#but i keep dithering between grimdark and happy ending

[stainedglassthreads]

So Dungeons and Daddies Season 2 is really just taking the average coming-of-age story and making it to every horrifying extreme, huh.

It is that moment in which you realize your parents don't know what they're doing any better than you do, and people present it like it's something comforting, but it's just even more terrifying because there really, really is no right answer. It's realizing that no, love isn't enough, sometimes you love your family and it just made everything worse. Everyone who came before you fucked things up even when they were trying to make things better, and unfucking everything just seems impossible, but not even trying is such a depressing option, and one your kids will never be able to forgive you for.

I have many feelings on this.

#i want to make a joke about how this is just like me. an adult #being made to solve extremely easy problems that other adults shouldn't have any issue with #but which feel insurmountable on an equal level with what these poor kids are going through #but it feels like it's kinda about that too #there's how scary acts with her 'no one will ever ever ever understand what i'm going through' thing #and then. well. hyperbole is a very ancient art indeed #anyways i just got to the point where these kids had some very good reasons to team up with willie fucking stampler of all people #even when they KNEW he sucked #and it all just smacked in the face like a dead fish #god i wish i could make stories as complicated and fucked at this #but i keep dithering between grimdark and happy ending #anyways. uh #dndads #dungeons and daddies #it's a great podcast. go watch it #if you liked eeaao ESPECIALLY watch it