PLEASE SOMEONE WRITE ABOUT THIS. i will give you my soul.
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I feel a strong need to add to this, my apologies...
No parent is perfect. No situation is perfect, especially the Stilinski family's. I can't imagine the trauma that Noah and Stiles both went through while watching Claudia decline left them unscathed.
Also, Noah is the fucking Sheriff. Time is not really something he has very often. I don't think that any neglect that may or may not have taken place was intentional.
And yeah, it's not like Stiles was an "easy" kid to raise, not that raising any kid is ever easy or simple. The show repeatedly mentions how rambunctious Stiles was as a child - this probably added to his father's stress, but there were no signs of him acting on it. The hallucination at Lydia's party was conjured by Stiles' guilt and fear, not a memory.
Abuse is such a brash leap, what the fuck?
Okay I need to rant
I hate the bad parent sheriff stilinski tag because the way the writers are using it is he's abusive and that's not true at all.
Was he neglectful? Yes but then again he is trying the best parent he can be while doing his job as the sheriff of the town. He is raising a kid who has ADHD while grieving the loss of his wife
However he was NEVER abusive. He never beat Stiles or anything like that.
Rant over
As I’ve been scrolling tumblr, twice now I’ve seen mentions of this episode, and one of them was someone saying how when the sheriff said to Stiles he couldn’t be gay “dressed like that”, that it wasn’t funny and that Stiles’ clothing had nothing to do with being gay, and I wanted to say that I think what the sheriff meant when he said that, was why would Stiles go to a gay club and not be dressed up? Like if you go to a club, you would be dressed up to have fun or impress someone, and Stiles was just there in boring old clothes, and I also think it was a joke like how all the best dressed came out the closet. That’s just my thinking, because the sheriff is not queerphobic or anything and he’s not at all the type of father who would have problems with who his son dated
Rewatching Teen Wolf is so funny, because I’m watching s2e2 Shape Shifted and first, Scott starts tackling and sniffing the lacrosse team, and then the Sheriff is like “it’s funny that the kids getting beaten up are always the ones who least deserve it” to Jackson after Jackson is being a little bitch… like sheriff just totally insulted Jackson and Jackson is like “huh?” I cannot even the sheriff is so awesome
Okay so in the show, Sheriff Stilinski’s name is Noah. Like it’s canonically Noah so I really need to know where the hell people are getting “John” from? Like why John of all things? Is it because you didn’t know his name? Because you could’ve just looked it up. And I’m not judging the people who use it (well not a lot) but like, Noah is such a better name than John and I feel like whenever I read a fic where his name is John, I picture him as a completely different person. Like it’s not the same character, he has a different personality, etc. like again no offense but could everyone please start using Noah? Like that’s his name, it’s never been John.
Okay just reiterating because I kinda got off track but why do people call him John?