#Our Wild Family

[ourwildfamilyau]

I just got alcohol markers and thought I’d test them out on this old sketch from last year’s Dadrius Week. I think it turned out pretty good considering it was my first time and I’m working with limited colors.

[littleladybaker]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Darius Deamonne & Lilith Clawthorn, Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers, Darius Deamonne & Hunter | The Golden Guard, Lilith Clawthorne & Hunter | The Golden Guard, Luz Noceda & Raine Whispers, Eda Clawthorne & Luz Noceda, Hunter | The Golden Guard & Luz Noceda, Amber & Raine Whispers Characters: Lilith Clawthorn, Darius Deamonne, Raine Whispers, Eda Clawthorne, Hunter | The Golden Guard (The Owl House), Luz Noceda, Amber (The Owl House), Varius Palismans though they won't be around for a little bit Additional Tags: Parenthood, Good Parent Raine Whispers, Parent Raine Whispers, Raine Whispers is Luz Noceda's Parent, Parent Eda Clawthorne, Good Parent Eda Clawthorne, Eda Clawthorne is Luz Noceda's Parent, Parent Lilith Clawthorne, Good Parent Lilith Clawthorne, Lilith Clawthorne Adopts Hunter | The Golden Guard, Parent Darius Deamonne, Good Parent Darius Deamonne, Darius Deamonne Adopts Hunter | The Golden Guard, Raida baby, Not even going to hide it, Luz is Raine and Eda's daughter, Asexual Lilith Clawthorne, Asexual Darius Deamonne, Queerplatonic Relationships, Autistic Lilith Clawthorne, Autistic Darius Deamonne, Autistic Raine Whispers, Everyone is autistic except Eda, she has adhd, Dadrius, i like tagging, I'll add more characters when the time comes, don't worry Camila is still there and she's still important to Luz, She's just not her mother, She calls her Tia Camila Series: Part 1 of Our Wild Family Summary:

Ten years after their daughter, Melody, went missing Luz stumbled into their lives through the portal door. Now, with Amber and Evan by her side, she's ready to explore the Boiling Isles, make friends, and learn how to be a witch. But is there more to this 'human girl' than meets the eye? What are Evan's parents not saying? And what exactly IS the Day of Unity?

AKA: Kind of a retelling of the story but with a few more twists. Luz is the Raida baby, Hunter was adopted by Lilith and Darius, and everyone is just a couple years younger.

[plesiosaurys]

getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

[tio-trile]

Some of the photos I took of the cast and showrunners at the Chaos Theory panel yesterday : )

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

[daydreamerdrew]

Batman: Turning Points (2001) #1-2

[songofsaraneth]

my mom still sends me the occasional “care package” like she started to do when I moved away for college even though I’m now in my 30s. which is very sweet and i love them but is also very funny because the contents now include things like coupons for arthritis cream and a 300count bottle of ibuprofen

[idk-i-just-really-like-tsc]

peace by taylor swift is so obviously magnus and alecs SONG from tda forward it literally makes me cry.

alec saying when he proposed “I wish I could promise you a completely uneventful, peaceful life at my side. But I have a feeling we’ll always be surrounded by adventure and chaos.” is LITERALLY “id give you my sunshine give you my best but the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me”

MALEC TDA ENGAGED WITH TWO KIDS ERA I LOOOVE UUUUUUU

[poetriarchy]

assume that you are somehow not able to prove it to them just by demonstrating your ability, but you sincerely ARE able to to have conversations with animals like you can with humans.

some factors to consider while voting:

1.) how persuasively you think you could make your argument

2.) whether your family/friends tend to believe you when you tell them something —the reliability of your witness

3.) whether your family/friends are the type to believe in magic

4.) whether to them YOU’RE the type of person who would think they possess magic powers. also whether you seem like the kind of person who genuinely could magically communicate with animals. or both

[ourwildfamilyau]

I got board and decided to try my hand at editing Caduceia and, as usual at this point, I got carried away. So, here’s what I’m calling the Whispers siblings. I have a whole big stupid backstory that goes with this. Darius’s bio parents died when he was still in school so Mrs. and Mx. Whispers took him in. This is also part of why he was so close with Jesper, the previous Golden Guard. He’s two years older than Raine, the same age as Lilith, and a year older than Caddy. Sorry for turning you into a middle child, Caduceia… When they adopted Darius, the Whispers hadn’t yet realized quite how much chaos he would bring with him. I like to call it the chaos collection. Darius is moderate chaos, Caduceia is no chaos, and Raine is full chaos. Dari can and will cause chaos if he so desires but he knows when to rein it in; Caddy prefers not to cause chaos and is more strait laced than Lilith is; Raine will cause chaos in nearly any situation. They were attracted to Eda for a reason and that reason is that she matched their chaos and even exceeded it at times.

AN: I am amazed at how much Caddy both looks like Raine and also doesn’t look anything like them. Is this why people say siblings look alike even when we think we don’t? She has shorter hair and dies her grays. It’s also super curly which is why she keeps it so short. Raine is the only one in the family without super curly hair and no one actually knows why. Especially since they passed it on to Melody/Luz. She’s also taller than Raine which she will tease her little sibling about. She’s always a bit more put together but not as much as Darius. I did give her breasts but that is still Raine’s waistline because I just traced them before adding her coat. I used pictures of Eda and Lilith to figure out exactly which features to give her. She doesn’t like skirts but she also doesn’t like things close to her legs so she wears wide legged pants.

[littleladybaker]

Weird thing that keeps happening as I write Changling Families and Our Wild Family AUs:

Writing Changling Families: The Day of Unity had only been a- wait...No. The Eternal Night had only been a...

Writing Our Wild Family: The Eternal Night was only a few days-wait...No. The Day of Unity was only a few days...

[skeleton-squid-boy]

just occurred to me I don't think I've seen anyone talk about if 14 is mortal now?? Does 15 like take all the regenerations with them or is 14 gonna keep regenerating and just get passed down the noble/temple generations like some insane family heirloom????

[justalittlebluetiefling]

I haven't been involved with coaching for almost 3 months now and somehow I am still getting dragged into the drama.

[monsterbisexual]

the silt verses: chapter 34

chapter 38

[fennopunk]

It that time of the year again when this ⬇️

is my daily chore at the cottage. And not just picking them, no, part of the chore is that I must eat them too 😂 Grandpa used to cultivate wild strawberries at the yard and when I was a toddler, his youngest grandbaby, he decreed that all the yard strawberries were for me and my grandma to pick and eat first.

It's been over 30 years, grandma and grandpa are dead, but mom has kept that decree (with edited rules).