#well-rounded growth

[fastlane-freedom]

A Balanced Approach: Nurturing Children Without Overscheduling

In the fast-paced world we live in, parents often find themselves caught in the struggle to provide their children with enriching experiences while avoiding the pitfalls of overscheduling. The pressure to enrol children in numerous extracurricular activities can be overwhelming, yet purposeful parents are increasingly recognizing the importance of a balanced approach to child development. This…

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Something very Stephanie Brown about Stephanie Brown is that Bruce, Alfred, Babs, Damian, Kate, Tim, and Cass are all like "Wow! Dick Grayson's so spontaneous and wild and happy-go-lucky and rebellious and gung-ho and a ray of sunshine..." while Stephanie's like "OHMYGODDD, this guy's such a stick-in-the-mud!!".

Stephanie is literally chaos incarnate and Dick couldn't handle it (initially).

Meanwhile:

Most of these stories are happening around the same time by the way.

It also feels pretty hard-earned when these two do come around with each other, at the end of the Core Requirements arc. They had a cute dynamic and they're so similar in so many ways (Bruce even said it during The Road Home). We were robbed of more. It was absolute genius: "hmm...what if...Batman and Batgirl....were ROBIN!".

Sources: Batgirl (2009) #5-7, World's Finest (2009) #3-4, Batman (1940) #682 & #689, Nightwing (1996) #143, Detective Comics (1940) #872, Batman and Robin #9, and Batgirl (2000) #58.

[well-fed-belly]

I just did a weigh-in and belly measurement to see if any of the growth from last night's stuffing stuck around. Here are the results:

Weight: 160lbs exactly

Belly measurement: 42 and a half inches

So, let's be generous and say that I've gained half a pound and grew my belly half an inch

Do I look bigger?

[have-you-been-here]

Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest

(Shuh-WAH-muh-guhn)

Park Falls, Wisconsin, United States

[thedogwhoisachair]

I do love Centaurworld with all my heart but damn would I have preferred an episode in S2 about Zulius and Splendib reconciling over the my little pony convention episode

[sillybouquetoflillies]

i keep thinking i rly didnt go thru that much growing up, but idk, everytime i tell someone abt my life, they say i did and kinda just like sit in shock abt it. am i just internet brained or smth, or am i just dramatic?? i rly dont think ive earned a lot of the symtoms of someone who was traumatized that i have. or maybe i havent been in a safe place for long enough to process things??? i dunno. maybe someday far away in the future ill figure things out

[sysig]

I’ve always assumed that gaster and the dreamers had a parental relationship, considering that he seemed pretty young (teenager) when they took him in, plus it’s kinda implied that gaster had a abusive or at least neglectful childhood so it makes sense that he would want to view asgore and torial as parental figures.What do you think?

Also sorry about pestering you about fell!Handplates but it’s such a fun au. But how do you think gaster first reacted when the dreamers started becoming cruel?

Yup! Generally speaking I view Gaster as having a mostly parental/filial relationship with the Dreemurrs, and that evolving into a (mostly) platonic family dynamic, though it is kind of complicated with Asgore being his King and boss and Toriel disappearing and them grieving her together - I think it brought them closer, and not necessarily in only healthy ways ♪

Haha, I don't really mind, but I can only give my own thoughts and opinions on it! Some of it is stuff I'd also like to know haha ♫

I kind of assumed they were Fell from the beginning, that the argument is that Monsters are just Like That, it's in their Nature, and Fellplates!Gaster is trying to find proof that Monsters are capable of change, that with the "correct" kind of Nurture, they don't have to act on their Fell impulses. As for when he was inspired to start looking for that, hmmm ♪

[anachronic-cobra]

I'll be honest, if their idea of improving on the original ATLA is to remove the character traits the characters overcame within the narrative as part of their growth because they paint the characters in a bad light or whatever, I don't think they know the show well enough to be remaking it. What next? Are they gonna erase Iroh's military history because good people can't have ever made the wrong choice in their lives? Is Toph gonna be polite and cooperative the moment they meet her because you should never be rude to people? Is Zuko just gonna be a good guy pretending to be evil because no one understands character growth and nuance is too subtle?

[krsnaradhika]

Nobody:

Me to my readers, after every third update: Vanquish my imposter syndrome and slay my worries, O spotless lord of the three realms.

Also me, after hearing a single praise: Lies. All lies.

[dead-dove-orchid]

Island Skeet: Stubborn In The Sun.

I really like the idea for this draw but my execution fell flat- I may start over with this idea and do a similar draw but complete it, one of these days! So have the unfinished first version~ island skeet, my beloved, bites bites bites ,

-⚓️

[vitamin-zeeth]

About to go watch the npmd watch party but before I do

GOD it must be so hard for her being this right just all the fucking time jesus christ

[aquarterasian]

the way masato went from one of the worst non-villain precure characters of all time to genuinely one of the best parts of hugtto like thats crazy

[asteraceaye]

So my final project for this class is video art and I was gonna touch up my undercut for it but my professor said it'd be more dramatic if I buzz my whole head and guess who did just that and desperately misses it already

[well-fed-belly]

I may have hit a plateau right now, but at least I still have some old clothes that show off my belly nicely 🤰🏻

BTW, that first shirt was a workout shirt....before I put on 30 lbs

[365momme]

Unleash Your Talents for Personal Growth

Introduction: In the quest to raise well-rounded and fulfilled children, parents often grapple with guiding them towards personal success and instilling a sense of purpose. Achieving personal success is crucial, but finding fulfillment and purpose extends beyond individual accomplishments. This blog post delves into how aligning our talents with greater purposes can lead to profound personal…

[eponymousfics]

For the ask fic writer thing: yellooowww 🧟

💛: Do you ever alter, highlight, or de-emphasize certain canonical traits in a character? If so, why and describe how.

Oh absolutely.

It’s probably easiest to explain with the sextuplets as examples (and odds are you’re here bc of that fandom lol), so here we go. (...Under a cut because this got super long sorry >_>)

In the silence purrs, I definitely emphasize Ichi’s common sense/decency and minimize the shitting-on-tables-when-panicked side, because the genre is fundamentally different than the show. The show is low-brow comedy, tsp is romance with comedic elements.

I reference the wilder side, but try to avoid showing it directly on-screen, so to speak, because the fic is a lot more about unpacking his fundamental fear of failure and simultaneous need for love and companionship.

I also highlight his kindness, which gets hinted at in the show but isn’t focused on because it’s not funny. And I think the environment created by the brothers’ dynamic just inherently disallows most displays of tenderness.

The fic is a way to explore how he can create a different version of himself when he’s put in a new position with new influences, and balance that with who he is with his family. (Which is hard and a big reason why the freakin' New Year's party chapter has been taking me ages lol)

I also have a different fic idea with him that would emphasize his creativity, using that to create new relationships, and I think that one would also let him indulge more in the side of him that likes dressing up and acting.

We’d probably wind up exploring how much more he has in common with Karamatsu than either of them would ever like to admit and how part of why Ichi is much harsher towards Kara is because of self-recognition in the other leading to activating his self-loathing, plus a little jealousy of the fact that Kara can express himself while Ichi can’t. (Which isn’t fully true bc Kara hides a LOT also but y’know)

I also have a prince AU that emphasizes his self-destructive side and how his anxiety and self-loathing can wind up pushing away and hurting the people who love him, the inherent self-centered nature of that self-loathing, and how he overcomes it. That one is a lot more angst/hurt/comfort.

The genre and what traits are emphasized or minimized and very intertwined, though it isn’t always that one dictates the other. Like with tsp, I didn’t set out with a genre in mind other than romance, I just knew Ichi was going to comfort a stranger bc the presence of cats would make him brave enough to push past his anxiety for once. In the initial stages of writing I didn’t think the reader would wind up having as much emotional baggage themselves as they do, and that the whole fic would be a little more lighthearted, but sometimes things just happen lol

With the sextuplets especially, there's going to be more of this kind of trait highlighting/cherry-picking/unpacking because any fic (that I'd write for them) would always be some form of "I can fix him." Let's face it, if we want any of them to be relatively healthy romantic partners for anybody, they have a lot of personal growth to go through.

Which makes for interesting stories! And because their traits are so saturated and bold in the show, you can kind of play around with some very strong colors, including de-saturating or toning down, or mixing up in weird and fun ways.

Taking a more realistic approach inherently requires a little toning down, but you could also go the opposite way and throw in a Bugs Bunny-esque OC and do a wacky tasteless borderline-crackfic romcom. Kind of anything goes, so long as you keep the tone consistent within the story, which is probably why I've wound up writing the most in this fandom as opposed to anything else I'm into.

Anyway, I could talk about this kind of thing all day, and if there was a different fandom I've written for you wanted to ask about specifically lmk! For now though, this is way too long already lol

Thank you so much for asking! I had a lot of fun answering this ^o^