#public stuff and having children

[spideyhexx]

coryo being so possessive because all of his things were destroyed by the war one way or another (bombs, burning things for warmth, selling for money for food, etc) and so when something (someone) is finally his he latches on tight

literally did this with Lucy Gray to an extent but

latches on tight to the point if he didn’t know where you were, he’s borderline on a anxiety attack.

thinking post pk coryo…where he’s very much keeping a lot of his inner emotions hidden under an exterior.

But once he has a partner (even if you’re in it through an arranged marriage), he unintentionally latches onto you, he needs to know you’re still there with him, where you are, and he’d pay so much attention to your mannerisms and tone of voice around him. The moment he thinks you might be angry, he’s trying to make things better, even if you didn’t tell him.

This also applies to him being overly protective, around some of his most trusted people too. And like you said something, that also means he’s latching on to all of the wealth, all of the praise he’s getting on top of having you.

[lilaccatholic]

Complex feelings about copyright and Disney's appalling ethics aside, it does unsettle me how quickly people jump to make and monetize the most unnerving, depraved content imaginable about characters created for children the second it hits the public domain

[yasmeensh]

Paleolithic Media Catalogue

Hello everyone :) Short story first: When I began brainstorming for my prehistoric story, I started wondering what other prehistoric fiction there is out there. I was not familiar with it and have not seen much. That's when I started my grand literature review and began a search for what fiction exist out there. I wanted to know what kinds of stories are being made with this time period. What are the common themes or recurring ideas (I found lots of humans and dinosaurs works. And time travel). Since I've had a growing collection on my computer, I decided I should keep on enlarging it and put it online. It's nowhere near complete. I'll slowly keep accumulating the collection as I find more. I only have fiction books and comics right now. I still need to work on the film section.

You can access the blog here!

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As for where I am in my reading, the one's I've finished reading are Earth's Children series (book 1-4. Dropped it afterwards lol. I made a post on with fanart) Dance of the Tiger and it's sequel Singletusk (They were good! I'll upload my review on the blog), and Sisters of the Wolf (It was ok!). I got my hands on The Inheritors and excited to start reading it. I REALLY want to read the Shiva trilogy, but I found no PDF online... and it's out of print :( There is certainly old copies on ebay. And I want to read Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. There seem to be lots of good books out there.

[keymintt]

HELLO you teach elementary schoolers how to draw dragons?? 👀 that is the DREAM I used to teach my friends how to draw dragons during lunch in high school heheh

oh that is SO much fun HELL yes >:D

and yeah! i'm a part-time art teacher and as part of a program i'm in i go around to elementary schools and teach art workshops!! in the fall i taught them the basics of making comics and now that it's spring i'm teaching them how to draw dragons, somedays i wear my dragon button-up shirt and dragons socks too and it fucking rocks i feel like ms. frizzles cousin who's also gay

[vayneoc]

Hanako

and Vayne

[doecrossing]

just sat through the most horrible, awkward, tense dinner I've ever experienced in my whole life

[manyblinkinglights]

I still can't get over those public worlds having people playing bouncer. Sagely teaching the next generation the importance of moderation and curating their social experiences n then it's like Noooooooooo not like thaaaaaat

[go-to-the-mirror]

oh FUCK THATS WHY DOCTOR WHO IS TRENDING

[jkpng]

gotta say the trend of ai generated pictures of kpop idols with babies/children on pinterest. very much disturbing to me

[lith-myathar]

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[gingus-doon]

i don't agree with the 14 y/o's who are like "no sex scenes in Anything its weird" but somethin about the people who talk about them as puritans gives me a suspicion that they're not clocking that discomfort with sex as related to the way women & gender minorities are hurt via sex... it gives an air of strong potential Misogyny... especially when criticizing ppl who like only kids shows

[tamaharu]

skipping and twirling through my colleges library there are too many beautiful books in there

[ballsballsbowls]

So deep in The Agonies I almost posted an elephant’s foot of a post that would make this account fucking unusable for a week.

Luckily, the people I live with know me well enough that they got me fixated on long-term planning neuroticism and it’s sitting in my drafts.

[ame-to-ame]

public transit... *collapses to the floor*

[trainsinanime]

I wonder: Do Americans know about american school buses? Not their existence in general, but how they're seen overseas.

Over here, they're one of the symbols of America, on par with the Statue of Liberty, the flag, the Eagle, and well ahead of any chain restaurant you can name. People won't know any US states, but they will know these vehicles.

The thing is, here in Germany, we don't have dedicated school buses. The general idea is that kids go to school on their own. When that's not practical, they're expected to use (and given free tickets for) public transit. Public transit is designed around this requirement; there are many places where there is a bus, and anyone can get on it, but the route and timetable really only makes sense for school children. In case a dedicated school bus is really needed, that's generally subcontracted out, and the lines either use something like a Sprinter Van for smaller routes, or a normal city or interurban bus (often a used one that's a bit older). School trips are normal public transit, or a rented bus, typically a coach or regional bus.

It's not a perfect system, in the past couple of years there's been an epidemic of people bringing their kids to school in their cars instead of letting them walk, which is less than ideal. It is what it is. But building a dedicated network of public transit lines only for students, and building dedicated vehicles only for that, has never occurred to anyone here.

Of course we know about these buses, from movies and such, but they're as foreign here as cacti or pick-up trucks (actually we're seeing more and more of these here) or yellow cabs (all europeans will assume all cabs in the US are yellow until they actually visit).

You do see these buses here at times, because people still generally like the idea of the US, even if they have a lot of issues with a lot of details, and so folks bring them over, along with stretch limos and stuff (also not really a thing here). And of course, if someone goes to all that trouble, they don't do it to haul school kids, they rent it out for city tours or as a party bus or whatever.

So you see these yellow things as a symbol of faraway places, scenic vistas, some vague undefined idea of freedom that doesn't necessarily hold up to any contact with reality, and it's just a huge part of the whole US aesthetic.

And then you go to a student exchange with the US, and you finally get the chance: You yourself get to ride in one of these iconic chrome yellow buses! It looks just like in the movies! You get in, you drive in them a little…

…and you realise they're shit. Just the worst buses in the western world. Terrible suspension. Uncomfortable seats with weirdly high backs (so they don't have to put seatbelts in, they just restrict how far kids can fly in an accident). Everything made out of the cheapest materials. Turns out the reason why the US uses school buses like that instead of normal modern city buses, which the US has, is to save money and because they just hate kids.

And then it hits you why US Americans say "as American as apple pie", a dish that is made and enjoyed literally anywhere in the world, instead of "as American as yellow school buses". Of course the Americans already knew all this. They got tortured by these things forever. It would never occur to them to see this as a symbol of America, it's just a normal part of life for them. It's a symbol of school and school life and sometimes normalcy, and tells us that these actors getting out of it are supposed to be teenagers, nothing more.

But most people in Europe have, of course, never ridden on these buses. So when they see them in movies and TV, that's a giant big yellow signifier that we're not in Hessen or Wallonia or wherever anymore. A symbol of a different world, one that may be at most a once-in-a-lifetime-experience for most people, just like a picture of a tropical beach, Mayan Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or Hildesheim (there's no reason to go there twice). And I think Americans don't know that, and that's fascinating.

[thisblogisfulloftrash]

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