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Real sexism is not sexy.

Real sexual harassment is not hot, it’s awful.

Real women don’t owe you anything for simply existing.

If you’re doing anything without consent, you are objectively wrong, vile, and a predator.

doodles of the girls!!! i do really love drawing em, and i want to keep doing so cus they are so easy and fun to draw.

the Emily drawing was just a test for a mini redesign/personal design head canons idkk. I wanna draw her again and try to make it more similar to the shows design with a few tweaks of my own

i also really wanna draw Chaggi cus god i do really really love em a lot they are so cute

Okay, I do have HCs about their families in general, but I don't really like to lock into these, just because I'm a contrarian, and I also come from families where there was, like, a lot of moving around the world, foster care, adoptions both official and unofficial, blended families, unconventional structures, etc. So I just think every family is so different, and I am very malleable about it. But here's what I've got for ya:

Velvette

For Velvette, I HC her as being British Caribbean (specifically Jamaican, 'cause there's 'nuff of us, and I'm Jamaican, but I'm open lol), and her being descended from the Windrush generation. I think she's a 2nd gen xillenial, and her mum came as a child, whereas her dad came as an adult.

I think she would be close to her maternal aunt and uncle, and her mum's side of the family is, like, very pro-Black, and instilled a very strong level of confidence and consciousness from a young age, and basically encouraged 'black excellence' and exceptionalism in her. I feel like maybe either her aunt or uncle would have been influenced by some of the Rastafari ideas, but not actually been themselves. One of them would've been very pan-Africanist and political, and maybe her mum was the spiritual and superstitious one, which kind of pushed Velvette in the witchcraft direction.

I feel like her parents split up, and she's her mother's only daughter, but her father went on to have more kids and whatnot. He never made much of himself, and Velvette viewed him as unremarkable, ignorant and pitiful. Like he's not a deadbeat or anything, and she sees him on the weekends and holidays throughout her childhood, but she comes to just look down on his life through her exceptionalist lens.

I feel like on his side of the family, there's also just hella drama all the time and stuff, and I imagine they, and whatever stepmother figure was around during her teenage years, are quite conservative and religious (see: homophobic, rife with internalised anti-blackness... maybe the stepmother during her teen years was even white). Basically, living up to her surname is her worst nightmare. So I feel like as she got older and was no longer obligated to, she kind of just drifted from her dad's side of the family. To her father, Velvette is a deadbeat daughter.

And then she dies extremely young and is now not just her father's deadbeat daughter, but both her parents' actual dead daughter. So. Yeah. I think the funeral would be crazy drama, with her dad's side blaming her mum's side for doing blasphemy and witchcraft, and saying that kind of stuff. But Velvette is missed dearly by both parents and sides of her family, and left pure misery and trauma in her wake.

I imagine her parents are still alive as we speak, but I imagine Mama Vel goes up; not sure about her dad. Depends on what counts for Hell-worthy sins.

Valentino

Valentino, very much influenced by how I like to imagine his dynamic with Lucifer, I HC as having a deadbeat dad. But like Velvette, I imagine he was close with his extended family. But even more, because I HC Velvette's aunt and uncle in London being kind of outcast and all over the place (as in, if they travel around, if they have kids, they're not near Velvette, probably only one of them has a child anyway), whereas Valentino's family were more traditional in the sense that he had cousins his age that he was close with, and his family in general were just more traditional kind of people. Also, you know, the time era differences... I imagine assimilating, sticking together, and supporting each other would've been prominent themes in Val's childhood, and he had a lot of weight on his shoulders as a 2nd-generation immigrant in mid-century USA, and as the eldest (only?) son. Growing up, he was his mother's 'man', and they were a team.

I think, on the whole, his mother tried her best to be a good person, and their relationship became fraught when Valentino started dealing, but especially pimping (this is obvi a HC too lol). With his mother especially, but many of the elders in his family, it became a thing of morals vs money, especially because they were religious. Just lots of drama, and I can imagine the last time Val saw his mother was very emotional and devastating. Definitely feel like Val has a complex about all that, and is at a baseline very needing of affirmation that he is lovable as he is (an evil fucker), because the conditional nature of love was made explicit by the family he adored so much for like 20+ years of his life.

And when Val dies, the family mourns him, but there's also some 'good riddance ' and 'it was going to happen one of these days' energy going around. His mother mourns; I think she feels guilty for how he turned out, but also comes to feel less stressed when he's gone. She misses her little boy, not the man he became. In a way, she was mourning for a really long time already, and there's some catharsis with his death. Mama Val is in Heaven.

Vox

I feel like it's ridiculous to HC all three Vees as being only children on a statistical level, which just shows you how unimaginative I can be, but whereas with Velvette and Valentino, I'm very up in the air about their siblings, I really do think Vox was an only child.

Whereas Valentino and Velvette got to enjoy the sweet, sweet peace of separation, Vox's parents were not in love, but together out of social obligation. I really imagine something like Beatrice Horseman and Joseph Sugarman (they are daughter and father in Bojack, but I mean extract their personalities, and that's what I imagine for Vox's parents), except Vincent wasn't a mistake; he was very, very purposeful. His mother was subjugated in her own house, dependent on her husband, and for all intents and purposes, their marriage was normal. I feel like she kind of despised Vincent for it and felt very exhausted to be tethered to a son, and an energetic one. Like, for all her trouble, she could have at least had a daughter to vicariously live through, is how she feels.

I feel like Vox got his ass whooped to hell and high water for not being man enough by his father's standards. Basically, no matter what he did, one of his parents wouldn't be happy with him. I don't think Vox was a sporty type, but if he tried to please his father, his mother would be against it and think (hope) that he would fail at it. I feel like he just learned how to blend in, do whatever the world expects on the surface, knew how to be a typical person, but always felt unfulfilled and unremarkable (yes, I have deliberately re-used this word here, teehee).

I feel like he loved movies as an escape from that feeling of being unspecial, for about an hour and a half. This also ties into my HC about him being a cultural appropriator and a stereotyper/fetishiser; he's just very enamoured with the stereotypical portrayals in films (not just of race, like of all sorts of groups, e.g. cowboys) because they're exciting or 'exotic' to him. I also think he liked to keep up with science and technological developments/was a futurist, just always hoping tomorrow he'll wake up in the middle of a science-fiction adventure. I also think he was probably pretty progressive (largely because he found the restrictive mainstream that he was trying to fit himself in to be dull and suffocating), which put him at odds with his parents. In their eyes, convention = survival.

The point when TV is about to blow up, and he's onto it, I think he starts imagining himself as the famous star, hence going for the weather job and trying to catch the wave early. And I think his parents would actually be pretty satisfied with that. But they created a black hole in their son already, so that's not enough for him. And I think once he went from the news anchor to a talk show host, his relationship with his parents worsened even further, because he's this 'big shot', and they're bitter about him making it his own way, when they have sacrificed their happiness to live by the book.

The nail in the coffin is the cult thing. Unlike Val's family when he goes off the deep end, they don't beg for him to find God and be a decent, normal person and whatnot; they're just like, "Welp, that's our failure, and he's out of our hands now." Also, they're bitter that he's not sending them cult money.

I bet once he died, they did interviews about him and tried to get a moment of glory in his downfall. In the end, he was the highlight of their lives, the only exciting thing. But Vincent's memory is more of a spectacle to them; they don't miss their son... deep down, they're strangely proud and jealous of him for dying that way. Not consciously, but they're happiest with him dead, and they die not too long after. Normal deaths.

I bet they're in Hell, and they're Vox zealots, but none of them ever recognised each other. But his parents were like, "Waowwww, that Vox guy really reminds me of my son. He was an abject failure and insane. And his suits were so ugly. And he loves blacks and queers a disturbing amount." It's like a very weird thing, where they only have negative things to say, but they buy whatever VoxTek is selling and are just part of the faceless masses, as was their goal in life.

I guess in a way, Vox inherited his "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality from them, but he wanted to be the Joneses, to beat them – be ahead of the curve. None of the Whittmans ever changed.

The Haunting Adeline series was a bit tame for my liking and personal tastes, and i get they had some 'extreme elements' but I'm a little more fucked up than that.

[triggering stuff under the cut]

Lesson #10 dreams

By popular demand here is one about dreams!! I’ll definitely do more about specific aspects of sleep since it’s such a huge biological difference!!

Thank you everybody for the countless ideas in the inbox!!

The Bird has been reading up on the human custom called "bowing."

The Vees week 2026

Day 3: lavish spoils

dick: remember what you used to say to me whenever I made a mistake or struggled with training ?

Bruce without missing a beat: you’re a disgrace to this family

Dick, affronted: No

Bruce: you’re a disappointment?

dick: no! You used to say it’s only failure if you give up

Bruce:

Bruce: I said that?

dick, now getting mad: you are unbelievable

Bruce: it just that I have no recollection of saying that

dick: well you used to say it alot

Tim: to you maybe. When I failed he would say [drops voice into a growl] “you’d think it’s a strip show with the way you’re showing your ass”

dick, scandalised: Bruce!