DNA Helicase

unzipping ur genes

[snekysonjr]

Dad nobody hurt me (Poseidon design by the great @neal-illustrator)

[absentcigarettes]

i cry ONCE whenever i listen to this musical and every single time its bcs polyphemus gets blinded

[sihbisu]

They

[absentcigarettes]

Take me back to 2011...

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

ive come to a realization that ive just gone in a circle

[absentcigarettes]

in all my years, i don't think ive ever seen something SO RELATABLE

[our-sinister-night]

Why do they do this to me

[zarstarss]

More Redfield pls!

<3

[tannedgerine]

i cannot believe he tried to deny his fatherhood abigail shouldve killed him with a rock

[zarstarss]

modern au character designs that toootally haven’t been sitting in the drafts for like… 2 months. no way no how

[absentcigarettes]

OH MY GOD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

[zarstarss]

just stuff that didn’t fit in for other posts in the works. rip heisenberg u would have loved tax evasion and starting arguments on the internet </3

[soursoppi]

baby is baby no matter the size or age

[absentcigarettes]

ugh, suddenly im 12 years old again, rediscovering mdzs 😭😭

[pinkysburg]

i love john but i sincerely have to fight the urge to push back any time someone insinuates he raised jack. abigail was a single mother from jack's birth to her death. john may have provided in protection and means but there is absolutely 0 indication he was ever prominently involved in the parenting aspect of jack's life and plenty of indications to suggest he wasn't present most of the time.

i grasp this is all he knows and likely how most fathers were but whenever i see sentiments about "john stepping up" or putting down arguments about who jack's father is by going "john raised him, jack is his." jack's his bc he is a carbon copy of john. but jack's proclamations about john not talking to him, spending time with him, running off and making underhanded remarks about his interests suggest that john has never truly been a present parent.

again, i love john! he did not raise that kid.

[yourleastfaveperson]

From all context clues from both games, John goes back and forth between being there to help, being around for Jack and disappearing for who knows how long and being emotionally distant. People seem to forget that even if John is there physically he isn’t exactly the most emotionally available person. He pulls Jack in only to push him away again.

John loves Jack but that doesn’t get across to Jack himself who in rdr1 says he knows John wishes he was different and “more of a man” and “more like him” to which John says thats not what he thinks at all and he never said that. And Jack says he may not of said it but thats what Jack thinks John feels. Through John’s actions thats what comes across. Jack makes several comments about how John starts teaching him one thing and then goes off somewhere leaving Jack to finish the learning all by himself.

Those aren’t the thoughts, feelings and words of a kid who had a present dad who raised him. Abigail raised Jack. She taught him what he knows, she gave him attention and love even when she was struggling. She was there from his birth all the way to her death.

John may love his son but he can’t get out of his own way to actually be there for his son.

Thats what makes rdr1 so so sad. John makes the promise that he will always be there for Jack and for once it truly genuinely seems like he’s going to stick to it. Even Jack starts believing so a little.

And then John dies.

Uuuuuugh these two make me physically ill

[meatjunior]

See but that description is not one of a "deadbeat dad". At least not in my opinion. A deadbeat doesn't care, is not present because they don't love their children more than themselves, or they don't try to be there for them. By your description John does love Jack and he tries over and over and fails to properly connect with his son. I'm not saying he's a perfect dad.

He isn't present but a huge point of the rdr series is how these people cannot seem to survive within society and its norms. Regardless of their good intentions now, they were criminals. John was a criminal. He was a wanted man, and then is used by the law and eventually killed despite wanting to be better and live better. Is that a situation in which someone is a perfect father?

John definitely makes some questionable choices because he is struggling to do what is right (right by his family, right by his morals, right by society) and it doesn't always add up. He and Jack are very different people. But again, in rdr we see John try. We see him tell Jack "he doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to do", tries to protect Jack by making sure that he understands the world he lives in is dangerous (which proves to be very true) because regardless of John's choices, men like agent Milton or Dutch will use whatever means to get what they want.

So no John is not an emotionally available father or the best father by any means, but a deadbeat? That's ridiculous imo.

I stg do not @ me about this either. I'm just ranting.

[pinkysburg]

you're on my post so i can @ you a little.

my tag about john being a deadbeat was tongue n cheek but since we brought it up.

what else do we call a man who abandons his child and the mother of his child for a year? what do we call him when he returns and spends several more years denying that kid is his and refuses to provide for him at all? because to ME that certainly sounds like it fits your initial description of a deadbeat. we forget, john's parenting resume didn't start at the end of rdr2, it started when his kid was born and he dicked around on him for 4 years and didn't tune in until jack got kidnapped.

i think i can call john a deadbeat. for fun.

[zarstarss]

figuring out how to draw grace while avoiding working on other stuff

[absentcigarettes]

WHYYY WONT THEY RELEASE IT ON PS4, PLEAAAASSSEEEEE 😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[pigeon-in-anguish]

who the fuck does he think he is walking around with those giant puppy dog eyes

[absentcigarettes]

like dude, im gonna fucking kiss u

[fearfulactor]

the two empty desk gets me every time.

[absentcigarettes]

is it just me who thinks Knox Overstreet looks exactly like James McAvoy in his 20s/30s??? because that's ALL i could think about whenever he came on screen

[figure45]

No hate obviously but idk how yall are shipping Knox and Charlie cause like that’s the same guy. They have the exact same face

[absentcigarettes]

i didnt realise they were different people till the scene where knox finishes reading his poem about chris and charlie pats his back. i was so confused as to why there were two of them 😭😭

[bebx]

TELL ME YOU SEE IT TOO

[urapiko]

This was rushed help-