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they/it ✿ trying my fuckin best since 2002

[sendmebacktonowhere]

howdy howdy,

✿ I do whatever I want on this blog

✿ there's mostly reblogs, mixed in with random musings on life, media, the weather, and silly shit.

✿ I'm finally starting to try to keep things loosely organized, so below will be all the tags I use for rudimentary categorization. changeling rambles is the tag for my aforementioned random musings.

✿ IMPORTANT: asks are on, but I WILL NOT respond to asks that want me to give money. I don't have the computer literacy to figure out what is or isn't legit these days. If/when I have the funds to help others, it either takes the form of face-to-face interactions in my city or donating to well-established nonprofits that I've heard good things about directly from communities they serve

[elieowlsclownery]

Okay last thought tonight before I forget. Even as Azune is breaking down showing how scared he is the fucking PIVOT to pressuring Occtis to go with him to the Einfessens in the middle of it gave me goosebumps. I’m 99% certain that his vulnerability was real but that 1% was in the back of my mind thinking how interesting it is that he breaks down at this moment where Occtis can witness it. That’s what makes Azune so interesting, he has such a genuine and sincere affect regardless of whether he’s truly honest or scheming. He knows to use vulnerability to his advantage, and that’s what makes him terrifying.

And then Occtis replying to what may have been Azune manipulating him into using him as evidence by saying he’ll always remember him as a good person in that moment? I do not have the brain capacity at 4AM to unpack the layers to that small consolation that left Azune feeling even more guilty than before.

[doizy]

IMO the best way for Wick to reappear without arousing too much suspicion is to pretend to have spent the whole time on a drunken bender.

"Yeah you told me there was no need to keep myself pure so I went to fetch the hot lion man I wanted to have sex with. Where he went afterward? I don't know, I was pretty blacked out. Kattigan? Oh you mean the wild man with the wolf? Yeah he was there too".

[victusinveritas]

[naughtypiggy]

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in

TLDR- Modern agriculture pollen is low in nutrients, and there aren’t enough wildflowers. Science has to develop vitamins to supplement the diets of agricultural bees. So plant some wildflowers for the wild bees near you.

[heydocverdant]

you’ve heard of vitamin B, now get ready for bee vitamins

[bogwitchatrois]

The Schemers Table: tightly paced, impeccably scripted 70's era heist/espionage thriller based on a John Le Carre novel.

The Seekers Table: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies if it was a road movie.

The Soldiers Table: Robin Hood: Men in Tights set in a soulsborn universe.

[mintsky420]

these miis are driving me nuts

[goth-queen]

[npc-dude-art]

Oh no the old man yaoi got me. They Compel me. Also KitKatt is such a fucking cute ship name

Teor Pridesire is really testing the limits of my art skills tho

[six-improbable-things]

the entire cooldown had me in fucking stitches, but I happened to pause on this exact frame while already nearly in tears from laughing and it fucking broke me.

[whatbigotspost]

2021:

Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher's review of nearly 70 studies finds

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

2021:

The Effect of Spanking on the Brain

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

2018:

Science Again Says Spanking Hurts Kids Long Term

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

2016:

Spanking Harms Kids, Doesn't Work And Leads To Long-Term Problems

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

2012:

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

2010:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

[whatbigotspost]

This post needs a "it's been 5 years" update, so here we go:

2022:

Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study

Spanking is a risk factor for children's social competency. However, establishing causality is a challenge, given selection bias in samples

The effects of spanking on psychosocial outcomes: revisiting genetic and environmental covariation - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Background There is a vast literature on the negative associations between spanking in childhood and various psychosocial developmental outc

2023:

Corporal Punishment in Schools - PubMed

The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical method for management of behavior concerns and causes harm to stude

Spanking and executive functioning in US children: A longitudinal analysis on a matched sample

Spanking has been linked to multiple maladaptive child outcomes. However, previous research linking spanking with children's executive funct

2024:

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly d

2025:

Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact

This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any pu

Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower

[whatbigotspost]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME TUMBLR

So annoying. So GD annoying.

[pisshandkerchief]

never kill yourself. discovering music is literally endless. you know songs? they're always making new ones

[stuckinapril]

I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??

[stuckinapril]

Like people’s actions are data points rather than death sentences. It could even be a data point about you. It could be that you’re not being a great friend, it could be that there’s something you guys miscommunication. Or it could be that they themselves don’t have the means to be consistent, aren’t in the headspace to meet you where you are, whatever. But this is always data rather than a judgment. Even if you’re the problem, behavior can change. Also, in the context of someone pulling back without explaining away, and assuming they didn’t give you a reasonable explanation in the first place, it’s also a data point that they’d react that way rather than communicate. Situations are always very context dependent, but they’re also always data.

[morphogenetic]

(wanting to make a post about something but it reveals too much about your personal life) i have had a negative experience

[pollen]

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

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happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

[pollen]

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

[pollen]

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate