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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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Im learning how to crochet y'all!!! And WHAT do I start with??? A FUKEN INTERMEDIATE CROCHET KIT!!!!! IM A BEGINNER!!!! but.... zebra🦓😊

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POSTED THE FIC HAVE CELEBRATORY ART

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69519886/chapters/180304521

and heres shit post of my fic in a nutshell LMAO:

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learning that 1. there's a thing called the 'gen z stare' 2. it pisses people off and 3. it's just underpaid service workers staring at someone until they follow a simple instruction, has been interesting.

for example, the card reader says 'remove card' the customer goes 'it says remove card, what do i do?' then some underpaid 20 year old just stares at whatever twat just asked that question. apparently that's devastating for baby boomers and gen x'ers, and they're complaining about it. retail workers should be allowed to jump the counter and kill customers

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"...Darkness will not take this forest"

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🌠

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Who! Right? Told me to make a detailed background/foreground? WHO DID IT!?!?!! WHO IS TO BLAME!! SPEAK NOW SO I CAN STRANGLE YOU!!!

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woah! it's a pacifipines sandwich

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i named these pictures adrenal failure 1 and adrenal failure 2

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This fanfic shit easy...

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intervention

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"Eternal Flame!!!"

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[Ooc: I think only me and my friend Star headcanon this but anyways! Meme for you!]

thank you for the meme, take this shitpost doodle in return 🙏

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I found out something....VERY interesting...huehuehue...BUT I have to push it to the side for now...huehuehue

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I wanna draw more Twotime....but I wanna draw Wind Archer....BUT I wanna draw Fire Spirit.....but but.... I wanna take a nap😭

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what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years