#my whole family murdered

[veganhamsalad]

Other people have done big family guy vids but if i was still a tiktok guy i think i'd like to make no frills notable moments flat faced recounts. Family guy has become incredibly

#I hate family guy but also its a big cozy blanket #life is so scary and my anxiery has been through the roof. Im nearly a month off tiktok i think? im unsure but I do think i have been #less agitated in general #also. i want a mastiff so bad rn apparently they got a puppy #and tbh when aarons away itd be nice to have that extra protection #im ngl on my more paranoid nights i am scared i am gonna deny someone in a difficult situation a trade/return and get followed home and #my whole family murdered #but i am largely FINE i know this is mostly irrational and despite the numbers being terrifying i have to live my life anyway #and sometimes thats being responsible and not adopting a 5th animal

[cookinguptales]

As someone who grew up in a bilingual household where we spoke English but also signed, the part of Mabel and Theo's relationship that fascinates me the most is the communication, or lack thereof.

I'm mostly hearing (...sort of...) but grew up around a lot of d/Deaf people, CODAs, interpreters, etc. so while I can't give any input on the experience of profound deafness, I can at least tell apart different styles of signing. It's a little hard to tell sometimes how much of this is characterization vs. the skill level of the actors, but it is interesting.

Teddy Dimas does not sign fluidly. It's immediately obvious. It's not that he's terrible or that he can't be understood... it's just that there are a lot of tells that he does not sign as a primary language. The terseness of the signs, the deliberateness. You can tell that there's a second of thought before each sign, a jerky sort of compactness to them, that's common with people who learn to sign later in life. (Or who don't get a ton of practice with it.)

Signing, when you do it right, requires the use of your whole body. That can be hard for hearing people, who are generally used to more restrained movements. Teddy Dimas has never quite lost that restraint. He still can't go all in, not with his signing or his parenting.

I always thought this was really interesting, because it means that Teddy most likely learned to sign for his son (tragically uncommon with hearing parents of Deaf children) but that he still can't quite translate his thoughts properly into sign language. He can't quite get his emotions through to his son. There's a barrier there between them, and it seems to be largely one that Teddy's erected -- until Theo starts snapping back.

What I'm getting at is that Teddy has always forcibly drawn his son into his world instead of immersing himself in Theo's, and it shows. And it has really harmed their relationship, in more ways than one.

Zoe... we don't see a ton of her signing, but there does seem to be something somewhat performative about it. It's more fluid, like perhaps she's done it her whole life, but there's also something sort of... idk, false about it? And I wonder if that's just Zoe. It felt like she was always covering up her true feelings of loneliness and emptiness with a flamboyant personality, and the little flourishes to her signing seem to convey that as well. Her signing feels almost theatrical to me.

Theo and Mabel, though... I've always loved that episode where they go to Coney Island together. I get the criticism that Theo said at the beginning that he couldn't understand much of what she said when he was reading lips -- and then she proceeded to just talk at him for the rest of the episode anyway. But to me, at least, that always seemed like it was kind of the point. They couldn't understand each other, not fully, and that was something soothing to them.

There's something healing, I think, about shouting into the void. Letting out all of your most personal, complicated feelings without fear of repercussion or judgement. Talking into the wind because you know it won't talk back. You need to feel that echo but also know that it won't be heard.

I think there was some of that there in their initial relationship. Both of them desperately needed to talk, to get everything off their chests, but both of them also have trouble opening up to others due to trauma. So I think speaking to someone who couldn't understand them was, in some ways, ideal. They could make a human connection while keeping it fairly impersonal. They could unload without fear of judgement -- or worse, understanding.

Oddly, I think their mutual need to communicate without being understood was the one thing they understood best about each other. They could sense each other's loneliness and wariness and inability to trust that they could tell someone something important without it being used against them -- because their love and their trust have always been used against them.

So maybe in a way, their inability to talk to each other was actually what helped them communicate on a deeper level...?

Still, though. Still. I was so pleased to see that Mabel is learning more sign language so she can talk to Theo. She's got a long way to go, but no one learns to sign overnight. She's making progress, and you can tell that Theo appreciates it. There are still times where he gets too excited and signs too fast and she doesn't catch all of it, and there are times when she gets so wrapped up in her own soliloquies that she forgets that you have to face Deaf people while talking to them, but there's a familiarity to it now. When he signs too fast, she smiles and teases him. When she talks too quickly or forgets to sign or turns away from him, he just smiles and sighs and shakes his head. Then waits for her to come back.

Theo finds it irritating, obviously, but also understands that it's just... Mabel. She spends so much time in her own head that she has trouble communicating even with people who speak her language, as evidenced with Tobert. And maybe Theo does understand her in ways that others can't. Maybe it's the very fact that he accepts that he can't always understand her that makes her feel comfortable with him.

I also have to wonder, y'know... Has anyone ever learned to sign for him before, other than his father, who clearly saw it as a burden? Has anyone ever seen him as worth the effort of learning, not out of an obligation to speak to him but a desire to? No wonder he's being patient with her. I wonder if anyone has ever put in as much effort for him as she already has. It makes me so sad to think about, because what she's doing now is so... bare minimum. Theo has been so desperately alone, and so much of that is because his father isolated him. It's because no one else ever reached out. :(

idk, it just makes me happy that these two people who originally bonded over their inability to communicate are now comfortable enough with each other to try actually talking. There's something so shy and so joyful about it. I love that for them, especially Theo.

I don't want him to be alone anymore!! I want him to have someone he can talk to, whom he trusts enough to talk to, who thinks he's worth learning to talk to back!

Their odd brand of bilingual communication (or lack thereof) is just fascinating to me. ;;

#omitb #omitb spoilers #only murders in the building #long post #look I'm not going to pretend to be an expert #I learned to sign from parents and siblings and babysitters and a WHOLE bunch of nuns #some of whom knew ASL and some SEE #I never had formal training because I just learned kind of... organically I guess #and my signing is VERY pidgin #I can talk to my family obviously but I'm never going to call myself an expert #but these are my thoughts at least

[can-a-robot-learn-to-love]

the greek police and ambulance refusing to go to the island until morning even though a murder had been committed is actually just factually accurate to the culture

#coming from a greek person #we talked about this at thanksgiving and my whole greek family agrees #glass onion #murder? okay we come first thing in the morning #right after breakfast

[allthebestnamesweretaken]

Every time I hear the quote “…she was his Queen. And God help anyone who dared disrespect his Queen” I immediately think of Klaroline

Now I wanna read a fic with this theme. Recs pleaseeeeee

#klaroline #tvdu #the originals #the vampire diaries #klaus mikaelson #niklaus mikaelson #caroline forbes #klaus x caroline #I know it’s a bit cringey but also it fits them so well #my headcanon is that Klaus stops being his murderous self except when it comes to Caroline and her safety #obviously he still doesn’t play about his family but since Caroline isn’t an original he’s more on edge about her safety #my whole blog is me asking for fic recs

[rollforjackass]

i could KILL him for this. motherfucker's every interaction with children has him being, if not nice, then at minimum kind and forgiving and genuinely invested in their wellbeing.

he asks crying kids what's the matter, he's afraid to hold a baby because he's worried he'll drop it, he goes after people who are mean to kids without a second thought. his whole mentorship with timothy hunter is him trying to do right by that kid no matter how he feels about it at the time. man would be the most loving dad in the world but because of his own awful goddamn father and the ways he thinks he takes after thomas, he doesn't think that's true. i hate.

#this panel made me SPITTING mad for real he breaks my heart #the way his father fucked up his whole mindset and self-image is something that makes me so violent #me rattling the bars of my cage yelling about how the family man arc was a vessel for conveying constantine's fears about his father #how it made him feel responsible for his father's murder after his dad had called him the killer of his mother his whole life #then made him a literal killer which turned that childhood nickname into a self-fulfilling prophecy & his dad into an unintended oracle #how constantine has always been afraid of becoming his father and yet that's exactly who he had to emulate to survive the world of magic #and then vertigo gave him the fucking rosacarnis arc which made him unwillingly a dad and his kids killers. i'm unwell #i NEED john constantine to know how good a person he really is and how loved any kid of his would be #the one thing new 52 did right for him was making him genuinely loving and caring towards rose #instead of making him pawn her off on everyone around him. which i fear a lot of writers would make him do these days #i NEED him to know he's better than who raised him #they say mary anne constantine would have been a good mother if she'd lived and i think there's a lot of her left in her son #not that he'd ever believe it #hellblazer #john constantine #i'm very emotional about him right now #oxly hollers

[luck-of-the-drawings]

IMAGINE. working at ur stupid uhhh job or whatever. pulling into your drive way and ready to work on some crazy project in your garage. opening the door to the most unfamiliar silence. did your wife and kid leave for something? could you imagine knocking on your kids door, hardly getting an answer, and opening it to find the splattered remains of your wife across his room your child is scared! hes hardly consolable, in a state of shock and terror. you are too, but youre the adult here. you need to take charge. you need to protect him. you need to do something. you need to do something.

#cw gore #jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi pd spoilers #ashe winters #LOOOORRRD HELP ME THIS IS A YEAR OLD AND I HAAAATE LOOKIN AT IIITTTT ALL I CAN SEE ARE MY MISTAAAKESSS RRAAGHHHGGG ITS FINE THOUGH #ITS FIIIINE ITS ALL FIIIIIIINE!! IM HARSHER ON MY ART THAN ANYONE ELSE ITS FIIIIIINE IIITTSFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINEEEE #ANWYAY SO I THINK ALOT ABOUT THE FACT HE KILLED HIS MOM. FUUUUCKED UP. POOR GUY.. i wish i could learn more about what that day was like #the lil scenario wrote is my own silly little headcanon. but what really happened on that day? was mark there? or did he come home to it? #how violent was it really? was ashe awake the whole time? does he remember exactly how he killed her? does he remember? #who was mrs winters? what was she like? i like to think she was the one that gave ashe the book. taught him what she could before. yknow. #did ashe or mark try to destroy it afterwards? i could imagine mark throwing it into a fire. only for it to reappear with ashe #maybe ashe couldnt destroy it but i could imagine him hiding it. hiding away from it. and yet when we find him he holds it so close #its the only thing he can do! no super powers or anything. this was it. why would he ever throw away the only thing hes good at? #AND GOOD GOD MARK... TURNING TO MERCENARY WORK OVER IT ALL... SELLING HIS SOUL TO A LAbortory that changed him in immense ways #when did it get bad enough for him to start covering his face? what was ashe thinking? he knew his dad was up to something but what? #maRK HAS SUUUCH A CRAZY KILL COUNT TOO. I THINK THE HIGHEST IN THE SERIES IF WE'RE NOT LOOKIN AT THE GODS OR WATEV #MASS MURDER. MAN HAS COMMITTED MASS MURDER AND BROKE OUT OF SUPER VILLAIN PRISON WITH A PEN. MAN BUILDS IRON MAN SUITS IN HIS BASEMENT #OKay okay enough of my ramblin okayokay i just REALLY LOVE THIS SSHHOOOOWWW DUUUDEE EEUUGHTHTHHRHGHGH I LOVE THE WINTERS FAMILY...

[cosmicwar]

“…he threw…himself…in front…of me…in front of me…” - Batman #428 (1988)

Jason heroically threw himself in front of Haywood to try to protect her from the explosion, but it killed them both. - Batman Annual #13 (1989)

thinking about how the last thing Jason did in his life was an act of self-sacrifice to try to save someone

#also that someone being the person who gave him over to his murderer #anyway i have many thoughts on this… #sheila’s next panel being her saying ‘such a good boy… he must have really loved his mother…’ #and then she trails off as she dies with ‘his… his…’ #and anyway i think the person jason was trying to save here was catherine #my headcanon anyway #he was trying to save his mother and he was trying to save her through saving sheila #not specifically with the jumping-in-front-of-the-explosion part but the whole thing #sry i’m extra in my robin jason mood today #dc #dc comics #jason todd #robin ii #sheila haywood #death in the family #batman #batman comics

[creativesplat]

ok... so Lambert x Eve...

Eve and the two Blaiddyds

Lambert and the two Fierenes

The step-siblings

@blaiddydbrokeit and I were talking, and they have now sent me down the wonderful rabbit hole that is Eve and Lambert getting married and looking after their children.

#Dimi desperately needs a good mother figure (y'know rather than his idealised image of Patricia who never really loved him and didn't pay #attention to him no matter what he says to himself (you know only having that one memory of her where she was looking out the window and ig #ring him) and then tried to murder him adn his whole family) anyway #Eve would be good for Dimi #and Lambert and Alfred and Celine would get up to all sorts of shenanigans #but also Lambert might be able to help Celine understand and overcome her fear of other's deaths #Dimitri in particular would be able to understand that fear and sympathise with her #and alfred is just having a great time with a new brother and dad because everything is awesome all the time and his old dad would have lov #d his new dad and he tells alear all about it and she's like ooh! #anyway an adorable meet the step-dad step-brother situation for the couple (you know my alflear loving heart can never resist an opportunit #anyway #other tags were originally messaged to a pal when we discussed the idea but I thought they would work under the picutres too: #crack ship or not Lambert and eve are adorable in my brain #lambert egitte blaiddyd #queen Eve #fire emblem engage #fire emblem three houses #anyway maybe in a heroes universe or something; or dimi revives Lambert using some sort of magic and then Lambert and eve meet up in a Fodl #an and Elyos meet and greet sort of ball and they become friends and then they discuss being widowed and through a long series of meet ups #realise a political marriage between them both would be good for Fodlan and Fahrgus and good for Fierene and Elyos and they're also in love #anyway they both visit each other's spouses graves on the anniversary of death #like they would both really respect their partner's deceased spouses and not be jealous at all when the other gets upset and is like #I really miss them. Because they both get it

[sweetest-honeybee]

If Eddie is trans in the Crime Puppets AU, does that mean the murder husbands can have murder kids some time in the future?

I mean. Fuckin. I dunno ??? 😂

#I feel like the intent of this ask was supposed to be way less weird than it came out #that’s not uh. necessarily something I considered for a few reasons 😂 #one being that Eddie being trans doesn’t by default mean he could…have kids? #there’s plenty of trans men who just don’t have the ability to do that anymore #and the whole idea isn’t my cup of tea personally #I feel like they’d much rather adopt anyways #I could see them with a kid or two that way :) #murder family is an absolute 10/10 concept imo #crime puppets au

[sage-nebula]

I can't sleep so I'm just laying here in the dark thinking about how at least 3 different sets of "older brother raised younger brother and so the older one is both brother and parental guardian" sets of fictional characters have given be brainrot at different periods in my life.

#in case you're wondering it's: #sonic and tails (from sonic obvs) #guy cecil and luke fon fabre (from tales of the abyss) #and [long suffering sigh] dean and sam winchester (from supernatural 😔) #the tales of the abyss one is so canon it's actually spelled out in-game by Luke's actual father #it's in a sidequest but he says to Guy: ''You are Luke's father - brother - and irreplaceable friend'' #of these 3 sonic and tails have the fewest issues and angst points #and sam and dean have the worst #which is funny when you remember Guy's intention was to murder Luke before he ended up raising him #(it's a long story. Luke's dad murdered Guy's whole family on Guy's 5th birthday) #even then Guy and Luke are still healthier than the Winchesters. but the Winchesters put the bar in hell lmao #anyway. apparently complicated sibling relationships that blur the line btwn best friend & sibling & parent #is a trope that RLY fucking gets me #i blame Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. i watched it when i was like 4. it wired my brain #DiC Animation is responsible for my tastes in fiction

[moondvncer]

🤫

#thank goodness and I repeat thank goodness I have the habit to carry anxiety meds with me #because I swear to god my ex's mom came in the shop just to be annoying #like 'we welcomed you in our family you would have been such a nice wife for him' #and like madam I left him 4 years ago HELLOOOOOO #and not to mention she also said that she can't believe I talked so much shir about him #'we were ready to welcome you in our family despite your situation' #and like is2g that made me laugh because bestie I literally almost got murdered by your soft boy #I had to go to the police AND the hospital to get myself checked bc I couldn't breathe well for a week straight #she walked away like she owned the place and I swear I am still so anxious and I think I'll have to face my whole day with my hands shaking #'you'd be such a nice wife for him' lol my mom was right when she said that not just him considered me the trophy girlfriend but his mom too #I wanna go home besties but the day is still so long....

[princess-of-the-corner]

Amnesia!Dabi: "So, did I get on okay with my dad?" / Everyone else: *sweats nervously* "UHHHHHH-"

YEAH ABOUT THAT

#honestly the wild shifting on things of like #toya pre-death very much loved his dad and wanted to be like him and wanted to earn his affection #so it's not as bad as current canon where it's pure hatred and murderous intent #especially because that shift had multiple factors to it #yes there was the fact that Toya realized *oh hey this dynamic is fucked and dad's an Asshole™ and I shouldn't have to fight to be loved* #which is entirely valid #but in /canon/ we had two other factors #one was that the league as a whole but def AfO was enabling that realization and manipulating it from *cut my losses and move on* to #*become a villain and commit some murders* #the other factor is Toya feeling like his death meant nothing to the family because they were exactly the same when he tried to go home #and I think that even with him still getting the first *this shit's fucked* realization #that the other two factors won't make him as furious and able to be manipulated #like he still might join the lov due to a lack of options but he's not quite as in the cause #actually swinging to CC for a moment: #toya finding out how devestated the whole family was /including/ his father is probably something that really helps pull him back #amnesia!dabi

[archi-pelago]

every time a customer responds with a loud ass obnoxious "WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?" to me asking them necessary questions for a transaction in my mask, I only barely withhold the urge to take their shit and dump it in the trash before calling the next customer, like I got fucking CLOSE today

#archi wheezes #anyway apparently like the whole fucking store had covid and just didn't fucking tell me lol #thanks guys. its not like I almost died #its not like my extremely immunocompromised family almost died. #whatever lol!! its all a joke right its just bc im sensitive right lol lol lol #killing biting shrieking shooting murdering with my hands

[ghostdrinkssoup]

thinking about abigail’s character again and I think the way point of view is handled in nbc hannibal is really interesting when you’re trying to understand her character, since a lot of what we see is filtered through either will’s misplaced attachment to her or hannibal’s projections. it’s hard to see abigail’s true self and/or nature because half of what we see is unreliable. like, will refuses to think she was the bait and so we, the audience, also believe this to be true, even though when it’s revealed she actually was the bait it makes all the sense in the world. but it’s still shocking to us because our perception of her is warped as a consequence of being in will’s pov most of the time. not only that, but the nature of this reveal is arguably softened later on when will dreams he’s teaching abigail how to fish in s2a, and literally names his bait after her because of how much he “cherishes” her

all of this is to say in a show that’s all about identity and revealing (and understanding) the self, and the grotesque connection between will and hannibal, who are understood by no one but each other, abigail’s character is super interesting as a means to explore the layers of how people falsely perceive us. she’s complex because she’s not the innocent person will (or alana for that matter) perceives her to be, but she’s also not the ruthless murderer that hannibal (or again, jack) hopes she is. she’s just a traumatised kid who was raised by a psychopathic cannibal. not only that, but she’s the unwilling victim of both her surrogate father’s projections. first will, who projects his need for comfort, family, and acceptance onto her, as well as the hope that his morality is still intact, all factors which are complicated when he confuses his sense of self with the identity of garret jacob hobbs. and evidently by murdering him, and leaving abigail orphaned, feelings of shame and guilt also influence the nature of his projections. but then you have hannibal, who projects his attachment to mischa onto her, as well as his grief. and like will, this is all complicated by his own human need for comfort, family, and acceptance

but if you peel all that away, and get to the core of it, the key similarity between will and hannibal’s projections is a want for acceptance, and then forgiveness, which, as we see in s3, is synonymous to love. essentially, these are two characters who are undoubtedly monstrous, yet retain their humanity due to that universal longing to love and be loved, in whatever twisted form they are capable

I mean, the whole concept of the murder family is so sad because I think it reveals how damaged both will and hannibal are, beyond the show’s literal gothic horror. cannibalism, bloodshed, manipulation, playing the devil, grotesque thoughts and fantasies concerning murder, etc are all obvious reasons why these characters are fucked up mentally, but that’s also a consequence of the genre. to me, the true horror of the show is very much embedded in the psychological, and how will and hannibal are so lonely and isolated that they would wish to have this family circle “in some other world” because they thought they’d found someone who also understood them, someone they could nurture and take care of. but, as we know, this is all an illusion. will repeatedly says he thinks he’d make a good father, but he’s self-destructive and so is hannibal, and so it’s no wonder abigail dies the way that she does. she never had a chance with them. if anything, if she represents the self we project onto others, a fantasy standing in the way of the truth of our natures, which is shaped by human frailty, then her death is also the death of these idealistic delusions. it’s why in s3a, when will is still desperately trying to hold onto her, she’s nothing more than a ghost. and it’s why when he finally accepts this he goes to hannibal’s childhood estate, because, as he tells him when they reunite in the gallery, “I wanted to understand you, before I laid eyes on you again. I needed it to be clear, what I was seeing”

#ooo I didn’t mean for this to be another meta post but hello !! these are my abigail thoughts #will was delusional and mentally ill from s1 and abigail’s whole character exposes that #at first I kinda wished she was more developed? but then I thought about it again #and I think her lack of development is actually super effective in showing how little anyone really sees her #we’re barely ever afforded her pov #arguably the person who saw her most clearly is freddie lounds #is that a controversial take? I think it’s true though #freddie lounds was the least delusional character in the show #she knew what was up from day 1 #anyway abigail is tragic as hell is my conclusion #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #abigail hobbs #murder family #hannigram #hannibal meta #long post #ghost speaks

[bruciemilf]

slides into ur inbox as a tim-liker not to start a fight but to genuinely ask if i could gently change ur mind👀👀 bc tim's not that bad if you'd give him a chance (he is very cringe tho

It's not that I don't like him!! But sometimes it just gets exhausting to see "he suffered so much to keep the big bad bat alive" takes like Alfred wasn't right there

#like im sorry if i was a grieving parent and people literally attacked me for not being rational and in the best state of mind #while im literally grieving my murdered child and some kid came into my life because he wants to be robin and keep batman going #yeah i would be a little irritated #but it feels so mean spirited of me in a way? because i never want to shit on someones character #also i just dont like the 'child is responsible for parent' trope at all and it just feels like tim is so martyrized by the fandom #but i also dont like the 'tim forced his way into the family blah blah blah' like. no he didn't. the whole point of tim to me is that #he doesnt NEED to be with the batfamily but he WANTS to be there bc he loves them #its kinda how i feel abt steph. i actually really that she doesn't want to be seen as Bruce's daughter #because steph never NEEDED a father thats her whole point i think #so basically i dont dislike tim. i would just be fine without him. but like -- my favorite batboy is jason so maybe thats why? #anyway moral of the story if a character makes you happy they make you happy and its no one elses business

[sitkowski]

daily fave ryan 🩶

#this picture murdered me and my whole family #like I don't even know where to look first #ryan sitkowski #motionless in white #miw #miw band #daily fave ryan