When he yells at me it's like I forget how to breathe.
Suddenly I'm 11 years old again and I'm in my father's house. He's screaming and I'm wailing in tears for him to just stop.
Some say the trauma aches in your bones but I believe it always grows from your lungs. A man raises his voice and suddenly you're 10ft under the water and your lungs are giving in.
I never knew what it was like not to live with the damage No matter how much I tried to convince myself that I did.
-This trauma aches through my bones for the rest of my life; suddenly a man raises his voice and I'm laying on my kitchen floor again. My father's voice echoing through my head.
shutup. shutup. shutup
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@fatherscurse @itsbllshit
“What do you mean, you called him?” Pure confession had spread across Karen’s face as she’d turned around to see her daughter standing on the staircase, but she kept standing in the threshold with Jim just outside the door. Ted was out with Holly and Mike was with his friends – and honestly, Karen had been looking forward to spending some mother-daughter time.
“Is something going on, are you all right?” she asked Nancy with a frown on her face, immediately worried and glancing back and forth between her daughter and Hop. Why had Nancy called the police? The mother still hadn’t let the man in – but her focus had been solely on her child.
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If Joyce Byers comes off as a little irritated this morning, well, no one should really blame her. It’s one thing to come home after everything they’ve had to fight through to save her son, knowing things are going to be in a bit of disarray until she gets a chance to get rid of the map of Hawkins still strung across ceilings, floors and walls. But coming to find a strong, putrid smell from somewhere in the kitchen first thing in the morning, and tracking down the source -- a decaying demodog, stuffed haphazardly into her refrigerator -- can’t even stop to make a cup of coffee before she’s flocked to the telephone, frantically dialing the police station’s direct line.
She had to have made at least twenty phone calls by the time he’d even step through the door there. @fatherscurse wouldn’t even be given a chance to pull into the driveway before she’s stomping out her cigarette on the porch and marching right to his side door. Having to wait probably . . . about an hour, according to the watch on her wrist that she anxiously checked every five minutes, it’s done wonders for Joyce’s growing frustration.
“ Finally, ” she says pointedly, all but ready to jump down his throat. “ I’ve been calling all morning, Hop! ”
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Cowards
I haven't talked to my mother
in years. The last time I heard her voice
was on my voicemail. She said
a real man would call his mother,
but I was a coward and always
had been. Both her ex-husbands
were Vietnam vets. The second, Chuck,
beat her on weekends when he'd
get drunk watching war movies.
They lived in a duplex in Beaufort,
South Carolina. Their neighbors cranked
the music whenever she and Chuck
fought usually well after midnight.
Once Chuck wearing only his underwear
chased her into the street
waving a rifle as she screamed
that he was a coward and my father
was a real man because he was a Marine.
Chuck pointed the rifle at her
then lowered it, went inside
and broke my brother's arm.
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@fatherscurse asked: “ it’s okay. you can tell me.” ( for chrissy )
Pulling on her sleeves until her hands are practically swallowed by them, Chrissy takes a deep breath, looks at her shoes and nods. “I just... I don’t think I can go back home,” she mumbles.
It is wrong, her family must be worried, they had to bury her God knows how many days ago anymore, but the thought of walking back into the judgmental tone in her mother’s voice or her father constantly turning the blind eye to it... “That’s- that’s the last place I saw, before everything went black.”
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who would be ted’s perfect villager squad tho 😌
okay, so after some thought, i think ted’s favorite villagers would be: antonio, coach, dom, frita, ketchup, lucky, merengue, molly, pietro, and roald
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“i already regret going on this trip.” to jimbo 😈
"you're telling me -" telling you, "going to california with your alternate dimension self wasn't on your bucket list?"
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🌺 Send this to ten blogs you think are wonderful. 🌺
WHAAAAAT. Like seriously whaaaaat. Do you know how long I've been admiring you from afar? Do you know how perfect you are as Hopper? DO YOU KNOW THIS. Right back at you for blog wonderful-ness, because you are just *chefs kiss* and I really can't wait to write together.
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ツツツツツツ
Send me a ツ if you like the way I portray my muse / ACCEPTING / @fatherscurse
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A child should not have to raise a parent. A child should not have to fear abandonment out of the dire need of love from their parents. That is not love. That is torment.
I've forever been praising at the alter of my father's happiness - bruised knees and cut up hands.
Drowning in a pool of my tears I ask God to forgive me.
I've spend My whole life as a sacrificial animal to my father. The blood and guts of my childhood pooling at my heels.
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right where you left me / spotify meme / accepting
[ text message to: detective jim hopper. ] help. i'm still at the restaurant.
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@fatherscurse said: “ who did this to you ? ”
[ x ]
He looked up at the police chief. They had the big three at school today for an assembly on saftey. They had policemen, firemen, and a few EMTs in to show off the cars and the lights. Obviously the firetruck was the best. It was hard to beat the water hose. But he hadn’t expected to be singled out by Chief Hopper.
He swallowed as he tried to figure out what to say. He sunk in on himself making himself smaller. He didn’t want anyone to get in trouble. But he was sporting a cut on his head near his his left eyebrow, a bruise on his jaw, and a few more under his clothes. He tried to hide the bruise on his jaw, but he didn’t have a scarf, and none of his clothes covered it so he just resorted to keeping his chin low. Hopper just apparently had 20/20 vision.
He looked up at the cop, “Uh, no one?” he tried, not sounding too convincing. he didn’t want to lie and say it was a bully because that would lead to a host of problems, and he wasn’t about to tell on his dad because that would lead to a worse host of problems, none of which he wanted to deal with. And Mike was off with Lucas and Dustin asking questions about the radio in the different vehicles, he had been caught as they walked off so he was on his own. He wishes Mike would come to his rescue.
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@fatherscurse 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅: ❛ 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅? ❜
steve can count on one hand how many times he's been happy to see a cop — this time being one of maybe two others. he's gotten himself into quite a unique predicament — how many guys fresh out of highschool can say they've uncovered a secret russian spy base and were subsequently drugged and beaten to a pulp by said spies? he's willing to bet an entire week's worth of wages that he's at least one of only five people to have done so. seeing hopper is a giant relief, because the drugs are beginning to wear off and he's really starting to feel the extent of his injuries — particularly the brutal throbbing of his head. jim's no nurse, but he'll definitely be able to help him get this goddamn pain under control. he has a certain amount of respect for the man that doesn't transfer nearly as well to other authority figures. he's seen what hopper is willing to do to protect them all — any guy like that is worth a warm welcome in steve's book. " i could say the same for you. you look like shit, " he counters, words still slurring as the fog in his mind slowly clears. " my head is killing me. please tell me you've got some advil or something in your pocket. "
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ツツツツ ur beard? *chef kiss*
@fatherscurse
Send me a ツ if you like the way I portray my muse
maybe i will cry . maybe i will . thank you !
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❝ we’re running out of time here. the world is running out of time. ❞ [ ST S4 starters ; x ]
“ there’s still time. ” running one of earliest && most reoccurring memories she had with jim. they ran. together. since they were 11 years old, they were always running from something. hostile adults shouting about having a smoke in the same little hiding spots they’d use on a good day, corrupt governments trying to shoot or bully them into keeping all their dirty secrets on the bad ones. those repeated run ins had done nothing to lessen the wild thrum in her chest every time she felt the solid pressure of his fingers enveloping hers before they took off. as much as she wanted to wrap herself up in the safety of that feeling for a month after the flight home, now was not the time twist their faces away from the sky that had turned to black && ash over their heads. it hadn’t stopped && neither would she until there not one more second left to fight. there was a stubborn look planted in her dark eyes as she tilted her head up to meet his stare. “ there’s still time for us finish this. right here. i’m not leaving until I know it’s over, hop. “
@fatherscurse
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ˢᶦʳ ᵐʳ ʰᵉʳᵒ, @fatherscurse
starter call // open
she comes out to greet him soon as she sees the glare of headlights zig-zag their way down her personal, lonely stretch of road. it's night out, the gas station looks dark; lights оff, closed sign hung, sally holding a shotgun out front. he's been up her ass about keeping a weapon armed at the station before, but she's no mess around kinda girl. fact is, it's been awfully handy tonight and she intends to parade that fact in front of him. wonders if he's in any mood for amicable conversation, though. it's 4 am all things considered, few people have the talent.
she waits for the car to park next to her and pats Hop's roof, all sympathetic like. grin on, like she hasn't called in a 10-91v and STAT.
❝ hope you weren't sleeping too sweetly, Chief. got a real doozy for you out here. ❝ she says, cheeky about it. sure, they've known each other since '56 and she's got ample licence to call him all manner of Jimmy, Hop and Jimbo in her opinion, but Chief feels like the bigger jab. she's never let him live it down and she never will.
❝ a live one too. tearing up my walk-in as we speak. ❝
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