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danni | 28 | she/they | aroace nonbinary | adhd | gmt/bst

[aro-aizawa]

new chapter!!!!! pls give attention!!!

[sandersstudies]

Me: man I wish I knew more of my neighbors better

My nine-year-old neighbor: *crashes mom’s car into my yard*

Me: Be careful what you wish for I suppose

[sandersstudies]

Honestly my first draft of this post said “my neighbor’s son” and then I was like wait a second that’s functionally the same as saying “my cousin’s sister.” That’s still my cousin and that’s still my neighbor.

[sodomit]

A few days ago someone remarked on me saying "10 year old people" in a post. We really do rarely use words for children that imply personhood or non familial social relations. There's always a ghost of a parent standing between the child and what you want to say.

[earhartsease]

we personally appreciated that you didn't feel obliged to gender your nine year old neighbour

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Watching the latest Game Changer and laughing so much that Diesel (who was trying to sleep on me) got mad at the shaking and left

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh god they're doing Australian accents. Why. Sam this is actual violence. Don't make me listen to Americans failing to do Australian accents for ten minutes please, PLEASE, I am fucking BEGGING you.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Americans should have to get an accent license before they're allowed to do Australian accents. Like little kids getting a pen license in school.

[darkenedyeastextract]

ok but Bluey would genuinely make em better right?. But for like the generation that’s age 0-5 now. So like in 20 -odd years a lot of young up and coming american actors will have decent east-coast accents

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love the idea that Bluey will be such a large part of their media consumption for so many years that they will be able to do her accent well in twenty years' time. Bluey Is Eternal.

[mistermustachio]

Also, what was that about a pen license?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When kids are first learning to write, they usually do their schoolwork in graphite pencil, so that mistakes can be erased and they don't stain everything with ink. Once they exhibit enough control and competence to be trusted with a pen, we say they have their "pen license" and ballpoint pens are phased in. Kids generally don't give a shit but parents and teachers treat this as an informal sort of milestone and act like they should aspire to it.

[unsettledecho]

My primary school made you re-qualify for your pen license every year from grade 3-6.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They really wanted you to be sure you were ready to accept the responsibility of ink huh

[mastermatoyas]

I was like the only girl in my class who failed to get a pen license and I felt real and legitimate shame over that

[darkenedyeastextract]

Derin we didn’t need to tell them about the pen licence - having to explain this stuff makes me feel like Siobhan some times

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Most of what Siobhan explains is normal and it's the yanks she works with who are weird.

[deathsmallcaps]

Derin you said my accent was cute 🥺

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It is, you can have an accent license

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

[reckless-glitch]

[ramblingandpie]

[Video description: Gritty is turning the crank on a flagpole to raise the Progress Pride Flag. He gesticulates angrily that the flag is not blowing in the wind, then gestures offscreen. The flag begins blowing. As Gritty begins raising the flag more, the camera pans out to show a man in a suit and sunglasses, looking like a stern Secret Service agent, is holding a leafblower that points at the flag. End description.]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[scramratz]

Sketchin my peenids for this transmasc zine I’m submitting to, do you think tumblr will let me post it?

[scramratz]

We fixin to find out

[scramratz]

Really pushing Tumblrs buttons by posting the finished version

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[wario-land]

Mario Party kinda bullshit

[heymedley]

literally tumblr

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[geniusoflove]

its been 12 years

[shivshivshivvyyy]

13 years

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

14 years

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

15 years

[dammmithardison]

16 years

[thswrtchdthng]

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

[herondahl-deactivated20120922]

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

The Shigir Idol is believed to be the oldest wooden sculpture in existence at over 11,000 years old. It was found in a peat bog in central Russia in the 1890s and stands at almost 3 meters tall although the original was probably much taller. [633x640]

[catsbeaversandducks]

"no"

By yuki_illust19

[homophobla]

Twice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”

[beardedmrbean]

[earhartsease]

here in the uk you're lucky if you get compensation if the train is over an hour late - in many cases only if you booked a seat so you can prove you've been inconvenienced

also many cheaper tickets you can't get a refund if the train was cancelled, say due to a heatwave knocking out the infrastructure - might not matter to one person, but to another person £4 is a lot to not get back