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though laura is deemed universally loved she’s also kinda hated and feared, treated as something wrong and dirty as well. she’s not this perfect martyr in a way that people wish to paint her as- if anything people wish to escape her but can’t even as she lays to rot in her grave. she’s a product of her environment and still tried to be good person above that; she was suffering and no one did anything to intervene that. no one was going to save laura; billy in a way though completely flawed and clearly and a turbulent relationship with laura did in some ways try to help her but his connection with laura tainted him. the sex and drugs were laura’s way of coping with the repeated sexual abuse by the hands of her own father; which she states has been happening since she was 12.

[AU] …What if Pope left Oceanside with J after visiting Julia’s grave… and the two of them disappeared to start over in Pittsburgh, far away from the Cody family chaos?

Trying to build a quieter life, they cross paths with a young doctor named Dennis Whitaker.

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I know there are already a lot of fanfics where Andrew leaves Oceanside with Lena… but I genuinely can’t stop thinking about the idea of him leaving with J instead.

Their dynamic would honestly be so interesting (and probably chaotic) to explore. And of course, Dennis would somehow end up in the middle of it too.

we learn specifically how andrew and julia grew up through flashbacks, they both weren’t treated well and that’s something people tend to not consider; at around six andrew basically was now going to be the family’s protector, told by smurf that he will need to help look after his new brother. you also have to consider how much control smurf had over her sons, which was purposeful; none of them could’ve truly helped julia. even once andrew stated working for jobs you don’t think she would see where his money would go? where he himself would go? we learn in season one she’s not above tracking J which means she probably tracks all her boys.

the guy who made this literally goes on to say he doesn’t find deran and craig to be sympathetic characters- which craig i get but deran? discussing the actors of grown men who have a pit against each other for their own mothers affection saying that they always treated J like shit when the whole point is that J isn’t doing much for the attention they had to work for all their lives. people who make these really half baked takes aren’t really considering how bad a mother smurf really was with main text and subtext, and how long abuse can warp a person with the way they interact with others. He also goes on to call pope a psychopath but says shawn hatosy’s portrayal of the character is so good you start humanizing pope, which yeah shawn’s great but pope isn’t a psychopath- he was literally made into what he is by his mother.