Fatal Flaw

he/him, they/them | mid 20s | ita | 2nd gen ro | fucking queer | trans | sideblog for fandoms: @andtheyweresquirrels

[pain-isnt--needed]

[neapolis-neapolis]

Danzatrici (I sec.), dalla Casa di Cicerone - Pompei, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli.

[eviltoxicmosssauce]

"i want him in a way that is concerning to feminism" <- trite, overdone, equates feminism to prudishness and is thus concerning to feminism in itself

"i want him in a way that is concerning to medical science" <- well now we're getting somewhere.

[byjove]

My grandma’s on and off again boyfriend that she cheated on grandpa with died today.

[byjove]

RIP to Nana’s side piece. Though they never married, Grandpa died in September and she brought his long term competition to Thanksgiving that year.

[byjove]

Grandma and Grandpa had a shotgun wedding when Grandma was 19. Grandpa went off to Vietnam which left her, a severely mentally young mother, alone. Never heard a complaint about her side piece Jeff. He seemed to make her happy and for that I salute him.

[byjove]

I’m an only child so I have to discuss sensitive family drama with my 38,000 followers instead.

[femmmie]

My grandmother broke up w my grandfather through a letter and he just pretended to have never read it. They got married and had three kids.

[lucisthings6]

My grandmother confessed on her death bed that:

Her and Grandpa were in a relationship with their best friends

The four of them have been in a relationship since they were teenagers

They flipped a bottle cap to see which girl the boys would marry

Their children could have either man as their biological father but their biological mother is the mum that raised them

The past two weeks has been chaos since her confession 😂

[polyamorousmood]

[nudityandnerdery]

Just posting polls to satisfy my own curiosity now.

If you lived in America as a child, answer this poll. If you didn't, you answer the poll in the reblog.

How many homes did you live in before you turned 18 years-old?

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I don't/haven't lived in America/results/etc.

Remaining time: 12 hours 36 minutes

[nudityandnerdery]

Part two.

If you didn't live in America as a child, answer this poll. If you did, you answer the previous poll.

How many homes did you live in before you turned 18 years-old?

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7 or more

I lived in America/results/etc.

Remaining time: 12 hours 36 minutes

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your toddler was the Little Art Connoiseur

[importantpics]

[wizardshark]

"we teach kids about sex at 13-16, any earlier and it can actually scare them" protestant american spotted!! We learned in grade 5 (age 10) and I knew what it was for years prior uwu

[wizardshark]

When I was 8 I fully knew what sex was and the sum total of my thoughts was "that sounds gross. Hey can I play Pokemon now"

[gallusrostromegalus]

Any kid who has unfixed pets or lives in the general vicinity of a farm knows what sex is by the time they're five or six. I knew about it at four because I have a little sister and my parents were normal about explaining what the hell was going on with my mom's abdomen, why we were prepping the house for a baby and when she'd be arriving.

My thoughts on the matter were mostly "Oh yeah, like on PBS Nature. Cool. I'm gonna go dig a hole for fun now."

[pyxiesworld]

To add to this, when I was being taught in 4th grade, up until that point anything relating to the subject of sex ed was heavily censored; so for our very first day of sex ed, we were going in blind.

My classmates and I had such a terrible reaction to the information because you could tell that,

a.) the teachers were uncomfortable and b.) it was explained to us in a very dramatic and grotesque way.

This is a perfect example of how censorship and mishandling information can cause reactions that specific groups of people claim are accurate for all children. It was almost comical how when we reached middle school sex ed, you could tell which of us had that experience and who didn't.

Fast forward to when I worked as a babysitter, the 6 and 3 year olds I was caring for asked me to read them a book on where babies come from.

Children value transparency and recognize when something is stigmatized.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

I was nine when i had my first period. My mom took me to this education thing when i was tem, and I can barely remember nearly 30 years later, but it explained molestation, what sex is, consent, boundaries, trust, and sex abuse. It explained all of this and more.

It was how i learned the reason why my teacher made me feel so uncomfortable. He liked to out his hand on the but of every girl and woman in my school, rub circles and pat it. I understood this wasn't normal, and called him out on it the next time he did it to me. I got in trouble with the school counselor, who told me this is fine, it's just how some men are. i got upset, told her it's wrong, and she called my mom. She arrives and tears this counselor apart, had the enabler crying. A couple days later. He stopped touching us. I wouldn't have known this was bad, that i should tell someone this was happening. He would have continued molesting students.

In middle school (age 12-13), the health teacher who was supposed to teach us about puberty and sex ed decided to cover ever picture and diagram explaining the anatomy. She painted over all of them in the books and on the posters. She was also very wrong on a lot of things, and i was sent to the principal's office for detention. when i explained what happened, detention was cancelled. Next day, the biology teacher is in there, new books, new posters, and she is explaining things correctly and thoroughly. When the boys got grossed out and started saying girls are disgusting and dirty, she told them to stfu and listen. When she had her baby, she had the entire process recorded so she could use it to explain pregnancies and labor. It was extremely helpful!

Then my dad got orders for us to move (military) when i was 14, and the new hs started sex ed at age 17. I had classmates who had children. One of them was pregnant with her second child. The girl was 15 years old and expect a second child. When i graduated, a full third of my class had children. They had zero knowledge about sex except from experience until 17.

Late sex education leads to teen pregnancies. Teaching only abstinance does not prevent this from happening. This shit has been proven over and over again. Places that forbid sex ed at school are leaving it up to parents, but many of them don't know shit either.

Early sex ed protects children and helps prevent teem pregnancies.

[sexybritishllama]

idk man sometimes i like it when video game writers are allowed to plan a series of events that happen in a specific order and affect each other in turn to become an overarching narrative, and i don’t mind trusting those writers to take me through those events in the order that is emotionally effective. i don’t really care if a game forces me to go through the forest area first before i can attempt the icy area because maybe there’s things that happen in the forest area that inform later scenes in the icy area. maybe we don't need more superficial player choice open world concepts if it comes at the cost of the ability to write a story with actual significant plot events and character development in each section

[letsolgasidorova-deactivated201]

Stanislav Brusilov

[forestfright]

no more light

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[seducingavampire]

[chernozemm]

Is the first gif rocky imitating a human mouth and a tongue? Its position in graces mouth would change as he hums different notes, a bit like this

Fascinating

[terradni]

[leonbutchkennedy]

[parkayquarts]

little girl in the checkout line was freaking the FUCK out reaching for a shelf and screaming "GIMMEEEE GIMMEEEEE" at the top of her lungs and the mom kept saying "no 🫩" and I look at the shelf expecting there to be candy or something and it was full of batteries

[cleaningouttherooms]

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines

[cleaningouttherooms]

@fractalradio you are so right for bringing up 'slop'