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reconstructwriter · 4 hours ago
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Absolutely agree with all of this and @kailthia "From my own experience and from talking to other people about their experiences as kids and teens, letting your kids do mild weird shit often prevents them from doing bigger, more actively dangerous shit."
As kids my sister and I were allowed to do all this stuff and we turned out just fine too. Our parents weren't the only ones afforded such a loose hand - and for the better. Those parents who did look down on 'backbone parenting' with the temporary tattoos, my sister for shaving her head and both of us for dressing how we wanted? They were astounded at how responsible we were as teenagers.
The little things can also lead to important lessons. Let kids do what they want with their bodies such as haircuts and clothes, and they're less likely to put up with big stuff like physical abuse of their bodies as adults. Get kids input on family meals can teach valuable skills like making grocery lists, food budgeting, healthy eating and cooking.
On the flip side being a tyrant about little things can lead to big consequences. Highly regulated desserts as a child can lead to those young adults eating pretty much nothing but dessert there - an unhealthy and rather expensive habit. Especially after the cavities set in.
Ok, so here’s a thing. I talk a lot about autonomy and freedom for children, and a lot of times that comes up in really radical ways, dropping out of school, running away from home, *big life choices*.
But that’s not the only place where we curtail kids’ freedoms. Like, say a little girl’s getting a haircut and she wants to get half her head shaved so she looks like Natalie Dormer in The Hunger Games, like, first the barber’s going to look to the parent for permission (which is already fucked up) and then the parent’s almost certainly going to say no and tell the barber to trim a few inches off or whatever it is they think their hair should look like and…
What I’m getting at is that so many of the things we think we need to protect our kids from are *fucking harmless*. Shaving their heads, going to the supermarket in a spiderman costume, eating ketchup for dinner, these things are not going to seriously harm anyone. In so far as they are mistakes, they are mistakes that kids should be able to just make and gracefully recover from.
And I think the mindset here – that children need to present *normally* because otherwise what will people think of them, and what will people think of their parents – is *precisely* the same mindset that leads to abusive shit like “quiet hands” and ABA. That it doesn’t matter what they want, what’s good for their well-being, what matters is that they *look and act* “normally”.
Like it seems like there’s something akin to a curb-cut effect here? Where this mindset hurts developmentally disabled children more, a lot more, but maybe the most efficient thing to do is just to tear it out by the root, to criticize it wherever we see it? 
Like it’d be nice if we could just say, if they’re not hurting anyone, kids should be allowed to look and act the way they want to, they should be able to cut their own hair or flap or crossdress or refuse eye-contact or have cereal for dinner or not want to be touched and it should be the parent’s *responsibility* to fiercely defend their child’s right to do those things and set those boundaries against anyone who wants to give them shit for it, not to victim-blame and say no you can’t do those things because people will give me shit about it if you do.
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reconstructwriter · 7 hours ago
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reconstructwriter · 8 hours ago
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“The big learning is that if you want to kill someone, you can kill them. It’s really scary but true,” said the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It seems crazy that we’re just figuring this out.”
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reconstructwriter · 12 hours ago
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reconstructwriter · 23 hours ago
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Ferus was known for his strength and agility. His moves were flawless. Yet he did not fight only for himself, but cast his battle mind like a net, ready to respond to the others if they needed him. - Jude Watson, Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
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reconstructwriter · 1 day ago
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You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person
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reconstructwriter · 1 day ago
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AMAZON IS STRIKING LETS FUCKING GO!!!!!! LETS GO!@!
as someone who has worked in amazon warehouses for many years, this is crazy like. oh my god. DURING PEAK SEASON?? LETS GOOOO
media and companies are already trying to say "DONT LET THE UNIONS MISLEAD YOU WE PROMISE WE TREAT OUR WORKERS WELL!!!" well hey ive worked there for YEARS. they do not ! dont listen to their bullshit. it might be difficult to not get frustrated if packages are late at the most important time of the year but thats the whole point -- strikes happening when the workers are most necessary is a massive blow to showing just how essential the workers are . anyways stand with amazon workers this holiday season god fucking bless
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reconstructwriter · 1 day ago
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jedi thats been rotating in my mind recently 💫
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reconstructwriter · 1 day ago
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there should be more of this type of fic/art
worst blorboficiation
which ship fans are the most annoying?
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Mmmmmhhh ok in fics I’d really appreciate to see female characters actually behaving like characters, and not being put there just to make the male characters look cooler <3 (I saw far too many like this….. ugh). And also less random and gratuitous Jedi bashing when reading a mando centric fic! I understand when it comes from the characters bias, but what I read does not come from there.
When it comes to art I’d certainly like to see whitewashing disappear altogether (clones my beloveds what have they done to you).
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Well- the obvious answer is certainly Obi-Wan lmao. I can’t read fanfictions with him in it anymore…. It’s just too painful I cant do it 😭
BUT- I have to say, I saw canon versions of Anakin that were just…. NOT
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I don’t interact with ships that much, but I saw some really weird things being said by Sabezra shippers, and that just made me far more wary of them lmao
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reconstructwriter · 2 days ago
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chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands
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reconstructwriter · 2 days ago
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i have a theory that any franchise that lasts long enough eventually becomes incestuous and ends up eating its own tail, thematically. stories in these franchises can only ever comment on themselves
i think a lot about what alan moore said about his work on the killing joke, about how hollow it is in hindsight since the theme really just boils down to "batman and the joker are kinda similar when you think about it", which i suppose is a pretty novel observation, certainly changes the way i read batman comics, but what is there in that insight for me as a human being living in the real world that i can apply to my actual life? not a whole lot. all it can do is reward emotional investment in the brand of batman. if you don't really give a shit about batman there's nothing there for you.
the disney era of star wars is especially bad about this. by and large they're really just about our relationship to star wars. even the last jedi, which tries to be a little more critical about it, still can't break out of the thematic black hole the franchise has become. andor is possibly the only exception to this, and i steadfastly believe that was a total fluke. don't get it twisted, andor is good despite its connection to star wars, not because of it, and if it were just an original tv show about resisting space fascism, it would probably be better for it (if less popular). we're all lowkey dreading the second season bc we know that no star wars property can resist devolving into a nostalgia wank fest forever
there's nothing inherently wrong with hollow entertainment, but i do think there's something grotesque about pumping the gdp of a small nation into an entertainment product that doesn't aspire to be anything more than an advertisement for itself
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reconstructwriter · 2 days ago
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#I fucking hate sharing the road with these things#God help you if you're in the lane next to them and you need to see around them to make a turn#or if you're on a two-lane road and this thing is BLASTING past with rear wheels that are sticking out by a good foot#edging into your lane#like some weird truck-based tit implants#the worst part is that if you tried to regulate these truck sizes#a large portion of the populace would be pissed#''How dare you dictate to ME how big *MY* car can be!''#not realizing (or caring) that their big ass vehicles are contributing to more pedestrian deaths#roads that need costly and inconvenient maintenance more often#and that make navigating roads less safe and less inconvenient for everyone else#because they don't care about living in a society#they care about plowing through everything#safe and insulated in their big ass trucks that costs more than most people make in a year
Im not autistic about cars or makes or models but I AM autistic about crumple points and field of vision and blindspots and conflict points. do you understand. urban design, anti car dependency/anti car centric infrastructure, and so cars themselves are part of that interest. because car design is urban design. cybertrucks SUCK as cars and also dont function well in infrastructure thats designed to care about people. there are good cars and vehicles that are designed good and fit well with good urban design
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reconstructwriter · 2 days ago
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reconstructwriter · 2 days ago
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For the star wars ask game I'm dying to know 🧑‍🔧?
🧑‍🔧Who would you be in the Star Wars universe?
honestly, probably the same as I am IRL, a low level regional government employee or a warehouse worker 😂
the more fun answer is pls dear god some random mandalorian nomad pls adult-adopt me because my family sucks. i can drink you under a table first to prove my worthiness, just get me outta here
-> star wars ask game
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reconstructwriter · 2 days ago
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