#is he in contact with his father

[blindingliqhts]

jeremy i do not mean to make this sound threatening but you are hiding something and i am going to find out what it is

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[meeks-just-wants-to-scroll]

My (WIP) take on Amos Bell. I am still fleshing out his personality, story, and design.

[beginnerblueglass]

I was telling my sister about Titans, and she was like, “the whole Bruce/Dick/Jason storyline is like the prodigal son story, with the older and younger brothers' positions switched,” and I was like ohhhh???

[culminada]

I sat here scrolling Tumblr and then I heard my dad snoring on the other side of the wall.

And I've been making it a habit to consciously pay attention to the people I love, because I love them.

And so - I wasn't trying but this just came to me because of observations, and knowing, and perhaps the habit of it - I thought oh, that means he's sleeping.

Its the middle of the day. He does this sometimes. He's a very busy person, between two jobs, and 2-4 disabled kids. He takes power naps after lunch. He has a whole strategy. He's told it to me and I listened and I remembered because I love him.

He's also in burnout. My dad is burnt out and I understand because I am also burnt out. I wish I could help him but I am burnt out, and so all I can do is know him, is listen to him snoring and know that he is tired.

I get to listen to him snoring. He is tired. He is sleeping on the middle of the day because he is tired, from taking care of me, who am autistic, and my brother, with Prader-Willi Syndrome (shoutout to ppl with PWS), and his job 1 to pay the bills and job 2 to pay for the future and his wife and his other children and making sure we all get our enrichment.

And so he is snoring on the other side of the wall, and I can picture him tangled up in his blankets and sleeping because he is tired.

And so I get to listen to him snoring and think about all the things he does and how much he deserves rest, and how glad I am that he CAN rest, that he's worried and busy and anxious, but not too worried to sleep. Because he needs to sleep. And it's a blessing that he can do that.

And I'll sit here and appreciate him and all he does because I can hear him snoring (and it keeps everyone else up at night unless he uses his mouth guard, which we all call his snore-teeth, and I know this because I listen and I pay attention and I love him).

And he might never know that I sit here and think of him and love him and all he does, how grateful I am that he takes care of me when I'm his oldest and I'm autistic, and I don't feel overwhelmingly bad about that but I do wish I could help more than I do. Not be so big of a burden as I am. But all I can do is let him sleep.

He might never know that I take the time to listen to him snore. Maybe one of those days when he's feeling horrible I'll show it to him and say "you are loved and I see you and I am grateful for everything you do, I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you." Maybe I'll make bits of this post into my Father's Day letter. I've been wondering what to do for that because I've been more vocal lately about how much I love him and sometimes it feels like there's nothing left to put in a Father's Day letter that wouldn't just be the same.

There's something special in just the same, though. Like listening to snoring. There's time. And when you're sitting in the middle of time, in the quiet and the dark and listening to snoring, and wondering when the next snore is gonna come, and contemplating life and love and time - well, I'm not doing anything else. And I'm not getting any younger. And maybe right now I can't mentally DO anything else. But I can do this.

I can contemplate my father, who is wise and loving and who pours himself out constantly, fill my mind with MY DAD instead of something else, because I love him.

I lied. My first thought wasn't "oh, that means he's sleeping." Well, it was subconscious. But right after, I thought, "I wish I had someone to love this way," meaning that I want to get married and have someone to love.

But I do have someone to love. I have my father. I can love him. I DO love him. And why am I pining for something I can't have, or worse, for someONE I can't have, when my lovely beautiful Dad is right there loving me in his sleep, in his waking, in his working, in his eating, in his thoughts, in his research, in his everything. I have him? Why do I need anyone else?

[terresdebrume]

Prompted by a fic I was reading: would Charles be likely to have learned Punjabi at home ? (As in, enough to actually be able to sustain a conversation in it, even a simple one, to say nothing of actual proficiency in the language)

My instinct is to say no for a couple of reasons

(Note: This is not to discourage people who want to write bilingual Charles! I just like thinking about people's relationship to languages and also it's relevant to my prep for my down on my knees series)

Rowland Sr. is a violent man who hit his son on the regular. Charles' dialogue implies that he did not hit his wife, but with a man like that the threat of it is never gone

Mrs. Rowland, per Charles, was "just quiet". This, plus the glimpse of her we have in the mirror and in Charles' trauma flashbacks implies a woman who likely survived in her house through self erasure and deference to her husband

Rowland Sr is explicitly likened to Devlin Sr, which suggests a controlling man who constantly found fault in Charles for varied and likely nonsensical reasons

All this leads me to think that for Charles to speak/understand Punjabi in canon would require his mother to be allowed to use Punjabi with him to a degree where he could have built actual fluency which to me seems... Unlikely to say the least.

First of all, like I said, Rowland Sr is a controlling asshole who wants to know everything going on in his house, which makes it unlikely that he would be fine with his wife and son having a "secret language" of their own, which means the first step to get bilingual Charles in canon would be to have bilingual Rowland Sr. Not impossible, but given the way people thought about language in the 60s/70s when he would have met his wife, unlikely imo.

Even IF Rowland Sr was somehow bilingual in Punjabi (which you could have if you wanted) I think it's important to remember that the way bilingualism is perceived right now on Tumblr is not necessarily universal. Assuming Charles spoke Punjabi at home, on top of all the assumptions above, also assumes:

His parents didn't subscribe to the wisdom of the time, which is still widespread, that hearing more than one language at home would impede the acquisition of speech for children

His parents felt that Punjabi would be important and/or useful and/or not an obstacle that he would have to overcome when trying to fit into British society at large. I don't know what would have been the consensus in the UK in the early 70s when Charles was born, but I can tell you that people of Charles' generation in France generally don't speak the immigrant parent's language because the attitude of the time was that to do so would be detrimental to the child (that said, the UK does integration differently so I could be missing something there)

There are other factors that can influence practice and understanding of a language: I imagine Charles' relationship with his mother would play a huge role there, as well as people's reactions to his usage of Punjabi outside the house (would he have people to practice with beyond his mother? If so, would he have wanted to?) and tbh you can probably make sense of a lot of permutations

But between the above and the fact that Charles' costume design makes no reference to his heritage that I could spot beyond the cricket bat* I think if Charles does learn Punjabi it's more likely to be a choice he makes as a teenager/after he dies than something he was taught at home

*He does have visible antiracist politics but those are not the same thing as a particular connection to India and Punjab, which I think would be a bit of a requisite for him to actively learn the language later on

[fisheito]

hiya l'il-- medium?...large?? Assorted Sizes-Guy

oh thanks! i could always use more spices-

. what am i supposed to do with this.

[camgoloud]

he still has his tonsils. by the way if you even care

[cassandrapentayaaaaas]

QUICK,

How old will your Inquisitor be by the inciting events of Veilguard??

(Bonus points if you tell me what they’re up to. Canon be damned)

[pong03]

same vibes

from the second I met him this is all I could think about.

[allgremlinart]

book 4 ep 7 "Reunions" awkward repressed double restaurant date you will always be famous you will always confound me with how you ever aired on Nickelodeon you are the funniest 4 minutes of American television in the history of ever

[koko2unite]

[springlock-suits]

Fnaf-tober | Day 27: FNAF Movie

The fnaf movie was so good you guys!!!!!!! DEFINITELY going to draw more Steve Raglan in the future, so for this prompt I decided to go for something that I probably won't draw in the future. Enjoy a bb and my very silly little theory

Fnaf-tober by Miiilowo

[foralternateuniverses]

By some miracle, Ichiji finds himself having a bunch of missions away from Germa, each right after the other, and in one occasion, he ends up having a really really nice one night stand with a certain raven-haired freckled pirate.

Later, he finds out he got pregnant from said one night stand.

It's too late to do something about it, fortunately, the first one (after him) to find out is Reiju who pushes him to run away from Germa and look for the father of his, turns to be, daughter. Fortunately, again, said daughter looks just like the sire.

When Ichiji meets the spade pirates, not only does his daughter still not have a name (he's been referring to her as 1.5 tho), but also Ace and Deuce got together.

Ace, ofc, won't abandon his newfound daughter (obv he's naming her Rouge), and, ofc, has Ichiji stay with them (as if Ichiji had someone else to go now).

Deuce is, understandably, rather put off by the situation (but his knowledge of Ace's parents-related traumas make him bite his tongue), but he decides to try not to be too difficult and also help with little Rouge, which ends up bringing him closer to Ichiji too, specially with Ichiji learning to be more human too. (Ofc the rest of the spade pirates also help with the baby, their little treasure, the local princess).

It's when everything finally seems peaceful that Germa catches up, Niji and Yonji have finally found their missing older brother, and are apparently really excited about being uncles? (Yonji gets excited immediately, Niji takes a little to warm up but he ends up being the one who spoils little Rouge the most, even if they need to learn how to treat such a small being).

~~I'm thinking about having all this be pre Alabasta, so I can have fun with that too

~~Marineford comes and the world discovers that not only does Roger have a son, he apparently also has a granddaughter (because ofc they take their little girl there, who are they supposed to leave her with?)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Deuce gives her a checkup and is immediately alarmed by all her anomalies.

Ichiji is like: she's just like I was at her age fr fr

Deuce: THAT'S NOT NORMAL WTF ARE YOU?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ace meets up with Luffy in Alabasta and ofc, needs to show off the picture he has of his daughter (they briefly managed to get their hands on a camera and took as many photos as possible, every crew member carries one at all times). Luffy is very very excited, but Sanji is sweating bullets seeing the girl's curled eyebrows (she got Ichiji's brows) and blue eyes (tho their shape is very obviously Ace's), he can see the Vinsmoke in her and he's not sure how he feels about that.

~~Should the Vinsmoke siblings show up at Marineford? That's their brother in law after all.

~~Luffy crying of happiness when meeting his lovely niece.

And I'll leave it here for now but man am I getting a bunch of cute ideas...

Will do some art later too...

Anyway another one for the Ace X Deuce X Ichiji agenda folder

[discordiansamba]

I love that in the Runaway AU, Keith can be explained by being half-galra, but then there's Heath and he's Also just Like That and it's hilarious. Poor Shiro over here is just burdened with the knowledge that yeah, Keith may be part Galra, but also he's part Heath. Just, Heath is hilarious because here is a man who had a child with an alien without so much as batting an eye and, of the paladins, only Shiro has enough context to know that. Anyway I love your fics, thank you!

It's so much fun to characterize Heath, since we know so little about him. He was only brought up three times! Personally I think any guy who decides to not only fall in love with the alien woman he pulled from her ship and have a child with her is going to be a little on the unique side. Plus he was absolutely down for fighting aliens. Needed zero convincing.

It's just fun in general to think that Heath as a kid was actually a lot like his son- he just mellowed out over time. Which is why he's more than willing to encourage his son being Like That because he was also Like That and he turned out fine!

Honestly? Once I characterized Heath as the guy who brings a shotgun to space in anomalous point, there was no going back from that. He's just like this now to me.

[mylove-thresher]

how i feel when i

testing out new coloured mechanical pencils on my fucking french grammar rules book with green manga narancia yippers :3

tell me to draw in the worst places and i will

also he was lowkey slutty in the manga bc he had sideboob windows in some early (?) panels...

(also my friends wrote their name on the page during math lol i told them i was gonna post it on tumblr and they were like hihi fuck yeah 😭)

references (kinda, i did this from memory in class) vvv