In huge flowers of fire, they boomed

They/Them ♡ #1 Akane fan ♡ Icon by @/wishmemellsworld [ID: The icon is the sanrio character Congimyun, she is monochrome and is wearing a hat and bows. The header is of the Jibaku Shounen Hanako Kun character Akane who is laying in water while gripping a hand. /End ID]

[fakedoe]

some of my drawings that i made

[depresed-duck]

azula (final agni kai version)

[necklesslapras]

Day 9

i really wish someone else had been around to hear the noise i made upon opening the flap and seeing This Thing staring back at me

[virtualyellow]

i'm so enamored by this thing i had to draw it

[pokemondescribed]

[ID: 2 images.

photograph of an Absol bootleg toy, which is mostly on model save for the fact it is all white save for a small section of its face and a bead above its face. Its face also lacks a nose or a mouth, it is simply two squinting eyes.

a fanmade digital crayon drawing of the toy, looking much as it does in the photograph. A second image of it is faded into the white background, zoomed in close to its chin and shoulder.

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[ianime0]

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun S2 | Ep16 | "Hanako-kun!“ Here I am. “Hanako-kun?” Sorry I’m late. I hate to break it to you, but the wedding’s canceled. I can’t just marry off my assistant to some nobody from who-knows-where.

[voidrabbitsden]

some quick drawings i made last night of harley sawyer cause i like him a little

[corruptimles]

be careful of fairy rings

[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.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: YouTube commens. @/ netkenztv: i agree. i played with an ipad kid yesterday and he didn't want to go back to it once. all i did was pretend to hit the wall and he giggled as i fell dramatically and made blehgh noises. it doesn't take a lot of effort to entertain or educate a kid. some people don't deserve to be around children

if you hate your kid so bad, if you're really so exhausted, find a solution where you're not their caregiver anymore. please. for their health

@/ WateverWatever04 reading: Growing up we had a TV in every room. Bookshelves on every floor including the basement. Everyone always said you're so lucky! If we made Any noise we were absolutely fucked. Five kids. No playing. No laughing. Complete silence except for the TV. It's not a good way to live.

@/ binoodles511 This!! This is exactly why I get so frustrated when people say they hate iPad kids. They just call them annoying and blame the kid themselves for being dependent on an iPad. It's the parents who have neglected their own children that we should hate. These kids are being raised with no real human connection, and you can see how desperate they become for that connection through their interactions on online spaces. They post tiktoks and shorts pouring their hearts out, they become deeply attached to fandoms or online celebrities.

@/ MintTheProtogen reading: Someone finally said it. Outside of a few activities that my family would do with me, I was practically all by myself, left with video games to distract myself. I constantly felt like a pest asking to do things. Now is exactly the same, but somehow magnified. Everyone is too busy to do things with me or is annoyed when I ask so I just stick to myself a lot more... which is made more complicated because they have a distaste in me liking my online friends (who do things with me and like and treat me like a human being) more than them. /End IDs]

[quartings]

An edit I made after the recent teasers:

[anistarrose]

[ID: an edit of a 4chan thread where OP asks: "Hey /vp/oreons, your favorite pokemon is Malamar, what's yours?" Replies read: "Malamar," "it's Malamar apparently," "Malamar," "obviously Malamar," "Malamar I guess," "Malamar i'm told." End ID.]

[leydraw]

My name is Oliver.

[wishboneanimation]

🐇 WHERE IS TRACY MADDISON IS OUT NOW!!

3/3 PILOT CONCEPTS *COMPLETE*!!!

We’ll have much more news about our moves going forward as well as how the vote will work, but for now, please enjoy the result of our hard work!!!

We hope you love it, because we loved making it.

[wildspringday]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from rachel coster (@/ Rach4_theStarz) reading: Nobody is doing it like me because this is probably not the right way to do it /End ID]

[cott1gecheezzz]

Girl chill he’s all yours 💔

Freeze your braaaaiiinnn

[bakudanma]

[ID: Fanart of the character Jason Dean from the Heathers franchise. He is offering his slushie while saying {care 4 a hit?}. On the top right corner is a small excited Veronica. /End ID]

[how-very-salty]

[stlamb]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from Dingus Egg (@/ castingAHex) on 7/31/25 reading: being normal performatively /End ID]

[unspokensuggestion]

you are allowed to be wrong you are allowed to mess up you are allowed to be embarrassing.

[unspokensuggestion]

you are also allowed to do this.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: #you are allowed to explode your enemies into a million little pieces with your evil mind powers /End ID]

[ilgneunda]

One-Room TA, Episode 4

[bakudanma]

[ID: a screenshot from the manhwa One-Room TA. The character Jinhyeong is laying in bed watching his tablet as it charges in a dark room. He has a cat-like surprised face, the next shot is a close up of his face with the the text {tudum}.

[christinarobinson-art]

My daughter Blue!