Italian Bastard

Nick|28|he/him|stupid fuckin college graduate|icon from @pokemon-personalities

[lmaonade]

there is always some fucking laundry and dust and some other shit

[grendel-menz]

mommy, daddy, baby

[neverwonderneverremember]

sleep is stolen time. don't let them take it from you anymore. tonight. we are staying up. til one billion o clock.

[bewbin]

dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats

[ismenes]

When my son was about to turn two, strangers would offer condolences. There’s a collective cultural dread of toddlers, who get described more like animals than people. Kids in their "terrible twos," I was warned, are illogical, unregulated, and feral. "Good luck," people would say. "He'll grow out of it."

I'm lucky: My son is a very easygoing kid. But I remember the first tantrum he threw for me. He was standing by our front door and asked to go outside. So I opened the door and grabbed his shoes. But as soon as he stepped onto the porch, he pointed back into the house.

"Inside," he said.

"Okay," I said. I picked him up and brought him inside.

But as soon as I shut the front door, he pointed outside.

"Outside!" he said.

You know where this is going. We went back and forth, inside and outside, again and again. He got more frustrated. And I got more frustrated. Eventually he wound up straddling the threshold of our house, sobbing. When I tried to comfort him, he screamed at me. "You go wherever you want!" I said. He just got madder. I felt trapped, convinced he’d concocted the whole episode as a pretext to unleash his rage at me. It was ridiculous. I consoled myself with the thought that he was just being a toddler.

But later I kept thinking about him wailing at our front door, one foot inside, one foot outside. His misery wasn't unreasonable, or trivial, or silly. My son was experiencing the agony of wanting two things that were impossible to have at the same time. What a fundamentally human sorrow! My son wasn't being a toddler; he was being a person. Adults may not walk around howling, but that same pain rages within us. In that moment, as a father, I was powerless to solve my son's problem. I told him he could go wherever he wanted, but of course I was wrong. To be where he wanted was impossible.

Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett

[pigeon-butch]

your muscles being pleasantly sore after exercise is such a nice incentive I can see why they patched that in. the forced regular logins to avoid losing progress however are a predatory practice and deserve nothing but scorn.

[fairycosmos]

it is what it is *throws up blood*

[dumbpuppyfag]

UNGRATEFUL tech companies are saying things like "turn off your ad blocker" and "we need your photo id" instead of "thank you so much for not just pirating our shit, youre so handsome"

[treecitysessions]

Trying to make birthday plans when you’re someone who really cares about your birthday is so humiliating just hitting people up like hey do you mind proving to me that I’m loved and there’s a place for me in this world for the anniversary of my birth this weekend

[noelledeltarune]

okay that was not my last straw but i have maybe 3 to 4 straws left at most so watch out.

[natsumipocket]

[acidtheater]

"Halloween adults are just as bad as disney adults" "Furries are worse than disney adults"

I gotta be real, I thought we were critical of disney adults for aggressive loyalty to a really gross mega-corporation, or refusal to engage with media that isn't for kids, not because people... have hobbies?

[forgottenkirbyfacts]

forgotten kirby facts 340 - compilation of older mainline kirby cartridges a lot of people might not have seen before.

(images taken from the kirby wiki)

[anarqueeen]

Girlfriend won't stop point-and-clickmaxxing. Saying shit like "keys! I can use these!" And walking up to doors and announcing "it's locked." without touching the knob

[ot3]

normally when there's a new trend I simply let it pass me by and feel enriched for not succumbing to peer pressure to purchase an object I don't need. but I will admit with my whole chest that I was wrong about air fryers they are exactly as useful as everyone was acting like they were a few years ago.

[fictionadventurer]

Things that babies and toddlers teach you about play:

Dancing is something that humans do as soon as they can crawl (or earlier)

The best two games for new humans are 1) taking things out of containers, and 2) putting things into containers

Any action can be a game if you repeat it over and over

Anything can be a doll as long as you move it and give it a voice

[girlmostlikely]

ENOUGH WITH THE PROTEIN MARKETING! PROTEIN POPCORN THIS PROTEIN WATER THAT NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS 50G OF PROTEIN OK. WHERE IS THE FIBER. WHERE IS IT. WHERE IS IT?????