#toddler affection

[littlebellesmama]

Every Day Is My Birthday

My daughter is two years old, and every single day, she wishes me a happy birthday.“Happy birthday, Mommy!” she says with the brightest smile and sparkling eyes, as if she just woke up to a party filled with balloons, cake, and confetti. No actual birthday is happening—at least not in the traditional sense—but to her, every day is a celebration, and I happen to be the guest of honor. It took me a…

[cloud-ya]

finally beat dark gaia today, had to draw werehog about it

[sicheslavchyk]

Random nighttime thought: i barely got a taste of a peaceful life and was way too young back then to remember those times clearly

On the other hand, i know teens who can't remember peaceful life AT ALL cause the were, well 2 or 3 y. o. when the war started

ON THE OTHER HAND my besties have siblings who probably won't remember the times before the big war (born in 2018 and 2021)

Just thinking about how our young adults, teens and little children are turning into yet another broken generation who didn't really get to see anything else except the war. Being the part of this new broken generation is not fun in the slightest

[starry-bi-sky]

The fun thing about CFAU danny is that he grew up in crime alley during his early developmental and foundational years, and was only in amity park for four years before his accident. Which means: potential to explore how this affects his personality. How does he act?

If he grows up in crime alley, which is rife with violence and crime and he like everyone else bares witness to it, how will that change who he is compared to canon?

Because he’s not gonna be the exact same as canon, thats not how development works. Something’s gonna change. So is he violent? Is he a thief? A liar? A follower, a leader? A backstabber? How selfish is he? Because selflessness gets you killed.

How willing is he to get shot/stabbed/murdered/trafficked for another person when he’s surrounded by people who take priority over themselves more than others? And is largely not taught otherwise? (And are valid for their self-preservation?)

What’s his kindness look like, is it rough? Tough love all the way through, showing other kids how to bloody up their knuckles to keep their own face safe?

Showing kids how to file down their teeth with the broken glass at their feet, so that when they bite they make it hurt?

Or is it more gentle, but still bloody, showing kids how to keep their head down and out of the way of the bigger, meaner kids barreling their way past? How to blend in, how to hide? How to not get caught?

Is it a third option, and always bloody, always hurting? Does he get in the way, take the hits? Always a shield, never the shielded? His nose having been broken so many times it’s permanently crooked, are his eyes always black? His lip always bleeding? Does he have scars?

Is it a fourth option, a fifth option, a sixth? Is it bloody? It may as well be, Crime Alley is always bloody. Always bleeding. Danny will see death, he will see suffering, he won’t unless he closes his eyes and covers his ears.

Does he have bad habits? Stealing, smoking, drinking, kids mimic the adults and even if his parents try to teach him out of it, it takes a village to raise a child. If the village is violent, then the child will be too. Is he malnourished? Jason was. He will be.

How does Dan change in comparison to canon vs a Danny who grew up in crime alley? Does he change at all? Or is Danny just more horrified by him, because he’s more similar to him than he previously thought?

What are his thoughts on Batman and Robin? Does he like them, think them myth, distrust them? How does his time in Gotham influence his perspective on the people there, on the world around him? His thoughts on Bruce Wayne (beyond the improbable him immediately figuring out Bruce Wayne = Batman)? The Elite? Does he have an accent? What’s his education like?

And CFAU Danny is fun because I get to explore that. He is ultimately still Danny - still kind, and selfless, sarcastic, punny. But how does he show it? What other traits does he have? What has changed, and what has stayed?

[alicornze7]

Can’t do lineart for anything today so have some doodles instead:>

[selunesfavouriteprincess]

also if Maelle lived in the modern world she would be making tiktoks called something like “my millennial brother rates my unhinged sims builds” and it would just be an obviously-concerned Gustave politely trying to find nice things to say about the torture nexuses she built for her sims to suffer in

[lilithschosen]

my kid loves washing his hands, dusting, and has manners

this is what happens when you have two moms!!!!

[shizunitis]

Can you share more about your precious son, Ink?

There is nothing I would like more. You're my favourite, thank you.

I present to you my youngest son, my favourite child, my pride and joy and everything I will ever bother to love more than myself: Ink, the monumental manfuckup drow paladin who tried to Drizzt and only managed to drizzle.

(This is a very funny joke, and you know this, and you love me.)

(This was made in approx. 10 minutes, but please appreciate how absolutely endearing he is just standing there while I measure him against the door frame. Such a cutie! He deserves all the little kissies on his stupid forehead.)

This got unreasonably long, I'm very sorry. I have a 17 page unfinished document about him, and I have to let it out or I explode. You understand.

His backstory is simple enough: he got betrayed by literally everyone he met in Menzoberranzan, his brother's death was pinned on him, he had to deal with his matriarch hating him for being genuinely horrible at anything a male drow is supposed to do, and finally had enough when his mom tried to kill him at the outrageously young age of, like, thirty five.

He managed to get his house in hot water with Lolth by not getting killed or tortured by his female family members for once and went all, "Well, then I swear to bring vengeance to Lolth and all her followers!" which is par for the course with Seldarine Drow, really.

He's also an atrocious paladin. Zero attempt at, like, learning what it means, past the "rain vengeance upon evil" part. For evidence, I present his Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma scores. Bud just wants to throw a hammer around and hopes for the best. His track record in Melee-Magthere isn't great, either. He graduated fighting school in the exact middle rank. This means he failed, in like, everyone's but my eyes.

To me, he has never done a single thing wrong in his whole life.

He fell ass over pointy ears in love with the first nice-enough elf he saw on the surface and kind of trailed after his adventuring party like a dog for a tenday after escaping the Underdark. He used the elf and his friends as, like, a case study. How to Behave on the Surface: A Guide by Ink McSmartBoy, inspired by Pretty Elf in Forest.

The elf in question (name's Silver, very pretty, really cute, charismatic, etc. I love him, too, but Ink is my main concern always at all times) did not know of this. My intelligent and beautiful son did not consider the fact that maybe the elf would catch onto the hidden protector hiding in trees around his and his friends' camp when enemies just stop existing around him.

He and the elf were then separated by Ink's former Evil Classmates and his matriarch's incompetent servants coming to apprehend and/or kill him, which was a bit of a bummer.

For him. The elf's feelings are a separate, arcane and abstract matter that my beautiful son considers for all of three seconds before he decides that no, it was him. Ink's fault. Better not have feelings from now on, you know? Better for all involved.

Also got a painful scar out of it that he had to clean up himself in a river. It was very, very sad. He's a real sad man. I love him dearly. I will give him the world.

I figured I really needed to justify the weird build I've got going on, so I added some notes to each ability and skill, and these are the more notable statements about him:

He is, however, very good at realising what his shortcomings are, and where he can stand to improve himself. So! Ink's taken to writing lists and journal entries to improve. He's not the studious type, but he's also extremely insecure about the whole being an intimidating paladin drow among other humanoids, so needs must, you know?

When in doubt, lists. Lists and little notes and reminders. A grocery list or two.

He writes down everything. This is not just a way for me to justify the Quest Journal in the game and have his companions during the events of the game try to snoop around his business, no. Of course not. This is definitely not done so that Astarion will find his journal and get all huffy about being called an insufferable little shit. Obviously.

Anyway!! After the whole Silver Abandoned Me :( debacle, he decided to pull a Shizunitis Mark and seclude himself away from society but close enough to wistfully sight in its direction. He built his own home, got many blisters and scars to show for it, learned not to eat every plant he came across, and finally got nabbed by mind flayers on the way to the armourer to check his scale mail.

In spite of what he thinks, and what his earlier years inspired in him, he is competent and a good leader. The whole unnatural stillness and hesitancy to ask questions in case they annoy someone he likes is, surprisingly, a great way to get people to be curious about you in Faerun.

Also: a smiling drow scares some people but is very gap-moe to others. Both options are good, in his party's eyes.

This was all over the place but... Please love my son? He is trying so hard all the time. He's running from mind flayers. He gets Astarion to behave by being poker-faced at all times. Karlach throws him as a weapon and he almost giggles every time.

In case you aren't convinced:

I've never felt more protective and fond of someone other than Shizun before him. I feel alive.

[hibernating-stag]

I know I'm like, one game away from meeting him for real and I probably shouldn't be speculating on a character I don't know yet.

But I have been thinking about *Sin* recently... in terms of like, this kid has to be in near constant pain, right? It might be a little mitigated by him being part gear, but I can't imagine growing so fast wouldn't be excruciating... Especially since he'd be more human than gear (if that train of thought applies here-)

This kid is going through body horrors not previously conceived by my mind I'm gonna. Throw up on the carpet.

[littlebellesmama]

Little Heart, Big Feelings

My daughter is in such a sweet and funny stage right now. She’s starting to show her personality in the most surprising ways. Every day feels like a new discovery with her, and even in the little things, I see so much depth in her feelings and reactions. One of her current phases is this thing she does when she’s super excited or feeling gigil—she bites. It’s not aggressive or mean, it’s more…

[citrus-art-and-life]

happy pride month everyone!!!

i've been looking at microlabels because i was feeling kind of inspired and i have been HORRIFIED to realize that one of MY microlabels has the most GOD AWFUL FLAG ive ever seen... i'm going to put it under a Read More because it's so ugly and because this post ISNT ABOUT HER, but i redid the flag myself, using some flower knowledge!

so behold!!!

the NEW AND IMPROVED.... SAPIO FLAG!!!

people who are sapio will start to feel a connection based on their partners' smarts and intellect! whether it's their verbocity, their quick-thinking, their mastery of their skill or interests, their certainty and astuteness will amaze and befuddle their sapio partner (which, in this case, would be me!!!)

inspired by the noble and beautiful IRIS, an orchid which is associated with intelligence, connection, partnership, and equality (purple irises in particular are associated with passion, the mind, and justice)! I literally just color-picked and adjusted it to be easy on the eye

so if you're like me and you've been wanting to rock a sapio flag that doesn't look like dogshit, this one's for you! go forth and use it to signal your appreciation/love/attraction to your clever-as-hell partner(s)!!!

original sapio flag under the cut... and no, i'm not joking...

THIS is the original flag. and brother... this is a face that only a mother could love 😔✊💔💔💔

[ihavedonenothingright]

Sometimes I think I might be normal and neurotypical, and then I have a meltdown and can't explain it to anyone because how the fuck do you convey to people that you're crying and hitting yourself (even though you don't want to be) because you feel sore from your walk, your slight congestion and sore throat are the tiniest bit worse, you didn't follow a routine today, and all of those things wore down your ability to tolerate completely normal sounds like chewing. And now your head hurts in a way that doesn't actually hurt, so it can't be fixed by ibuprofen, and your brain keeps telling you to hit the parts of your body with the most Sensation so you can make it go away quicker. And you just need to be away from people so you can lie down and cry, but you're also enjoying hanging out with everyone and it fuckings suuuucks.

[the---hermit]

I think you would appreciate this- I'm an adult with an adult job teaching itty bittys but I'm sitting on my couch sobbing over Boromir's redemption and death and then Aragorn wearing Boromir's bracers for the rest of the movies and books to honor him.

-Toddler Teacher Anon

Anon hello this got lost into my notes for a while, i'm sorry

I FEEL YOU SO HARD

I have been waiting for my brother to have our yearly rewatch of lotr and honestly i might just do one by myself and then another with him because I have been waiting for WEEKS and i need my comfort movies rn.

That scene is absolutely devastating and the way Aragorn gives him his last goodbye always makes me so emotional.

[izzy-b-hands]

It should be illegal for a fic's ending to not show up literally once you get to the last lines. They should just show up!!! Where are they

[midnightwind]

I have had Lucanis for five minutes and I want to gnaw on him

put that little man in a jar and shake it

[zehecatl]

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