#child being a jerk

[otakusapien]

You're allowed to dislike children, but you still have to be polite and reasonably kind to random ones around you for the same reason you're passingly polite to random adults in you're daily life: Because they are people

#I don't think I'm saying anything new or profound here but we need to find a balance between hating on kids #And telling people they are obligated to love children and are a bad person if they don't #Possibly unpopular opinion: it's fine if you don't like kids #The problem isn't someone not liking kids it's that they're being a jerk to another person #I love kids but I'm kind of sick of people being told they're scum for not engaging like a preschool teacher with every child they meet #Just be a decent human and you're fine

[hecksupremechips]

Mizuki and Date though like. Imagine being 8 and your parents are filthy rich and going through a bad divorce. Your mom treats you like shit, lashing out at you, hitting you, saying she wishes you were never born all because you were behaving like a child. Your dad is more comforting, but he doesn’t do anything to stop the abuse and he spends his time invested in a completely different family, a girl who you love and look up to but he loves her more than you and it fucking shows. Then your dads new friend, some fucking bachelor in his late 20s, is just like "wow you guys are the worst fucking parents ive ever seen" and next thing you know your dad is sending you off to live with him. And it’s just a massive kick in the head cuz you go from a rich lifestyle to living in some really shitty tiny ass apartment with this guy who’s clearly never been around a child in his entire life and he doesn’t know how to behave and does a really bad job of censoring himself like he has a bunch of dirty magazines that he can’t hide very well cuz it’s literally a studio apartment and also he talks to himself sometimes, it’s really weird. He doesn’t even have the slightest clue what he’s doing

And he’s the best parent you’ve ever had

Because fuck, it all really hurts. You have to cope with having never received any love from anyone, and with the fact that your parents clearly don’t want you and can’t even be bothered to send you with anyone even kinda responsible. And this guy has a scary job with crazy hours and you don’t know anything about him and neither does he. But still, he never once hits you or tells you you’re not allowed to cry. He just gives you space and doesn’t push you to feel any sort of way about him. And sometimes, he’s even kind. He makes you some stew, even though it’s a bit chunky. He lets you sleep in the bed and takes the couch for himself, even though he complains about the massive back pain he’d never trade his spot for a second. He pays attention to events at your school and gives you your favorite stuffed animal when you make good grades, even though you called it ugly. He gets worried sick when you come home with bruises and puts on a goofy voice and trains you to defend yourself and you develop some highly deadly skills and even though it’s really abnormal, he buys you a bench press so you can get stronger. There’s this distance there, and you feel really weird caring about someone who you aren’t related to, but you find yourself wishing it was meant to be like this all along, that maybe, he’s secretly your real dad and he loves you like his real daughter

And when you say "I’m back" he says "welcome home"

#aitsf #ai the somnium files #kaname date #mizuki date #THE DATES THEY ARE MY EVERYTHING AAAAAAAAA #its so funny though like imagine being such a bad parent that some loner who jerks off all the time does a better job than you #and hes literally never interacted with children before and is later revealed to have actually been an assassin #renju and shoko really just suck huh #and i dont mean to reduce date to a porno loving loser cuz nah like hes actually got so much depth going on in this situation like he cant #remember a single thing about his past he has no frame of reference for what a family is or if hes ever had one himself #which we then learn he. kinda didnt he was an orphan with no friends no name no one who came looking for him it seems #yet he still finds himself loving and caring for this girl and would literally die over and over for her to live a happy life #hes so genuinely kind and caring and deeply lonely and unsure of himself if hes doing this right #and he feels agonizing pain when hes forced to remember that he isnt mizukis real dad and that. he has nothing #but despite that he doesnt force mizuki to return these feelings because its a lot to burden a child with and shes been through enough #its like. kaname date i love youuuu please just adopt her already 🥺

[cattatoir]

I think I have unpopular Sandman takes bc I'm usually on his side

#like I would also not promise not to take revenge like maybe you shouldn't do things...to make him take revenge and just accept the possible #consequences #but uh I also assume he wouldn't have done much to the kid #and I'm not on the pregnant lady's side #Like obviously as a human Empathy for your loss #But letting the universe start falling to pieces and acting like you're somehow OWED a child with your dead husband #not to mention owed your dead husband #is so incredibly selfish #not to mention compounding the issue by apparently trying so hard to avoid the consequences of your action that you #a) refuse to accept your kid is like never gonna be a human and it's entirely your fault #b) try and fuck with the fabric of the universe AGAIN #like the consequence of her kid being taken from her probably way earlier than he would have to become Dream #That's like Minimum punishment imo #Being a parent is I'm sure a horrifying and painful thing to deal with a lot as is losing your husbandf #but I'm not going so far to valorize someone's individual pain that they don't have any responsibility for their stupid fucking actions #sorry it hurts and sucks but uh the universe doesn't owe you SHit #and I'm only for robbing it if you're like #eating the rich or fighting god not fucking over everyone else who you don't care about because you're a jerk #cmo's log #he's totally wrong for not forgiving his ex tho. WACK get over yourself you big fucking baby #get wreckt

[rukafais]

gonna be briefly petty on main here cause i've blocked this person since I got into this fandom and i never want to interact with them ever, but I genuinely do not know why you'd trust the person w/ the canon artemis url when they keep dressing up their opinion as fact, cherrypick citations if they use them at all, and keep going onto the posts of new people to be like ACTUALLY THE BOOKS SUCK AND THE AUTHOR SUCKS in what seems to be some bizarre attempt to control new folks' reading experience.

Like I know they're an oldguard BNF and all but holy shit, if I'd interacted with that person literally at all upon getting into the fandom I would have been turned off these books forever. Genuinely don't get it tbh.

#also they reacted to some anon being a jerk to them by screaming that they knew exactly who it was and were going to dox them soooo uh #yknow. I remember that. Some mod in another server literally scolded me like i was a child for 'provoking them' after i was like #'wow that's really bad' #'threatening to doxx people is fucked up?' #They're just a huge broken stair lmao

[radiant-absolute-radiance]

Alright I’m curious where the majority of people lie.

I personally think of him as a child because it fits better thematically so thats what i hc him as but I also like the trope of people not looking their age so I don’t mind seeing that either!

#guilty gear #bedman #guilty gear bedman #i think his downfall was that he was too sure of himself. he got swayed by ariels very easily #intelligence doesn’t make up for experience #hes naive! #hes a horrible teenager who thinks hes soooo mature #my interpretation at least! i think him being so annoying and a jerk is funnier when hes just like 16 #but i also find the idea of people calling him a child and him going ‘….yknow im 25’ very funny #also big age gap with siblings #lol this is me wanting to yell about bedsiblings whivh i usually do through art #havent finished any yet though

[bruciemilf]

AND there are canons where Bruce is perfectly well-adjusted, has hobbies, hangs out with his friends, loves his family, and is a perfectly normal, sweet guy other than the whole "billionaire and Batman" thing. But Alfred gets all the blame and none of the credit with you "Alfred was a bad parent" people.

But??? I never said?? Alfred was bad???

#being an unprepared parent doesn't mean bad parent #alfred was not prepared to deal with a traumatized child. 'good' parents would have issues dealing with a traumatized child #and let me just get this out of the way; there's a very big difference between turning out 'good' and turning out mechanically functional #bruce can never truly be a 'stable' model member of society and thats outside of everyone's power! alfred didn't worsen anything #and the things you describe are spoken for for any well written bruce who's not a fictional puppet for a man to jerk off on abuse #and macho ism #guess what -- a lot of traumatized folks lead happy lives as well. and a lot of people with stable upbringing with ' healthy parents' #can experience social hardship as well. the post i think you're referring to (which was one: already disqualified alfred as a bad parent) #and two: was a joke that even a tweleve year old could comprehend - wasn't calling him a bad dad. he was a dad who didn't know what to do #at the time. if you can't tell those two apart thats your issue mama

[br1ghtestlight]

topsy is a great prequel to amelia (which was intended, amelia was written to be a follow-up episode to topsy themeatically) bcuz i keep wanting to punch mr dinkler in the face for his weird misogyny directed @ louise and her win at the end of this episode wasn't enough. I need someone to straight up tell louise it wasn't anything she did and that he's being a misogynistic asshole to a nine year old girl bcuz she's kinda mouthy and rude to him. and amelia is an episode where everyone just tells louise You're Right to be angry. this is fucked. and instead of finding out the truth about thomas edison being a horrible person, she learns the truth about amelia earhart and respects her more and finds comfort in her idol. very different vibes (considering they're 10 seasons apart) but very thematically cohesive

#I will forgive wayne for being a weird misogynistic jerk to louise bcuz he's like 9 years old #fuck mr dinkler though what was his problem #i have experience w/ teachers targeting and hating/having beef with Me specifically. as a nine year old #and its like girl why. do you have nothing better to do than start beef with a nine year old child you teach??? really?? #bob's burgers #txt

[ssaalexblake]

Is there a way to get help for the people witnessing a bunch of terrified children on screen getting medically tortured and thinking that this is the show making said character cool and special and not just an abuse victim? bc this is not only old, it’s bordering on worrying.

Suffering is just suffering. It sure does make you things, but special isn’t one of them.

Child is kidnapped, abused, forced to be complicit in whatever a secret malevolent society forces them to do, has to run away and hide Not Even As Themselves to get away and it barely works for long. Their friend gets murdered. Then, when the society is fed up with them, they erased their memories and past, remove what was done to them from popular history so nobody else will know they existed, and dump them alone and without family back on the planet they were tortured to build. There is a child crying in a barn involved. Then they go on to do various other horrible things to them, the only plus side is they get better at running away now, but not always. Because they get pulled back in and messed with all the time because gallifrey hates them but also still wishes to use and abuse them for their own gain.

I wonder if the doctor sleeps better after the master went nuclear on them.

Regardless, the chosen one trope this is not. Nobody was chosen. There was a kidnapping. This is mother gothel territory.

#dw shit #yes I was just being a jerk to that person who wrote that post. I am sometimes a jerk. #I do not care #How can you say Moffat era (of which I personally am not even a fan) was them saying the doctor is some divine figure like twelve’s #entire thing wasn’t the doctor FINALLY getting back over themselves after ten’s descent into whatever that was at the end of his run #eleven is every bit the bitch ppl make him out to be tho… he has no defence here #I mean I like him but despite his issues not because of them #but lol I think misreading Any of twelve’s arc as the doctor is special makes #people a special kind of media illiterate #but I reiterate #child abuse? not the show saying somebody’s special #twelves yells he’s just an idiot in a box out loud like come on #…sometimes you see words so baffling your brain hamsterwheels. this is one of those times.

[pttucker]

"Please stop Kim Dokja-ssi. Otherwise…" Yoo Sangah couldn't finish her words. The sparks around her body blocked her mouth. However, Yoo Joonghyuk could clearly read the strings behind her. 「 Incarnation Kim Dokja will be killed by the person he loves most.」

Dang. Shin Yoosung about to murder Dokja.

#I joke I joke #though he is adorably fond and protective of her #not to mention his 'child' version of sys who's about to be born #who could technically kill him as a dokaebbi? #especially since dokja briefly wondered if she'd turn bad if he gave her a demon's story #really don't think it's his mom though I'm willing to be surprised #I could honestly see it as yjh #and not necessarily in a shipper way #but that we've seen time and time again that dokja treats the novel as the thing that saved him #the thing that's basically been his entire life for TEN YEARS #and while he may call yjh a jerk and grumble about him being the bastard protagonist #the fact that he IS the protagonist means that dokja's also sort of seen him as 'being there for him' when times were tough irl #and he probably has some sort of love for him just as many readers have love of their beloved novels' characters #(but also in a shipper way 😜) #orv #orv liveblog #orv spoilers #orv novel chapter 158 #omniscient reader's viewpoint

[wingsfreedom]

Why fiction often villainize prodigy children while uplifting ungifted children?

#im not talking about atla but fiction as a whole #there's strong tendency against gifted children #the child who specifically being praised as a 'prodigy' #is often made into a villain or a jerk

[creativesplat]

That scene from A Tale of Two Stars, from Stan's perspective.

#I imagine its pretty darn scary having your carer/ grunkle beaten up by this random dude from a portal that your grunkle liked #also the 'you didn't tell me you had kids down here' bit Ford looks so guilty like #like he knew he just full on attacked this man - which in his mind is morally fine - but in front of kids? that's where ford draws the line #and stan just looks really sad when he looks at scared Mable #also the r-i-n-g bit is the tinitus caused by Stan's ears slamming into the ground/ dislodging his hearing aid ( and totally #not me deciding that adding the goofy (but still scary) dialogue because it would ruin the tone and also because I hate writing in bubbles #also you all know I had to add the bloodied nose from the story boards what sort of person would I be if I didn't? ;> #when they tell the story it certainly affected Mable but I imagine Stan's joy at seeing his brother being reciprocated by a punch really #imprinted on her I think #she's not scared of loosing dipper until she sees the grunkle she trusts (enough to potentially doom the world as of the last episode) #be so so wrong about his brother - when you see a grown up getting betrayed or being wrong it really impacts a child y'know? so yeah #but I love ford being so caring about children even when he hates his brother and wants nothing more than to slam him repeatedly into a wal #he sees children and immediately changes his attitude #is that because of his parents do you think? did he and stan see or experience physical abuse? is that why he cares so much about these #children not seeing their grunkle getting hurt? Did he see his mother hurt or stan? we all know Filbrick wasn't the best dad ever so... #because as much as stan and ford are jerks to each other they care about Mable and dipper from the moment they saw them and that's just ... #I love them #also I am so surprised by how easily they accept ford into the conversation like I get it for narrative purposes but #someone just attacked your boss/dad or your grunkle/grandpa and even if there were just massive secrets revealed and its like a celebrity ( #aka the author) he still punched your boss/dad/grunkle in the face and pinned him to the floor #did no one want to stop that or... #but for real I love how quickly Mable is like 'hey this guys odd and I love his fingers “a full finger friendlier than normal” my heart #anyway I had to draw it so I did #your welcome! #lol #grunkle stan #grunkle ford #dipper pines #mable pines #stanley pines

[tolkien-feels]

Okay but please tell me why Dior is not a twin. The line of Beren and Luthien is Twins + one daughter. The only reason Elrond and Elros don't have a sister is there wasn't time to make her before Stuff Happened. So where is Dior's twin brother? Where is his younger sister? Also, why isn't Eldarion a twin? Or did Aragorn and Arwen switch the trend? One son and twin daughters? *bangs fists on table* WHY WERE THERE SUDDENLY ALL THESE TWINS? AND THEN SUDDENLY NONE???

Clearly, it was vital to the story that Dior be An Only Child™. I just used a ouija board and Tolkien himself confirmed that Dior was the specialest little boy in Arda who couldn't share mom and dad with anyone.

Now, as for Aragorn and Arwen, I think it's clear that all their children are trans and there's some confusion in the paperwork, what with mistranslations and all.

Alternatively, Arwen was like "I grew up with twin brothers and I don't want this for my children. Hear that, Iluvatar? I won't take no for an answer" and Iluvatar remembered the Luthien incident and said "Yes ma'am"

#i say #being an only child #no but really #i do headcanon dior was the most spoiled child there's ever been with the possible exception of feanor #he doesn't grow up to be a jerk but like. that's a miracle.

[quibbs126]

I found out about this Gnomed series that Cookie Run has (I’ve watched all of it, I really like it, it’s just so cute), and this scene here is just really sweet

#his wish is for his son to be happy #and that’s just wholesome #also in the second short at the beginning you can see Dark Cacao with the wish and he’s smiling while looking at it #like just the thought of Dark Choco being happy is enough to make him smile #it’s so cute #also I love how Dark Cacao has no mercy on Strawberry Crepe Cookie and just destroys her stuff #like yeah she deserved it she was being a jerk #but I honestly thought he was just gonna smack that child #cookie run kingdom #dark cacao cookie #dark choco cookie #cookie run gnomed #random stuff #also I like that gnome’s friendship with Dark Choco

[moe-broey]

Me, losing my absolute mind over the fairies and the greater implications of it all and the intricacies I swear to fucking god are there I swear to fucking GOD there's way more to them than meets the eye and I'm going to fucking get all the alts I fucking can so I can study The Lore and I'll fucking get to the fucking bottom of it all --

.............. you know what. A nap does sound nice.

#fire emblem #feh #i think maybe peony is just like that. #man.... i'm like. split between desperately wanting them to do more with her character ESP this new development #and like. almost respecting it. actually. #like knee jerk reaction of crying bad writing/god forbid women get anything ever aside #EXCLUSIVELY considering this in-universe. peony knows exactly what's she's about #she knows exactly what she wants and has an unwavering optimism one track mind about it #LIKE....... i kinda want to put her in the same category as corrin. #someone who actively CHOOSES kindness and love and hope ESP in the face of The Horrors #which can come off as naive or gullible or childish but like. corrin isn't stupid for it. #they have hope and they were sheltered. they hold onto hope even after learning how harsh #and complicated things can be outside of their tower. i almost want to say the same can be said for peony. #she's always been hopeful. she's always been optimistic. and maybe absolutely in the beginning #it was childish naivety (esp on the account of. being a child LMFAO) #but i think what i'm thinking here is now she's finally gotten a chance to grow a little.... #remember and reconcile w her past... reconnect with her sister.... #and in it all she chooses hope. also not to mention her desire to help others above all else #which IS WHAT MADE HER PEONY IN THE FIRST PLACE‼️‼️‼️ IF/WHEN SHE SWAPPED W SHARENA‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ #peony i am NOT overthinking it. i suffer from divine visions you see. I WILL CONTINUE TO BE OBSESSED W YOU #(also both of these are her 40 convo i just had to go back to grab the overthinking it dialogue) #(and i want everyone to see. my one orb of incredible pain. i did have to spark for her. 🫥) #fe peony

[doverstar]

I wish I liked Wednesday more but she's actually kind of a butt

#she's a little jerk to every single person on this show #she's Not Like Other Girls #her whole character strength is supposed to be that she doesn't care what others think but that turns out to be her flaw #which would be smart except they still celebrate it #they still act like it's Fine and Right for her to be a jerk to would-be friends or significant others or - OR - #-people who just want her to be okay? people who care about her but expect nothing from her? yeah she's awful to those people too #and her relationship with her parents sucks. especially her mother #she's just a total brat to Morticia for NO REASON except that for some reason she's obsessed with being unlike Morticia? #and the whole thing about the Addams Family is supposed to be that they're creepy and kooky and a little spooky BUT- #-they LOVE each other just like (if not more than) an ordinary suburban family would #they're a macabre play on the stereotypical suburban family of the 50s and 40s BUT the charm is that their wholesome lovingness is dialed u #dialed up to A THOUSAND for each other #and you only see that in Wednesday's show between the parents and between Wednesday and Pugsley #when canonically all four should be loving to ONE ANOTHER #anyway - wednesday's child is full of woe because you won't let her grow and change and be creepykookyspooky AND outwardly caring #she is not a relatable character unless you're comfortable in a morgue and you cried when your pet scorpion died (it's supposed to be Homer #((he's a spider)) ((not a scorpion)) #(((get it RIGHT NETFLIX))) #wednesday #wednesday addams #wednesday netflix #wednesday season 2 #the addams family #doverstar's thoughts #text post #opinion piece

[blankalisek]

Aubrey slander anyone?

#omori #aubrey omori #i hate her sm #aubrey sucks honestly #I dont care she was sad and angry #she literally bullied a traumatised child for about 4 years #also headspace Aubrey is a jerk sometimes #cant stand her being mean to kel in headspace #headspace aubrey is so annoying tbh