#A child called it

[annasinterests]

tag game: 3 books 3 movies 3 songs that changed your life or that you just love

tagged by the lovely @tinygarbage 🩷

okay listen i know a stranger's heart without a home on the books row isn't a physical book but i love it dearly and it's the reason why i started to finally started being active on my blog after sitting in the background for so many years so. . . yeah

np tags (sorry if you've already been tagged eeep!): @myblogandotherrubbish @hiddenbabynyc @ellies-girll @thoughtsofarandommind @morning-star-joy @daydreamingmiller @nuka-cherries @joelsversion

#eagles #one of these nights #young the giant #mind over matter #phoenix #big red machine #fleet foxes #anais mitchell #a child called it #dave pelzer #to kill a mockingbird #harper lee #a stranger's heart without a home #ashwah #doni!!!! #finding nemo #avengers endgame #sunset boulevard

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

A CHILD CALLED 'IT' Dave Pelzer

Book

A CHILD CALLED ‘IT’ Dave Pelzer

Published 1995

            A Child Called ‘It’ is a memoir about a young Californian boy being abused by his mother during the 1960s and 70s. This book won’t take you long to get through it, however; the topic is heavy; it’s about child abuse and also brings awareness of what happens to a lot of children behind closed doors.

            Dave’s family lived in Daly City, a middle-classed suburb in San Francisco; his mother was a socialite who quickly had five sons throughout the 1960s.

            Pelzer alleged that his mother was an alcoholic who beat him, starved him, treated him like a slave, forced him to drink ammonia, stabbed him in the stomach, burned his arm on a gas stove, and made him eat his own vomit.

            He stated that his father enabled his mother’s behaviour by not reacting. His brothers who witnessed the abuse were in a more favourable position with their mother. His brother later stated that he was ‘more fearful that she might kill me than of the possibility of my brother bleeding to death.’  

            Pelzer was sent to a foster family aged 12, in 1973 and not long after his father left his mother.

            A Child Called ‘It’ was published after his mother died in 1992, only six people attended her funeral - five sons and their grandmother. The family members have very little contact with each other’s and there’s also a lot of resentment between them. They all agree that their mother was a drunk and the family home was dysfunctional.

            His brother Richard published his own book which affirms Dave’s story and said he was abused once Dave was sent into foster care. His younger brother Stephen denied that Dave was abused and the reason why Dave was sent into foster care was because he started a fire and was shoplifting. Dave’s grandmother said she believed that her daughter abused Dave, but not as bad as he described in his book.

            Dave later stated his mother should never have children.

#achildcalledit #davepelzer

#a child called it #achildcalledit #dave pelzer #davepelzer

[that1garrulousfan]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day where we should be grateful. We should be thankful for the life we have, for the lives we’ve lost, and the new lives that shall be welcomed to this world.

Of course life can be unfair, though. It’s not all “cupcakes and rainbows”, and that’s just how it is, and basically how it has to be. You can’t live life without tragedy. Some of you know that better than anyone. It can be devastating to see a good thing end, but sometimes it’s for the better.

A book I love to hate (if that makes sense) is called “A Child Called: It”. It’s an autobiography about a boy named Dave Pelzer. His childhood was… traumatizing and heartbreaking. And so very cruel.

I cried. A lot.

His mother, Catherine Pelzer tortured him in various ways since he was four years old. His life was one of the most tragic lives I’ve ever heard of.

Here is that story: (READ AT YOUR OWN RISK) There is cursing, and MANY forms of abuse.

Sometimes, that’s just how it is…

Moving on, you’ll never know when someone will die. Maybe your family fell apart, and no one wants to talk to one another. Maybe it’s a divorce. Or an argument. Or someone said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

They refuse to communicate. They want to get out of each other’s lives. They hate each other so much. Their hate is so powerful- they forget what the fight even was…

Then… someone dies. No apology. No goodbye.

Then they realize it’s far too late to fix anything.

Another story isn’t even mine, it’s my teachers’. Two of them. Different funerals. Different deaths. Different reasons. But both deaths were of no other than teenagers.

Barely adults. They never even got to be adults. They just… died.

One of their deaths was caused by carelessness. A sleepy driver in an 18 wheeler crashed into the girl’s car, split the car in half and she ended up flying out and getting impaled by a tree branch right in the stomach.

Overall, just be careful on what choices you make. Specifically on how you treat people. It can make a major difference in their lives. For the better, or for the worst. But then again, it’s your life and how you choose to live it.

So here’s a project you can complete for today:

Go to Google slides and make at least 2-5 slides about why you’re grateful for someone and send it to them.

Or write a letter. Or call someone.

You can really make a positive impact on someone’s day today.

Because you never know when it will be the last time you’ll see them.

Recommendations for Books and Movies: The Ultimate Gift, Chicken Noodle Soup for the Soul, I Can Only Imagine, Greater, and Jesus Revolution.

(I kinda rushed this- sorry! 😭 I will edit soon!)

#happy thanksgiving #thanksgiving #real life #harsh reality #be grateful #positivity #positive #make a difference #make a change #make the world a better place #dave pelzer #A child called it #i can only imagine #greater #the ultimate gift #jesus revolution #Chicken noodle soup for the soul #God #jesus christ

[mario-on-mars]

Read A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer and if you think im NOT going to be talking about it you are insane

#A child called It #books and reading #raahhhhh #i love tragedy #analysis

[tryingtowritestuff24]

Just finished reading A Child Called It.

Jesus fucking christ.

#reading #readblr #dave pelzer #a child called it

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Meet Mohammed Nazzal, a Palestinian child. He was in administrative arrest (this means he can stay held captive without charge for as long as israel decides, also look it up for better understanding) without charge or trial in Israeli occupation prisons and was released yesterday as part of the hostages exchange.

"They shattered metal bars on me, beating me non-stop on my head, broke my hands. They starved me."

#watch and share these interviews #they put things into perspective esp with israelis going around calling Palestinian kids held captive as terrorists #this child is from the jenin #palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #free palestine #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza under attack #colonialism #israel apartheid #israel is an apartheid state #israel is terrorist #israel is a terrorist state #free palestine 🇵🇸 #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #save the children #video

[anec-reads]

#reading #book review #review #storygraph #a child called it #Dave pelzer

[nenayaquisieras]

my brain is saying 141 with a reader that sees dead people. like they notice how respectful she is to the dead. when she kills she moves the bodies, sometimes says a small prayer to herself. they see her looking at things that aren’t there. “Did you see that? Never mind.” or she mentions she feels something weird in the air, or something wrong. talks to the team about the sleep paralysis she gets, always leaving out the grayish dark figure that accompanies her on those nights.

She’s never told anyone until she got drunk enough to were she’s literally laughing saying

“oh yea i see dead people.” And the guys obv think she’s joking and egg her on about said dead people she sees. but then she tells them about the entities that follow them, the people they’ve killed, always following them around. some are very angry, she feels their malicious intentions. ends up describing them in grave detail, they way they looked, what they wore, the last words they spoke before her teammates pulled the trigger. Something that only THEY would know.

“oh man, let me tell you about Gilbert my sleep paralysis demon. I swear he’s been visiting me more and more recently.”

#I really love the idea of a reader that sees the dead #That sees the dead that surrounds their teammates #one time she asked Ghost about why there’s always a child following him around #didn’t talk to her for a week 😭 #price still refused to believe that she sees dead people even though she described a close friend of his that died in battle #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #captain john price #john soap mactavish #cod #call of duty #cod mw2

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #headcanon #my art #nico flexing youngest child privilages by pulling out the most pitiful expression he can manage #anyways i find it fun to explore character word choices #cause yknow no two characters are going to select their words the same way #or even necessarily think about it to the same degree #i like to think Nico thinks about his word choice a lot #so of course every time he uses ''papa'' he fully knows he's pulling the Baby Of The Family card #Hades definitely knows this too but falls for it every time anyways #cause Nico hasnt called him ''papa'' regularly since getting his memory wiped - just detached ''father'' or at best ''dad'' #so it just reminds Hades of How Much He Just Wants His Children To Be Happy Like The Old Days #and how much poor Nico has been through and he's just the baby of the family and- #cue Nico smugly staring at the camera cause he knows how much power he holds #also i say Nico is Hades' only son cause mythologically even when Zagreus *is* Hades' son (rarely) he's. dead. #a major part of Zagreus' mythology is that he died #and im p sure every other deity said to be Hades' children are all goddesses and also are like 50% of the time not his #theres also only like 3 of them. and as far as we know in riordanverse canon one of them is implied to not be his daughter #so Nico is Hades' only son and also youngest in the family (cause Hazel is older by a month chronologically or 1 year biologically) #(and everybody else is a deity if children of hades at all)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

yea it's a show about nepo babies but Succession really said "20 billion dollars doesn't erase the persistent trauma of childhood abuse, or absolve the abuser" so like. remember that next time your parent tries to uno-reverse-guilt-card you with "but we gave you so much"

#gave me so much to spend years untangling in therapy #*points to writhing mass of cptsd symptoms nestled cozily in my skull* i call it the Gordian Knot of Shitty Childhoods #bc sometimes the only way to untie it is by cutting off shitty family #succession #tw child abuse #tw abuse #that being said. i wouldn't say no to 20 billion dollars

[quess-art]

I need D'Urge to be a companion 😭 Especially since he's canonical even when you create a custom Tav

(Some headcanons, some based on little snippets of dialogue from the game)

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #the dark urge #durge #orin the red #the feel when you were promised to be father's fav but this old lizard comes in and takes your grandpa's place as head of the murder house😔 #i love entitled murder baby orin vs what is with this sassy lost child durge #bhaalists gave durge that porcupine drip #when i showed this to my friend they called me a scaly... #girl i just drew a dragonborn wdym sexy?? #spoiler #spoilers #for durge content

[mikakuna]

i see this jason todd who actually looks his very young age (instead of the 30yr old man that comics like to portray)

and feel my heart breaking just imagining bruce beating him up, almost killing him, mind-breaking him, and just overall being a total piece of shit father towards him.

a huge chunk of the reason why people don't view bruce's actions towards jason as abusive or wrong is because jason doesn't look his age. he's drawn to be this 35yr old father of three who looks even older than dick (and way too on par with bruce) that people see their fights as one between batman and any of his regular rogues. when they fight, it just looks like batman is fighting a man his age and not an actual young person. it doesn't look like batman is fighting his son who's barely even drinking age (and who def wasn't drinking age in utrh). their fights are portrayed in a way that eliminates the very real power struggle between them.

this applies to jason's entire character as well. a lot of people don't sympathize with how he died or his actions as robin or his fights with the other bats because he doesn't look his age. he always looks older and scarier than everyone else. tim has many sympathizers from the titans tower incident because jason just looked like a grown man fighting a 12yr old (even tho i disagree, tim was built and like 17 lmfao).

anyways, i just wish comics would actually draw jason to look his age, which literally ranges from 19 to early twenties. he's young- so young, and it's so annoying to see him drawn and written as someone older than even bruce.

#the way everyone in jason's robin run saw him as this adult despite him being 12-15 #like what the fuck #just because a child has experienced more than the average adult doesn't make him any less of a child #it's like the typical groomer thought process #if jason was shown younger in arkham knigjt for example there'd be less people calling him whiny #they showed 15yr old jason's torture scenes like he was a 25 yr old #he should've been shown as the small child he was #it would've put more perspective into how cruel and fucked it was of the rogues to torture a literal child #and then bruce almost killing him in rhato... #now imagine if jason looked his age there #honestly this all just feeds into the idea that jason feels too small for his big body #imagine being this tiny kid growing up and then dying and coming back to life as this tank #arghhhhh!!!!! #jason todd #red hood #batman #jason peter todd #bruce wayne #jason todd deserves better

[lotus-pear]

god i love skk sm i wish gay ppl were real :(

#LOTUS DRAWING ACTUAL POSES AND NOT JUST BUSTS??? WOAH #i swear i actually know anatomy and stuff i just never draw it bc it's too much effort #going to bed <<<<< staying up until two thirty to draw your otp #ALSO.. for those of you who know i'm rewatching bsd w my friend whose never seen it before.. we finally got to ep9 #and she IMMEDIATELY clocked in on skk's toxic exes energy😭😭 #also she calls chuuya childe bc hes a ginger and his first reaction to seeing dazai was “fight me >:)” #she was like “omgg..hes part of the evil organization🤭 and has beef w the protag (he wants to fuck them😏) *giggles* wait. TARTAGLIA😨😨‼️” #I WAS TRYING SO HARD NOT TO SCREAM.. I COULDNT LET HER KNOW HOW DISTRAUGHT I WAS HEARING THAT FOR THE TENTH TIME #anyway we finished s1 and chuuya's her fav character so far let's see if she can learn his actual name and stop calling him childe😭😭 #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[yeetus-feetus]

tim is still 17 because he is fae.

thats my new theory. i mean just look at his unsettling inhumanly blue eyes. thats a creature right there my guy. he hasn't aged physically but trust me he is at least 100 years old, that's a fae child right there.

he's been interested in Batman since he first appeared on the scene, he has newspaper clippings from when the Joker made his big entrance, he was there for all of Batman's early mistakes, he was there at the circus when Dick's parents fell.

there is almost a century knowledge behind those odd, reflective eyes. he knows things a 17 year old shouldn't, he has reflexes not even Batman himself has.

he moves wrong. something about him is just off. his team mates have it within good reason to think of him as some sort of Gotham cryptid.

Dick is convinced it's just autism because all the other bats are lmao. (it's a good cover for Tim so he goes along with it.)

#fae!tim #tim drake #fae character #he's definetly not pure blooded fae #but my boy is def part fae #this idea stems from the fact that neurodivergent kids were called fae children as an explanation for their oddness #so either tims parents are part fae too or he was swapped with a human child and took their place

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 214

“I did an oopsie.” 

Clockwork paused in his work, gaze turning from his work towards his ghostling (it didn’t matter if he was an adult, he’d always be his ghostling) who was smiling nervously, avoiding his eyes. 

“Oh?” He kept his tone light, even as he worked on untangling a time knot. Honestly at least Danny was immune to any effect of time, even if he couldn’t look into his timelines in exchange. It came with being the other half of Infinity. 

“Yeeah… you know that corner of the multiverse you told me not to go to because you’re working on some time problems? I might have stumbled into one of the worlds in the corner…” 

He stopped his machinations, fully turning towards Danny- Space, his Core whispered and quivered in utter delight at having an Equal in power- with a raised eyebrow, leaning on his staff and silently telling him to explain. 

Danny poked his fingers together, giving a nervous laugh. “So uh, I was just exploring right? Well me and Ellie, you know how she gets when she can’t wander, and um… I er, we might have messed with some things in the creation of it… I didn’t know it was part of that universe, I swear! It was so far at the fringes and halfway into the Zone and I couldn’t just let a universe die before it began and-”

Oh- Oh! His ghostling (and his grand-ghostlings it sounded like) had claimed his first universe! He could put off these time knots, this was a grand milestone for any Ancient, nevermind such a primordial force as one of theirs.

And this is how a DC world came into being with humans evolving with more avian traits. Like wings. And claws. Look, Dan thought it’d be funny if they gave baby humanity wings and Ellie started rambling about how much farther they could travel if they had them and Danny thought it could be cool. Oh well, time to keep an eye on their itty baby world now…

#Prompts #DCxDP #DPxDC #Ancient of Space Danny #Space Core Danny #Moon Core Ellie #Sun Core Dan #Why yes Dan & Ellie call Danny Mom/Dad #Wings Au #They all have favorite bloodlines that they think are neat or they’re rooting for #They also make sure the speedsters (“Look at them! They’re hummingbirds! They can’t focus!”) don’t cause Time Knots #Sam Adores Gotham from the moment Danny shows his friends their lil DC world #And that’s not even starting on the rest of things not even on Earth #Dan appears by Clark’s crib unseen one night & gifts him wings to be able to blend in with his human family #They can’t focus on every little thing but they do their best since it’s their first world #Whenever a hero is revived their wings look like they’ve been dipped in galaxies for several months at least #Jason’s never goes away- they look like a crimson sunrise with stars #Billy got a gift from Ellie & his wings have moon patterns even in his normal child form #Go wild with this

[littlerosette]

every so often i remember that katniss canonically dreamt of having peeta’s kid and then woke up the next morning feeling happy. in the quarter quell. she’s insane

#i think she specifically calls it a ‘warm delicious feeling’ she knows is associated with peeta #which is even crazier i love herrrrrr #i dont even have a word for how down bad that is it’s like comical #katniss: i want to be pregnant with his child does that mean he’s my friend? #everlark #the hunger games