#i never gave a shit about them as a kid

[delphinidin4]

#birds #lol #millennials #for me it was actually plants #i never gave a shit about them as a kid #now i'm really enjoying learning to recognize all the flowers at the local public gardens

[doodleodds]

Me? Uploading a Halloween comic on November 18th, almost four whole-ass weeks late???? Yeah that’s uh. yup. yeah

Thanks for reading! :) <3

#persona 5 #p5 #akira kurusu #OUGH OH MY GOD ITS FINALLY. DONE. I AM LOSING MY MIND #if you've been following me for long enough: yes! this IS in fact the comic i mentioned that i was making last year. #Fun fact! This is also! The Third Draft of said comic!!! i have redrawn this thing THREE FUCKING TIMES #as a result you may notice that i uh. a) gave up on coloring this thing. no way in HELL am i coloring 30 pages. im not...strong enough #you will settle for simply having monochrome colored panels and you will LIKE IT!!!!! >:OOOOO #and b) gave up on backgrounds! yeah fuck that lmao. i am never drawing people in the monabus again and mementos can kiss my ass!!!!! #i just want to draw my silly little characters & not their environments #and you may also say: sophia. by halloween they are already in Sae's palace. why isn't goro with them and where's haru? #and to that i say shhhh suspend your disbelief. akechi is in mementos carving pumpkins to avoid trick or treaters. #and also haru isn't there because i cannot draw 6+ people in a cramped space yet!!! my art skills are Just Not There Quite Yet :( #so she's staying home and handing out fullsized candy bars to kids. that's where she is while this is all going down #'does akira know it's akechi down there?' :) that's up to you! but i WILL say that I was thinking about Akeshu when i wrote this so. :)))) #ANYWAY if you read this far in the tags im so sorry lmao. thanks for sticking around! Hope you had a happy halloween :) #hopefully i won't disappear for long this time. idk im just gonna start uploading other bullshit art in the interim between comics i guess #probably some fire emblem shit. we'll see. we'll see. anyway bye!! till next time!

[futuristictheoristcowboy]

i think its funny that in good omens some 11 year old swearing technically did more in stopping Armageddon successfully than the demon and angel main characters who spent the entire series trying to stop the end of the world. like girl, they didn't even get trialed for saving the earth, they got put on trial for being gay with each other really

#and they still take credit for it omg #“how nice... for someone to finally recognize our part in saving the-” #aziraphale.. im so sorry.. no y'all did not... #she just wanted recognition oh my sweet girl #like they babysat the wrong kid #and then they couldnt find the antichrist #all they did was break up like 5 times and they kept falling in love with eachother like wow #they literally just gave the antichrist a pep talk after trying to kill him #like “u got this adam!” AND THEY ONLY PUT IN THE EFFORT FOR THAT BECAUSE CROWLEY DIDNT WANT TO LOSE HER GF #crowley wehn the end of the world and everybody fucking dies: :/ lol theres nothing we can do you guys #crowley when “or... i'll never talk to you again...”: *stops fucking time so that she and bae can 90's-style pep talk the shit out of adam* #in good omens if it hadnt been for aziracrow the antichrist wouldve been kinda shy talking to his satan dad causing the world to end #its funny how crow and azira just kinda watched those small children kill the 4 horsemen and then crow had the gall to “have a gold star 🙄” #like they were so useless.... #joke post/// but im honestly so serious about this #i still love them though #its just kind of silly to me in an endearing way

[legendary-assassin-stance]

oh i'm sorry, i didn't realize we were taking moral standing points from the asura now. y'know. the race that full-hog experimented and ripped apart sylvari even after knowing they were wholly sapient beings (and it wasn't even inquest! it was regular fucking asura! the arcane council most definitely okayed those experiments! never mind the fact that the council TO THIS DAY fucking openly allows inquest to do as they please so long as they don't cause trouble in rata sum) and have done little to nothing to apologize for that fact to their sylvari allies.

but no, you're right, the humans are the worst race in tyria just by way of existing and trying to find a place for themselves. how could i have ever thought different?

#from beyond the grave #hi i'm going to go fucking feral #I'M NOT EVEN A HUGE HUMAN FAN. i have them and i love the ones i do have! but i greatly prefer sylvari as my playable race. #what the FUCK are you talking about #“did everything they can to push other people off their land” are you talking about pushing charr out???? cus uh. #i don't know how to tell you this but the charr STOLE THAT LAND IN THE FIRST PLACE EVEN BEFORE HUMANS #dont even get me started on their HoT take (the One Expansion that anet gave sylvari before forgetting they exist) #and the icebrood one (the charr should have never been the fucking main focus of the goddamn NORN PLOT ANYWAYS) #the “human interference” in icebrood was literally a fucking BLIP amongst the bullshit of the charr getting involved #don't even fucking talk to me about “humans being lynchpins” for icebrood. it should have had NOTHING but NORN LORE. #it was the NORN PLOT. jormag had always been NORN STORY AND PLOT. #“buhbuhbuh humans” I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. THE CHARR SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE EITHER #it's extremely telling that you don't care that the charr shouldn't have been there either #and only focused on the .0000000000003 seconds that kas helped in anything related to the plot #while also framing crecia and rytlock's relationship problems throughout as “human-looking” squabbling #god forbid rytlock get some character development where he WANTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for his kid #(even tho it should've happened in a charr-centric story thread and NOT THE FUCKING NORN ONE ANET) #and every charr in the world is like “but why do you care??” because charr society is so incredibly FUCKED re: their kids #“being attentive to the story” my fucking ass. just say you fucking hate humans as a race and move the fuck on. #i didn't mean to rant this much in the tags but the more i stared at the post the more i felt like biting someone #OH. OH SORRY. i just noticed that #the person was like “lol inquest figured out how to harness elder dragon energy before xunlai <3” #JUHGTFJHKDFJHGLKFD ?????? #okay for one the inquest are a bunch of literal rat bastards who caused a NUCLEAR REACTOR EXPLOSION in metrica #i'm not going to trust a fucking inquest ANYWHERE NEAR ME let alone praise them for “ethical” dragon energy #the “uhm ACKSUALLY S W E A T Y” tone of voice re: canthan tech vs. asuran is asinine and also annoying as fuck #“all of PoF was about humans :(” IT IS LITERALLY. ABOUT A HUMAN GOD? IT IS *THE* HUMAN XPAC. #IT WAS NOT A SURPRISE FOR IT TO BE HUMAN THEMED? WE KNOW ELONA IS H U M A N S ? #yet again. what the FUCK are you even talking about. #OKAY. jesus christ. i think i'm finally done bitching about this.

[hella1975]

mm okay this is a thought i had on the bus like all great thoughts so this might be incomprehensible but im thinking about taob zuko and hakoda's relationship to duty, how there's such a vivid parallel from the very start of their duality. there is zuko and there is the fire prince. there is hakoda and there is the chief. thinking about how book 1 is a journey of duty and humanity. over 19 chapters, zuko is taught about humanity, how it doesnt have to be exchanged for duty, how both can exist within him simultaneously. he begins as prince zuko. he is abrasive and hateful and he fights the water tribe every step of the way, but by the end, he is just zuko. he chooses the water tribe over himself. he loses his firebending. he leaves the red ribbon behind. but hakoda? hakoda's journey is the complete opposite. where he teaches zuko the strength of humanity, hakoda sees in zuko someone facing the same burdens of duty that he faces, and zuko teaches him things about leadership without even realising. the importance of duty in the face of turmoil, the responsibility on their shoulders, the cost of their wrongdoings. the moment they were placed in control of the lives of others, they lost the right to total humanity, and while zuko's journey and age allows him a reprieve of that duty so that he can embrace humanity in its entirety, hakoda continues to carry that load. in chapter 1, he makes an objectively illogical, emotion-led decision to keep zuko alive and bring him aboard, a decision that is even stated in the story to have only worked because it was zuko instead of literally any other firebender. by chapter 19, hakoda makes the decision to leave zuko behind despite almost having it confirmed that fong took him, because he knows that his duty lies with his tribe, that he has dozens of lives in his hands regardless of what his heart wants.

book 1 is about zuko learning to choose humanity over duty, but it is also about hakoda having to choose duty over humanity.

#hey what's wrong bestie it's been like 10 chapters and you havent even quoted #'hakoda was a leader leaders made decisions this was the responsibility that crushed him when those decisions turned out to be wrong' #i am SOOOOOOOO normal about how unfair hakoda's position is like he's so similar to sokka #in that he's good at what he does he's the BEST at it like he's a fantastic chief as sokka is a fantastic plan guy #but it's still that resounding knowledge that they shouldnt have to even be in this war #that this is again something the fire nation stole from them #and while in taob the adults make a point of trying to take as much from the kids as possible #hence why zuko got to have the healing he did in book 1 #hakoda isnt a kid anymore. like he missed out on that entirely. he's never going to get that back #something something hakoda and zuko's relationship to duty something something #a lot of zuko stans were sooooo mad when hakoda left gaoling without him #and to that i say imagine you're a water tribesman and your chief stops the war effort in order to search for a single royal firebender #which simultaneously jeopardises the alliance you have with the earth kingdom #like there is literally no way of turning that to make it a good idea #and still hakoda got shit from everyone like the main swt crew all gave him shit for it and it's just SO unfair #bc he literally DID THE RIGHT THING #i love trolley problems in stories i like making characters suffer #anyway yeah just thinking about how the decisions hakoda and zuko make in ch1 #directly parallel and oppose the decisions they make in ch19 #taob #zuko #hakoda #taob analysis

[casekt]

#audio #putting my head through a wall saturday #this song makes me think about a few things but rn I'm thinking about LR on top of n beating the shit out of FP (their illegitimate father) #maybe he'd even be interested to know that his child has his explosive violent anger despite them never having met #maybe he'd be proud #it would at least make him smile #LR would be so fucking angry. they're 22 n he's 58 so it's a possibility they could win if he couldn't reach his gun #which he usually carries in a holster the front of his pants so if they're sat on top of him he can't reach it #idk if it would be a blind rage of punching him till he stops moving or a screaming crying spitting clawing thing #probably depends on His reaction #if he says anything. like in the middle of the violence he goes ''you really are my kid'' LR would likely start crying #and get sloppy so if FP really cared to live through that situation he could probably throw them off #but frankly I think he'd find it pretty fitting his adult child he never knew existed would be the one to catch up to him #and he's lived a satisfying life by his standards #this would all be solved if he gave a shit n gave them a hug though lmfao #but he doesn't care #beyond the brief entertainment they could bring him. esp since he could hold power over them #eugh what a guy #love my characters they're personifications of my issues lmfao #and the fact that they have identical eye colors and very similar eye shapes. sheesh. #like looking into your own eyes

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#sometimes when i get sad or irritated ill think about how when i was working behind the bar at komos for a couple months #the last time i went home for a couple months #&this guy would come in every night i worked&get so fucking wrecked i needed to drive him home #&the last time i did this it was bc he asked me for 'my strongest shot' so i gave him a four horseman&he basically died #&i was bitching about it to security on my way out the door-- to drive him home. again.-- &our security guy was like #'you know he really likes you. thats why he keeps getting so drunk&making you drive him home.' #&i was basically like 'fucking and? how is this impressive?' #&he was like-- I KID YOU NOT-- 'well you know. he's a cop. so he's a good guy.' #&i laughed so fucking hard that he didnt even know what to say&then refused to drive his drunk cop friend home. #i never saw him again. :)♡ the end. #ive worked at two different cop bars in my life&the stories from those places specifically are always so insane #but the wildest parts are always the cops hitting on me like i dont wish literal death upon them&all their cohorts. #... anyway i saw the footage of that cop talking about that woman being struck&killed by a fucking pig #&its just a good time as always to remember that all cops are bastards&if anyone should be gauging the worth of human life #it shouldnt be a farm animal who rolls in its own shit that learned how to put on a uniform&pull a trigger at civilians. ♡

[loveofastarvingdog]

i am an awful person

#timothy's txts. #feel like shit #tw swearing #told my (already crying) sibling my dad gave me the spoon and they said that’s so sad and i said no it’s not and left #instead of hugging them #because i can’t think about it too hard or it’s too much #and i can’t even cry right #but my dad told me in the car that even when i was really little he had already decided he would give it to me. #even when i was ‘ittle bittle’ #and you can imagine how that affected me 🤪 #the intricate rituals of being the fucked up middle kid who was never girl enough to be a good daughter and not boy enough or good enough t #be a good son. but still somehow managed to be the most like my dad #anyways i did NOT come here to talk about my relationship with my dad or my feelings whenever someone says i look exactly like him….. #i’m fine obviously. because of a fucking spoon. it makes me want to tear my own throat out #wish i could goddamn cry #ask to tag #tw emoji

[a-simple-spiders-oc-dump]

love procrastinating going to bed and then suddenly thinking about how I need to give at least one of my characters VERY strong opinions on different animal species RIGHT FUCKING NOW

#Local Spider Yells At Clouds #like??? characters having strong opinions about things that mean jack shit is just really fun to me #I'm gonna try to think of some animals each character would like and dislike real quick off the top of my head #first thought: Gamma is probably both fascinated and deeply terrified by deep sea fish #like!! he thinks the fish themselves are pretty neat!! (it helps that Alice makes freakier looking things on a regular basis) #but everything about WHERE THEY LIVE freaks him the fuck out #man is hydrophobic already!! learning about water pressure and what it could do to a person might make him pass out #very next thought: Lydia probably likes frogs. I feel like they're not her FAVOURITE animal tho. top 5 definitely #very strange that I'm saying that while also having no idea what her ACTUAL favourite animal would be but eh. that's how it goes sometimes. #she probably likes tree frogs the best because those are peak Silly Little Guys #none of these are STRONG opinions tho!!!! I want a character who's either ride or die for a very specific animal #or a character who looks at this particular animal and goes ''I want this bitch GONE FROM EARTH'' #...actually I just realized. I gave NONE of the Realm kiddos animal-loving as a core trait #HOW did I do that???? I MADE THESE FUCKERS WHEN I WAS STILL A KID AND WAS WAITING TO BE ABLE TO VOLUNTEER AT THE LOCAL ANIMAL SHELTER!! #TWO OF THESE BITCHES STARTED AS STRAIGHT-UP SELF INSERTS AND NONE OF THEM HAVE ''LIKES CREATURES'' AS A MAIN CHARACTER TRAIT????? #the easy answer would be to say Lydia or Dylan but. that's the easy answer. #oh yeah make the super-friendly character care about animals a lot. real original there me #...aw it'd be sad if it was Cynthia #because. no memories. any pets she had back on Earth are long forgotten by now. #and because of her role in the camp she'd probably never let herself get a pet either... never rediscovering her love for animals at all #this started with a dumb one-off thought about how I need to give my characters more stupid hills to die on #and ended with me remembering just how damn depressing Cynthia's memory wipe really is as a plot point lmao #it's just like. remembering that she used to have a LIFE before all of this!! #she had passions and joys and all of it got THROWN IN THE TOILET due to circumstances beyond her control!!! #and because of a choice she made herself she has no idea there was ever something else her life could have been!!! #...then again. maybe that was the point. #anyways!!!!!!!! sorry for the blog being dead for a bit lol #getting back into writing now so I'll probably get the queue running again shortly!!

[aloftmelevar]

this day has been absolute ass

#i had a really bad gut feeling through this morning #and then come afternoon i learn about the schaffrillas stuff #like that shit gutted me.... #i'm also having cramps #my professor cancelled class tonight because of the ice storm. i should be happy but like...i'm just in a sour mood #then to top it all off i hear my dad in the next room ranting about how tyre nichols 'would still be alive if he complied' #my dad is a piece of shit bootlicker cop who's also a transphobic and homophobic pig. #and yet he loves me. and i struggle to love him sometimes. #like yeah he provides for me and cares for me. but good lord he has shitty opinions. #when i heard him saying those things i wanted to burst out of my room. i had such vile words i wanted to say but i kept it in. #instead i let it out with hysterical crying in my room. which i guess is better than verbally attacking my dad. #i'm lucky to have two married parents that love me and my sister. that is exceptionally rare today. i don't have a single IRL friend with #married parents in a stable relationship. #so i'm grateful. #i just get so sad and empty inside when i see folks online talking about their parents who are accepting and progressive. #like yeah. i'm happy for you. i just wish i had that y'know. #i don't plan to have kids. but if i end up changing my mind i'm going to give to them what my parents never gave to me. #vent #rant #personal

[italoniponic]

it's been 4 days since I discovered TwoSetViolin's classical boyband style song that makes an transcending mash-up of 5 great classic musicians (+1 Paganini) and no, I'm still not over it

#like i'm not a mega expert in classical music #but the greatest gift my grandma ever gave me was this collection of illustrated books about 20 classic musicians for kids #i was... 10? 11?? at the time i guess #and that opened my eyes (and ears) bc i knew some pieces but never knew the names or the compositors behind them #actually this song presented me with another one #when i realized that the background instrumentals were each musician real piece I LOST ALL MY SHIT #TCHAIKOVSKY'S PART ALWAYS MAKES ME LOSE MY MIND #cherry's mumbling #i'm mumbling bc this song is now stuck on my head #gone is my juliet i won't forget the night that i #hit you with that DUH DUH DUH DUUUMMM

[dyketubbo]

do not bully kids online 😭 what the fuck is wrong with him

#idc what the kid said never ever bully children ESPECIALLY based off appearance #the way to deal with bigoted kids is not public humiliation they dont actually learn from it #all thats succeeded is 1. you gave bigots attention and 2. youve shown yourself to be a bully who finds harrassment funny #and 3. youve sent people after them as well who will likely say even worse shit than whatever the og person did #because theyll be able to do it in private and get away with it #as much as i joke about oh my streamer and for as long as ive watched tubbo #man would he be a fucking HEADACHE to know. id disagree to his face with so many of his takes #and also go insane from the constant misusage of aave and the frequent 'the voicesss the voicesss' ass jokes #i could never be a creator in the mc sphere id fucking kill them all man 😭 these mfs annoy me sm #love liveblogs

[actual-corpse]

I hate knowing things.

Like actually having academic and practiced knowledge (because you can still be very knowledgeable about something without having academic lessons) about things.

When you are asked to give feedback or advice, someone who knows next to fuck-all will INSIST that you don't know what you're talking about. And they'll argue. And they'll belittle you. Or they'll just whisper about you to their friends.

#im studying graphic design #and the rest of that specific class isnt (because its not normal to have a business major and art minor) ive never seen them in the art dept #our marketing professor had us mock up some ads #weve been doing ad work in my graphic design course #the professor asked for feedback #i gave them feedback #heard someone whisper 'what the fuck is she talking about' #im tired of people not taking me seriously #i came across a poll that asked if I wanted to be cured of Autism if that was actually possible #id love to be cured #as it stands right now. I fucking hate being noticeably different from my peers #i was always singled out and picked on when I did things that all the other kids were doing #i was just 'weird' and 'crazy' even tho the 'normal' kids did similar things #Neurotypical people are evil #shit #able bodied people are evil #and they can go straight to hell #when they infantilize and mock and make things so unnecessarily difficult for no reason #when EVERYONE benefits from accessibility and kindness #the way people villainize addiction and homelessness and even physical disabilities #just leave us the fuck alone

[teaboot]

This is gonna sound rather conceited but I feel like it highlights an issue we have in Art.

I'm good at art. I've never had a hard time making art. I started using crayons before I could walk. Painting, Beadwork, sculpture, sketching, stippling, whatever- once I have a feel for the material, it doesn't take long to start doing what I want with it. It's been a common theme my whole life.

(Y contrast I'm awful at things like dancing, performance, sports, etc- in all things there is balance, right?)

Now, I've taught myself to use so many artistic mediums now that I KNOW how to most efficiently integrate them into the brain database. Once you really *understand* a material, it's much like memorizing the layout of your house, or flexing a muscle, or something in-between- it becomes PART of your brain in a way I cant quite articulate. But to get there involves just fucking around for a bit doing nothing in particular.

And I've found, especially in group settings, that nobody seems to be able to see you make something badly and leave you alone. Even if you say you're fine, you don't want help, you're happy, you're having fun, it's fine, they gotta ride your ass and hover.

I was at a class the other day for something I hadn't done before. The medium was one I've never used, so once the instructor told us the basics I started experimenting with weight, gravity, texture, viscosity, saturation, temperature, etc. The instructor had given enough info to know what was dangerous and what was safe, and beyond that I just wanted to absorb what I could about it.

And no insult to the instructor, but they kept checking in. Which was fine the first few times.

But then, without asking me what I was trying to do, started giving tips. That I told them I was grateful for but didn't really need just yet. If I had a question, I'd ask.

But they kept coming over. And touching my shit. And manipulating my project. And touching my hands. And using my tools. Without fucking asking.

And this happens every time. EVERY TIME. And by now I know the best way to get them to fuck off is to make something way beyond their expectations so they know I'm capable, then go back to doing what I want.

So I did. I wanted to keep having fun and learning, but instead I made something beautiful that I really didn't want to make, and wasted my time, and really didn't learn what I wanted to learn at all. I knew the formula to create a beautiful thing, so I followed that formula the same way I have a hundred times before, and didn't get to try anything spontaneous or ugly or exciting, just so I could be left alone.

And I know when I was a kid, I was aware aware people saw me puttering alone on something ugly assumed I had a special issue and treated me like I was stupid because of that. (I was neurodivergent.) And at at time I knew that I could do a neat trick for them like a trained pony and they'd go, "Oh, surely they aren't defective if they can do something like that!" And piss off.

But what if I hadn't known how to do that?

What if I hadn't been talented, or "special"?

What if I'd been just any other average kid trying to learn, and I couldn't pop something pretty out of my ass to get them off my back?

My problem my whole life has been that I haven't been allowed to make anything ugly in peace. I'm capable of beauty, so I have to make beauty, or get stepped on. And once people see what I can do, they get loud about it. "Look at this! Look what they did! We all know who the best is, don't we?". And that used to feel good, but it's tiring.

And how many people like me just wanted to play? Just wanted to have fun and experiment? Who were having fun with no goal in mind, or just took longer to learn, who gave up because of all the obnoxious helpers breathing down their neck with no way to shake them off?

How many of us are made to feel defective because we aren't doing things beautifully?

I have a lovely piece of art I didn't want to make.

I think I'm gonna frame it.*

(*I think I'm gonna burn it in my yard.)

[strawberry-miiiiiiiiiiiilk]

sitting in my room for a half hour thinking about how if we lived in a better world Ada Wong would be the Ilsa Faust of Resident Evil (primarily in how she's introduced in Rogue Nation), with a dynamic to leon not unlike Fujiko Mine's and Lupin's in which they are both extremely competent and in situations in which they may have to work against and occasionally with each other on a mission, but ultimately are forced to stay apart and while they may be apart and even have different love interests from each other, ultimately still care deeply for one another. They are compelled to go after each other in part because it's so difficult and they are so often in circumstances in which they can't be with each other. The thrill of the chase and all that.

Ada being only tangentially related to the other character's stories because the world is simply larger than them and she has her own concerns and problems to deal with, and to have that be given any care or weight in a story, let alone focus. That she can be cunning and even manipulative but because she needs to and will still choose not to when the chips are down because she is genuinely caring--which I know none of that is new ground for her but I wish it was done in a more interesting way and *without leon at all*. She chooses to show mercy in a key point not because she's in love with that other character.

And also that she has more personality. I dig the subdued nature of her in 4r and her subtle sarcasm but it's just crumbs. I want her to be silly on occasion and say dumb jokes because she's alone like in 2r. I want her to shed a bit of that seriousness when she's on the clock because she's confident in herself as a professional and again has no one to put up a façade to.

It's honestly kinda embarrassing reading this back as I realize most of what I'm writing is not only already present in the games but incredibly tropey in and of itself, and wouldn't improve the character much. Dear god I think too much of my view of the character has been marred by shallow fanworks depicting her. I think if anything it's a sign that:

I'm a shit writer and need to do way more than watch movies and gesture vaguely at them to come up w a decent story or character (that being said as much as I prefer Fallout as a film, I stand by my earlier statement of Ilsa Faust being the ideal spy woman as she's depicted in Rogue Nation as she has a distinct set of goals and needs that are complex and developed largely tangentially to the protagonist's, at least initially).

It's going to take a completely new approach to her character to get something remotely interesting and that takes advantage of her potential.

For as mired in tropes as she and every other character and story in Resident Evil is, Ada could be far more memorable and enjoyable if only there was more care and effort to giver at least some interests and goals (perhaps even...characterization) on her own other than being a sexy love interest and potentially traitorous (as so many femme fatales already are).

#I mean she basically already is Fujiko I just wish it was more fun and gave her shit to do that didn't exclusively revolve around leon #I have a lot of thoughts about leon as a character and as much as I enjoy their over-the-top mr & mrs smith romance also fuck leon #Sighs....I know I'm asking too much from a franchise that has famously bad writing and largely archetypal characters but it's maddening #Mostly to me personally because I love spy shit and femme fatales for how messy and misogynistic the archetype is it's my favorite #So it kills me that a cool femme fatale like Ada who has so much potential as a character is relentlessly squandered #And it's the most annoying thing in the world to me to complain about fandoms/fans but I'll be a hypocrite and vent that it bugs me #How much fan media revolves around a*on and coming up with idealized domestic fantasies for them which can be chopped up to misogyny #And how tropey fan shit is but still it's so dull and often bends Ada into an ideal wife/gf for leon but not explore Anything Else At All #Not every romance has to end in marriage and kids like what about the inherent drama of them being forced apart isn't #Compelling to fans? What I'm trying to say is I want them to have a painfully messy divorce and a game or movie exclusively about Ada #*and I mean like they never marry just break up but emotionally it's a messy divorce that's ultimately for the best given their jobs #Also I am far too out of my depth to go into it but many have pointed out how her characterization often falls into pretty #nasty tropes that Asian women often fall into in Hollywood films which considering how much US blockbusters influence re it's not surprisin #But it's unfortunate and I'd be remised to at least mention that it feels at best dicey to have the only recurring Asian woman be mostly #reduced to a love interest of the white protagonist and sexualized with little else to go off of as a character #Yes she's competent and a super spy and saves his life constantly but I Want More And She Deserves Better #And yes everyone is super tropey and flat and the women in general often take a back seat to male charas but like I said #this whole franchise is badly written and honestly it kills me how women are written in general in re but I was thinking too hard about Ada #And maybe a sign that this series needs an even bigger overhaul than the remakes are doing character writing-wise #Or just don't and jettison the bloated lore once and for all and be episodic and silly b-horror idk if I can care about established charas #Coming back if they're in such dull forms. Maybe the mercy kill option is ideal and have re9 and all new installments be different #Ugh why can't I care about something useful like computers or cooking or job applications

[sttoru]

·.⌇ 𝐒𝐘𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐈𝐒. you leave megumi with your husband so you can make them breakfast. you quickly realise that that might have backfired.

wc. around 1.3k

tags. dad!toji x wife!female reader. fluff. reader gets called ‘mama’ by both toji & megumi. half beta read.

“ow, careful there, brat.”

your husband’s deep voice echoes from within the bathroom. you’ve left megumi in his care this morning so you’d be able to make breakfast in peace. toji was all grumpy about it, since he had to wake up early when he had no work, but eventually agreed to your proposal.

you hum your favorite song while frying eggs. the sizzling in the pan did help avert your attention from toji’s grunts of annoyance somewhere in the distance, though only for a couple seconds. your hear your child’s laughter slip between the noises of aggravation. it piques your interest.

“one more time and i’m putting y’r ass in time out,” toji’s deep voice sounds muffled. he sounds rather serious about whatever is bothering him.

you turn the stove off and walk towards the hallway, standing at the doorframe as you look in the direction of the bathroom. you tilt your head and try your best to pick up on snippets of the conversation between your husband and son.

the sound of bottles dropping on the floor is the first thing that allows you to guess that megumi’s acting up. you know how mischievous your little toddler can get, especially at his age. toji isn’t one to gentle parent his kid—he tries to, of course, but sometimes he can’t help but be a bit rough.

“megumi fushiguro.”

you raise your eyebrows as toji uses your child’s full name. he rarely does, only when he’s really upset or about to lose his marbles. you decide to see what was going on for yourself. you walk towards the bathroom, cleaning your hands against the material of your apron. you knock once before pushing the door open.

you stick your head through the little gap, ready to identify the cause of the commotion. the first thing you notice is the chaos on the floor; bottles, tubes, toothbrushes, and all other kinds of products lay cluttered on the bathroom tiles.

your eyes then land on your husband’s broad and scarred back, “hey, honey. did something hap—”

your voice trails off once toji turns around, revealing the jaw dropping scene. nearly his entire face is covered in loads of shaving cream and even his black hair hasn’t escaped the soft foam.

the bathroom counter is completely wet, and the water runs down the edges in small drops. the culprit of this entire scene is sitting right on that same counter, clapping his dirty hands together that were smeared with toji’s shaving cream.

you blink and walk towards the two. you can’t possibly be mad at the sight, finding toji’s situation more funny than worrisome. You try to act serious and clear your throat, “uh, yeah. so what’s happened here?”

your husband rolls his eyes and nods his head at the little boy in front of him, who’s giggling and kicking his legs. toji tries to wipe the shaving cream from his nose, attempting to get it out of his hair as well, “i tried to be a good dad and include him in my morning routine, that’s what.”

the man clicks his tongue as he now realises how dumb of a mistake that was, “gave him the opportunity to put some shaving foam on my jaw ‘n the brat totally blew it. started attackin’ me with the stuff.”

toji grumbles. he wipes away the foam that got on the mirror afterwards. it’s nearly gotten everywhere. he lightly nudges megumi’s forehead with a scoff, “never again, y’hear? the little shit can’t sit still for even one second.”

that explains the stuff on the floor. you know that megumi could grow bored easily if he isn’t the centre of attention. he’d start doing anything to be the focus of his parents. toji probably didn’t pay him much mind, wanting to get his morning routine over with.

“language, honey.” you sigh and look down at megumi who’s still reaching his messy hands up to his dad.

toji huffs and leans back, not giving the little boy a chance to put more shaving cream on his face. he’s learnt his lesson; kids do not understand it when you tell them to ‘only put a little bit’.

megumi whines and threatens to throw a tantrum. you notice that immediately and try to keep his mind off things by picking him up. you turn on the faucet and try to wash his little hands, “c’mon. give mama your hands.”

the little boy shakes his head furiously, squirming in your embrace in attempt to get away. you sigh and grab his little wrists gently. you lower him to the sink, trying your best to wash away the shaving cream as the first step of solving this grande mess.

“no, mama!” megumi is stubborn as he voices his complains. toji watches from a distance whilst he struggles to clean the overload of shaving cream from his face.

you make the mistake of letting go of your child’s wrists to grab a washcloth. megumi takes his chance and pats his messy hands against your face, leaving you no space to process what he’s doing.

your mind takes a second before you realise what’s happening, “hey! quit it, ‘gumi.”

you try to grab ahold of megumi’s tiny hands again, but they move too fast for you. plus, he’s pretty skilled at avoiding yours. you can feel the foam slowly cover your entire face; from your jaw and cheeks, to your nose and forehead.

it was inevitable at this point.

“toji, do something,” you grunt and struggle to contain the energetic toddler in your arms. you take a peek at your husband and find him grinning at the predicament you’ve gotten yourself in.

toji simply shrugs and enjoys the fact that you’re experiencing exactly what he had experienced just moments ago. seeing you struggle to contain your disobedient child only proves that his parenting skills are not the problem in this situation, your toddler is.

“ye did that to y’rself, mama.” toji hums in amusement. he leans against the wall, the blue towel now loosely hanging off head after he’s given up on getting the foam out of his hair, “now y’know what i’m talkin’ about. he’s a lil’ monster.”

megumi squeals in victory after he’s gotten both his parents covered in shaving cream. you want to say something to your child, but you’re at a loss for words. even now, you cannot bring yourself to be mad at him. he’s just a kid who’s having fun with his parents.

“i made mama pretty! hehe.” megumi grins and encourages you to look in the mirror. he points at your reflection and awaits the words of confirmation. his blue eyes look up at you, nearly sparkling with joy, admiring how pretty he’s made you look with that white foam all over your face.

toji joins in on the fun. he comes to stand behind you, looking at you through the mirror. he snickers, already forgotten about his irritations that occurred in the first place. he nods in approval at megumi’s words, “gotta agree, son. y’r mama looks much prettier like this.”

your husband’s teasing comment adds fuel to the fire. though again, you cannot bring yourself to be upset at the situation.

you look at the reflection in the dirty mirror. you all may appear disheveled due to the foamy mess on your bodies—and yet even at that moment—the only thing you actually manage to see is a happy family of three.

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