#which makes them my sister By Sister Law

[agrimmbrothersgrimmestgoose]

The only thing keeping me from Killing A Man this evening is the fact he lives in Oregon and that i am trapped under a heating pad...

#soooooooo #my sister has a friend right #which makes them my sister By Sister Law #Whelp #Sister got an SOS from said friend last week #Looooooooooong story short #She's likely switching coasts due to his Asshole Behavior and I just got off a 3 hour phone call pulling Emergency Big Sister Duties #I Am In A Killing Mood And This Migraine Is Not Helping #anyway #if you believe in vibes or Karma or prayers #please send some good ones to my sister's friend this evening #(i promise i am not looking up flight tickets) #((i prommy)) #(((:])))

[astridthevalkyrie]

everything you see ab being the oldest daughter is true btw why am i the family therapist AND punching bag smh

long ass depressing rant in the tags srry i got a wee bit emotional

#my dad has something going on where there's a ringing in his ear my mom has tendonitis and neck pain now #and i feel for both of them i'm goin to cvs to get the meds giving my mom massages every night talking to my dad to distract him #they're both going to the correct doctors #but just throwing it out there i have had tendonitis and chronic upper back pain for 5-6 years and no one gave a shit most i've gotten is #jokes that i'm faking it #i'm in physical therapy for my back NOW but that's bc i finally crawled out of the depression long enough to do it myself #which is fine whatever i'm 22 i should be the one making my own appointments and it'd be weird if i wasn't #but when i was 16 or 17??? #being hospitalized for STRESS HEADACHES at 14 too??? #who gets hospitalized for that shit and how were my parents not concerned that i at the age of 14 was #so stressed out that my head was pounding all the time #and bc i'm the third parent who has to be the only emotional safe space #i don't say anything if my sisters are rude to me bc at least they feel safe enough around me to be rude to me #i have to listen to everyone and their momma's problems #i'm in law school!!! i do not need this i'm anxious all the time!!! #and if i'm not anxious i'm depressed!!! #my therapist point blank tells me shit like 'you're incredibly lonely' or 'you have way too much on your shoulders' and it makes me CRY #the most basic fucking observations that i KNOW but hearing someone else acknowledge it and not berate me fucking sends me into TEARS #i get messages from online friends here like 'hey i saw your post you don't deserve that' i physically cannot keep my eyes dry!! #every time i have any interaction ever i am at least a little uncomfortable bc i am always trying so hard to make sure i come off as kind #and not awkward or mean #i feel like everyone around me was given some kind of how to manual on life that i wasn't #and i KNOW this is not unique tons and tons of people feel like this #i know this is the depression and the anxiety and the possible autism i'm well aware #but then every couple of days my mom gets the brilliant idea to tell me i'm rude or lazy or whatever and i lose my shit #i just wanna sleep and write fanfics in the nicest way possible i hate everyone #i will try my best to not be mean to anyone bc no one deserves it but i am angry and i am constantly feeling the hurt of my inner child #my MOTHER threw a hardcover book at my HEAD when i was ten bc i had been reading and hid the book under the pillow #what the actual fuck???? #my dad's response to any and everything is to deal with it

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

trying to write this essay while maintaining at least a facade of academic objective voice is ridiculous, actually

#i give up at this point anyone who would write an essay on this has to be stupidly into it #so what if you can tell i have a parasocial attachment to pete wentz #Lu rambles #lftos essay #literally trying to write this is like. how many words can i get away with spending on the details of what the fandom largely refers to as #‘’the best buy incident’’ and should i just quote the fob forever piece which already explained it more effectively than i ever could #like. idk. maybe i’ll cite it anyway but also do my own explanation for background on hum?? #also i need someone who isn’t into fob and who doesn’t know anything about them to beta this like i have a couple of paragraphs #that idk if they would make sense to someone who doesn’t have all the context i do #so… i’m thinking on it. i won’t let my mom near this one though lol #maybe my sister in law?? #idk anyway just spitballing

[mommalosthermind]

Let people talk about the things they love.

Let yourself talk about the things you love.

Enrichment In The Enclosure!! Community!! Share!!

#brought to you by this evening’s entertainment: watching my sister in law try to keep up with my oldest kid #explaining bsd. but too excited about it so they kept bouncing around #my SIL understood NOTHING. but she Listened. she showed my kid love #and she also ensured my kid feels confident and comfortable in their interests #and listen that is so fucking important and my kids have no idea how spoiled they are with this #fourteen and the only person who shut them down over their interests was their grandmother #…which is why the kids don’t talk to her anymore #I’m. rambling. it’s midnight I am exhausted I had a point here #LOVE THINGS OUT LOUD #LET OTHER PEOPLE LOVE THINGS OUT LOUD #it will make EVERYONE HAPPIER

[chekovsphaser]

I know I've probably said it before but it absolutely baffles me that some people genuinely believe there are fundamental ontological biological differences between men and women.

Even setting aside the nature of intersex-ness and transsexuality, human beings are spectacularly diverse in all of their features. We are not a sexually dimorphic species.

#this brought to you by this afternoons mental ted talk on a thing that happened to me once #in this case that my sister in law referred to my brother's hairy man hands which he doesn't have #but i do and have since i was like 12 before i knew transgenderism even existed #feminism #man and woman are just roles we take in society #and also you are allowed to make them whatever you want #but they are fundamentally just roles and tendencies and not inherently different categories

[shopcat]

you having siblings makes sense

LOL hey... i'll do you one better i don't just have siblings i am the youngest of 9 o_<✌️

#asks #3 brothers 4 sisters 1 sister in law i call my sister bc well that's just how my family works and also she IS.. my sister... so #she is also my only friend which is another thing that makes sense about me 💖 #I MESSED UP THE MATH i have 5 bio sisters . 1 sister in law. we only found out about the last one like last year LOL #erm i have 20 nieces and nephews 2 of them r a great niece and nephew (like gravity falls...) #and also 22 aunts and uncles about 110 cousins <3 well it was 110 in 2015

[zemnarihah]

hm. my dad is now aware that i have slept over at eriks when i visit him.

#dont love that. #he brought it up bc i have an aunt and uncle in his city and i think he was going to offer to like see if i could stay with them at some #point to visit him #he was like have you thought of visiting erik in (city)? and i was like. yeah #and he was like. have you? and i was like. yeah. and he was like how many times? and i said twice and he was like oh. where did you stay? #and i said. eriks place. and he was like. oh. well you know you have an aunt and uncle there that would let you stay right? and i was like. #yeah i know. and it was in front of my mom and sister and brother in law and HIS sister and everyone was so quiet because they know how my #dad is #and i was like in the process of leaving so i just like said bye to everybody real quick and left so im still like. agh. scawed! #idk why even its not like theres anything he can do to me its just like. god i really want to have peace with him i do not want to ever hav #another lecture from him or get yelled at by him again idk im still scared of that. and he hasnt even met erik yet and probably has a #terrible impression of him now just based off of that even though i am always telling them great stuff about him i dont want HIM to deal #with that especially because i do not think that he would take as much bullshit which he shouldnt have to but god i just have this vision o #my dad like. pulling erik aside for a talk or something if they ever meet and trying to scare him and them getting into an argument bc erik #would stand up for himself #idk who knows if that will happen im literally making up scenarios in my head to scare myself but christ. \ #the thing is also at this point in my life i just like. i have to keep moving forward in like. the whole living my life without constantly #thinking about the church's and my dad and the rest of my family's expectations. I have to. I almost lied to him but i didnt and thats #really big progress but im still so scared. but whatever. do it scared. agh!

[violentdevotion]

I had multiple dreams last night.

I had a bf </3

someone in my family got bit by a zombie </3

some guy made me explain narrative structure to him </3

#ameera speaks #1 expanded) it was someone ik in real life 😔 which sucks soooo bad anyway he was at mine and we were watching a movie in my bed on my #laptop < (loser behaviour) and okay so im lying by referring to him as my bf bc we were just friends in the dream but then he started like #acting well intimate and i wasnt not into it so i was like hey whats going on here and we had a talk and then i had to sneak him out of my #house. dream 2) zombie apocalypse im in my room my nephews and nieces come in and i usher them out. the world is the samw just + zombies. #like think covid when it was dire but schools were still open? (my dream was a commentary on the countries failures to manage covid) so i #usher my neohews and nieces out and i make a comment to my sister in law like ooh im scared one of them got bit and my nephew was like some #girl bit me at school today and i told his mum and i stayed in my room and like an hour later i rang her like whats the update #and she was like oh yeah and came into my room to find my journal on zombie stuff and sge was like should i just cut off his arm and i was #idk try but if that doesnt work youre gonna have to... and she was SO CASUALLL !!!! and as she was leaving she started like picking things #up off the floor and i made a comment like your sons dying and youre sweeping and she was like way harsh tai and i woke up #that one was a commentsry on covid and also how i might be too mean to my sister in laws sometimes #3) i was in a library with friends researching smth and some asian guy sits on our table turns his back to us and talks to his friends. #then he starts playing music loudly from his phone and i move back to my table and as im walking he stops me and starts talking to some #girl on the table next to mine who he knows and is like hey i have an assignment due where i have to write a compelling narrative from my #own life ur clever can u help and she was a stem girly and went highschool with me and she pointed at me like ask her she does english #and he was like no u just tell me and she started helping him but i felt the advice she was giving was.. bad. so i interrupted like dont #you think that you should do __ instead and we had a discussion about it till i woke up. < that dream was a commentary on how useless my #degree is and how i wish it wasnt useless

[notwantedonthemoon]

As someone who spent way too much time binge-reading academic papers on Not Wanted on the Voyage, this will be the only thing I think about for the next few weeks. Libraries are a godsend and I have problems.

Can someone who’s read this book help me decipher who is who on the cover? I can find a Mottyl, a Lucy, a Mrs Noyes, and perhaps a Noah (could that be Yaweh? I am unsure), but everyone else is just a funny looking creature. Who are these people.

This one haunts me.

#Donna pennee #Canadian fiction studies #Have recently become more familiar with Tumblr and I have thus been introduced to the magic of talking in the tags. #That sounds fun and I will try it today. #A recommendation for all who have consumed a piece of media with very little content about said piece of media #Try academic papers. It’s surprisingly fun (if you’re desperate) and some of them are unintentionally hilarious. #Like the multiple (MULTIPLE) papers that suggested Japeth’s admiration of Michael Archangelis was a crush. #Which was funny enough for me to instantly accept that as fact #“Unhappily married character with a crush on his sister-in-law’s canonically homophobic brother” is sitcom material #I want a spin-off on that. I want a spin-off on many things from Not Wanted on the Voyage but that would make the top five. #not wanted on the voyage #Timothy Findley #My ramblings

[altruistic-meme]

8 and 27!

eheheh hii :3

8: Describe your gender without using any words traditionally related to gender: i did this earlier but also like. idk how to explain my gender cus it's just fucking There. i walk out into the world and hope that i don't get perceived and then i am anyway so i just hope they don't understand what they're looking at.

27: What gender-neutral terms for yourself or others do you use (i.e. joyfriend)? uhhhhhhhhhh i don't think i really use any? i mean i prefer child or sibling to the alternatives, and i don't like being called "aunt" but the term i like better isn't gender-neutral it's just tagalog sdfhsdf

[ ❤️🧡💛 pride asks 💚💙💜 ]

#ok so the aunt thing is bc my sister in law is filipino #and so my niblings call me tita which is just. tagalog for aunt. #idk #it's just very different from aunt to me probably bc it's been tita for like 8 or 9 YEARS #(don't mind me forgetting the age of my nibling) #but my sis called me “auntie (legal name)” when talking to her baby and i wanted to KILL #i saw RED #i couldn't say anything but my mom probably saw me make a face about it sdhkfkhsdgh #but anyway yeah i don't know that i really use gender neutral terms all that much but thats also bc most people don't. use neutral for me. #im not against them i just don't hear them ever ;;; #askers #cozy-fish-crow #cozycrow #ask game #shh ac

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

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#me last night: *talks about the loss of my second grandpa within four months* #group chat with friends: *crickets* #another person in the group: *talks about having to put down a very long lived pet* #group chat: *endless stream of condolences* #i will never trivialize the death of a pet; i totally get it that the death of a pet is a big deal #but I'm also just. fucking distraught that my grief was completely ignored #and this is the first death from my moms side of the family #which is definitely the tightest knit side of the family despite being spread across borders #whatever #been feeling like I'm not much a part of that group anymore anyways #but the funeral was today #had a ton of people show up #had all of my direct cousins in one place for the first time in like 15 years #had lots of face to face conversations with people for the first time since coming out to them through text #and even came out to a couple more people #like my grandma's sister and brother-in-law #i genuinely didn't expect to come out to anyone new today #but that was a happy surprise #most of us cousins are going to get together tomorrow and i think I'm going to ask them all to start calling me by my chosen name #even if i dont get to the whole nonbinary thing i still want to make the step towards using a different name #at least the pronouns wouldn't sting as much after that #cause like. fuck it. plenty of cis people use different names why can't i #my parents will likely never go for it but fuck em #kee speaks #also i think all that cousins that'll be at lunch tomorrow are now heathens 😂😂 #im so glad there are so many of us now lmao

[savethepinecones]

love having multiple ways to refer to someone. i can tell stories about my roommate and my sister and one of my buddies and each of them could be about the same person

#this post brought to you by the brief moment of indecision i had when making a text post #like is this related to us living together or being related #like when i lived with my parents and i went to make a post about something i could just say 'my mom' #and people could infer that we lived together if they werent aware of that already #but i feel like if i talk about living with my sister it gives the impression that im like high school age or smth idk #but were both fully in our mid twenties #and obviously im not gonna use names #the other problem is my sisters spouse like theres no way to describe sibling in law without it being too wordy #so i say roomie #but then i feel like thats way more impersonal than if i mention my sister #but if i call them both my roommates that could get confusing #like which one am i talking about no one knows #idk im just trying to figure out how to be consistent with minimal confusion while also respecting their privacy by not using their names

[transgaysex]

i hate my older sisters parents in law so muuuuucch

#wind howls #her boyfriends parents are either annoying or straight up make me want to attack them. her boyfriend too #like her boyfriend isnt the Worst. hes just so annoying and such a manchild. ive heard a Whole lot from my sister abt the problems he has #and his parents are just so. well i wont go into details out of decency but geez. real glad my parents dont suck That Hard #anyway her mother in law is throwing my sister a surprise birthday dinner at her house tomorrow. which my sister did not want. #my sister specifically went to a cabin out in the woods for the weekend because she is so tired and wants peace and quiet- #for her birthday. #what ever. i cant even go there for too long but its just sooooo bothersome. #at least here if i ask my family not to wake me up at midnight to wish me a happy birthday theyll respect it =_= #and when i didnt want a party and just a nice dinner they also respected it. thankful for that

[undyinglantern]

You know, I do have exactly one aunt who I remember would explicitly choose not to shave and like. As a kid I always found that a bit strange but I never particularly thought it was gross or anything either

#the image of her stuck in my memory is of a blue/navy pencil skirt and very thin heeled business shoes but I can’t remember the top #notably she also had a fairy large mole above her lip too but idr which side it was on either #personal #but she also owned a ducking hotel we even stayed at once and had a bunch of loritos también so like #I remember I stepped out of the room we were staying in early in the morning bc I wanted to be in the hall to look at them #and got in trouble w my mom for doing so. But I’ve always loved animal so idc <3 #besides the loros she also had exactly 2 tucans which I find questionable now but at the time I was amazed to simply be standing so close t #to* irl. she was eccentric you could say. at the least #OH YEAH I JUST REMEMBERED the way we drove to the hotel was on the trunk of a truck with her dog(s? hazy memory) too. it (they?) were #German shepherds and very friendly #Idk abt laws now but riding in the back of trucks back then was so fun #As long as my sister didn’t make fun of the way my cheeks jiggled on the bumpy roads </3 #I’m rambling again dije buenas noches pero no tengo sueño todavía so idk what to do but fr I should stop rambling

[goggles-mcgee]

Phantom Fudge

I love the fics of Danny settling into Gotham and having some sort of business and just absolutely confusing the Batfam with how flippant he is about the crime.

My take is, instead of a coffee shop or bookstore or occult shop, Danny opens a fudge shop!

His parents taught him, and he found he actually really loved it, and besides, his dream of being an astronaut was out of reach due to his unique medical readings. In this au, his parents learned about him being Phantom and took it well after a good period of spiraling because-Holy shit they shot their son. You may be asking, Goggles, didn't you just make a post that was all about Jack and Maddie not taking the news well? Yes. Yes, I did.

I go back and forth with wanting to salt them and not. I like both.

So anyways, Danny is the heir to the Ghost Throne, but he won't actually take up the official title until his time on Earth is naturally over. After everything got better with his parents and his regular ghost fighting buddies, he actually was able to raise his grades and graduate. Many teachers were amazed at the progress but really, Danny may not have been as smart as his parents and sister (he is an unreliable narrator and is actually very smart just not as conventional as his family) but before his accident he had done pretty good in school. The GIW was still a thing, but without the Fenton technology, they weren't doing as well as they previously did. His parents broke their contract after they rescued him from the GIW labs, it was a little after he told his parents about his halfa status and they came storming in to save him and all the other ghosts that were captured. After that, life got so much better. His parents listened to him, and he got to teach them all about his people. They started publishing more papers with actually accurate information and were doing their best to overturn the anti-ecto acts. They haven't accomplished it, but Danny was sure they would.

That's actually why he moved to Gotham. Tucker had the idea of contacting the Justice League to help with the anti-ecto laws, but their calls weren't being answered. Neither were the...strongly worded emails Sam sent in. So Danny did what he did best and jumped into something not entirely thought out but hoping for the best. He moved to Gotham so he could get close to Batman and ask for help. He got accepted into Gotham University on a scholarship. But he wanted to make some money on his own without his parents sending him some kind of allowance, and he didn't want to work at Bat Burger. He started selling fudge around winter at his school, and he got permission to do so.

From there, he got enough money to actually open a small fudge cart. Then he got enough for a small shop near his apartment which was rather close to Crim Alley so he hired some working girls to help with the shop and he employed any Alley Kids looking for some cash as delivery workers. (They only delivered in Crime Alley, though, but that was fine with Danny.) Danny loved his little fudge shop that he lovingly named Phantom Fudge, and the sign had a cute little ghost eating some fudge on it. When he was in school for classes, he left the shop in his friend Ginger's hands. She had been a working girl before, but before that, she had had experience working a small mom & pop kind of shop, so Danny felt good leaving her in charge. When Ellie visited, she helped out with the shop too.

Danny was thriving. Then he started getting customers of the ecto variety because, of course, he would. Apparently, he was something of an ecto filter for the shades and ghost of Gotham, so they would visit his shop to soak up some of the pure ectoplasm in the air. Then he experimented and made some ecto-fudge, which is what he gave to any ecto beings that entered his shop. Most couldn't pay, but they would give him a heads up if they saw anything shady happening around his shop.

Like a little heads up that some robberies were happening in the area, or some rogue was getting close. It was a nice little system they had. Though some ghosts came in just to tell him their unfinished business and like...he wasn’t King yet, but these were his people, so he tried to help them out as best they could.

One particular couple showed up a lot and would ask him to help warn their son of any danger they heard was brewing. They would ask him to leave messages for the son or any of his kids but also the butler if needed. Danby thought this guy had some great parents. They didn't cross over because they needed to make sure their son was safe and taken care of. It was most likely that they wouldn't cross until their son did by the sounds of it. He got permission to call them Grandma and Grandpa, which was weird, but he didn't question it.

Martha and Thomas were nice spirits, so he had no problem helping them out. But Danny is Danny and his well-intentioned help of course caught the eye of the whole batfam.

They had been receiving letters in the Manor that appeared mysteriously. The first one they had all thought was a prank from the many people there. It was a simple, 'Don’t go to the gala. Something bad will happen.' That started it all. They were all baffled but laughed it off, and those who went to the gala didn't know how to feel when the seeming wait staff took over the event and held the guests hostage.

A coincidence surely.

Then they got another note, 'Freeze is planning to do a B&E and snatch some equipment from a Wayne lab. Idk which one since you have so many.' And just like last time, the note was speaking the truth. It continued from there, and everyone tried to capture whoever or whatever was leaving the notes, but any cameras they had glitched out before returning to normal and showing a new note had showed uo somewhere in the Manor. Bruce was going crazy trying to figure out who or what their messenger was.

Alfred once found a note that said, 'Tim has been awake and pushing himself too far. He is going to crash.' He took it to heart though and made Tim rest and take a break. He would not let the note happen. Tim had had far too many crashes the past couple of months.

The note that broke Bruce, though, was small in words, but it made him feel crazy. It was his parent's death anniversary, and when he went to visit the exact spot, he saw a sticky note on the floor. He shakily picked it up to see all it said was, 'It's okay.'

Now he is really worked up and determined to find the note messenger.

While that's going on, Danny also gets some local vigilantes visiting his shop, and he is so excited to see them and try and be their friend so he can ask for help. Plus they seem to be fans of his fudge and that just makes him happy.

The batkids thing the Phantom Fudge shop owner is suspicious, but hot damn did he make some bomb ass fudge.

#dpxdc #dc x dp #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp prompt #dc x dp au #dc x dp ficlet

[iguanodont]

Meant to make this my final post of the year, but I guess it’ll have to be my first instead! A look at part of a birg end-of-year tradition.

The Wis’Sachoi are a culture far to the west of the Twowi, where they exist fairly peacefully on the coast of a large inland sea. Come autumn the gifters (bachelors) herald the mating season by arriving to clans towns in bulky costumes made of sticks and reeds. They chase kids and animals, knock things over, and sing playfully that life away from the village has made them course and wild; won’t somebody please trim their shaggy hair and crooked claws? Young receivers (the ladies) don spiny cowls of woven branches in a cheeky imitation of the spiked armor worn by beast hunters of legend, to engage the “monsters” in games of song and wordplay. Should the beast court the wrong individual, or insult his quarry, or make too much mischief around the village, the elders are ready to chase him off with sticks. When a “beast” and “hunter” have successfully matched wits, the hunter will approach with beak scissors, so that she may snip away at the reeds covering her partner’s face in a tender gesture of allogrooming. Then her sisters and elders help tear away the rest of the costume, making the suitor fit to live among the clan again. The night ends with the burning of the reeds and a communal meal.

Courtship games such as this are just the first in a series of events held for around nine days, which include bachelors presenting gifts for the children and elders of the village, a fishing contest, and lots of feasting. Many of these gifts arrive in the form of exotic spices and other ingredients collected over the past year of trading abroad. Though it is tradition for courting pairs to consummate on the final night, it is not uncommon for a gifter to offer his spermatophore to several partners before the end of the festival period. After the final night concludes, Wis’Sachoi bachelors are granted the privilege of hibernating with their temporary in-laws.

As birgs generally sleep through the winter, fall and early-winter events such as these are the closest most cultures come to the sort of midwinter holidays observed on earth.

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