#like her parents and her lover

[doctorweebmd]

i want to write something new :(

#its been nearly a month since zero sum finished... #i really really miss it #i thought this would make me more productive with work stuff but it really hasn't #now i'm just looking for new distractions like reading or playing video games or just staring at my phone......... #i had a more formed idea for an original book-thing but that feels like too much of a project to start working on #its about a girl who grew up in a town where nobody dies and she somehow gets the task of becoming the new reaper #and it takes us through her killing people she loves #like her parents and her lover #and finally after everyone else is gone she kills herself #and thats what ends the 'curse' on the city and new life is born again #obviously its all a metaphor about how life has meaning because there is an end #and how sometimes letting go of things in your life is necessary for progress #and sometimes 'killing' the part of yourself that holds you back is the only way to live #it would be relatively short and something akin to '5 people you meet in heaven' #or 'veronika decides to die' which is still my favorite book #but man does the idea of working on a real independent project scare the crap out of me lol #what i really want it more bkdk #come on you little anime boys give me the serotonin

[mags-writes]

me, 14 and reading the end of mockingjay:

me, 24 and reading the end of the ballad of songbirds and snakes:

#the hunger games #the hunger games: mockingjay #mockingjay #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzzane collins #no amount of poverty or tragedy could possibly make coriolanus snow into a decent person #i went into the book knowing that it would make him out to be sympathetic and then he would just be The Worst™ #but he really really really REALLY is just The Fucking Worst™ #spoiler! the man just up and stole his friends parents! the friend that he got KILLED! #also the way that she was always referred to at lucy gray/lucy gray baird was very telling #he never called her lucy. just lucy. it was always lucy gray #even in their last scene together he was calling out for lucy gray not lucy #idk something something he doesnt see her as herself he sees her as an idea a tribute on a pedestal she has to think the same way as him #and when she doesnt he gets angry she has to love him only and when she admits to having a lover before him he gets angry #he gets angry and she has to apologise he gets angry and its always her fault she's the backwards thinker and he's far above her #idk his superiority complex was so intriguing especially since i think lucy was playing him and the capital like a fucking fiddle #nearly everything she said was too perfect for her to actually think like that #and when she said something wrong she would sooth him over #both manipulators in their own way and for completely different reasons #his was for superiority and her's was for survival

[nashvillethotchicken]

Louis du pointe du lac is a black mom in that he keeps choosing his man over his daughter even when those men abuse that very same daughter

#louis de pointe du lac #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #louis is very manloving and thats his issue. like he dont actually defend claudia enough for her to know that he'd actually choose her #he just like monique fr. like he was done wrong. but he was also wrong when it came to how he handled his kid #ldpld would love being sethe from beloved #like he keep choosing these men who do his child so wrong. its like he forgets hes a parent at times you know? #hes a lover who happens to be a parent vs a parent who happens to be a lover you know? #also this goes without saying. if you white and you on put some bs on this dont

[mummer]

the thing that makes amy Work as a character to me is that her story is really absurdly horrific from the outset. the doctor makes one mistake completely unthinking and suddenly this little girl’s entire life is defined and lashed to him. it sort of justifies the turn into “doctor as trickster god” that eleven gets because he really does have that much power over people right. And it’s not his fault and he feels guilty but he’s trapped this woman in his orbit and she gets her memories zapped 600 billion times has schrodingers cat parents husband erased from existence gets turned into a flesh monster forced to give birth gets her baby stolen grows up in a haunted house with an evil alien lives a bunch of alternate parallel lives that never happened it’s so uncanny and wretched and strange and is just sort of left to sit it’s not addressed And she loves him fixates on him lives for him resurrects him. he sort of created her right and she created him. he STOLE her CHILDHOOD!!!!!! he stole this girl without even thinking about it. you can see it on his face sometimes when he talks to her but only sometimes.

#doc who #their dynamic is SO!!!!! #his sense of obligation to her. the immediate inequalities in their relationship #when things are creepy and wet and unconscious and weird >>>>>>>> #is he her parent her lover her best friend her saviour her god her abducter her funny little friend #eleven U have fucking problems dude #i dont understand the opinion that the trickster god Hes So Important stuff isnt justified or interesting #like ofc if all the doctors were like that it would be annoying but i LIKE when theyre different!!!! #i like the angle when its done right sue me. I like the land of contrasts and dumb 2011 humor and whimsy

[raayllum]

i'm scared fam

#like it's all coming to a head in s6 man #rayla thinking she has to sacrifice something/herself yet again to free her parents #callum stepping in to do it instead to spare her pain/death/etc. knowing what he's risking #him getting possessed and freeing aaravos that way #like it's this or still a chet variant tbh #tdp theory #dragons liveblogs #5x04 #multi #s5 #s6 speculation #predictions #coin theory #devil and the lovers

[thyhauntedmansion]

‼️RL SPOILERS‼️ BELA AND MIRANDA ROUTES‼️

💔💔💔

I am UNWELL😭

@resident-lover

#I’ll never shut up about her #I was wondering if Donna knew about Bela’s inflicted heart condition like Alcina knew #AND SHE DOES AND ITS SO MUCH WORSE💀 #for Donna to have taken care of Bela and Dani as young teens while Alcina travelled #for Bela to be betrayed by two parental figures under Miranda’s orders #she is EXTREMELY justified in her trust issues💀 #Cute bela date idea? Therapy together😭 #resident lover #resident lover spoilers #bela dimitrescu #donna beneviento #mother miranda #God I love traumatized blonde women

[sunfortune]

every time i read an emily henry book i’m at the 60-70% mark like: it would not devastate me if these 2 actually didn’t get together. i would understand. her main characters and their issues are always more compelling and the romance just doesn’t have the same pizzazz. like i Wouldn’t mind if they Did get together. but it’s just NOT dire to me. i’m not at the edge of my seat hoping they do. and then she’ll conclude in a gushy almost too romantic way to bring the romance back to the forefront in the end that also loses me bc it just feels at odds with the otherwise very realist tone of her stories and her protagonists. IDK she would slay as a drama writer. with a dash of romance instead of predominantly romance

#liked happy place more than book lovers tho #book lovers i couldn’t Believe those 2 fell in love. like no you didn’t. source: i was there #books #anyway harriet’s issues with her career and her parents and how she was raised really spoke to me #if the romance wasn’t whatever to me. (not bad i wanna clarify. i just didn’t really care) i would’ve loved this book #actually i didn’t think the friendship was that well done either #sad!

[lisannastraussisanangel]

Please may I..(oh this is going to sound rather sad) have Fairy tail headcanons of what Juvia's childhood was like before she went to the Orphanage..with her parents and everything.

Is it canon that Juvia went to an orphanage? Idk why I thought she was in a boarding school lol. Either way lets get into it

Juvia's mom was cursed when she was pregnant and the side effect created Juvia's rain problem

When she was really little, the rain would only surround her. Imagine a little storm cloud following her around

It caused Juvia to get sick a lot. She spent a good chunk of time in the hospital

Unfortunately her parents didn't have a whole lot of money and the hospital bills took up most of their budget

Her parents loved her. It was hard for Juvia to make friends so her parents did everything they could to entertain her as a toddler

Juvia's mom made Juvia's first teru teru bozu doll because she knew how much the rain bothered her daughter

Juvia adored her little doll and played with it everyday

Her parents liked that Juvia was happy but also told Juvia that her rain was not something to hate. They never wanted Juvia to feel like a burden because of the rain

Neither of her parents had magic so the best they could do about the rain is try and teach Juvia to love it

As Juvia grew older, the rain grew stronger and after some time her parents began to get sick from it

They were so focused on Juvia's health that neither of them noticed their declining health until it was too late

Juvia's rain killed her parents. Juvia hated the rain and blamed herself for it. This was the start of Juvia spiraling to the darkness

#idk why but i just feel like her parents were really sweet? #idk juvia is just so adorable so I assume she got it from them #hope you liked it :) #the-letter-horror-lover #fairy tail #fairy tail headcanons #juvia lockser #juvia lockster

[roobylavender]

had talia not been character assassinated do you think she and bruce should have gotten back together?

no. i hate to use the word "phase" bc that would seem to diminish the importance of what's between them, which is something that will always persist esp as their continued dedication to the same causes and their respect for each other remains. but i do think realistically bruce should be a phase in talia's life. at least in terms of consummated romances specifically. i do love the idea of them remaining allies, close friends, and co-parents, but i think allowing talia to walk away from ra's and bruce in the first place has to stand for something in the long term. before talia went her own way i think it was easier to imagine a potential future where she ended up with bruce bc it felt like the desirable option. she was in this very debilitating position where she had little to no freedom to act on her own desires and goals, the embodiment of which was none other than bruce. so when you frame her situation pre-tower of babel, obv wanting to be with bruce was appealing. he was as much the love of her life as he was a means of escape and freedom and talia having the scope to then act on her own desires. i think that's what subsequently makes dc #750 (or is it #570. i never get the numbers straight and i'm too lazy to check) a really clever issue, actually, bc it acknowledges that and the fact that bruce once again setting her free bc of his love for her actually gives her the courage to step out on her own where she never has before. the fact that she has the option to go back to gotham with bruce and presumably have everything she's ever wanted with him, but she leaves it anyway, is a really huge deal. it's a statement. she loves him, but not more than she loves herself. and sure, what talia puts herself through during lex corp era certainly begs the question of whether her version of loving herself is really viable or in any way healthy, and i would love to see bruce help her recognize that she's not alone and that she doesn't have to do it alone to prove that she's capable. all of this i agree with. but i don't think that really means she and bruce have to fall back on their once-imagined dream of playing house. even if talia did find methods of going about her work that were mentally healthier i don't really know what'd be in it for her to play house with bruce in gotham. bc that is what it would have to be, for their relationship to work in any way. bruce will never leave gotham and son of the demon didn't need to explore that issue bc it was never going to get there but trust that corny as the line about naming the baby thomas or martha was it was reflective of a reality: gotham is bruce's entire life. no matter where he goes, no matter what he does, no matter who he works with, in the end he will always belong to gotham. and i simply do not think that would ever work for talia bc there is so much more she is capable of. while her vision is aligned with bruce's her scope of access and ability is entirely distinct of his own and there is so much more that she can do aside from relegate herself to gotham (hence why lex corp as an arc makes so much sense, bc it capitalizes on that scope). and yeah every superhero couple is kinda crazy and they have teleportation and shit but idk i don't think it's really a relationship for each party to go on long missions with ill-defined parameters that give them the worst sleep schedules known to man and occasionally they share a bed. it really isn't. and that's something that bruce and talia have to live with. their duty is always going to come first even though they both have a passion for civilian life. for talia to be in a relationship again she would have to stop having the liberty of being able to go wherever the work carries her and for bruce to be in a relationship again he would have to have the equivalent of a robin-wife. neither of these things is ever going to happen. so

#outbox #i realize this sounds somewhat hypocritical bc then it's like. but what about damian! wouldn't the same apply to him! #and idk i don't think it would. your kid is different from your lover #obv i imagine talia would try to be around for damian as much as possible #but as i've discussed a lot of times even that i think would be tricky for her. she was willing to say she lost her baby #bc she thought if she didn't the world would lose batman #she's like. craaaaazy dedicated to her work so yeah i do think she'd try to coparent with whatever capacity she could #and her love would be genuine and overflowing etc etc #but at the end of the day she's not going to settle in gotham solely for the purpose of raising him #or for the purpose of appeasing bruce's notions of pathetic puppy dog romance #her liberty is too impt to her #ironically enough this is funny to talk about in context of that batman & robin panel from yesterday bc like #had they not character assassinated her that's really how it might've gone. at least imo #like it's a shame they had to resort to all of these racist and orientalist tropes about her being an abusive mother #to somehow justify why bruce should be the resident parent instead #when you literally could've just followed the thread of talia valuing her independence #versus bruce being desperate for any remaining semblance of normal civilian life like it's an oxygen tank and he's losing air #not only would that have been realistic it would also have carried nuance and allowed insight into bruce and talia's psyches #and more than anything. it would have been funny #but i DIGRESS. tldr yes talia would coparent but even that would be with certain limitations #i think she's the kind of person / mom who like. leaves her love everywhere but can't necessarily stand where she leaves it. yknow #like i could even bring jason into this #i really do think she'd do everything in her power to try to get jason to break from the red hood persona and heal etc #and she'd have immense affection for him #but she's not going to sit and play house and babysit him once she's free and once she knows he's free too #she's very big on personal accountability #so she'd check up on him and the love would be there but like. the bigger picture would always interfere #anywayyyy. thank you for the question i love to ramble about this stuff LOL

[rui-drawsbox]

Lalirara, my fourth Tav JADSHFSJ i went full mods this time

a noble, vengance oath paladin, she's all charisma no brain tbh i wanted to make a muscular middle-aged lady but the hair mods only worked on the small body type/sobs

#shes also a gold lover! see that dagger in the ground? thats money! the tiefling lost letter? MONEY #she tries to be kind 90% of the time but the moment someone annoys her. she thinks if her oath is really worth it #rui draw smth #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav #bg3 tav #went to the creche for the first time today and i have like 270 hours of game AJDSFHJASK #larian let us be the parents of the egg

[mihrsuri]

JOAN.

Dauphine of France. Princess of Scotland. Princess of Albion. Queen Regnant of Scotland. Queen of England. The Half Breed Heathens Whore Of A Wife. My Darling Wise Thistle. Little Wise Eyed. Jeanne.

Though Joan’s father died not six months after her birth his love for her was remarked upon - indeed it was said that he could hardly bear to be apart from her. His death was something her mother Mary never recovered from despite two subsequent marriages and the reminder of him in her black haired and grey eyed daughter seems to have been a mixture of grief and solace to her. Joan proved to be a serious child - interested in books, archery and riding but with a keen talent for music she was included in and educated in rulership from a young age, particularly by her paternal grandmother who remarked that she saw ‘very much of Marguerite of Navarre in her’ she was excellent at politics, at rulership and in her concern and interest in the lives of all her people but she was not warm and nor did she have the charisma and ability to draw the eye of her mother, something that drew unfavourable comparisons. Her marriage was made out of pragmatism on her part and no one was more surprised than Joan when it turned into love.

(inspired in part by this edit by @emilykaldwen (ABBY MY BELOVED))

#lil and her ridiculous aus #ot3: political power trio #au: golden world #pending graphic tag #lils edits #this is who thomas and mihrimahs oldest son marries #it really is arranged marriage to lovers #turhan has a really difficult time because Living Up To His Parents #(not that his parents aren’t great parents they are) #(it’s just living up to them is…FUCK) #Joan has to wrestle with the fact that people look to her more than her mother but also absolutely compare her to her mother negatively #tudorsedit #herawell #also joans mothers life choices #(mqos does have way less terrible men in her life i think) #(but also she and joan do really struggle to connect and understand each other) #turhan struggles with being the heir of rulers who live up to their legends (positive for both) as rulers and people and then some #and also turhan really follows his mothers faith and takes after his maternal grandfathers family in appearance #and while England by the time of his reign is Different And Better #people are going to people even in this kindest possible world #and in some ways without thomas and mihrimah he has to be like #what is a legacy dot gif #tudors ot3 verse reference

[maegalkarven]

I'm going for a run, but when I return imma gonna write about how BG3 really said "I see you all bitches with parental issues".

Bhaal, Raphael, Cazador, Ketheric, Gortash's parents, Shar, even Selûne and Ravengard are the examples of not so perfect parenting. No wonder I latched into these dynamics.

#bg3 #bg #baldur's gate #baldurs gate 3 #listen i love selûne #but isn't she a lil “the absent parent” figure? #where was she when her daughter was killed over and over. when shadowheart was kidnapped. when lands were corrupted? #where was she? #i know she's strong on the “do not interfere and let them live/do their own mistakes” path #but shadowheart was a child stolen from her home #aylin was chained for century. her daughter. her tool. her Fleming sword #Ravengard is another “absent parent” case. that and his “assuming the worst of wyll” bullshit #Ketheric was doing EVERYTHING for Isobel without actually asking what ISOBEL wants #like not once he consulted her/her spirit/etc #he did what HE thought was best for her. he revived her for HIMSELF #not for her #combined with him torturing her lover for century... #well #others are self-explanatory kind of #to be clear Raphael is here as a parent figure #gortash was raised in hoh as fucked up as it was #but raph also has his own daddy issues which is fun #this game really said “it's about parents. it's about family. it's aabout trauma and cycles of abuse” #also it's me in a bitch with parental issues

[motherfuckingmaneater]

I was having a nice night enjoying my tea and chilling but @tmvoldemort put this idea in my head.

Bellatrix and Voldemort sat side by side, looking terrifying to everyone else but knowing exactly who the other is looking at.

On instinct, they make eye-contact.

Bellatrix speaks first, an eyebrow raising, "I'm not looking at the kid..."

"...and i'm not looking at the old man." Voldemort replies impassively.

They both nod, sip their tea and return their subtle glances to Sirius and Harry.

#crackpost #listen lord voldemort is the love of her life but sirius black is her soulmate #sirius and bellatrix were born the same way and died the same way #they belonged together #the star crossed lovers #bellirius #bella and voldy know each other so well #i'm not tagging the other pairing because i'm sick of seeing it on my dash but i do be thinking about it quite a lot ngl #delphini is so embarrassed by her parents #they do have other things they enjoy doing BESIDES each other yk #i'm in my blackcest era #i've been in it since 2008 #help #i feel like that pedro pascal gif where he's laughing and crying

[cuntstable]

rya elden ring is so funny. im glad everyone loves the snake girl shes sooo sweetie to me

#like the one character in elden ring with good parents who shes close to still. #special little princess of the volcano manir freaks….. also i lover her design i like how shes hunched over and just hanging her arms around #limply…. and how she has no eyebrows its a very cool subtly snake like design :)

[raayllum]

me every time i remember that rayllum's dynamic/talks in 4x07 ("i'm afraid that he'll use me to awful things. [pans right to rayla] or hurt people i care about [...] you have to kill me"), 5x04 ("i would do anything for you"), and 5x08 ("just let her go" and dark magic use) are just, ultimately, fucking Set Up for a natural culmination in the next two seasons:

#like he's dooming the world for her. either to save her parents to make her happy #or with that goddamn cube to keep her safe/save her life #we have two (2) options and im losing my mind #rayllum #arc 2 #wishlist achieved #cube hostage exchange theory #i would do anything for you #memes #mine #tdp #the dragon prince #like chet truthers how we feeling #devil and the lovers

[partypanic]

I like to play with the idea of the science team (excluding Gordon, unless you count him as an ai too) having programmed/fake memories and they have people, family etc that they remember in those memories, but they aren't real. I imagine it fucks with them a lot :3

#. . . 🐬 icbinb sys . rambles #i am mentally ill thabks for noticing #alsooo this plays with my idea of gman having a wife/ tommy having another “parental” figure other than gman and #yeah. it fucks with them #gman always thinking wbout her (eg : “she’d love those.” etc) but she isnt technically real just a memory of a lover that never existed #anyway! #hlvrai #half live vr but the ai is self aware #do i tag gman?? shes a main component with this (i like gman angst tehe) #nah #-wayne