#family dysfunction

[thebibliosphere]

Childhood friend texted me and asked how I’m doing and I said, oh, y’know. Eyeing the path that leads up to the Iron Age fairy mound we warned never to go near as kids, and going up there to scream my full government name because anything is better than this.

Anyway. She’s on the next train down. So that’s nice.

[wenzelsays]

Poison the Water

dcxdp fic idea

Poison Ivy is Sam's Aunt.

This is not something that was talked about in her household. The mere mention of "that woman" causing Pamela to break whatever was in her hand and go deathly pale.

Sam had only met the woman a few times, and not once since she had moved to Amity. She never even told her friends. Not that the going- ons of Gotham or the inner workings of her family came up very often-especially after the portal opened. And she knew her friends would badger her about it. And then badger her mother when her answers were lacking. So, for all she didn't get along with her parents, even she wasn't cruel enough to put that look on her mother's face on purpose.

So she held her tongue and did her best to keep her family stuff away from her friends.

Once the portal opened (once Danny died)(once she killed her friend), it was even easier. None of them had any time to breathe, much less inquire into the inner workings of each others families.

It didn't matter that the infamous Gotham Rogue (or was it anti-hero or morally grey reformed citizen? these days?) was related to her. Amity had its own brand of crazy. And what was a human criminal (however reformed) when you had ghosts coming out of a hole in your friends basement? What was theft and kidnapping compared to possession and being pulled into another dimension? What was her Aunt being crazy compared to her friends own parents shooting at him? What was whatever her Aunt did to put that look on her mom's face compared to her killing her best friend? What was a rogue to a superhero?

So, it didn't matter. It wasn't relevant. She did her best to forget about it.

And then she was at a gala in Gotham.

And suddenly Poison Ivy being her Aunt was really fucking relevant.

[moefulunc]

“oh, we can fight like we used to fight, boney-limbed, red-faced, and teary-eyed.”

[existential-dreamer]

Mother,

You threw me to the wolves, so I became one. But I do not run with a pack. I am a lone wolf, treading through the cold, dark night that is my life, with the moon following close by my side.

Moon became my mother. Moon has nurtured me and to her I scream. She held the light you never gave, and taught my heart how to be brave through every phase.

My howls echo leaving ripples through this empty space. All I wanted was to find a place to call my home. But you showed me how to be alone. You taught me survival through every cold denial, and from the scraps of what you left for me, I built the strength that you would never see.

My scars show all of the frost that I have met, the bitter nights of longing, loss, and regret. Yet,... like the wolf through winter's sting, I will rise again with every spring.

[rojowrites]

fox news dad or catholic church mom

[dizz0]

Characters who resent their abusive family and openly show disdain towards them because of what they did are great, but I wish there were more characters who still care about their family despite how abusive they are. I'm not promoting this, but I do wish there were characters who- despite everything they went through- still care about their family dearly, and maybe feel guilty because of it. Maybe they know what their family did was wrong, but they're too scared to leave them or they care about them too much to cut contact. Not that they can't leave, they definitely can, they are just too forgiving or too close to their family to do so. Just a small family dynamic thing I wish was explored more in media

[abbielauren2024]

“Good Kid, Bad Kid”

Hey everyone! I decided to try my hand at TMNT 2012 art, so this is my first time trying to draw these guys but I was pretty happy with how it turned out. The Japanese translates to “Good Kid” on Leo’s side and “Bad Kid” on Raph’s side.

I genuinely love these two’s dynamic, like how each had struggles in this unhealthy family function but some were more hidden than others. For instance, yes Leo was favored by Splinter but he was also given the task of being like a father to his brothers and had to be willing to sacrifice himself at any point. Raph, on the other hand, was clearly known as the rebellious and impulsive brother and had to watch his father give Leo more attention along with the leader role, watching with envy from the outside in and not knowing the full picture—just knowing that he was hurt.

Both harmful roles to play, yet both hard for the other to understand.

I hope you enjoy! ^^

[kuekuatsu394]

Okay, I have another fic prompt that no one asked for but im sort of obsessed with. Forgive the pic, its one I threw together with Google pics to drive my idea. [ Also, I know that Ilya's niece is unnamed in the show but i kind of adore the name Ekaterina, not only does it end close to Irina, but it means pure and the short version (Katya or Rina) is too cute. ] So, if anyone is up for writing this please please please let me know because id love to read it. [ Also, I am not Russian so I did have to research the krestnye roditeli verbage and tradition for godparents, so the Kum is a godfather and that is what Ilya is to his niece in this drabble.]

So, Ekaterina is roughly sixteen in the story line. She has been in secret contact with her uncle Ilya for a few months, ever since her mother left her and her father. She had to hide the fact that they were speaking because a few years prior, when they were on the brinks of being kicked out of their home, he caught her mom on the phone with Ilya asking him for help. He was so angry. They were screaming at eachother and then he hit her, and then she mentioned that if it weren't for his obsessive gambling and drug addiction, they wouldn't be nearly homeless. He ended up hitting her again and storming out, Ekaterina spent the night curled up to her mother crying. It happened a few more times until finally, about six months ago, Rina came home from school to find a note from her mother saying that she couldn't do it anymore. At the bottom was her uncle Ilya's phone number. Her mother had always told her stories about him and how he was some sort of angel in comparison to the rest of the family. She had grown up sharing his names and watched all of his hockey matches, but it was the stories her mother told her that she loved the most. How he used to visit while she was pregnant and would bring her all of her favorite cravings as well as a new playlist to play over her belly. Her mother told her that he was Rina's Kum, whether her father agreed or not. Anyways, skip to now, Rina has been secretly accepting help from Ilya in order to keep everything together at home. Her father has been heavier in to drugs and drinking, most nights barely making it in to the house. She goes to school, comes home and cooks and cleans. She uses the funds from Ilya to pay the bills and stock the home with necessities. She lies and tells Ilya that the money is for fieldtrips and dances, anything to keep him from worrying, or worse coming to see whats really going on. She thinks she is doing a good job handling it all until one day she goes to wake her dad and he isn't there. Figuring that he has stayed out gambling or tricking about, she lets a day or two pass before going to his colleagues. A week passes before two uniformed politsiya arrive at the door. Her father was found in the morgue, apparently the debt had gotten worse and the people he owed got tired of waiting for his next excuse.

Jump to Canada, Shane is in the kitchen making breakfast when there is a faint knock at the door. Hands full, he uses siri to show him the ring image and suddenly he drops everything. Ilya shouts from the bedroom about something but Shane can't make sense of it as he stares at the image of the blonde haired girl. He recognizes her from the photos that Ilya has shown him, but is still floored at her image on their doorstep. Ilya rounds the corner patting his damp curls with a towel/ "Aren't you going t-" he stops when he realizes the mess and Shane's face. Shane shakes out of it and walks to him, just four feet from their front door. "What is going on?" Ilya asks full of concern, and Shane can only manage "It's her" before he's at the door.

[Anyways, that essentially the major points, as jumbled as they are. She ends up telling Ilya and Shane everything through tear soaked apologies. Anya is curled in the young girls lap, at times whining against her in support, other times licking her hand or cheek. At some point Shane allows them to have some time together as he privately goes to the spare room and quickly begin making it up for her to stay. Once he has made it up to be habitable, he's on Amazon searching for everything he can think that a 16yo girl may need or want in her own room. And yeah, kind of free reign from there. So yeah, let me know if anyone else is into this darker, angsty kind of story line that pays off in to the sweetest little adopted family dynamic with our favorite boys as Ekaterina's dads.]