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Well now, it has been quite some time, has it not? I wish this announcement came with better news, but perhaps that in itself is open for debate. Due to online and offline problems bleeding into one another, I must unfortunately abandon this blog for my own safety. As there are followers who submitted their stories and art for other Lotor fans viewing pleasure, consider this blog a way to archive your works. Many wonderful memories were had with this blog and I am thankful to have experienced them. However, times have changed and I must move on while preserving the good times in my mind. I hope you, too, have done the same these past months and look forward to what lies in the future. As the famous saying goes: do not cry because it is over. Smile because it happened. Best Regards,

Mako

#final announcement #o and before i leave #im cleaning the blog of content by creators who requested it #take care all

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Teal Space moodboard! ^^ For @princeofuranus c: Hope you like this!

Want one? Send an ask~~ -mod Jay

#space

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People wouldn’t have hated lotor if he’d have supposedly killed galra instead of alteans.

#:)

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To anyone who might need to hear this: If you keep trying to live a better life, to be a better you and you keep failing, keep falling down, it is okay to feel angry and frustrated. If you keep hitting rock bottom while everyone around you seems to experience success, find love and happiness, you are allowed to feel lonely and as if life is just unfair. I just want you to know that I get that and I am here for you. Telling you that things are going to be okay again will not make you feel any better, I know that. I just want to say that I am proud of you for pushing through that incredibly hard time, my love. Soon, it is going to be your time to shine. I am rooting for you.

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you won’t always wake up in the mornings with such a heavy heart, I promise.

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Isn’t it weird how you can actually feel the pain in your chest and stomach when something really hurts your feelings

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Hey you guys want to see an actively hilarious bonsai tree?

#reaching for the remote

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humans really fuckin love squares huh

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☁️I’m all alone afraid of my life I just want a home Wouldn’t that be nice☁️

#lotor

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Revolutionary parenting hack:

If your child is in the middle of some activity and clearly enjoying it (and wasn't supposed to be doing something else instead), DO NOT interrupt them and have them do chores that will "only take 5 minutes or so!"

You haven't asked them to do anything before they got out the Legos, started reading a chapter of their book or painting the complicated picture, or began playing their video game.

As a result of being repeatedly interrupted, they will learn that their presence in public space of the household=availability to do chores, so they will make themselves scarce so you can't find them and order them around. They will also become suspicious of your efforts to engage with them as they play, as they've learned that these pleasantries are a prelude to "Take out the trash", or "move your boots and vacuum the entryway, there's dirt everywhere ".

"But I need my children to help me around the house!", I hear you cry. I understand. Children should not be treated like royalty and left to their own devices 24/7.

An alternative is to give the kids a clearly delineated chore chart and stick to it, resisting the urge to add anything to it. There are some chores that are easier and quicker with two people, though. A (in my opinion) even better option is to divide the child's day into "on-duty" and "off-duty " time. When they're on-duty, you can interrupt them as before, but you have *consulted with your child beforehand * and they understand that during this time they can relax, but they must be ready to jump in and lend a hand.

That way they won't start trying to level up in their video game or break out the clay and make stuff. When they are off-duty, you leave them alone and their only responsibilities are to clean up whatever mess they make at the end of this time.

Also, if they are tearing around the house or whining about being bored, don't make them do chores so they will "have something to do"; this could make the child conflate extra chores with punishment for whining and make them reluctant to help out when you randomly tell them to at other times because they might think they're being punished but they have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DID. And IMO children should see chores as things everyone has to do no matter what, not punishments.

I may seem unqualified to offer parenting advice as I have no kids, but I was talking with my dad today and he said: "I wish you didn't hide from us in your room so much, but every time your mom walked by she'd give you a chore to do, so I can't blame you for that." A kid who hides in their room to play has an entirely different relationship to the family than the child who sprawls on the livingroom floor and excitedly describes the city they are building out of Legos.

And today, in times of Covid I play a complicated game of hide-and-seek with my mother as I try to do my online coding homework and apply for jobs. I am now attempting to turn my bedroom into my own tiny office because if I work in our home office, she'll find me and go "I can't attach this file to my email," and so on.

Children *have* to obey their parents when they are young. But true respect and honoring collective responsibilities is stronger than forced obedience. If you demonstrate to your children that you respect them and their time, they will reciprocate.

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head, shoulders, bees and toes

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y’all need therapy. not girlfriends

#this applies to boyfriends too #but i dont think yall ready to hear that just yet

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“What happens when you have heated tile flooring”

(via)

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Good evening, little night owls and/or early bird risers. I have a fascinating word for you all today and it makes me a little giddy to share it. 

Lalochezia (noun)

1.  The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.

Now, we have all at least once or twice or an infinite number of times cursed (whether verbally or mentally) when in sudden pain. Why, I imagine after today a few of you may feel the need to screaming such vulgar, naughty words that would make a veteran sailor blush.

Of course, quiznak hardly counts as a curse on Earth. Share with me a moment you spat expletives and felt good about it. 

#wordsday #quiznak just doesnt have the oomp as fuck #or shit #or damn it #or fuck shit damn it

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if my bones are gonna crack like glow sticks every time i move i think i deserve bioluminescence. both to complete the aesthetic and as a consolation prize