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My name is Kai, they/them, I like to ramble in tags. I also like to chat, though I can be quite unreliable, please know that's on me. I'm working on it. Header is a background from Child of Light. Fire Emblem-ey theme by yuu-kariii!! 

[lesbiantahani]

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

[ryebreadgf]

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

[homemade-ghosts]

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

[bruce-slutsteen]

Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling

[battlechick]

this is literally the sweetest thing ever 🥺

[lylahammar]

The pineapple Martin from your stream XD

FDFHDKFHL; PLEASEEEE someone suggested I draw Martin with his hair up and it turned into a highly blursed image LMAO your drawing is so cute thooo 🥰💕💖

[hitmewithcute]

The boulder feels conflicted about fighting a blind, young girl

[harlequinpants]

saving gems in this game is….challenging

[lylahammar]

Just a quick happy Jon that I did on stream! 🥰🐱

[tamarinfrog-art]

Ice Climbers and the Veggiestalk 🍆

[flamingopuuuunch]

lucina warmup doodle

[robdowneyjr]

“Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie, that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark ‘egg on your face’.”

[shadows-and-science-gone-mad]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(photo via princessmisery)

[ajax-daughter-of-telamon]

This is a great idea!

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

this is really cool. Kids hate the big plastic keys cos they’re not interesting, they wanna see the things the grownups use all the time

[callmebliss]

I kinda want one of these.

[voidbat]

DUDE. it’s a giant fucking stim board! GENIUS.

[rootbeergoddess-deactivated2017]

This is brilliant 

[elionking-deactivated20191020]

Shit, I might make one of these for myself

[moonmoyo]

^^

[aughtomaton]

This is extremely devopmentally appropriate and smart

[specificfuckery]

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hey! They had a thing like this at my preschool, because not only is it a great entertainment center, its also a great tool for teaching toddlers fine motor skills.

We also had a board with the fronts of shirts, jackets etc cut out and mounted so we could fool around with and learn how to use buttons, zippers, velcro etc, which meant I was dressing myself pretty early.

We also had leftover keyboards, computer mice (sans cables) and a mix and match board of connector cables (bolted down and too short to strangle ourselves with) because I lived in silicon valley in the early 90’s when the tech boom was happening and parents would donate computer stuff for us to fuck around with.

Im looking at those gate locks up there and that’s a bit of a bespoke parenting- Dad does run the risk of teaching this toddler how to escape a gated area like the yard, but if the kid isn’t prone to wandering, it’s a good safety thing for him to learn.

Some other things to put on a fine motor skills stimboard: doorknobs and handles, switches and buttons (esp of you can wire them up to do something- kids learn patterns way earlier than you might think), window locks and cranks, assorted textures like carpet, fabrics, those reversible sequins, pebbles, sandpaper etc, the tops of jars with different kinds of lids top open and close, and (if you can stand it) anything that makes noises.

But pretty much anything that can be fiddled with, changed by touching and is safe to nom on is a good thing.

An additional caveat, from my own youth: if the fine motor boards are down at toddler height, dogs, cats, most pet birds and some reptiles will also play with and learn to manipulate these things. Which is also good mental stimulation for them but you can give your animals interesting ideas about what is ok to handle and teach them skills you might not want them to know.

[jenroses]

melissa and doug has an entire play-board tht is basically teaching kids how to defeat babyproofing and as a parent I am Not In Favor, though my kids would have loved it. 

[ampervadasz]

[sukkaritari]

little sir knight…………………………..

[lesser-flamingo]

a niche character trope i like is the person who is nice, a good person and acts well adjusted, then they do something where it’s like. oh you’re secretly a little bit insane actually

[lesser-flamingo]

thinking of examples like.

oh yeah her? she’s trustworthy, kind, reliable, DID super try to poison someone once.

or like. they were close friends with a serial killer for years and didn’t KNOW know but did kind of know. the friend is in jail now but they still visit from time to time.

or, Wow! it took surprisingly little for you to snap and rob that train.

maybe even a, “hey man, i really appreciate this, and i do NOT mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, but you’re being a little too cool about helping me dispose of this dead body.”

[lylahammar]

Now that Lashing Out is done can I show yall a little thing that I’ve been sneakily workin on since my very first JMart? :3c

Jon’s safe space 💛

[radical-eve]

[krishnahare]

transhumanists be like go grandpa

[deathwarlock]

Playstation 5

[shubbabang]

last night had a dream an image was going viral and it was basically this

[melvinandlugnut]

I really wanted to get some sleep, but my brain went “hey you remember that thing you thought of earlier” and now I’ve created this