#child death trigger warning

[thatsmybook]

Agatha let's people believe that she swapped her son's life for the Darkhold or sacrificed him for the Darkhold because it's less painful than the truth.

The truth is that she couldn't protect and keep her child alive. It's just that. He died young of a sickness. Every parent's worst nightmare that sometimes...boys die.

[besotted-with-austen]

The Count of Monte Cristo: I am rather satisfied with this house, but I was originally discouraged from buying it.

Danglars: why is that?

Count of Monte Cristo: *storytelling mode: ON* you see, something dark happened between these walls-the murder of a newborn baby-

Gérard de Villefort, looking in the direction of a very distressed-looking Hermine Danglars: *quickly* I think we should refrain from speaking about such difficult topics around the ladies, it is not good for their sensibilities-

Héloise de Villefort: *delighted* ooh, an infanticide, you say? Please tell us more!

[ieppiq]

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[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Re: many of the various about the Gorn or listing SNW's handling of the Gorn as one of its major problems.

Perception not matching reality, what is/is not a monster is a huge theme throughout SNW.

Ghost of Illyria – Those light monsters didn’t murder the Illyrians, they are the Illyrians and were trying to save Pike and Spock all along. Everyone (except Una ofc) learns a lesson that Illyrians can’t be lumped in with the Augments and need greater understanding Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach – Turns out that nice lovely civilization is literally torturing children. The terrorists are actually trying to save those children. The Serene Squall – Surprise the counselor is a pirate Ad Astra Per Aspera – Continues with the Illyrians deserve understanding theme. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – That helpful reporter is actually a Romulan. Even notorious tyrant and mass murderer Khan Noonien Singh was once a scared child. Lost in Translation – Starfleet is the monster, accidentally torturing and killing a life form they didn't know existed. Under the Clock of War – Turns out the lovely ship’s doctor is actually the Butcher of J’Gal and capable of murdering someone in cold blood. War can make a monster of anyone.

Yet so many people seem to think they’re not going to pull something similar with the Gorn? Even though the show has taken time to establish that the Gorn are intelligent and have a religion?

The thing about the Gorn is that people have died - La’an’s family, Hemmer, some other members of the Enterprise crew, nearly the entire crew of the Cayuga, multiple colonies - and possibly Marie will be added to that list before the two-parter is done. That creates an environment where it’s understandable that the SNW characters would not want to have their perception that the Gorn are monsters challenged, because the harm they have caused is so personal.

It creates a really interesting conflict for the crew, because how do you find understanding, how to you fight the will for revenge, when there’s been so much pain?

I could be wrong about this being the route the SNW writers are going down, but I’m really excited to see if they do.

Posting this as a response to several earlier confessions.

[ninadove]

Someone take my phone away from me

[besotted-with-austen]

The Count of Monte Cristo, with Edouard’s body in his arms: what have I done! My actions led to a innocent child’s death!

The Count of Monte Cristo: I was going to kill and/or maim my enemies’ children of legal age, not those underage!

The Count of Monte Cristo: he was going to live! Of course, as an outcast forever doomed to be reviled and rejected by everyone due to his parents’ actions, but he was going to live!

The Count of Monte Cristo:

The Count of Monte Cristo: my God, I am a monster.

[paganwitchisis]

WIP Whenever!

Please heed the warnings for the newest fic I am working on. It is currently 15 pages long and is a doozy. I wrote a fic where Astarion and Tav lose their second child to Fae'run's version of SIDS and eventually, get a rainbow baby. There is many heavy themes in this fic so be aware. It will be releasing as soon as I write it and get it edited :)

TRIGGER WARNING!! CHILD DEATH.

I'm not a stranger to writing dark content but this had me skeptical if I should publish it or not. It is pretty messed up. What do you guys think of this story and content? Please leave some comments! I have been still writing, I just have been dealing with health issues.

There is smut in this fic too (How else do we have a rainbow baby?) There is suicidal idealation too. I made it light on that though.

[duckandash]

PROMPT 008 - DENOUEMENTS

The story's beginning stays the same even if everything diverges after a point.

Maybe Axel eventually finds people who get him. Maybe he finds somewhere that he can be seen, appreciated, and encouraged to flourish. Maybe he manages to find a job that he thoroughly enjoys. It's one that allows him to use all of his intellect and take credit for it instead of putting in all of the work just for someone else to put their name on top of it. The whole thing is enough to have those shoulders relaxed and the tense face smiling more than it ever did back home.

It's enough to get the attention of a guy who likes that smile and ends up liking the rest of Axel, too. A guy who is more than happy to listen to his rambling and reassure him when the dark thoughts from his past that still have deep claws in him get too loud. A guy who sees that Axel is someone worth loving and is willing to give him everything he's got to help him see that. A guy who is so in this for the long haul that they eventually make it official. Years after that, they even bring more unconditional love into their lives. Another child who was never given the chance to be shown the love of a family with time, patience, and attention.

Axel gives it to him, both of them. And their friends. And even throws it into his job. Because this Axel has been given the love he deserves and now can properly accept and give it in turn.

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The other path isn't that lucky.

The other path leads him further and further down the path of being forgotten. Lost in obscurity, he lets the ditch he'd dug himself into when trying to get out of another swallow him whole. No friends, no contact with family. Coworkers, bosses and clients are the only real sources of communication he has regularly, and that's because it's necessary. All of his work, all of his research done and handed off to someone else who'll add it to their dissertation or breakthrough think piece which may or may not even have him as a footnote. He doesn't care. He's just here to help and keep on moving. He doesn't matter to anyone, not even himself.

That's why when the accident happened, no one was there to visit him. He doesn't even have anyone down as an In Case of Emergency contact. It's been so long since he's had contact with his family that it takes a while for them to be found and called.

And by the time they manage to squeeze a few hours to go see him?

He's already gone.

[thricemartyred]

@atcmicbxtty said: "You're really mean...." Unprompted

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{♡} - An uncharacteristically sympathetic crease in his brow, ❝I…oh, no, that wasn’t…❞ His natural instinct to defend himself or to somehow attempt to justify the malignancy of his actions through some convoluted means of warped rationalisation, for the first time in what felt like at least two decades, was halted. Suddenly, his mouth felt uncomfortably dry and the demon was momentarily lost for words as he struggled to hold her gaze. She was only a kid. She looked so upset by what she had witnessed, and she didn’t even know the half of it. Dante swallowed hard.

Fleetingly, he glanced over his shoulder to watch the lover he’d just publicly and exploitatively revoked all feeling for dragging his heels as he headed off in the opposite direction whilst licking his wounds like a kicked puppy, and then looked back to the young girl. He had said some irreparably cruel things to his discarded lover, all the while laughing right in his face, mocking him, humiliating him, for fiendish amusement and in the name of Lucifer - worse, in front of the kid. At what point had he become so used to viciousness that he had actively started to become it? The sense of superiority he had felt from the upper hand he'd arrogantly brought to bear that night had dissipated with alarming gravity to him. Where there had been accomplishment, there now sat his contrition, bare, hovering in the space where glory had briefly resided. He hadn’t felt like that in a while - at least, not in its raw state. Usually, when his conscience would inevitably catch up with him, he turned to substances to tame his rising guilt.

In insufficient lieu of something considerably stronger, his hands fumbled to retrieve an unlit cigarette from his coat pocket. ❝…Yeah, well, you weren’t supposed to hear any of that shit. And you shouldn’t even be out this late! What are you, like, fourteen?❞ His lighter sparked and he inhaled from the cigarette, shifting on his feet in a state of restless agitation. ❝Go home! It’s a school night!❞

He appeared fundamentally ill at ease with exchanging this conversation, seeming to almost lean away from her as if she might spontaneously combust if he got within five feet of her. His reluctancy to speak to her? Probably on account of being labelled the local child killer by most who had known him before his mortal death due to the sheer enormity of what it transpired that he had done. Though he had been but a child too, manipulated into spilling the guts of his peers, of snuffing out innocent young lives preceding violent sacrilege against their cadavers, in the false guise of holy faith. He could still taste the flesh in his teeth. For a moment, he appeared like he might actually be sick, narrowly managing to ward it off with a protracted drag on the cigarette held between his tremulous fingers. On second thought, better make it two. Odd numbers were bad luck. Dante regarded the girl with a narrow gaze, ❝Can you stop looking at me like that? Look, I’m sorry, okay? Fuckin’ Hell…!❞ Too overwrought to consider the offhanded language, the demon rested his head wearily in his hand and tried not to heave. An apology hadn’t passed his lips in a long while, his utterance of those words coming as a surprise to himself. If only he would learn to say them more often. It would be an ineffectual expenditure of feelings though, even if he did. People such as him, they were unworthy of forgiveness, and besides, Dante had already repented his sins - and look where he was now! Cast out of Heaven, a servant of Hell. Indicatively, he was Satan’s Bitch. And Dante was hopelessly devoted to every Goddamned second of it.

So why now did he falter beneath the scrutiny of a little girl? Perhaps, sheltered within the darkest compartment of his inner self, there was still a tiny, shivering fragment of goodness left inside him after all.

[bosspigeon]

hello can someone let me know if something bad happens to Mila

[jullisaway]

Trigger Warning: Fictional Non-Graphic Child Death

tragedy struck once again, as Rosamunde didn't make it to her birthday

malicious gossip starts around town, suggesting Sunna would trade her child's life for her own after her almost deadly illness

Rosamunde didn't survive her birthday roll

[sebastian-queen]

Here's chapter 8 for all of you, but proceed at your own risk! Please read the tags! It's a heavy chapter!

[mrsometimes11]

I've talked about them here before, and generally the reaction was surprise that they exist, but I feel the need to info-dump about the Death in Paradise novels again, specifically the 3rd one (which I'm currently re-reading) 'Death Knocks Twice'

SPOILERS AHEAD

(also trigger warning for SA, suicide, and child-abuse)

This is by far the darkest of the books, which in turn tend to be darker than the show.

For example, the first victim, Freddie, was an abusive alcoholic who hit his wife, who killed herself,vand r*ped his 12 year old daughter, fathering a son by her. He is killed by the daughter and his son/grandson (deserved honestly), and the son/grandson later goes on to kill the daughter (not deserved).

Yep, you read that right, bet you weren't expecting incest and SA in a book about everyone's favourite cozy murder-mystery show set on a tropical island.

But, the thing is, it's really very written, and shocking as some of the stuff is, it's not especially gratuitous. For one thing, the use of misdirects are amazing, we are given misleading ages for the kids early on (the daughter is originally stated to be 28 rather than 30), and a lot of important information is revealed subtly as the story progresses (the daughter's age courtesy of Nanny Rosie), barely registering until it all adds up.

And yet, despite how dark it gets, it still feels like a death in paradise mystery, the Commissioner is humourously unconcerned by the murder and more interested in a bootleg rum seller, who ends up being connected to the murder, Richard is sidetracked by illegal vans, which are also connected, and the whole thing is filled with a surprising amount of Richard/Camille shipping fodder.

Anyway, it's just bizarre, and I felt I needed to share that.

[amemoryofwot]

Finished The Fifth Season, there were some interesting ideas but it wasn’t really my thing. I’ll get around to reading the next one, it’s only a trilogy and I do want to know what happens plot wise, even as a the first novel in the series this one felt a bit like an incomplete thought and ended abruptly imo to the point I was scrolling through my ebook to see if I had skipped or missed something somehow. Apparently I’m up next for my hold on This Is How You Lose the Time War in a few days so I’ll just wait for that for now.