#probably not as long though

[field-s-of-flowers]

Morticia Addams headcanons

Because there was nothing in the tag other than x reader, nsfw or crossover, and I like giving characters complicated backstories. Also it’s spooky month so I have to make content <3

This will be mostly pertaining to the ‘60s show, with some other stuff from… pretty much everything! I have a soft spot for the musical in particular so if you don’t recognize any character names they’re probably from that

Tagging @lucasbeinekehonorarygoth @acesophiewalten hiii here you go! Hope you like it!

So first off, Morticia and Ophelia used to be very, very close when they were little

Like shared-everything-and-wanted-to-be-just-like-each-other close

Ophelia is three years older, but Morticia was a lot more “mature” so she kind of ended up slotting into the role of the older daughter.

(Btw when I say “mature” I mean “they’re both nd but Tish is a lot better at masking so people kind of thought of Ophelia as childish”)

(And when I say “the role of the older daughter” you know exactly what I mean)

Up until she was a teenager, Morticia was just like her older sister: loving, dutiful and sweet. The only differences seemed to be their hair color and Morticia’s relative shyness.

But the sisters didn’t stay close forever

Mainly because their family was very old-fashioned and very magic.

(Time for worldbuilding)

Everyone in their mother’s family has some kind of powers over nature (see: Fester’s lightning powers)

Granny Frump had powers over plants, so both the sisters were expected to end up with plant magic as well.

Ophelia’s powers started developing at a very young age, and once they did, (pun fully intended), she blossomed. Flowers, herbs and fruit trees alike flourished after minimal coaxing from her, and the stubbornest of sidewalk weeds seemed to adore her. Daisies even began to grow out of Ophelia’s hair!

Morticia, on the other hand, was… not that

The only plants she could seem to work magic on were poisonous, carnivorous, allelopathic or otherwise hazardous to health

The only exceptions were roses (probably because of their thorns)

And this is where Morticia ran into some problems with the women in her family.

The most immediate issue came in the form of her mother, who seemed deeply ashamed of her younger daughter’s “morbid” magic

Granny Frump doubted that Morticia would ever make a good match (need I remind you this was the early fifties) and pretty much decided she was “cursed” and would never be much more than a burden

She thought she might find comfort in her sister, but Ophelia only thought of her as a tragedy

Unsurprisingly, this was around the time Morticia started to distance herself from the rest of her family

Namely by leaning into the whole “cursed” thing and cultivating her own little garden of poisonous plants, as well as a more dark and depressing vibe overall

She ended up realizing there was no reason to be what everyone else wanted her to be- a flower doesn’t just die because it’s not the same color as the rest of the garden, does it?

This, incidentally, is how Morticia ended up being the happiest she’d ever been.

Enter Gomez, who saw this beautiful girl being so unapologetically herself that he just. Couldn’t handle it

And the rest is history :)

Okay now that’s out of the way it’s time for some general (read: miscellaneous and often quite stupid) headcanons

She and Ophelia do become close again as they become adults! It just takes a little while, but there’s not too much that can keep the two of them apart

She still gives Gomez the creeps though

Morticia’s hair isn’t naturally that straight and shiny- she actually puts oil in it to smooth it out! When she wakes up in the morning it’s very frizzy. (Headcanon courtesy of my mom)

Headcanon also courtesy of the person who said Morticia dyes her hair: I respect your headcanon but you are Extremely wrong about this

Tish takes a lot of pride in her appearance, specifically in the way she dresses and in her general bearing. It’s really less about how she looks and more about the way she presents herself

Whenever she stresses about her appearance, Gomez tells her the exact same thing: “I would love you even if you looked like a rotting corpse.”

She’ll just roll her eyes and say something along the lines of “just wait, darling, it won’t be long now.”

Gomez is the only person that Morticia lets into her conservatory without knocking

The kids get passes when they’re really little. Grandmama does not and needs to stop sneaking around trying to steal her hemlock

Pugsley also eventually gets a free pass because she knows he’s responsible. Wednesday does not

Mainly because she broke Aunt Phobia’s nicest vase

Most of the Addams relatives with weirder names come from Gomez’s side of the family, but Morticia has plenty of cousins on her side and they’re all perfectly strange, thank you very much!

But her stories are always a little bit depressing, even if she doesn’t mean for them to be

You know how someone will tell a story about something awful that happened to them in their childhood like it’s hilarious because nobody ever told them that wasn’t normal? That’s Morticia

Gomez, who grew up with a very loving family, is always horrified by these

“Your mother did WHAT” “…Did your mother not do that” “NO”

They don’t talk to Granny Frump a lot

Not because Morticia doesn’t want to reconnect (she’d actually be quite happy to do so if her mother was willing) but because Gomez is always on the offense when she visits

“Darling, you really don’t need to do that” “Do what” “Gomez put the sabre down”

Gomez tries to teach Morticia about a lot of his passions/just stuff he knows, with varying levels of success

She does quite well learning how to fence, and makes for a very fun sparring partner!

She didn’t pick up Spanish as easily, even though she tried

All she really knows is their pet names for each other

He thinks she’s fantastic

In turn, Morticia tried to teach Gomez how to knit. To put it mildly, that ended up being a disaster and a half.

She had a lot more success teaching him about the plants in her conservatory

In part because she has a lot of little songs and mnemonics to keep track of them

She had to make up most of them because they don’t really make those songs about poisonous/carnivorous plants

This is semi-canon but Morticia has a really nice singing voice!

She’s always humming something, to the point where she doesn’t really know she’s doing it most of the time (read: stim)

I have a lot more but this got REALLY long so I’m gonna cut myself off there

[fictionadventurer]

Pop culture reduces It's a Wonderful Life to that last half hour, and thinks the whole thing is about this guy traveling to an alternate universe where he doesn't exist and a little girl saying, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings." A hokey, sugary fantasy. A light and fluffy story fit for Hallmark movies.

But this reading completely glosses over the fact that George Bailey is actively suicidal. He's not just standing there moping about, "My friends don't like me," like some characters do in shows that try to adapt this conceit to other settings. George's life has been destroyed. He's bankrupt and facing prison. The lifetime of struggle we've been watching for the last two hours has accomplished nothing but this crushing defeat, and he honestly believes that the best thing he can do is kill himself because he's worth more dead than alive. He would have thrown himself from a bridge had an actual angel from heaven not intervened at the last possible moment.

That's dark. The banker villain that pop culture reduces to a cartoon purposely drove a man to the brink of suicide, which only a miracle pulled him back from. And then George Bailey goes even deeper into despair. He not only believes that his future's not worth living, but that his past wasn't worth living. He thinks that every suffering he endured, every piece of good that he tried to do was not only pointless, but actively harmful, and he and the world would be better off if he had never existed at all.

This is the context that leads to the famed alternate universe of a million pastiches, and it's absolutely vital to understanding the world that George finds. It's there to specifically show him that his despondent views about his effect on the universe are wrong. His bum ear kept him from serving his country in the war--but the act that gave him that injury was what allowed his brother to grow up to become a war hero. His fight against Potter's domination of the town felt like useless tiny battles in a war that could never be won--but it turns out that even the act of fighting was enough to save the town from falling into hopeless slavery. He thought that if it weren't for him, his wife would have married Sam Wainwright and had a life of ease and luxury as a millionaire's wife, instead of suffering a painful life of penny-pinching with him. Finding out that she'd have been a spinster isn't, "Ha ha, she'd have been pathetic without you." It's showing him that she never loved Wainwright enough to marry him, and that George's existence didn't stop her from having a happier life, but saved her from having a sadder one. Everywhere he turns, he finds out that his existence wasn't a mistake, that his struggles and sufferings did accomplish something, that his painful existence wasn't a tragedy but a gift to the people around him.

Only when he realizes this does he get to come back home in wild joy over the gift of his existence. The scenes of hope and joy and love only exist because of the two hours of struggle and despair that came before. Even Zuzu's saccharine line about bells and angel wings exists, not as a sugary proverb, but as a climax to Clarence's story--showing that even George's despair had good effect, and that his newfound thankfulness for life causes not only earthly, but heavenly joy.

If this movie has light and hope, it's not because it exists in some fantasy world where everything is sunshine and rainbows, but because it fights tooth and nail to scrape every bit of hope it can from our all too dark and painful world. The light here exists, not because it ignores the dark, but because the dark makes light more precious and meaningful. The light exists in defiance of the dark, the hope in defiance of despair, and there is nothing saccharine about that. It's just about as realistic as it gets.

[mokeonn]

I am trying to decide what I want to draw today so I think I'm gonna make the Mane 6 in the sims and see where it goes from there

[egophiliac]

bring your son to work day

[potassiumprincess]

i think marinette is worse at resting when she's sick but adrien is worse at sitting things out if he's injured. i have no explanation, these are just the vibes

[kowroo]

really looking forward to season 2: patrolling the mojave

[wardingshout]

started playing ooc but couldn't stop thinking about la so here's ww :) it makes sense 👍

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Let the revenge games begin.

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[tubbytarchia]

gg buddy am I right (ethubs doodle that I don't know what to do with)

[intotheelliwoods]

This is Part 2! Part 1 can be found here...

Sprout... hey Sprout... we love you Sprout... we wish only the best for you, you are doing amazing Sprout. I promise you will feel better after your much needed breakdown here <3 we are all cheering you on

Apologies for the cliffhanger, we will check in with Poptart sometime soon~

Masterpost

[celestialrealms]

Fun fact: In Barbatos's intimacy storyline in Nightbringer he ends up living with Solomon and MC at Cocytus Hall temporarily. Here's a highlight from his 40 intimacy call:

The way he makes Solomon sit in the corner. 😭 You cannot convince me he didn't raise this man.

[snurtle]

I've been thinking about the templars lately. they were promised honor, virtue, told that they would be charged with protection of the innocent... And then those same people are systemically exploited and abused, abuse others because they're taught to regard everyone else as either sheep who need to be lead or potential threats. Never equals, except in their brothers/sisters-in-arms. They act as the guard-dogs and military arm of an entirely different organization that they're only a functionary member of but have no governing say in. Even the chantry aren't their equals- they function as the templar order's supervisors! And all this isolation and closing of ranks ends in disability, addiction, death, and abandonment by the system they spent their bodies in service of.

To top that off, retaliations against them just confirm the paranoia they were taught to embrace. It's probably a long hard road to get out of that hole.

Like, listen. the dichotomy of mage vs templars is a satisfying and easy one, but the system is tearing them apart too. have you ever heard of a retired templar?

at the end of it, mages and templars need to unite against the real threat. the chantry.

[cleric4vampire]

finally finished these little portraits of the tadfools <3 including durge!aune and tav!aune at the end. right at the last minute I had the idea to design these little emblems to reflect each of their individual stories. I'm happy with how they turned out! also this was supposed to be grayscale but then I started playing around with gradients and now I like the funky colors best.

original greyscale versions under the cut:

[egophiliac]

another one that I'm not super happy with, but continuing to mess with it isn't going to help! so here he is! 🦇 there was a lot I was trying to get across in this one, so uhhhhh hopefully it reads.

we're almost out of unique magics now...just Ace (and maybe Grim?) left!

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

[eliothedud9000]

LMAO

IMAGINE DONNIE UNDERWATER FOR 7 MONTHS