#instead of his own daughter???

[bestworstcase]

the perennial Tai Discourse is really interesting to track bc, speaking broadly, the two major camps are just:

those who focus primarily on ruby’s recollection of her childhood and relationship with her dad (and filter what yang says through that lens such that “i had to pick up the pieces and keep things together when i was five” gets diluted into “yang had responsibilities as a child”)

those who focus primarily on yang’s memories and her arc in v4 (and tend to just ignore or minimize the things ruby says that suggest a positive relationship with tai, in particular often just flat out disregarding how excited ruby is to spend time with or receive care packages from him)

when it’s like. yeah that’s. literally the point. that ruby and yang had profoundly different childhoods.

they’re half-sisters in a story about fairytales and only one of them had a decent dad. rwby is unsubtly interrogating the fairytale archetype of the Evil Stepmother/Dead Mother with raven (not dead, but absent) and summer (villain, presumed dead) and that archetype quite literally requires its counterpart archetype of the Neglectful Father who remarries and tacitly participates in the Evil Stepmother’s abuse of his child from his first wife

tai is as much an exploration of the fairytale Neglectful Father as raven is the Dead Mom and summer is the Evil Stepmother. that’s. a core aspect of the narrative surrounding the rose xiao long family.

the Dead Mom often reincarnates as a bird or tree or similar spirit to watch over her child; rwby turns this on its head by reimagining the Dead Mom as an absent one. raven watches over yang in her bird form because she is too afraid to be meaningfully present; she isn’t dead, but her absence in yang’s life is so complete that she might as well have been, and the fairytale tension between the Dead Mom’s death and her lingering presence is explored through these cramped and inadequate half-measures raven takes in trying to have it both ways.

the Evil Stepmother is a vehicle for making the fairytale heroine miserable; she has no identity nor any reason for her monstrous treatment of the child who is not her own. rwby, again, flips this over with the mystery of summer rose. who was she, really? did anyone know? she was a good stepmom—she loved yang like her own daughter—but now she’s gone. she left. she never came back. she lied. she joined salem. why? what expectations did she feel on her shoulders? what broke her? why did she do the things she did?

lastly, the Neglectful Father must either be a love-blind fool or a weak, contemptible man with no love or loyalty to his own blood; he forgets his motherless child at the behest of his new love. rwby turns this on its head too by rendering tai as a human being—messy, flawed, fully-realized. wicked stepsisters exist for the purpose of being spoiled by the Evil Stepmother in juxtaposition with her cruelty to the first child, who is kind and good because she remembers her mother’s lessons. the fairytale children of these archetypes function as repetitions of their mothers. rwby makes that the central conceit of its spin on the Neglectful Father: what if he loved both the Dead Mom and the Evil Stepmother so much and then both of them broke his heart in mirrored ways, leaving him a single father to both of their children? if he sees raven in yang and summer in ruby, how does that color his relationships with both girls? if you take away the Evil Stepmother but not her daughter, does the Neglectful Father remember his first child? or are people more complicated than that?

and with all three, the narrative engages with these one-dimensional archetypes by constructing complicated, multi-faceted characters on top of them; by tossing the simplistic moral didacticism of a fairytale and presuming, first, that everyone is trying their best, that bad choices can be made from good intentions, and that no one gets it right all the time, or even most of the time. love and profound dysfunction can coexist.

ruby and yang had very different childhoods. that’s the narrative foundation the whole rose xiao long family is built on, because they’re a deconstruction of the archetypal fairytale blended family.

#this is also why every permutation of ''tai isnt rubys Real Dad'' is nonsense btw. ruby being yang’s half-sister instead of step-sister is #on purpose. the condemnation of the archetypal fairytale Neglectful Father is he mistreats his own blood in favor of another man’s children #and rwby uses his blood relation to both his daughters to question that framing; #the dynamic doesn’t become any Less dysfunctional if the favored child is equally the father’s by blood

[twilight-deviant]

I'm trying to remember if DP ever said where/when Vlad got Danny's DNA to make a clone in the first place............

(Yeah, hair doesn't have DNA unless you get the root. Did you want me to draw him swabbing the inside of Danny's mouth? XD)

#Danny Phantom #DaNnA #My mind is creating an AU where he stole Danny's DNA through... means #but of course Dani fails without the mid-morph DNA #Instead of having a crazy villain plot about it though #Vlad just substitutes his own mid-morph DNA? #It doesn't... not affect her #What I'm saying is that (like their firstborn evil boy) Dani becomes a genetic combination of them both #This seems like the obvious solution to me if I were Vlad #(Granted he wanted an exact Danny clone) #(Too bad you get the daughter you're dealt) #My Art #Danny Fenton #Vlad Masters

[hecksupremechips]

Ever think about Date’s view on family and how that relates to his character? When Mizuki asks him to define family, he just awkwardly offers that its like being blood related to someone. It leaves a bitter taste in his mouth and Mizukis, but like, he literally had no idea what a real family looks like. He’s an orphan, a man who grew up with no family and no name, but he doesn’t know that yet. He has no memory of his past, no way of knowing if there’s someone out there waiting for him to come home, if he even had a place to call home. His only frame of reference for a family is Mizuki and her parents. Deep down he knows it’s not right, not loving, but it fits the mold of a nuclear family, man and woman, blood related, so that must be what family is. When he’s asked to take in Mizuki, he’s absolutely clueless because he literally has zero frame of reference for how a child is supposed to be cared for. He puts distance between them because this isn’t his place, he doesn’t have the right to love this child as his own because he isn’t the real dad. There’s no place for someone like him in a family. And it’s baffling to him to hear that Mizuki not only loves him, she needs him because he is her family. Date believes he’s a nobody, just a sad, lonely man with no name who absolutely does not deserve this kind of love. But he has it anyway because he chooses it, he makes something that neither he nor Mizuki have ever had before. HES HOME

#aitsf #ai the somnium files #kaname date #mizuki date #just crying about the date family for the millionth time nothing new #also i just had this realization that like date literally had absolutely ZERO clue what he was doing #cuz its not like he remembers his own childhood so he cant use that as a frame of reference for how to treat his own child #and yet despite this he does a much better job than renju and shoko ever did just because he like. actually loves mizuki lol #honestly kinda fucking insane that date was asked to take care of her instead of hitomi #like renju has a choice between his long term friend who hes really close with and who he knows has lots of experience in childcare #versus his silly friend who lives in the smallest apartment with tons of debt and has literally never seen a baby before #then again thats probably why he didnt choose hitomi cuz he probably wanted to keep mizuki separate from the family he actually cares about #also for meme purposes its just like date is like wow renju youre literally the worst dad ever #and renju is like well okay hotshot if you think its so easy then how about you raise my daughter asshole #and date is like okie and does a significantly better job at it #i love kaname date so fucking much you guys will never understand what we have 😩

[kelpiemomma]

He hesitated as the child below him smiled and reached up. His claws rested right above its head and yet it looked delighted to see him. Did it not realize the danger it was in? It grabbed his fur and giggled.

"Puppy!"

...if he was asked, he was simply raising it up to help him infiltrate human settlements better.

#Khan a. #Zoroark Khan #Raised by Zoroarks au #Khan finds Akari in the middle of nowhere and is about to kill her (bc all humans deserve to die in his eyes) #But when she smiles at him he can't do it and decides to take her in and raise her instead #There was something about her looking... Happy to see him that stopped him #(when was the last time anyone was happy to see him?) #(this is bc I thought it'd be funny if Khan raised akari as a Zoroark and then got upset and jealous #When ingo drops the fuck out of the sky and after becoming the warden becomes friendly #the weird feral child running with Zoroarks. He tries to guide her into human behaviors which she finds so INTERESTING #Esp when he decides she's good enough to go into town!!! The town humans are neat and not at all scary like khan had always said #Ingo lies and says she's his daughter. That they had gotten separated during travel. That she had to survive on her own for a time #Which is why she's... Like That. Everyone eats it up. Gives her free stuff. Tells her they're glad she's reunited with her dad. #Akari tells Khan (who's only referred to as 'malice' yet) and Khan gets jealous as FUCK. #That is HIS BABY. HE FOUND HER. HE RAISED HER. SHE'S HIS DAUGHTER. NOT INGO'S!!! #But when he tries to sneak into Jubilife to steal her back? Bring her home? Do something? He's caught and chased out. And the next morning #Things are abuzz with the news that a black Zoroark had tried to break in!! Those things are so dangerous!! Say... #Hadn't the clans mentioned a black Zoroark before? #Akari discovers then (long after befriending ingo and months since she started coming into town) that Khan had told her the truth. #That these people hated Zoroarks. Feared them. But Ingo tells her that the clans have been harassed by them for generations. #That Malice is right but also he's wrong. And Akari decides she's going to show how GOOD Zoroarks are!!! How loving the are to their family #She ends up helping Laventon and Rei with the dex. She is still known as Warden Ingo's Feral Daughter. And everyone wonders and fears #Bc somehow one of the first pokemon she caught was a zorua she keeps in her party ALWAYS. Ingo thinks her wanting to show the good side #of Zoroarks is a good thing. Peace would be beneficial. He's heard hunters in the pearl clan discuss wanting to track down and kill #Every Zoroark and zorua to keep them from hunting the clans. He doesn't want an entire species wiped out! #So there is Ingo and his 'daughter' (who he is genuinely starting to see as his daughter) and then suddenly #One day there is a knock at the door. And ingo opens it to see a young man with a nasty scar GLARING at him #And the first thing he says is 'give me back my child' which makes ingo ???) #There were more tags but Tumblr said 'fuck you that's too many' #TLDR ingo has to lie to Jubilife residents and tell them Khan is his ex and the residents are LIVING for the perceived Family Drama™️

[blackcat419]

I need a scene of Jaehaera unleashing all her hatred and sorrow on Aegon the younger. She just looks him dead in the eyes and tells him he should be dead instead of Jaehaerys in an eerily calm tone. She says he should be dead instead of Maelor, instead of her mother, her great grandfather, her uncle Aemond and Daeron, her voice filling with anger and sorrow as she yells out at him. He should be dead instead of Mourgal, Shrykos, Sunfyre, Dreamfyre, Vhagar, and Tessarion. She screams that he is the son of traitors, kinslayers, and a bastard. And as her father holds Jaehaera as she weeps, she whispers to Aegon II, “I wish you killed him too, dad.” And as Aegon the younger looks on, we hear him whisper, “i wish I was dead too.”

Then we cut to Aegon 3rd as an adult looking upon the tomb effigy of Jaehaera and whispering, “I wish I was dead instead of you.”

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd headcanon #HotD made up scenes #even if a Jaehaera lived they would never work #aegon iii targaryen #jaehaera targaryen #breaking my own heart #Aegon only wanting to die to escape his pain but everyone else dies instead of him #Aegon 3rd having survivors guilt #he should have named one of his daughters after Jaehaera #just memeorializing all who died in his kids

[lautakwah]

havent posted my face in a while if anyone is mean to me i WILL cry btw

#ling.txt #anyway i had a whole plot written out in my head after writing that caption bc. god. can u imagine a baihe story like that actually 😭 #pls i need a wuxia story of a wandering swordsman (<- thats a butch lesbian btw) whos known in all the jianghu #for his chivalry and amazing swordplay and the only daughter of a well-known grandmaster who is willful and skilled at martial arts #and who has never been beaten before in combat but her beauty is as highly spoken of as her fighting prowess so to finally settle matters #they hold a martial arts contest to determine who will be her spouse but instead she elopes with the handsome stranger who cant bear #to lay a hand on her and they have many adventures along the way and become a legend in their own right #before retiring after saving the realms three times over and they are never seen again except for whispers on the wind.... or whatever

[rose-lalondde]

the difference between the tumblr and twitter reactions to the boruto time skip designs has been so funny omg

#boruto #naruto #moon posts #im not gonna lie to yall i think the kids are serving DOWWWWWWNNN #like they kinda ate im sorry #there are def very fair critiques like why is sarada wearing louboutins in what looks like a sleeveless dress but is actually a romper #i don't even know a thing about sumire but why does she still look like she's going to school #i actually rly like inojins fuckass bob his whole look is very gender to me actually #chocho looks stunning too but i wish they had went for a crop top instead of a sports bra #i also just remembered inojin isn't wearing a crop top but thats ok b/c he's his own person but he would've slayed that crop top hoodie #kawaki looks sick as always #boruto i actually have no notes for like sasuke passed down looking cunty no matter what as a lesson too #did yall see his sandals yeah he ate that #shikadai got a bigger jacket which i love b/c i think jackets make everything better #i haven't rly seen mitsuki that much but i think he needs to fire his barber #himiwari looks sooooooooooo cute !!!!! my daughter is a teenager now waaaaahhhgg #ive seen a few posts comparing her to hinata which ofc they look similar but i have something to say #she reminds me of naruto a Lot and kushina too #ok thats a separate thing tho #moon tags

[caesurah-tblr]

I’m just thinking about all the parents walking around today with tears in their eyes but smiles on their faces, trying to keep upbeat and happy around their kids. I’m just thinking about how Quackity is going to lose what could’ve potentially been his second chance.

Im just thinking about Charlie, Mariana, and Maximus, who thought that maybe they’d be happy that the others are finally going to get a taste of what it’s like. But they’re not. They’re not happy, they’re sad because even though they’ve lost their children and may be bitter about it, they see how happy their friends and it makes them hurt just to see their friends go through the inevitable.

#qsmp #im just thinking about Charlie comforting a crying Wilbur while he tries to hide the shaking in his hands #and he’s barely gotten the chance to mourn his own daughter but he won’t let Will go through this alone #also thinking about Mariana comforting Roirer all while having this sad look in his eyes #I don’t have the motivation to write a fic so instead I will just put ideas out there in hopes someone else will write them

[redwraiths]

quick character design headshots for orion's team :3

#own art #robin au #helena kosmatos #irey west #lor-zod #la'gaan #this is my free real estate #doing whatever the god damn fuck i want #and that includes taking helena and turning her into a half amazon but shes still got the fury stuff #yanking wallys daughter from the future #taking young justice lor zods design and putting it in another universe where his father dru zod got sent to earth as a teenager instead of #kal el. and la'gaan. well. not much changes about la'gaan aside from physical differences #him and lor zod bicker and maybe kiss #helena doesnt have any. proper clothes. because of a lack of foresight on my part #dont worry helena ill make you a really good hero suit i prommy

[morninkim]

more oc redraws!!

JUMP Strider // Genji Mori

#neo toku #my ocs #my art #tokusatsu oc #he's this world's kamen rider ichigou basically - but instead of a grasshopper he and his partner are based on crickets #they were called the 'gemini crickets' back in the day until they had a falling out which resulted in genji being on the run #like ichigou genji's a cyborg - difference being he and his partner were remodeled at the same time and were a team from the start #he ends up as ruriko's mentor when she first separates from her dad and brother #he's extremely grumpy but ends up caring for her like she were his own daughter (he'd Never admit it though)

[arolesbianism]

Thinks oh so hard abt the spiraling upwards clan founders, especially the birchclan founders. Silly lil kitties who's pasts are drenched in blood with the primary regret of not drawing it sooner

#rat rambles #oc posting #warriors posting #spiraling upwards #long story short they had a shitty awful terrible leader who sucked absolutely ass and they tore him to shreds #I mean that literally they pinned him onto the mountain side and slashed and mauled the shit out of him so hard that his lives evaporated #and several of the cats involved in that scene are sill alive and major parts of the story and I love them #oh also the cat that pinned him through a stab through the throat was his own daughter btw everyone hated his ass so much #and for good reason get his ass #alas in the main story I dont rly get to go too deep into how he harmed everyone involved mostly just three main ones #aka bristlestar because shes murtlepaw's ghost mom dawncrackle because hes also haunting murtle and gullspot because shes bristle's kit #so basically all the flashbacks we get involve those three in some form or another #honeystar was also there and involved but Im not currently planning on having her rly talk abt that #most of her more modern angst is the fact that she was forced into leadership against her will #and shes been alive long enough that shes been leading birchclan far longer than she ever lived in her old clan #but she did go through a lot of shit before birchclan was founded and it definitely shaped her a lot #she used to be a very determined and high spirited lil kitty cat who tried to be optimistic #but her family began to slowly be picked off one by one by both the old leader and the one whod later get evicerated #some of the older cats around her hoped it make her back down from her revelutionary ideas but she noticed that and it backfired on them #instead of being worn down to submission she became absolutely Furious and began to lash out more and become more demanding #it got to the point that she really only had two friends in the entire clan and one of them was her aunt whod later also die after coming #out abt having witnessed the leader killing his own kits #that was the final fucking straw for her and she was fully on board when bristle and dawn started looking for cats to join their rebellion #she did get rly frustrated with them as they waited patiently for the right moment but her remaining bestie kept her from going apeshit #so once the big fight finally broke out she was more than eager to join the hoard of cats chasing the bastard upwards #now unlike some of the other cats involved this legitimately actually made her feel a lot better for a while #for the first time in ages she finally felt like she could be optimistic abt smth again and was excited abt the idea of leaving this place #she had lost so much in this damn place since she was an apprentice and just wanted to finally be able to rest easy #but once they got to their new territory and set up camp things went south real fast as a flood fucked everything up #and after losing the only cat she had left in her life and losing her tail and being made deputy on top of that she deteriorated quickly

[mihai-florescu]

There was a period inbetween 2021-2022 where enstars was obsessed with hypnosis plotlines

#wataru in sanctuary Obvi. then the leo new year story (i havent read it yet but it got mentioned in hermitage) and of course hermitage #where it was possibly possession instead #imagine telling hitsugi that he didnt get the soul of his dead sister transfered into his body and that he just split an alter out of grief #But soul fuckery Is possible. through a doll mika owns #(because i genuinely think the story has more power if theres no magical bs going on with hitsugi and negi. priest was just a- #delusional man who killed his daughter in the pursuit of an impossible goal #)

[bitchfitch]

I've had to make a spreadsheet to keep track of the vignettes. and I'm pretty certain over half this book isn't going to be about Conall and Arlo. This format really gives me room to play with the whole time fuckery that happens around Arlo so the connections between sections are going to be more about themes vibes and flow than linear story progression. Like I'll make a key that sorts all 7 ish timelines linearly within themselves and another that sorts them all into one timeline. Because a good portion of these happen concurrently.

Like, A scene might play from Arlo's pov and ten sections later you'll get it from Conall's. and while that's happening the two different versions of Asena are both doing their own thing at that same moment.

Also there's 2 Asena's now. one of them isn't happy about it but the other doesn't know that other version of herself exists.

#the one who isnt happy about it isnt happy because she knows she kinda doesn't exist. Shes a dream manifested by Arlo on accident. #Since he never stops thinking of her as his daughter he kinda breaks time and makes an alternate line where he just kills Conall #and raises Asena himself. #tbh the point of making it non linear is to let ther be explanations for a lot of things without someone having to say the explanation #Like why do werewolves love Arlo? well heres the scene where his mommy makes them for him and his brothers #also Haze gets to have a section in the Anger portion of the book to explain Why he told Rhiannon a prophecy he knew would cause #so much pain. #The king also gets a section but i dont think hes getting a name. #Its there more to be a show of what would have happened between Conall and Arlo if Conall was an enabler instead of a paragon #i think the whole. like Challenge with this exercise is making every single section work on its own and as part of a larger story #like i want people to be able to track the plots as the story goes on but not Need to. #like you could open up to a random section read it and grok it 100% #or read a few then put the book down for a few weeks and be able to continue from where you left off without too much confusion #thats probably the only way to keep this whole thing from being Obnoxious as hell.

[rosegardenpink]

a drow adopting a gith kid is something that can be so personal actually

#naviidi backstory infodump for context: #naviidi was born to a noble house in menzoberranzan and was the firstborn child of his mother #who was/is his house's matron mother #and when he was born his mother was pissed that her firstborn was male and was going to have him sacrificed to lolth instead of raising him #but his father/her favoured consort begged her to let naviidi live and swore that she wouldn't have to do anything for the baby but feed hi #and she eventually relented and let naviidi live on the condition that he couldn't keep any other sons they had #and that as soon as her body had recovered they would try for a daughter #so naviidi's oldest sister is close enough in age to him to be “irish twins” #and his oldest sister and mother both despised him for being born first and a male #but he was always his father's favourite and his father made sure he knew how much he loved him #when the party ran into the woman from the society of brilliance he was staunchly against kidnapping an egg for it to be raised #by members of another race #but he and lae'zel went poking around the hatchery out of curiosity #and when he spoke to the varsh he could feel the same desperation his own father had when he was born #and it moved him enough to persuade the varsh to let him take the egg to save it and find a new creche for it to hatch in #i'm not sure what i want to happen with him and the egg post-game #but he's still pissed at the society for trying to kidnap the egg to use to push (what he sees as) their own propaganda #so he doesn't give it to them #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 screenies #drow tav #bg3 oc #bg3 tav #crèche y'llek #naviidi tag #jonathan rambles

[iloveyouitisruiningmylife]

you know it's bad when you hit the 30 tag limit

#like shut up i wasn't done #i feel so unbearably hurt and betrayed like how can i be SO. unimportant to him so less of a priority that he's literally organising his #desk instead of talking to me taking five mins to talk to an agent book a ticket in tatkal #i told him i had to be back by 20 even before coming here on like 5th #and ive been reminding hin this everyday since after diwali #still he just. doesn't care? #and im his daughter? am i his daughter? does it even mean anything????? #ive never felt more alienated from my family than today #isn't it sad i don't even expect anything from mom all she does is tries to lighten the mood by making jokes #im so sick of her even the sight of her her voice makes me want to shout at her #i don't do it ofc but still #everyone is so selfish she's so selfish too she's always complaining about how i don't love her how i don't give her a chance #but that she'll stay away from all important thinhs that actually matter to me like what's the point of having a mother then??? i have my #siblings to listen to me i have my friends you i need u to be an adult and fucking help me in real terms #nvmind that path is just hopeless #anyway in tired of my small fucking life and my same small fucking problems and my own fucking self #everything would be okay if i just studied a little bit harder #idk ive been practicing saying it out loud that i can't study more than tui and after seven times i can say it out loud now #without crying or my voice watering #so hopefully it will go well #tho in my experience i never actually get to sya the stuff i practice to say to him because he dominates the convo so early so fast im #left speechless and shocked and on the verge of tears AGAUN #it's fine im calm now #but after crying headache ugh i did not miss u at all going back to storing all breakdowns in a bottle

[elympios]

I think the only way I could reconcile violet-eyed Elle surviving and green-eyed Elle still being born is if Elle talked a lot about growing up with an older sister

#still cant reconcile ludger getting together with lara tho #also cant reconcile violet eyed elle being not at all jealous over it #she would have been ten years old she absolutely would not have taken it well #she would think ludger just wanted his own elle instead of her #not to mention the name thing #but this is. THE closest i can get to both of them growing up together #and it still requires they grow up TOGETHER #because violet eyed elle was TEN YEARS OLD #who the fuck raised her if victor didnt let green eyed elle know she exists? #asteria why didnt you think this through :( #v #x2 #ast #murder daughter