#this family is a fucking tragedy

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

Pain is remembering that Ferncloud and Dustpelt had to bury many of their children.

Anguish is remembering that 2 of said children never knew what a full belly was like. Never knew what warm sunshine felt like. What a clan not starving to death as humans rip up the world looks like.

Agony is knowing Dustpelt had to bury the final 2 alone.

#warrior cats #warriors #ferncloud #dustpelt #shrewpaw #spiderleg #hollykit #larchkit #birchfall #icecloud #foxleap #this family is a fucking tragedy #i wanna put them under a microscope #they're so interesting to me

[send-me-a-puffalope]

just watched the new ghostbusters movie with my friend and truly, awkward teenage lesbians will both end and save the world.

#guys i have a type #blonde girls who are manipulated due to/by family and end up fighting for the side of good anyways #i saw melody and her Issues™️ and got attached to a dead girl #her whole thing with phoebe was gay as fuck tho you cant convince me #they did the thing that natasha did in what if to peggy where she looked back at Phoebe longingly and then stepped into the light #truly a tragedy that she was. yknow. dead and her whole arc was moving on into the afterlife #so she couldn’t have a sapphic little relationship with mckenna grace #some of the writing was kind of weak and it felt like a lot of fan service cause a lot of the characters didn’t do anything during #the climax of the movie or i just didn’t care for their story #but it’s really fun as a movie itself and i highly enjoyed myself so honestly that’s all that matters to me #ghostbusters frozen empire #phoebe spengler #melody ghostbusters #nat’s rambles

[prolibytherium]

Beautiful friendship

#iasip #dennis reynolds #mac mcdonald #This is actually recreating a dream I had a couple weeks ago. Hopefully it functions on its own merits? I genuinely can't tell at this poin #The dream involved something of this general description happening in an episode #The episode itself did not appear in the dream but I was looking at LENGTHY tumblr posts about the heartbreaking tragedy of the Bong Scene #Like HUGE analysis posts on the Bong Scene (being called 'Bonggate') and the 'lawnmower motifs' (I don't know) #And dream me was like 'OK whatever can we please talk about how they referenced that 'Ariel Needs Legs' comic?' #(the 'Ohhh I can't not fuck him' bit was apparently in the episode) Like I was REALLY upset no one was talking about it #This was only half of the dream before it shifted focus to me crawling through drainage tunnels in search of a pot dealer #'Bonggate' came up again later but it stopped being a tv show fandom thing and had shifted into being about #a major political scandal involving the Bush family apparently? Which resulted in the federal recriminalization of weed? anyway #sketches

[treasureplcnet]

also quite obsessed with karl being as detached from the story as he is. there's nothing that makes him have to be the detective that has to be involved, but he unknowingly dooms himself by agreeing to work with the KYAL cult. every other detective basically deals with elias head on except weissman, who only meets him right before he kills him. like he's right when he says "by my choices" because everything that leads him to being mixed up with the mannix cult is himself. it's the gambling debts and the choice to do the dirty work for an organisation he knows nothing about. he's the only one that doesn't encounter that body doing police work and it's specifically because he's told to cover it up. he gets himself into the mess and eventually fixes it but the fact that esther always dies in the doomed timelines and he's always too late even if he starts wanting to change things ("till this child. esther.") it just makes me very ill

#sorry jane who heard this on her dms but now im posting it to tumblr cause im having a category 5 woman moment. AND ALTERNATIVELY: #i am also EXTREMELY obsessed with how its a time loop and the idea (so sorry tumblr user whose post i have lost and was inspired by) #weissman was just so fucking hard to deal with that they made sure that he was in their pockets. i just like the idea of the loop-- #--having like. fixed points that elias would need to ensure the dystopia (body is covered up/the investigation closes/etc) but #how they get there is a slightly slower process and the earliest loops were the messiest/most unpredictable #and what we see in the show itself is like. the most streamlined version over hundreds of loops and attempts #so karl specifically. lonely that he is and determined to survive. AND with a cruel streak against people he doesn't like #kept nearly blowing their operation so they began to incorporate him in it instead #there's also another tragedy in there if /esther/ is what they realise works best against him.. #just love and kindness for a girl that weissman comes to see as family and they immediately exploit it after learning during an early loop #im ignoring specific plot points here (polly seemingly panicking when esther shows up at the station) but I DO NOT CARE. #THERE'S ANGST HAPPENING RN. IM CREATING SCENARIOS TO HURT ME #now if i could write coherently this would be written as a fic but im stuck writing too long textposts #karl weissman #bodies 2023 #bodies netflix #sorry to the other detectives. weissman in particular is my babygirl who i devote most of my brainpower to #personal

[ardentpoop]

remember when sam signed up for the exact same fate with lucifer and everyone around him agreed that sacrificing himself was Correct since the apocalypse was His Fault

remember how he spent the entirety of s5 being made to feel utterly worthless and not a single person in his life intervened or even asked him how he was coping

remember how he DID spend an eternity trapped with lucifer and michael who had nothing to do to entertain themselves besides torture him (and adam, oops)

#compare to dean's MOC arc and dean's s14 michael-sword arc and dean's whatever the fuck else arc #he gets monologues abt his suicidal ideation he gets check-ins from every family member and friend he gets sam's unrelenting support #and sam's patience and sam's prioritization of his feelings above all else #GOD i hate it so much. but again: therein lies the tragedy #spn #liveblog tag #14.11

[earlgodwin]

JUAN BORGIA + teasing his brother for being a Cardinal "Well, this cleric does both." "Prove it"

#this is soooooo funny (and sad??) to me #because juan is aware of his own inferiority and he feels he'll always be beneath cesare #but since their father gave juan a position that made him feel important and superior... #juan is gonna milk the fuck out if it by teasing cesare with the brag knowing damn well cesare wants to be a soldier BADLY #even though juan pretty much doesn't give a fuck about his own position but... #this is the only thing he has over cesare...trying to hurt cesare for being what he can never be...close to their family and has their love #when david oakes said that cesare's love is "what [juan] always wanted...it's why he teases him he's trying to make ces notice him #oh well the tragedy of it all those poor children don't know how to express their affection to each other normally #juan borgia #cesare borgia #the borgias #david oakes #periodedits #perioddramaedit #perioddramacentral #theborgiasedit #cinemapix #tvarchive #juan and cesare #by jen

[suntails]

you are a knight first

#the fuckng TRAGEDY of silvers upbringing can we talk abt it can we talk abt it #from day fckng one knowing 'i will die sooner than everyone i love so i will use my life to protect them' my son PLS #the disregard for his self because he has been raised to protect another. like malleus is royalty and he is a knight. this is his fate #the implications that royalty adds to the already difficult vague family ties that hold diasomnia together. they cant afford to fail. Ever. #they all have such heavy burdens the weight of life is so strong. lilia was a fucking general for fkcs sake. im AGGGHHHH #AND HIS UPBRINGING!! i think lilia TRIED to be a great dad but how can that possibly be balanced while also raising ur kid to be his knight! #talk to me while i sob on the floor im so normal #twst #twisted wonderland #lilia vanrouge #twst silver #suntails

[moongothic]

Many people have pointed out (in relation to Crocodad) how in Japanese the etymology of the word "wani" (crocodile) is a bit complicated to say the least and in mythology could mean a variety of things, including a shark, sea monster or a dragon

Which, of course, is quite an interesting coincidence. Crocodile does often get referred to as "wani" not just by Luffy but some other characters, and so it would be just a little funny if both of Luffy's dads were sorta kinda called dragons

There's also people pointing out how Zoro's mother was called "Tera", similar to terra (earth) and Sanji's mother was named Sora (sky). So if Luffy's birthing parent was named after a water-dwelling creature, well, it'd be cute and round out the monster trio's birthing parents in a funny way, since we'd have earth, sky and the sea

But what really is fucking me up about the whole wani-thing is the Myth of Toyotama-hime

So the TL:DR; of the myth is

The pregnant princess Toyotama came from the Ryuuguu Castle deep in the oceans onto land to give birth to her child, telling her husband that when she would give birth, she would revert back into her true form, requesting him to not look at her while she gave birth. But her husband could not keep that promise, so he peeked in on his wife, only to witness a giant wani giving birth. The sight of this horrified the husband so much he fled, while Toyotama princess was so hurt by what had happened that she returned to the sea, abandoning her child.

Indeed, this myth bringing up wani pregnancy is just. An interesting coincidence for Crocodad speculation

Of course, we know Oda borrows from mythology (fucking, Fishman Island's castle is literally the Ryuuguu Castle), so if Crocodad Real, it's genuinely plausible Oda could('ve) take(n) inspiration from that very myth

Thing about it is that though...

Like, if we're assuming Crocodile never fully realized he was trans until he got pregnant, then him transitioning either immidiately or as soon as he could after giving birth would make sense. Dude seeks out Iva-chan and gets the t-juice*, so on and so forth, but my question is like, would that have been before or after delivering the baby to Dragon (so he could then pass it onto Garp)

*(Or hell, maybe Iva-chan was there helping deliver the baby, helping Crocodile crack his own egg etc, maybe the secret Iva-chan is holding over Crocoboy's head isn't that they knew Crocodile is trans and could out them, but knowing Crocodile gave birth to god know whose child)

Because like

How did Dragon find out about his partner transitioning?

Did pre-T Crocodile tell him he was transitioning while handing over the baby? Or did he just leave without an explanation and allowed Dragon to just Take In The Change after it had happened whenever they saw each other again (if they ever did, for all we know he could've just walked away without talking to Dragon again and Dragon just found out either from Iva-chan directly or from seeing him on the news)

Or did Crocodile transition first and then deliver the baby to Dragon without any warning, again, just giving Dragon one hell pf a surprise

In any scenario, how did that even go down?

And we have to ask the sad question of... is Dragon a Bisexual King or not? And would Crocodile have been... afraid of Dragon's reaction? (This would've been a younger Crocodile mind you, who would literally have been just coming out of his shell, and that shit's scary man)

Because if Toyotama Princess is any indicator, this wani's relationship did not end well after her truth was revealed

Like, let's say Crocodile transitioned first and then showed up without warning as a man to Dragon to hand over the baby. Thing is, while we know VERY LITTLE about Dragon still, I can't imagine him being like violently transphobic or even lashing out at his partner when he'd come out. But I could imagine him being so shocked he'd be left utterly speechless.

And I'm not entirely sure which would be worse; Dragon outright but "kindly" telling Crocodile he's not into men and breaking the poor bastard's heart, or Bi!Dragon being too shocked to say anything, letting Crocodile to just jump to conclusions based on his reaction (and maybe then causing Dragon to jump into further conclusions (that Crocodile must actually be into women)), unintentionally causing a divorce out of sheer misunderstanding and literal lack of communication

And the sad part is, considdering Dragon is a very secretive man, who according to the Crocodad Theory can't even have told his partner his full name mind you... The miscommunication seems very plausible to me?? Does it not?

Or, maybe Crocodile delivered the baby to Dragon pre-T and told him he's going to Iva-chan without further explanation, jumping into conclusions, afraid to hear what Dragon would say. So he just leaves without explaining before Dragon gets to say a word. And Dragon just accepts it. Assuming he's the one getting dumped.

Either way, whatever might've happened can't have been good, can it

Also, considdering Garp is a fucking idiot (affectionate), and Luffy clearly inherited The Stupid from his grandfather, I would not be surprised if Dragon was also actually a bit of a himbo underneath that serious face he puts on (either that or Crocodile kept on smoking while pregnant)

Which could also turn what would otherwise be a tragic miscommunication into an absolute comedy if Crocodile and Dragon ever met again and the two realized that they're both idiots who jumped into conclusions and ruined their marriage by refusing to talk about their fucking feelings to each other. This is an absolute trainwreck of a family

But considdering the things Crocodile has done by this point*, would it ever even be possible for the two to reconcile?? Because, althought Dragon is pro-overthrowing corrupt governments especially if they're affiliated with the World Government, from what I can tell, he's still against unnececary violence (Vegapunk even comments that Dragon "hates war" in a flashback) and needless loss of life. And Crocodile caused just that.

*And I don't even mean the failed attempt at taking over Alabasta, I mean the drought Crocodile caused that caused countless people to starve to death and then caused the civil war which had already taken lives and permanently disabled people BEFORE the Strawhats ever even get to Alabasta. Like Crocodile's bomb may have been a dud but he still caused people to die for no reason, and I can't imagine Dragon being fine with that. But then again, Robin and other Baroque Works members also contributed to the loss of life and their sins have been neatly swept under the rug so IDK

And like. We don't know if Crocodile moonlighted as a Revolutionary for like 10+ years after Luffy was born and slowly went out of contact or if he just left immidiately. But theoretically, the two might not have even seen each other in like almost 20 years

That'd be a long time to carry a broken heart

How the fuck would you even heal from that

Also like

Crocodile did seem a little suicidal at Impel Down if I'm being honest

Like.

He had a dream of becoming Pirate King. But he lost to Whitebeard, and his dreams were ruined.

Dude had a master plan to take over a country that took him almost a decade to pull off, only for it to get wrecked in the final hour by a literal child.

His useless underlings then come and try to break him out of prison

And he chooses to stay

When we finally see his face for the first time in Impel Down... His mouth might be forming a smile, but those eyes aren't

And he even says it himself

"I didn't think there'd be anything for me to do if I were free"

Is it not like he has given up on life entirely..?

And sure, he does ask to be let out so he can get revenge on Whitebeard, but was it out of a genuine belief he could actually take down the old man or just a slightly more fun way to die than rotting away in prison for the next few decades?

You know the saying, "to be loved is to be changed"

Frankly, the same goes for the reverse. Being unloved, or believing yourself to be unloveable will change you. For the worse

#OP Meta #Crocodad #Sir Crocodile #I know I keep on saying I don't believe in Crocodad anymore and here I am back on my bullshit again #This asshole is the only thing keeping me from falling apart rn just please let me have this #I'm just so fucking intriqued by the storytelling potential here #Of what the fuck happened #If it's real #The tragedy could be absolutely devastating #Or you could have an insane One Piece slapstick reunion #I am extremely fond of the idea of The Disaster Family mind you #Because they could be so fucking funny (especially if you included Garp) (Holy shit can you fucking IMAGINE) #Like yes emotional reunion between Crocodile and Luffy yes sure #But please considder #Luffy somehow finding out and then demanding for an explanation from An Extremely Reluctant Crocodile #Who can't really do much because he doesn't have it in him to hurt his baby boy but also The Baby Boy is an unstoppable MENACE #The slapstick would be hysterical #Also I am pro-Bullying Crocodile #Moon posting #On a slightly less downer of a note to end on #While Crocodile might've given up on life before Marineford he certainly found a reason to live during/after Marineford #This was supposed to be a short post how did it turn into borderline fanfic

[mikakuna]

nobody wants to see real footage of me tweaking the fuck out when i see panels of bruce sincerely and happily hugging his kids, compared to his abuser-tactics 101 hug with jason

like fuck.. my boy can't have anything!!!!

#why do i feel real devastation over a fictional character being the odd one out in the family #how am i sad over a fictional character not being loved by their parent as much as their other siblings #oh the tragedies of relating to characters on a personal level #and then all the robin + batman content we get of jason and bruce in rhato just feels one sided #like here's jason being all -yay that's my dad we're so cool!!! :D- #and then bruce just. not giving a hard enough fuck about the boy #why cant jason have anything #shaking my fist at the sky #jason todd #red hood #batman #bruce wayne #jason peter todd #dc comics #dc

[laughatlocksmiths]

today i am thinking about bella swan, as a vampire arrested in time who will always have the psychology of a 19yo and can no longer fully remember how it felt to be human anyway, trying to parent teenage!renesmee.

maybe bella ends up being the same kind of parent her own mother was: sweet and fun and completely out of touch with the real world. well-intentioned, but unreliable. someone who loves her daughter very much but doesn't know her daughter very well.

maybe renesmee learns early in life that she can't go to her mother with anything important, because bella won't understand. maybe renesmee learns to indulgently tolerate her mother's moods and melodramas, just like bella learned to indulgently tolerate renee. maybe renesmee has to grow up too fast, just like bella did.

maybe bella never fully realizes this is happening.

#and the other members of the family are. also traumatized teenage/early 20s vampires. so i dont think theyd be that much help #twilight #twilight saga #twilight renaissance #op #anyway!! i love family dynamics where everyone is a good person doing their best and they fuck each other up!! #i love vampirism as a vehicle for tragedy and the horror of someone who is almost a person!! #i love characters who think they broke the cycle but actually just repeated the cycle in a slightly different way!! #and i love bella swan!! character of all time baybey!! #family readings

[fellthemarvelous]

Jedi Night: A Summary

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Star Wars Rebels taketh away....(immediately)

#star wars rebels #caleb dume #kanan jarrus #hera syndulla #jedi night #no matter how many times i watch this episode kanan still fucking dies at the end anyway #kanan and hera #that padawan who survived order 66 because he ran away saved the future of the rebellion and his unborn child when he sacrificed his life #anyway star wars is great fun y'all #i'm not consistently devastated by all the tragedy surrounding my favorite characters #caleb dume did his duty as a jedi and kanan jarrus did his duty as a family man #he was able to do something anakin skywalker had not #he let go of all of his fears because he trusted in the force and he trusted hera to defeat the empire #which she did #on endor #with captain rex #i'm going to cry about these characters for the rest of my life kthanxbye #star wars

[nilesmoon]

seeing the eng rgg twitter post the opening movie for infinite wealth and I want to scream because does ichiban say goodnight to his father and brother every night before he goes to sleep? does he tell them about his day? does his apartment smell like incense?

#ichiban kasuga I Know that you do all of these things and it makes me want to cry So Much #knowing him he also says goodbye to them everyday before he leaves his house #guys I do not fuck around when it comes to arakawa family tragedy #hey do we think a scene where jo shows up in ichis apartment will happen. and he will light incense for them too. wouldn't that be something #infinite wealth spoilers #I guess??? #like a dragon #like a dragon infinite wealth #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #nile talks

[maryoliverdotcom]

what even is this

#my (very poor) attempt at drawing the family line of the house of atreus #house of atreus #atreus #classics #greek tragedy #this is hardly legible but fuck it we ball

[death-of-the-endless]

“...It’s like uh gender isn’t something you can pick and choose uh far as Gods are concernced.” “Well, that’s something the Gods can take and stuff up their sacred recta. I know what I am.”

Wanda Mann in The Sandman: A Game of You (1993)

#the sandman #wanda mann #dc #the sandman spoilers #dc comics #death of the endless #barbie (the sandman) #opened up tumblr and had the terry pratchett post on my dashboard #(you know the one) #and thought i should do something for one of my absolute favorite minor characters in the sandman #wanda mann has my whole heart #her death truly gives the whole story a sense of tragedy because she's just this brave person trying to do her best and help others #her family thinks she's some kind of demon spawn just because she's trans and she's still so fucking kind to the end #was thinking if i wanted this to be about her death but you know what #i actually love wanda's ending #yes it is tragic and sad af #but the closure of the funeral scene with Barbie and then Death somehow gets more every time #because Wanda looks happy #transgender #queer #mine #terfs do not fucking interact

[scalproie]

I know Lars has been casted in the role of "The Good Mishima" so deep in my heart I know he's gonna stick with Jin to the end and theyre gonna Save The World from big bad evil Kaz together and theyre gonna be such good family without aknowledging that theyre family at any point and I know tekken HATES subtlety

But MAN what I wouldnt give for a scenario where, in the possibility that Jin DOES take out Kaz, Kaz's warning to Lars that "All Mishimas eventually turn on one another" realizes itself, with Jin seeing yet another family member turn on him bc "the devil gene is too dangerous to be left alive" and with Kaz gone, Jin is the only host of the devil gene. Mannn imagine Lars pulling a gun on Jin the very same way Heihachi did on him in tekken 3, which awoken the devil gene in Jin in the first place, and Lars having the same "Getting the world rid of the devil gene" excuse as Heihachi but meaning it this time and being overall more noble, but still. Lars accidentally looking like Heihachi.

#DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY VISION #DO YOU SEE THE POETIC IRONY AND HOW KAZUYA'S WORDS TO LARS COME BACK INTO THIS? #THE TRAGEDY OF THE DEVIL GENE'S HOLDERS WHERE THEY KEEP GETTING FUCKED OVER BY FAMILY MEMBERS #HOW UNJUST IT WOULD BE TO SEE HEIHACHI INDIRECTLY WINNING THRU HIS DEVIL GENE-FREE SON #it would never happen but still. a poetic end it would be #tagging later #tekken

[killerchickadee]

You ever rewatch Game of Thrones and get really really mad at how fucking stupid the last season was?

I know I probably make this exact post every year or two but jesus fucking christ.

#character development? what's that? #actually being in character in the first place?. #don't know her #understanding the morals and motivations of your main characters? nope! #and like we know game of thrones is a drama and nobody is guaranteed a happy ending #but you realize NOBODY getting a happy ending is just shitty way to end a show people loved for years? #it's a DRAMA not a TRAGEDY #who has a better story than bran the broken FUCKING EVERYBODY #arya spent the entire series trying to find family and home and then she's like lol nah #jon wastes away beyond the wall and sansa is alone #don't even get me started on dany #so so so so bad #so stupid