the world ahead

Daen - they/them Three Decades - UK

[fortheloveofgrantaire]

“i’m gay” “i’m straight” okay??? but i am agog??? i am aghast??? is marius in love at last??? i’ve never heard him ooh and ahh??? we talk of battles to be won??? and here he comes like don juan??? it is better than an opera???

[junior-theabgshark]

[paranormal-taters]

[hadesisqueer]

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

[hadesisqueer]

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

[joyflameball]

[futchlings]

"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

[demoncity]

It’s a bathhouse for the spirits. It’s where they come to replenish themselves. SPIRITED AWAY (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[avernusreject]

Remember kids, every npc is romanceable through the power of delusion

[sanegreen]

it's just me and my very specific romantic scenarios against the whole world

[erdogun]

if you're quiet as an adult they kill you

[meangreenspaceman]

man I sure love that character I wish the writers did too

[weaver-z]

It's hilarious to me that Al Capone was an amazing tipper. I get why it took so long to catch him.

[weaver-z]

Me and the other caddies watching Al Capone beat a guy to death with a golf club after he gave each of us the 2022 equivalent of $1600

[thoodleoo]

there are a lot of really good ancient roman laws but i think my favorite is that, if you got struck by lightening and died, you couldnt have a proper burial because it meant that the gods hated you

[ancient-rome-au]

“Jupiter cancelled him and we’re not going to question that”

[antique-scarecrow]

genuinely asking: how would these laws apply to that guy who got struck by lightning on seven separate occasions but survived every time?

[nanarchy]

I think I would have assumed Zeus was trying to fuck him.

[antique-scarecrow]

worst possible response thanks so much

[drferox]

A classic secret featured on Postsecret.com Jan 26 2019. Poem from ‘Afterthought’, attributed to a semi-anonymous teacher known only as ‘Phil’

And Phil’s subsequent reply.

[stoportotouch]

sorry i was researching the author of a victorian book about raising children and now i'm fascinated by her. clear my schedule we're talking about lydia maria child.

[stoportotouch]

"show a baby nice things" got it

[stoportotouch]

wuh. hbuh.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Child was an absolutely fascinating woman. An abolitionist and women's rights advocate, she was also critical of organized religion despite being nominally Christian as many of her time and place were. She published a novel that was scandalous for centering around an interracial marriage between a white woman and a Native man, became well known for a series of household guides specifically at poor women, had a fairly egalitarian marriage with her husband David, and also wrote the poem "over the river and through the woods" about her grandparents' house in Medford, Massachusetts

[lyricwritesprose]

It's not just "show the baby nice things," although that's part of it! It's also:

Find the baby nice things to look at without overstimulating the baby

Don't try to control how long or in what way the baby interacts with the nice thing. Let the baby control the experience

Pay attention to the baby's cues. When the baby is bored of the thing, you will know it, they are not subtle

Your baby is learning as they do this. Remember they are very new and very small and have experienced practically nothing, so "ball remains round even if you turn it over" is a whole new bit of information to them, and your job is to step back and let the baby process these important new bits of information themself, rather than flooding them with data they don't know what to do with.

And the second one includes those ideas, and also:

Make sure your baby knows that you are a loving and friendly presence that they can rely on to be there, it is not just the loving thing to do, it is also healthy for child development

This is, in fact, not half bad when it comes to child development theory. Given the amount of child-rearing advice that boils down to, "Speak roughly to your little boy/And beat him when he sneezes!/He only does it to annoy/Because he knows it teases!" this is quite progressive and a welcome relief. (Okay, so that poem is a parody, however I feel that the sentiment it was mocking was and unfortunately is not rare.)

[palmer]

I’m going to the grocery store does anyone want to sublet my apartment for 45 minutes

[jurynullification]

How much

[palmer]

Only 3400

[jurynullification]

hot damn 🏃‍♂️ cmon guys lets go 🏃‍♂️🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🧞‍♀️

[palmer]

ok I’m back you and your boyfriend and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your djinn can go

[charl0ttan]

to be honest i do have beef with some microbes

[yoshspace]

shoulda cooked it longer that gets rid ofem

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[kikmessenger]

skips a stone over a few posts

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that