#my daughter wasn't either

[glorious-spoon]

My oldest kid STRUGGLED with learning to read - part of this is that Covid started when she was in kindergarten and distance learning was an unmitigated nightmare, so she pretty much lost any momentum she'd had and took most of first grade to catch back up. It was really only when my sister in law got her a Captain Underpants book for Christmas when she was seven that she was suddenly like, oh! this can be fun! and took off with it.

My younger kid, on the other hand, just sat down and read me an entire book, out loud, barely stumbling over sounding out three- and four-syllable words. He's five; this is well beyond what they're practicing in school. He just... learned how letters make sounds and instinctively picked the rest up. The contrast is wild.

[shinybulbasaur]

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

I was tagged by @suddenrundown, thanks for the tag! I was so tempted to put "eliot's baseball hair" but I resisted (also polls don't allow strikethroughs. sad). tagging @michinaranja, @vero-niche, @acidmatze and anyone else who wants to play!

[it-is-i-zim]

Fellas? We ain't okay over here.

[bloomingbluebell]

man... rhoam's "redemption" in aoc really sucked, huh?

like botw SHOWED us, several times, how much pressure rhoam put on zelda to unlock her powers, despite her telling him, several times, that it wasn't working. he got angry and banned her from doing not only something she saw as useful, but something that she was clearly very interested in and passionate about because she "wasn't dedicating enough time to her prayers." yes, his diary expresses regret for it, but at the end of the day, if zelda saw that it wouldn't mean much to her. the actions rhoam took, and the way zelda grew up under so much pressure that she nearly died as a child in one of the springs (this is in urbosa's diary, iirc) mean so much more than his regrets and his intentions. it took him nearly 10 years to realize that he fucked up, and by that point it was too late. the calamity had returned, and rhoam had lost any chance he had at making things right with zelda.

meanwhile, in aoc, all that's there is some half-hearted scene in the temple of time that's supposed to make everything better? yes, aoc had a very different and arguably better outcome than the calamity that led to botw, but the damage was still done by rhoam. it's still the same hurts and abuse and trauma that he put his daughter through all because of the prophesized calamity.

[novococain]

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[stabbyfoxandrew]

oh my god my parents almost fell for a facebook scam.

someone they know posted that they were selling a car and my parents asked me to help them send a down payment over paypal.

thank GOD they asked me instead of just trying to do it themselves.

[wishesofeternity]

“Warwick launched his final bid at kingmaking, this time in alliance with Margaret of Anjou to restore Henry VI. He and Clarence landed in Devon while the King was in Yorkshire. Elizabeth (Woodville)’s initial reaction was to prepare for a siege in the Tower of London where she had already retired in expectation of the imminent birth of another child. But on 1 October news reached the capital that the King was preparing to set sail from Bishop’s Lynn, abandoning his kingdom. With no hope of imminent rescue, Elizabeth moved swiftly into the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey with her mother and her daughters. She sent Abbot Thomas Millyng to advise the Mayor and Aldermen that she was surrendering the Tower, and consequently Henry VI, into their custody.

- J.L Laynesmith,  “Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight’s Widow” in “Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts” / “The Last Medieval Queens, English Queenship 1445-1503″

"Elizabeth (Woodville) at first fortified the Tower of London against the approaching Lancastrians, but then decided instead to hand over custody of the Tower to the mayor and aldermen of London while she went into sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. It was a move which not only protected her daughters, who were with her, but also saved London from attack, which perhaps explains some of the praise she later received. The author of 'The Historic of the Arrival of Edward IV, who claimed to have witnessed much of what he recorded, stressed

the right great trowble, sorow, and hevines, whiche [the queen] sustayned with all manar pacience that belonged to eny creature, and as constantly as hathe bene sene at any tyme any of so highe estate to endure; in the whiche season natheles she had browght into this worldc, to the Kyngs grcatystc joy, a fayrc son.

...When Edward (IV) arrived, there was a scene of family bliss, in which the queen's vulnerability and domesticity could be contrasted with his heroism.  The king was thus presented in an unusually human guise, which might appeal to readers familiar with such partings themselves throughout the civil wars:

The king comfortid the quene, and other ladyes ckc;  His swete babis ful tendurly he did kys;  The yonge prynce he behelde, and in his armys did bere. Thus his bale turnyd hym to blis.

[marinsawakening]

"Happiness to those who accept their fate, glory to those who defy it" is such a good tagline because Princess Tutu is about BOTH defying and accepting fate. No character does one without the other. Princess Tutu is about learning when you need to accept your fate and when you need to defy it. And in doing so, all characters gained both glory and happiness.

[beanghostprincess]

Between young Sanji, young Robin, and yound Law, who would you adopt?

This is the hardest question I've ever had to answer.

First of all, if I adopted Law I would end up crying. I am a very clingy person with kids and he wouldn't let me hug him and tell him how much I love him all the time. I'd just start sobbing. If little Law insulted me I think I'd just have a breakdown. So I'm letting Cora adopt him because I can't handle not being able to love him all the time. Also, lil Law is too mature and smarter than me already I would feel like shit and extremely dumb ngl.

I would love to adopt Sanji but the thought of taking him away from Zeff makes me so sad- But, well, it's hypothetical, so it doesn't matter. But I still would not adopt him (I never thought I'd say this because I swear I love him and I would take care of him) because I think he needs a more stable person mentally and I am not that person at all. Also, I wouldn't have the heart Sora had to eat lil Sanji's food. Leaving the eggplant to Zeff only.

Robin is my perfect child. My little archeologist. She's precious to me. We have similar trauma and I would take care of her. I would wrap her in a blanket and keep her safe and give her all the books in the world. Our dynamic would be perfect because she'd let me show her love and my love language is quality time so we'd spend hours reading/writing and hugging. She's my perfect kid. I absolutely love her. She's the cutest thing on this earth and deserves all the love in the world. My love, specifically. We'd have the most awesome dynamic because I like adopting introverts and quiet people and she'd be the sweetest thing,,, kjsdjnslnflkfen I just love her so much I'm gonna cry.

[jellogram]

It's when I read shit like this that I want to just explode the entire online travel industry

[house-of-limbo]

After the last episode, I was on an all-time fandom high. Now we're coming close to the finale. And I've faced enough trauma from disappointing finales that I'm getting nervous for this one :')

[bpdamandayoung]

my father told me i'm like him i'm gonna rip my hair out pull out my teeth rip out my internal organs and throw them against the wall to see what sticks

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

It's unfortunate that Oedipus is known mainly for killing his father and marrying his mother when 1. neither of those things were his fault and 2. he's so much more interesting than just that.

[themidnightcircusshow]

#even though every source you can find on Henry V basically ends with#'say what you want about the guy but he REALLY loved his siblings'

not me just reading Michael Hicks tearing Henry IV and V a new one for not marrying off John and Humphrey earlier and claiming it led to the failure of the Lancastrian dynasty. thisisfine.gif

...but Hal wasn't married either? And they probably didn't get married for the same reason (busy with the war and on shaky ground when it came to eligibility for marriage)? Like I absolutely see the criticism when it comes to Henry IV because really they shouldn't have even gotten to Hal's reign unmarried, but... there were reasons for it. They all basically married the only logical options they had, because as far as I'm aware no one else was really lining up to ally themselves with them. Plus we don't have a good idea for when Humphrey's children were born, because of the whole mess with Antigone's birth date not making sense for when she had her first child, so that could also have been a factor.

The lack of legitimate heirs absolutely did screw them over, because yeah, would have been really helpful to have someone between Henry and Richard of York when the time came. But of course, considering Humphrey's grandson was a Yorkist we don't necessarily know if it would have turned out in the Lancaster's favor or if we'd just have had more people making claims.

Seriously, of all criticisms about Hal, he went for that one?

[fideidefenswhore]

i just need to know why philippa gregory likes mary boleyn so much

tbh, i assume she feels an affinity with her bcus she's very credulous about sanders' interpretation about mary's connection with, and sympathy for, coa (in which she tells her to take heart and that her sister is a bad woman and henry can never marry her, etc)? in tobg she wrote her as catherine's 'favorite maid in waiting' before her affair with henry and there's absolutely nothing that suggests that (catherine had favorites and even friends as much as queens can have friends, mary was not among their number). if you want to reach and insist that her placement in chateau vert was due mainly to an especial favour from the queen, then you have to do likewise for anne's. just because catherine's sister-in-law and friend was among them does not mean she was as close to the other women in that pageant as she was to mary tudor (although i understand why that is tempting, besides jane parker and mary and anne boleyn, it does seem like the featured players remained catherine's supporters, among them also gertrude blount); featured women at court events were selected based on an amalgam of status, beauty, talent, wit, etc., it had very little to do with friendship/personal liking or favour although of course it would give an edge.

[heatwa-ves]

ruka tsukinaga....