Yesterday I saw a mother with a baby carriage, being followed by a girl of about 4-6 years old on a bicycle. The kid started ringing her bike bell like RING RING RING RING RING RING RING, and the mother turned to look behind them to see whether they were being followed by a cyclist who desperately needs to pass them for the sake of everyone's safety.
And the little girl - who just rang the goddamn bell herself 5 seconds ago - also turned to look.
Kids are confused by everything at all times. They don't know jack shit. About anything.
i remember being like 8 or 9 and being told that my dadās ex-wife was no longer diane and we were to address her as daniel now. my reaction: āok.ā
me and my brother later had a small discussion about whether that could happen randomly (conclusion: no, he probably had to file papers or something) and whether daniel should now be referred to as dadās ex-husband (conclusion: yes but only to see the face heāll make) but at no point did we find it like... alarming? the world is big and weird. we were used to it.
finding out a sorta-relative could just change genders off camera, as it were, was a whole lot less head-splodey than finding out there were no squirrels in australia!
"Won't they be confused by all the--" So what if they are? Life is often confusing. That's part of how we learn. Part of the job of an adult is to help confused kids learn and understand things. There's no obligation to protect the kids from the confusing things. Quite the reverse.
In my experience anyone using this BS excuse isn't worried about a child's potential confusion, but their own, which they don't want to admit to having.
Aussie here, I DIDN'T KNOW SQUIRRELS WERE ACTUALLY REAL FOR THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS OF MY LIFE NO JOKE I THOUGHT THEY WERE A MYTHICAL ANIMAL LIKE UNICORNS
Lol I'm a little late but I wanted to try my hand at it anyways. This started as just the Backless Olly but then it got away from me...
Outfit is loosely based on this design
getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes
one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."
My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust Iāve ever seen in anyoneās eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.
For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish
also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.
also worth noting that who you are to them doesnāt matter. theyāll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. theyāre just Like That.
Hanahaki disease is a psychosomatic illness. It's a thing that your body does in response to stress over constantly repressing/concealing your feelings in settings with high background magic. It's like you've been ignoring pain for a long time and suddenly your vision starts going dark, because your affected body is just YANKING on random alerts trying to get you to PAY ATTENTION there is a PROBLEM. Yes the flowers do really exist. So do non-magical psychosomatic symptoms. The flowers aren't special.
This does of course open up the trope to options for non-romantic concealed feelings. Which I think is great. There is something viscerally satisfying about the person who seems so outwardly chipper coughing and hacking and spitting up Depression Flowers so now everyone has to know they're hurting. Isn't there?
Hanahaki but itās your body desperately needing you to love and care for it while your mind is trapped in the body that doesnāt fit, thatās wrong as it destroys you from the inside out the longer you arenāt able to get help to make your body feel like you
I just finished reading chapter 40 of Witch Hat Atelier and I am SHOOK TO MY CORE. Spoilers in the rest of this post, I need to rant for sec.
WHAT YOU MEAN QIFREY ERASES OLLYāS MEMORY? Has he done this before??? Specifically to Olly, I mean, he also erased that shopkeeper. I knew this kind, fatherly man was too good to true, heās been showing cracks into his dark side, but ERASING part of his BESTFRIEND(boyfriend?)āS MEMORY??? GODDAMNIT QIFREY WHY CANT YOU JUST ACCEPT HIS HELP??
Full crew au where everyone wakes up a-okay but they still meet Rocky and then Simon.
Both times Grace is the one who does first contact, heās the one who ātalkedā to Rocky first and the one who pulled Simon out of the bloody submarine.
Because heās the one who pulled Simon out and helped care for him when he was still on the verge of death, Simon has practically attached himself to Grace.
Since the COI and Eden arenāt exactly conversations Simon wants to have plus with the glaringly obvious fact of the stars and planets still existing, for privacy reasons as well as hoping not to sound utterly crazy, Simon leans into his mutations and claims heās an alien.
(Which is true, he was born on Mars, after all).
YĆ”o and Ilyukhina are hesitant towards Simon, not just because of the frightening mutations he has, but because Simon doesnāt care for anyone but Grace.
And heās made that very clear to everyone except maybe Grace.
~~~
YƔo: Grace? May we speak with you for a moment?
Ilyukhina: Just you and us,
Simon, clutching tightly onto Grace from behind: no
YĆ”o: we were asking Graā
Simon, literally growling: No!
~~~
YƔo: *gives Grace a pat on the back*
Simon, eyes narrowing: Oh hell nahā
~~~
Ilyukhina, watching as Simon clutches onto a sleeping Grace: Uh, whatās happening here?
Simon, glaring: go away
YĆ”o: you do know that you canāt stay physically attached to him forever
Simon: Can to!
Rocky: Cannot
Simon: you stay out of this!
~~~
Rocky: Grace spend too much time with Simon, statement.
Grace, literally with Simon koala-hugging him: I wouldnāt say that
Rocky: Rocky would say. Simon hog Grace.
Simon: cry about it
Rocky: Simon sleep with eye open, threat.
Grace: Rockyā!
āāā
(If anyone would like to continue/make a fanfic, please just credit/@ me so I can read it too!!!)
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Ryland Grace should win tumblr sexyman 2026.
Ryland Grace can look both pathetic and like heās judging all your life decisions, very sexy
(And look at those arms!!!)
Ryland Grace has a doctorate aka heās well educated. He was also employed (before getting launched into space yk).
Ryland Grace looks good in a suit
Very sexy
He is being head cannoned as aro ace. Representation very sexy. (Yes aroace people can be sexy)
If youāre not into the Aroace Grace in space thereās plenty of people heās getting shipped with; most not from his own movie. He is just so sexy heās getting shipped with everyone (even aliens).
(Look at him)
Ryland Grace is kind, brave, curious, smart, caring, empathetic, creative, humble ect (English isnāt my first language)
Ryland Grace isnāt afraid to cry.
Ryland Grace respects women.
He takes a bike to his job. Very healthy, very environmentally friendly, very sexy
he's extremely funny when he firsts loses his memories aboard the Hail Mary! One of my favorite lines that didn't make it into the movie is "I'm a single man in my thirties, I live alone in a small apartment. I really like, I don't have any kids. I don't like where this is going - a teacher! I'm a school teacher, one." It's even more funny if you listen to the audiobook where he's reading it for the first time, and this is his genuine reaction!
Number Two:
He's extremely smart and dumb at the same time! He's making experiments way before he even remembers his name! He makes so many experience even, that when Rocky gives him a ball made out of a metal, he puts it through tests when Rocky leaves, figuring out that it's iron.... And when they both go back to the xenonite barrier.... Rocky shows him a ring of 26... He's telling him it's iron... And he didn't need to do a thing but wait there.
Number Three:
He has both platonic and romantic relationships with the same people depending on who you ask! He's great Aroace representation if you see him as Aroace! To some people, hes in a QPR with Rocky and Adrian! To other people, he's in a QPR with Stratt! To other people, he's in a romantic relationship with Rocky! To other people he's in a romantic relationship with Stratt! It's every interesting seeing people's takes on his implied and referenced relationships!
Number Four:
All of the fandom agrees it's wrong of Stratt to say that he doesn't have any family members nor a pet while trying to make him go on the Project Hail Mary, viewing his life as lesser because he doesn't - infact, Stratt doesn't either and is kind of projecting! The fandom also agrees on Coltland, and some degree, Coltland Gentry! He has a twin brother, an older brother, and depending on who you ask some weird uncles, grandparents, and younger brothers. It's called the Ryan Gosling Cinematic Universe, and I'm not even sure who came up with that or why but it works! We also ship him with different Markiplier characters, more specifically we ship him with Simon from Iron Lung. I don't know.
Number Four:
In the movie, he never wears his glasses correctly! Everyone in this fandom who has glasses or sunglasses regularly try to mimic his glasses positions when given the chance. Its very funny. He's super silly, please don't break your glasses doing this.
Number Five:
He has a bunch of Fox motifs, and is always refered to as a fox in different fanart. He has a fox cardigan, that almost everyone who knits and crochets try to make by hand, and by almost it means everyone but me, I'm still getting used to it. Stratt is almost always the german shepard, or the (scape)goat, which is also wonderful symbolism. It can get very sad sometimes.
Number Six:
He gets sick on elevators! He does not want to do this! Hes very reluctant on even letting the actual astronauts die! He doesn't realize that he might be chosen as well for it, until, at least in the book, a couple days away from the launch... And they lock him in a cell, where he gets one last conversation with Stratt, before they erase his memories in a way that his brain won't forget technique and training, so he doesn't sabotage the mission like he threatened to. In the movie it's a lot simpler, they just put him unconscious and into the coma right there and then.... So the last words spoken to him are ones of encouragement by one of his greatest friends, and he's the last one he sees before he forgets everything.
Number Seven:
He's so bad at peopling that his best friend - and to some people lover - is a rock spider alien! In the book that's exactly how he describes him, and it's incredibly funny to watch him react to it. Some people relate to this on some kind of spiritual level, which I get, and some people are just like, yeah, that would be me. Some people take this as autism, which I also get, I can't really say anything about it imo.
Number Eight:
In the books after he successfully makes it to Erid with Rocky, he resorts to cannablism, and is morally fine with it! He's accepted his fate of eating burgers made from his flesh and is quite with it. It's food so he'll eat it. He's name named them Meburgers.
Number Nine:
I don't know what to put here, except that he's just Ryland Grace, he's just him. If you guys have anymore reasons that aren't you here lmk.
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