the wishmaker

they/them | audhd | don't be afraid to ask me to tag | interests; trolls, danganronpa, minecraft, pokemon

[tea0w0stache]

new year new sheets !!

[importantcatpics]

[ismenes]

When my son was about to turn two, strangers would offer condolences. There’s a collective cultural dread of toddlers, who get described more like animals than people. Kids in their "terrible twos," I was warned, are illogical, unregulated, and feral. "Good luck," people would say. "He'll grow out of it."

I'm lucky: My son is a very easygoing kid. But I remember the first tantrum he threw for me. He was standing by our front door and asked to go outside. So I opened the door and grabbed his shoes. But as soon as he stepped onto the porch, he pointed back into the house.

"Inside," he said.

"Okay," I said. I picked him up and brought him inside.

But as soon as I shut the front door, he pointed outside.

"Outside!" he said.

You know where this is going. We went back and forth, inside and outside, again and again. He got more frustrated. And I got more frustrated. Eventually he wound up straddling the threshold of our house, sobbing. When I tried to comfort him, he screamed at me. "You go wherever you want!" I said. He just got madder. I felt trapped, convinced he’d concocted the whole episode as a pretext to unleash his rage at me. It was ridiculous. I consoled myself with the thought that he was just being a toddler.

But later I kept thinking about him wailing at our front door, one foot inside, one foot outside. His misery wasn't unreasonable, or trivial, or silly. My son was experiencing the agony of wanting two things that were impossible to have at the same time. What a fundamentally human sorrow! My son wasn't being a toddler; he was being a person. Adults may not walk around howling, but that same pain rages within us. In that moment, as a father, I was powerless to solve my son's problem. I told him he could go wherever he wanted, but of course I was wrong. To be where he wanted was impossible.

Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett

[arty-doodles]

still dealing with art block so you get more mini dorys

[tea0w0stache]

OH MY GODDDDDD HES JUST A LITTLE GUYYY!!!!!

[arty-doodles]

still dealing with art block so you get more mini dorys

[foxboycomet]

please imagine the clinking of gemstones together. this is important to me

[mikeyangel0]

[sashimi55]

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

[dambiex]

[kirbykonka]

I thought Old Man Yaoi was like a specific person or entity. Like you walk down to the river, there’s Old Man Consequences, you walk down to the oak tree there’s Old Man Sensibility, and then you walk into the gay club and you’ll never guess who it is

[garyholt]

Two for one, it has to be

[cosmophalhemr]

Meanest boys in school

[rubybelladonna]

i get we're all wary of social media moderation teams but there literally is a trans pride animation on the like button. and the philly pride flag has existed for a long time now. and considering how scuffed the intersex flag animation looks i doubt the progress flag would work very well at all. i know things have been hard but the like button animations are simply not a part of the issue

[rubybelladonna]

The Philly Pride flag, explained

Why does Philly have its own Pride flag? Who made it? What do the colors mean? Everything you need to know about the "More colors more Pride

there are plenty of things to criticize staff for without going for stuff that literally isn't true

[vintage-tigre]

Beautiful stop motion animation by CliffCreativity

[energyprison]

Im sorry i know its bad to post screenshots of ads but unemployedprofessors.com is really getting me

[anxietyproblem]

[jazze-bee]

happy yearly sansgender month ♡

[lunarsilverfox]

New and improved reference of my troll oc Astra the Star troll in both her day and night forms. Ty @tea0w0stache for this wonderful and beautiful art commission. It was also completed on my birthday and was one of the best gifts I got this month!

[tea0w0stache]

anyway check out these sick ass art references i did im so awesome