By implying that children are too stupid and rude to learn about the world and learn how the world works and how to interact with others, you are casting responsibility away from the people who are responsible for that child's upbringing and placing the blame on the children (who don't have the autonomy given to them to be allowed to decide what they want) who can't help what they do and do not learn, often.
If the children aren't okay, then investigate why before turning to thought-terminating clichés of, "Well, the kids are just stupid and dumb and aren't even worth the effort because they're lazy!"
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Yeah sure “objectively” it makes more sense that Deb never cheated on Alice and that was just Blinky messing with her mind for his enjoyment but do you understand how funny that would be. Bill trying his best to comfort his daughter over this and having to bite back an “I told you so” every fucking second
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y'all, there is absolutely nothing that could have mentally prepared me for this grocery store bathroom i walked into today
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CAN I INTEREST ANYONE IN A TAOB AZULA POV
The silence of solitude always seemed so much heavier than the sort of silence that settled in larger spaces. The silence of sitting at Father’s side, for instance, had a different weight to it. There was tension there, a dozen invisible threads holding everyone in place like one of Zuzu’s ridiculous plays. This silence here though, between Azula and her reflection, was heavy, as if waiting for something.
Azula didn’t care, never gave it enough time to reveal itself to her. She saw her reflection without seeing, ignoring the soft edges, the familiar eyes.
She fixed her hair, and just like that, Azula was perfect. It wasn’t a difficult standard to maintain and had only gotten more natural with time. Time and practise and her brother’s instance of making it easy for her. Her weak, foolish brother.
Trust is for fools, Father had always said, and Zuko was the biggest fool of all of them. Fools make fools and Azula would not be made a fool of. His pretty promises were fickle, childish things. Apologies on a beach, blue fire in hands dancing dangerously close to touching, a softness, an openness that Azula knew Zuko couldn’t have faked for the life of him.
He said they could be better. He said he was sorry for leaving her. He said they didn’t have to be terrible.
He said a lot of things, and then, Zuko had done what Zuko did best.
Zuko left.
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I know I’m a grown woman but I’d like to call into work like ‘I’m gonna be late tomorrow on account of getting no sleep because I had a panic attack cause my neighbors are having a massive fight that triggers my cptsd plus I’m worried there’s some sort of domestic violence situation going on but I can hear enough of what they’re actually saying to know for sure it’s just a hunch based on the screaming and banging noises but they could just be slamming doors who knows and like what am I supposed to call the cops cause I’d have to talk to them plus it’s not like they could fix it if they don’t literally walk into a fight so like how am I supposed to handle this cause I contacted the landlord and they didn’t do anything about it’
I just think that should be a valid reason not to come to work
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LATEST BRACELET BATCH
yes I made a bracelet for my own AU you can’t stop me!!! NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!
I based the colors off deltas logo bc in my head Ben works for delta don’t ask it’s because the John mulaney bit lives as a stim in my head
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from the succession podcast it sounds like kieran thinks roman has successfully pushed down the voicemail/possible guilt about logan’s death and is genuinely like .. not thinking about it, which i find really surprising honestly. is that really not going to come back? trying to figure out whether this is a “pre-grieved” situation (read: obviously a failing attempt at repression) which was my original take, of course, but the fact that kieran says, like, “i’ve actually thought about that” makes me think it’s not something that will come up in future episodes — if repressed guilt/fear/self-loathing ab possibly causing logan’s death is part of roman’s ‘arc’ this season, why would kieran say like ‘oh i’ve actually thought about this!’ like, that kinda makes it sound like it never comes up again, so kieran’s come up with his own take. but i mean… we’re supposed to think roman “yeah i pre-grieved” [one episode later] “i’m dead. i’m gone. it’s over for me” roy successfully pushed down the fact that his last ‘interaction’ with his dad was calling him a cunt over voicemail (his first time standing up to him Ever) which logan may or may not have heard before his death — and may or may not have CAUSED that death (we know the phone was found in the toilet, after all)??? successfully pushed it down my ass
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