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Happy birthday to my husband trafalgar law 💕

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Asaden as a means of coping with the reze movie

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I’ll be real, I read a LOT of manga, and I wanna talk about the series that hold a special place in my heart on here and hopefully put some of yall onto something you didn’t know you needed in your life!! This is mostly about Welcome to Hell Iruma Kun and Phantom Busters.

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Adventures in persona 3

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Oh also I’ve been playing persona 3, I know I’m 15 years late this this shindig but better late than never! My biggest issue with it is that they don’t let you be gay…. I wanna play as a girl and romance a girl! I wanna play as a boy and romance a boy! And I want Shinji and Akihiko to spend their lives together.

[hangsawoman]

on this day in 1953 shirley jackson sent this to an unhappy reader

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Also here’s a quick peek into my mind

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Aki, The Emperor

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Fem!sanji by me

I imagine this is her annoyed bc she thinks zoro isn’t into her but zoro is just an oblivious wlw and thinks she’s just being nice and not flirting

[spirulin4]

what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

[spirulin4]

thanks for putting your wrong and bad commentary in the tags where i still have to read all of it. most of what you said is untrue.

[imyselfamstrange]

OP: giving children too young to process things so much access to ipads isn’t good for them maybe.

People in the notes: So you hate moms??? You’re ableist?? You think we should go back to the Dark Ages?? (My personal favorite because it makes no sense) you’re poor shaming??

Why is it so difficult to explain that children not developing fine motor skills and losing their attention spans is bad actually??

[purplesweetpotatoes]

also children can end up being entertained by just about anything. I remember building "bird nests" with sticks in the backyard when I was like 7 years old. That was it. It took up my whole afternoon and I was entertained the entire time.

[atomicjellycat]

I worked at a kindergarten for a year, and Jesus Christ these kids are falling behind on so many milestones

Everyone knows who the iPad kids are

I've seen it all from kids who don't know how to use scissors, and can't perform the motions right compared to other kids in that age group, to kids who can't write the alphabet or spell their names (the older ones)

And one of the most startling thing I encountered was every now and then we have a country day, where we choose a country, color in the country's flag in the colors and watch a little film about said country.

And I was overseeing the coloring, and one boy just refusing to color

It happens, stubbornness, bad days, 'just don't wanna' s happen, but I sit with him and continue to try and encourage him and figure out why he doesn't want to

And he keeps saying he doesn't know how to color

And I'm like ??? Just pick up the pencil and put it on the paper buddy, cmon

So I'm showing him how, and he refuses to try over and over

So then I try like, coloring while guiding his hand, and again this is a flag were coloring it's a giant rectangle, not much precision is needed

And I realize while I'm helping him, literally moving his hand to color for him, he's CLEARLY never colored before. He's 4, there is no excuse for this when kids start coloring at like, 2 maybe younger.

By 4-5 kids can generally color inside the lines well enough and draw recognizable figures like people and landscapes and pets

Eventually he got into it, understood how to do it and requested to continue on by himself, which was great! I told him I was proud of him and we continued on with our day but it absolutely shocked me that these iPad kids are so beyond stunted like jesus

He didn't know how to grip a pencil, he didn't know the wrist movements and motions, he didn't understand the pressure control, he had no control over where or how he was coloring like, these kids NEED TO learn these things it's STARTLING how many kids don't have these milestones and are just not developing these fine motor skills

Ask any kindergarten attendant and they'll tell you the same thing-

The best thing you can do for a kid is buy them a shitton of construction paper, decorative child-safe scissors, and coloring books

Please please please kids need to cut paper up and color. It helps them develop so many fine motor skils

Now don't be mistaken, the percentage of these kids are low, for now. It's definitely not every kid, and thankfully not the majority but it is still a problem

[melonteee]

it's just fucked up to think when Shanks and Buggy were little Buggy would talk about his dreams and his goals and wanting be a BIG pirate with LOTS of treasure meanwhile Shanks was staring at him goo goo eyed like "can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him" WTFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!

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Happy pride from me to you!

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I’ve been playing the eustass kid and buggy deck in the OPTCG

[daisukoth]

heterophobic icon

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Four horse(wo)men of the ahhhtypeshitpocalypse

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This is the face of a thirty year old

[soshinee]

thinking about the japanese racehorse who was such a failgirl she became a folk hero for losers

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legitimately everything 2 me