My About Me Is Six Years Old Don't Look At It

Toad/♎️/USA/She-her 2 dull 2 live, 2 dumb 2 die

[havingrevelations-deactivated20]

dni people who prefer white lightbulbs over warm yellow lightbulbs

[zitboy]

this woman who wrote about her experience dating my dad occasionally tweets @ me and im like…. Who the Fuck are U

[zitboy]

like to clarify, she published a book about the 52 men shes dated, and one of the pages was about my dad, and in it she talked about me and my sister as toddlers, and referred to me as the uglier of his children

[retrogamingblog2]

reminder that KK Slider is a good boy

[escuerzoresucitado]

[squareallworthy]

My brother in Christ, you -- hm? What? Oh, no, I hadn't heard. Well, good for you! Congratulations. Anyway, my sister in Christ,

[woundthatswallows]

he’s one of us

[ghoul-wizard]

I'm the guy who goes around giving small change to low level monsters

[transmortifried]

[toadsoup]

This is, by far, the funniest pornbot name I have ever seen. I can’t even bother blocking it because it would be a disservice to comedy at this point. I hope armiehammered never gets reported. I hope she sends people suspicious looking zoom links until the end of time.

[kaijuno]

[delmondo]

people who put their gum under tables are wild animals they literally do not have higher level cognitive functions. they live in nature.

[hotvampireadjacent]

calling them wild animals is an insult to nature

[delmondo]

sorry you’re right i should’ve said baboons

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

I call my father Babbu but I hate my father Die father

[delmondo]

Die Babbu

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

^ This Die Babbu

[delmondo]

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

[delmondo]

Hell on babbu technique

[therealbucky05]

[teaboot]

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for

[returningtapes]

[baradragon]

speaking from a place of privilege (good url)

[baradragon]

some of you should not be reblogging this

[assdad]

[shiroskeith-blog]

Next time antis are being, well, antis, show them this:

[latining]

So a child came to you with concerns and criticism, and rather than ignoring said criticism because it wasn’t relevant to the fan work (taking your word for this), you decided to belittle them and imply their parents should be monitoring their internet use.

Cool. Cool thing you did there. Cool way for an adult to treat a child.

I wonder how they’re going to respond the next time they see something fucked up in fandom, or worse, experience it. Like the rampant sexual harassment and assault at conventions. Do you think they’re going to talk to an adult? Or do you think they’re going to internalise it as just part of the fandom and their fault for showing up?

But hey, you sure showed that middle-schooler.

[villainislemony]

[cameoamalthea]

If a child came to OP with concerns and criticism about adult content they shouldn’t be viewing, then their parents should be monitoring their internet usage because they aren’t obeying rating based restrictions.

If a 12 year old snuck into see Deadpool or It and then complained to the threats about it, the theater would probably call their parents and report them for sneaking into an R rated movie.

Ratings are their for a reason.

Also, ‘talk to your parents/other trusted adult’ if something upsets you is good advice. OP is telling them they need to talk to an adult, their parents, not a stranger on the internet.

[ardwynna]

If an adult has a problem with a child’s behavior offline, a light warning and speaking to the parents is how it goes, nothing odd about that. But online, as much as we would like to have an adult conversation about how little Timmy needs to stop peeking in neighbor’s windows because he’s not ready to understand swinging and pony play yet and besides he’s breaking the law, we have to interact with the children themselves in a more direct fashion. We have to rely on them to ask their parents to step up and parent, and that’s more responsibility than some of them want to handle.

What I do find ironic about this entire situation is that the children don’t hesitate to demand that the adult fans treat them like the children they are, but when we do, they’re upset. They don’t want, “The sign means ‘stay out’ Timmy,” or “I’m going to have to talk to your mother, Timmy,” but “Pour the booze down the toilet, babyproof the house and turn the whole world into a Zero Tolerance zone because Timmy exists.” For a group that’s so staunchly anti-kink, they’re very into ageplay and topping from the bottom.

[untitled23343]

“…the children don’t hesitate to demand that the adult fans treat them like the children they are, but when we do, they’re upset.”

T H A T is the fucking truth right there. I get sick of hearing “I’m a minor, it’s your responsibility as an adult to protect me from seeing bad things!!” and then when my response is “stay away from my blog, stay away from my AO3, and if you aren’t old enough to be seeing occasional porn then tumblr isn’t a good place for you because it’s a poorly designed website and you’re gonna stumble on that shit”, then I’m still not doing my job.

what the fuck do you expect me to do? I really wanna know. other than tagging and slapping big, obvious warning labels on anything I post, I want to know what I’m expected to do to protect minors with internet access.

[animenutcase]

See, what I think is happening is that they REALLY want to not have to see the age-inappropriate things they PERSONALLY don’t like, without having to put in any effort to avoid said things. If their parents start monitoring their computer stuff, they won’t be able to see the age-inappropriate stuff they DO want to see. After all, if NSFW stuff is properly tagged, they shouldn’t have been able to see it in the first place unless they were already looking for NSFW things, right?

[roselinbooks-deactivated2021032]

This.

Warnings are posted for a reason. As a content creator, the extent of my responsibility is to appropriately rate and tag things that have potentially upsetting content. Avoiding those things is the responsibility of the consumer, not the creator.

If I forget to tag something, by all means, let me know! But don’t complain to me when something tagged with tw: gore contains graphic violence.

[megpie71]

Once again: this is a kid walking into the front bar of a pub, and being shocked, shocked, I tell you, that alcoholic beverages are on sale.  (Oh, and how dare the bartender tell them they’re going to have to present ID in order to be served!)

If you choose, of your own accord, to go into the adult place marked with the sign saying “adults only” and to click “yes, I’m an adult” on the warning that pops up before you get to see anything, then yes, the site owners are within their rights to presume you are capable of dealing with whatever shows up as a result. 

[vickytokio]

This is still a subject that never fails to baffle me, especially since it’s so new. Fifteen years ago, it didn’t work like that and I am honestly curious about how did it change…

[izzybeth]

and cry when they see it

[perennial-lee]

Anti-revenge narrative this, anti-revenge narrative that, I personally think that Inigo Montoya had the right idea when he stabbed Count Rugen in the gut and said "I want my father back, you son of a bitch"

[galwednesday]

A lot of revenge arcs end with the hero saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so me seeking revenge is pointless." The Princess Bride's revenge arc ends with Inigo Montoya saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you."

[liprairian]

James Patterson books are an invasive species humans brought into library shelf environments because we wanted fast-reproducing, easily-digestible food. But at the time, we didn’t know as much about their natural airport environment, which has very few available nutrients. This environment greatly favours the genericalist species like Patterson, so there’s very little bibliodiversity compared to the more specialized library or bookstore environment. This means that each species in an airport has an enormously expanded niche compared to just about anywhere else books can thrive - in their natural habitat, Patterson books may be one of only 3 or 4 species competing for available nutrients. In these low-density, low-nutrient environments, Patterson books occupy vast swathes of territory without bothering other species. This history makes it extremely easy for them to outcompete the more specialized inhabitants of the library shelf, who have often been carefully selected to fill ultraspecific subgenre niches.

Left unweeded, Patterson books will expand their territory over multiple book bays, crowding out or even straight-up eliminating space for competitors and sending contributor-author runners out to other shelves. Contained to a single, planned set of shelves and kept strictly pruned, Patterson books can contribute to a healthy ecosystem. But many curators don’t know or don’t care to do the planning and maintenance, leading to the nightmare of overcrowding and loss of circulation.

[dduane]

Fortunately the forces of airport bibliodiversity in recent decades appear to have been attempting to balance these tendencies by supporting the increased presence of @neil-gaiman​ works. These propagate by employing both much-enhanced multimedia presence (which the B. pattersonis species and subspecies notably lack) to co-opt and redistribute shelf ecosystems, and also a unique author(!)-instigated reader attraction mechanism based on random ink signatures (”autographs”) which act in the idiosyncratic manner routinely associated with negative reinforcement to atypically increase reader interest in such works when visiting the airport bookstore environment. 

Due to the recent cross-media increase in the range and spread of the numerous B. gaimanii subspecies (presently most notably B. gaimanii sinefini and B. gaimanii omeniboni-duum x Pratchett), there is good hope that the more invasive aspects of the encroachment of B. pattersonis may become less of a danger to the bibliosystem in years to come. We have no choice, of course, but to “wait and see”. 

[neil-gaiman]

I wish this were true. Alas, on my last tour of the USA in April and May I discovered that post Covid, bookshelf space in airports has shrunk to an extent I found hard to believe. (Shelf and display space is always finite. Right now there are lots of things for sale that weren’t for sale pre-Covid. They occupy space that formerly belonged to books.) I stopped by places that I’d always previously ninja signed books of mine, and saw that they were only selling current top 20 titles. Or not even that. I did secretly sign books here and there. But it was always in actual bookshops that happened to be in airports, and not in Hudson news style “airport bookshops”. (And I nearly wrote this as an ecological-sounding paper, but realised nobody would actually know what I was talking about if I did. You are welcome to remedy this.)