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Ask not for whom poob has it. It has it for thee

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Ask not for whom poob has it. It has it for thee

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Friend has the sad???!!??!!!!!

I’m coming friend I’ll save you from the sad!!

I am here now you’re going to be okay!!!

You are so beautiful and i love you!!!

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lets hear it for transgenderism and faggotry. can I get a round of applause for transgenderism and faggotry

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How about I mix your genes with my genes? We're so compatible,and our bodies know it

come on man

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“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

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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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She let me hit it because I solved her riddles three

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Serious question everybody:

Is it executive dysfunction when you still can do it, but it just feels BAD to do it, and unnecessarily hard?

Optional example under cut because it's a lot of words

Example: I had a student group meeting to join that I felt under prepared for and scared for. It started at 3pm. I had completed all other tasks I was working on and was just scrolling Tumblr from like 2:30 onward. I needed to leave 5-10 minutes before 3 to get there on time; leaving early would be better, it would avoid the stress of always being a bit late. I watched 2:50 approach and pass. I still had enough time to leave and get there. I would leave at 2:55. 2:55 came and went. I just wanted one more minute... one more minute...

I really had to leave now. I couldn't skip the meeting, that would be even worse. It's 2:57... Maybe I could still hypothetically make it on time... 2:58... 2:59... It's okay people are a couple minutes late all the time it's no big deal. 3:00 I HAVE to leave now the meeting started! Man it would be so nice if all I had to do was teleport there, make one single decision+movement. I really do have to go... but one more post...

I feel stuck... But wait am I really unable to do this or is it just hard? No I can do this, and since I can I have to. No avoidance excuses. *pushes myself up off the floor*

At 3:06 I join the meeting virtually while I walk the rest of the way to the physical location. I walk a lot more slowly than normal, though still listening and responding to people talking on the call. I even zone out a bit and stop motion entirely for another minute while standing on the steps down from my building talking to them, before I realize what I'm doing and insist I carry on moving, resisting the intimidation and the challenge of processing concurrently: current conversation, and my fears/concerns about the upcoming topic I'm unprepared for, and the need to move my feet and go see them in person.

I arrive. I speak to the people. We make the plan for this next week. I will write the discussion questions for the next meeting; that will be no issue.

I did the thing. I was able to do it. It was hard. I managed it. It was partially due to fear and uncertainty avoidance not just simple stuck-ness. I'm sleep-deprived and didn't finish lunch. I really don't know what to think.

(This is just an illustrative example. Many such cases.)

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Scrolling tumblr; the experience:

Moot

Moot

Soul shattering text post

Moot has new blorbo

Moots blorbo

Moots blorbo

Moots blorbo

Most depressing political news ever

Moots blorbo

Moots blorbo

Ooo art

Moots blorbo

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Made you some more gay omemes. I should go to bed now.

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The rumoured hovering soldier, who reads aloud in the library, is unmasked as a convincing effect created by the maid.

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Crowley referring to Gabriel, Michael, and the others not as "angels" but as (the honestly more accurate) "angelic entities" in front of Aziraphale is such a wonderful bit of flirt.

Crowley very deliberately not using "angel" to describe anybody else as a nod to Aziraphale that Crowley's romantic pet name for him is a word that he sees as belonging just to Aziraphale is really sweet.

Romancing his angel and shading angelic entities have always been the twin passions of Bildad the Shuhite.

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Aziraphale was NEVER angry because of the kiss. He's scared.

This is him angry

Despite being a fucking cloud with a bowtie, he's very firm when he's angry. It's bluntly obvious. His tone deepens, his face changes, there's no mistaking it.

And here's him scared:

Again, it's obvious.

After the kiss:

He's terrified, not angry. He's terrified of losing Crowley. He's terrified that he actually enjoyed it. He's terrified of Crowley. He desperately wants to be with him, but he's terrified of what will happen for both of them.

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first you have to remember that the first disco ball was painstakingly put together by hand from nothing but an idea and lots of intricately cut glass and bandaids and then you have to think about the experience of being under a disco ball for the very first time, bathed in reflections of an era that has not yet come to past, and finally you end up wondering what else there is around you that has yet to be unearthed by something with so much as a silly name

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Today, Crowley and Aziraphale decided to listen to an audiobook while they drove, instead of their usual tunes. Once in a while, the narrator slipped into Freddie Mercury's voice and practically sang the text to them, but a quick, stern glance in the Bentley’s direction on Aziraphale’s part had her keeping the tape rolling relatively smoothly the whole trip home.