Wandering Prince

I'm Kyrie, I'm Blind, Queer, and a nerd. they/them. Need a tarot reading? Want to commission short writing? Check my Kofi and reach out to me on Tumblr! https://ko-fi.com/princekou

[paladin-panoply-of-pax]

“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.

Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.

These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”

from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’

—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015

One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.

Mind how you go.

[transformativeworks]

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[thegeekgene]

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[snarpreplies]

[kingscrown666]

[undeadentropy]

What a highly specific and devastating word

[basingstokemercury]

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

[djbodyhorror]

obtuse is such a good word. Bro that was so thoughtless it's triangle

[amnesiaguy]

fantasy is when currency is referred to as "gold" and sci fi is when currency is referred to as "credits"

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

love isn’t easy but that doesn’t make you hard to love

[shamebats]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[shamebats]

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

[shamebats]

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

[lemonylemus]

This was reposted to YouTube shorts and I would like to point out some comments in the video

[flip-this-table]

Please give your children some damn playdoh and crayons and oversized bits of craft paper to color on. They need something more concrete and tactile than smooth glass.

[themainspoon]

Maybe they do need something tactile, but you've missed the point of the post. It's not the Ipad itself that's bad, it's the fact that the children are being neglected. You could hand a kid a whole library of books, several kilograms of play dough, a mountain of crayons, and all the craft paper in the world. But, if you don't spend time with them and you simply expect them to use those things to keep themselves busy so you don't have to deal with them, you're still neglecting the kid, and they're gonna end up with the same issues.

[angstandhappiness]

IMPORTANT

[thebiscuiteternal]

Running across this post almost immediately after reading the article about how some parents are letting fucking ChatGPT tell their kids bedtime stories now feels serendipitous in a way.

[shamebats]

#so this is actually what i wrote my final thesis about for my bachelors in psychology #i ran an exeriment on kids below 5 that measured their social cognition levels (eg. understanding others emotions and needs etc) #and i also asked the parents about their kids screentime habits #and there was obviously a negative correlation between the two - so more screentime meant lower social cognition on average #BUT there were quite a few outliers with high amounts of screentime but also a higher level of social congition #and the explanation for that is that for these children screentime isn't there INSTEAD of interacting with the parents #screentime only affects the child negatively if parents use it as a distraction for the kids instead of interacting with them #so if a child watches some cartoon then the best a parent can do is sit with them and watch with them and talk about it with them #and then (limited) screentime can actually be beneficial for the development of other cognitive skills #so there is a large amount of scientific research out there that proves what ppl said in this post

That's really it. You'd probably have gotten similar results 30 years ago if you studied kids who are left to read books by themselves alone in their room for multiple hours a day vs kids whose parents read with them, or at least in the same room and talk to them about what they're reading. Because the former are most definitely also being neglected in other ways.

It's not as much about the tablets, it's about the fact that these children aren't being played with and talked to enough. Parents are using them as a get out of parenting tool instead of a parenting tool.

[sabertoothwalrus]

the funniest thing about AA4 taking place during 2026 is that they had tried to design Phoenix looking like a sleazy bum with a drinking problem, and by absolute sheer coincidence, the beanie + hoodie + baggy sweats look is INCREDIBLY TRENDY this year. Every other man at my uni has been dressed like this lately. Phoenix is not dressed like he's at rock bottom, he's dressed fashionably. he's TRENDY. for all we know he could be wearing entirely designer

[nortsauce]

Another common trope in fanfiction for ace attorney is Phoenix going over to Miles’s office to bother him

which is really funny bc in Kumiko Suekane’s official art: The opposite is implied

Like why is miles always over at phoenix’s office literally just to bother him

This piece right here is quite literally about maya and miles coming over to bother phoenix when he’s working LMAOOO

Its so funny how we all expect miles to be the one working constantly, but in reality he canonically

- drops everything to help phoenix across the ocean

- dropped everything to prosecute a case phoenix was versing

- Dropped his badge to find the guy who attacked Kay Faraday

- dropped his work because there was a dead body in his office (which- yeah fair LOL)

- drops A TRIAL (for a second) to ask the steel samurai authot for an autograph

(his face says “can i have your autograph)

Anyways, more silly edgeworths in fan media who go “i’m bored as hell i’m gonna bother the people i’ve attatched myself to”

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

damn i kinda think we’re going to get through this

[maximumsunshine]

Can you help me feed my kids?

Ok look. We're doing mostly ok these days, financially. No room for emergencies. But bills and rent are getting paid. We have toilet paper. We get some help from family but we're mostly surviving off my pay.

Here is the problem. We're fighting to get back foodstamps. We lost them beginning of this month (burocacy bullshit) and they already weren't enough to feed 4 for a month (we were supplementing) so losing what we had? Fuck.

We skipped this last scheduled grocery trip week and a half ago. We go every two weeks and buy two weeks worth of food based on a meal plan plus some fend for self meals due to dietary issues. We had to skip the trip. But the pantry wasn't empty. The deep freeze wasn't empty. We've been making do.

We have the next trip scheduled for March 30. Look. We can't stretch the pantry past that. 2 weeks stretch was one thing. There just isn't the means for 4 weeks. I'm stilling fighting for food stamps. We'll get them back. It's just at the processing speed of a snail. They need approved by end of day this Friday to shop Monday. Even then would they be released in time for a grocery trip Monday? No.

Maybe there will be a miracle. But i can't subside on hope for such. I can't feed my kids hope. I need to assume i need help. I need to ask y'all for help. I need to put food on the table for 4 people for about 2 weeks. With restricted (14yo has arfid) and medical (me) based dietary restrictions it costs. We're not eating lobster, i would like (frozen) veggies though. Gotta try to feed the kids veggies.

My goal is 550$. Anything over that will go into the ongoing disabled cat vet fund. If by miracle we have ebt in time, all of it will go in the vet fund. This isn't a lot. It feels doable with mutual aid. Can you help? Please

Can you help me feed my kids? Look don't take food off your own table. Every little bit helps and adds up. Reblogs are essential. Can you help a single disabled hard working mother feed her kids?

Paypal

Venmo

Cash app

Ask for Zelle

[maximumsunshine]

Thank you everyone!

Goal is exceeded! I'll be able to make sure snacks are restocked to full too and what's left is already added to the vet savings account!

[papayajuan2019]

hey, do you mind if i immensly value our relationship, in a way i'll never properly be able to fully verbally communicate

[lesbianjaxsondart]

if you put the new harry potter show on my dash in any way it's gonna be an automatic unfollow from me, guys. like. it's 2026. come the fuck on

[he7tiangle]

if his name is phoenix wright is the other dudes name unicorn wrong. sorry ive never played ace attorneu

[nteabodies]

Can't tell if by 'the other dude' you mean the edgy prosecutor called Edgeworth or the very justice oriented defense attorney called Justice

[he7tiangle]

the edgy one i think. however i cannot shake the idea of an edgy character being a unicorn and i think it’s reallt funny

[nteabodies]

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you can’t die today.

there are little things that must be done and other little things you will actually want to do.

a loved one’s day is made by your existence in their life.

the sky will be many different colors soon, and you’ve have to be reminded you’ll only get this exact painted sky once.

that piece of media that keeps you going is going to release something new again soon, and you can’t miss that.

the sun would love to kiss your skin again and drape you in a comforting warmth.

gosh, there is so so much art to be seen that will make you feel things you didn’t know you were capable of.

any human connection that reaffirms someone sees you, is going feel like magic.

there are cats and dogs out there waiting to get a boop from you.

there’s so much time for you to make things and go places and rediscover yourself in new worlds.

feel free to add + !!