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i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions

I think half the reason I like time travel fix-it fics is that it’s a fix-it for everyone but one person. and sure, they’re in better version of reality for everyone else, but there are friendships and experiences and places and maybe even people if they travelled back far enough that are just gone! and they’re never going to come back in the same way! and that’s half the point!!

it makes it all the better when the time travel was their fault and will but not their intent, if they wanted it badly but didn’t actually choose it, because it means that even if they knew how to they shouldn’t want to leave, this is what they wanted! they just… didn’t think that want through, and they weren’t taking it seriously, because time travel? really?

it’s like. what if we mixed a normal pre-canon fix-it with post-canon, took all the knowledge from the self-insert and made it a canon character who lived those events and is more grounded in the reality but possibly lost in the context they find themself in. what if we season the everybody lives, nothing bad happens with mental and emotional turmoil, and a good helping of angst.

#ts talks #ao3 ramblings

allthingswhumpyandangsty

reblog if you would never let ai write fanfics for you

netscapenavigator-official

Installing apps on…

macOS: I’m just a single isolated package! Just drag and drop me to your “Applications” folder to install me. Don’t want me anymore? Right click my icon and put me in the trash. All gone!

Linux: Want me installed? Ask the package manager. Want me uninstalled? Package manager. Got an AppImage? Just click it to run, then trash it to uninstall. Easy peasy.

Windows: I am going to infect your file directories and registry like the roots of a bamboo tree. You will never fully remove me. Go ahead and try the “uninstall” button in settings. I fucking dare you. You can remove the executable, but you will never fully remove me. I am infinite, and I will outlive Microsoft Inc. ten fold. Fuck you.

sapphire--moonlight

bamboo isnt a tree

nuclearkatkitty

the windows software doesn't care about taxonomy

orphetoon

trace the arteries to find my heart, and promise me that you will do no harm

honeyxmonkey

Okay, so this post always makes me giggle

But I was thinking just now...

Literally no one in the friend group aside from Aang knows Zuko was the Blue Spirit

So do you think... they're just hanging out in the palace post canon all piled up in one of the rooms reserved for when the royal family wants to chill—and Zuko is voicing his (extremely reasonable) upset about his father for one reason or another

And Sokka just says something like, "So are you gonna just leave him to rot in jail for the rest of his life, or are you gonna give him another punishment?"

And Zuko goes quiet. Thinking. Then he says, "Maybe I should send him on a quest to capture the Blue Spirit to regain his honor"

And Aang just fucking loses it

kosmogrl

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

ilynpilled

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

pulim-v

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

daeranilen

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

daeranilen

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

daeranilen

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

autumngracy

“200 notes”

[SpongeBob Narrator voice] Ten Years Later

partypuppy-nastja

Fun fact: I saw this post today right after a Tumblr ad for spyware-for-parents which should not be any more legal than spyware-for-partners or spyware-for-stalkers or such

phantomrose96

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

wake-meme-up-inside

God this makes me think of this screenshot:

"it minimizes you as a person" really wraps up my entire discomfort with the whole "oh but i'm just a girl" thing when used in most situations.

aries-of-spades

ovur

You don't remember my old url....? O-oh.. no its fine. I said its fine! Don't... don't touch me.

ovur

*trips while I'm running away and you get a panty shot*

flunkett

Huh

frikinnerd

Can you believe they tried to monetize this shit

ovur

Ok I'll go fuck myself

goodpokeaniscreencaps

happy birthday to ash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thegreenaper

spookyboywhump

Guy who never feels like his problems are “bad enough” to be taken seriously: what if I hurt the character so horrifically that everyone around them could not possibly deny the severity of their pain even if the character themself tries to downplay it.