A Little Summer Wind

My name is Chris (25). I am: An actor/singer A writer A tad nerdy A child at heart Obsessed with many things And just trying to figure out the world

[abdulraveman]

Detective Pikachu Pokemon Phone Wallpaper

made by  @影视安利君 weibo

[asagi-s-garden]

Disney: we vaguely implied that the villain’s toady was into him! :D canon representation!!! :D :D :D

Marvel Studios (also Disney): we had a nameless extra ask about his husband :) you’re welcome :)

PBS: The title character’s elementary school teacher will get married to a man on-screen and all of his students will be there to support him, nbd.

[the-four-humors]

Okay I know this is a jokey post but it IS a big deal for PBS! Back in 2005, the Arthur spin-off, Postcards from Buster, had an episode where Buster visited a (real life!) family that had two lesbian moms. The episode never used the words ‘lesbian’, ‘gay’, or ‘homosexual’, just had Buster hanging out with this family for a little bit. 

The US Secretary of Education at the time was SUCH a fucking homophobe that when she found out about the episode, she demanded that PBS return all federal funding used to make the episode. PBS only aired it on a few channels. 

Marc Brown, the original creator of the Arthur books, recorded a video about how important it was to him that all types of families be represented in the show. PBS has been trying for 14 years to get gay rep and it’s important that we support the show since - as they say in the credits of each episode - it’s funded by viewers, not by corporations! 

[coolthingoftheday]

[coolthingoftheday]

“Who gives a shit about your genitals you have a fucking dragon.”

[newhologram]

I never see anyone talking about how kids can abuse adults though. 

Growing up I saw a lot of adult teachers get bullied by students and it sucked. They would purposely push them to their breaking point until they exploded, yelled, cursed, threw desks, and the ones who didn’t have that kind of reaction would just quit or end up fired because the kids would start rumors. One was because our new math teacher was effeminate so the guys thought “obviously this guy is gay and he’s after our dicks” and if he was ever nice to a male student (which… he was nice and friendly with EVERYONE and was the best teacher we’d had that year) they would start whispering behind me, “yo, look at that, did you see that? He’s flirting with his male students, that’s nasty” and so they made trouble for him. 

My mother worked at a Discovery Zone type place when I was little and she would come home and break down crying because groups of little boys would call her names, call her stupid her whole shift.

I had friends in childhood who absolutely abused their parents. They were relentless and mean and hacked them into submission and it made for a lot of awkward moments when I would hang with them, because I couldn’t do anything since… they were my abuser too.

Just because you’re a minor doesn’t mean knives you throw are not sharp and won’t hit someone. The fact that so many kids on this site use their age as a weapon, as a way to say “but nothing I do has any impact because I have no social power” is SCARY and we need to try to make people aware of this kind of stuff from a young age because most people who are like that don’t really realize it and they need guidance and rehabilitation so the cycle can stop. Because those people grow up and have kids and do it to their kids and they don’t learn that it’s not normal or okay, that they cannot deny reality by controlling the people around them. 

But sometimes it isn’t always that way, some of those parents were so nice and kind and I considered like family, and they just had absolute evil villains for kids. 

Check in with yourselves, guys. Especially right now. There’s a lot of upsetting stuff being shoved in our faces all the time and it makes it hard not to get tunnel vision when our emotions get out of control, especially with the pressure to perform by a lot of social circles on tumblr. And if you’re young and a lot of this is new, pace yourself, you’re learning, and you need to be open to the idea of learning more and know that us being adults doesn’t mean we’re just out of touch boring old farts who don’t know anything. We’ve lived things and we have experience and when we say to you that it’s not okay to tell people who like things you do not like to kill themselves, we’re not “apologists”… we’re the survivors too. 

[lookfamiliarr-deactivated201910]

yo this is really important

my piano/choir teacher in 6th grade was only around 20-23 whenever she came to our school, and she only stayed for 2 years because all the kids were so awful. one time she told me that me and a few other of my friends were the only ones who hadn’t said a bad word about her the whole time.

in 4th grade, we got an awesome music teacher. he was in his late 20’s at the time, really chill and easygoing (we were in elementary school). some of the kids would just slowly drive him off the edge until one day he ended up throwing pens across the room out of frustration and anger. everybody was either scared of him or laughed at him, and it kinda made it worse. he left 2 years later and teaches a civilized and nice group of kids now.

kids really can abuse adults. I’ve seen it happen a lot and it’s sad and heartbreaking and overall awful to see because so many people brush it off as “kids being kids.”

[dionysiandoubt]

In 7th grade or so I had the most delightful Maths/Science teacher (the two were taught by the same guy) and he was always super nice. Like he adored teaching, he brought us snacks sometimes and like really wanted us to do well. 

By 8th grade he was a changed man. We had young neo-nazis starting shit. We had kids screaming and throwing shit at him. We had knife fights and I’m 90% certain I remember him straight up being forced into a position where he had to wrestle one of my more violent classmates to the floor. My class had actually driven this calm, cool, great guy (he couldn’t’ve been more than 27 at the time) to actually break down crying in class. As far as I heard he was gone by the time I entered grade 9. 

[phynali]

My older brother’s class prided themselves on getting a new teacher to quit teaching altogether before the end of his first year of instruction. They were just a toxic group. 

The same behavior started to happen with my older sister’s class and the teachers and parents came together and four girls got transferred classes or schools so they would be separated and wouldn’t build each other into a toxic and bullying frenzy anymore. My mom transferred my older sister just to get her away from how cruel her classmates were. 

The class a grade above mine made a teacher – a nice, patient, strict but fair teacher – burst into tears in the middle of the day. My own class wasn’t terrible but one kid pushed the teachers so hard with such malevolent behavior that a teacher wasn’t fired after throwing a desk out into the hall after the student (well, it was more like slamming the desk out into the hall, but it was still alarming as hell to witness).

Kids need boundaries. They need rules and instruction and compassion. And all of that means that they can’t and shouldn’t get a free pass for abusive and toxic behavior. Even if they’re acting out, even if they’re flexing their independence and boundaries to see how hard they can push their power. If they are hurting, bullying, and abusing others, they need to learn that that isn’t okay. I don’t think we need to be cruel and harsh with these kids, but rather that we need to be compassionate and educate them while also imposing fair and consistent rules and boundaries to stop these types of behaviors. 

Because the fact that this is so prevalent is alarming to me. We’re raising people to believe it’s okay to abuse others so long as they have a defense to hide behind and pretend they’re the victim (i.e., “i don’t have more social power than you therefore I cannot harm you [therefore I can do whatever I want and you can’t do anything about it]”). That’s dangerous.

[lesbiantiope]

Fyi it’s not just teachers that this happens to. I didn’t know it at the time, but when I was a child, I was abusive to my parents. The realization of that was pretty upsetting.

[sunlitallegory-deactivated20171]

“You’re too old for that.”

Is really a shitty concept. You’re too old for everything. Cartoons, sleepovers, candy, etc. Basically, you’re too old for fun. You shouldn’t be too old for fun ever in your life. If you want to watch cartoons, do it! If you want to have sleepovers, do it! 

[furlockhound-inactive-moved-dea]

CS Lewis famously said that the intrusive desire to appear grown up all costs was in of itself a childish trait that secure adults should’ve grown out of it.

He worded it that “When I was young I hid my love of fairy tails for fear of ridicule, now that I’m 50 I read them openly”

[scaliefox]

All this is true.

The intrusive desire to appear “mature” is a major insecurity in and of itself and the sooner we learn hobbies have no age limit that get’s you thrown out for hitting it, the better.

[ryan-potter]

There’s no hope now. It’s over. No, it’s not over.

[kkachi95]

Happy Mother’s Day!

[corsolanite]

Detective Pikachu recreated the dance from a Key & Peele sketch!

[kaajoo]

World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places

Italian product manager and web designer Francesco Mugnai recently added a collection of images to his blog touting some of the most beautiful images of abandoned spots and modern ruins that he’d ever seen. The images Mugnai has captured come from empty castles, shuttered power plants, and dilapidated churches around the world. From a sunken yacht in Antarctica to a forever-closed amusement park in Japan, these images all make up a sort of anti-phoenix; rather than rising as new from the ashes, these husks remain preserved in decomposition, forcing viewers to confront the strange beauty of ruination.

Source: Fast Co-Design

[akaashikeji-archive]

[couldbealone]

[2000ish]

I've been looking out of a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what I might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it's not everything I dreamed it would be?

[instant-kill-karen]

Me after watching Endgame and Game of Thrones back to back:

[rhaenyradragon]

About me

[moogsthewriter]

MCU and GOT fandoms after this weekend

[mizules-deactivated20240615]

ATLA gifset per episode → The Deserter

Water is cool and soothing, earth is steady and stable, but fire, fire is alive! It breathes, it grows. Without the bender, a rock will not throw itself! But fire will spread and destroy everything in its path if one does not have the will to control it!

[scenograph]

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Art of the Animated Series (2010 Artbook)

[bellossom]

The mood for today? 2nd frames of Pokemon sprites