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Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 462625596920!

#pokemon go friend code

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The first of December was a wintry day…and the year seemed getting ready for its death.

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (via existential-celestial)

writerswritecompany

L. M. Montgomery was born 30 November 1874, and died 24 April 1942

Nine Quotes

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

hotdigitallegend

how 2 dress for cold weather

1. take ur pants off 2. get back into bed

writing normally: But it was true.

writing for NaNoWriMo: But it was true. All her suspicions and fears had been confirmed. She couldn't believe it - she didn't want to believe it. But it was, in fact, true.

fandomsandfeminism

Reminder: You are under no obligation to look pretty.

Not when you are laying around the house, not when you go to the grocery store, not when you sit in a classroom, not when you go to the gym. You are never obligated to get dressed up just so you are pretty for others.

Pretty is not the rent you pay to exist in the world as a woman.

flabbergasties

That last line. Wow.

organicandhappy

so fundamental that it bears repeating

i want dogs to be allowed at more places and i want children under 6 to not be

kimbureh

yeah cool and make young parents, almost always mothers, never leave the house again and socially isolate and publically embarrass em cuz they can’t afford babysitters for years, cool idea. at what point as a culture have we decided to hate on kids collectively. is it since the invention of refined sugars, I wouldn’t surprised if there was a connection.

fthgurdy

And then be surprised when the children have zero social skills because they’ve been told they’re not welcome on account of Not Being Real People But Dogs Are Totally Ok.

fthgurdy

…wow the comments on this are fucking scary. How many of the people going ‘yes ban kids from public spaces’ are also feeling disrespected by baby boomers? Do you fuckers not understand that Children. Are. People.

sacrificethemtothesquid

I’m conflicted about this, and I think it’s because the children that are most disruptive are the offspring of people who do not believe Children Are People, and that is the whole source of the problem.

fthgurdy

I absolutely think that’s true. We need to allow for the fact that kids are adults in training and will often require our patience and leniency. BUT they respond much better to being treated with respect than, by default, as a nuisance. Kids in adult spaces are in a very difficult position. They are in a place where they can’t play freely, because it might disrupt the peace- so it’s up to adults who require them to behave with more control to include them and offer them something in exchange. Like, shit, it’s not fun when you’re five and there’s a family dinner and all the adults are talking about adult stuff you don’t understand, no one wants to talk to you because they’re not interested in the things that fascinate you, but you’re also expected to sit quietly and politely for as long as the adults need you to. And follow certain rules you might not even know exist yet. And not interrupt the conversation because whatever you say is not as important as whatever adults have to say, for some reason.

People often don’t realise how much self-control they actually demand from children. There was this excellent post once about how yes, you CAN take walks with your toddler, if you just account for the fact that they take smaller strides and walk slower than you. Scale down the experience. Make it inclusive. Make it enjoyable for everyone. Kids are People, and Kids are Not As Experienced Or Capable As You.

And also chill with the reactions to kids existing- soooo many people get all annoyed if they just hear a child’s voice. But if an adult says something a little louder, or does something clumsy, it’s no big deal. Every time I take an airplane and there’s a little kid, their babbling and whimpering and, yes, even crying is way less annoying than the exasperated sighs and demands to ‘shut that kid up!’ from entitled adults around me. Like, ok, the baby’s a baby, what’s your excuse for being rude and disruptive?

nytylee-deactivated20191001

Whenever I see a child at a restaurant being ignored by their parents I try to engage the child in peek-a-boo or waving or just smiling. I know how bad social anxiety is, and I want to do my best to make sure no one else is forced into it - by making sure that being in public is a desired thing for the child. It has the side effect of reducing crying and yelling, because the child is too entranced to think of crying.

Ultimately, I wish children were treated like dogs, in that people look forward to seeing them and interacting with them, even complimenting them. And that dogs were treated more like children, with owners watching out for them and there not being regulations treating them as pariahs to be hidden or shunned.

poovellamkettuppar

This whole hating on children trend is so ugly

zygodactylus

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT holy crap

zinge

Even if you don’t like kids, be nice to them, treat them with dignity. They did nothing to you, especially not purposefully. A child won’t understand why an adult is being mean to them, but the psychological and emotional toll will be very real for them.

weemstar

Kids need social development, so let’s ban the unruly parents instead!

katastrophemo

I seem to accidentally be more invested in fictional relationships than my own social life

daveycameronisapie

Is there anything more excruciating than not knowing if someone is “feel bad, need space”, “feel bad, need u to reach out” or “literally fine, just busy, stop pestering me”