV NICU we get the worst of the worst #nurses will come here after working at lower level NICUs and see stuff they didn't even know was possible #lots of things can go wrong as a baby is being formed #sometimes the pregnant person's body will recognize this and cause a miscarriage #but other times they will carry to viability #and if they make it through birth they become our responsibility #i understand parents wanting to give their child the best possible chance #but there are many circumstances where I just feel like I'm torturing this kid for what will be their whole very short life

[ostwitchsheart]

Why did my brain randomly dump story lore on me. Do you really want me to make a sad one piece ripoff

#it was basically about this girl who had a little brother and her dad dies in the future and she used a memory she had to manipulate time #or something #to talk to her dad but she was too nervous she started shaking the boat a lot and the enemies came on #her dad was a slow fighter because he was confident about being the strongest #he got killed before he could use a syringe or something and then the enemy kills him #the girl knew the enemy was coming and they only got a split second longer #the enemy didn't want to kill the kids despite the enemies pets wanting to eat them #and left them to die on the ship #they sailed away i guess and went to this world and met a baby who was obsessed with them #and the baby grew up like idk three years. and kept trying to hangout with them #and they are like 'i lost my brother and father once i won't do it again' #basically the ''''one piece'''' is a journey of bringing her dad back #which was just me venting about how i miss my dad a lot #the baby became named Cadence Persistent of the Sea and went back home to see the MCs parents #and Cadence owns a dinosaur my childhood fav BTW #the girl MC is about 30 but she's stuck in her brain or something and she's a kid so her brother doesn't die #bc he does die like the dad but for some reason the enemy didn't kill him too #even tho she was canonically 31 in my dream i might change it bc she generally acts childish #(she IS her child self so i could twist this to be her also '''' regressing '''' back into it) #i would 100% try to put my faith in here somehow. Cadence becomes a nun and her Dinosaur is still her best friend and she's a boss that #never marries #who knew it was that easy to pump out lore i got a huge chunk of it after sleeping this is awesome

[girlwithfish]

exhausted yayyy :3

#again! #Last two hours r worst part of the day lol. i get left alone w like 8 kids then it goes down to 5-6 and they become a nightmare idk whyyy #they hit each other sm fight over toys cry when i take a toy away from them or when i played a baby shark video for them #they cried after i wouldnt play more videos its soooo #Frustrating ig #this one girl n boy r always beefing w eacj other i s2g😭 #she was pushing hrr body against his against a door and i told her to move and like gently moved her off him and then she tripped and fell #and started crying which pbv i felt bad abt but it wasnt rly my fault like babies just fall alllcthe time nd i def didnt push her or move #her roughly at all but i still feel bad and a parent was there too and comforted her for me even tho i didnt rly ask her to so i kind of #feel like embarrassed idk cuz i cld have done it lol. (it wasnt her parent a diff parent etc lol) #Idk. #Its annoying they like turn into demons by the last hour or two bc its the end of the day. cant get them to etop hitting each other #Ugh. #Idk #whateverrr

[charlieslowartsies]

Tattoo session tonite and bc Jason is visiting I'm expecting to be DOA tomorrow, so trying to finish all that I can today for client work lmao.

also not me thinking about a future design the day of getting a new one

#its just lineart and its only a 7 inch design so far smaller than my reaper or haunted house....or my gunsnroses or my wolf skull jesus #last tattoo i had on the small side must have been my parents handwriting in feb? #time flies #anyway this one is my cryptid slash unsolved/watcher tribute but like. subtle #incase they ever become murders #it just looks like a cool spoopy design lmao #cant wait to show it offfff #its 4 parts and the last 3 are either gunna be done tonight if we can or at another session #but im hoping i got spoons for the 3 cryptid babies that go around my arm

[beeseverywhen]

god the duality between 'I don't want someone in my house' and 'yeah I'd like my own kids and no way I'm doing that alone'

#like ppl who don't want kids should be free to live their lives without ppl being like 'watch out! your biological clock is ticking!' #that's bullshit ppl shouldn't say that. but also. i would like kids and #after so many years trying not to get pregnant and that seeming like a worst case scenario. so desperately wanting to not become my parents #now i am an age where I'd happily have a kid if i were in the right life situation & i don't feel I've got all the time in the world anymore #lol like. the space in between 'too young to have a baby' and 'old enough that i risk more health issues/ will be an older parent' #feels way way narrower than i ever would have assumed lol. esp. because all the parents in my family are so young. the idea of being an #older parent is so strange to me. I'm so aware of the things you can't do when you're older and how it's harder work to run after them #and like my body is already wearing out way faster than anyone elses. my health's only gonna get worse so. #being an older parent just doesn't seem an option. not to mention like. the older i am the less generations I'll get to see. #i want to be a great grandmother damnit. lol. #like I'm on a clock. to get over my commitment issues or it legit won't happen. but yeah. can't think of anything worse than having #to have someone in my house. if i was rich enough to have lots of space that's one thing but. I'm not lol. #and rich ppl rub me up the wrong way whenever they try and chat me up so doubt I'm gonna marry in to money looool #like i have come to terms with the fact that. if it doesn't happen it doesn't happen. id rather not get to be a mother than to settle #like that whole 'looking for a partner' dating life is not for me i can't think of anything worse. if it happens it happens #I'll either meet the right person who im willing to give up an empty house for or i won't looool #and it's not like im giving up the whole raising kids thing completely. #like I've got to play a significant hand in raising my siblings even if i didn't ask for that. I've got to see them grow and #help them reach those milestones. and whatever the circumstances I'm blessed to have had them in my life #even if i don't have my own kids I'm always gonna have kids in my life even if I'm an aunt rather than grandmother you know #I'm lucky to be in a family where raising kids is a communal thing. but yeah id love to have my own kids & have someone that looks like me #but I'm not willing to bring someone in to the world in non opportune circumstances deliberately. #like if it's up to me i want them to have 2 parents to look out for them and 2 parents that at least stand a chance of liking each other lol

[nopeferatu]

i just think its really cool to headcanon ennis as having mexican ancestry. i just think its really neat.

#i think he had a great great grandfather who was a mexican born in what is now known as the southwest us during the period when that #territory was annexed into the us after the mexican-american war and i think he grew up in a region that had a bit of american immigration #so he grew up learning english and whatnot #and since mexicans were the og cowboys i think he grew up doing ranch work and was hired to do a cattle drive from tx to #wyoming around the time of the civil war. and then when he got there he met a purdy little irish girl who's family moved to #wyoming following the construction of the railroad in the state #and they met and fell in love and bam #they made little mexican irish catholic babies #then of course they just kinda lost ties to their mexican heritage as the bloodline continued bc that great grandpa was the only ethnically #nonwhite member ofthe family or smth so any connection to that culture disappeared by the time ennis' parent was born (i think its his mom) #and it just becomes one of those things were his mom is like you know we have mexican blood in us right son #its the only way i can reckon with all these hispanic names in the source material lol #'del mar' #'aguirre' #there be hispanics a-foot.... #still brokeback posting #brokeback mountain