I am actually. I am so emotional over the Salazar parents and I need to share this to tumblr too.
A lot of stories where the MC is adopted I feel. Either dismiss the biological parents and the impact they have on the kid's life, or makes them evil and abusive, framing the loss of the bio parents as a good thing, or at least something we shouldn't think about just look at this new family.
But Genrex doesn't do that. From the start, Rex wanted to find out more about his parents - it's one of his primary character motivations, next to helping people. He loves them, even though he doesn't know them.
And the more he finds out about them, the more he realizes they loved him. Rylander is consumed by guilt but as Rex's first connection to his pre-Event life, the first thing he does is hug him. And when he tells Rex about his parents, the two things Rex knows is that 1) they were scientists, and 2) that when he was in danger, they were desperate enough to use their secret, experimental technology to save him. Technology built from their desire to help the world, to save countless lives and end countless suffering.
And then. When he finds out that they were dead, he doesn't stop caring. It'd be so easy, too, to tie it up there - his parents were good people, he got his answer about them, the end. But they don't. He doesn't. Because the show is saying once again that they are his parents. He still calls them mom and dad, even as the show makes it clear Holiday and Six adopted Rex as their son. Even as the show even parallels Six and One with Rex and Six (and I will talk about that more later if I don't forget, trust me), to really drive home how much they're family. Rex even says he considers the two of them family, and later that he considers Noah, Claire and Annie family.
He has new family, the show tells us, but his old family still matters to him. He's upset that he never has the chance to meet his parents, that everything he hears about them, about his time with them, is secondhand knowledge. It tells us clearly that not only does Rex still love them, but that he still wants to know them. And everything we find out about them reinforces the love that they had for each other.
We see Abuela and the family in Mexico, who connect him to his birth family and tell him that he was so loved back then, and still is now. We see their office in Abysus through Rex's eyes. The picture of him and his dad on his desk. The drawing Rex drew, proudly pinned to the wall.
We see it in the familiarity of the drawing. That that robot, that build, was what Rex created when he was lost and scared and alone - that it was made to keep him safe. That it first appeared in his mind in a place he felt safe.
The show says, tenderly and softly, that the love is still there. That the fact these people died was nothing but a tragedy, that their love is a big part of what made Rex who he is today - that every molecule in his body is filled with their final gift to him. That every time he cures someone, every time he uses a build, every time he makes a machine - we see the love that they had for him.
And the way he quietly absorbs his father's face. The way he freezes and whispers "Mamá?" when he finds out Zag-Rs has their mother's voice. The fact that she even has her voice as a testament to Caesar's love, too - that it was meant to bring comfort and safety. The way Rex yells at Caesar when he finds out they have a family property, a connection to their past, the way he fights to protect it.
And, none of this takes away still from Six and Holiday being Rex's family too. None of this removes the work either set of parents did for him, the love either set has - the show says that it was unfair that the Salazar parents were lost. That Six and Holiday are not replacements, that they still love him as parents but play different roles in his life. They can not, and have no desire to, replace the Salazars. But Rex needs parents, he needs protectors, and so they will do what they can for him - at first out of necessity, to keep this kid they barely know safe, but then out of love. They aren't replacing what was lost, but are doing their best to do what Rex's bio parents would do. And they do mess up in it - they mess up in ways Rex's bio parents might not have. Six is clearly bad with showing affection, affection we saw the Salazars give Rex so easily, and Holiday is overworked and stressed constantly, sometimes breaking under the pressure and snapping at Rex and Six, things we never saw the Salazars do.
It's just. It's about how sometimes things will not be the same. They will be different. That doesn't mean the people you lost aren't still with you.
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˗ˏˋ 🐕 A SERMON BY OREL PUPPINGTON ? !
❝ Ladies and gentlemen and , well gosh , everybody ! ❞
Everyone goes to get up and leave seeing Orel in Putty's stead .
❝ DO UNTO OTHERS ! ❞ They turn back around to listen .
❝ That's right do unto others ! God wants us to treat each other how we would want to be treated ourselves ! But how does that relate to-to everybody else and our - uh - selves ?!
Well you see you want God to let you into Heaven , and gee , that would be really nice of him but before that you have to be nice yourself ! It's like a relationship that works both ways ! I hold her hand so she holds mine , right ? ❞
❝ When someone is a jerk and you want to be a jerk back , remember that's not how you would want them to treat you ! You can show them the way ! When your good Reverend is sick and cannot make it to his own sermon , think how you'd feel if you were sick or grounded from church for 4 weeks ! Even a week ! Boy , you would want the good Reverend to save you from a Godless none churchy-existence ❞ he gets back on track .
❝ so you would go into the service anyway and keep the good Sunday service going anyway , and record the sermon so that next time you're grounded from church or too sick to make it to the service , he may just treat you just as kindly to save your soul from that Godless , none-churchy existence.... or maybe he would just be kind enough to record the sermon so you can listen to it too ! _ ❞ He gestures to the recorder on the table .
❝ _ I say unto you ; If I walked into church this morning and saw a little boy unqualified to speak in the stead of a man so holy ... well I just might listen to his sermon too ! - And just between all of you and God here today ,... I really think we could use just a little more genuine kindness here in Moralton moving forward ... ❞ That last part has a weight to it .
❝ Amen ! ❞
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Don't know if this is a hot take, but I think the creators of The Bear think they already gave Carmy therapy...
Ok, let me explain.
I've seen a lot of headcanons and meta discussion regarding Carmy needing therapy in general, but also before anything with Sydney happens. And, although I agree he is not yet a dependable partner that can form healthy relationships... I also think he is already on his way, trying to change, trying to be better, trying. And the reason he is already in the process, is because he decided to go to the Al-Anon meetings. Like, the way those meetings are framed in the show, are in the form of spaces in which he gives monologues while he opens up about what's going on with him... which, in a way, is therapy. Except that we don't hear the feedback he gets, or if he even gets it. But the thing is that, narrative-wise, and even visual-wise, the image we are getting is of Carmy going places to talk and, in a way, heal...
So, it wouldn't make much sense in future seasons for a more traditional way of therapy to be introduced, because we would see the same we are already seeing... you know what I mean? Carmy talking and realizing stuff about himself.
All of these to say that I think the Al-Anon meetings count as therapy for Carmy for the writers of The Bear. And that I wouldn't be surprised if, instead of having Carmy go to a one-on-one therapy, they just make the Al-Anon meetings have more of an impact on him, that shows in the ways he interacts with his family, the restaurant, everyone in it and, of course, Sydney.
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for the toh reqs~
SIBLING GAME NIGHT SIBLING GAME NIGHT!!!!!!!!!
anyway hope you are having a lovely day!!!!!!!! ty bestie🙏🙏🙏🙏💕💖
[ID: a comic featuring the cast of the owl house, split into two images. The first image shows King holding a pair of uno cards, looking up to the left- towards Luz, who we see in a cut-in-half close up panel of her face, holding three cards in a dramatic fashion. Her face is in shadow and sparkles appear around her eyes. Paralleling her in the other corner is a panel of hunter, holding yellow cards and sweating nervously.
The next image is two rectangular panels of hunter and Luz sitting across from each other with king in the middle, all three of them playing cards. In the background is Gus, Willow and Amity (who is saying "go Luz!"). The first panel is silent, until in the second panel, Luz says "draw 5" with a smug expression. Hunter stands up angrily, his cards flying in the air, and yells "IT IS NOT LEGAL TO DO THAT FOUR TIMES IN A ROW, HUMAN!". king says "haha, yes it is! Loser boy has lost again!" Gus summons a puff of illusion smoke with a scoreboard on it reading "L: 12, H: 0". Amity is cheering and willow summons the word, "R.I.P (again)" in vines and flowers next to hunter. The background is colored with peaches and oranges. End ID]
Frantically ignoring the implications of todays ep. Incredibly funny to me how these bitches ended up actually being siblings
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Hi, I know it's a stupid question but I was wondering how Zuko calls Sokka on his mind, I mean Sokka use (his fire bender ) but what about Zuko?
I don’t think it’s a stupid question!!
Honestly… I doubt Zuko has the same mindset Sokka does, but I’m sure he thinks about his Water Tribe boy frequently.
But Zuko’s brain is more insecure & probably views himself as undeserving of Sokka’s love and affection.
So when Sokka is smiling at him & thinking “my fire bender”
Zuko is likely unraveling -
why is he staring at me like that?
Did I say something weird?
Fuck, what was the last thing I said?
Fuck I bet it was really stupid.
Why does he like me?
He said he likes me… but why?
Fuck he is still staring at me… I should say something. But something… idk nice?
Zuko: *glares at Sokka*
“what?”
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