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teaandspite · 2 months

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#tumblr polls #curses #family #i do!#on one side of my dad’s family #but i lived bitch

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samsrosary · 11 months

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thesis drawing for my killer!cas au

#basically: sam is starting his degree over again since he dropped out midway thru doing his last one #so hes slightly older than season 1 #maybe season 2 or so age #dean and john are both cops #john is still missing but sams in fuckin CALIFORNIA #so he cant go help search altho he does care but also theres still lots and lots of issues in this family #anyways murdering boyfriend. cop family. ur boyfriend thinks he can help you find ur dad. do you even want to though #theyre both VERY insane and terrible for eachother #this is the side of sastiel where they experiment on eachother etc #sastiel #samcas #au #killer!cas #cas is much like godstiel here btw #my art #fanart #OKAY sorry for the masterpost. ill leave now knowing everyone is looking at me like “THEY WOULD NOT DO THAT”

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yardsards · 1 year

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mostly joking toh theory: amity and emira are both trans girls, and the fact that they got to choose their names themselves is the only reason why neither of them ended up getting named "odalia jr."

#eliot posts #toh #the owl house #amity blight #emira blight #odalia just strikes me as the type of person to name a daughter after herself #i have a couple relatives who named their kids after themselves and it's always seemed so fucking weird to me???#like i cannot imagine being like. hi i'm eliot and this is my son eliot.#honestly thinking about it there's a good chance my dad would've tried to name me after himself if i were amab #my mother wanted to name me axl but i think my dad could've won her over #and either named me after himself #(either his legal name or his nickname‚ which was after an uncle of his bc he was apparently the spitting image of)#or named me after his own father. which would make me the third of my cousin group to bear that name #(though ironically only one of said cousins was named after our grandpa. the other was named after his dad who married in to the family)#also apparently even as an afab baby i was apparently the spitting image of one of those cousins #to the point where my mother told me her first thought upon seeing me after i was born was just ''oh god she looks just like [cousin]''#for an extra layer of Bullshit: vincent cat's name at the shelter was the same as my dad's nickname so i had to change it #bc having a cat with sorta the same name as my dad whom i have a Complicated and Bad relationship with would feel Weird #this is all irrelevant but i just need you to know how batshit the name situation on my dad's side of the family is #my mother's side is mostly uncomplicated except for the surname situation going on #like i have no clue who my mother's maiden name came from and at this point i'm too afraid to ask #but yea since i was afab my given first name was just a random name that my mother thought was pretty #my given middle name tho WAS after a family member #specifically my rich childless aunt on my dad's side #the original plan was just a second random name my mother liked but then i popped out prematurely on that aunt's birthday #so my dad's OTHER sister (who had barged in uninvited to the delivery room) told my mother #''hey it's [childless aunt's] birthday today. she's rich and has no kids. name your child after her and she might help pay for college''#but my chosen name and middle name are unrelated to anyone. just two names i really liked and thought fit me + my gender.

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starculler · 3 months

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strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

#young justice #young justice cartoon #batfam #batman #dick grayson #thoughts and headcanons #the heart wrenching inability to cope with the fact that you've lived a fully realized life #you've loved and lost and loved again in the face of every unending tragedy #until you've forcefully carved out this one little safe haven for yourself #only to be thrust back to the beginning of one of your greatest traumas - esp one you're partly responsible for!#gotta love it #anyway i am and always have been obsessed with dick grayson and no one can stop me #the simulation was fake but some psychic bs means real world elements filtered in #cue several children with weird dream-memories of half-lived experiences and a massive sense of deja-vu #when they wade into the superhero world #all i can picture is the spiderman pointing meme but it's the batkids at dick lol #my favorite idea is that once Dick gets his grubby hands on Jason and Tim it's all over from there #he's pulling late nights and researching and scouring facial recognition databases until he finds his kids #(he blurs the lines a lot when it comes to considering them his siblings vs kids #on the one hand they're not super far apart in age bar Damian #on the other he hasn't been a kid in any meaningful way since he was 14 and he very nearly raised half of them in some way #(plus side to an au is that i can space the ages out more as needed compared to the show haha)#jason and cass are firmly siblings close as they are to his age #steph tim and duke fluctuate depending on how in trouble or injured they are #i will die by dick being damian's dad tho lmao #babs is more platonic life partner than sibling but very firmly family regardless #this is the dick grabs on to any shred of family he can with both hands and drags them in kicking and screaming if he has to au

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mikakuna · 3 months

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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

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gouden-carolus · 4 months

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Aftermath

#generation kill #gen kill #hbo war #brad #my art #man the ugly stage on this one would not end #and i'm still not sure if i like the finished result more than the sketch haha #a fun fact about me is that i'm actually squeamish enough to faint if something gets too gory #an exciting trait from my dad's side of the family #it made looking up references and clicking through google's safe view filter for this bit of a gamble lol

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baejax-the-great · 5 days

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Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.

This is the most beat-up book I own, and I was definitely not the first person to own it. As for why it's in the sad condition it's in, well 1. it's a children's book and 2.

It appears to have been printed in 1926.

#uhhhh I think this is from my dad's side of the family #he was always the winnie the pooh parent #which means his grandma must have bought it?? for his mom???#truly uncertain on this one #not even sure how it ended up in my hands #if there's a more recent publication date for this specific copy I cannot find it

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rickybaby · 5 months

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re your last reblog I just remembered lee mckenzie interviewing his parents after monaco and they were saying everything about that day was perfect except they just wished michelle was there too, like his parents really did well raising their kids and having a great relationship with them

He loves his sister and she loves him because she was still doing his goofy hair at 17!! He loves spending time in LA because his cousin lives there! He loves his day one homies and still makes sure he stays in touch with them! Loves his nephew and niece and will FaceTime them every two days! Buys them gifts wherever he goes in the world because he thinks of them! This man LOVES his people and he makes sure they know!!

#if I remember correctly in one of the videos from Monaco 2018 I think DC it was who mentioned that his sister had just had a baby (Isabelle #so it must have been even more bittersweet that she couldn’t be there with the new member of the family #my favourite (very rare) lore about the Ricciardo fam is Daniel mentioning (I can’t remember where now) that —#Christmas eve dinner is always with mum’s side of the family. Christmas morning is always just him and the parents and Michelle #and Christmas dinner is with dad’s side of the family #like he’s a proper Italian boy with the close extended family where they all just talk over each other #anon.txt

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vigilskeep · 4 months

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Whenever I think about your Keir I think about Bethany telling Anders he reminds her of Malcom. I’m sure that won’t ever affect Keir ever.

bethany is my favourite mage bc she never misses with that psychic damage

but really he and anders aren’t even a thing in act 1 so it’s less like “PLEASE stop comparing my crush to our father” and more like “oh fuck off i spend my entire life trying to act like our dad and one (1) mage rolls up and suddenly he’s dad??”

#the bethany anders keir weirdness about malcolm is so real #because bethany says ‘you remind me of him (generally positive)’ in act 1 #but in later acts i think she’s still seeing the same thing just with a different uhhh mindset #seeing the way her dad wanted her to be something she wasnt and strive for something she was never sure was worth the sacrifice #how he tried to make decisions about what was best for other people. how he risked lives etc #whereas anders also has his own perception of malcolm which i think is quite... idealised #it means a lot to him that a mage raised a family that loved him. and hes envious of it #but thats definitely a standard anders is making up. if anders and malcolm really met we’d have to cast a barrier between them within five #minutes. for their own safety.#whereas keir in some ways saw a more complete version of his father from the beginning #but he also believes those more uhh flawed abrasive damaging sides are necessary. of course he does he repeats them #his father may not have been the easiest man in the world to live with but he always did what he had to #and kept his word and held himself to the same standards as others #but oh wait here’s the legacy dlc with the steel chair—#anyway my point being that u get these 3 in a room and theyre talking abt 3 entirely different malcolms. carnage #i dont think it would naturally occur to keir to compare anders to malcolm #but hed be like. ‘i GUESS?’ when bethany said it #honestly anders one of the things that’s kind of disillusioning abt malcolm bc like #i mean say what you like about my man anders but he was never all talk #not to dismiss the courage it took for malcolm to escape & raise a family #but thats one thing. insisting on using your abilities to help people & to go BACK for those still in the circle is kind of another #a lot of dialogue implying malcolm talked a big game about mage rights #but apart from raising a daughter who hates herself what did he actually do.#sorry thats mean but you see my point #and its not just justice that makes anders like that. sure he was more scared and hopeless about the circle #but his instincts are to help. you wouldnt catch malcolm going back to help against darkspawn even when told to run #and my malcolms also. gruff. stoic. serious. a man of few words. he does not do bits or tell you about his cat #if keir hears bethany compare anders to malcolm and at all agrees it’s not really anything about personality #he’s saying yeah i guess anders does seem like a good mage and a good man. thats the only commonality he would jump to #these tags got incredibly away from me

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bluehairedspidey · 1 year

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#poll #polls #tumblr polls #blog #another family poll!#both sides of my family are rural catholic farmers and both my parents had over half a dozen siblings each #and most of them Also had multiple kids #so im pretty sure i have somewhere between 30-40 first cousins #so whenever i hear someone say they only have like One cousin its always so crazy to me lmao #also i know some people might have adoptive or step-cousins they consider cousins (which is totally fine for this survey!)#but i just realized that i dont know any of my step moms relatives #so i actually have no idea if i have any step-cousins or step-aunts/uncles #(im just not very close to my step mom + she's polish and ive never been with her and my dad when theyve gone to poland)

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creekfiend · 11 months

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Ok it's not really appropriate to leave on the post but re "union jews." The other day I was reading some 90s academic work on socialism and stuff. This one author starts out his essay with "It may be surprising that I, a child of working-class Detroit Jews, am a Marxist-" and I was like dude that is the least surprising Marxist demographic I have ever heard in my life. (In case you wanted to be less surprised he later mentioned that his family worked in the auto industry.)

that is also my family background and they were indeed either all communists or anarchists OR ended up being evil capitalists who live in revolting subdivisions in Grosse Pointe

#that line does strike me as sarcasm due to. yeah. least surprising thing ever 🤣#ive been to see the grosse pointe family branch Once Ever and like... never again thats one of the worst places ive ever been #*ON MY DADS SIDE OBV MY MOMS SIDE ARE ALL HILLBILLIES #humorous combination.

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cookinguptales · 4 months

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god, rn I'm thinking about the way people with terrible family members just like. understand each other.

last time I went to go see my hair stylist, I was updating him on my life and told him that my grandmother had died on thanksgiving and he was just like "ugh. passive-aggressive."

friends, I was dying laughing in that chair because he was not wrong.

#she'd been guilting my mother for not coming to see that side of the family for thanksgiving #but they're all anti-vaxxer anti-maskers who've put my (high-risk) mother at risk several times #so she was 'abandoning' her mother and having dinner with dad's side of the family #and then gramma DIED IN THE MIDDLE OF THANKSGIVING DINNER and mom had to leave early to go fly out there #irrational or not it did kind of feel like a fuck you #like damn gramma I guess you had to ruin one more family dinner on your way out #and then ofc mom's shitty sister went to the funeral knowing she had covid :|#like she was going for a family fatality combo bonus or something

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hunsa-jars · 4 months

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Howdy peepers, I've been feeling pretty down lately but I think I'm on the right path to snap out of it!

See yall on monday hopefully