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[referencecookies]

[honeyblankets]

the reality of sex ‘work’ is that millions of women and girls are being sexually abused, raped, beaten, killed, trafficked, kidnapped by men globally. the depiction/face of sex work being mega-rich women on OF is an intentional lie to draw criticism of sex work to these ‘privileged’ women instead of the men buying and raping girls. stop talking about sex work like it’s anything but one of the most violent and powerful forms of female oppression

[heedra]

not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

[akiragatr]

I was in martial arts for years, and in particular I kinda specialized in working with the younger kids.

The two Big Rules when instructing younger students was- 1. Compliment before Critique 2. Don’t say ‘but’, say ‘now’

Praise kids on what they get right first, especially if they are struggling. Like OP said, kids don’t like to engage with people who make them feel bad. They need encouragement when learning new things.

Number two boils down to this. If you tell a kid a compliment, then say “but you need to fix this”, that ‘but’ completely negates your compliment. It’s gone. It was canceled out like adding a negative to a positive. Using “hey, that punch is looking great, now let’s focus on your stance” doesn’t verbally cancel out the progress they’ve made. It’s like they’ve checked off something on their list of stuff to work on.

Wording can absolutely make or break a child’s motivation and interest.

[problemedic]

Rebloggling as it’s relevant in a Medical Education context

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Honestly I use all of these to teach vet students too. I think people in general respond better to positivity in teaching. Not coddling, but acknowledging when a student got part way to the right answer, or had a good thought process, is something I’ve found keeps students engaged and builds confidence, which encourages them to keep going instead of shutting down and just “getting through” a lab or a rotation

[kooldewd123]

actually the craziest impact animorphs has had on me is that i never really got an urge to eat cinnamon buns from reading them BUT the phrase "the refreshing beverage known as vinegar" has forced its way into my head every other week for years to try and convince me it would be a good idea to chug a whole glass of it

[kooldewd123]

tyhe voices in my head are gettinh louder

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

Vinegar is what we used to use as the acid in our sodas before we switched to Carbonated Water in the 19th century, and vinegar-based sodas trace their roots all the way back to the Bronze Age Meditteranean! The Romans called it Posca! The Ottomans adopted it from the Romans and called it Sharab, which means "Drink", and then American colonists acquired the recipe from the Ottomans in the 17th century and changed the name to Shrub!

There's a famous example of Posca that most people misremember because we don't drink Vinegar much anymore. If you're familiar with the Crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible, you probably remember the bit about the Roman soldier offering Jesus a sponge full of vinegar to drink. Most people think the Roman dude was mocking Jesus, but that's wrong. That was a sponge full of Posca. The Roman dude was like "Well this sucks. Want a Sprite?"

...Fun fact, I know this because the phrase "Refreshing Beverage known as Vinegar" got stuck in my head one night at work, and I started googling "Does anybody drink vinegar". I had to know. It turns out the answer is yes! And you can still find vinegar-based soft drinks today! Switchel is a vinegar-and-ginger drink you can find at some bars in the US, and it goes back to pre-carbonated soft drinks.

Also, I know several people who drink pickle juice regularly, and white vinegar is a key component of pickle juice! So that's also where vinegar as a drink can pop up in your day to day life.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

There's also a trendy New Age beverage called fire cider that's literally just vinegar, cinnamon, spice, and pretensions. RIP Ax, you would've loved the fire cider craze.

[kooldewd123]

op here. imagine how i feel. i've been dealing with this propaganda in my notifications all week.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Alright so one of my past jobs was working at an on tap place called Oil and Vinegar store. It’s supposed to be for salad dressings and stuff. People would bring in their bottles and we’d fill them up.

Vinegar is basically just made from fruit sugars so we had. The most. Amazing vinegars. There’s this one made with mango pulp that I straight up would have just drunk but if you add it to soda water it was truly the most decadent beverage imaginable. So there’s like passion fruit, raspberry, elderflower- just every wonderful sharp flavor imaginable.

We had pregnant ladies who’d buy several bottles at a time because it’s really great for nausea.

What I’m saying here is that Ax wasn’t wrong at all, that dude knew what was up even if he was probably chugging boring household white vinegar.

[rubinaito-inactive]

The things I learn on this godforsaken website.

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[wheeloffortune-design]

When I was 15 I was very negative. Of course I was, I was 15.

But I noticed I was negative. And I didn't like it. I didn't like the way it felt inside to be me, and to live like me, with all those negative thoughts all the time.

I had read somewhere that you could train yourself to be happier. That you needed to force yourself to think positive thoughts, until it became a habit.

I remember those few months of high school where I used to catch myself mentally complaining about something, and then forcing myself to find something positive to think about the person or situation. Again, and again, and again.

And it worked.

It became easier. And I became lighter. It was just nicer to be me, to live my life, to navigate through my days. I still remember the moment I noticed my life had become brighter.

And decades later, it still works. The muscle is still there. Now I know the word is neuroplasticity.

But at the time, it was just a 15 years old girl who was tired to be in the dark all the time, so she made light in her own brain.

[chxrry-bombs]

5 Tiny Writing Tips That Aren’t Talked About Enough (but work for me)

These are some lowkey underrated tips I’ve seen floating around writing communities — the kind that don’t get flashy attention but seriously changed how I write.

1. Put “he/she/they” at the start of the sentence less often.

Try switching up your sentence rhythm. Instead of

“She walked to the window,”

try

“The window creaked open under her touch.”

Keeps it fresh and stops the paragraph from sounding like a checklist.

2. Don’t describe everything — describe what matters.

Instead of listing every detail in a room, pick 2–3 objects that say something.

“A half-drunk mug of tea and a knife on the table”

sets a way stronger tone than

“There was a wooden table, two chairs, and a shelf.”

3. Use beats instead of dialogue tags sometimes.

Instead of:

"I'm fine," she said.

Try:

"I'm fine." She wiped her hands on her skirt.

It helps shows emotion, and movement.

4. Write your first draft like no one will ever read it.

No pressure. No perfection. Just vibes. The point of draft one is to exist. Let it be messy and weird — future you will thank you for at least something to edit.

5. When stuck, ask: “What’s the most fun thing that could happen next?”

Not logical. Not realistic. FUN. It doesn’t have to stay — but chasing excitement can blast through writer’s block and give you ideas you actually want to write.

What’s a tip that unexpectedly helped with your writing? Let me know!! 🍒

[ijustwannawritepls]

How to Write When You Don't Feel Like Yourself

There are going to be days (or weeks, or months) where you sit down to write and feel... disconnected. From your voice, from your characters, from your ideas. Like the person who used to write your stories just packed up and left.

They didn't. They're just tired. Here's how to keep writing anyway:

Lower the bar (Until it's on the floor) You are not here to write something brilliant. You are here to write something. A paragraph. A sentence. A single line of dialogue. Movement matters way more than quality.

Write around the story Don't force it. If you can't write the scene, try: ⋆ A character ramble / journal entry ⋆ A conversation that won't be included in the final draft ⋆ A list of things the character would never admit out loud ⋆ A messy summary of what should happen Engage with the story from a different angle.

Borrow a voice until yours comes back No, not with AI. Read something that feels close to what you want to write, or watch a scene that captures the tone, then write immediately after. Not to copy, to reignite your instincts.

Write the emotion, not the plot. What is your character feeling in this moment? What are they afraid of? What do they want but won't say? What's being kept from them? The emotion leads, the plot catches up later.

Stop trying to "feel like a writer" first. You don't write when you feel like a writer. You feel like a writer because you write.

You are still a writer, even on the days it feels distant. Especially then.

[naamahdarling]

If the problem is that you want to write and CAN write, but feel like what you are producing just suddenly sucks and is below your standards, keep writing anyway.

It isn't a problem with your writing. You're either:

1) tired or going through it somehow, or have recently been through something, and that can easily make you dissatisfied with what you are producing,

--OR!--

2) you are on the threshold of leveling up, or have done so, and the asshole editor side of your brain is interpreting the raised ceiling as "I suck, actually." You don't, and in six months you won't be able to find the parts you thought were bad writing.

All of this applies to all art.

[aescapisms]

[kingscrown666]

There's an old saying (I think it's Russian): the same boiling water that softens the potato will harden the egg

[isabella-study]

We really need to normalise exercising and eating well for reasons other than losing weight or building huge amounts of muscle. I’ve started going to the gym recently to relieve stress and help me sleep but despite the fact that I fit into shirts and skirts in size small, I’ve been asked if I’m trying to lose weight numerous times. 

Here’s a list of non-aesthetic reasons to exercise:

relieves stress

keeps you healthy

improves sleep

can have a positive effect on mental health

makes you stronger and fitter

something to focus on other than work/school/uni

IT’S RECOMMENDED AS PART OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

[inqilabi]

Whenever I see people deny the relationship between porn and misogyny, I think about how Dr. Donnerstein, who is perhaps one of the last researchers to have been able to conduct experimental research on porn before it was curtailed for its potential harm by ethics boards, stated that the relationship between porn and subsequent aggression towards women is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer.

I remember that when researchers first established a causal link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s, AMA rejected it and said it was correlational only. AMA was being funded by the tobacco industry. The 1985 AMA president also happened to owned a farm where tobacco was grown [1]. Today rejecting that smoking causes lung cancer would be denial of empirical knowledge.

And yet, despite the abundance of empirical evidence on the harm of porn, people are still in denial. Forget establishing a causal relationship, people are unwilling to admit that there is even a correlation.

Donnerstein actually had to create sexually explicit material that was not violent for his experimental studies. He said that he could not find any material that was non-violent, didn’t have unequal power between the man & the woman, and where the woman was not depicted enjoying the violence against her. This was in the 1980s so imagine the porn of today. Donnerstein also testified at a civil rights antipornography ordinance that the findings from early experimental studies on porn were so compelling that research ethic boards restricted them and required that the male subject population be below the normal range of aggressive traits [2]:

 The National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation and our own subjects committee will not allow us to take hostile males and expose them to this type of material because of the risk to the community. They obviously know something some of us do not.

When people regurgitate that ‘catharsis’ theory saying that women find catharsis in watching porn or participating in bdsm, I think about this testimony from Dr. Pauline Bart on how social scientists refer to an established learning model when studying general violence. But pull stuff from thin air when that violence is against women, i.e., that violence is porn:

There were two [reports] that came out the same time, one on violence and one on pornography. The one on violence was based on ordinary learning theory, which is a substantial theoretical perspective inside psychology. And the theory is, the more you see, the more you do. 

The one on pornography, however, came out with a different explanation, the catharsis model, which was, the more you see, the less you do … . [T]here is absolutely no data for the last analysis

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

OK I have an honest and stupid question about this and I am not defending porn which I think is bad, but

if watching people engage in sexual violence makes people more sexually violent

…does watching violent movies or television make you a more violent person?  Do violent video games make you violent?

Or is there just something weird about sex specifically

I’m not being coy this is a real question

[sonia-marmeladova]

*puts on my Adorno hat* I mean, to some degree, yes and yes, with caveats. I don’t see why we would think there’s *no* effect—if you regularly consume media that depicts death or mass killing in a way that trivializes it, I think it starts to subtly affect the way you view people generally. I’ve noticed it in people who get really into violent video games, that they suddenly have this fascination for gore or dismemberment or other sorts of nasty things. Arguably film is far less nefarious than video games are, where you usually identify very closely with the protagonist doing whatever it is they’re doing. That such a mindset would actually lead to violence? Contentious. That it could at least contribute? Why the hell not? Critical theorists argue this about pretty much every other genre of media. If media can teach people that toxic relationships are OK or any other number of things people complain about, I don’t see why it couldn’t teach people to devalue human life.

That said, sex IS different, yeah? Probably very few things have the programming power that the orgasm does. Especially since a child/young teen viewing violence will most times agree that it’s bad, being taught from a young age not to hit their little brother or whatever. But they’ve got no experience with sex, so I imagine porn becomes all the more powerful to their undeveloped brains. Whatever reality it presents—usually violence and aggression—is all they know about it.

[antiporn-activist]

[ididntgiveyoupermissiontodothat]

Just say boys under the age of ten.

Tbh girls have been indoctrinated in this too I started watching porn at 9. It is very much a female problem as well

[antiporn-activist]

I met a girl recently who said she’d been watching porn since age 8.

[hellfresh]

Anybody remember that post about some woman’s 12 year old brother’s girlfriend telling her that her little brother has a “piss kink.” (We are meant to assume she knows this via actions he did to her)

Kids are about to be all the way fucked up.

We’re gonna see a huge rise in Asexual kids, Kids trying to deny sexuality in all aspects because of their traumatic first experiences with it (with porn)

9 year olds getting Instagram famous because of their grown male following

Seamless grooming. Pedos are simply going to have an easier time abusing their victims when kids already know what anal gaping is at 8.

Body dysmorphia like we’ve never seen before.

The rate of anorexic boys, and young gay boys in toxic “Dom/sub” “top/bottom” porn-style relationships I gonna jump because they think it’s just normal now.

Suicide rates in young, young girls boutta jump up.

Teachers abusing students because going home every night and searching that “teen” tab just isn’t cutting it anymore

Paternal familial abuse thanks to the mainstream incest porn.

Men just fucking step up and fight me challenge

[antiporn-activist]

Suicide rates in girls are already up.

none of this in the future all of this happens now.

I volunteer with peer support for CSA survivors and hear both personal stories and do research on these topics. There is direct proof in the UK of porn exposure rasing rates of COCSA. 

Girls experience more mental health issues in connection with objectification. 

Sex offenders recognize grooming culture themselves. 

all of these are affecting people now. All of this is leaving people traumatized right now.

I saw a post on Reddit that was a screenshot of a child on Twitter calling himself a dom, and it was clear that he knew what that meant. This boy looked like he was maybe eight or nine years old and everyone seemed to think it was funny, but I was so disturbed by the fact that a kid who was so young even knew what a dom was and that he was calling himself that.

I saw porn for the first time when I was fourteen years old and it had a profoundly negative effect on me. The idea that kids under TEN are seeing this stuff and learning from it is absolutely horrifying.

My friend group (mostly online) when I was around 12 was obsessed with this stuff. Them role-playing dom/sub and even rape was a daily thing and all they talked about was porn.

Im still friends with a lot of them but most either regret it all or are so messed up from it. It was a mess, still is now

[whatthemcfyck]

I was molested as a toddler and started watching porn at 8/9 as soon as the iphone came out and I could sneak one into my room. It reinforced the idea that what happened was ok and I was introduced to DDLG at 12, which made my abuse seem light and fun and not serious. I ended up getting groomed over and over again and by 16 had extensive vaginal scarring and had tried to kill myself at least 20 times. Literally fuck all of this and fuck the people in kink that put their shit in little kid tags like princess, daddy, kitten, puppy. You are ruining lives and I will always have some form of PTSD/ painful sex

[exjade]

Is this at all surprising to people? Considering the ease with which children can access porn nowadays, how do you not expect them to look at it? And I don’t mean teenagers, I mean actual children. How old were you when you first saw porn? Even if your parents tried to prevent you? Well it’s far easier for children today. All the teenagers you see today were indoctrinated to porn, rape porn, since childhood. Every female teenager you see has been indoctrinated since childhood with the idea that in order for her to have worth she needs to be a semen receptacle who is used by males any way males desire. Just look at the way that teenage girls pose and try to appear on social media, what exactly do you suppose they’re trying to emulate? That’s the only way they think they can be worthwhile. 

[gcdk]

Mothers want action over sexual assaults

Two mothers whose children were attacked at school are calling for changes to prevent similar assaults

More than 1,000 rapes and sex attacks have been reported in London schools in four years

Of the rape allegations, 15 per cent were reported to have taken place in the borough of Croydon

Sexual harassment 'normal' in schools, warns report

Hundreds of thousands of female pupils have suffered sexual harassment at school and the government is under mounting pressure to take actio

[its-turning-all-the-frogs-gay]

i think i started watching porn at 11 and it enforced a whole new level of internalized misogyny, self doubt, and anxiety in me. porn and kink directly lead to me being groomed by pedos as well as my assault. both of my abusers had a sick obsession with porn, most containing violence as well as degrading fetishes.

porn and kink feed directly into rape culture.

[callme-alma-deac]

I watched porn around 12 ish and let me tell you it didn’t end well. (I was also sexually abused prior to this, so porn was really just an “educational” videos I was expected to “learn” from)

At first I found a child pornography site, (I know I talk about this story a lot but it legitimately fucked me up) and at that time I was being sexually harassed by the daily and I just assumed it was what people do. Then I fell into the hentai rabbit hole (because porn wasn’t bad enough I guess) thanks to the amount of predatory men in anime hubs, and then my body dysphoria came in a full swing because I wasn’t as cute as these children my age in porn and I didn’t want to be like them at the same time which in hand with my homosexuality and other issues made me use the “trans” label. Because I didn’t want to be these girls and I didn’t manage to live up to their physique (I was a chubby child) and it didn’t help that in my country child marriage was legal and valid. Which to me made it seem like it’s really what’s right and that there is nothing wrong with it. They also promoted incest and told me to sleep with my siblings.

>insert severe depression, comphet and internalized homophobia that made me force myself into her relationships

I attempted three of my four suicide attempts in that peroid.

And even when I managed to shake all this off, and till now, I’m extremely desensitized to sexual violence. As well incapable of viewing any pornography with females in them. (Which is why I was a “yaoi” fangirl in my teens.) it wasn’t because I over sexualised Or fetishized homosexuals men, I was simply unable to view any sexual relationship with females in it. Not even other hentai genres like futa or femboys. But I was exposed to this type of pornography so often which made me dig deeper into the BL genre to avoid it because I was also a barely teen and going through the whole maturity thing which it was as fucked as they come.

I couldn’t orgasm without crying, and even now, just the thought of pornography and it being a legitimate addiction makes me want to die, and I’m not saying this as a joke, I cannot understand how someone views something so horrible and end up with a “positive” idea of it. Not with the amount of child pornography is there.

The top searches are “rape اغتصاب" in different ways, incest and “little girls بنات صغيره"

And? I’m still celibate, i have severe depression, unable to emotionally connect to people, and desensitized to both violence and sexual violence. Have issues orgasming, the mention of pornography makes sick. And I can only handle sexual videos with no females or any feminine looking individuals in it. I hate myself, my body, and the times where I thought that it was ok. I know that it wasn’t me who chose to view these things but the idea that at one point, that type of violence was so normalized that I didn’t think twice about it is disgusting.

Protect children, idc who loses their job, idc who loses their income from pornography that is directly targeting kids. They deserve better, I don’t know how more can I explain that pornography is evil and children especially are vulnerable individuals who are easily groomed and can be easily confused and abused.

This is what happens when we normalize sexual violence and pornography. This is the consequences. And they are grieve and only those who benefit from it are in favor of it.

[daughterofthemoone-deactivated2]

I’m 28 now and I was never sexually abused as a child.

I found porn when i was in seventh grade, so around 11/12. This was all the way back in 2005, using only a family desktop computer. How did I find this porn? I was looking for fun dress-up games for little girls and I stumbled across NewGrounds.

It started out soft. It got rougher and more degrading. I had graphic, violent fantasies, that I, to this day, have a hard time admitting to, even to myself. They’re shameful and deeply misogynistic. That’s right when my depression began, as well as my many issues with my body and body image. I’m not saying body dismorphia, as I have never been diagnosed.

Frankly, it was easy for me to get suckered into porn. I have always been fat, even as a baby. My father was never around. I met him once in my life, when I was 12. It was easy for me to get into BDSM. Being fat, I always shamed myself, even to this day, though I am making a conscious effort to end my self-shaming. As well, it was easy for me to get into DDlg, as I have father issues.

Because of BDSM, I allowed myself to enter into a polyamorous relationship when I was in college, where I was bottom on the totem pole. This triggered my abandonment issues and my issues of self-worth, as I always felt like I was minimal priority. I allowed the male partner in the relationship to hit me. I was the punching bag, because the other woman did not like rough BDSM. But I did. It ended on bad terms.

And my fiance, right now, I got him into BDSM. And now, as I realize the harm of it, I feel awful. But my fiance is a good man and loves me, and has said we won’t do BDSM since I’m no longer comfortable.

All of this is to say that porn fucked me up because I found it when I was so young and I’m sure that it has only exacerbated my.mental health issues.

[auntiewanda]

Is it any wonder so many young people are calling themselves asexual when they’ve been inundated with violent, degrading, unrealistic sexual imagery before even hitting puberty?

[transatlantic-accent]

When I was 16, I was sexually assaulted in public and it made me really hate sex and sex culture so I thought I was asexual (but I wasn’t really). Cut to age 19, I lost my virginity and delved into sexual addiction / hypersexuality that only lessened when I was 24.

I believe asexuality is a thing BUT I don’t think it is actually widespread. I think many people take on the asexual label bc we live in a misogynistic rape culture that forces obsession with sex whether you want it or not.

It makes me sad bc 16 was young. I was still a child. I didn’t need to have an attitude towards sex, but I felt like I had to.

[prolifeproliberty]

Porn is evil.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

[thevastnessof]

i love when ppl who constantly use self deprecating humor interact with me, theyre never sure how to react. theyre like "lol well we all hate ourselves anyways" and im like "no, im sexy as hell actually" like oil and water everytime

[mockingmolly]

Self-appreciating humor even when u 100% don’t believe what you’re saying is legitimately such an esteem-booster & i’d recommend everyone to try and replace deprecating jokes with exaggeratedly-positive & validating ones whenever u can

And tbh, it’s funnier/more comfortable for everyone involved anyway. Like, failing spectacularly at something but going “lol y’all WISH you had my talents” instead? Hilarious. Its funny, alleviates the pressure on other ppl to validate your negativity, AND even when what you’re saying “isn’t true” your brain still responds to hearing positive input & your attitude towards yourself & your situation becomes so much healthier after a while. This kind of thing has been proven to improve mental health & curb self-harming tendencies, as well as contribute to healthier social environments ;0;

[mockingmolly]

Yes I do, actually 

[citizen-zero]

we all just need to emulate the raw confidence of the kid who has the power of god AND anime on his side

[myadhdlife]

Doing this has genuinely saved me. Pls be kind to yourself even when you don't believe it

[sandersstudies]

Characters who are kind but are NOT nice? Impeccable

[sandersstudies]

My husband once said “never raise kids to be nice. Raise them to do the right thing” and I literally have never and will never stop thinking about that.

[seeingteacupsindragons]

You know what we need more of? Beginner’s classes for adults.

It’s supposed to be really, really good for you to keep learning new things as you age. It helps stave off strokes and dementia and Alzheimer’s and improves memory. And hey, learning stuff is fun.

But I really don’t want to be infantilized when I try to learn something. And I definitely don’t learn the way a child does. And honestly, what adult wants to be in the same class as children? Very few.

This occurred to me recently because I’d like to learn how to actually ice skate properly. My parents never signed me up for classes, because it wasn’t a thing they ever cared about or thought about. Now I’m in my twenties and want to learn, and also don’t want to be surrounded by a bunch of eight-year-olds who probably honestly skate better than I do. Because that’s embarrassing, and embarrassment is not how you learn.

Would it be good to lose the social stigma of being worse at something than a child? Yes. Hell yes. But we’ve got to start somewhere, and like I said: adults don’t really learn the way kids do, and a lot of people use these kinds of activities to make friends, and I don’t want to make friends with an eight-year-old, either.

So.

Beginner’s classes for adults. Let adults suck at stuff and learn how to get better and learn new things and broaden their horizons, while still being treated as adults. Classes for writing, for pottery, for chess, for art, for instruments, for singing, for sports, for chemistry. For everything, dammit.

[taahko]

got a new antique bottle for christmas called mrs winslows soothing syrup which was marketed as a cure for coughing and to make babies quiet in the 1800s which, yeah, it would do that i guess because it was a mix of morphine, alcohol, and ammonia 

[taahko]

i know nobody cares abt my hyperspecific interest in antique medicine and alcohol bottles but look

im screaming how do you get exposed as a baby killer and still stay in business for 20 years

[taahko]

american medical association: just so you know, this will, uh, kill your baby

early 20th century parents: a little ammonia builds character

[lovechangeseverythang]

If there is something that God has spoken into my life over and over again, it is that He always has my best interest in mind. God paints a picture in His Word about what is right and what is wrong, for a reason. The non-believer may think that Christianity is all about rules. But I would like to offer another side. I’ve found that the things in life that lead me away from God, always lead to self-destruction. That rings true in my life, and the lives of people around me whom I’ve seen stray away and do their own thing. A god who lets you do what ever you want and get away with it, is not a loving god. But guys… our God cares about us SO much, that He’s made it clear about what will prosper us, and what will destroy us. Sometimes that looks like conviction, and sometimes that looks like Grace. With that, let me say… there is a reason why He wants our lives to line up with His Word. He has a reason.