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Socially awkward comics

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A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said ���Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

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I’ll never get over the amalgamates getting to go back home to their families in True Pacifist. I’m so, so used to stories that go, “this person is too broken, physically or mentally or both, to ever be put back together. they’re not the way they once were, so they’re good as dead. killing them is the only act of mercy.“

I’m so glad Undertale didn’t do that.

The True Lab intentionally plays on horror tropes. Phantasmal pursuers whose ability to appear and disappear defy logical attempts at evasion. Mutated, undead shambling creatures whose original selves are utterly destroyed.

But…like the rest of Undertale’s relationship to RPG tropes…subversion occurs.

It becomes increasingly clear that the amalgamates aren’t evil ghosts or mindless zombies. They’re victims of medical malpractice who miss their families. And when we find them returned to their families…they’re happy. Their families are happy. Things are different now, yea. It’s pretty weird for everyone. The new situation will take some time getting used to. But… it’s mostly good.

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my dear friend just looked up from the hat she's crocheting for a very large spherical rock we found in the river and said, in a slightly haunted tone that revealed this was the first time she was having this thought, "i should make something for my cousin's real human baby"

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bedtime was made to be broken lets have way too much candy 🍪🎂🍫🍭🍭🍬🍪🍪🍰🍫🍫🍩🍼🍭🍬🎂🎂🍩

ohhhh okay :)

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Child’s cape. Twilled peacock blue woollen cloth, embroidered in cream silk thread, with a cream tassel on the hood; Anglo-Indian, 1860-70

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Bananza!

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Boo

Prusty but uts my if I were going to design a production of Starlight Express and I was playing sith makeup options thid time upon ye

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Someone on Amtrak’s social media team deserves a raise like N O W. 😂

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getting big 45 minute vibes from this 15 minute recipe

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a TSA officer will visually inspect your lobster

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Whats up everybody

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Flat chested milf

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"Games where you play as a big guy carrying a little girl on your back" is the hot new genre

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wym this game has you solve puzzles while at the same time doing third person shooting action