Some Reality Web

I never want to be 7 again. I was a brat.

[Lydia]

I'm really sorry. You were amazing and I'm just sorry... for everything.


[Cora]

I really am sorry for messing with your stuff. Any chance I'm allowed back in your room, or am I going to be paying for this for a while?

Tomorrow is Goodland's National Adoption Day. Shout out to all adoptive parents, step-parents, foster parents, bonus parents, butlers --- you get the idea. Yinsen, the doctor who saved my life in Afghanistan, asked me if I had a family back home. I hesitated, but said no because my parents had long been gone by that point. Hell, I may have said no even if they were alive. It, however, wasn't quite true. Three people greeted me on my return to the states --- the three people who have stood by me for far longer than any sane person would. Pepper, Rhodey, and Happy were family, but I was too much of a shit head to admit it then. Too scared to admit it. Joining the Avengers showed me another sort of family. Dysfunctional, sure, but family nonetheless. I usually felt like the red-headed stepchild, but that started to change near the end of--- during the time heist. My daughter, of course, showed me I could somehow not screw up a kid's life, but a certain young man started planting those seeds several years earlier. Mentoring Peter is something I will never regret. I fucked up sometimes, but we all do. He still showed me that fatherhood could be in the cards for me. Now I'm here. I'm lucky. I have Pepper and Rhodey and many of the Avengers. However, I also have bonus kids I love more than anything.

Hang in there, bonus parents. It is not always easy being a stand-in, but no one said family was easy. Still, as often as it is messy and hard, it is pretty damn good.

Goodland, huh? Was Kidnapped Land taken?

I appreciate you waiting until Sindr was sent packing but Fire Giant + fire goblins = huge mess, so send me back.

SAM WINCHESTER

I need to be shit faced, do you want to come? Also you cannot ask questions while drinking. New rule.

NAT

I gotta go out for a bit. I will probably come home back a lot drunk and maybe slightly moody. Please knock me out if I’m annoying. This is complicating things Unless you want to come drinking with my depressive ass and the moose that manages to set fire to things when he looks at them?

I never hid the fact that I was a foster kid. It’s not something that ever occured to me to do so honestly.

I know that most recently quite a few of you got a glimpse of who I was before Rosa and Victor took me into their home… both of them had been foster children as well. I was nearly twelve years old when they took me in-- and I was past the ‘ideal range’ for a successful child adoption, and on top of that I had a slew of issues that made it very likely that I would age out of the system before they could find a home that would take me.

But that wasn’t the way that Rosa and Victor were. They wanted the children that they system seemed to be disillusioned with. Kids like I who didn’t trust others, stole and cursed and fought, kids who seemed “unadoptable”. There were six of us.

Adoption basically saved my life, and I hope to one day do the same.

My family has been on my mind a lot lately. I miss them. I miss having pictures and all sorts of things, especially on days like today.


[Freddy]
You know that grilled chicken and pineapple stir fry bowl thing that Victor used to like to make? I found a recipe for something similar online today and I was considering making it for dinner tonight mostly because I’ve been thinking about them a lot.

What do you think? Wanna help?

That was... something?

[Luther]

Hey.

I have been fighting with myself for a long time... this is something that I am told I ... do not deal well with in my time either.... I believed the term they used was 'Fat Thor'. This is something that I am... striving to do better with... but I have been varied in my success.


I was pondering what my father might think. Or my mother. I wondered if I were still worthy to lift my hammer. But I still decided to run an errand or two after work.


I must say, I would appologize to Gwen and Angela, but I am not sorry---- this is Mjolnir:




Added sometime later

[Filtered to the Entity]

Clint Barton is currently missing his family. I think he would appreciate it if you were to send pictures of his wife and children. As many as you can get, I suppose.

Thank you

So, that happened.

DARCY

Hey. I hope this isn't... weird.

FIVE

We should work on the thing. Maybe we should ask Vanya if she wants to help.

There's nothing like remembering being in college and then suddenly being 17 again to make a girl really tempted to just get her GED and say screw the rest of this high school sh stuff.

I mean, it's weird to remember being older in general.

Still with the homework. You'd think the teachers would take it easy on me considering the whole extenuating circumstances thing. And this English essay is [...] rude. I don't do speeches for a fucking reason.

[KIDS AND TEENS -18]
How'd you deal with bullies back home?

There's something to be said for perspective. Going back to a time where I didn't feel the weight of responsibility so much, it was ... enlightening. I grew into this, it wasn't dumped on me like I sometimes end up thinking. I've gone through the motions and pushed to this.

From Ms Marvel to Warbird to Binary to Captain Marvel. It's... it's a journey I can't help but be proud of. I guess going back to that for a while, remembering what it was to push further and harder and strive for this, because I knew I could do it, helps.

That being said, sorry if the light was bothering anyone, and to whomever knows the purple dragon? It was nice to have a companion up there who didn't mind the heat.