#low bar for family

[haunted-xander]

I already know, so why won't you just say it?

#me when. me when the found family dynamic is complicated and full of hurt #screaming crying frothing they both need therapy so so bad i love them #i have SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THEM #thancred needs to learn how to communicate #and also not project his grief onto his new daughter #poor ryne just wants to have a good father figure for once :') #(at least thancred is still better than ran'jit) #(but thats a pretty low bar) #ryne #ryne waters #< i love how thats an actual tag #thancred waters #minfilia warde #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art #xander being insane about ryne

[mamawasatesttube]

concept: clark gets himself a cool leather jacket in the kon style and shows up wearing it at some point as superman like. so what do you think? do i look cool? and kons just like (through tears) its fine,,

#fambly momence. you understand #its such a low bar but man i love when clark loves kon theyre family :) #kon #clark

[imbxdateverything]

#i have nothing else to offer so have loids bandaged hand #spy x family #loid forger #1x4 #bandages #whump #is it jdksks #low bar #mine

[fuckspn]

"if [the family thing] was to work... eileen, y'know, she gets it, she gets us, she gets the life" and then they wrote her out of the finale and gave sam an ambiguous blurry wife. andrew dabb i'm biting you and biting you and biting you and biting you

#'don't blame the writers for the finale blame the network!' #andrew dabb could have put in a fucking family photo of sam and eileen with dean jr if literally nothing else #and he couldn't even be bothered to aspire to THAT low of a bar #the fuckspn rewatch

[vvitchy-succubus]

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#his service was overwhelming and perfect #there were so many people there i couldnt even begin to guess how many #my andrew looked so handsome #and even had his natural little smirk he always wore #all of the flags in Illinois are being flown at half mast for him until Sunday #i was able to get theough the eulogy #and i got to give him one last forehead kiss #everyone went out to his favorite bar after #and we had a shot of whiskey while “friends in low places” played #we drank and told stories about him #i met friends of his i had only heard stories about #and some i didnt know of at all #and my entire gigantic family #im just at a loss for words over how much he was loved #this was the worst day of my life so far #but also it would have made him so happy to see #and that's good enough for me #now i have to sleep and try and figure out what the fuck im going to do when i have to wake up tomorrow

[tyrantisterror]

It's been over a year and I still cannot get over how bad Hocus Pocus 2 was. It has given me a a greater level of respect for Hocus Pocus than I ever thought possible. It's made me think better of almost all "bad" horror movie sequels I've seen, because say what you will about the later Friday the 13ths and Nightmare on Elm Streets, but at leas those were actual movies instead of 90 minutes of bullshit strung around a few set pieces that are just retreads of better ones from the original.

#The gulf in quality between Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus two is staggering #And shit like this is why I made the Creech the Truck Monster from Monter Trucks Seal of Cinematic Adequacy #Because Hocus Pocus isn't a stellar groundbreaking movie by any means #It's very much a bare minimum decent quality family friendly horror flick #But it at least does that bare minimum #It is adequate #And Hocus Pocus 2 falls short of that very low bar

[venacoeurva]

Can you imagine being one of Teldryn's ancestors who shows up to meet Wren and it's like dead aunts and uncles and all that and great grandparents, including the one who is still mad at Teldryn for throwing up into a potted Scathecraw that was 100 years old after eating too much spicy dip at 12 and killing it as a result (BUT he really likes Wren, so that's nice)

Meanwhile there's a a guy there who is looking at the guy he had to draw a composite sketch of for the temple when it was calling for his death centuries ago like

#I also see teldryn as being kind of a family fuckup to some capacity but clearly not the WORST out of the family #but his family has some shady characters so the bar is kind of low #I see him as having a twin sister and she's the golden child #teldwren #for anyone who wants to blacklist #not art #wrenposting

[melancholic-pigeon]

I will admit I'm probably a hair trigger about hibernophobia masquerading as progressive praxis. I block the second I get the tiniest whiff of an implication that someone thinks Ireland is a violent, backwards nation of brutish, horrible drunks who are genetically predisposed to be especially stupid and cruel to marginalized people.

Here's the thing. There's a history of Irish Americans stabbing other ethnic minorities in the back because we were told we could access whiteness if we did. Some of us cast off our morals and our sense of justice and compassion and went whole hog on doing the dirty work so that other racists and antisemites could point at us instead of addressing their own racism and antisemitism.

the answer to this is not to switch who gets to hold the knife, it's to throw the fucking knife away.

Thanks.

#hibernophobia is not progressive praxis #I just don't like hearing my family talked about like we're uruk-hai from lotr #which you would think would be a low bar AND YET

[bookwyrminspiration]

i'm not convinced i'm related to my extended family. five minutes notice they're coming over. dude

#quil's unholy underworld #shitpost #can you tell i'm not close with 97% of my family #i will say. we did know they were in town #and that they might come over this afternoon #which i found out. this afternoon #and now. five minute heads up #and we only got that because they called on their way for directions #they would've just shown up otherwise #she's my favorite grandparent but the bar is quite low and oh my GOD woman please

[kiritouyadeku96]

I have never mentioned this, but this:

Is probably one of my favourite images of Shouto 🥰 he honestly looks so flaming adorable! The way the blossom petal has fallen on his nose, and he’s going slightly cross eyed to pluck it off 😭 such a cutie patootie!

#honestly all he’s got so is blink and I’m just like “you flaming cutie pie’ #*do #his bar is so low for me like literally in hell #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #bnha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #mha #shouto todoroki #todoroki shouto #todoroki shoto #shoto todoroki #the todoroki family

[kaltacore]

got reminded of night elves in the stolen throne and. it kinda makes everything a little bit worse for alienage elves you know. a human noble selling your people into slavery is horrible enough but not unexpected really. a human noble who once was a commoner and led an elven squad that became a nightmare for any orlesian soldier during the occupation selling your people into slavery because there's another war and this is the price he's willing to pay without a hesitation? well that's sick and twisted. a stab in the back i'd say

#i think they aren't mentioned anywhere outside of tst and were kind of forgotten. but still. if fereldans forgot it doesn't mean elves did #if some of night elves or their families survived the rebellion to tell a story they probably thought well of loghain #the man valued them as soldiers. saw them as equals in battle at the very least #which isn't yk. a lot. but the bar is low and loghain was a big figure here after all #and if any of them lived to witness the blight. imagine how betrayed they felt #dragon age #loghain mac tir

[halforcdad]

saw both top gun movies this weekend and i have to say the kacy au writes itself

#ncis hawaii #kacy #this is so random but come on #competent hot shot pilot trying to outrun their family reputation #govt contractor eyeing a promotion and needing the pilots help/info to get it #the love interest is also blonde! like thats kate whistler sorry #and tom cruise is short which is perfect for lucy lmao #they dont technically meet at a bar but its close enough and theres serenading/karaoke involved 😩 #and they see each other on the down low bc of work like the au is there #tennants the instructor and ernie would be my first choice for lucys backseater #but if we're following the story 1:1 jesse would actually be the perfect fit #tho if u just wanna relive the dia whistler vs ncis dynamic u can just make whistler the val kilmer rival role #i am also dreaming of the day ncis hawaii has a top gun esque hot beach volleyball scene #watch smth w/o saying 'this would be a good situation to put my favorite lesbians in' challenge failed #i need to stop watching military propaganda #also lucy having the call sign maverick? like the dallas mavericks? the pieces are piecing together

[fluffykitteninabox]

The fact that these are practically the exact same character, but one is rightfully universally hated for being an abusive megalomaniac while the other is being upheld by the fandom as some sort of.... ugh.. "hero" 🤮🤮

#to me enji stans seem completely deranged #like who would watch atla and come to the conclusion that yes it was actually zuko's fault??!! #who would watch atla and ask for ozai redemption at the end??! #literally no one #so then how do you see endeavor in mha and do that exact thing? #they're almost the exact same character it's literally uncanny how similar they are #right down to the specific types of abuse they subjected their families to #ozai married ursa because she was avatar roku's granddaughter so he thought they would produce more powerful children together #enji married rei for her ice quirk because he thought they could produce more powerful children together #ozai favored one of his kids who he considered a prodigy while ignoring/hating the other one who he thought of as weak/useless #enji favored one of his kids who he considered a prodigy while ignoring/hating the other ones who he thought of as weak/useless #ozai is responsible for one of his kids having half their face burned and permanently scarred #enji is responsible for one of his kids having half their face burned and permanently scarred #no i don't care that technically rei was the one that burned shouto enji was still the reason this happened #but ozai was tyrant and and an imperialist while enji saves people for a living #congratulations that's the only valid point to hate ozai more than endeavor #but that just proves how fucking low the bar is #plus endeavor's idea of heroism is more like #beating people up for a living and coincidentally saving some bystanders as a bonus #anyway ozai should have died #maybe not by aang but he should have died #enji should also die #i don't care who does it I'm good with anything as long as it isn't framed as a 'heroic sacrifice' #atla #atla ozai #mha #anti endeavor #anti enji todoroki #todoroki family

[sysig]

Now now, not too much of a voice of reason (Patreon)

#Doodles #Original #Tala #Bar #The familiar trio lol #I was in a weird mood for the first one haha - I was thinking about the dying a glue trap meme and the Family Guy death pose at once #I didn't end up doing anything about it but what is with these morbid blorbo memes lol #Blorbid memes #Bar's always my go-to for that which is weird 'cause he's not a whump character?? I don't actually want to kill my whump characters tho so ♪ #He's just a memey lad #Anyway that was a while ago lol #Last three are much more recent! #Still been thinking about Tala in the BunBonBop universe since creating Dahlia she'd really fit right in! #She's also old enough which I forgot was a rule I made lol - Shifters start presenting their specificity at age 5 so she just made it lol #Threw myself into the mix for funsies as well lol - we'd be fairly low-power Shifters :) #Tala'd be a shape of course - she's always been a plush doggo! #I haven't given a lot of thought to inanimate object shapes yet but I'd like to! It feels like there's a lot to dig into #Things like would they be able to move around in their inanimate object shape - probably only after practicing! #And what kind of regulations and social rules would develop around a significant percentage of the population turning into inanimate objects #What would theft look like? Would theft/kidnapping rules be more conflated? Something closer to how we consider pets in certain states? #What might certain lawsuits look like lol ''My client had every reason to believe that object was in fact not a person!'' #That'd be very scary for the Shifter as well if they felt they were in a position where it wasn't safe to shift back ah D: #Nevermind it's making me sad to think about lol #Also established a new rule for time Shifters - some can only age in certain directions lol #That Also gave me some ideas specifically in reference to IDs - would a time Shifter be able to fake their age to purchase alcohol? #Probably not there'd probably be some kind of signifier on the ID itself that says what kind of Shifter they are lol #Card everybody! #And then finally the last - in addition to getting a couple Tamagotchis I also impulsively bought the first book of KoiBo and hhh <3 <3 #I love Souichi so much he is So fucked up <3 <3 <3 <3 #Getting to read it in person in my own hands has really reignited my brain to think about him So Much he's such a delightful character

[labyrynth]

very salty salt re: someone’s hotter-than-the-sun take on jgy/meng shi, mu qing, and class

just saw someone insist that bc meng shi was a famed courtesan at some point, she therefore was actually quite well off financially, and was not at all lower or working class, as if she not only had a say in her profession, but as if this did not all come crashing down after 1) aging, and 2) having a literal child

they also described both meng yao and mu qing as “functionally middle class” because obviously not being jobless or homeless means you’re middle class.

and also claimed that mu qing was personally responsible for xie lian’s downward spiral, and that mu qing’s decision to leave abandon xie lian was selfish, cruel, and—get this—fueled by CLASSISM.

OP i am beating you over the head with a stick. how do you fuck up class awareness/analysis THIS bad.

the whore and her bastard son are middle class because she’s fuckable and he knows how to read. uh huh sure.

the working class servant is selfish and classist for prioritizing his own family over his employer, the royal fucking family. why not.

here look OP i can string together offensive sentences too: you are fucking stupid.

#salt is salt #mdzs talk #and the rarely used #tgcf talk #jgy tag #like in what fucking world do you live in where meng shi is viewed as ‘Wealthy Respected Courtesan’ instead of ‘washed up whore’ #i’m 90% sure i already had this person blocked for their shit jc takes #which really just solidifies my working concept #it was never about any perceived classism #bc they just proclaimed that the two most notable non-love interest/non-gentry characters…are classist. #source: they made decisions that prioritized their own interests rather than sacrificing themselves and their families for their wealthy— #cough i mean generous benefactors #the ungrateful whelps #like what’s next? are you gonna claim that he xuan was selfish and entitled and classist for pursuing the position he was owed? #or was shen jiu—literal child slave—classist for resenting binghe? #i got it—airplane was classist for wanting to be able to pay his bills. doesn’t he know people are homeless?! is he looking down on them?!! #how dare he charge for his product?! he’s discriminating against people who can’t afford to pay for shitty porn!! #like jfc op the bar here was so fucking low you would have to TRY just to trip over it #and you steamrolled yourself into a pancake just to fit underneath #because obviously every character flaw HAS to be some kind of -ism so i can condemn you for liking this blank-ist character #then again this shouldn’t surprise me #bc these folks accuse queer ppl all the fucking time of being homophobic #for not hating jc who is supposedly homophobic #projection much? #it really is the foundation of the anti mindset: #‘i don’t like this thing. i must dislike this thing bc it’s Problematic. it’s problematic therefore YOU shouldn’t like this thing.’ #‘and you’re just as Problematic if you DO.’ #some ppl really just Say Things #ok i’m done

[philtatosbuck]

the idea that katherine would make a good mikaelson is kind of laughable because she is so genuinely fundamentally against. like 90% of what the mikaelsons stand for.

they’re all backstabbers so she has that going for her but at the end of the day they will pull through for each other while katherine has never been loyal to anyone for more than like 45 minutes on a good day

this one is especially for if she’s a mikaelson via elijah but she will not risk her life for klaus or rebekah for a damn second nor would she stand around and let elijah do it and the idea that elijah’s going to Let Her stop him from helping his siblings if they need it is laughable

she’s a habitual liar??? paired with elijah, who is also a fucking liar, there’s just nothing there to build on lmfao their relationship would have crashed and burned if they had actually gotten together if we’re being fr about it. elijah at his core is about family (and also fucked up) and katherine is about herself (and also fucked up)

and i’m not saying any of this is a fault on katherine’s part that’s just how she is and i don’t see how anyone can convince themselves that her being with elijah, and therefore regularly in klaus’ life, would make her any less flighty or sneaky at all. do you REALLY think her being with someone she knows would pick klaus over her would have katherine relaxed or “more herself” (whatever idea of kat y’all tend to have) enough to the point where she and elijah could actually. be happy??? 

the funniest part about it all is that if katherine were to “become a mikaelson” she would be better off with literally any other sibling besides elijah

#elijah & katherine are not a good pair i'm sorry to say but people were delusional with that one #if klaus had killed katherine elijah would have just gotten over that shit lmao #especially since he also stood by and let klaus murder her entire family #and then made katherine out to be the bad guy #i just . am not seeing how people deluded themselves into thinking it wouldn't crash and burn #katherine and klaus would be a HEAVILY toxic pair but it would work for them better than elijah & katherine for fucking sure #katherine pierce #elijah mikaelson #anti kalijah #ig?? #like. klatherine? doable. it'd be messy as fuck but entertaining #kathbekah?? you could build something out of it. #koltherine? i've never even liked this one but kol stays away enough for it to be viable #even fuckin katherine/freya would make a better pairing to be so honest lmfao #oh oh oh i take it back #kath/finn would be worse than kath/lijah #a low bar but...