I Should Be Sleeping

[whitepeopletwitter]

[actualmythicalcreature]

I taught my kid that swear words (important note: this does not include derogatory names for groups of people) are just words that can carry a social consequence. When you are a child, this consequence isn’t on you, as much as it is on your parents, who are responsible for you. As such, parents usually just ask their kids not to swear. Instead of that, I told him to ask me before he swore so I could explain the potential social consequences and we could make the decision together. So far, he’s asked a handful of times if he could swear at Trump while we watched the news. I found this perfectly acceptable, so he got to say “Ｆｕｃｋ trump”. Once when he dislocated his knee, he asked to swear - I said yea, he yelled “HOLY SHIT OUCH” and I asked if it made him feel better, he said it did. Once in traffic someone almost hit us and he asked to swear, I said yes - he said “That guy is an ASSHOLE” and I was like, yeah. 100% he was. He’s never asked to swear at a time that I felt was inappropriate. I have 0 regrets about this parenting decision.

[elfwreck]

(From Mama’s Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes)

[varpusvaras]

I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.

[eightbitpale]

I am once again reminded of this image

[lioncunt]

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

[californiaquail]

[lickingandsuckingchristmascoins]

come over

[trangoldin]

American diet and "healthy living" culture is insane and runs DEEP

[jennamoran]

who the heck is eating dice, cards, and pool

[aniseandspearmint]

WHAT is the first one supposed to be? It looks like 'piecing between meals' to me, but that can't be what it says, right?

[prfury-lavaca]

It does in fact say “piecing between meals” and it refers to snacking

[prokopetz]

I'm more struck by the fact that the progression set forth here implies that laudanum and cocaine are less concerning that spicing your food.

[ahedderick]

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

[zeemczed]

I need someone to give me recommendations for which Xianxia series to get into first.

[roswellsoup]

four trans people walk into a movie theater …

[hugintheraven]

Reminds me of EEAAO.

[morganitefalls]

I'm tired what the fuck isnt clicking

[morganitefalls]

Like can we be done here

[morganitism]

In case youre wondering this blog is still up

[piglii]

hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that I’ve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this

the button doesn’t necessarily say “Elucidate the Rapture” but it does say something that’s kind of lengthy and has religious connotations. the woman pushing the button has an expression of indescribable smugness. there might be other buttons on the machine (?) she is pressing.

[piglii]

FOUND IT

[andmaybegayer]

Oh this is only the first image in the Eschatron 9000 Series

[andmaybegayer]

and the finale, because of the Tumblr image limit

[piglii]

thanks this is part of an even grander incomprehensibleness than I could have expected

[a-third-attempt]

I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask “hey i think i saw a weird image once” and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like “oh yeah that’s the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop series” and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images you’ve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema

[flurgerbla]

I dont think thats the whole photoset…. I found one more

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

But i have no idea when the eschatron 9000 pictures were made or for that matter the original photos that were used to make it

[mckitterick]

this is far more than “random person in 2005ish creates surreal visual narrative” - let’s go deeper down the rabbit hole, shall we?

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”

Crystal Thierry’s (aka the modern Discordia / Eris) narrative lives in esteemed company

[dectech]

here’s what the warning in the image says btw because i wanted to read it but it was too blurry so i had to spend several minutes hunting for a version with better resolution, so I’m posting it here so nobody else has to make that same journey

“DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU’RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD”

[mckitterick]

also just noticed the labels on the dials on the left side of the device’s control panel:

“MAYHEM” and “DESTRUCTION” are both turned all the way up

[dee-the-red-witch]

As they should be. Can’t make paradise without scrambling a few universes.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign(s)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

You definitely don’t get content like this on other webbed sites and apps

[feminist-space]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[whatbigotspost]

2021:

Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher's review of nearly 70 studies finds

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

2021:

The Effect of Spanking on the Brain

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

2018:

Science Again Says Spanking Hurts Kids Long Term

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

2016:

Spanking Harms Kids, Doesn't Work And Leads To Long-Term Problems

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

2012:

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

2010:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

[whatbigotspost]

This post needs a "it's been 5 years" update, so here we go:

2022:

Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study

Spanking is a risk factor for children's social competency. However, establishing causality is a challenge, given selection bias in samples

The effects of spanking on psychosocial outcomes: revisiting genetic and environmental covariation - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Background There is a vast literature on the negative associations between spanking in childhood and various psychosocial developmental outc

2023:

Corporal Punishment in Schools - PubMed

The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical method for management of behavior concerns and causes harm to stude

Spanking and executive functioning in US children: A longitudinal analysis on a matched sample

Spanking has been linked to multiple maladaptive child outcomes. However, previous research linking spanking with children's executive funct

2024:

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly d

2025:

Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact

This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any pu

Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower

[whatbigotspost]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME TUMBLR

So annoying. So GD annoying.

[headspace-hotel]

The World Health Organization report I highly recommend because there are so many conclusions that are shocking and yet completely obvious.

For example, being exposed to corporal punishment as a kid makes it more likely for a person to commit domestic violence against a partner. In places where corporal punishment is normal, people are more likely to think that rape and intimate partner violence are normal. Kids who are spanked are more likely to be violent with and to bully other kids.

Spanking is literally teaching a kid that violence is okay and normal and it affects the whole society.

It also talks about how corporal punishment affects the brain in its development. It changes the structure of the brain and slows the development of mental abilities. Kids who get spanked have much stronger hormonal responses to stress.

[tachyon-log]

"'Effect' is a noun, and 'affect' is a verb," reprimanded the schoolteacher. The students merely looked on with dull affect, bearing no genuine desire to effect change in their own vocabularies.

[deadchannelradio]

i dont personally like bernard (sorry bernheads) but i do really like the concept of "first boyfriend". the First Boyfriend is not always someones actual First Boyfriend and sometimes people skip the First Boyfriend entirely, but First Boyfriend is defined as "someones first real boyfriend who is Just Fine." there is nothing special about First Boyfriend. First Boyfriend tends to last a long time because there is nothing to really hate about First Boyfriend. First Boyfriend is perfectly affable. First Boyfriend likes to Look at Cars/Birds/Manhole Covers/Comics/HB Pencils. First Boyfriend will sometimes play A Video Game. you can bring First Boyfriend home to your Parents and they will say "First Boyfriend seems Nice." nobody has anything to say about First Boyfriend other than the fact that he is Nice. First Boyfriend has no particular strong opinions on anything other than what types of pen are nicest to write with. First Boyfriend just wants to do Whatever You Want To Do. you can watch First Boyfriend eat a Burger at a Cookout and he will put ketchup And mustard on it, to be daring. First Boyfriend likes Bread And Butter Pickles. First Boyfriend will be dated for far longer than you would think simply because First Boyfriend is so forgettable. You can bring him along on vacations like a waterbottle. He tends to blend into the background of all photos. he doesnt ever seem to really Need anything. he is just Happy To Hang Out With You. There's never anything Wrong with him. You never have any real arguments or intense discussions or differences of opinion. He's just kind of there. he's like peel and stick wallpaper in the shade Beige. Eventually First Boyfriend will be broken up with and the breakup will not even hit that hard because the relationship was always just kind of middling for both parties, but it lasted so long that yeah it kind of was upsetting. bernard is First Boyfriend to me. Your dad never actually really remembers his name.

[deadchannelradio]

like that's just bernard to me he's the plain vanilla ice cream in a cup of boyfriends. i want them to break up in like a year for no big or dramatic reason and i want bernard to live like a perfectly normal average life post tim where nothing ever truly bad happens to him. i want him to be 2 years into a relationship with somebody else as their like second or third boyfriend (no important capitals needed he's just their boyfriend) and he's like in the middle of being photographed on family vacation in the group photo when he remembers how tims family always made him stand on the outside of the photos w/o touching tim (so he could be cropped out later) (they didn't actually say that to him but it was the vibe) and his new partners mom is crafting the caption to mention him and he's like Wait A Minute. THEY WERE RUDE!

[deadchannelradio]

The thing is tim isnt trying to be mean he is just seventeen years old for the seventeenth year in a row. none of this is like. people actively trying to be mean to each other (maybe damian is trying to be mean like who is this blonde in My House) it's just people learning the ropes of relationships and not actually being quite right for each other and not communicating as quickly or effectively as they could have due to all the situations being non-emergent. teenagers and young adults having teenagey young adulty relationships. this is the kind of thing that just happens in the world and it's kind of enchanting to me as a concept but not enough to write about it or read about it in a serious fashion.

[deadchannelradio]

i know bernard dealt with many a "My Friend Kon" sentences and situations. again tim is not actually trying to be mean he is just 17 (for the 17th time) and thinks generally everything is more fun when his buddy kon is there and that because HE thinks kon is so wonderful to think and hear about surely everyone else wants to hear about his friend too. He has not put together that if you have more fun with someone else than your significant other in literally every aspect you should maybe think about your relationship (seventeen) and "everything is better with kon" does not yet mean anything in his brain.

he is going to be really, really, really embarrassed about this in like 3-4 years bernard so dont worry man you'll get him back. not in a relationship or anything just like, emotional revenge. he's gonna wake up w a new piece of his frontal lobe developed and cringe so hard his soul leaves his body. you'll get him back.

[deadchannelradio]

tim is the kind of uncomfortable and embarrassed that makes you want to crawl away from yourself only you cant because you like, are yourself. he's gonna call dick to lose it a little about how bad he feels and how he doesnt know how to apologize and (after tim reminds dick of who bernard is) dick is gonna be like Yeah he should have just killed you.

tim: dick that is so not helpful i called you for ADVICE

dick: i dont have any dude like yeah that was real bad you did bungle that one. you should grovel only don't actually speak to him. leave him alone.

dick: send him a whole imported italian roast pig and an apology letter only don't do that just let him forget you exist because you did really bork that thang up good.

tim: i thought you would have advice or at least a story about when YOU were a kid to make me feel better!! why are you useless

dick: no way dude i kissed all of my friends that i liked hanging out with so that i could hang out with people i liked and get kissed. this is a personal problem. I try my best to only be really mean and rude on purpose.

[asidewalksymphony]

UPDATE! They found the original photo!

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