BellaSwanHotTake- Numero Uno

BellaSwanHotTake™️- Numero Uno

jacob: *gives bella a high five*

bella: *high fives him back* *regrets it* “ouch”

jacob: “are you okay? what happened?”

bella: “oh, i’m fine. burned myself.”

jacob: “how?”

bella: *mumbles incoherently*

jacob: “huh?”

bella: “i was making charlie some banana bread and i pulled the tray out of the oven because i thought i had oven mitts on. i did not.”

jacob: “….”

jacob: “so common sense is pretty uncommon for you, huh?”

seth, who is sitting across from them, eating a slice of banana bread: *concerned chewing*

Sometimes you guys have the worst takes on Bella. And they are all STRETCHES.

Fam, I’m not even lying

I have a scar on the length of my thumb cuz my dumbass tried to pry open a crab leg with my bare hands and am stupid

scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

Lmfao, the chaos twins before Bella!

Emmett, in a high voice and holding a Barbie: Hey ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!

Alice, in a low voice and holding Ken: Nonsense Barbie, you are staying home and having my kids.

Edward: What the fuck are you guys doing?

Alice: playing systemic oppression.

the entirety of breaking dawn part 2 was so boring bc her life was just so perfect and her only issue was her family dying from the volturi (they didn’t) and her daughter aging to death (she wont)

vampire bella could’ve been so much. and ended up being so little

I'm just saying everything about vampire!bella is a copout.

Ranking the Losers Club Member’s Family Dynamics

(this focuses primarily on the book content, but there are heavy mentions of both the miniseries and reboot movies)

((DISCLAIMER: this is not in any way meant to compare any of their separate traumas that they’ve endured, I only mean to judge their parents and essentially create an analysis of my theoretical reasoning as to why each of them relies on the club. also to point out the inaccuracies of fanfic authors. thx))

Least to Most Healthy

7. Obviously in dead last is Beverly Marsh. While I see nothing with single-parent households or single dads raising their daughters alone, this does not apply to the way Alvin Marsh treats his daughter. And in this case, Beverly’s mother Elfrida not being in the picture has a negative and traumatic toll on the way Beverly’s childhood plays out. The 1986 book version has Alvin abusing Beverly while her mother is out working, making Elfrida neglectful but in proximity to Beverly’s pain. In the movie, Alvin’s resentment of Beverly stems from him blaming her for Elfrida’s death and his projection of his late wife onto Beverly is both disgusting and abusive. This toxic dynamic ends up negatively affecting a good portion of her life by stunting her emotional and mental development as it comes to understanding how healthy relationships work. As a child, she doesn’t have a single female friend (which is not bad) because of her class and her rumored promiscuity. Even upon meeting her new found family consisting  of the Loser’s Club, she is unable to recognize healthy and innocent romantic relationship cues from Ben, who unabashedly admires and respects her. As an adult, she is forced to endure several toxic relationships because she has always related abuse and negligence to love. Fortunately for Beverly, Alvin ends up dying and she and Ben end up creating a new family.

6. Eddie Kaspbrak earns the 6th spot on this list. A lot like Beverly, his single-parent household is a large factor as to why his family dynamic is so toxic and unhealthy. His father’s death causes his mother Sonia to spiral and take a deep mental plunge that she drags Eddie into. Because of this, Eddie becomes a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a disorder that his mother has. Essentially, she shifts herself into the role of caregiver by imposing psychosomatic illnesses onto Eddie just so he’d stay with her. Sonia’s disorder causes her to exhibit all of the classic and well-known tactics used by abusers, such as isolating Eddie from his friends and gaslighting him about his supposed illnesses. Though he does end up eventually standing up to her, and standing up for his friends, Sonia’s treatment of Eddie impacts him well into his adult life. He ends up marrying a woman named Myra for the sole reason that she is like his mother, although he harbors no love for her. Both Myra and Sonia are visually identical, though the similarities do not end there. Like his mother, Myra is manipulative and over worries herself over Eddie’s health. He even goes so far as to call her “Mommy” on accident. Eddie clearly has deep-seated issues regarding his mother that he unfortunately never got to work through.

5. This member may be a more controversial analysis as we don’t get much interaction between him and his parents, and his character background doesn’t involve his parents. In any case, Stanley Uris is the last of the tail end of the worst family dynamic. It can be argued that a large part of what makes Stanley himself is the fact that he holds himself to high standards, I disagree. As we see in the book, the miniseries, and the movies, Stan is a logical, rational, skeptical young man who takes the longest to accept that It is an actual threat. The movies definitely do not take much liberty in deepening the characters’ relationships with their parents, besides them being largely neglectful, but Stan’s parents are seen and mentioned to a degree more than the other Losers. In my opinion, this was a good thing because it adds layers to Stan’s character and why he acts the way he does. His father is strict and unrelenting when it comes to the way Stan practices their religion, even going as so far to imply that Stan is incompetent for not being able to properly read from the Torah. In a way, it is almost understandable as to why Stanley’s father pressures him so much, as I doubt that Derry in the 60′s-80′s was very accepting of the Jewish religion. As presumably the only Rabbi to a small and close knit congregation in a small minded town full of prejudice, Stanley’s father had much to lose in terms of respect and status, which of course does not excuse mistreating his own child. This mistreatment negatively affects Stanley as he develops into having unhealthy standards for himself. His is an obsessive perfectionist, logical to the point of being obnoxious, and deep inside himself, a coward. Stand devolves into a mindset that if he isn’t perfect, he shouldn’t try at all. This is displayed when he kills himself as an adult. He is so afraid of being afraid, of potentially letting his friends down that he doesn’t want to live with the consequences if he were to fail them. I really do wish I was able to talk to these kids. 

4. Smack in the middle of the list is our favorite Stuttering Bill Denbrough. He gets middle place because of how inconsistent his parents’ involvement in his life was. It was said that before Georgie died, they were all a happy and loving family, which would’ve given him a higher place on this list if not for obvious reasons. After Georgie’s death, his parents are suddenly cold and withdrawn, hardly noticing if he’s around. This causes Bill to draw the conclusion that his parents also blame him for Georgie’s death. Coupled with the guilt he is already struggling to deal with, his parents benign neglect pushes Bill into being unable to properly grieve Georgie and sets him on a destructive path of vengence. A large part of the reason why Bill wants to kill it so badly (besides Georgie) is that he hopes that killing Georgie’s murderer will make his parents pay attention to and love him openly again. This neglect continues well after It’s initial demise at the hands of the Loser’s Club, until Mr. and Mrs. Denbrough, along with Bill, forget about the horrific circumstances surrounding Georgie’s murder. While I don’t think their treatment of Bill affects him much in the long run, it is important to note that Bill doesn’t fully repair his relationship with either of his parents before their deaths.

3. Halfway done and only two to go, Ben Hanscom makes it into the top three of this overly long and detailed ranking. There’s not much to say about his relationship with his family, which is honestly a good thing considering the rest of this list so far. Though Ben never really got to know his father, he greatly admired him and held his father to high standards. Ben is shown to love his mother very much, a feeling she reciprocates, but he does hold a light resentment towards her for forcing him to move to Derry against his wishes. Upon meeting Beverly and becoming a part of the Loser’s Club, he quickly forgets his aggravation towards his mother and aunt for coddling his bratty cousin and forcing him to live in Derry. As an adult, though largely successful and more confident in his looks due to losing the weight that made him a target for bullies, Ben is notably lonely. I feel like Ben’s relationship with his mother instilled an internal desire for Ben to have a family of his own, which isn’t a bad thing at all. Just something I noticed.

2. Mike Hanlon is a close second, as he has a pretty healthy relationship with his family. In the book, he lives with his mother and father, along with his aunt, uncle and grandfather. He lives next door to Henry Bowers and his father, which is a large point of contrition between the two as Henry’s father regularly hurled racial insults and long-winded rants of his hatred toward Will Hanlon. This influenced Henry into hating Mike the same way, even going so far as so kill Mike’s dog with rat poison. Due to this bullying, Mike’s family opted to send him to their fellowship’s church school, as Mike was the only African American boy in Derry. This unintended isolation made Mike lonely, though he loved his family dearly. In the miniseries, we do not see Mike interact with anyone outside of the Losers Club and the Bowers Gang. In the movies, Mike witnessed his parents die in a fire when he was young, which traumatized him. He and his grandfather do not get along so well, as Mike’s grandfather feels like Mike should be learning how to make harder decisions and “be a man” like Will was. As an adult, Mike chooses to stay in Derry even after all of his friends leave because he feels a responsibility to both his friends and to the children of Derry that suffered because of Pennywise.

1. I’m sure it surprised a great many people, but yes, Richie most definitely had the healthiest family dynamic. Wentworth and Maggie Tozier were loving and attentive parents who dotted on and supported Richie considerably. This was actually noticeably strange behavior as almost none of the parents in Derry were super into their kids’ happiness and health. Wentworth enthusiastically joined in when Richie did his voices and while Maggie didn’t fully get Richie’s hyperfixation with doing voices, she made every effort to understand and support him. This could potentially explain why Richie held such a laidback point of view of Pennywise and didn’t take the threat as seriously as he should have. Unlike most of the Losers Club, Richie had loving parents who had a steady and constant flow of income. Sure, he was bullied for having glasses and buck teeth, but Richie rationalized and saw the upside to what others saw as flaws. While he did need and love and want to be apart of the Losers Club, he didn’t see it as an escape or an outlet like the other kids did. As an adult, Richie’s nonchalance about Pennywise’s return could factor into false bravado as well as the realization that his life isn’t affected by Pennywise anymore regardless. 

Headcanon for Encanto

(Psst, lemme know if anyone else had the same one, this occurred to me yesterday and I haven’t seen any content similar or the same))

What if the reason that the Casita was breaking was because it sensed Abuela Alma was dying? It wanted her to fix her relationship with her family and reunite Bruno with the family before she passed so she’d rest peacefully. Mirabel would be the one to inherit the candle and take over as the Madrigal Family Matriarch, so in a sense, she was the one who had to fix it from as an outside source. It makes sense, the house responds to her better than anyone (but that could just be because most of the movie is entirely from her perspective) and she talks to it as if it actually speaks to her; she understands it.

This occurred to me when I was listening to Dos Oruguitas, which plays during the scene on which Alma and Pedro’s relationship is recounted to Mirabel, and his death, and then when Mirabel makes up with Alma. The entire song describes the basis of their relationship; how they met, fell in love, and then were torn apart. If you listened to the English version or read the translation, you would find the lyrics “don’t you hold on too tight, both of you know it’s your time to grow, to fall apart and reunite, wonders await you, just on the other side, trust they’ll be there and start to prepare for your tomorrow”. For most of the movie, you’d assume that Abuela was already a butterfly, she had to grow and become stronger for her family, but at the end of the song, once Mirabel and Abuela “reunite” the lyrics change from “oruguitas” to “mariposas”; from caterpillars to butterflies. Abuela emerging from her chrysalis and becoming a butterfly is a metaphor for her preparing to reunite with Pedro, and her “preparing for tomorrow” is accepting that her family is more than the miracle, that they don’t need powers to be safe, and making Mirabel her successor.

It’s really sad and really romantic and I wanted to share it to see if it was just something that was obvious from the context.

Also, if y’all want some Madrigal fanfic (no incest, and no smut for the minors- they can be aged up, but I will absolutely not write any sort of romantic relationships for Antonio bc he’s baby no matter what -bc gross) I’ve got some ideas and I’ll probably be posting my OCs sometime today