#lack of stability

[furiousgoldfish]

I'm noticing that adults are often very offended when they see a child who has something they themselves didn't have in their childhood. I've had someone randomly start ranting about how their own grandchildren have 'too much toys', and how they don't appreciate any of it. They went on to explain how they, as a child, only had one toy, and they had to play with that one alone. They're also upset that children can now use phones, which also wasn't an option in their own childhood.

This is concerning to me, because while busy noticing all the things that children have, which are toys and phones, people don't tend to notice the things we had that are no longer available to the new generations. Planet free of pollution, free of climate change, adults got to experience that. Economy that isn't in this bad of a state, availability of jobs, education being worth something, financial safety, probability of owning a home. All of this has critically declined and turned into unstable, unreliable and difficult to manage situation for children, to the point where there's no clear path to a safe future anymore, for anyone. Current children have to invent jobs and find a way to produce a safe future without relying on an existing path, something that was available for most of the population in the past.

And the availability of phones and toys is not necessarily a luxury; back then nobody had a phone, or a mountain of toys, so it would be unusual and privileged for just one child to have it. But when everyone has that, it would be unusual and almost humiliating not to have it. The prices of these had reduced, they're more available and easy to get. The phones connected to the internet will ensure that the child will be exposed to a lot of information every day, and they'll have to find a way to deal with all that, it can become overwhelming and damage their attention span and emotional stability, if they're constantly exposed to distressing or disturbing information, which often finds its way to kids.

What will it mean for their life, if they had toys and phones as kids, but later on, they don't have a safe job? They can't hope to have a home of their own? They are not at freedom to financially plan their futures, their families, they have to depend on their own parents or relatives to get by? What will it feel like when they can't count on the climate and safe and reliable food sources? What when they're suffocated by the financial demands of just staying alive and fed? What if they don't have anyone to help financially? What if they're rendered mentally ill by the stress and perils happening in the world, all of it so close to them via constant overload of pain and suffering?

Having toys and phones is nothing compared to having an experience of a safe, stable, predictable life, on a planet with a normal, stable climate. We failed to secure this to our children. We have no business being jealous that they now have a phone.

[fantastic-nonsense]

just once I would like a man's critique of "why Wonder Woman doesn't sell" to come from someone who has actually read Wonder Woman comics and has the capability to actually identify the correct problems

[lesbianneopolitan]

CV03 Megurine Luka

I wanted to draw the lines with the marker brush, so there you go!

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

There is an endless amount I love the last chapter of Mockingjay and the Epilouge. Genuinely sometimes I feel like I could write a whole novel sized thesis about it and still not quite be satisfied I got to talk about everything.

But I think on this list of my favorite details (which is a mile long) is that Katniss describes her daughter as dancing and playing. And her son as haveing 'chubby toddler legs' that he uses to follow after his older sis.

There could be no clearer way to show to me how happy and loved these children are. How loved and wanted and surrounded by safety and peace. Unloved children don't dance and play like this, children didn't have chubby toddler legs when Katniss grew up. To see these little details paints such a picture of how these children live, and prove their whole point of existence in the narrative from a writing perspective. It shows what the scars were for, what the pain that still lingers paid for. It assures us, even if it's vague, Katniss got to get out of this confusion.

She ended up being able to find and create what she wanted in the freedom she and others paid so high a price for. And while the loss it took will never go away and will always sting, that she got what she had coming to her, the peace and freedom she so craved and spends the rest of her life enjoying along with healing from the cost.

[murderedbyhomework]

I just realized Li Chenzhou's hair sticks look a little like the Rama Ice Shards from mlc lol

Gotta love how the main mlc crew was scrambling over the ice shards for half the show and Li chenzhou just wears them in his hair to say "What, like it's hard?"

[transhetanybodys]

It's funny how Sweeney Todd almost exclusively kills men and it's *not* a feminist thing, it's literally just that men are the ones who see barbers. Of course you could probably get some deeper analysis out of the fact that he mostly kills men, but it's not a feminist thing even though his wife and daughter were horrifically abused by a man and his friend/lover of convenience Mrs. Lovett's husband clearly wasn't great (at least in the movie? I haven't seen the play in a while.) Once I saw a fundraiser for a version of the story where he and Mrs. Lovett are specifically going after male abusers and that could be cool, I hope that got off the ground.

[i-am-l-ananas]

just because your peers are reaching “life milestones” before you doesn’t mean you’re falling behind in life. You’re not behind in life. You’re not you’re not you’re not you’re not and maybe someday you’ll believe it

[velvetlilith777]

i need to be a hater today i fear 😔

[lesbiancolumbo]

tcm facebook fans when tcm doesn’t program the exact same lineup every year for their easter marathon, christmas lineup, or new year’s eve:

[ebenelephant]

unpopular opinion but eddie diaz isn't #1 dad of the year, he actually takes a lot of actions which actively harm his son. none of this is intentional and none negates his deep love for christopher but the way some of you talk about him is just too much.

[appleswan]

Let's be real for a second. Gonna keep it a buck fifty, Dick Grayson is not the sane and rational member that people make him out to be.

That man is a few seconds away, at any given point in time, from killing someone else or killing himself. He bottles up his emotions just like his dear old dad taught him to. None of them are the sane and rational one, that's what makes the batfam silly. They're all depressed vigilantes who just want to make a difference.

[nitewrighter]

There is SO MUCH going on in the Poe Clan I keep starting posts and deleting them trying to put it into words, like, yes, it is toxic codependent 5th-dimensional gay vampire chess, but it's also like---what if you lived forever and grew jaded and bored with humanity like all vampires do but also you still had the same emotional vulnerability you had in 6th grade.

[itspileofgoodthings]

1 and 5 for introspective asks?

1. What have you been thinking about lately underneath all your other thoughts? What’s a consistent internal hum?

That I need to talk to God more! And it's morphing (slowly, sloooooooowly) into something I am less afraid of and more of an awareness of a Loving Presence that I can and should and want to speak to more.

I have ALSO --not related at all-- been reflecting on how growing up and growing older and "getting better" (so to speak, especially re: anxiety) often doesn't mean the problems go away. it just means that you feel differently about them. I HATED that concept even just a few years ago--I still do hate it often! ---but also, sometimes, often, the stuff that makes me anxious STILL EXISTS, and I'm still plagued by the SAME WORRIES, and the SAME PROBLEMS, but literally my emotions about them have changed. I've accepted them more and so they've shrunk down to a more manageable size. And it's kind of funny because I was always right to be anxious, in a sense. The intuition about what to be afraid of was dead on, even down to specific scenarios that would trigger me feeling really upset. But it's just. I am just a little less upset now and not because one iota of the problem has changed but just because of time, I guess. Literal experience that unpleasant things won't kill me. Exposure therapy to continued circumstances where things turn out more or less okay. Honestly getting bored. Like. it's just like "okay damn that's how this is going to be, oh well i need to go eat something" etc. I am simply less dramatic in the halls of my own mind and that, I believe, is a gift of time and getting older. And I can't wait for it to keep goingggggggggggg. Soon I will have NO PROBLEMS that bother me aT ALL. (Just kidding.)

Did even a single word of this make sense. I'm so sorry.

5. What are you grateful for?

I am grateful, once again, for my job. Even though i have so much grading to do tomorrow and it is the WORST. And even though sometimes it makes me want to cry or scream. but it really does just heal that extrovert part of me and it makes me feel like part of a community even when I don't want to be and actually --can't tell if this is super vain of me or super common man human core of me--but I just like that I'm around a bunch of people who know me and greet me???? Like i LITERALLY used to walk around my college campus and I was always so sad because no one knew who I was (I was always kind of on the outside in college and wasn't part of any groups and didn't live in the dorms and never quite fit in anywhere) and now I come out of a building on the campus of the school I teach or I walk down the halls and I know most of the people and they know me. Kids shout at me when they see me across a parking lot. And even if they're just shouting at me to ask me what grade they got on their final (as a kid did to me on Friday lol) it always kind of heals me.

[wiremotherofficial]

trying to work toward doing a (middle) split because why not, and i am surprised to learn that my hip adductors are actually extremely tight

[moonbeamdagger]

your class is doing a group project. everyone has been assigned a partner and together, you have to build an intricate diorama. your entire grade hinges on this project.

some groups work pretty well together. almost everyone argues with their partner at some point, sure, but that’s group projects. for the most part, people make it work. sometimes there’s a really bad fight and one partner starts building their own diorama so the group kind of ends up splitting in two. you don’t really like your partner, but you’ve managed to work together and be mostly civil so far.

your partner insists he’s the leader. it’s a partner project and you don’t really need a leader, you’re equals, but whatever, right? he’s not that bad.

and then he starts destroying the diorama. “dude” you say. “what the fuck” but he isn’t listening. he cuts the cord on your glue gun. he rips the cardboard base apart. it would be fine if he just weren’t doing his part, you can deal with some dead weight, but he is ACTIVELY DESTROYING your project

but you can work with this, right? build it better! turns out it’s way easier to destroy things than build them. your project is kind of fucked.

and THEN. he starts DESTROYING YOUR CLASSMATES’ PROJECTS TOO. there’s not a whole lot they can do about it, your partner is the biggest and meanest kid in school but HEY WHAT THE FUCK MAN. he says “if they fail, we’ll get an A” you try and explain that that is not how grading works. destroying their dioramas does not make yours better and actually everyone can have a good diorama we do have enough resources to make everyone’s diorama good but you can’t destroy the craft supplies just because it makes you happy okay?

and the rest of the class gets mad at you for your partner’s behavior and asks why you didn’t pick the other girl and I wanted to pick the other girl but I got overruled!

anyway that’s what it feels like to live in the us right now.

[purgatorygrl]

at 3am crying over James Sunderland