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My conversations with children

Okay as a fifth year education major in a wheelchair who is constantly around very curious kids and very paranoid parents, this is single-handedly the greatest video I have ever seen!

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A gentle reminder that accepting disabled people doesn’t mean ignoring their disabilities.

scloutier

“That happens sometimes.”

valtharr

that’s what I’m always saying: kids, especially young kids, don’t need every detail explained to them. generally speaking, they will accept what a trusted adult tells them. so if you tell them “yeah, sometimes, people lose their legs”, they will just accept that. I mean, they accept a woman with wings breaking into their room while they sleep to buy their teeth from them, but somehow, parents think “yeah, people that are different from you exist” is too much of a concept for them to grasp

dykecosette

kids don’t need every detail but some kids might need more detail so they don’t think the leg will just fall off

tinderpodcast

To all the girls who “Love adventures”

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A trip to 7-11 at 12:am is most definitely an adventure

mia-beak

If y’all don’t know how to treat mundane life experiences with awe and wonder at the world then maybe it’s *you* that’s probably boring that’s all I’m sayin

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This American badger is literally grounding her misbehaving kid

(via)

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Tact returning to her hole to punish badgerkind

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elodieunderglass

Bother 2 whole birds AND a tree with this one (1) easy tune

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masterpost of spongebob moments that dealt psionic damage to my 7 year old self (absolutely non-comprehensive)

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me: i miss 2012 tumblr

*scrolls thru @heritageposts*

me: nevermind

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kiashie

i already feel found~

(i don’t do comics and i don’t trust this is really well structured or paced but! take my sappy corny found family emo shit!!!)

gif87a-com

Putting a hardstyle track over this Bollywood movie worked amazing [x]

thorinobsessed

The Hobbit - The Musical.

killedbyanacorn

It looks like Thorin Oakenshield at Durmstrang …

mojoflower

Oh fuck fuck. And Bilbo’s all, “Yeah, the dwarves have a different culture, rather. They only eat three meals a day!”

bonesmarinated

Master Plo Koon just naturally look good like that.

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cheermeupthankyou

Why is this wholesome and sad at the same time?

lilmamabeyellin

the older i get the more unnecessary it seems to tell people my business

maggins

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Hey btw, another worldbuilding thing: You can, and actually should have weird and impractical cultural things. They’re not inherently unrealistic, for as long as you address the realistic consequences as well.

Let’s say you’ve got a city where there’s tame white doves everywhere. They’re not pests, they’re regarded as sacred, holy protectors of the city, and the whole city cares for them and feeds them like they’re pets. They’re so tame because it’s a social taboo to hurt or scare one. Nice pretty doves :)

Then someone points out that even if they’re not seen as pests, doesn’t having a completely unchecked feral pigeon population - that not only isn’t being culled, but actively fed and cared for - mean that there would be bird shit absolutely all over the place?

A part of you wants to say no, because these are your nice, pretty doves. To explain that there’s a reason why they’re not shitting all over the place, maybe they’re super-intelligent and specifically bred and trained to not shit all over the place. The logistics of how, exactly, could anyone breed and train a flock of feral birds go unaddressed.

An even worse solution would be to not have those birds, editing them out of the world. No, they spark joy, you can’t just toss them out!

Now, consider: Yes, yes they would, but the city also has an extensive public sanitation service that’s occupied 90% of the time by cleaning bird shit off of everything. One of the most common last names in the area actually translates to “one who scrapes off dove shit”, and it’s a highly respected occupation. And thanks to the sheer necessity of constantly regularly cleaning everything, the city enjoys a much higher standard of cleanliness, and less public health issues caused by poor public sanitation.

The doves do protect the city. By shitting fucking everywhere.

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in a sci-fi romance i wrote with some friends, the michigan fleet enclave produces a sesame street-analogue show to educate their kids, and they distribute it externally as well. it’s become popular outside the enclave over the years because it’s fun, free, and educational, and in a post-apocalyptic america there isn’t very much in the way of public education anymore.

inside the enclave, the local accent is what happens when you let refugees from detroit, chicago, and new orleans hang out for forty-five years without talking to pretty much anyone else in the world.

outside the enclave, that’s increasingly just what muppets sound like.