#dad!seth

[codename-adler]

A miracle: Almost a year after an attempt on his life by the Ravens, Seth Gordon wakes from his coma, finds his team united and champion, and restarts the journey of his senior year.

A tragedy: Jessa Gordon will never see her younger brother again, not because he never wakes up, but because a sinister car incident takes her life before she can reunite with him.

Another miracle: in the immediate aftermath of everything both good and bad, a young man and a small child find one another as both their lives take an abrupt turn. Now in the custody of his dead sister’s baby, Seth faces what it means to be an adult, a teammate, a lover, a guardian, and a man.

Who will help him? Who will help them? Is it really over now? Or does misfortune still loom in the distance?

~ A dad!Seth + Kevsethaaron wip ~

/title tbd/

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[pulereen]

Good morning USA

[neometalsilver]

dude tom is going to be so pissed when sonic brings shadow home. what do you mean that’s your boyfriend he tried to fucking kill me

[monoshii-wasu]

To think this would be the first fanart I would be making is dis.

XD

@yuurivoice

[ghostdrinkssoup]

Severance S2 spoilers, but I think innie!Mark running back to Helly is deeper than just him realising he doesn’t have feelings for Gemma. As we know, outie!Mark gets severed because he doesn’t know how to cope with Gemma’s passing, meaning he’s someone who struggles to accept death (and by extension change). We see this characterisation extend to innie!Mark when Petey’s disappearance forces him to re-experience grief. Notably, innie!Mark’s gut reaction is to hide the group photo of Petey so he won't be reminded of him, similar to how outie!Mark hides Gemma’s things in his basement because it’s “easier pretending she never existed”. Innie!Mark later shreds the map on the back of that same group photo when Helly presses him to question Petey’s death, again, very similar to how outie!Mark tears up the picture of Gemma. Despite differing contexts, both versions of Mark try to prove they don’t “give a shit” about someone they are very clearly mourning.

Innie!Mark isn’t just mourning his best friend, but also how things used to be. His attachment to Petey doubles as an attachment to the culture created by his coworkers, again, not so dissimilar to outie!Mark mourning his old life with Gemma. In both cases, he doesn’t want things to change. The idea that work culture is created “by the people” is established in the first episode, during a meeting between innie!Mark and Cobel:

Here, Cobel explicitly associates hell and heaven with the work environment, noting that hell is not reality but our perception of reality, influenced by our environment. Essentially, the people at work determine whether the workplace is worth being attached to. Although this philosophy isn’t universal (not everyone loves their coworkers), it aligns with innie!Mark’s values, as demonstrated in the shredding scene: 

Here, innie!Mark confirms that he isn’t loyal to Lumon, but to his colleagues. We also learn that in the face of uncertainty, he would rather lean on the support of his immediate community (his “family”) than become isolated, reframing the workplace as an intimate (and domestic) space. Considering that severance is meant to separate people’s work lives from their personal lives, this scene is particularly fascinating. Especially since Helly resists conflating the professional sphere with domesticity (“I could not, with a razor to my throat, be less interested in being your family”), viewing work as a prison that restricts her freedom (which, ironically, is likely the reality of Helena’s personal life). Interestingly, innie!Mark resents Helly’s constant disobedience until she tries to commit suicide. Again, when he’s confronted by death.

The show continuously reminds us that loss of intimate attachment, whether at work or home, is what both versions of Mark fear most. For example, innie!Mark is the only worker who hasn’t tried to quit. Helly repeatedly tries to quit in season one, even though she knows it’ll end her life; Irving is more than ready to quit after he learns Burt is married, and is ready to accept his death after outing Helena as a mole; Dylan also tries to quit when he’s separated from Gretchen and realises she won’t be coming back. Innie!Mark is the only severed worker (of the main cast) who can't accept death. Walking out that door terrifies him, and Lumon nurtures that fear. As Milchick says in season one, death isn’t something that happens at Lumon. The workers don’t even know what death looks like, as shown when MDR find the animal corpse in Woe’s Hollow:

Suddenly, the external world of the natural environment overwhelms the workplace, bringing death in its wake. Yet, the internal world of domesticity also brought loss in the form of Petey, Burt, and Irving’s “retirements”. Clearly, neither private nor public spaces are appropriate labels for the workplace, because the workplace is unnatural, monitored, and sealed off from reality. Lumon literally advertises this state of being, yet woe resulting from the loss or death of a loved one keeps threatening to invade this sequestered paradise. The personification of woe being a ghostly bride (AKA someone’s dead wife) also feels pretty pointed.

But let’s return to that point from earlier about work culture. As we have already established, innie!Mark is more than willing to work at Lumon if he becomes accustomed to the culture created by his colleagues. Helly contrasts him in this sense, as she is both independent and capable of rallying people to action without group support or approval (as we see during her speech to Choreography and Merriment). Innie!Mark, meanwhile, quelled his rebellious behaviour the moment he made friends with Petey. Under ordinary circumstances, innie!Mark is unlikely to be the kind of person to just up and leave his job because it’s exploitative. His decisions are not guided by morality, they’re guided by emotional attachment. We see this with outie!Mark in season one: his views on Lumon only begin to shift after he attends Petey’s funeral, and goes to his (Petey’s) daughter’s concert. Before this moment, outie!Mark is mostly apathetic about the inner workings of Lumon because severance is a convenient coping mechanism. It’s only when the peace is disturbed, and someone he’s grown to care for dies, that he changes gear. 

Innie!Mark behaves similarly when he demands to have his team back in the first episode of season two. It’s the most rebellious we’ve ever seen him. He doesn’t want his friends to disappear, and once they’re back, he doesn’t quit despite being given the option to leave. He wants to find Ms. Casey (who he knows is his outie’s wife), sure, but he’s also attached to Helly and his other colleagues. They’re his family, and he is very unlikely to abandon his family.

Outie!Mark is also very unlikely to abandon his family. The moment he learns Gemma is alive, he’s willing to risk everything (including his safety) to get her out. His stubbornness and loyalty are only rivalled by his innie’s, who is effectively himself. The problem isn’t that innie and outie Mark are different people; it’s that they’re the same person. If the roles were reversed, outie!Mark would never leave Lumon for Helly, not if it meant leaving Gemma behind. He would do the exact same thing innie!Mark does because neither version of him can accept loss, which is why he can’t leave. It’s not just Helly: it’s Dylan and all the other innies he would be abandoning. Not to mention that leaving would mean his certain death and Mark has never been able to deal with death, something Lumon promises to shield its workers from.

Why don’t people quit their jobs, even when they know it’s corrupt? Because people become complacent, conditioned, and attached to the status quo. Innie!Mark was always going to run back into the tender arms of hell. For a moment, it probably seemed a lot more like heaven to him.

This has been Mark’s consistent characterisation throughout the show. Do I view innie!Mark and outie!Mark as separate entities? Yes and no. I do think that innie!Mark is just as much a person as outie!Mark, and that they are different versions of the same person. However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t the same person. If innie!Mark was different from his outie, he probably would’ve gone with Gemma. But outie!Mark has never learned how to accept grief, and innie!Mark is a version of himself that hasn’t evolved past this worldview either. What we see at the end of Cold Harbour, then, is a very literal representation of self-sabotage. Because the type of person who would’ve gone with Gemma wouldn’t have severed himself to avoid grief in the first place. For Orpheus not to turn around, he would've had to be someone else.

[kevin-winfield]

Neil Josten & Seth Gordon - Mirror Image?

EC, Nora Sakavic// Blue Iris, Mary Oliver// The Moon in the Well, Sylwia Górak// Blessing, Mia Bergeron// The Illusion Of Calm, Derek Hare//Hydrangeas, Susan Ashworth// moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice’, fatima aamer bilal//The Foxhole Court//Sunlight Breaking Through, Christopher Osborne// The Sirens, John Langstaff// Sydney Mortimer Laurence// ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’ fatima aamer bilal

[voyagersa]

Giving Seth a modern au! except he adopts a Egyptian orphan and he's rich and living his best life.

[mentally-at-home]

[madmanwonder]

Jane: Nine Months in my womb making me suffer...

Jane held her baby boy in her hands and to the proud, smiling look of the father

Jane:...and he looks like this stupid Dad~!

[cheezyburg]

MY GIRL FRANCINE 🩷

I know roger is right there, but francine is the best character!! I SAID WHAT I SAID!!

[codename-adler]

the question begs to be asked: what’s your Gordon family like, then?

House of Gordon (lmao)

Jacob Samuel Gordon

Jeremy Saul Gordon

Jude Solomon Gordon

Jessa Susanna Gordon

Jackson Shiloh Gordon

Bryan Seth Gordon

Jonah Simon Gordon

Rebecca and Bryan Gordon are big big big fans of the Duggars (19 Kids and Counting), hence all the J names and all that biblical S nonsense. you know how sometimes people will overcompensate on religion somewhere so that they get a pass for their "sins" (like not going to Church, swearing like a truckload of truckers, preaching hate, etc.); that's what the Gordons did. both parents were raised in the extremely religious South, and perhaps Rebecca was more attached and practicing before, but times wore her down and she couldn't care enough to keep praying and stuff. so it's really all for show and status; only Christian thing you'll find in that household is bigotry of every kind. Seth's name is the exception (because i love him) only because he was supposed to be the last kid they ever had, thus "honor thy father," but then baby Jonah happened and they went right back to tradition.

***CW: All AFTG triggers apply

Jacob (31) he sucks man idk what to tell you. it's impressive just how much he sucks, considering he's the only one who even got to live the Good Years™ of the Gordon household, before Mom and Dad became disillusioned and realized having kids is actually not the solution to your life problems. quite the opposite in fact. still, those somewhat peaceful years gave Jacob an impossible sense of superiority over the rest of his siblings, even Jeremy, who also got to taste a little of "paradise" before he saw it crash and burn. nonetheless, Jeremy is the sibling Jacob tolerates the most, but that's really only because they're born back-to-back. Jacob is big, real big. huge. mighty jacked except for the beginning of beer belly. full of trad tattoos, he's always chewing cinnamon gum, he sports a frankly admirable pornstache, he cuts his own hair with kitchen scissors as soon as it gets past his eyes because otherwise it's gay and going to the barber is also gay, he'll smoke anything, drink anything, shoot up anything, he's never been able to keep a girlfriend but he's also never been in love because that's gay too, he only wears T-shirts with the sleeves cut off, he's always got a shitty cap on, and he's missing teeth; picture him like a younger Ovechkin. he worked at a gas station before he got shot in the arm at 17 and quit to work as a cook in a local diner, where he's been ever since. he was responsible for discipline in the household, meaning he was the threat by default whenever his siblings got too disorderly; he didn't even need to know what happened and would never hear anyone out—if he was sicked on you, you got beat, and that was the end of it. that was Jacob's only involvement in raising his siblings after Bryan fucked off and Rebecca became absent. also, he stinks. deodorant's gay, and all of that. so nasty. he really doesn't love anyone or anything except his Hostess treats. redeeming quality? he perhaps made the right call not to involve himself more in raising his siblings than the rigged UFC matches against the Gordon donkey of the week—which, still. also his grilled-cheeses.

Jeremy (29) he's like Evil Jeremy Knox because i think it's fitting and funny. you know, keeping the balance and all. girl she is viciousssss ooh mama… his area of expertise is Trauma, as in: he hands it out by the dozen. voted most likely to win the presidency via psychological warfare for the class of Never because that garbäge of a man never finished HS either. he’s Mommy's manipulative little psycho. bitch loooooves extortion and hours-long interrogation session as a form of control and parenting. the only physical abuse he'll do is some mind-scarring shit like shaving your head, making you chug liquid soap, poking you with a needle, having you kneel in front of him so he can step on your back. you know, light stuff. usually he prefers Survivor-style methods of corporeal punishment where he doesn't have to put his hands on his siblings; like have you stand barefoot on gravel in the burning Alabama sun holding a rake above your head. wow that got heavy. don't know where that came from. Jeremy likes to use his younger siblings as servants; you will never catch him doing a single chore in the house. only thing he does outside keeping order in the family is errands, because he's the one in charge of the money and buying the things they need. mind you, he's never been able to keep a job to save his life. Jacob's the provider, and Jeremy is only the bookkeep because Jacob wants to avoid anything related to his family unless there's an opportunity to box someone that messed up. Jeremy really makes everyone earn their keep, when in reality he's the laziest and most useless mf of the Gordons (apart from Rebecca, but that's not entirely her fault) favorite food: cocaine. favorite drink: milk. facial hair: nonexistent. phobia: scavenging mammals. what else… oh, god knows how many kids he's fathered himself. boy doesn't believe in any form of contraception whatsoever, nor does he believe in being responsible for what/who he produces (he takes after his father on all counts…) and you best believe that guy is a walking venereal disease, ugh. redeeming quality? he did manage to keep the family from being torn apart by CPS. now would that have been better, who’s to say. also a great dumpster diver.

Jude (27) oh, poor cursed harbinger of hell. once he was born, Bryan and Rebecca were outnumbered for good, and it's all downhill from here. there’s no beating around the bush: Jude’s gay and there was never any chance of hiding it. he wins 1st place in the Designated Punching Bag category, in front of Seth and Jessa. sometimes Bryan blames Rebecca for birthing Jessa so soon after Jude, he says she raised them both like girls to save time. Jude and Jessa were indeed pretty close, their age-gap being the smallest of the bunch, but that only lasted until they were teenagers, when Jessa became distant to avoid bringing Jude’s bullying onto herself as well. it was one of the worst betrayals/moments of Jude’s life, losing his best friend and sister that way. despite Bryan fucking off later on, it didn’t make things easier for him; Jacob and Jeremy were still there to torment him thoroughly. Jude was their scapegoat, they made an example out of him. oftentimes they forced the others to participate in beating the shit out of Jude and in calling him slurs, so that none of them turned out like him and understood what their future would look like if they dared anyway. needless to say, Jude was the first to leave home after his father, at 18, but also the first Gordon to go to college. he hasn’t been in contact with anyone from his family since he fled the state and moved to California. now he’s a makeup artist by day, drag queen by night, and dog sitter on the weekends. he doesn’t have a partner, unfortunately, because despite his horrible upbringing, surviving and getting out of there, he has yet to seek therapy, and let’s just say that he’s very immature when it comes to relationships. he’s got a lotttttt of baggage and lots of prejudice to unlearn, and dogshit self esteem. he did try to parent his younger siblings in a kinder manner than the two eldest, but there’s only so much you can do once Jacob and Jeremy declare you Public Enemy #1 and warn off the others like you’ve somehow got the plague. he wasn’t the most patient either. Jude isn’t as big as Jacob and Jeremy, but he’s not a small man by any means. he rocked a bowl cut for most of his childhood before Jeremy buzzed it all off one day, and filmed it, and posted the video online as punishment for wearing one of Rebecca’s blouses. since then Jude has been afraid of razors and tries to cut it himself, only when absolutely necessary, which has resulted in a sort of curl-ish mousy brown mop (his hair never grew back blonde, smooth and shiny like it was before the traumatic shave) he definitely wasn’t the worst of the Gordon bunch, but he’s also the one who introduced pills into an already very toxic household, so. redeeming quality? he still protected Jessa from a lot, at home or at school, even after she turned her back on him, and we can only pat him on the back because he Tried. also his spot-on impressions.

Jessa (26) i did not spare her. yes, she does the cooking, yes, she does the cleaning, and she even got a ring for that later into adulthood. Jessa may be the 4th child, but she shares many curses with the Eldest Daughter™, probably because she technically is the eldest (and only) daughter of the Gordons. every household chore and duty falls upon her head the day Bryan quits them and Rebecca becomes... some kind of shell. Jessa receives no respect whatsoever though, and she's also subject to the harsh discipline of her two eldest brothers. she has never done drugs, never drank alcohol, which is a huge HUGE feat considering, well, everything, but maybe she should have been on some kind of prescribed medication, for the sake of her mental health. perhaps it could have saved her life as an adult. oh, and she even avoided prostitution. but she did deal drugs at school, and after too. that's how she met Colton Murphy, her ex-husband (they're still legally married, but he's in jail, so) because she was a dealer. that's how she sometimes managed to get her younger brothers Seth and Jackson to obey her: do as you're asked, and you can have a little weed or a little pill after. when she has her own child at 26, she gets an overwhelming and chilling sense of clarity that wow, she fucked up big time, and she gets slapped with years of unsuspected guilt. then again, even if she hadn't done that, with the amount of abuse and drugs inside that house it probably would not have changed things radically. at least that's what she hopes. Jessa never really learned how to become strong, stronger than her parents, brothers, background; she's not weak, but she doesn't have the same anger or drive as everyone else. she goes with the flow and tries to make it the least horrible possible. she has an incredible capacity for love, a big, big heart that often got her taken advantage of, or that even harmed others (see: Jude, Seth, Jackson) because while her heart might be in the right place, her methods aren't necessarily... appropriate or logical. or maybe all of that was also due to her below average smarts? like, she was forced to mature so fast in some areas, that you'll find her critically lacking in some others. she's not particularly good at anything, at least not anything she has tried. she's kind of my loser girl. doomed by the narrative like her brother Seth in canon. a little bit like if Robin Cross never got Andrew and never learned to stand up for herself and fight back. Jessa's biggest strength came from her baby boy. i (kinda) hate that i made Jessa into a sort of Super Mom, considering her past, but here we are. the kid is everything to her in a way her younger brothers never were, an awakening that manages to move her forward and take concrete steps towards improving her life, and his. this won't save her, but it does give her a short reprieve. redeeming quality? she's a great story-teller. also her lack of fear of any animal.

xxx

i'm gonna have to do a part 2 bc i got too too enthusiastic

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[rogers-attic]

NOT SETH HITTING THE ROGER STANCE WHEN HE DID THAT 😭😂

[gubertb]

The 4th in my Adult Swim/Fox pixel art series - This time it's American Dad!

[codemiracle]

I GOT so many questions regarding the relationship chart.

Yuuta and Seth know each other?? AND THEY’RE ON GOOD TERMS??

How does yotsuya knows dr kurosaki??

what’s going on between yotsuya and Seth..

ayato?!? What connection he has to Seth and yotsuya???

✦⋆ //; Seth and Yuuta actually have a good relationship, Yuuta finds Seth as a really good fatherly figure and Seth (for some reason) enjoys a lot acting like a caring parent. They're genuinely close. Yotsuya and Dr. Kurosaki met at a bar. Both of them like drinking a lot, Yotsuya was very drunk one time and Kurosaki helped him go back home. Yotsuya and Seth don't get along for... different reasons. But specially because Yotsuya can't stand Seth's deceiving nature. Ayato's connection to the both of them is rather relevant to the plot so I'm not going to say anything :]

[disneytva]

American Dad Returns To "FOX Animation Domination" With Two New Seasons As The TBS Run Ends After 10 Years.

American Dad! is returning home. According to DEADLINE, the comedy, created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, will return to FOX Animation Domination starting with its upcoming 22th season, marking the return to the network following a big break after leaving the network in Fall 2014.

In the early morning TV Line confirmed that American Dad ends its run at TBS as the Warner Bros. Discovery owned channel will no longer serve as the destination for new episodes. Reruns for the series will continue to air on Adult Swim and TBS till 2030.

American Dad returning to FOX is coming off with two-season renewals bringing the show to 23 seasons. The pickup by Fox is expected to be for multiple seasons. Before the news broke fans of the series speculated that the show could move to Disney owned services and networks like Hulu, FX or Freeform specially since in February 2025 one of the cast members posted a picture that table reads for the new season where underway. Reps for FOX Network and 20th Television Animation declined comment.

The upcoming American Dad! finale officially closes a chapter for TBS as it is the network’s last remaining scripted original. The process kicked off after the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger which was completed a couple of months after American Dad!’s most recent two-season renewal. The final episode of American Dad on TBS is set to air March 24 with "What Great Advancements!".

Reports mention that Warner Bros Discovery tried to cancel the series in 2022 but failed due the series and IP being owned by The Walt Disney Company.

[illochens]

I <3 her so much my god