Willow and Rowan have gotten into the makeup-fascination stage of childhood, and they want to experiment on all your other characters! Who lets the kids make them into pretty pretty princesses (lol)? Is there anyone who refuses?
Oh, oh oh oh...
This is adorable. There are no pretty princess refusals on the Dirt Farm or the Hawthorne Manor.
Even Trevor would tolerate it. (He'd be out of it as fast as possible when the kids got tired of it, but he'd let them.)
Podcast would go the whole nine yards, makeup, bows in his hair, the dresses and all of it, he would be queen of the tea party, holding court with the plushies.
Egon and Ray are just thrilled to have the experiences with the kids.
Winston, Peter, and Louis have done this with their own kids.
Gary would actually buy them their own makeup so they don't accidentally ruin any of the adults' makeup.
Artie would grumble loudly, but in a way the kids knew was teasing, and they'd giggle the whole time.
Of course all the girls would accept and let the kids do whatever. They'd also definitely be filming the guys when it's their turn.
Everyone would take selfies with the kids and each other and save the pics in the family album.
Thank you, I needed this imagine, because it melted the crankiness I had going on IRL.
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oaky, you said that Stina had a talentless cousin who was disowned at sixteen, but what happened after he was disowned, was he homeless on the streets? did Stina re/connect with him after she was disowned? and what is his name, because i’ve been calling him Francis and i feel like that’s probably wrong
Yeah...
(heyo peeps who haven't read my Stinex fic yet, that's where i mentioned this!)
They kicked him out, probably onto the streets, yeah. They just didn't care anymore. Maybe it's a tad ugly of behavior, but hey, it keeps their family pretty, and that's all that matters in the lost cities.
I'm willing to bet he found some talentless city, probably walked there, I bet light leaping costs lusters. He wanders there, and he's dirty and sweaty and tired and streaked with tears.
And he just winds up along dusty roads and run down houses and he just looks out at it and thinks, I belong here.
He just stares out at the houses, and wonders why his family thought kicking out a fifteen year old boy was something it was okay to do.
A girl walked past, with a basket of wildflowers under her arm.
"Are you okay?"
The boy looked at her. "Nope," he answered.
"What's the matter?"
"I... Everything's a mess."
She stared at him. "Where do you live?"
"Nowhere."
She blinked. "Your family?"
"Don't have one, anymore."
She blinked. "Alright. Come on, then."
She kept walking, and stunned, he followed.
He wound up in a warm house, and was fed without question, and offered a place to sleep.
"Aren't you worried about me, like, killing you in your sleep?"
The mother of the family laughed, and through the open windows of the tiny house he heard bugs humming. "You can try. My sons work in the mines, though. They'd crack you in half like a twig."
He blinked. "Oh."
"And besides," she said, looking him up and down once. "We see a lot of your kind. Fancy clothes. Tear streaks. Hungry. Tired. Just last week, some kid came around. Four years old. Ashmaker. We cleaned her up and got her to a good family. She's doing better now."
He sat there, quietly, listening.
The mother continued. "Yesterday, my friend Litha found this kid, about your age, he was, wandering about the stores. He said he'd been kicked out."
"Why?"
"Talentless twin. They wanted his brother more than they wanted him."
He felt sick. "Oh."
She nodded. "Pretty awful of them."
He swallowed, the lump in his throat heavy and sharp. "Yeah."
"So," she said, "What are you out for?"
He blinked away tears, looking at the ground. "Just... didn't have a talent."
She nodded, once. "I'm sorry, kiddo. We're all in the same boat, though."
He was struck with a jolt that this woman was talentless. This home was talentless. And yet, after years of his family's hatred, cursing everyone like them, hating their very existence without them knowing, the only thing they offered him was kindness.
Maybe he belonged here, among kind words and firm phrases, and a love that beats underneath the worn and sticky boards of the house. Maybe he wanted to.
Maybe.
I honestly think Stina would probably leave him alone.
Maybe she runs into him, one day, in a store, shopping. Maybe she meets his eyes and thinks she knows him.
Maybe she recognizes his stature.
Maybe there's something to him that she knows, like she knows her aunts and uncles.
Maybe...
But then it passes.
She leaves the store.
And never thinks about it again.
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Pro tip: If your real family don't deserve the time of day from you...
a fictional family is just as good, if not better!
So glad We can finally provide a meal for my family in a game.
The characters in our fictional family are as follows:
Cordelia (Wife)
Severa/Selena (Daughter)
Subaki (Son-in-law)
Caeldori (Granddaughter)
Sumia (Wife)
Cynthia (Daughter)
*Lucina (Daughter)
No matter how much or how little We post about them on here, know this:
We absolutely love all of them the same amount: 1000%!
*Considering that by default Sumia and Chrom are paired together, that makes Lucina also a part of our fictional family.
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New comfort show guys… Kung Fu on HBO max
Does it have a stupid name? Yes. (Yeah, yeah, I know it’s a comic)
Is it extremely cliche and very cheesy? Also yes.
Did I just binge the entire first season in one night instead of sleeping. Yes, yes I did…
The writing is nothing to write home about and the first ep or 2 is…. Campy to say the least…
However,
I am in love with the sibling and family dynamics/resolutions in this dumb show. Pure catharsis, man.
Also mostly women martial artists and pretty fucking decent fight scenes? Check and check.
I adore every character in this show and I won’t apologize for it
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I think one of the reasons friendships in fiction are often overlooked in fandom is because they're not written like real friendships. Like don't get me wrong, a huge part of it definitely stems from an obsession with sex and romance on the part of the people consuming the media, but that's not all of it.
In fiction, friendships are often trivial bonds. An easy relationship to establish between two characters. A way for the two of them to establish how they're feeling about a particular event by using each other as a vessel for a long personal rant. And pretty much all actual emotional relationships and important dynamics are given to romantic or familial relationships.
But in real life, friendships can be the things that change you more than anything else. They can be deeply impactful in a way that romance sometimes isn't. Your friends can be the people that you lean on when times are tough, who support you and bond with you. They can even save your life. And you don't need a traditional "found family" plot as an excuse to write this either. Sometimes your friend can feel like your sibling, but sometimes they're just your friend, and that can be meaningful all on its own.
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Happy Paperback Publication Day to @jonnywaistcoat and FAMILY BUSINESS!
DEATH. IT’S A DIRTY BUSINESS.
When Diya Burman’s best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons – a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.
Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people’s lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won’t they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?
If Diya’s not careful, she might just end up getting buried under the family tree. . .
'A triumph, thriving on relatable fears, hyper-realistic dirty homes, and understandable grief' - Fantasy Hive
'It completely blew me away' - FanFi Addict
'Don't read by yourself in a strange hotel room if you want to come out psychologically unscathed' - Me, specifically, learning lessons the hard way so that other people don't have to.
If you want a book that will:
Make you twitch at strange shapes outside the windows as the nights get darker
Break you in the smallest ways with the simplest observations of the meaning of humanity and love
Give you new and exciting things to be scared of that actually, on reflection, had probably always been lurking in the depths of your psyche just waiting to be called up
FAMILY BUSINESS is the book you want to grab.
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