Gearbird

Male|21|Extremely ADD|A 2D animation student, who likes to post random funny stuff and updates to my webcomic|

[selfgoals]

If you can’t reblog this, unfollow me now.

[sunkissedspider]

it’s fucking disgusting that i just lost 6 followers

[hotel-firingsquad]

[violetwolfraven]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

[knifenick]

If you think like that, please don’t ever have children.

[dragonsspire]

Listen, my parents installed a lock on my door so I could lock everyone out of my room if I wanted to at sometime around 8 years old. They had a key of course for safety but they’ve never had to use it and they’ve never used it when they didn’t have to.

I was allowed full access to any books, movies, and internet I wanted fully informed about our family beliefs and practices but I was given no supervision once I reached about 13 because my parents trusted me to stick to the rules or not as I felt and come to them if there was anything that I had questions about.

As long as I said where I was going, who I was with, and when I was going to be back and then phone if anything changed I was allowed to do pretty much as I pleased from 13 onward.

I moved back in with my parents after university and the first conversation we had was my dad telling me that if I felt like they were treating me like a child to please tell them because they had no intention of doing so.

I still live with them and I’m comfortable here as an adult. When I eventually move out again, which I feel no rush to do because I feel respected and given more than enough elbow room, I will probably talk to them often if not everyday. Because they’ve always respected my privacy and my autonomy both physically and emotionally. If you want an independent and fictional child trusting them and giving them their space will do you many more favours than not.

[greyforthewicked]

meanwhile, my parents…

password protected my computer so i had to get permission every time i wanted to use it

put a passcode lock on our pantry so we couldn’t eat without permission

regularly checked our internet browsing history

shut off the internet at regular intervals, including when i needed it for university homework

did monthly checks of our bank statements and would confiscate money if they didn’t approve of our activities

in response, i went behind their backs and opened a new bank account, got a secret job, bought my own groceries, and used the wifi from the school across the street. they didn’t succeed in disciplining me. all they did was force me to distance myself from them.

your children are not your property. they are human beings, and they deserve basic human rights.

[rock-fish-deactivated20201231]

kids are not your chance to make the abuse you suffered “worth it” by getting to finally be the rule-maker

[kuriquinn]

Dragonsspire’s parents did it right

[gearbird]

this was my childhood in a nutshell. my dad even took my door off its hinges at one point because I wanted privacy and would leave it so it was harder to see inside. I only got my own laptop during a brief stint in homeschooling, and I didn’t get to know the password. There were passwords on TV as well, and if it was rated anything above a TV-Y7, we had to ask one of them to type the password in so we could watch it, which sucked, because at the time my fav shows were Doctor Who (TV-13) and Transformers Prime (TV-PG) so I couldn’t watch anything i wanted to without their say-so. I had to ask to do anything, and they HATED it if I just sat inside. My dad even went as far as to confiscate my journals I had secretly had, and read through them, didn’t like what he read, and so he kept them to hold over my head and guilt trip me with. I once got yelled at for reading a book all day. I wasn’t even allowed to sleep in, because “Idle hands are the devils tools” and “Early bird gets the worm.” however on Saturdays and Sundays, I wasn’t allowed to leave bed for any reason until 8:00 AM. and I do mean ANY reason. If I was thirsty, too bad. if I had to go to the bathroom, hold it. If I couldn’t sleep, then just sit there. and the worst part was I couldn’t even have a book with me, because my dad would get upset that it wasn’t put away, and would say “That’s not where books belong.” and the threatened me if I my feet so much as touched the ground before 8:00, and that they would know if I did because “perhaps we’ve hidden audio recorders in here. we aren’t saying we did, but we also aren’t saying we didn’t.” I was happy to go to school because I was way less restricted there than at home. I also wasn’t allowed to play video games because they were what caused people to commit mass shootings. all of this to say take it from me, restricting privacy and taking away trust for NO REASON AT ALL from your kids isn’t good for them and it doesn’t build character, it builds resentment and fear because they feel they can’t be who they are. then again, my parents also had a strict idea of who i was supposed to be and become...and I didn’t become that person. I feel like most parents would know that shit isn’t right. Give them their privacy. don’t push them to tell you how their day was. let them come to you about it.   

[kpfun]

ROBIN HOOD (1973) dir. Wolfgang Reitherman

[nessademer]

Never was a more appropriate post right now.

[gearbird]

whelp, my Tumblr got hacked. there were like, 5 or 6 posts about some stupid fucking sunglasses nobody gives 2 shits about, but everything’s fine now. also, hello again after like a year. 

[spanish-g0ld]

this is sooooo fucked up. i’m livid

Click here to support Help bring justice to my son & I organized by Alina Chantrice

I was raped in 2016. That is how I got my son. As of yesterday, the jury decided that my case wasn’t enough so they dismissed all the char

[cosmic-noir]

She and her son deserve JUSTICE

[multireese]

Plz help this woman

[castdowns]

As of Thursday June 6, 2019, they’re at 8847/10000!

[lady-feral]

Boost

[coyotesmokebreak]

$9,045 of $10,000 06/06/19

[coyotesmokebreak]

$9,565 of $10,000 06/06/19 @ 11:39pm

Please help her if you can she’s so close

[seabassbitch]

people going off on peta via pokemon is all ive ever wanted (x)

[clinicallylycanthropic]

@trans-wooloo

[killowave]

[derezzcartes]

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Some girl in my class was talking about McDonald’s shamrock shakes and this yeehaw dude in cowboy boots said they suck and then he looked me in the eyes and said “what you’re gonna do is go to Arby’s, and get yourself a mint chocolate chip shake.” And he said it with such authority and certainty that I did so as soon as I got in my car

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I see your concern y’all but this wasn’t a man telling me what to do. This is a man who had important knowledge and shared it with me. He was aiding me on a quest I didn’t even know I was on.

[blackwoolncrown]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[unclebeanbag]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[wombat-annihilator-deactivated2]

[charlesoberonn]

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

[fallen-gravity]

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

[naryrising]

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

[nekomato-nekomata-deactivated20]

minecraft music… has a sadness to it… this cannot be denied

[nekomato-nekomata-deactivated20]

minecraft music feels like knowing you can’t go home because it’s not there anymore

[wooperfloss]

because a creeper mcfucking exploded it

[aquestionofcharacter]

if you relate to having an idea for a story for 4 to 8 years with almost zero progress towards actually writing it down, clap your hands

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

This post kicked down my door, came into my house and publicly shamed me in front of God, my mother, and my cat.

[lunepx]

hearing a really good song for the first time

[achilles-alexander-deactivated2]

Call me vain but one of my personal development goals is to not be a draining person. I want people to feel listened to and refreshed after spending time with me.

[tenthdynasty]

are y’all with the autobots?

[i-am-a-fish]

reblog if you don’t want to watch a family guy funny moments compilation

trying to prove a point to my youtube algorithm