#even those with both working parents?

[vero-icon]

Many people headcanon Levi as illiterate when he lived in Underground.

If that was the case, then what are those?

Yes, it does look more like Farlan's corner, but I don't think that while Farlan could read, Levi couldn't. Living in a house with so many books and not being curious what they are about? Nah.

Reading and writing skills are useful and I really believe Levi would like to have any advantage in the Underground.

Theory 1: it’s possible that Levi learned from Farlan. 

Theory 2: he learned by himself.

You can find literate people in the Underground here and there. Look at that pimp charming businessman at the brother where Kushel worked:

Does he strike you as a guy, that went to any school at all?

Maybe reading and writing is just something you somehow... pick up to make a living?

Merchants definitely must know how to read, write and count. How would you keep a business without that skill?

Theory 3: his mother taught him. When Kushel died Levi was, what? Around 7 - 9 years old maybe? Even children as young as 3 learn how to put letters together, so Kushel had time to teach her son something before she died.

Theory 4, not delulu at all: Kenny taught him.

I was looking for anything that would indicate people in Underground know how to read: newspapers floating around, even as trash, but there are none. No signs on the buildings.

But there are labels! Bottles have labels!

Imagine tiny Levi, sitting at a table with Kenny in some suspicious looking bar,  pointing at a label on a bottle and asking "What are those little signs?"

“You don’t know how to read, boy?

Levi gets curious and keeps asking, whenever he encounters some writing, much to Kenny’s annoyance. "What does it say?"

Then Levi steals a book. "What does it say?" asks Levi pointing at the title.

Kenny comes to a conclusion it's a skill worth having. He's not a patient teacher and does not spend much time on it, but it wouldn't be very difficult for a kid smart as Levi to learn even with limited guidance from Kenny.

The last evidence proving my delulu that Levi learned to read in the Underground. Reading a label, ha!

#levi #levi ackerman #delulu but not really #levi headcanon #on another note schooling system in aot needs some explaining #did eren mikasa and armin attend school? #it's like harry potter all over again #were all baby wizards homeschooled until they went to hogwarts? #even those with both working parents? #ain't nobody got time for that #but i digress

[revelisms]

Lil' comic of a scene from a fic I haven't gotten around to writing.

(basically Vi and Jinx have reconciled, Silco is alive, and Vi is begrudingly finding herself beginning to look up Silco as a mentor/father figure. She accompanies him on an errand run, one of which winds them up at the old cannery, and emotions bubble up biiig time 🥲)

#y'know the 'makings of greatness' treasure planet scene? #yeah #arcane #arcane fanart #silco #vi #drawing #this is so messy lkg #just going to call these my post-it note doodles #vi with parentification issues resenting that she wasn't the soft image of their mother that powder likely needed #and still not knowing how to work through that - especially since she feels like jinx no longer *needs* her (even though she does) #and dad silco daughter vi just #hits something man #because they *hate* each other and they have every reason to #but there's just #aughghg #so much potential for character development with them #silco and jinx is codependent central and we love it but silco and vi is the hard hitting boundary setting raging arguments and i eat it up #very much hcing that silco sees his inner child in jinx vs. his angry young adult self in vi #and both of those effect his (somewhat disastrous / sometimes okay) parenting #it's a sliding scale

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#had an interesting conversation with my sister the other day. odd i guess bc my sister is pretty smart #on paper shes smarter than me. or at least less dyslexic than me #but she didnt seem to kno what cancer is. i mean like how it works. i mean. cancer is a mistake. a confluence of unfortunate accidents #leading to unrestrained cellular growth. when it metastasizes. when it moves to other parts of the body. those same cells continue growing #if u have smooth muscle cancer and it moves to your kidney. you body is trying to grow more smooth muscle on your kidney #at least as i understand it. and she asked why it wants to kill you. it doesnt want anything. it just is. its not a thing of malicious #intent. its neutral. it grows. it takes up resources. it takes up space. and it grows and grows until the organ it grows on stops #functioning properly. like a parasite she said. but no. not like a parasite. it grows like an empty space. a mass of flesh. a constant #obstructive pressure. it grows like only a tumor can. i dunno. it didnt seem to connect with her that this thing didnt want to kill our mom #but it did anyway. and she felt weird about how long she lived after they took her off any support. but thats how cancer kills #it stops an organ from functioning and most of those r important so it only takes one. so her heart kept beating for 12 more hrs bc it was #meant to beat for 40 more years. but not much it could do without working kidneys and without working blood #but that's life. that's death. that's nature. its all nutral even if it feels horrible to the individual. #i dunno. i thought it was interesting. shes 25 and her mother had cancer for 10 years so id think shed kno more #we're at a weird phase now bc its been a week since she died and everything feels normal. we'll see what happens at the wake this week #its been interesting for sure bc she was sick for 10 years but my parents didnt prepare at all for her to die #so my dad is scrambling to put together the pieces shr left behind to make sure that all the bills r paid and whatnot. he had to guess her #computer password. she didnt tell us what she wanted us to have. she didnt tell us the importance of her jewelry and who it belonged to #before her. i dunno. we're seeing the outline of my mothers Pathology in what she left behind. both in the physical objects and in the #feelings she imparted. i dunno. its been weird #unrelated

[hella1975]

sometimes i think about the fact my grandparents literally overnight just cut us off and im like. how did u even do that. does it torment you

#eeaao's 'how did you let me go so easily' moment. like i dont let myself even THINK about this too often #bc i immediately beat myself back with the 'if it's hard for you then imagine how hard it is for mum. her PARENTS cut her off' #but like. idk. my nan i couldn't give less of a shit about which is something i always find so interesting #bc even as a child with NO basis for it or any understanding of her behaviour both past and present i still wasn't Comfortable around her #like children are smart actually. i just Knew her vibes were off and i Knew my mum was weird when she was around #like i truly dont think i ever loved my nan even when she was a very frequent part of my life #but my grandad? i ADORED him. id see him multiple times a week and he's the kindest man ive ever met #and hannah what i told you about my mum saying certain people have magnetic auras THAT WAS ABOUT HIM #like i cant actually put into words what it was about him but people just wanted to know him and spend time with him #but he was weak and let my nan walk all over him and when push came to shove he chose her and now ive not spoken to him in 3 years #& i KNOW he loved me. he thought the world of me like it's a bitter unspoken thing between me & my sister that we KNOW i was his favourite #he used to buy me egg butties at agricultural shows when my mum said no and specifically ask for two eggs #he used to sit and eat his soup with me when he came over to do work at the house #he used to play with me. he used to smile all the time. i can so clearly hear the way he'd go ''iya [my name]' with his proper rural accent #or how he'd tell anyone who would listen 'she's tough as old boots that one' #and i could make him laugh like NO ONE else could and he'd light up and go 'give over' and he genuinely enjoyed my company #i KNOW HE DID. and i havent spoken to him in 3 years. he'll be dead soon #and i cant talk to my mum about it bc it's her DAD it is so much worse for her and i cant talk to my sister about it #bc she wasn't close with him like i was and she just shuts the conversation down and those are the only two people #who know my grandad and know what he meant to me so im just here like. he literally stopped speaking to me overnight #i stopped hearing from him i stopped meeting up with him im so so angry with him the love is still there i dont know where to put it now #why couldnt he stay. why did he pick her when she's a loveless void of inhumanity. why werent we enough #hella goes home #my grandparents on my dad's side are also not in the picture funnily enough but idgaf about them. she got that grandparentless swag

[loosesodamarble]

It should be impossible to make a brother dynamic more complicated and messed up than what happens between Finral and Langris or the Faust twins.

But it’s happened.

It’s an unholy fusion of BOTH situations.

What makes it worse is that I can’t even feel bad for one of the brothers (like the guy says "I've cared for my brother this whole time" but it's not enough to counteract the sabotage he pulls against his brother). And the other brother… He's a piece of work. Some shit happened to him and I feel bad for what happens in his backstory. But some of his actions/motivations are kinda... questionable.

To borrow what a friend said about them, they both need to be tranquilized and sent into counseling.

#soda asides #to be clear #the space bros and faust situations are VERY messed up on their own #like those two families are soap operas #and this third brother dynamic might not actually be as bad #because there’s no death or threat of death involved #but something about this third situation rubs me the wrong way #perhaps it’s the fact that both brothers feed into the rivalry? #rather than the rivalry being fueled by the parents as is with the situations in BC #and heck the morgen and nacht situation wasn't even a rivalry! #nacht was running away from morgen who just wanted to work with him! #also no I won’t be saying who the characters are #to those who know you know

[bulkhummus]

you just have to eat some salmon and ponder

#there have been several Bad things that have happened recently #but several good things too #I will list the good things and ignore the bad things for right now even though I am stressed #I had a genuinely good time with both sides of my family this holiday #saw old family videos from the 80s of my grandparents parents and aunts and uncles-- so cool and heart warming #I got wonderful gifts from my friends and family #Christmas bonus at work! and a plant :) #watched Glass Onion and it was v good! #my tooth didn't cost anything! #I got into my program! #been eating healthier (ie salmon) #I have 2 days off this week! #I make coffee in my new French press this morning! and it was so tasty! #I got my tips at work today and made a lot over the holiday week #ummmmmm #I think that's it for now #anyways im focusing on those things im choosing to #and the problems I have right now will be resolved and all will be well #personal

[fooltofancy]

ive been waffling for two years on the circumstances of ilya eye loss between dragonsong and some point in stormblood (many options little brain etc), but it is like. narratively satisfying for stormblood to have to be a point of recovery already after the hell of dragonsong, all that loneliness and hope and loss you've gotta piece back together

but also now you've got no depth perception. also zenos is there.

#things that make me laugh =/= things that are objectively funny #ilya like bro what even is that thing i can't see shit #he's fully swapping between blm and mch at that point too like neither of those things are exceptionally conducive to a zenos fight #and both of them require you to idk. see. #screams and flares directly on top of both of them #stormblood ilya is like. peak ilya #terribly sad tbh like a number of themes click into place in that expansion that are just #buddy you'll never admit it but your outlook on life is so fuckin sad #.... but he's also so so funny #ball of anxiety and stupid #with a gun! #baby mode blogging #need a baby mode lore tag #anyway i'm finally working on a timeline while distracted by perhaps actual backstory writing and he's so messy #where are his parents i need to kill them #(im the parent)

[flythesail]

No I have not started writing the George/Tristan fic

Yes I am still outlining

#i *think* this version works #just for a stretch i thought about making it multi pov #and that's still intriguing #but it also makes it harder to plot #because tristan obviously knows he's the sin eater so the foreshadowing from george's pov doesn't hit the same #a lot of outlining this is trying to figure out the difference between the ideas i have #and what actually fits to create an arc that makes sense #especially strugglin with 4x11-4x12 because those are important in canon #yet i need a balance between following the s4 plot and deviating from that #it doesn't work to just rewrite because nancy obviously has the lead role in canon #and also it's just not right to do a direct rewrite lol i want this to be my own thing #anywayyyyy #i just need to start because by the time i get that far into the season i will have a better idea of the pacing and what makes sense #but like ughh it would be cool to get scenes with tristan and his parents #but then it makes everything more complicated to manage #particularly keeping it even between the two unless i gave them both a pov in each chapter #but again!!! so complicated #it's easier to just do one #and i'm skipping a lot of s4 plot points #trying to convince myself it's possible to convey tristan's perspective and arc through another's pov #and it is #flythepost

[wikagirl]

every time when I make an oc the character is some weird little mix between traits that I see in my friendgroup. For example a lot of my ocs are adhders and and some form of queer because that's how my friendgroup is.

I have this one friend that is a walking talking manifestation of everything that people who insist that there are only two genders HATE so every time I take a piece of them and toss it into the oc-making-blender I basicly sit here going.

#they actually have xxy chromosomes #its more common than you'd think actually #around 1-2 out of 1000 people that are “supposed” to have xy chromosomes have it but only like 25% get it actually diagnosed #putting the supposed in “-” bc it makes it sound like there is something very wrong with my friend #even tho its really just nature doing its silly little thing #and there is a suspicion that people with the condition have a higher chance of being autistic and/or have adhd apparently? not sure tho #also yes I have their consent to talk about this bc they think its cool too #they talk about it a lot themselves actually bc they work with kids that had to be removed from their home for their own safety #as a way to go “hey we're both weirdos so you're not alone and you are valid in your identity” #a lot of the kids are queer and rejected by their parents #we actually have like monitored living complexes for teens and young adults that don't want to be put in foster care #but idk how those work really bc I'm lucky enough to have parents who do not give a shit #also angelo if you by some miracle end up seeing this: ily and you still owe me 5 bucks for that döner kebab at gamescom <3 #start reading tags you silly little goober that's where people hide the good stuff

[bvtchcas]

im sure it has been said before but the thing is i genuinely would absolutely love a prequel about john and mary if it was done the way i want

heaven's breeding program for making vessels is one of the most horrifying things in the show, and it's just mentioned so briefly but just completely recontextualises everything!

I would love to see a show about Mary and John meeting and just like. not really getting on. not hating each other necessarily, but not liking each other either. And then circumstances just keep pushing each other together and that forced intimacy ends up exacerbating things so that not liking each other turns into more active dislike

and then, suddenly, theyre in love! they love each other so so much and its amazing and isnt it so funny how they used to not be able to stand each other at first but now theyre so in love?

and its like that thing where ppl fall out of love for the same reasons they fall into it, their quirks that were endearing becoming insufferable, but the opposite! except also not, because even tho they love each other now (they love each other so so much!) they still dont really like each other

but no matter how much they piss each other off sometimes, they still cant keep away from each other- they get married, have kids, build a life together. and they keep fighting, they cant stand each other, they drive each other crazy, they each keep trying to escape, but neither of them can stay away, they keep coming back. no matter how much it hurts them both to be together, resentment constant, inability to get along, they just cant let go because they just love each other so much!

and then mary dies and its the worst thing that could happen to john, its heartbreaking, its tragic, the love of his life is gone, but his love for her isnt. he still cant let go, it hurts so bad and he misses her so much and he needs to do something, anything to put her memory to rest.

he is tortured by the loss of her, hes brokenhearted, hes obsessed, hes still in love with nowhere to direct it. he never even liked her.

#mary #john #mary winchester #john winchester #genuinely obsessed with the potential here that just never gets addressed! #family as horror like come on! #jay.txt #meta #5x14: my bloody valentine #season 5 #genuinely into the idea of both mary and john sucking at being parents #in part because neither of them really wanted to be #at least not with each other #they just dont understand why they were compelled to get together and start a family #so they try and justify those decisions as what they do really want #and then i think mary would feel like she just couldnt let go of hunting and thats what kept pulling her away from her family #and john would blame ptsd from being a soldier #and they would both be somewhat right! but like they have no frame of reference to even begin to suspect what was done to them #and they dont have enough real affection and trust between them to share enough of their feelings to work it out #someone also made a post about mary and missouri getting together during this time and working things out which. super into that concept #especially for a happier ending haha

[goldensunset]

ooh girl i am really tired of sharing a tight space with my parents!

#and by my parents i mean my dad #and by a tight space i mean any space really #i made it through the whole summer at home #moved myself into school and it was lit for those like five days #and then this vacation was right back to that but even worse #small and unfamiliar spaces with very limited privacy and a lack of familiar comforts and norms #even just out and about in the world being dragged behind others is so annoying especially if you already don’t get along with that person #i am trying not to snap in uncalled for situations i know i need to pick my battles and chill out #but something about both blistering heat and not being in one’s own element makes me into the human equivalent of a small white dog #like he’s not even being particularly bad he’s just being himself but it’s kind of a ‘straw that breaks the camel’s back’ thing w him #he’s just being his usual impossible-to-work-with oblivious self #the lil things over time gradually make me go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #lord please grant me patience #peach rambles

[mayclair]

the whole max and mike’s lives being foils of each other’s is so insane to me bc its like. for mike max is a representation of everything that could have happened to him if his mom left his dad earlier on (and what can still happen when you look at the way things are between them) and for max mike is a representation of everything that she could have had growing up if her mom hadn’t decided to leave her dad as fast as she did

#there is no way they don’t resent each other for it just a little bit. no fucking way sorry #mike knows max grew up with a shittier home life but still wishes his mom had the guts to do the same her mom did and left his dad bc #at the end of the day there is a little bit of bitterness towards both his parents for not making their relationship work out specifically #towards his dad bc his mom is actually involved in his life and did try to pretend that everything was normal when it wasnt which directly #ties into his desperate attempts to make his relationship with el seem normal to both of them when its not bc theyve both never been normal #they dont even know what normal really IS which also ties in to his very deep fear that the two of them will end up like his parents and so #meday he’ll become his dad and he doesn’t know which one is more terrifying so instead he blocks it all out in True Mike Wheeler FashionTM #and just keeps wishing that his mom left his dad because maybe if there was a distance between them when he was growing up maybe things wou #ldve been different maybe he wouldnt be this much like his dad #max on the other hand LOVES her dad they had one of those relationships where he wasn’t neglectful but wasn’t a great parent either but she #still loves him for trying and while her mom did try she gave up after a while while her dad didn’t. that was the real dealbreaker for max #and while after all this time she keeps saying im going to run away to cali and im going to live with my dad. but its not just the need to #see someone who cared for her the most during her early years its also the childish hope that her mom will notice that shes missing anf #come looking for her and that maybe when her parents finally meet again they can reconcile and get back together bc that is really all shes #ever wanted in her life since she was a kid and she feels bad for it bc she knows that her mom and dad’s relationship was never supposed to #last but she still wishes and wishes which is why that little bit of bitterness against mike will never fall away no matter how irrational #it is bc its like. his parents dont love each other but are still together for their kids. why couldnt my parents do the same? was i not en #ough reason for them? and this ties into her breaking up with lucas over and over again bc shes seen her parents and how they never fought #for each other and shes afraid that somewhere along the line her relationship with lucas will turn out the exact same and hell leave her so #its better to just leave now before it gets serious then later when it will hurt too much but lucas keeps coming back for her which makes #her realize that maybe it doesnt have to be like that maybe they wont be like her parents #anyway this is incoherent as fuck but shane mandej voice IVE CONNECTED THE DOTS #mike wheeler #max mayfield #stranger things

[ganseyandjane]

i've been turning a blind eye to it even though i've been aware of it happening for years but it has almost become way worse yet i don't feel like i've done enough to stop it

#long story short my mom almost joined an em el em #because she lost one of her jobs and we need money and she's tired of trying to apply for another and work #she wants to 'work from home' and because she has friends who SEEM to be making a lot of money from it #she's convinced that it's a good move and she could achieve the same #and its just so frustrating because i'm eating food cooked from overpriced pots those friends sold to us years ago #and i still have empty bottles of essential oils that i'm pretty sure were also sold to us by those same friends #and i've known for years that my parents' friends were shilling these things but i didn't know much about the subject #so i didn't want to 'enlighten' my parents on it (especially my mom who's the one actually buying these things) #i couldn't be bothered and its not like they were actually joining any of them #her telling me about this new business they want to start was what did it for me #i'm glad i kept prying before it was too late because there was too many red flags #however she still seems so unconvinced about why its a bad idea... i'm saving our family's finances but she doesn't seem to believe me #even though i do think she won't go through with it #and i'm just worried #those friends are the reason we were able to migrate here #one of them is my brother's godmother #the other one knew both my parents for years before i was even born #i don't want to say bad things about them but i hate that they're influencing my mom this way #idk if they're directly telling her these things or if she's just looking from the outside #i hope she's not too stubborn to just. believe that i have her best intentions. me. her first born child. #ugh idk maybe i should just talk to my dad since apparently he was still skeptical too #im so saaaaaaaad #idk how to help my family aside from taking extra shifts to cover bills ;___;

[benreygenders]

OOOHHHH can you draw young princess luna & celestia maybe? =:o) i like them a lot

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD REQUEST i used to be so into theories abt these 2s backstories. this was so much fun

#i leaned hard into a sunset/sunrise type of deal :) #i think logically they wouldve had to have been born alicorns cus theyre sisters who r both princesses n its p unlikely that they Both under #went training from the previous royalty #plus ponies being born as alicorns is just super interesting to me #so i believe they were raised in a royal family #n they were born with their sun and moon powers which were like trained to the potency they are now #they def got into a lot of trouble when they were kids i think n celestia was more of a Messing with ppl directly type while luna was more r #eserved abt it n tried to save face with her parents n stuff #luna had the reputation of The good child compared to celestia #n im rly attached to those old fan stories abt them being friends with discord when they were kids so i kinda wanna work that in #these arent even rly headcanons at this point lol My ocs now #ok so was looking into flurry heart apparently shes canonically the only alicorn to be Born as an alicorn. whatever canon is wrong im right #every time i post mlp art i talk for a million years in the tags dont mind me #scribbles

[sammygender]

some of my most random fucking original characters from half-baked story ideas i have yet to fully develop are the most tragic ones to ever exist. like yeah the people from my current work are pretty fucked up but they don’t inspire as much pain in me as when i think about citydale characters. min truly and genuinely makes me want to cry

#it’s just. auuugh when you’re a writer and you’re sooo lonely and you’re this like 15 year old trans kid and your sisters dead and your mom #hates you and all you can do is live in your own delusion and form parasocial relationships with strangers in your class or on your tiktok #but for some reason god picks you why does god pick you is it even god??? and you create ur own little fucking self contained world through #your writing and as you write your characters based off these real life parasocial relationships you suck these real people into this fake #world and you rewrite their lives and everything about them and make them more relatable and more you and control their fates the way you #can’t control your own. and suddenly ur 16 and ur a miniature god and everyone you were obsessed with hates you so so much but you never #meant to do anything bad. and there’s one kid who gives you a chance and he’s just like you but yeah of course he is that’s because you MADE #him just like you you wouldn’t give him a happy ending or a happy life and he hates you too he has to! #and then you’re road tripping with this kid through a town that’s not real and a world that’s not your own even though you made it #and ur meeting god and ur meeting angels but who fucking knows you might just be hallucinating everything’s so murky and you don’t know when #you got blessed/cursed with these powers and you don’t know if the boy next to you is real #and you’ve spent ur life scared of god and now you become him but he can’t be bothered with you and you’re not even the only one you’re not #even special #and all this time ur sisters dead and ur parents suck and you try to rewrite both those things but it hasn’t quite worked. and ur really sad #and fundamentally you’re still 15 and stuck in ur room creating a false reality #*will toledo voice*: heyyy space cadet it’s alright to want to dream it doesn’t mean reality is mean- #Jesus fucking christ ahyway. one of these days i will sit down and i will write citydale #oc posting… #citydale #oliver talks

[horce-divorce]

I really wanted to list some stuff for sale in my kofi shop today but my dad moved communal shit w/o telling anyone again and now I can't find my mailer envelopes... >_>

#me #i love my parents but i want out of here so bad lmao #do you know how insane it makes both me and my mom feel #having to text dad at work and be like. #hey do you have any memory of moving (item you werent using thats not even fucking yours) and shoving it in a random hole like a squirrel? #half the time he'll be like 'yeah its in the (bizarre place that makes no fucking sense)' #the other half he goes 'hmm... i dont know i don't think so... check (place i already looked 10 times)' #if i didnt also have adhd id be baffled as to how this man functions #WHY he chooses to move these things though. i don't know #i was the only person using the mailer envelopes. for my etsy store. #they were in MY ROOM #WHY WOULD HE MOVE THEM LMFAO. LIKE WHAT FOR. (he was 'organizing' is what he'll say but again. i was using those. hello)