#my son is awesome

[jenthebug]

I saw my son perform in this semester’s high school play: The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later.

He was wonderful. One of the best. Each actor had a handful of parts, and he seemed to bring each persona to life.

But. It was HEAVY SHIT. Obviously. It dealt with Matthew Shepard’s murder, and public opinion ten years after the murder. A large number of people seem to think it was a robbery, or a drug deal gone bad, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

It is very hard to believe that “something like that could happen here.” So a significant portion of Laramie just…doesn’t.

I’m drinking some tension tamer tea and watching the end of a CU basketball game (we’re ahead of USC, barely) because I need to fill my head with something other than someone like my son getting brutally murdered.

SportsCenter is next. I’m glad.

#my son is awesome #the Laramie project ten years later #matthew shepard #being the mom of a trans and gay young man is scary

[jestroer]

The thing about me is that i want imaginary children to have fun and be friends

#JOEL IS A HERMIT NOW SO HERMES IS A HERMIT CHILD NOW #They live on the SOS server two weeks and on hermitcraft the other two weeks #AND THEY HELP AT THE POSTAL OFFICE #Im normal #I just love kids kids are awesome #Grumbot is forever my beloved lil guy #Tiny Tom.... He was there. I love him #technically he and hermes are brothers... But yk. He's Jevins son now so #its complicated #Hermitcraft #court jester's art #empires hermes #tiny tom #grumbot

[nothisisntmyname]

THE REFLECTIONS. THE AMBIENCE. THE POWER.

THE LITTLE GUY

#mario #nintendo #mario movie #just because his name sounds like crisp rat doesn't mean HE has to sound like one #super mario #super mario bros. trailer #super mario movie #super mario bros #luigi #princess peach #smb movie #smb #MY SON I GET TO SEE MORE OF THE LITTLE MAN #THE LITTLE GUY #AND AWESOME KICKASS PRINCESS #the only thing I can't deal with it getting used to the Pratt's voice #it's just... #so wrong

[birues]

"Even so, her hints about what to come are generally more cryptic. I suppose I should've kept my gaze to the heavens."

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #elidibus #themis #ff14 #azem #pandaemonium spoilers #endwalker spoilers #hi have you seen my son? now you have :)) #i still can't get over the fact that azem saw their future reincarnation falling from sky #tossing heads w themis #and their reaction is: lmfao awesome #my gifs

[angelofalls]

Son Goku!

(Anything to get me to do more traditional inking and also cope 😞 / RIP Akira Toriyama)

#son goku #dragonball #fanart #dbz #drawing #angelofalls #traditional art #cartoonist #rip akira toriyama #Thank you for inspiring me and making my childhood awesome and making the artist I am today! 😩💖

[crow-with-a-pencil]

One year anniversary of the kelp blorbo who changed my brain chemistry forever

Happy birthday Beetle :)

#my ârt #kelpie stuff #beetle of #digital painting #ok ok ok let me ramble for a second here #yes this was all sparked by user intistone and their awesome fic and the silly little au the group of us came up with #but we all talk regularly about even more silly little stories and aus of all kinds and it's just such a wonderful experience and I'm just #really happy this happened #yeah I don't talk as much on here these days #but I get to talk and draw and be creative in small ways all the time in the discord and it's helped develop my art at #mach speeds never previously imagined #sorry to get sappy just wanted to say I've been doing well #and it started with my one year old son who I love #so anyway LOOK AT MY SON IN PAINTING FORM #IM SHOWIJG HIM OFF BC IM HAPPY #if you read this far I'm giving you a seaweed snack to munch on

[whaalless]

I’ve fallen into the inevitable Destiny brainrot so here's my goofy little titan guy I forgot to post earlier on here

#the shitness from Destiny 2 ate my son #I’m so stoked for the Final Shape expansion it’s gonna be so awesome hopefully #here’s my silly little exo titan oc #please help me l've officially fallen into the inevitable Destiny brainrot #digital art #destiny the game #destiny art #destiny 2 #destiny fanart #destiny oc #destiny exo #destiny titan #the shitness #the witness #idk what else to tag #im all out of tags at this point #skajillies

[tstwitterupdates]

TS tweet december 19, 2022 :

“Passing Through” - The amazing Kaden MacKay created an updated version of this tune, which felt very Virgil-y, so here’s an updated version of my cover 💜 (original)

Was going to wait til tomorrow to post this, but decided to swap it with my youtube vid* and OTHER video I made with Virgil, as the youtube video needed a bit more edit time to complete! So... Virgil's just gonna have a two-parter birthday, that's just what we're gonna do lol

*context: thomas mentioned on instagram planning to post a new youtube video on monday (today) but apparently he will post it tomorrow.

#sanders sides #thomas sanders #tstwtitter #patton sanders #virgil sanders #december 2022 #small complaint but i hate it when songwriters do this thing of #writing this awesome song about something that isn’t romantic love or any kind of love #and OUT OF NOWHERE add a verse that suddenly makes the song about love #like what the hell is that ‘ with you’ at the end #who’s ‘you’ there had been no ‘you’ the entire song this is a son about me and my struggle with time #and it happens so often the song is a bop and original and awesome and totally normal #and then bam the most random verse about how whatever the topic of the song is doesn’t matter when the significant other is there or whateve #maybe im just ace but i hate hate hate hate it when songwriters do this #your idea was good why ruin it like that

[gobstoppr]

hey guys am i allowed to say on main that i dont like metadad . am i gonna get beaten up for saying this.

guys i think we all took the term found family too literally and now everythings flattened into a boring nuclear family. guys can we stop. hello . is anybody there

#text #it was kinda charming at first but it feels like everytime i try to look at the mk tag its always the same shit . guys. guys. #we can do so much more w/ their dynamics than just dad and son ugh its so . ughhh. #every since i realized i was like . really really aroace. ive started to grow a bit of a distaste for shipping culture #this is relavant i swear. iwanna talk about metadede #like ok in fandoms right. theres often #the enforcement of specific roles onto characters for a simplified understanding of them for memes and drawing ideas #we want gay rep but we dont quite have it canonically so we make our queer headcanons seem more legit #by giving a char a same sex partner. ok easy we did it. gay people are real now #and we get awesome art and its wonderful bc people are wonderful #but its like . the relationships themselves feel flat a lot of the times. #metadede never seems to be about dedede. its about mk having a boyfriend. bc we need him to date someone. #and im not like . mad at anyone about this. i participated in it back in the day. but like. #ok so. gay hcs are the most popular in most fandom things bc its easy; hot; and sweet #but things like aro or ace hcs? its just. they. how can you depict that in a single framed drawing of a char?so theres none at all. #its not even that i actively hc chars aroace its jsut this is my world view; how i default to reading chars #maybe this rant in the tags is unrelated after all. #but idk. ive got lots of thoughts about things. #anyways as ceo of meta knigth im right about everything #i can talk more about metadad stuff specifically if people want

[cheebuss]

ENGINEER WOODY ENGINEER WOODY :DD

#cheez rambles #dash games #woody #pets #my art #fandom character #tf2 engineer #// my big handsome son <:] he was being extremely disruptive while i was trying to draw this <3 #// australian ahh cat but he gets to be engie bc engie is awesome :D

[simikae]

going bananassssss

#fire emblem #binding blade #fe6 #my art #my finished stuff #played thru fe6 again so i could resume streaming for the besties and in the new file lugh is cracked so heres him being my awesome son #rendering is clearly just a Whatever moment i was not willing to agonize over it with this one lolol

[starcrossed-perceivers]

Redraw after almost 2 years!

#coming out of art block after a year and drawing this feels so awesome! #I thought for sure I’d be awful at drawing after such a long break #star trek tng #star trek #Worf #worf son of mogh #qpid #my art #star trek next gen #star trek the next generation #Worf Star Trek #Star Trek Worf #gonna try to get this licensed on Redbubble even though it will take forever

[aro-in-danyl]

Alastor's Father

WARNING: period-typical racism, WW1, race-based murder

I see a lot of fics where Alastor's dad is a piece of shit and abusive, but I'd love to see one where Al's dad actually loves and cares for his family but was taken from them when Alastor was too young to remember much about him.

Maybe he died as a soldier in WW1 or made it back to the US only to be killed some other way. If he was black, then those odds go way up unfortunately.

We don't know much about Al's parents but if it's still canon that he's creole, then that means at least one of his parents has black ancestry. A lot of the fics I've seen give him a black mom/white dad, but I think it would be interesting if both his parents were mixed too.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is if Al's dad was killed when he was still little, then they wouldn't recognize each other in hell now would they?

Al's dad sure does love his family, but everyone else can fuck off. And ooh boi did he earn his place in hell trying to protect them, not that heaven cared about his motives.

The second he finds out Alastor the Radio Demon is his baby boy? Hell hath no fury like a protective parent. He doesn't give a flying fuck about the atrocities Alastor has caused, that's his baby and no one is going to hurt him while he's not double-dead.

#hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel au #alastor's father #now if we also gave alastor an abusive step-dad we could give him daddy issues AND a loving father #and also explain why he prefers the company of woman #cue Alastor's dad being overwhelmingly protective #Alastor's dad about Vox: Is this guy bothering you son? #I just want to see a fic with Al's dad trying his best and Alastor being confused over it #maybe they bond over stories about Al's mom #and dad jokes #pair this with trans! Alastor and Al's dad goes overboard with showing his support #Al's dad being the most stereotypical loving dad in existence #this was inspired by that one audio “I'm not. I fucking love my dad. My dad's fucking awesome.”

[nomattertheoceans]

I've been reading the Percy Jackson books for the first time over the past two weeks! Just finished "The Battle of the Labyrinth" last night (which btw is my favorite of the series so far!!)

I have now gained a new obsession but it might not be what you think

#like i swear to god i did not expect to be absolutely enthralled by the protagonist's mom kahskahfjkaja #she's just so fascinating to me #she's so kind and smart and she has given EVERYTHING for her son okay #like her staying married to an abuser for years to protect him omg she deserves the world #like when Poseidon called her a queen in the first book he was 100% right alright she is a queen #the woman murdered her abuser with a monster's head LIKE THAT'S SO AWESOME #also i cannot explain how obsessed i am with her relationship with Poseidon okay #like. do i want her to still have feelings for him? yes. do i need poseidon to pine and long for her from the distance?? ABSOLUTELY YES. #like realistically it's more likely that be does not but I need it okay #like at first i wanted them to be reunited because you know. of course i did. #but i am perfectly content with her finding love and happiness with a mortal man and Poseidon pining for her from the distance #like listen. this woman is amazing and she deserves to have an immortal all powerful god unable to get over her alright SHE DESERVES IT #but the way he just showed up at Percy's birthday party and called her as beautiful as ever????? omg??? BECAUSE YES SHE IS #and she blushed??? be still my beating heart #kahskahfksja honestly laughing at myself right now like I'm just over here watching a Sally Jackson tele novela in my head #AND HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE #percy jackson #no spoilers please if you see this post i know very little about the story and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself that way #also jsut as an fyi i am also a little obsessed with Percy and Annabeth kajakshdjshsha they are too cute and intense #sally jackson #percy jackson and the olympians

[scouting4love]

Things I witnessed on my road trip/the rodeo I went to but redrawn with my favorite guys

#miyamoto usagi #jotaro usagi yojimbo #usagi chronicles #usagi yojimbo #y'all. that dad /traumatized/ his son. it was fucking awesome. #jackalope lore is everywhere in the world btw i just feel like the context is important #& also.. have u ever seen a wild horse race? that's what happened in the rodeo! & that's the context for the 3rd pic lol #anyways im going to the opposite end of americana on sunday so laterrrr!! 🫶 #love and peace! #my art #horses are hard to draw btw

[fictionadventurer]

Every time I think I'm tired of these guys and their endless rivalries, I learn about another crazy facet of the political system of the time and I get obsessed all over again.

You've got the chaos of 1840-1860, where slavery's increasingly becoming the all-important issue. The Whig Party is fracturing over it and turning into a bunch of tiny little one-issue parties that split the Northern vote. The only reason the South isn't seceding is because the chaos in the North keeps Southern-sympathizing Democratic presidents in power. By the time the 1860 election rolls around, the tiny little Northern parties have finally coalesced into the Republican Party, whose one issue is opposing slavery, and the Democrats are fracturing to back three separate presidential candidates. This allows the North to finally get a Republican in the White House, upon which the South immediately throws a tantrum and bails.

Which then transitions us to the political climate of the Civil War, where the war effort is vastly complicated by the fact that you've got to keep a jillion tiny little factions happy to prevent the country from splintering further. You've got the slave-holding border states who need to be placated so they don't decide to secede. You've got abolitionists who want to make the end of slavery the prime object of the war, which would be a great way to send all those border states straight into the arms of the Confederacy. You've got German-Americans and Irish-Americans and a bunch of different ethnic groups who all want representation among the high-ranking officers of the war. Within the Republican Party itself, you've got former Whigs and Know-Nothings and Radical Republicans and Free Soilers and anti-slavery Democrats who all agree that slavery is bad, but disagree about the best way to get rid of it, plus they all retain vastly different political beliefs from their former party associations. Plus, there are still some pro-Union Democrats you have to deal with, who also splinter among themselves into War Democrats and Peace Democrats who disagree on whether we should continue this horrific war or sue for peace.

And then there's the Confederate politics. You have Davis, the so-called President-General who'd rather be leading troops and hates politicking so much that he'll allegedly cross the street when he sees a Congressman coming rather than risk talking to him and be accused of currying political favor. He's dealing with a Congress that's essentially the Anti-Davis Party, because it's made up of a bunch of men who thought they should have been president (and I cannot explain just how hilarious that is to me). They're uniting under their belief that slavery should be preserved, and yet by the end of the war they're considering emancipation efforts in a last-ditch attempt convince France or England to help them out. They seceded because of one issue and they're willing to throw that away rather than admit defeat.

The chaos just keeps going. It's a never-ending series of high-drama rabbit holes to jump down. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. Politics nowadays is crazy, but Civil War politics are crazier, plus we have the distance of history that makes it fun to just sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch the insanity unfold.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #i've reached the point of watching 2012 cspan videos to satisfy my curiosity if you were wondering how my day is going #the mosaic book made a mention of how davis' son died during the war just like lincoln's did #which intensified my desire to learn more about davis as a politician #and the comparison was even more fun than i could have imagined #love to see two old guys sit on a stage and judge long-dead politicians