#the talk about grandkids

[thisismyroadtothethrone]

I haven’t gotten to watch the episode yet but I’m spoiling EVERYTHING!! I don’t even care I needed to know and I AM SCREAMING!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH YOUR HONOR!!

[yuri-is-online]

I’ve been skimming through fluff fics lately, and a fun little realization popped up in my mind. It’s not often people talk about the downs in a potential relationship with the twst boys. For the sake of a more realistic perspective, I’ve got to ask. Who do you think is most likely to unintentionally hurt Yuu and why? - 🦐

Hello my shrimpy friend! So nice to hear from you, hope you're doing well. Fan fic in general isn't very focused on portraying the negative parts of a relationship because it's a form of escapism. People don't necessarily want to picture themselves in a bad spot in a relationship if they already are in one in real life, yk?

That being said making mistakes is part of any relationship so I do have some thoughts! They/them used for Yuu as always, this is angst so proceed with care.

Azul- he doesn't have the healthiest mental framework surrounding friendships, and you do need to be friends with your SO to have a solid relationship. An actual relationship with Yuu would probably have a bumpy start as you two try to feel out what the dynamic is actually supposed to be. Take it slow and everything will be fine, but there might be some hurt feelings along the way. And a lot of assumptions from other people about your relationship that don't help either of you.

LEONA- he's a rude ass bitch who doesn't have great manners I am so sorry to this man. To be fair though I think a lot of that rudeness would be something that would take place before the actual relationship, because I firmly believe if it's pointed out to Leona by his partner that he has communication issues he's more than willing to work on that with them. He would be a good boyfriend! It's just all the conversations up to the actual going out that's painful and might ruin what he wants before he actually gets it.

Riddle- so I don't think Riddle's treatment of Yuu is what might hurt them exactly, his issues as always have to do with his mother. He needs to figure out exactly how he wants to deal with his childhood trauma and his adult relationship with her, but that's going to take a lot of time and personal growth. Mrs. Rosehearts seems like the type to try and continue running her son's life after he graduates so I can't see her treating Riddle's partner well. Going no contact with an emotionally abusive parent is really hard for their children to do, Riddle needs love and support but the journey can be emotionally draining for the person giving that support.

Sebek- again with the family thing. His parents sound like wonderful people but his Grandfather seems to only like his grandchildren because they're half fae and still actively hates his son in law. I can't see him treating Yuu any better, which I could see being very draining since Sebek and his grandpa are very close. It could also be a chance for Baul to change a bit, which would be nice.

Cater and Idia- I'm making them share a spot because similarly to Leona I think the major hurts would be caused pre-relationship, but unlike him I don't see their communication issues as being something that would affect the relationship in the same way going forward. Cater has a lot of insecurities and can be a bit shallow, but he is a good friend so once he accepts Yuu as a safe space to speak openly and honestly I don't see them as having too many issues. Idia is also shown to be very open and honest with Ortho, his self hatred, temper, and inferiority/superiority complex just get in the way of him letting anyone else in.

In general, a lot of the twst guys have communication issues which is something people can work through, but would still cause some pain. Something to think about I suppose σ(￣、￣=)

[fanaskher]

Gracie Selena Dieterich, Thee First Grandchild (between Lawson & Sinclair lol)

[red-racing-cars]

The power two rich white men (who also happen to be rivals since their childhood) hold over us should be studied

[cloverpurr]

the damn books arent even out yet and every time i see moonpaw, knowing now who her canon parents are, i just get more and more confused. why isn't she a nightsun kid? genuinely why?

we know warrior cats. we know that if they have the chance, they're going to make the protagonists become mates and have kits. that's something they've done since arc 2. not to mention that this arc, for 2 of the 3 protagonists, has been adjusting to and accepting the new rule of allowing cats to be mates with ones from other clans. they had the perfect opportunity to make moonpaw a nightsun kid, not only to fill the (honestly unfortunate) quota of "protagonists must get together at the end" and "she-cat protagonist must end with mate and kits", but also for her to be the first kit born after the new rule. the first half-clan kit to not be discriminated against for her bloodline.

but. instead we get... bayshine, who is to my knowledge a complete nobody, and... thriftear. also a complete nobody. not to mention they're cousins in at least 3 different ways. this arc we're on right now is almost over, too, and i know neither of them are relatively close with nightheart (or sunbeam, really) but we haven't even seen an OUNCE of character, romance, or even friendship between bayshine and thriftear. have they even interacted??? i know bayshine and nightheart have but have there ever been any background scenes of bayshine and thriftear together? sharing tongues, sharing a meal, even looking at each other with affection in their eyes, anyone commenting on them and being like "oh wow thriftear seems to really like bayshine!"? anything?

its just so confusing to me. i really, really don't get it. i mean say what you will about nightsun, i know some are happy she's not their kid, but her not being their kid is so so so confusing to me. i mean good on them for shaking things up a little but even still. very strange choice

[maeamian]

When I was a young excited physics student I went down to my advisor and asked for a job in a lab. Those of you who are in the sciences may recognize this as exceedingly common, most schools with science departments will hire undergrads for their labs both to give the undergrads experience and to have someone comparatively cheap to do the least skilled labor in those labs.

For me, the lab I was sent to was one doing cool photonics projects and I was assigned to a guy who was doing the theoretical modeling for them and I got put on a side project for them to develop a method to double check their results using Monte Carlo simulations.

Put bluntly, I toiled away in the little cubicle they had me in for about half a year before I transferred to a different school without ever having produced anything of any particular value other than a Monte Carlo simulation whose temperature readings were not taking into account the existence of a heat sink and therefore got overwhelmed by thermal photons in a completely inaccurate and unhelpful way.

Ultimately, many tasks, farmed out like this in a speculative way to undergrads, fail, certainly it's not exceptional that mine did and I learned a lot about the process in the process, so it wasn't wasted time for me, but it produced absolutely nothing the lab could use to further its results.

This is where it turns from a little anecdote about my work history into a morality tale, because what I have thus far deliberately failed to tell you is that the lab I was assigned to is a provider of radar services to the US Military. Had I produced anything of any value whatsoever the work I did would have been used by the US military to help with its capacity to deliver bombs. This is, unfortunately, as those of you who are in the sciences may recognize, also exceedingly common. Luckily, and through no foresight or moral thinking of my own, simply the inexperience of youth, I produced nothing of value but view the path they tried to set me down as a grim warning of what might have been.

I'm not asking for forgiveness, the harm I might have done was not done by me, although I'm also sure was done without my help. They didn't need it to be me they just needed someone with basic calculus knowledge who wouldn't think too hard about the connection between the work and the world, and they were happy enough that particular warm body was me.

So this is my plea, if you're young and getting involved in the sciences because you're passionate about knowledge and understanding our place in the universe. When you go to get that job in that lab that's such a good stepping stone to the next thing you want to do, take a second and look into where that lab's funding is coming from. If it turns out it's the military, maybe then take another second and really deeply consider what kind of thing your work can be used to do and if you would like some of the most bloodthirsty people on the planet to be able to do that thing because of your help.

I got lucky that I didn't help, but I'm hoping that with this warning you might be able to not help on purpose which is a greater moral good than what I managed.

[the-acid-pear]

We don't talk enough about Jake literally threatening to kill Jack in his evil route ending. Not just kill him but Brutally and Painfully so too.

Though considering to get this version of the ending you gotta also learn his backstory I suppose the scene is more of an Easter Egg some might've missed. Which is a shame... Literally one of the coolest moments imo.

[astro-b-o-y-d]

How pissed do you think Shermie was when he found out about what really happened with Stan and Ford???

[kuruna]

Sooooooooo messed up that Xanthos was a father at some point. I keep thinking about his sons 💔 idk how much I want to develop them as characters but I do think being a parent (and later a grandparent) impacted the way Xan interacts with the world ..... I also think he misses them dearly 😔

[weewoo911]

Me when I don’t necessarily disagree with a Take but I think it’s Important to acknowledge that it’s a headcanon and Not Explicitly Canon:

[shih-coulda-had-it]

Torino should've been a happy grandpa in the Shimura household with both Tenko and Hana on his lap listening as he tells them about Nana.

I’d go a step further and have Nana swan into the scene so she can bully Sorahiko about finally letting his sweet side shine in his old age, and to Hana and Tenko, they are definitively the Cool Grandparents (tm) because despite the ground rules of Kotaro’s house being Off-Limits to roughhousing, Sorahiko has zero qualms about scooting his grandchildren off his lap and tackling his partner (more recently, wife) of many years.

[wizardpink]

Thinking thoughts about these tags at work today.

[sheepydraws]

I think people like Martha Stewart's and Snoop Dogg's relationship so much because it has the zany quality of total opposites (suburban housewife/gansta rapper) while also making total sense (grandparents who are both involved in show business in unique ways and love good food)

[ineffectualdemon]

That time my grandma who when I was heavily depressed teenager took me aside and recommended crying in the shower so no one could use my tears against me "but you still get to cry"

I loved my grandma very much and she was very good to me and whether or not this advice was good long term I do recognise it's one person who was abused by their mother giving survival tips to someone else who was being abused

Whether or not she recognised thats what she was doing, that is what she was doing and I appreciate the emotion and intention behind it

[dont-hug-me-its-yuri]

Coffin and Choo Choo would be like the old lady and her mom from the chocolate with nuts SpongeBob episode

[fauvester]

Do lim and garak ever have a genuine bonding moment?

OUGHH I think he has to get a lot of his therapizing done offscreen and internally. He needs to put aside his anger and see his father and his contemporaries for the flawed-but-trying people they are. Iskra doesn't really help, but eventually 'if you'd been born into his position you would have done the same thing to protect Cardassia that he did, except worse, because he's smarter than you' settles in.

Garak has to learn to speak his mind more plainly because Lim sees his vague allusions and crafty lies as a cowardly way to hide unpleasant truths. Galactic politics necessitates that he tones his monomaniac Cardassian exceptionalism down, and eventually that may grow to reflect his genuine feelings (but if asked he will certainly lie, so who knows?) Lim needs to grow up a little, see that his parents are also just people trying their best like he is, and maybe go through the mundane trials of adult life on a stunned and recuperating planet to sand his edges off. It's very gradual.

Also tbh they need some time to develop things in common... Lim isn't very well read, doesn't like to talk for fun and is inconsistently disparaging of anything unnecessarily decorative. But eventually he develops an appreciation for creature comforts and realizes that that doesn't make him a bad person, and then he and Garak can debate about what color to paint the house siding or whether or not the azaleas will grow in full sun.

But he very much benefits from some good yadek hugs now and then...