#I refuse to fight a CHILD

[yardsards]

a tactic of abusive parents that i don't see brought up very often: convincing their victims that child protective services are evil and that foster parents would certainly be even more abusive than their current circumstances

#eliot posts #csa mention #abuse mention #im watching an interview with a cult survivor #and she was talking about how her parents told her that child services would hurt her and put her with abusive foster parents #and i was like HOLY SHIT MY MOTHER DID THAT TOO #my mother always told me that if i got put in foster care i would get beaten and molested #and that if we told anyone about our home life they would ''misunderstand'' and ''incorrectly assume'' we were being abused #and then we'd get taken away by uncaring cps workers and given to evil foster parents #when in reality there would be no ''misunderstandings''. what was going on at home WAS abuse #but until my teen years i was convinced i was lucky #because i only got beaten sometimes and i got access to food and a roof over my head and i never got molested #this is not to say the foster system is perfect. there definitely are flaws in the system and occasional bad incidents #but it's nothing like my mother made it out to be #in fact the main issue with child services in my area that i knew of was that they rarely did much #like a classmate i knew called cps on her dad and they showed up and talked to him and he said she was lying #and when they left he punished her by burning her with a cigarette butt #when we were kids a few times our mother called the cops on our dad cuz they got into a violent fight #she'd tell the cops he was abusing her (though the violence was mutual) but when they showed up she refused to press charges #and a few times the cops SAW me and my sister there and DID NOTHING #like maybe if you get called to this same house multiple times you should investigate what's happening to the kids??? #child abuse #abuse #abuse tw #anyway i'm still not 100% sure if that was deliberate manipulation on her part or if it was part of her weird paranoia about everything #but nonetheless it ultimately had the same effect as deliberate manipulation #she refused to get help for her mental illness even though a doctor told her she needed to

[cattatoir]

I think I have unpopular Sandman takes bc I'm usually on his side

#like I would also not promise not to take revenge like maybe you shouldn't do things...to make him take revenge and just accept the possible #consequences #but uh I also assume he wouldn't have done much to the kid #and I'm not on the pregnant lady's side #Like obviously as a human Empathy for your loss #But letting the universe start falling to pieces and acting like you're somehow OWED a child with your dead husband #not to mention owed your dead husband #is so incredibly selfish #not to mention compounding the issue by apparently trying so hard to avoid the consequences of your action that you #a) refuse to accept your kid is like never gonna be a human and it's entirely your fault #b) try and fuck with the fabric of the universe AGAIN #like the consequence of her kid being taken from her probably way earlier than he would have to become Dream #That's like Minimum punishment imo #Being a parent is I'm sure a horrifying and painful thing to deal with a lot as is losing your husbandf #but I'm not going so far to valorize someone's individual pain that they don't have any responsibility for their stupid fucking actions #sorry it hurts and sucks but uh the universe doesn't owe you SHit #and I'm only for robbing it if you're like #eating the rich or fighting god not fucking over everyone else who you don't care about because you're a jerk #cmo's log #he's totally wrong for not forgiving his ex tho. WACK get over yourself you big fucking baby #get wreckt

[xserpx]

He wasn’t a lion, he was a scared little boy who didn’t want to die. But it was too late to listen to Mother now.

— A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

#the first law #leo dan brock #my sweet little idiot lion child ❤️🦁 #joe abercrombie #the age of madness #a little hatred #rereading the fight with stour and fhakdkaldka #tfw you're rooting for both the people fighting to the death #i love the hooks of 'words to live by' and 'by the dead' in that chapter #also stour is hot there i said it don't talk to me about his soul patch it's not there if i refuse to imagine it #also when leo sees 'jurand wincing as if he felt every wound himself' 🥲 i need a lie down

[guinevereslancelot]

i'm so sick of cynicism!!! i'm so sick of everyone being too edgy to care or feel or believe in anything earnestly!!!! i'm so sick of it!!!! it's not cool to pretend to be so jaded and unaffected by everything that you risk nothing!!!! stop trying to be too cool for happiness and hope and love and living!!!! your reward is bitterness and misery!!! it's spring and we're healing!!!!!

#i am trying so so hard to have hope and believe in things #i refuse to suck the joy out of my life on purpose #maybe i will never find romance maybe i will never fall in love maybe all my friends DO secretly hate me and we're born to suffer #but what if i live and i love and i find joy and meaning in life anyway #what then #what if the worst comes to pass and i never fall in love and i go blind and lose all my friends but i still have my family #and i get a job that's fulfilling and i make new friends and i adopt a child and have my own family and i find new ways to experience beauty #what if every bad thing that happens or could happen isn't the worst thing that could happen #im fighting for my life against bitterness and cynicism and it just shows me how romanticized it is and how ingrained in our culture #being too cool for genuine emotions and hope won't save you #sorry for liveblogging my breakdown but today its an optimistic breakdown #this has been a shitpost

[tearlessrainart]

Did a stained glass wolf during D&D (and then continued working on the stained glass wolf for like four hours after D&D it's 1:30 in the morning and I've made a mistake). I did a similar one with a lion years ago and completely forgot how I did it but I'm pretty happy with the effect.

#digital art #wolf #technically I did this for a ych on wolvden #because animal sim websites are my guilty pleasure but I refuse to spend real money on virtual currency ever #but like I also just wanted to do it #I've tried working on commissions during d&d but that takes like #I have to allocate braincells for that #for this I can just kinda go on autopilot and pay attention to the plot #(we've gone to the moon to fight the fae mafia because they stole our eldritch child)

[box-dwelling]

I know that how much Phoenix suspected Kristoph is very vague and I like the idea he had very little clue but honestly the thing that makes me think he did is Trucy. Because I think there is absolutely no way Kristoph didn't want her dead. He tried to kill vera, child murder isn't above him. And Trucy was a far far bigger weak chain in his scheme than she was but she escapes him basically unscathed other than minus one parent, who lets be real was canonically a POS who tried to kill a woman over a poker game. She saw him give her the diary page. She has psychic lie defecting abilities and he is constantly lying. She's absolutely the biggest direct threat to his scheme.

I feel like if Phoenix genuinely trusted Kristoph he would have absolutely had the opportunity to kill her and tie up that loose end. Trucy's savvy and able to protect herself but she's also a child. It is a miracle she's still alive by AA4 and I think that has to be because Phoenix was protecting her because he knew he couldn't trust Kristoph around her.

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #kristoph gavin #trucy wright #aa4 #Apollo Justice ace attorney #7yg #also i do just kind of prefer the idea of that this was a battle Phoenix knew he was fighting every day and knew he would probably lose #thats a more enjoyable angst for me #and it kind of makes a bit more sense for why he cut everyone off and isolated himself #like he knew that he was in the lions den and didn't want anyone else in there with him woth the exception of trucy who was inndanger anyway #and he knew he was the only one who understood this battle enough to protect her #but alternative explanations can include a krisnix one where kristoph genuinely didn't want to hurt Phoenix's daughter #but honestly my krisnix take is that he would because that man is possessive as fuck and wouldn't want Phoenix giving his attention to her #or it could be that Phoenix is clueless and trucy isnt and shes the one actually fighting the battle and protecting him #but thats also very very sad and i don't want to do that to her #maybe theyre both protecting the other but refusing to tell each other because they dont want to put the other in danger #that would be in character as fuck for the wrights #trucy fully in a ya adventure we cant tell our parents about the unspeakable horrors because then they'll get hurt #while Phoenix is trying desperately to just keep them both alive but doesn't want to put that burden on a literal child #idk i do genuinely just think its way way sadder if Kristoph is a known threat through most of the 7yg #but they know they cants pull away from him even as he poses a direct threat to them because that makes him even more dangerous #beanix

[navree]

Let's be honest, and I say this with full offense, Lucerys Velaryon is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Dance of the Dragons. He is meant to be a sacrificial lamb to kick off the entire war proper. If we had gotten a full season of development with him like we did with the younger cast in Game of Thrones, I guarantee more people would've felt something. The only reason I personally feel bad is from a baseline level of empathy, because he was a child who was placed in an unwinnable situation due to his mom being completely irresponsible with him and his brothers.

However…

The comparison between Lucerys and Aemond is no contest. Love him or hate him, Aemond has an actual personality and goals when we first meet him. There's enough dimension in Aemond as a child to showcase the potential for sympathy between him and Jace at the funeral, a scene they didn't need to put in, but they did, which emphasizes his own innocence. Even before he breaks bad fully in S1E10, he's still far more compelling to watch due to the number of scenes allocated to him and his dynamic with other people.

This is where you and I are going to disagree just a bit, because Lucerys does do something in S1E07 and S1E08. He gouges out the eye of a family member and petulantly whines that he “didn’t do anything!” when confronted with the possibility of getting in trouble for it, then years later has the nerve and complete lack of sense to giggle at the person he permanently maimed only hours after his legitimacy was publicly called into question (again) and resulted in a murder. The narrative (perhaps unintentionally) glosses over these moments in favor of portraying him as good, whereas if you read between the lines, you can see that as being an oversimplification. The problem is that because S1 was truncated, secondary characters like Lucerys don’t receive screentime dedicated to portraying anything other than a single personality trait. Unfortunately, because of his role in the text and the way it was adapted for television, there was never a chance that Lucerys would be interesting.

I don't even have anything to add, this is just objectively correct.

#personal #answered #anonymous #and yeah lucerys refusing to take any responsibility or even show a hint of remorse for what he did is so galling to me #i could never care about him after that #like first of all you were in the wrong in the fight period #aemond did nothing wrong he claimed a free dragon who let him bond with her #i get why rhaena and baela were acting irrationally upset their mother died and they're young #grief makes you act weird #jace and luke had absolutely no reason to act the way they did #like it's not your fight and also again aemond literally did nothing wrong #but because he made a nasty comment after already being yelled at for doing nothing wrong y'all decide to gang up on him #with your cousins #and then this little idiot decides to take a whole knife to someone's face and refuses to ever feel bad #luke could have KILLED aemond #aemond could have DIED #not just from the immediate wound but also any issues that arose during a really long and arduous healing process #it's why fics with luke where he feels bad or contrite don't work for me #because he literally doesn't??? #he doesn't care at all #he doesn't care he almost killed a person for no reason and left them with lifelong issues as a result of his fuck up #out here kicking his feet and giggling over maiming another human being #again vhagar eating him was too easy #he should have gotten his eye poked out first anyway #literally only feel kinda bad for rhaenyra cuz i'm neutral leaning positive towards rhaenyra and losing a child hurts #luke himself can rot i feel nothing

[sparklecryptid]

Anyway because I’m self indulgent I think Fengyan should be buddies with Xiao and that maybe he should have a spot in a zhongli/Childe/Xiao poly mess.

You know.

For reasons.

#meet beneath the cliff face verse #he meets Xiao /once/ figures out where the adeptus lives. and then brings him almond tofu and just chats with him. #Xiao refuses to feel attachment. he refuses. #and then Fengyan managed to worm into his heart whoops. #(they meet when fengyan runs across Xiao fighting demons and goes ‘might as well help’) #(Xiao berates him for it. and then goes ‘while your help was unneeded. i thank you regardless’) #(its funny.) #(meanwhile with Childe its ‘local diplomat watches Millelith train. gets the hots for hot instructor’) #(zhongli and fengyan bond over food and culture and meet when fengyan pays for one of zhongli’s purchases #fengyan also got blessed by Rex Lapis at the rite of descension once. morax /knows/ who this man is)

[herawell]

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#negativity cw #my parents’ anniversary is next week and they are not getting anything other than a 1 line ‘congrats’ in the whatsapp group chat #no gift no party no surprise trip no nothing #I’m the eldest child and now earning so I’m half certain they’ll side-eye me for not doing anything #idfc #it might seem petty and childish but after the Dec 2022 fights with my mom #where for two days in a row she screamed at me for hours #about how I was responsible for their marriage being on the rocks and verge of divorce #as well as a host of other fucked up things #on top of similar such threats/emotional blackmail every year since I was 13 #I am never doing anything again to celebrate their Union #I still get them bday gifts and Father’s Day/Mother’s Day stuff #we still have a good relationship (ik it seems odd but despite everything we do) #but you don’t get to spend a decade blaming me for your adult inability to maintain your adult relationship #and expect me to celebrate it once I’m an adult #also my mom has repeatedly and very candidly refused to apologize for any of the above so this isn’t a case of #silently fuming and childishly refusing to communicate

[byanyan]

byan pointing at the menace of a cat that lives in their apartment who shreds all their belongings, who launches out at them from under furniture to claw at their feet, who seems to intentionally step in front of them so they trip over her, who hogs all their boyfriend's attention, who seems to exist just to spite them even though they were the one who rescued her, and calling her an unhinged and feral beast while failing to realize that this is basically what it was like for people who allowed them into their homes is endlessly funny to me

#fortunately jjijji has a dad (sol) who loves her and supports her even though she's chaos incarnate #byan of course was never so lucky (': #(they love her tho. they do. they find her antics funny in most cases once they're done being mad about it all) #don't look at me i'm just having feelings over my fictional child and their fictional boyfriend and the fictional cats they have together #it's just that kind of night idk i just really like that they get to be happy in the future #also the hypocrisy of it all and them refusing to realize that jjijji is basically just them as a cat #is one of my favourite dumb but soft things ok FIGHT ME #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ooc ⋮ don't @ me.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Universe where Link must defeat a threat, and is accompanied by the spirits of Zelda and Ganondorf (who are dead and or out of commission) as his shoulder angel and devil respectively. Hilarity ensues.

What do you mean this isn't already the game??

#asks #tloz #shitpost #I feel like Link has both spent too much time with zelda #and too much time fighting ganon #he must have internalized them to a degree #some people have an inner child #he just has an inner wise princess and an inner disaster boar #but honestly yeah that would be so funny #thanks for the ask!! #(and sorryyy the queue is long and i'm tired + a lil guy) #(tumblr ate two incredibly good asks btw :( ) #(very sorry about those lost in the war) #((the war = my brain Refusing to do simple tasks))

[guideaus]

im thinking abt these scenes again and i really dont get it... its obvious ketil's not supposed to be liked at this point, and even less so later, but just seeing him here makes me remember snake just before. a disgusting looking ketil rolls out of a barrel as a gag, he pathetically stumbles out, almost looking drunk, while no one seems to positively regard him, and he is asking for his slave woman that could be his daughter's age who just had her husband murdered. you're very much not supposed to like him at all compared to his kind master introduction, but i look at snake and he just so plainly is not depicted in the same way. snake looks fired up, like he has an undeniable point, saying something you'd agree with out of context, and this doesn't look like a scene where a villain is spouting brainwashed, hypocritical, or biased logic, esp w the reaction of who he's speaking to

snake is fighting for his right to punish an escaped slave, and every person around him is resisting bc gardar's crime was escaping and resisting arrest to be enslaved again and further punished. thorfinn physically fights after agonizing abt violence, arnheid pleads, and sverkel attempts to bargain for this man, so they clearly all disagree with what snake's doing, but they are quiet as if he has a point, when they shouldn't be when they have the context for the situation and therefore are all trying so hard. they don't look like they're quiet in submission, they werent born slaves or currently internalize the thought that they're property, that snake is right and theyre wrong, esp w thorfinn's wish to eliminate slavery and war. snake's depiction in this arc is just very strange because you cant say gardar's life is worth more than any other man, or however many he kills, but the story acts as if the people killed didnt all fight to dehumanize this man that just wanted to leave, you dont see gardar making this declaration. its just very strange ketil's clearly depicted in a poor light, but snake misses all of that same tone, is even shown to have a point, and then also im pretty sure is shown as heroic in the next part as if everything he did before didn't happen??

before, i get askeladd being a very likable character (and i disagree w that approach considering how easy it is to forget he is a piece of shit, ive seen ppl think his whole life hes been scheming to get a Good man on the throne) because the prologue basically centers around just the vikings, who arent the most moral, but snake here seems to be as self aware as askeladd, but without any guilt, and is shown like he has a point..? its just very weird to me... how are we saying slavery Bad, but apparently snake has a point when he is... fighting to keep a man enslaved..? its not even like its the only job in the world or he's being forced to or something, theres no reason for him to be fighting so hard to be a cop

#personal #vinland saga lb #and u can say its fiction blah blah but i think if u wanna make a point but u have characters that seem to conflict w what ur saying #thats odd... are we just looking the other way every time snake beats and arrests a child or slave?? #i'd get if the scene was showing them realizing they cant persuade snake like they failed a moment in a video game but thats not it #it feels like. as snake says. they have nothing to say. when they could easily say its pretty much snake's fault #if he said 'eh whats one slave' then no one would be dead. but here everyone but snake and thorfinn die #this entire section is snake causing problems and our heroes fighting him but the story refuses to paint him as bad for it. #it also clearly sympathizes w slaves but tries a 'but murder bad!' thing. well i think he wouldnt have killed anyone if he wasnt enslaved 🤔 #idk im like how does vinland saga open w a strong scene of thors paying for a slave on his death bed so he isnt sent back as a #demonstration to other slaves and thors tells him of a peaceful land in his final moments... then we get this

[worstloki]

Young!Loki: Father has grounded me, and I think it is rather unjustly... Though I know it is not proper, I feel the need to get revenge. Does this make me a bad person?

Future!Loki: Feeling hurt, got it. What time should I tell Hela to make an appearance?

#it would've been so funny if TVA Loki ruined the timelines and caused the multiverse by going into the past repeatedly and trying to make #himself live a better life and/or be happy #TVA showing up like hello child i am a future version of you here to guide you to a better path #and then he keeps having to do re-dos because things got So Bad or they got good!!!!! which the timeline HATES for some reason #the Loki show #that would've been great #Loki running away from the TVA after finding out his future is pre-destined to be terrible and trying to change it #the TVA is onto him and shows up if Loki gets too happy i suppose #at some point Loki kills a younger Loki to take his place and go from there #Loki refusing to accept that the story is cemented #only for the show to end on the note that wait a second something HAS changed and now the timelines are diverging #that would've been neat i think #getting protective of himself and that carrying over to genuinely believing he deserves better? self love babey #Young Loki: hurt crying shaking #Older Loki: right so either I fight Odin myself or I can use this space cube to summon Hela. take your pick.

[lyriumsings]

the fire lord is such a bitch challenging a his own child for speaking out of turn i’m lighting his beard on fire

#a whoLE bitch #lyriumsings txt #the older i get the more it infuriates me #like how fucking dare you #you ruined a perfectly good child #now he has daddy issues #not even cuz zuko lost but because he refused to fight his father #if i could beat the absolute breaks off a fictional character #ozais spineless ass would be top of the list

[yeshens]

@slaygue, continued.

water carves a path according to the ground it flows through. xingqiu is young yet, bearing witness only to the completed state of each river, the stable product of erosion beneath each waterfall. he knows of currents only in the way he is warned away from them, lest they rush him away.

he gets the feeling that the warning was not a luxury afforded to childe. the harbinger looks like one who has learned to survive the currents on penalty of death.

xingqiu grew up on books, born into a family of traders. it didn’t take a vision to make him a strategist, to respond to any situation with an innate flexibility and the analytical skills to match. so he listens to childe speak, and hears, won’t you join me? (he wonders what it must have taken to survive, and does not envy childe for it.)

water carves a path, and xingqiu adjusts his course.

(so in war, avoid what is strong—)

“underhanded tactics are reserved for times of war, not for sparring,” xingqiu replies, dismissing his rain swords. “there is no honor in achieving victory in a spar through unfair methods. if that is what you hope to impart on me, then i must refuse this battle.”

#ic. xingqiu. #slaygue #i think theyre so funny bc xingqiu refuses to compromise on fighting dirty #bc he can tell childe wants a challenge and hes like well . if i refuse anyway what're you gonna do about it. lol #like sure he Respects childe (for having Gone Through It) but he does not want to become him :joy:

[jaythelay]

It really, REALLY, should not be default to censor words.

I'm sorry but the only reason I or anyone ever had to "make a choice" to say Fuck, is because you're immature, have never experienced true life changing hardship, you refused to grow the fuck up and get over yourself and the childish petty standards you made under the guise of a personality.

YOU

made it a problem.

I was just speaking with intent to discuss.

You made it a personality to remain a child. To be the most important in the room even when someone else has the talking stick. Grow up.

#Fuck words #I refuse to use #swear words #under any context of Fuck Words #they are Fuck Words #always and will always be #Even as far as the N word yeah you can ban people for saying it #just don't fucking censor it you jack ass #I'm an adult and kids shouldn't even be here #and the one's who are say fuck more than anyone else in far less enjoyable ways #EVEN THEN #AS A KID I NEVER FUCKING UNDERSTOOD IT #It's just insulting man #You go through shit at any age #you become an adult after experiencing enough shit that the light of innocence becomes a genuine fear to have #a reflex to fight in order to survive better #at some point #you're allowed to say FUCK #and not be treated like a fucking child #at some point you gotta just look at kids and say #how fucking honestly horrifying is it the world is so bad we shield even the concept of verbalized anger until randomly they shatter as a #person #Only then are you allowed to say fuck #but only in private #god forbid we allow any existentiality within ourselves #god forbid a kid say fuck when getting shot at school #real problems out in the world #and honest to god there are privileged individuals still in their childish bubble incapable of empathizing with another person #to the point they tell them what words they can and can't use #seriously just beat these people near daeth