actually I think the thing about being a youth leader is that 25% of it is teaching about God, 25% is playing fun games, and more than that though 50% of it is making a safe space for kids to be. not to try and make them believe, not so they'll be open or anything. just. a 100% no stakes, safe place for them to just BE. whatever else comes after that. and I don't just mean physically safe, two-adults-in-the-room-at-all-times, et cetera. I mean emotionally safe. I mean not hitting them over the head with scripture, not trying to help them feel better or any particular way. just... a no-judgment, emotionally safe place to exist as kids.
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tangerine is a stupid and silly guy who just happens to be attractive and he just doesn't know how to work with it. he's just trying so hard to be cool and suave but in reality he looks like a baby giraffe learning how to walk with its wobbly legs
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hi! first time commenting lol hope you're doing well :)
i think i read somewhere that you work in healthcare (if not idk what i'm talking about and feel free to disregard 💀) and so do i! i was just wondering how you have time to write (and write fucking well, might i add holy shit i aspire to be like you - pet!au has me in a CHOKEHOLD) while not dying bc of work because holy shit this is hard ldhgjdkfgha
like, do you just plan far enough ahead that you can write consistently without worrying about how much you actually get written or are you one of those that can sit their ass down and write even when exhausted (cause i'm not lmfao)
again, IN LOVE WITH YOUR WORKS LIKE WTF HOW ARE YOU SO TALENTED???
hi!
yeah, i uh, don't really have like any tips or anything if that's what you're looking for lmao. and i don't really make plans. i usually just write on my days off because i'm too tired after my shift to really write anything good. if i do, it's usually just a couple hundred words, or i'll write on my lunch if i have extra time. otherwise, i crank out a good 1k-3k words on my days off depending on my mood/what i'm doing/etc. it might also help that i work long shifts so i get closer to 3/4 days off a week depending on whatever's going on at the clinic. updates would probably be coming out way slower if i had to work a full 5 days a week.
but yeah. give your brain a rest. don't try to write if you know you won't be able to, i find it's usually a waste of time. you're better off watching a good movie or playing a game to rest (:
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(spoilers for dndads s2e23 btw. btw)
And in a sense, it looks at humanity as its dad. And it deeply resents its dad, but also deeply loves its dad and wants that validation.
this is normal, but normal doesn’t realize that the doodler is now in him. it doesn’t make sense for this to be about anyone else the doodler has joined with, so in my mind the doodler has to be at least somewhat influenced by normal’s own feelings at this point (he was the one who was initially most unnerved by seeing the doodler when they first arrived on earth—idk exactly how this joining thing that the doodler does works, but it is entirely possible that it happened then, though). again, though, normal may see himself in this statement, but he is not explicitly made aware that it is his influence that caused the doodler to feel this way.
now normal’s self image, importantly, is most influenced by external factors. he doesn’t so much hate himself as desperately need others to not hate him.
lark’s self image, however, is far more internally influenced.
You feel that resentment for everyone and everything. You hate it, it’s your fault everything is bad. Every time you try to love someone, every time you try to touch someone or reach out to someone, they hurt, and it’s bad. And you just want more than anything to make it all go away, however you can. You don’t want to be alone, but you don’t want to be near anybody else. You want to destroy all of this stuff and these emotions and these feelings that you’re feeling are so strong and so terrible that you decide you want to live without them.
this is lark, naturally. but if normal doesn’t know that the doodler’s desire for validation is also his own desire for validation existing within the doodler, then lark doesn’t know this is him either. lark might’ve just seen this as an extension of willy maybe, or barry or just the doodler itself, just as that line about normal kind of reads as being about lark.
however, lark does still see himself in this, the same way normal likely sees himself in the other line. the only difference is that lark does hate himself. i would imagine that lark did not see what the doodler did as a result of feeling these emotions—i’d assume that lark’s understanding of what the doodler wants stops at the end of this line, hence why he would not have known about the anchors that his feelings, experienced by the doodler, unintentionally caused.
all lark knows for certain is that the doodler feels the same feelings that he recognizes in himself. and if he, lark, caused the doodler to come into physical form as a result of his resentment, what could the doodler itself do?
lark’s desperation to get rid of the doodler is because he believes his own feelings can bring about nothing but destruction, and the doodler seems to confirm this in its own experiences. normal’s desire to help the doodler is not just because of his love and sympathy for lark—though that is a part of it—but also because deep down, he wants someone to help him.
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