#dad stuff

[pennzance]

The fact that a book with a name like 'Thud!' is at once an excellent statement on the futile foolishness of racism and passed-on hatred, a fantastic mystery novel, one of the best stories that follows a new father as he navigates the divide between his work and his obligation to his young boy, and also possessed of a climactic sequence of berserker violence that can make me cry and is legitimately hard to me to get through EVERY TIME is a testament to the skill and craft of Terry Pratchett.

[melrosing]

my dad was v good at drawing in life and about four months before he died (when the tumour was way advanced) he suddenly got it into his head he was going to write a graphic novel and started sketching out characters and lil scenes n shit and it fucked me up bc I knew he wouldn’t live to do that and I really didn’t know if he knew that deep down or if the tumour just obstructed that knowledge sometimes. and leafing through those sketchbooks now it really wrecks me all over again how confused his drawings became and how the cancer didn’t just take the his lil hopes and dreams but even the ability to draw at all and idk im just really fuckin sad.

[yeahdhfjfjf]

Mihawk X Child Reader

Stealing your dad's clothes

You were allowed to be in his room but you weren't allowed to touch anything. Once he caught you snooping around his office and lectured you for hours about the importance of personal space and trust and parent-child relationships and blah, blah, blah. One thing did stick out thought which is what he said in the end.

'I respect your personal space and I expect you to respect mine are we understood my dear one.'

'Yes dad.' You had agreed but you hadn't stopped thinking of it since you saw it. It was beautiful and you didn't like to admit it but your dad had great fashion sense.

I'll just try it on and he'll never know. You said to yourself while tiptoeing into his bedroom.

You reached the wardrobe and when you opened it there it was in all its goth glory, a dark red corduroy blazer freshly pressed and ironed. You quickly took it off the hanger and put it on looking at yourself in the mirror attached to the wardrobe door.

It looked weird on you not what you expected it to look at all. It looked like you were playing dressup with your dad's clothes which is what you were doing you just thought it would look baggy in a cool high fashion kind of way. You were about to take it off in disappointment until...

"What are you doing with my blazer y/n?" He asked flatly. His tone always made if so hard to know if you were in trouble.

"Nothing..." You said sheepishly.

He stared.

"Ok it is but it's just sooo pretty. I just wanted to try it on." You were looking down now completely embarrassed as he made his way closer to you. "I'm Sorry..."

"Tuck in your shirt"

"Why w-" Before you could say anything else his gentle hands were already doing it for you

"The hem draws the eye to your waist line." He said bluntly, turning you around to see yourself in the mirror.

"See?"

"Wow!" You were so surprised at how huch one simple adjustment like that could change such an ill fitting outfit into something very chic.

"And wear this too." He gave you a rings that was on one of his fingers. "Accessories are a very important part of an outfit my dear they can create needed visual interest and guide the eye trough your ensemble. It's not just what you wearing..." He continued to lecture but you stopped listening which you often did not because what he was saying was wrong or boring but he had a tendency to go on and on. "There you look lovely my darling." He said admiring his beautiful work.

"So you're not mad?" You asked as you admired yourself in the mirror.

"No but if you were to touch my hat then we'd have a problem."

He would secretly loved it though. He liked that you wanted to look like him; even though you weren't related, it made him happy to see parts of his character appearing in you as you grew.

"Thanks daddy..." You grinned at him. "So can I have it?"

"No."

You giggled and hugged him. You knew what his answer would be, you were just happy you weren't in trouble and that you had the most stylish farther in the world.

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I hope there aren't any spelling mistakes <3

[videogamegeek12345]

thinking about final fantasy vii dads today...

cloud and tifa have a weird thing going with their parents, where cloud lost his dad very young/didn't grow up with his dad, only living with claudia, and tifa has the exact opposite, where her mom died when she was young (leading to the og nibelheim incident /hj) and she grew up mostly with brian, until both claudia and brian died in the (second) nibelheim incident.

brian lockhart was obviously very protective of tifa, not wanting her to go up mount nibel in the first place with sephiroth, zack, and cloud to check on the reactor. then he died in front of her up in the reactor a week later...

while barret doesn't talk about his parents, he is a dad, and he sure has complicated feelings about that!! what with dyne being his best friend, and myrna not being able to be there with him, caring for marlene through all that loss must be crazy.

aerith's dad literally helped create sephiroth. professor gast was a craaazy dude lowkey. and he's so irrelevant in her life it kills me a little. i hope we see gast in pt. 3. and tell him his daughter is fuckin' dead.

nanaki has a weird thing with seto, too, where he believed him to be a coward, just to learn that in all actuallity, seto sacrificed the life he could have had with his wife and nanaki to protect cosmo canyon, so nanaki wouldn't feel the need to make a similiar, self-sacrificing choice.

yuffie and godo... her anger at him in the remake trilogy has me hooked. sonon seemed to think he was a great guy, and yuffie adamantly argued the opposite. i cannot WAIT to see him in pt. 3. i cannot wait to find out what is going on. she hates him so much right now, for the sake of her country.

does cid have a dad thing? ...i don't think so. neither does reeve/cait sith... well. i didn't forget them. they're mentioned.

vincent and grimoire... another thing i hope they explore in pt. 3... or in a DoC remake (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMAKE IT.) the literal 4 minutes of grimoire screentime that explains absolutely nothing about their relationship, or grimoire's research, or... ANYTHING. i'm so. curious. he came in, flirted with lucrecia, and died. ARGH TELL ME MORE!!!

also, not a party member, but the whole "president shinra having multiple illegitimate sons" thing always makes me hate that guy a little more. lazard and evan i love you guys. rufus i love you too but your daddy issues are a different flavor.

[utilitymonstergirl]

god, a friend was telling me about some drama she witnessed where someone was making a conspicuous moral fuss about Replaceable Parts and Dad Stuff (as a means to try and smear someone else) and thankfully it looks like it's gone nowhere but it's just funny to me since I'm used to an art culture where these are pretty darn tame

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Finally, fourteen pages into this porn comic and we're showing hog

[maybe-in-another-universe]

give me a bruce that not only grieves for his lost (and recently found) son but also for his well and living sons who he has irrevocably broken any semblance of a normal father/son relationship with. give me a bruce that struggles with his relationship with dick, son or soldier? his greatest achievement or greatest failure? give me a bruce struggling with the image of the much younger jason he knew vs the jason before him now. give a bruce who struggles with tim and what he is to him? is he his son or is he just a kid he took on and what if that answer is different than when they first met? how to repair that? give me a bruce who struggles to be a father to damian knowing that he failed the three boys who came before him? just give me a bruce wayne that struggles and maybe doesn’t make the right decisions but tries nonetheless.

[head-of-forensics]

Can someone tell me what ‘sigma’ means?

Anna keeps saying “I feel so sigma” and laughing and I’m…incredibly confused.

[bunny--manders]

I'm in way over my head on this project but determined to build the floor to ceiling bookshelves of my dreams. And also my in-laws are moving in with even more books so even if I did not dream of bookshelves we need even more goddamn book storage.

[melrosing]

how is the dead dad grief if you wanna share 🫂

aw thank u for asking 💕 sticking it under the cut bc I’ve ended up just word vomming

I am okay but I’m in a weird position where I feel like I’ve done grief all backwards because we were told upon his diagnosis that there’s basically no hope and he is going to die and he was always going to die bc that is the nature of this cancer from the very first cell AND it’s going to happen fast. SO I lost my mind back THEN and had to work my way back from that state in order to care for him through basically a year long death where I was grieving a guy who was alive but not himself anymore. and that was really frightening and upsetting to watch tbh like the trauma of that is a whole other thing to work through alongside the grief. but it’s left me with a sense that I’m someone who’s been grieving 18 months rather than 6. so mostly I think I am working through a weird kind of survivor’s guilt bc I didn’t inherit his freaky cancer gene (and I’m SO RELIEVED I didn’t but it makes me feel like he took it all for me??? catholic shit) and guilt for all the times I let the difficulty of caring get to me rather than just focusing on that being his last year and I needed to make the most of it but I spent the whole time stressed instead. this fucks me up more than anything because I loved him SO MUCH and I wanted to focus only on that in his last year but instead you focus on the pills and the appointments and the transport and is this worse than yesterday and god there’s just no space round the edges. I know all that and it still fucks w me. anyway I am actually doing ok all things considered LOL but yeah grief isn’t ever fun is it x

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[pennzance]

"Being a parent means that even your pettiest ambitions will be foiled by more important things."

[littleladylav]

kid..? kid, are you okay?

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★ Jax (@jaxfromthatcircus)

I thin-nk I've le-let the stress bui-uild up too much th-this time...

[utilitymonstergirl]

I was feeling stalled-out for a while on the bathhouse episode of Dad Stuff, and I kept coming up with ideas for a slow-burn backstory comic, so fuck it, I'm gonna make that instead for the time being and circle back to the bathhouse one when the spirit moves me

(There are currently four more pages up beyond this snippet)

[sargentcat]

i found a small battle axe in my parents junk drawer

[morphean42]

The “died and came back wrong” trope but it’s just my dad refusing to listen to anything but Taylor Swift after his stroke