#relatives

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for today’s Guardian Books

[incognitopolls]

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[sapphic-willow]

Here’s to the closeted LGBTQ+ people who have to spend their Christmas tolerating their relatives’ bigotry. LGBTQ+ people who were dead named, called the wrong pronouns, forced to listen to homophobic jokes and judged for their identities.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

‘Just shut up, will you?’ he said. ‘It’s Hogswatch! That’s not the time for silly arguments, all right?’ ‘Oh, yes it is,’ said the Chair of Indefinite Studies glumly. ‘It’s exactly the time for silly arguments. In our family we were lucky to get through dinner without a reprise of What A Shame Henry Didn’t Go Into Business With Our Ron. Or Why Hasn’t Anyone Taught Those Kids To Use A Knife? That was another favourite.’ ‘And the sulks,’ said Ponder Stibbons. ‘Oh, the sulks,’ said the Chair of Indefinite Studies. ‘Not a proper Hogswatch without everyone sitting staring at different walls.’ ‘The games were worse,’ said Ponder. ‘Worse than the kids hitting one another with their toys, d’you think? Not a proper Hogswatch afternoon without wheels and bits of broken dolly everywhere and everyone whining. Assault and battery included.’ ‘We had a game called Hunt the Slipper,’ said Ponder. ‘Someone hid a slipper. And then we had to find it. And then we had a row.’ ‘It’s not really bad,’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. ‘I mean, not proper Hogswatch bad, unless everyone’s wearing a paper hat. There’s always that bit, isn’t there, when someone’s horrible great-aunt puts on a paper hat and smirks at everyone because she’s being so bohemian.’ ‘I’d forgotten about the paper hats,’ said the Chair of Indefinite Studies. ‘Oh, dear.’ ‘And then later on someone’ll suggest a board game,’ said Ponder. ‘That’s right. Where no one exactly remembers all the rules.’ ‘Which doesn’t stop someone suggesting that you play for pennies.’ ‘And five minutes later there’s two people not speaking to one another for the rest of their lives because of tuppence.’ ‘And some horrible little kid—’ ‘I know, I know! Some little kid who’s been allowed to stay up wins everyone’s money by being a nasty little cut-throat swot!’ ‘Right!’ ‘Er . . .’ said Ponder, who rather suspected that he had been that child. ‘And don’t forget the presents,’ said the Chair of Indefinite Studies, as if reading off some internal list of gloom. ‘How . . . how full of potential they seem in all that paper, how pregnant with possibilities . . . and then you open them and basically the wrapping paper was more interesting and you have to say “How thoughtful, that will come in handy.” It’s not better to give than to receive, in my opinion, it’s just less embarrassing.’ ‘I’ve worked out,’ said the Senior Wrangler, ‘that over the years I have been a net exporter of Hogswatch presents—’ ‘Oh, everyone is,’ said the Chair. ‘You spend a fortune on other people and what you get when all the paper is cleared away is one slipper that’s the wrong colour and a book about earwax.’

-- Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Me and 3 or 4 other guys were stealing random shit and expensive gifts from a semi-abandoned Christmas festival held by a rich family that were my relatives somehow. Then in order to hide from the cops, we broke into a jail while wearing prisoners outfits because it was the only place in the world where they wouldn't search for us.

[wiirocku]

1 Timothy 5:8 (NLT) - But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.

[virtual111cutie]

hi hii baes 你好宝贝!! it’s bri !! today I’ll b talking about my desired body !!:3 I’m so excited since my body, I was always told by Chinese relatives that I was on the chubby side but it’s not my fault I loooveee food😭💗

I don’t know much about manifesting so I hope someone can help me this is all I know:

-circumstances don’t matter

-persist (I’m confused on how to do this)

-live in the end

anyways here is the dream bod !!

let’s all help eachother in manifesting !! don’t b shy text me love uuu 信任你!! 再见🤍💗！

[its-elvie-innit]

I realized I don't call my aunts' husbands or my uncles' wives anything but their name, and I don't think the rest of my cousins do either. Is this universal or just something my family does?

[graceofromanovs]

Tsarevna Maria Feodorovna of Russia with her sisters Alexandra, Princess of Wales and Princess Thyra of Denmark, 1874-1875.

Photographed by George Emil Hansen (1833-1891) via The Royal Collection.

Source Royalty In Colour

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Famous People related to Catherine, The Princess of Wales. 

Queen Elizabeth II - 10th cousin 3 times removed

Elizabeth Montgomery - 12th cousin 2 times removed

Diana, Princess of Wales - 13th cousin

Lewis Carroll - 13th cousin 4 times removed

Charles Darwin - 13th cousin 4 times removed

Sir Winston Churchill -  14th cousin 2 times removed

Dame Olivia de Havilland - 14th cousin 4 times removed

Katharine Hepburn -14th cousin 4 times removed

Helen Keller -  14th cousin 4 times removed

[weepingfoxfury]

If I were a rock, what rock would I be? Covered in ivy, sat beneath trees? ... Ambrose is the biggest rock that lives here ... not that he's in the pictures today ... he informed me that the concert last night had wrecked his rocky head, and that some of his relatives would be posing instead. Thelma is first, with Tring and Tryng at her feet ... then we have Wallace, whose smile is a treat ... and last we have Devlin who sang such a note, that the undergrowth came and gave him a coat. All rocks like to flock and so that is why, there's much to be said for the fact they can't fly ...

[krasivaa]

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia with her relative King George I of Greece, 27th September, year of 1900.

[jihiko-moore]

I decided to sketch Scourge's relatives for future answers

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went to my basement with my relatives, and we were chased by zombie Captain America who was laughing maniacally while shooting small explosions everywhere.