#mother vs mother

[sillycatenthusiast]

Some of my favorite songs from gaming

#yume nikki #milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk #off game #off mortis ghost #splatoon #splatoon3 #plants vs zombies #earthbound #the stanley parable #omori #hylics #mother cognitive dissonance #cogdis #psychonauts #Psychonauts 2 #portal #portal 2 #deltarune #minecraft #undertale

[deadsetobsessions]

Tim had forgotten, in his one man (and the admittedly liberal usage of hired guns) crusade at everything that had hurt his family, that he was technically a child. A time traveling 21 year old Tim Drake in his younger body, sure, but he’s still a nine year old child.

Tim was violently, unpleasantly reminded of this as he opened his front door to… Gotham Primary’s truancy officer.

Oh shit. He still had to go to school. Tim scrambled for an excuse.

“Hello, Timothy. Are your parents home?”

“Uh- no, sir. Only my nanny. I’ve been really,” think, Timothy, think! Are you Red Robin for nothing? “really sick. She went out for some medicine.”

Tim knew what the officer saw as he looked down at him, a pale, drawn little boy who looked like a sickly Victorian child. He has no idea that Tim had the beginnings of lean muscles and strong grip strength underneath his baggy clothes.

“I see. I’ll have to talk to your nanny, then. We need to be informed of when you’re ill, Timothy.”

“Oh. She-” shit, shit, shit! “Doesn’t speak English.” Was that racist? That felt racist. Gods, he probably sounds like a snobby classist elite. “I’ll let my mom know to email you, sir?”

The truancy officer sighed. By Tim’s lucky stars, he agreed. The man pulled out a singular paper from his plastic folder, clearly used to this kind of thing, especially from the elites of Gotham, and said, “Email the school. And have her sign this note, please.”

Tim nodded seriously. Like hell he would.

When the officer was gone, Tim closed the gate immediately. He had forgotten to close it after getting back home from stalking the Bats last night. Well, Bat, singular, because Jason was still benched.

Tim sighed, grabbing a pen to fluidly forge Janet Drake’s signature on his paper about truancy and proper procedures and what not. Then, he moved to the computer, easily stealing his mother’s credentials, emailing the school about his sick leave, and their decision to have him home schooled.

He’d miss Ives, but honestly, Tim needed the free time. Plus, maybe this way, he’ll graduate high school this time around. He drafted another email to the counselor, asking them what kind of curriculum and tests he needed to pass to obtain future degrees and what not.

He gets an email back, with all of the testing required and the steps “Young Timothy” should take in order to succeed in the rest of his academic career. Tim would like to point out he’s nine, and that this was pretentious. Helpful, sure, but pretentious all the same.

“That’s what people don’t mention about time traveling. It’s all fun and games until you get hit with the mundane and tedious things.” Tim muttered, setting up his appointments for testing. He’ll have to find someone to drive him to the tests…

His mind turned to his neighbors… hm. That’s a possibility.

Tim wiped all traces of his activities from his mother’s email, doing a quick and hidden bit of rerouting to get any educational emails regarding him sent to his own inbox.

Tim swigged a mouthful of coffee and continued on his merry way.

His new goal?

Find Cassandra Cain.

#Tim drake #Timothy drake #Batman #red Robin #time traveling tim drake #time travel fix it #scheming tim drake #Tim drake vs truancy officer #listen I went to a private school #they legit called me ‘young’ in an email to my mother #Tim drake vs the education system #Tim Drake and his mortal enemy: school #tim: I will never finish high school

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

My mother's "Give it three tries before you judge it" advice

I mentioned it here, at the end of this post, talking about VoicePlay's latest video. But it deserves a spot of its own in my archive.

It was something she explained to me back when I was a kid, getting ready for the first day of the school year with a new teacher:

The first day, you're judging it against your expectations. So if you expect it to be absolutely terrible, and it's not, you're likely to decide it's great (and vice-versa).

The second day, you're judging it against your first day's verdict. So if it turns out not as great (or as terrible) as you thought the first day, your opinion will likely switch to the opposite (but whichever verdict that was, it was skewed by your expectations).

So your third day is really the first day where you can judge it based on your actual experience, not what you imagine or fear.

She also said that tended to be true for the first, second and third weeks, and months, as well.

Decades later, I find this advice holds up. So I thought I'd pass it along.

#my mother's advice #figuring out how you feel about something #expectation vs. experience

[nonasbirthday]

If you were going to make a character that was the soul of planet earth in a human body you might think to make her motherly. Wise. Forgiving. Mother Earth cares for us, she provides, right? But Tamsyn Muir wrote Nona the Ninth and said YES planet earth is loving but also she is SO SO ANGRY and HURTING. And actually she cannot care for others right now she needs to be cared FOR.

Also she wants to eat pencils and she thinks flowers are sexy.

#I just think that the very specific ways the 'mother earth' thing is followed vs. the ways it is inverted are very interesting #she's beautiful and monstrous. she's desperate for a champion. she's hurt. she's powerful. she's not ready to forgive. #she needs to be loved. she needs to be cared for before she can heal #i try to tell people about TLT and it's like well it's about necromancers and identity and forgiveness and CLIMATE CHANGE #it's about imperialism and stagnation and homestuck references #but more than anything it's about gay space juggalos #but the climate change piece is definitely there you know. #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #alecto tlt #nonasbirthday #sticking this on the fridge

[indistinctchatt3r]

Omega using the straw to make another Lula rather than to make something to escape

#the way my jaw genuinely dropped when she pulled out the doll #whole time before i was like oh yeah!! she's getting crafty and has a plan to escape!! #and then #oh #how easily i forgot she was a child #like of course she would make something of comfort before thinking of using it for escape #it might not have even crossed her mind #i felt cloth doll mother vs wire doll in this bad batch premiere tonight #star wars #the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #the bad batch season 3 #tbb s3 spoilers #tbb s3 #omega tbb #tbb omega #omega the bad batch #tbb #tbb spoilers

[hughmanbean]

Capture the Queen

Danny is crowned High Queen, and the Infinite Realms feel an intense urge to celebrate. Danny, in a moment of True Infinite Wisdom(TM) declares a Week of (Play) War.

He takes his former rogues and appoints them as his lieutenants, Fright Knight as general. Dan and Ellie are tossed out to find their own members to go against him.

The two troublemakers find themselves in Gotham, and after seeing the local Vigilantes and Rogues, they have a dastardly idea.

Ellie encounters the Red Hood first, talking about how she's so cold and tired from running.

Dan just appears at a drug bust, inspecting his nails as the multi-ton equipment lays shattered at his feet.

They worm their way into the Batfam's hearts, and the Week of War is near.

#dp x dc #dp x dc prompt #dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #dc x dp #dcxdp #By the High Queen why are there so many TAGS #Ghosts fight as interaction/play/socialization #batfam #queen mother danny phantom #There's another post with the same rough premise somewhere #danielle phantom #dan phantom #danny fenton #danny phantom #Dan & Ellie vs. Mom and Her Work Friends #dpxdc prompt

[itisonlyeyes]

You think Jonathan Sims, The Archivist, pupil of the eye, The Anti-Christ who brought the end of the world against his volition, ever used his Knowing abilities to find out what his parents looked like.

#I hc Jon looks almost exactly like his mother #if not for a few traits from his father #Jonathan Sims who loves that he looks like his mother vs. Martin Blackwood who loathes that he looks like his father #tma #the magnus archives #jon sims #jonathan sims #jon sims hc #tma hc #tma headcanon

[theriverbeyond]

One day eighteen years ago, Gideon’s mother had tumbled down the middle of the shaft in a dragchute and a battered hazard suit, like some moth drifting slowly down into the dark. The suit had been out of power for a couple of minutes. The woman landed brain-dead. All the battery power had been sucked away by a bio-container plugged into the suit, and inside that container was Gideon, only a day old.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb fanart #tlt fanart #my art #gideon nav nativity (navtivity) #tumblr killed the quality on these and ALSO!!! i made a big mistake and make my files huge and gigantic. hubris!!!! tumblr only likes 500px #also when i was working on this i accidentally erased the layers containing wake #wake's lineart #and baby gideon #and almost cried but i did it i redrew it #anyway i tried to go bibe verse for caption but DID u know that the bibe verses for jesus' birth sound like a grocery list. drier than my #mother's chicken. #all images have alt text #debated posting this tomorrow vs today but i am impatient so

[skitskatdacat63]

How did I never hear this radio until the brawn doc hahahaha

#i love baby seb #hes like a kid who just learned curse words 🥹 #its weird watching this bcs ig im so uses to radio censorship nowadays #that im like wow jfc they cursed so much back then! #but its probably pretty equal but the broadcasters have decided to be bitches abt it now #i wonder if its cause they subtitle it now #i dont rly know what the procedure is back then vs now abt how comms work and how they broadcast them #ahhhhhh ik this doc is abt brawn but wherever i see Seb im just clutching my chest like a proud mother #hilarious also to watch it w my dad bcs he is seriously the easiest person to sway in terms of driver favs/opinions #like Nando will always be his fav cause yay old man! #but i show him seb clips boom seb's his p2. and now watching this hes like 'yeah jenson is my 2nd fav' #why are you susceptible to propaganda LMFAO #i need to show him more seb ig...im always such a propagandist for him 🤭 #sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1

[a-hobit]

More switched AU comics!

(AU explained : Luz and Philip and Hunter and Caleb + a few others switch places in the narrative so Luz and Hunter are siblings born in 1600. Luz becomes Empress and has her Golden Guard Caleb. Comic in the works currently!)

#toh #the owl house fanart #the owl house #toh fanart #toh fancomic #comic #toh comic #luz and hunter being siblings makes me want to eat recycled cardboard #luz and hunter are siblings #vs #luz and Caleb being mother and son make me so feral I can’t cope #Caleb and Empress Luz #caleb and evelyn #TOHswitchedAU

[upsidedog]

god the scene in season one where jonathan comes home to joyce and lonnie on the couch drinking together is harrowing. it makes me want to cry just thinking about it, your brother is dead, your mom is horrible mental state and is now also introducing your abusive father back into your house. what a fucking nightmare.

#i think it’s unproductive to try to determine whether joyce is a fully ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mother especially without acknowledging the #intricacies of grief or abuse or how victims go back to their abusers or how your son is stuck in a hell dimension but i think it’s obvious #she was at least being a bad parent to jonathan all of season one he was absolutely put through the ringer and joyce even temporarily #letting lonnie back in is just the cherry on top #anyway season one is sooooooo damn good it’s so fucking good it’s actually a good show in season one #i adore the funeral scene where dustin goes ‘wait till will hears jennifer hayes cried at his funeral!’ so cute so funny #and nancy. NANCY. the angels wept! #the scene where steve tries to get her to go to the movies vs the first ep… she is not a frivolous high school girl anymore. that can’t be #her life

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My mom sent me Scott Pilgrim’s IFunny account.

#dream #mom #mother #scott pilgrim #ifunny #scott pilgram vs the world #family

[comradekatara]

sokka’s trademark undying loyalty is born out of a fundamental belief that he is intrinsically worthless outside of what he can provide to those he is loyal to, whereas azula's trademark undying loyalty is born out of a fundamental belief that if she were not loyal to those she is loyal to she would be intrinsically worthless. very subtle distinction, but it matters.

#and yes. in both cases it’s their fathers’ faults #(no offense hakoda i know u mean well) #sokka #azula #azula&sokka #being left alone & told you must protect your sister at all costs #vs knowing that your father killed your mother and rationalizing it by deciding that anyone who isn’t loyal to him deserves to die #justgirlythings

[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

[piosplayhouse]

breastfeeding poll has me thinking that original goods sqq is like wire mother with no milk either

Someone redraw this as Shen twins quick

#actually so real though #vs bingge extra is literally just bingge discovering the cloth mother could ever be an option #isnt that sad.. he didnt even get an option as a baby monkey #svsss

[i-was-bored-so-this-happened]

#i have a funny feeling this is. going to also scale well against siblings vs only children #every so often my mother would come home from work and find like six more children in the house that weren't there when she left #and two or three of them would usually sleep over too