#child fear

[fangruixin]

Did everyone had a plushie when they were little?

I remember mine. It was a small white cow with black spots.

I used to like her, but I was also frightened of her. I told her about my secrets. I always kinda felt like she was alive, but not in a "yay alive" way, but in a "demon possed" alive.

[letsarshadstuff-blog]

Does your Child fear too much??

Does your Child fear too much?? Lights out! It's one of your preferred occasions of the day. The harmony, the calm… and after that you...

[nihilspuppet]

[rabbit-light]

Child Fear

Sour milk. Rotten eggs. Bumblebees. Giant women. Falling through the privvy hole. The snake under the dock that bit my foot. Snapping turtles. Electric fences. Howling bears. The neighbor's big dog that tore apart the black lamb. Oil wells. Train wheels. Dentists and doctors. Hitler and Tōjō. Eye pain. School superintendent with three gold teeth. Cow's infected udder, angry draft horse. School fire. Snake under hay bale. Life's end. That your dead dogs won't meet you in heaven.

Jim Harrison

[rionsanura]

Okay so you know how historically some monarchic succession is indeterminate when there's a child inheriting a throne and a bunch of potential regents manipulate and outmaneuver each other to have control over the kid and external claimants are jockeying too and the kid is too young to rule or to have anything to do with the actual outcome of the succession conflicts

but

WHY have I never heard a story (historical or fictional) in which the kid everyone thinks is too young is the one making all the machiavellian political decisions and manipulating everyone into subordinate positions and casting doubt on the legitimacy of anybody's claim and poisoning threats?

kids are terrifying you guys