This is just a rant about the things that happened in my life recently that I'm blaming on the ao3 authors curse
First of all, shortly upon posting those zero day fanfics my sister in laws mom DIES. She's not my partners mom, because them and their sister aren't related, but her mom dies and my spouse has to help deal with a lot of the fallout because that whole family is, for lack of better words, dysfunctional. And that woman left behind so much shit, and while her death makes almost everyone's lives more convenient as a whole, right now everything is so goddamn hectic.
Then, there's the neighbor kid. I've mentioned him before once, and I mentioned him other times to my lovely mutual Victoria, but I couldn't talk about the rest of this before due to...extremely complicated legal reasons, but I can now. My spouse and I became foster parents to take him in because his home situation was less than ideal and I've known him for 4 years now. And there's shit getting finalized but he doesnt have any other family around where we are and the family he does have is on a different continent, so we offered.
There were some issues regarding proximity, because we're technically neighbors, but because we're out in the country and are like 9 city blocks away from anyone else, we're THIS close to getting custody of him. Which is a good thing, but im scared because I dont know how to be a parent. I didnt grow up with good examples. But if it'll get him out of where he is and placed with people he KNOWS instead of with a random foster family, thats great.
I also learned today that my father is dying. He had a heart attack and is still technically alive, but hes being kept that way by machines. They wanna run tests before pulling the plug and I have to be the one to do that because my mom can't bring herself to.
I hate that man, but unfortunately hes still my father. I'm more worried about my mom than I am him.
