#stepfamily

[mimosa-sex-tea-people-contrsf]

Why are people so weird about stepparents and step grandparents? Like I’ve actively had family tell me “you know he’s not your real grandpa right?” Like okay dude, genetic relationships aren’t everything but okay

[incognitopolls]

If your parent(s) divorced and remarried, do you like your step-parent(s)?

I have one step-parent and I like them

I have one step-parent and I’m neutral/mixed feelings on them

I have one step-parent and I dislike them

I have 2+ step-parents and I like both/all of them

I have 2+ step-parents; I like one, neutral/mixed feelings on the other(s)

I have 2+ step-parents and like one, dislike the other(s)

I have 2+ step-parents and am neutral/mixed feelings on all of them

I have 2+ step-parents and am neutral/mixed on one, dislike the other

I have 2+ step-parents and dislike all of them

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[forgottenstarlightwishes]

[[ Blitz is chronically a mess with impulsive and self destructive behavior but, the fact that he envisioned a Sinsmas with Stolas AND Octavia, along with him and Loona, speaks volumes. Man wants be with Stolas in his entirety. There are so many people who get into relationships with people with children from their previous marriage, but they never fully see or accept their partner's kids. Which leads to future tension between partners and children. Especially if a new child is brought in. Blitz is fully ready to accept all of Stolas, not just Stolas. He knows that what Stolas treasures the most, is Octavia, and like the parent who stepped up, he's ready to help, protect and include Octavia. Even if, as Stitch said, "- It's little, and broken, but still good.” ]]

[tradeofferperhaps]

Cat mom Bat family

IF SOMEONE WRITES THE FIC, I'LL DRAW IT:

Selina has married into the family! Seeing as Bruce is close to his kids and is doing his best to show them that he loves them every chance he gets, Selina also wishes to share the sentiment. Her and Damian’s love of cats is easy enough. They’ve even agreed that he doesn’t have to call her Mom since he still very much loves his very much alive one. Now, she has to manage a good relationship with the other Waynes. She’s known Dick his entire life as Robin and was skeptical about his involvement at such a young age all those years ago. He’s grown into a fine young man that she’s happy to have witness grow. She’s interacted with Jason the least as his time as Robin, and she only has basic information on his passing and return. A lost bird who found his way back to the nest. Not too distant that she can’t reach out to him. She’s interacted with Tim a decent amount of times throughout the years, but she hasn’t really felt like a mother figure for him. Given his situation of losing his mother, she wonders if he would appreciate knowing that she’s nearby and willing to offer an attempt at being a mother if he so wishes. Cass already has a mother with an estranged relationship. Doubt she needs another. Alright, Selina. Mission: Cat Family is a go.

(Bonus points if she gains each kid’s favor regardless of their approval actually affecting her marriage with Bruce.) It’s nice to have this family together and she’s more than happy to be a mother figure in their life if they so desire one. Especially the ones without a living mother. Not to replace! Never to replace.

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Initiation of Sarah (1978, Robert Day)

5/29/24

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Ideas #42: Game of Thrones, but make it Catelyn Tully

Let's be honest: there are a lot of terrible people in Game of Thrones. As someone once said, it's less pick your favorite character than pick your favorite war criminal. Yet the one character I can usually find few redeeming qualities for is, by comparison, one whose wickedness is most tame - Catelyn Tully. I just can't forgive her cruelty to Jon for the "crime" of being born someone else's son.

So I thought: what would it take for me to like Catelyn Tully as a person? Or: What would a Jon Snow raised by a loving stepmother look like?

Aka: The Rhaegar the Righteous Fic

Just imagine it:

Everything through Robert's Rebellion happens just as in canon, but with one exception: when Lysa Tully became pregnant by Petyr Baelish, her father did not force her to drink moon tea. As lowly as Hoster Tully thought Baelish is, he believes there is more shame in forcing his daughter to end her pregnancy than in allowing her to marry the father of her child.

But Baelish, still licking his wounds from Brandon Stark, refuses to marry Lysa - he still wants Catelyn's hand. So Catelyn is forced to watch her younger sister rage and then despair over Petyr's betrayal while still very much desiring her bastard child. This causes Catelyn's position on baseborn children to soften.

Lysa dies in childbed. Her child follows soon after. Catelyn is distraught.

When Ned returns from war with his own bastard, Catelyn resolves to treat Jon with all the love she would have given Lysa's son - though she still feels rather put out towards Ned about it.

Jon grows up loved by his stepmother - and this changes everything, for Catelyn is a Southron, Andal influence. Like Bran, Jon grows up wanting to be a Southron knight, and, like Sansa, is more faithful to the Seven than the Old Gods.

Ned, though leery of anything Southron - particularly where Jon is concerned - eventually consents to Jon earning his knighthood. Jon is sent to squire for Baelor Hightower, heir of Oldtown and eldest brother of Jorah Mormont's wife, Lynesse.

Jon's Southron knighthood should collide with his Northern ethics and morality in all the best ways - he should be the most honorable and chivalrous knight since Arthur Dayne, whom many assume to be his uncle.

The events of canon proceed apace. Robert dies, Ned is beheaded, and war breaks out.

Rather than rejoin his family, Jon stays with the Hightowers - Jon's position is that while it makes sense to rise against Joffrey for his actions, breaking away from the Seven Kingdoms makes them oathbreakers. He distinguishes himself in skirmishes with Lannister forces on the Westerlands borders for which he is knighted.

After Renly's death, Jon comes to the attention of Olenna Tyrell when, during discussions regarding which of the remaining factions to back, Jon argues for finding the nearest person of Targaryen blood and installing them on the throne rather than dealing with a heretic like Stannis or a madman like Joffrey.

Olenna has always had the vague suspicion that there was more to Ned Stark's bastard than meets the eye and something about this interaction causes her to look at Jon and go Targaryen - or at least plausibly Targaryen - and all of a sudden the Reach and half of the Stormlands is rising in the name of Rhaegar's posthumous son.

Eventually proof comes from the Citadel and the Neck that Jon is Rhaegar's son - also named Rhaegar - but at the time Jon is highly uncomfortable with what he sees as deception. He only agrees to go along with it because 1) Olenna manages to convince him it's the truth and 2) it's the only way he gets to marry Baelor's oldest daughter, Elinor Hightower, with whom he is in love.

Without the Tyrells backing the Lannisters, nearly all the Seven Kingdoms - minus Dorne and King's Landing - fall to Reacher forces. The Red Wedding happens before Jon is forced to deal with Robb's own kingship and Jon retakes the North before turning his forces against Joffrey and his Essosi mercenaries.

Jon is crowned King Rhaegar the Righteous and marries his beloved, Elinor Hightower, in a brilliant dual ceremony in the Sept of Baelor. His reign is always known as a period of prosperity in Westeros during which the Seven come to dominate the Seven Kingdoms. There's a decidedly Camelot bent to later histories of this period.

Daenerys never tries to retake Westeros, but instead builds a - slave free - Valyrian empire in Essos. This eventually comes to be Westeros' great rival and many wars are fought between them over control of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea, but in its early years both branches of House Targaryen intermarry frequently.

Bonuses include: 1) Jon and Elinor falling in love while he squires for her father, but realizing nothing can ever come from it and having a very UST-filled courtly romance until they're finally given leave to marry after he's named king; 2) Jon and Elinor's first daughter being named Catelyn, after his beloved stepmother; 3) Heavy overtones of Arthurian myth, with the faith of the Seven taking the place of Christianity, up to and including the King in the Mountain following Jon's death; and 4) no one being more surprised than Olenna Tyrell when it turns out Jon really is a Targaryen.

And that's all I have. As always, feel free to adopt, just link back if you ever do anything with this bun.

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[lydia-seong]

Step-mother

Dominique Verlice (58) FC: Yasmine Al Massri

[greenfleeze]

It would’ve great to see a version of Cinderella where she tells off her stepmother like this. Lady Tremaine had it coming.😂