[gentlepetparenting]

Listening to The Science of Discworld while I work and Project Hail Mary at home with my husband. Both explore surprisingly similar themes.

Also takes me back to my college time where I was very big on "the definition of alive is based on the life we are familiar with and it's completely possible that one day we will find something that appears alive but doesn't follow the rules."

[kristina100000]

incredible picture found on the interwebs i had to share with everypony

[gentlepetparenting]

I hate that I am changing my mind about having kids, but all my friends have the chillest children and I have a partner who I trust (most of the time) and I'm starting to suspect it wasn't the kids who were the problem.

[gentlepetparenting]

I know it's useless to argue with people on the Internet but I really want to tell the people who keep commenting "maybe G-d is trying to tell you something" on articles about a pride festival getting cancelled over dangerous weather conditions that it might be "you have to take care of the planet or you can't have fun things anymore."

[gentlepetparenting]

Somewhere between my husbands undying support and my mother's unending criticism is an accurate description of my skills.

[gentlepetparenting]

I recently learned that people in NYC complain about how all of their tax money is being used to prop up the rest of the state. Which is fascinating because (at least where I am) we complain about how our tax money is going to prop up NYC.

Which begs the question- who is benefiting from us blaming each other and do they laugh all the way to the bank?

[capricciosso]

carrot is like the platonic opposite of a booktok boyfriend. someone disrespects angua and he frowns disapprovingly and asks her to please refrain from mauling the guy because it really is important that they follow protocol about things like this

[gentlepetparenting]

I love spinning tools. I'm pretty sure that if I handed this to a medieval peasant almost anywhere and said "diz" they would immediately know what it was. At most they would be a bit confused by the sparkles

[gentlepetparenting]

I don't know what I did right in my life for her to love me so unconditionally.

Even though I had to pill her the last three nights she is still always there for a snuggle

[gentlepetparenting]

I think one of the reasons Carrot and Angua are seen as "having no chemistry" is because the current tropes in romance are very "dark brooding guy who is a jerk to everyone but the main protagonist breaks through his tough shell" and sometimes you just get a guy who's nice to everyone and the conflict is in whether he's being sweet because he likes you or because he's just sweet.

Also The Watch novels aren't a romance so their relationship isn't the center of the story, we don't know what they're like in private.

[chuunifox]

Autism Representation written by an allistic: My name is John Autism and I like the designated autistic interests

unintentionally autistic character written by the creator who hasn't really thought about whether or not theyre autistic: I wish I could be human like the way everyone else is but I know they can tell I'm not. And I know they're right

[gentlepetparenting]

I remember hearing that in order to play someone drunk you need to play someone pretending to be sober and to play someone autistic you need to be playing someone pretending to be allistic.

[gentlepetparenting]

Re reading discworld, kind of what to talk about the three potential representations of Judaism

1. There are kosher butcher shops, so there have to be actual Jews there, but they aren't mentioned in the story outside what they produce for others (not even in what they actually sell but in the fact that they can supply vampires with animal blood as a byproduct)

2. The Golems - based on Jewish mythology, have Yiddish names, have holidays that start at sunset that don't follow the general calendar, have an "escaping slavery" throughline. Kind of an outsiders view of Judaism which works well because an outsiders view isn't going to create a full complex person and (while Golems are definitely more complex than first meets the eye) that works with something that isn't quite a living being.

3. The Dwarfs - who feel incredibly Jewish in a way that I can't fully explain, both in the way that they have this very structured rule and tradition based society but also in the way that different Dwarfs have different relationships to those rules and traditions.

[stargazingdustbunny]

Carrot and Angua's relationship is so funny to me because Angua is living a doomed tragic romance of two lovers from different worlds who can never truly be together and meanwhile Carrot is just like "I love taking my girlfriend to museums ^‐^ "

[okcoolthanks]

Petting my cat who is constantly shedding <3

[okcoolthanks]

I love my fat cat that sheds

[okcoolthanks]

I dyed her and the floor rainbow for pride month im force queering my cat <3

[gentlepetparenting]

Add to list of cats I want to make into a cross stitch pattern

[unmaskingpractice]

Unmasking Autism, Devon Price, PhD

[gentlepetparenting]

A phrase I've heard is "everyone pees, but if you're doing it 20 times a day you need to talk to someone"

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"If it really was that bad, someone would already have diagnosed it-" Have you guys never heard of systemic ableism?? The concept of medical neglect is a stranger to you??

[wondroustaels]

"symptoms you should NEVER ignore!" ok but what the fuck are you supposed to do when the DOCTOR(S) ignore them?