#and she is a great mom for real

[shierak-inavva]

it’s been so hot lately i’m daydreaming about winter 😭

[daipeanutsaiban]

the little miss baskerville at around 14 years old- a young lady with a mischievous streak 😺. her father makes her wear white as a way to know when she's sneaked out against his orders, because her clothes will be visibly dirty. sometimes she'll disguise herself and klint (and occasionally barok) as east end kids and they'll blend in the crowd for a day. her color scheme is meant to be reminiscent of a candle, both in reference to the headstrong, fiery personality i write her with and to her short-lived existence.

[skrunksthatwunk]

kinda thinking about how the women who serve as maternal figures/raise kids in yyh are never quite ready for it. genkai's an arguable exception, but like.. atsuko had yusuke at 15, shizuru's basically in charge of kazuma full time in her early 20s/late teens (depending on version) with very very absent parents, and even shiori is given a kid she wasn't expecting, in the form of an old, old demon rather than like. a regular, blank slate ass human baby. and although shiori seems to do quite well with kurama, kurama can never be honest with shiori about who he is, or much of what he's seen. if he was, it'd probably make things far more complicated and overwhelming. atsuko, no matter how much she cares for yusuke, Could Not Have Been and thus wasn't ready to have him at 15. her attempts to make the most of that situation have had middling success at best. shizuru has also been placed into a parental role. we don't really know how long she's been raising kuwabara, but that's.. probably still parentification anyway. she shouldn't have to do that, and she shouldn't have to do that so young. and i think some of her coarseness with kuwa is out of frustration with her own inexperience + inadequacy + uncertainty, his not cooperating, and their parents for putting this on her in the first place. the ones who know the full extent of their situation grow desperate and it squeaks out in unpleasant ways, and the one who seems unbothered by it is the only one who has no idea that she's in way over her head. and i mean. ok. gonna preface this by saying keiko is NOT yusuke's mom in any sense of the word. but she does take care of him in a way atsuko couldn't manage to. she's often looking after him and cleaning up after his messes and stuff. she takes him on as a responsibility, and that is, in a way, a caretaker role. not to say that it SHOULD be her responsibility, but it's how she ends up being.

and when the stress of trying to make someone take care of themselves or be kind or good or Whatever goes awry, again, the violence and arguing and distance and ugliness of caring for someone reveals itself.

and i wonder about that. for a series dedicated to physical fighting as a form of communication, what does it say that this extends to the complicated, quietly desperate situations of so many of the women/girls it depicts, whom our more central characters were shaped and raised by?

hell, even hiei touches on this, because hina loved hiei, but there was no way she was prepared for him, obviously, nor for the pain of losing him. rui (whom i also see as a sort of caretaker figure to hiei, inasmuch as either of them were caretakers) literally throws him off a cliff because she couldn't face down the village elders, and out of some mixture of care for hina and, likely, fear for her own survival. and the guilt and pain of that killed hina and deeply wounded rui.

it's like motherhood, this thing that's so often treated as sacred and beautiful, is a kind of stitched up, painful, eggshell-walking thing that hurts parent and child and it's just. oughh

[epicfirestormer]

Guess who's playing Steamworld Heist 2 and isn't being normal about it

[why-the-heck-not]

”having cats is so cozy :3 they’re so cute aww look at her purr aw what a sweetheart”

i’m collecting pieces of a bird into a plastic bag on this fine sunday evening

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Fun fact: The night I saw Grunch, Joey's actual and famously supportive father was sitting in the audience behind me. Which rather added a wild, additional level of humor to Joey's character's big song being the struggles of having an absentee Dad.

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

i wanted this comic digitalized so bad that i used max's birthday as an excuse. :)

this is the true ending. if im insane enough ill show you the alternate ending though

bonus because i just. it just kinda peters out. longggg post yayyye

[sporesgalaxy]

wait i lied . i need to tell you that the funniest symptom of ehlers danlos syndrome is "velvety skin." my joints are weird as hell but my skin is so soft. but in a weird way so watch out!

[considerad]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 you know that post about creating community if that's what you crave?

I made an enormous pile of choc chip cookies and I batched it out for our upstairs and downstairs neighbours, my ma and my great-uncle across town, and my granddad's old pal and his family, and I just got done delivering them and I feel like 🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽

so alight and alive with it all!!!! I love people! I love them!!! I am so full of fruit and phone numbers I probably won't ever call!

Life can be so unbearably sweet ❤️

[cosmic-ships]

might not be super active today? We'll see??

[nomairuins]

dw is such a funny show to watch while high bc there r 3 experiences you can have and its 1. Terrified out of your mind scariest experience in the world 2. sobbing crying very emotional 3. So insanely confused not following a single thing thats occuring

[theworstcreature]

Chat what if I started crying

Tw for animal death in the tags

[shot-by-cupid]

Mom said she’s bringing pizza home for dinner and I can’t stop laughing cuz it reminded me of this thing I rbed on main earlier 😭

[secondhand-sonder]

I know beta timeline Roxy (Mom Lalonde) was neglectful towards Rose and Rose has every right to be bitter but. When I think about all the times that Rose made kind and loving gestures toward Roxy in irony I wonder if Roxy thought that Rose meant them

[unopenablebox]

my family is for real living out that tiktok about how men who don't like marvel will make you go see a serbian film about the end of the cold war shot from the perspective of a pigeon

in that my brother, without consulting anyone, decided that his hanukkah gift to my parents was buying them all tickets to see sátántángo

which, if you're not familiar, is a seven-hour film, usually shown with two intermissions, adapting a postmodern novel about a group of villagers in the aftermath of the collapse of a collective farm who suffer an assortment of nihilistic torments witnessed by an alcoholic doctor

i'm not saying that's intrinsically unenjoyable-- my dad actually might really like it given what i know of his tastes-- (my mother would find it unbearable and has already sold her ticket so that she and my brother can go to the mca instead on a separate occasion) but there's just something really magical about how precisely my brother has embodied the straw foreign-film-liker conjured by that meme in absolutely every way