#blame summer

[qursidae]

Summer vacation is here, have some amelliana for the occasion

[Carrd 🃏]

[lemon-zesttt]

plsplspls king zesty i beg of you to bless us with harvey at the beach with an unreasonable amount of sunscreen on his nose reading under an umbrella to avoid the sun

BLESS BE UPON THEE ☄️

[one-real-wrimonkey]

Taiyang Xiao Long is a bad parent.

Tai is a pretty bad dad. Not Jacques Schnee, but there’s some real issues to be considered. Some of his reasons for this are understandable, not necessarily his fault and it doesn’t make him a bad person, but it does make him a bad parent. And yes he loves his daughters and they love him, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t not a bad parent.

For one: the parentification of Yang.

When Summer dies he is paralysed by grief. It’s said he just shuts down, and this does happen. Grief does that and hits different people differently. None the less, Yang was younger than ten and looking after herself, Ruby and probably him as well. Not to mention she sneaks off with Ruby to find Raven and they would have died if Qrow hadn’t saved them. Yang was left picking up the pieces after Summer died.

Yang still has trauma from this, and from (as is implied) continuing to be a key figure and parent in Ruby’s life. Ruby mentions several times that Yang raised her (as well as them both referring to Qrow as a role model and mentor more than Taiyang). Yang did a lot of raising herself and raising her sister when she was a child herself. Its very heavily implied that even once he was past his grief, he had stepped back as a parent and was very busy with his teaching.

Again, and I cannot emphasise this enough, it’s not necessary his fault and it doesn’t make him evil, but it still had impacts on his kids that lasted to adulthood. It was still bad parenting.

For two: staying in Patch.

This one annoys me more.

When Ruby left to go to Haven and he didn’t go after her, that made sense, Yang still needed help and Qrow was able to go after her. Fine.

But then Yang left. Yang went after Ruby and Qrow, and he stayed behind. Knowing about Salem, knowing what was at Haven, knowing what was at risk, he didn’t go after his kids or help, he stayed behind. Despite having been a part of Ozpin’s inner circle, despite knowing what these kids, his kids, are heading towards, he stayed at home.

And before anyone says ‘he’s retired’ or ‘he’s a teacher’ it’s mentioned he was a teacher and it makes sense that Summer died he chose to stay home and be with the kids. However, once the kids are both at Beacon he starts taking missions again. And this is fate of the world stuff. He could have gone with them, but he stayed in Patch with his gardening and his sunflowers. Yet again, it seems he’s happy to leave his kids to manage themselves, this is a reoccurring pattern.

In conclusion:

He loves his daughters, and they love him. He tries to do what’s best for them, however, his actions had a lasting negative impact on his daughters. He neglects them in his grief and leaves his eldest to raise his youngest and it’s suggested several times that even when he recovers from his grief, this pattern of behaviour continues. He is a good person, a huntsman, and loves his kids, but he’s still a bad parent.

And it makes him a very interesting character. I think this is better than a two dimensional ‘good parent’. It drives and influences Ruby and Yang as people, somewhat influences Qrow, shapes all their relationships. It’s a very real, messy family dynamic.

TLDR- he loves his kids but his actions negatively impact them in ways that last into adulthood. They’re a messy family, they do love each other, but even considering outside factors, the end result is that he was a bad parent to Yang and Ruby.

[thefivebyfivecrow]

the key difference between riley and spike is that both gave up their previously set beliefs for her and everything she showed them, but riley expected her love in return — as a condition for having given up his military career, until he didn’t get that, hurt her, and then still expected it until he gave up on her, on them — and spike didn’t. spike became a new man, first frustratingly so and fighting against it and then learning to accept it and give and give what he could for her, for dawn, taking every crumb and goading her into giving more but stalling and changing himself even more when he realised he’d hurt her and then waited for her to seek him out, keep seeking him out, and then just being by her side was enough (which got her to give him more.)

[polarmoon]

christopher hit a low point around the middle of the term. his brain differences have been a lifelong struggle for him, and he's never been able to manage his symptoms very well. it was for that very reason his parents decided to homeschool him in the first place.

as an independent adult, tackling traditional education on his own, it's now on christopher himself to learn how to manage his time and take care of himself properly. thankfully he's starting to learn some healthy habits✨

[sugarbear2001]

I think it's safe to say that Logan has a thing for redheads.

[platossoulmates]

hyper fixation too strong… life going too well… may have to pick up the pen and go back to ao3

[a-mel0n]

it just hit me as to why i’m…. kinda okay with the bucktommy breakup?

it’s because we’ve done this before. during the summer.

the breakup very much reads as something that’s temporary. a third act romcom breakup that’ll end in the main couple getting back together stronger than ever. that might be me coping because the alternative makes me sick, BUT THE POINT STILL STANDS—

it doesn’t read (to me) as a final breakup, so all that’s left to do is… wait. wait and see how they handle this, and in the mean time, i’ll be enjoying the headcanons and fanworks that this fandom is creating, like i did over the summer.

i said “When will my husband (Tommy Kinard) return from The War…” so many times during the summer hiatus, and i’m saying the same thing now… and i feel the same. the meaning and sentiment of that phrase hasn’t changed. except now The War isn’t just the hiatus, it’s also the breakup.

idk if this made any sense but i had this epiphany and needed to share my thoughts

[ptieuca]

#angel doing tai chi is a buffy kink

[doing-poorly-doing-well]

Had thoughts on Maddie and Scott and, what if, and hear me out, their marriage slowly dies because both are entrapped in gender norms orchestrated by Sinister because that is EXACTLY what some old ass eugenicist would do.

Personally? I think Scott is kinda a bit fucked up from being a child soldier since he was fifteen and a leader for that time too (like almost a decade by the time he and Maddie get married), and he probably hates whatever job he has because it's Alaska, and while his grandparents are around I'm sure he misses the team and his old life, and I just don't think the stereotypical patriarchal duties of an 80s man are things that he enjoys doing and upholding (he'd like to be at home with his son...)

Maddie, sadly, has probably given up her sick ass pilot job to be a stay at home mom and truthfully Maddie was probably made to be a perfect wife figure to Scott through sinister mind control, and who knows how much of herself is his meddling, and how much of that meddling goes against her wishes, ingrained into her by some evil shitbag?

I don't know, I'm probably not explaining it well, but there's something here I feel. Also, I hate blaming either of them for their marriage dissolving.

[forsty]

i'm so sick of feeling burnt out on everything man

[kalinara]

(Uncanny X-Men #310)

One day I'll figure out where the idea that Nathan disrespects Scott comes from.

Probably the same place where Scott being a deadbeat dad comes from.

Fun fact: in about two issues, Scott (and Jean) will be spending twelve years in a post-apocalyptic hellhole future actually raising Nathan. It'll take him a while to realize this because they're using pseudonyms.

Why? I dunno. Sometimes Scott is like that. He's also someone who'd hire a shapeshifting stripper for his brother's bachelor party instead of just saying that the guy should probably figure his shit out before humiliating his fiancee at the altar. Healthy conversations aren't really his thing.

But anyway, Nathan actually loves his dad, and his dad loves him. Sorry, not sorry.

[one-real-wrimonkey]

The emotionally devastating scene/backstory in my Rwby fics where Qrow is helping take care of Yang and Ruby after Summer dies and Yang and Ruby run right past Taiyang to show Qrow their schoolwork because they want him to be proud of them and it starts a fight that causes Qrow to leave again (cutting the girls off from their uncle and putting Qrow in a position where he has no support system while finally processing his own grief).

[some1s-sista]

You can always tell when Summer hits Northeastern NC … severe thunderstorms and nekkid crime!

[knavesflames]

I am this 🤏 close to writing angst abt Peruere having no friends during childhood because MY GOD

I am so lonely guys it’s unreal I’m putting this utc so you guys don’t have to read my bs whatsoever if you don’t want but it’s abt loneliness and writing I just have thoughts and idk where to put them so

Being lonely in your 20’s is a different type of hell I stg! I have my partner and my like, 3 friends, but it’s like. How much can I interact with my friends really if they don’t live in my country?

School is out for the summer and has been for a few weeks and I have not known loneliness like this since I was 16 and bullied horrendously (which was its own breed of betrayal and heartbreak) (watching your entire grade turn against you for two years is not for the weak trust) (don’t trust your 16 year old best friend who you’re lowkey secretly in love with) (hope she’s doing well in life tho, she still hates me but I just hope she’s chilling)

Summer is here and suddenly I’m reminded of the fact that irl I am just not that fun to be around 😭 I have asked people to hang out and they’ve said no which fair enough but atp barely anyone is ever talking to me for proper conversations and the desperation I am having for having some sort of human contact beyond that of my home is getting a littol bit pathetic (I feel pathetic at least) (I googled why people don’t like me multiple times) (I even posted on Reddit) (I grasp at any message that gets sent so I can keep the conversation going so I don’t have to face the silence of nobody talking to me)

Like I’ll say something whether that’s through text or actually speaking and I’ll be so dumb when I speak or whatever that I just instantly realise why people don’t talk to me or why people dislike me

But at the same time i say things and I know damn well they’re coming off as desperate so then I think maybe it’s better to just clam up and not talk because it’s humiliating and embarrassing

So all I really have is writing and that’s great and lovely I adore it, I think I’d like to be an author one day but idk I don’t think I’m good enough we’ll see

But how much sex can I write before I ultimately go back to my Google docs of sadness and also writing based on Ethel Cain songs

It’s all just a bit shit my guys and I have to channel it somewhere because I don’t go back to school until August so chances are I’ll have limited human interaction until then and if I’m not talking to people I’m sat at home doing nothing because nobody wants to do things with me🤩

So yeah who wants sad lonely Peruere because recently I wrote a short story about something unrelated to genshin but it made me cry because it was so sad so imagine what I would do to our girl

[realmrooikat]

who up piling their lukey warrior cat style (ft. @terezicaptor 's rascal :3)