#baby four

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

Happy birthday Four!! I have drawn some art in his honor :)

Also, imma tag anyone who showed interest in said birthday in this post, which also inspired me, as did the amazing art by @akchimp75!! Sooo here goes!

@illegiblehandwriting1 @margindoodles2407 @turdofanerd @uniquevoidflowers @ladye-zelda @undertheopensky @uncleskyrule

also @prince-of-red-lions! (thank you for the advice :D)

also, here is a wider version under the cut, just because I like the grass XD

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[marisatomay]

blah blah blah aging tumblr population etc etc if you are ever visiting a family that just had a baby, and you know that they have other small children, bring a little something for each of the other kids. it doesn’t have to be anything fancy but, even the most charitable, well-behaved child starts feeling left out and lonely after the nth visitor brings gifts and attention for their parents and new sibling and, either isn’t there for them at all or the only engage with them about their baby sibling, especially since their parents have probably been completely consumed with the new baby. make their day and they will remember that bit of kindness and attention from you forever.

[sixth-light]

I have had these thoughts bubbling away in my head for like...eighteen months or so now (it will become very obvious why shortly) but the discussion in this post has pushed me to write them down: I think societally we HUGELY underestimate how motherhood for primary caregivers, particularly first-time motherhood, can be a source of vulnerability to radicalisation.

There is obviously huge cultural variance here, but for a lot of cis women becoming primary caregiver to an infant in a capitalist Western society represents a time of immense vulnerability because in general you are:

Incredibly sleep-deprived (which has well-documented knock-on effects for your judgement, mental health, etc)

If you gave birth, recovering from a significant challenge to your physical health (even in the best-case scenario)

Isolated from your previous networks and communities of people in full-time work

Completely separated from the context of your prior career goals and achievements

Under huge amounts of stress to learn how to care for an infant (don't get me started on breastfeeding)

And on top of this, you are also be experiencing a huge amount of messaging about how all this is natural, wonderful, something you're meant to do, something you should love doing, and something that you must do for the welfare of their child. It's a huge amount of pressure and life change even when everything goes right and there's very little cultural space to express negative feelings about it.

Any group of people who offer community, support, and affirmation to cis women in this situation are going to have a really good shot at radicalising them into some very weird and dangerous headspaces and in fact we see this happen all the time - think antivaxxers and TERFs. It flies under the radar because of the hazy positive glow that associates with motherhood and babies and also because we don't take the radicalisation of women seriously I guess because they rarely shoot anybody, but...yeah. It is such a vulnerable time!

[milimeters-morales]

PROWLER MILES USED TO SMILE EXACTLY LIKE THIS. THIS WAS HIM. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE CALL A FUCKING AMBULANCE IM LOSING IT

[nonasbirthday]

i still can't believe there are folks who say "well GTN is annoying but you just have to get through it and then the other books aren't like that so you'll be fine."

personally i have been chasing the high of GTN ever since i first closed the book

[cynicallyneutral]

Go accla!!!!

[dragonpyre]

Psych au where everything’s the same but Shawn and Gus are early early twenties and Gus is in college but Shawn keeps dragging him out of lectures and internships to solve crimes.

[answermywearyquery]

✨ big, a depressive pixie nightmare bodyguard ✨

loan’s kinnporsche 2nd anniversary: favourite supporting character: big + bonus kenbig:

[ourselvers]

i got mistaken for a kid at a restaurant and was given an activity book with crayons 😭

i'm having the time of my life though

[zivazivc]

bby floyd sleeping with their dad's vest

[kikker-oma]

THE CHAIN WITH A CHILD

I REPEAT- THE CHAIN WITH A CHILD

[infinite-orangepeel]

this is so hopper giving his speech at the steddie wedding. making endless dad jokes and embarrassing the hell out of both of them. i’m just imaging him saying something like:

hopper: you never think your future son-in-law is going to turn out to be the same kid you arrested upwards of twenty times when he was in high school but here i am to tell the tale—

eddie: i was also wanted for murder

hopper: don’t bring that up here please. for the love of god. you have no idea how much paper work it took for me to get your name cleared.

steve: i’m pretty sure he was arrested at least thirty times

hopper: like i said folks, you don’t get to choose family and sometimes family is your adopted gay son and his metalhead husband who spent a solid three years living on your couch—

steve: well at least now when i bail him out of jail it’ll be as my husband. i can even sign the paperwork as “mr. steve munson”

eddie: aw babe that’s so sweet

hopper: don’t push it you two

[radioactive-earthshine]

Another thing that annoys me tremendously when people try to write Bart as incapable of doing something on his own without help is that it completely ignores that his for the majority of his young life he was alone and independent albeit in VR. He learned how to solve his own issues, whatever they were, on his own - so reaching out for assistance and asking for help was never something that he learned to do until after he was rescued by Iris and established in the 20th century.

Bart's first impulse (hah) is to try and solve a problem on his own, the option of asking for help for things he has never encountered before is (usually) something that is a last resort after he has exhausted other options.

Asking for help is not something that is ingrained in him, he is wildly intelligent and a self sufficient problem solver - even if sometimes those solutions he finds involves driving a car off a cliff.

[paper-lilypie]

Bakely’s cheeks puff and her eyes grow big. Her palm closes into a gentle fist, cradling Sun’s message close to her pulse. “So, it was okay?”

Sun makes a show of looking around for anyone overhearing, then leans in close and makes a pinching motion with his thumb and index finger. “A little.”

[weepingtalecowboy]

Four is the oldest one

Fanfic prompt : I like seeing people portray Four as an adult or late teen

But what if it got cranked up to him actually being the oldest

As in even older then time

Because that would be hilariously contradictory to his size

Because everyone is jokingly calling him a kid but if he one day just tells them that he is 30

They all won’t believe him

Till he gives life changing advice that only an old man could give

If you add shadow in but keep him a kid because you can’t age if you are dead and it would probably take years to find a way to bring someone back to life with no life changing consequences even if Zelda is helping alongside you

Like him having a kid would only make it more hilarious

Like many older people take it as a compliment if people consider them much younger than they are

The aneurysm that the chain will have when they see him with a small kid acting like a parent

While Time secretly envies him for getting spared from the nickname the old man

But also him awkwardly asking how to parent and them bonding over it

Like let Four be a dad for once

He already is wind's ancestor ( grandma implied that the shield was from an hero before them and a family heirloom)

Like let them have a relationship