#meet the extended family

[spoopdeedoop]

based on a real thing that happened after we picked up our then newborn little sister from the hospital and on the ride back she was asleep and her hands did this and me and my brother gasped like she’d just killed someone

lazy bonus

#my art #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #hi its been a while #im gonna go to the airport tmw so this may be it for a while ahah #im gonna go meet extended family #idk how well its gonna go but im looking forward to it! #turtle tots #mikey rottmnt #raph rottmnt #this was very lazily shaded forgive me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

💙❤️Happy Holidays!❤️💙

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #This is *specifically* fanart of the interfaith christmas cards featuring santa and his jewish rabbi husband spending time together #Why? Well as I was trying to think of things to draw for the season I realized there was another classic Blue and Red pairing to reference #They are going out for chinese food after this photoshoot. Kosher of course. #I want them to star in an interfaith hallmark film. A meet cute + save christmas + murder mystery in a small town kind of story #Or! Maybe they are just going to have a chill holiday break together and bake some treats with the extended family #So many fun possibilities about this bonkers concept I have no intention of making a bigger deal out of #speaking of Big Deals though; #If you have ever wanted to show appreciation for this (free) daily comics blog then I have one Holiday request: #If you have the means to - please donate your money to either a local food bank or a Yemen relief fund #there are so many people going without food and every bit helps. Truly would be the best holiday treat ever #and if you do not celebrate this holiday season…it’s also my birthday! You wouldnt want to let down the birthday cat would you? #(DISCLAIMER: it may or may not actually be my birthday. I may just be pressing emotional buttons to influence people to my cause) #(DISCLAIMER 2: I cannot vouch for any charities you donate to. Please be cautious and research properly before donating)

[rocker-socks]

I see your Bruce adopts Billy au and raise you Diana adopts Billy while Bruce hovers on the sidelines playing godfather who has the adoption papers ready if something bad happens. Jon also gets this treatment.

#batman #look i get his name is BATson but you have a little guy with the blessings of multiple gods and one of his patrons daughter Right There #she'd call him her ward though #bc she'd respect he had loving parents and that he has taken care of himself for so long. like going from no mom/dead mom for 6 years #diana originally meeting captain marvel was like a cousin situation. shes like oh cool you are family now you get no choice #then billy gets aged revealed and shes like oh you are now immediate family. #diana and clark are touched that bruce has their back with their kids #theyd extend the offer as well if bruce didnt have 100 kids and half were already fully grown adult's #clark was super ready to step in during dicks younger years tho if smth happened to bruce #billy batson #wonder woman #shazam #bruce wayne #captain marvel #diana prince

[nighmoons]

are we just glossing over the fact that the D'Angelos own a sandwich shop in new york?

#i had to replay that scene so many times to make sure i heard it right #are we meeting marias extended family who may or may not have known nico and bianca survived the 'earthquake' #or is it just a funny easter egg reference #pjato #percy jackson #percyseries #percy jackon and the olympians #sally jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #disney plus #pjo #nico di angelo #maria di angelo #bianca di angelo

[hoofpeet]

i know you probably already did this but ^_^ spice annd plum

Spice's granddaughter introduces him to his other granddaughter (he did not like it)

#hoof draws #replacement ingo au #spice leaves hisui with his new trainer to avoid paying child support . visits N's castle and meets his entire extended family

[junglejim4322]

so i guess its just share absolutely unnecessary thoughts day but something ive never been able to figure out is i started dating my ex girlfriend when i was 13 and she was 16 which was nbd to me and we broke up and then started dating again when i was 18 for several years. anyways like years later in our 20s when we lived together she out of nowhere claimed adamantly that when i was 13 i lied about my age or else she wouldnt have ever dated me but i absolutely did not? i literally remember the gifts she got me for my 14th birthday. it was such a weird thing to make up almost a decade later like the only reason i can think of is that she felt guilty but its like it literally didnt matter until you just now made it weird by lying and accusing me of faking my fucking age so idk wtf

#i do remember she was embarrassed having a 19 year old boyfriend meet her extended family lol. but i kind of understood it bc #they called her a cougar after finding out my age

[ask-thearchivists]

you know what if you -curator doesn’t like how mortals live or whatever then you guys should be mortal as a challenge

Btw I love you guys

The Curator: No offense, but I think I'd rather be hit directly by a pulsar than be mortal.

The Charmer: We love you too, silly mortal.

#ask blog #ask the archivists #asks are open #the owl house #toh #id in alt text #toh the archivists #the archivists #toh oc #I AM BACK #and soon #once I finish this fucking art #you'll be meeting the extended family #*evil laughter* #I've been concocting ways to make the uncle Even Worse btw #which I must say I am Succeeding at

[extended-family-au]

Welcome to the Extended Fam Tumblr!

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[canisonicscrewyou]

I KNOW the testosterone is doing her job because when I left the family function today, my uncle john (who I haven’t seen since coming out+transitioning) shook my hand and went “nice meeting you today”.

His wife knew who I was and acknowledged it as soon as she saw me earlier. I didn’t correct him. I’m still laughing about it, honestly.

#literally so tickled by it. the way my grandma howled. #when I told her about it before we left #but I DID confuse his name w my uncle ken’s. so. it all evens out I guess. #BUT he also said nice to meet you to my partner?? so he was definitely talking to me abshfjfkgkg #I’m still nervous around my extended family bc we haven’t seen each other much since coming out to them #they’re all doing real good about it though. it’s genuinely very sweet. they’re all so old and do so well #both w me and my partner’s pronouns and stuff. love that shit. very affirming. #ok to reblog if you wanna I guess. I won’t stop you.

[padawansuggest]

My least used but most fave modern AU job for Obi-Wan is literally just making him a monk, have him helping run an orphanage, okay, that’s the funniest shit ever. Imagine walking down an alley where you’re about to get mugged when this strawberry blonde pretty boy comes out a shadow and kicks their ass for you and then offers his most sincere apologies that he couldn’t be faster in a crisp prissy bitch accent and you’re all ‘lmao I thought vigilantes were only in comic books’ and he’s all ‘lol I’m not a vigilante I’m a monk/run an orphanage’ and that’s when you finally realize that religion isn’t ENTIRELY evil and also maybe you can vibe with them and so you ask what religion they serve and they’re all ‘oh, I just believe that we all turn into energy after we die and also that energy is in all the universe and that’s like, what we serve’ and you realize it’s just science with extra steps and also he’s inviting you around to the orphanage this weekend to meet the kiddos if you wanna cause even if you don’t wanna adopt they always accept people hanging out with the kids and tbh this shit’s wild af of COURSE you wanna see the monks in their natural habitat that’s gonna be priceless you can tell.

Anyways. Anakin is the one that actually leaves to do something other than running the orphanage but it’s actually to work on new age high tech prosthetics and it’s like a million dollar company but like most of them he lives like a monk still and his gf is rich so he just keeps finding charities to donate to so one time you (having become friends with these idiots) go out to lunch with them and he pulls out his wallet and he’s all ‘lmao I got no money can someone pay for my food I’ll PayPal you after’ and so you do cause lol it’s a 15$ meal why not (ignoring the fact that Obi-Wan is also standing there not a penny to his name but somehow having convinced a cute man to pay for him wtf that whore) and later on you get a notification on PayPal that you just got 100$… from Anakin… bruh do you know how much a burrito costs???? Wild af.

Anyways. I just think they would be absolutely hilarious if they were still monks in modern AU.

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #Obi and Ani are sugar babies fight me #the clones eventually show up as the Fett/Mereel extended family #when Echo gets his ass saved by Ani and now him and Fives and Rex are ride or die for him #especially when Ani just. gives him. new prosthetics??? lmao #then Cody meets Obi and he’s all ‘I have the weirdest urge to discover religion’ #Jango and Jaster think their ade are fucking hilarious #the Mereel extended family is considering becoming standing members of the community #by finding homes for these poor orphans lmao

[loveerran]

I attended a family ward while traveling. Here is the letter I wrote later to the woman who taught Relief Society, with names redacted:

Dear Sister D-,

I just wanted to thank you again for a wonderful lesson. But I also wanted to thank you personally for what you did for your daughter’s former girlfriend, Lisa. I was humbled and touched. When Lisa attacked your daughter’s faith, that must have hurt a lot. And then years later, you invited her into your home and cared for her even though she and your daughter had separated. You helped her get on her feet again when life had her down and she had nowhere to go. That’s amazing.

But more than that, and speaking from my own experience and probably that of many others, there are times the Lord sends us angels who change the course of our lives. Sometimes through an act, sometimes through a word, sometimes through an extended ministry. People we never forget. I have had angels in my life, and you were one for Lisa. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for lifting Lisa up when many others might have crossed to the other side of the road and passed her by.

That was probably the second time I found myself tearing up during that lesson. But the thing that really brought a flood of tears was Sister B- sharing her story about forgiving her mother and being freed of hatred. I only had one person I wrote down when you asked us if there was anyone we had a warring heart against. My mother. She was raised in a home where she was hurt deeply. I believe she did her best, but some of those bad things got passed on to me and they accompany me still. Over time I have found my way to forgiveness from a distance. Not so many years ago, I arrived at a point where I not only forgave my mother, but also determined that I would advocate for her at the judgment bar, asking the Lord to hold nothing from my past against her in any way. I thought I had arrived at the pinnacle of forgiveness. I forgive her. I want her to be eternally happy. But I do not feel love toward her. And now, because of the stories told and comments shared by women in that lesson, I am imagining picking up that burden of active love for my mother for the first time in my life. I can feel it there. Perhaps it will grow over time. That is hard doctrine. I’m not sure I’m ready for that, but with God all things are possible. Even the thought has completely altered my perspective.

One more, very important thing. As I was sobbing (as quietly as I could manage), beautiful, wonderful Sister L- laid her hand on me, comforted me, and gave me warmth and healing. The sister who wheeled her into place next to me at the beginning of the class was right when she said “This is Sister L-, she is basically the best person ever!” I am honored to have met her, and grateful for her compassion.

Thank you to all the sisters in your ward, who showed me so much warmth and love, who came up to meet me after sacrament meeting, who invited me to Relief Society, and who said how glad they were to have me there, and even hoped I would come again. I was, and still am, deeply touched by this experience. Thank you.

Love, Erran

#I selected the ward randomly #and the sacrament meeting #spoke directly to something I'm working through with a family member #that was important #but the Relief Society lesson has changed how i view things #lds #queerstake #mormon #transgender #lgbt #lgbtqia+ #we need church too #spirituality is often important to us as a community #the story is even better when you know Sister L is a kind old black woman #in an LDS church #She has seen and known things #and for her to extend compassion and healing to me? I was comforted and grateful

[isanyonetoknow]

anyways I need so desperately to meet other people whose family is all still in Iran. No shade to the few Iranian friends I’ve had/have but like. Well one of them was like “I would like to go but I just can’t with the government like that” and one reason they can be that comfortable saying that is because a lot of their extended family is here in the us. If I said that then I would never get to see anyone from my extended family. like do you understand how there’s no choice in that situation for me.

#vt.talk #a lot of people in my family have died (part of the effect of having a very large family) and yet I’ve never been to one funeral #it’s because plane tickets are expensive and my family has for the most of my life been in a state where we have to save for these things #there’s a lot of experiences I realize now that I ‘missed out on’ because the money my parents could’ve put towards other things went to #family or visiting family. I’m not upset. I’m glad I’ve gotten to meet with my extended family. I think it’s been better #but it makes you. it makes. #also at least my family’s entire thing is that the last is painful and if you stay on it you will drown #I’ve gotten scolded. kinda. for showing a lot of emotion over things like this. also the whole no one will believe you if you’re emotional #which when I think of how mossadeghs emotions were used against him. ough. #but yeah it comes into play now when people around me are like :o this thing in history/the present day is so horrible I’m so mad!!! #and I’m sitting here almost emotionless. I hate myself for it sometimes. #whatever rant over

[zurazakis]

it's a cute concept that i enjoy but above all else it's yet another opportunity to put chilchuck through ordeals & situations which is the highest form of entertainment to me.

#dunmeshiposting #it wouldn't be horror he feels as the realisation dawns on him that his daughter might be into namari it's just. yknow. #didn't expect having the extended party (i count anybody that's ever been on laios party's side) meet his family would go like that! #chilchuck father-in-law-ish to namari would be hilarious i'm sorry. it would fuck him up. it's content.

[not-actually-human]

a year and a half and i can leave. thats all i gotta make it through. thats it

#i hate it here #i need out #GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING ISLAND IM GOING INSANE #im actually slowly losing my mind and this fucking town is too much. #i hate my classmates i hate the people i hate how THERE IS NOTHING TO FUCKING DO HERE #I CANT i dont. i just. i get it. i understand why my parents moved here when they did and if they didnt meet here i wouldnt exist #but i will never forgive them for that. i will never forgive them for having to grow up here #my great grandma died today and i didnt know her at all. i went 16 years and never met one of my cousins #i want to know my family. i want to get out of this FUCKING TOWN #everyone else in my moms family stayed in the same state. same on my dads family #i love my cousins and extended family. i wish. i want to know them better but its almost too late for most of them #anyways i want out. my cousin said that one day i could maybe stay with her and stuff and god i want that so bad #atlas screams into the abyss #vent

[roobylavender]

you know what would automatically change my hatred to love for sasusaku? If their genders were reversed. Majority of the reason why I hate sasuke and sakura relationship is because the type of environment and the culture I grew up in where it's been fed to women since basically birth to always be faithful to her man no matter how terrible he treats her, even after marriage. The pharse, "Just be patient and he will change", infuriates me to another level. Seeing sakura chasing after sasuke throughout the series after numerous rejections and an attempted MURDER on her by him made me roll my eyes so hard like girl just move the fuck on omfg. And even after their "marriage" sasuke's treatment towards her doesn't get better lmao, leaving her alone with a whole ass child to take care by herself?? BYE sakura's patience for him is outmatch cus I would've divorced his ass for that. Though, the more I mature, little by little I begin to understand the complexity of their relationship after putting my gender issues aside for a second and look deep into them. And especially now, after reading your perspective on their whole relationship, it really did made half of my hatred go away and understand the relationship wholeheartedly. Like yeah, I absolutely love the trope of one person saying they don't deserve the other person's love but the other person keep loving them anyway, that stuff makes me giggle and swing my legs in the air and shit. It's just that the only way this trope would work for me if the person loving them has enough self-respect for themselves AND if it's a girl in the former & the guy in the latter. And honestly, I found naruto being borderline obsessed with sasuke annoying too but the reason why I can digest it more well is because naruto can go head to head with sasuke without backing down. Like, I wanted to see at least ONCE sakura having a heated argument with sasuke, or punch him in the face in the series. I feel like sasuke deserves a punch from her at the very least 🤷🏽‍♀️

Sigh, I really did wanna love their relationship and their journey to love (that scene of him catching her when she was about to fall and then having that iconic eye contact had me feeling butterflies ngl) since it has all the tropes I love but the execution is just so...

i mean if it helps any i absolutely hate post-canon and that's where my primary divide with most sasusaku fans lies 😭 i'm not sure if you read the blue-plums post i reblogged but it's a good dissection of why exactly it fails as a conclusion to both their individual arcs and their relationship arc generally. the post-canon we see is a direct answer to what sasuke's and sakura's dreams are at the start of the series, but the problem with this is that sasuke and sakura are nowhere near being the same people at the end of the series as they were at the start. generally, i don't think post-canon really takes the individual arc of any character into much account. its primary goal is maintaining the status quo with a slight veneer of friendship power draped over it for aesthetics. but nothing at the root is changed despite every traumatic development the characters were relentlessly subjected to. resultantly, you're left with a portrayal of sasuke as a neglectful father who glorifies the lone-wolf hero trope, which goes against everything he could possibly have learned from itachi; and you're left with a portrayal of sakura as someone content to keep house despite the bulk of her character arc being grounded in her ability and desire to take initiative not only at home, but abroad. it's not true to who either of them is by that point and, even more than that, it's a disservice to everything they've put themselves through for the sake of the love they were vying for. so while i love sasusaku as it progresses up through 699, i tend to wholeheartedly ignore whatever comes after and relegate that instead to either my own imagination or blue-plums's in her fics

what i will say about the naruto and sakura distinction is that a lot of people are more comfortable with how sasuke reacts to naruto bc they believe what naruto is doing is right. it's kind of like: if the only thing sasuke will realistically respond to is violence then obv naruto can resort to that violence without dwelling on it too much. but if you think about violence in the context of sasuke's entire life, it's not actually helpful at all beyond its ability to physically bring him to a grinding halt. even when naruto finally breaks through to sasuke, it's not the violence that makes things click for him. it's the words he says after, and it's the words he's always said before that that have stayed in sasuke's mind. violence, in contrast, is a poisonous thing for sasuke bc it's the only thing that has defined the parameters of his entire life. it robbed him of every person he cared about prior to his meeting team seven, and inevitably it intimidated him into seeking out more violence once he realized that he was incapable of saving the new people he'd come to care about as well. everything, at the root, was driven by sasuke's traumatically-exacerbated response to love and loss. the idea of losing naruto and sakura to the hands of anyone else was unbearable. so he decided that he'd rather have killed them himself. it was absolutely irrational. but a twelve year old child put through that kind of successive, relentless trauma was never going to think rationally, and certainly not after being exploited by people like orochimaru and obito (and to an extent itachi) in turn

all of this to say: there is of course a gendered aspect to the fact that sakura's response to sasuke is markedly not violence. but i also think people sort of refuse to dissect her response any further and esp in context of the narrative itself. despite being the hallmark of rationality within the team and perhaps even the series, sakura was inevitably always driven by the value she placed on humanity. it would've been so easy and rational and "right" to kill sasuke bc he was an insurgent, a terrorist, a danger to public safety, etc. but sakura knew it was more complicated than that. even without knowing about the intricacies of the uchiha massacre she'd been a witness to his suffering and struggle and helplessness. she was as much unable to kill him bc of her love for him as she was unable to kill him bc she knew it wouldn't be right. bc really, what would it solve. sasuke being written off or dying would accomplish nothing bc he would become one more person in the long line of victims to nationalism and the military-industrial complex. while naruto's desire to retrieve sasuke was driven by his love for him it was also driven by the fact that he was stubborn and relentless and refused to give up on people. if you won't believe in yourself i'll beat the belief into you. it's a very shounen-esque trait. in contrast, sakura's desire to retrieve sakura, while also driven by her love for him, was significantly driven by her ability to see that sasuke needed help. in fact, that's all she ever wanted him to get: help. and it would be one thing for this to be an isolated desire but when you read it in context of her own goals as a medic and a mental health professional, her unwavering belief in sasuke is a lot more striking. she was the only person in the entire narrative who never resorted to violence as a solution to sasuke's problems. and she was angry, to be sure. much as she loves him the struggle to bring him back and convince him that he was worthy of love and healing left her emotionally exhausted. but they're also children at the end of the day. she could've been angry at him, or naruto could've been angry him, and in the end none of it would've mattered in the face of knowing they'd finally gotten through to him. he had a smile on his face, he didn't have an arm anymore, and for the first time in his life he met a loss with utter peace and content. it was a thing of miracles after six years of relentless grief and sorrow, and nothing else could've been on their mind.

at the end of the day, team seven's love for sasuke isn't rational. the farthest thing from it, really. but that's what makes it so radical in context. if love in naruto was only ever meant to be rational then hardly anyone would survive. love was always written as an act of defiance and for however subtle the depiction sakura exemplified it

#this is already so long i won't ramble any further in the text bc i've gotten across my point #but tldr you're totally valid! like honestly a lot of sasusaku fans tend to take the full scope of post-canon as gospel and it's infuriatin #and it definitely panders to a lot of gendered stereotypes #the relationship is i think way easier to digest if you isolate 1-699 and then pretend none of the rest exists lol #me personally i want sasuke to go on travels and meet lots of orphans and dedicate himself to humanitarian work #and i want sakura to do her mental hospital thing and research and advocacy at the village #before the projects she works on inevitably extend to intervillage endeavors #it's a nice way for both her and sasuke to explore their respective itches while also doing something that overlaps #with what the other person is doing. i am also a gazillion times more inclined towards them adopting an orphan #than i am towards the idea of them getting traditional married and having a traditional family and birthing traditional babies. boh-ring #i have a post somewhere on my old blog but to Me it would be revolutionary for sasuke to separate himself from the idea that the #only real bonds are those borne in blood. bc all that matters is love. i think adoption would be a really good personification of that idea #also occasionally they can come back to konoha and do silly couple things. like go to the farmers market and plant flowers #and harvest tomatoes. househusband sasuke and workaholic sakura. my dream combination truly #outbox