#“Don't let your child watch TV! It rots their brain!! can't you SEE from their marks?!?”

[zee-aka-pretty]

As a person who wasn't allowed to access the Internet or a smartphone before the pandemic, I can confirm. The discourse was going long before the smartphone.

If you think people used to willingly stare off into the distance before smartphones, my dad told me he had this psychology assignment when he was in college in the 80s which was basically

Go to a restaraunt by yourself and eat a meal without a newspaper or journal or anything else to keep you occupied and then write a report about it

Which tells me that this was a way for a professor to inflict psychological torture on their students and that people used to bring little things with them to keep them entertained. Shown by those old pictures of everyone in a trolley reading a newspaper with one hand.

Frankly I think that the human brain has been craving smart phone forever. Perhaps we use it too much at times but if this was 1985 we also wouldn’t be talking to people. We’d just be looking at newspaper or drawing stuff on notepad instead. And the old people would all be shaking their fists about how kids spend too much time looking at that damn TV because yes this discourse has been going on long before smart phone

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The Love And DeepSpace Men- Boyfriend Headcanons + Scenarios/ Imagines Pt. 2

parings in order: Xavier x Reader, Zayne x Reader, Rafayel x Reader, Sylus x Reader requested: myself bc i craved writing something sweet genre: perhaps tooth rotting fluff fluff warnings: none unless you want cavities a/n: every day i wish they were real and every day i have a lads brain rot and i would gatekeep these ideas but i would never so here ya go ! lmk if i should write more of these ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა enjoy reading ! first part is here if you haven't read it! Pt.1 any likes and reblogs are always appreciated! enjoy!

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Xavier:

The type of boyfriend who will finish your food whenever you can't finish it. He'll let you eat his food even when you say you're not hungry or you don't want anything. If the food he gets isn't something you would want, he'll make sure to buy something for you even if you say you don't want it.

You can expect his hand to always sneak into your lap when you lay in bed together after a long day. Gently embracing your lower stomach and whispering sweet nothings into your ear before you both fall asleep.

If you can't sleep, he'll try to join you for midnight snacks and watch whatever's on TV. He's trying his best to stay awake but you can already see him dozing off, clutching the stuffed plushie you won at the arcade.

Scenario:

You two sat on the soft grass, surrounded by a blanket of stars that painted the dark canvas of the night sky, eagerly waiting for the shooting stars to streak by.

"Xavier do you have anything in mind for what you're going to wish for?"

He turns to you, his gaze softening and a gentle smile spreads across his face. "I don't need to wish for anything else if my wish has already come true- I'm looking right at her."

Zayne:

He keeps all the little trinkets you've given him by his nightstand at home and his desk at work. That way when he wakes up you're the first thing on his mind, not that you left his mind in the first place. Each time he glances at them, he's flooded with happy memories and filled with anticipation to return to your embrace.

The type of boyfriend who puts a blanket over you if you fall asleep on the couch and eventually carries you to your shared bed.

Puts a ridiculous amount of sugar in his coffee that kind of leaves you concerned for your lover's sweet tooth.

Scenario 1:

You two lay in bed together, enjoying the lazy morning, not wanting to get up as if doing so would mean the day truly had to begin. You trace the outlines of his bare chest, your fingers dancing over the area where his heart beats.

“What are you doing?” he asks curiously as he watches you glide your fingers gently around his chest.

“Finding your heart and seeing who lives there,”

He lets out a breathy chuckle, a smile curling on his lips. “No one is there right now.”

You frown at his response, a playful pout forming on your lips. He cups your cheek, finding your reaction to be amusing and adorable. “That’s because the owner of my heart is currently right in front of me.”

Scenario 2:

As Zayne rushes to get ready for an emergency call from the hospital, his glasses are perched on top of your head.

“Zayne, aren’t you forgetting something?” you hinted, leaning in for a goodbye kiss.

“Ah yes, thank you.” He retrieves his glasses and you mock a pout. But he leans down, brushing your lips with his with a sweet kiss, amusement sparkling in his eyes. “I love you. Please don’t stay up waiting for me again.”

Rafayel:

Sometimes he can be your boyfriend but sometimes he's also like your child from how much you baby him

He needs to be close to you at all times. The type of boyfriend who is all over you all the time. He needs to be close and touching you at all times. If you got hot from cuddling, he'll have either his hands or legs over your body because if you were apart for more than a second he thinks he might explode.

The boyfriend who stays up making something special for days and stays up overnight just to make it perfect just for you.

The type of boyfriend who adjusts your do not disturb on your phone so only his notification pops up whenever you're on do not disturb.

Imagine swimming in the ocean, you're enveloped in his embrace as you both gaze at the moonlight and stars above. He holds you close, resting his chin gently on the top of your head while you nestle your hand and head against his chest. It’s perfect like this. Just two of you near his homeland, the sea. Just him and you in your own world where you both find peace with the gentle sounds of the waves surrounding you both.

Sylus:

At the beginning of your relationship he redecorates his entire home so that you'll like it more and feel more inclined to stay over and stay the night at his place.

He only has a soft spot for you and only you. You see a side of him no one else does and not just that but his super silly side.

Sometimes he'll lift you onto the counter or lift you up to get what you need on a high shelf just because he wants to hold you.

The type of boyfriend who gets on his knees or sits down to be on the same level as you when you don't want to look up at him anymore. If he was sitting, he's definitely pulling you to his lap because you're not going to be the only one standing!

The type to hold all of your shopping bags and pure for you when you’re out shopping together. He does not complain about holding your purse at all, not that it would ever bother him in the first place. Also does not complain about holding all of your shopping bags, it’s literally light work for him and he would encourage you to buy more things of whatever you wanted.

Imagine after a long night at an auction, you two stumble back into your shared home not breaking the kiss. Your hands rest on Sylus’s neck, slowly sliding down as he murmurs sweet phrases against your lips. His strong arms wrap around your waist as he carries you bridal style, guiding you both toward your shared bedroom.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

honestly parents who didn’t let their kids watch spongebob were either karens (not the computer though), upper middle class white families who expect too much from their 7 year old to be “smart” and yeah that’s usually what i got from my dominantly white catholic school lol

Yeah that's a good way to describe them. They're either Karens, adults who get mad when things aren't personally catered to them and get so intensely angry seeing their kids enjoy things like a cartoon that they personally may not care for.

Or like my aunt and those upper middle class white predominately christian people who expect too much from their children and essentially rob them of their childhood, thinking they'll be Einstein by teaching them to stress over test scores and stuff at the age of 6.

My aunt is like this. She isn't white but she tries so hard to fit in with them. One of those people who meticulously obsess over things like that and trying to have her family as Facebook picture perfect and pointless things and restricting fun stuff because they think it'll make their kids dumb somehow. She is so fake, so mean and manipulative.

I also have a friend who was raised like that too and jeez the stuff her parents did to her still shock me.

These things are the reason why I don't believe in ""child geniuses"" when they come from upper middle class white families. Their parents have the resources and time to grill all the happiness out of a child so they can show them off like an award winning puppy. They have the money and time to get their successes handed to them. I knew plenty of smart kids growing up from poorer working class families who tried their best with what little resources they have. They should have been considered child geniuses but they weren't born as fortunate as them. But they still worked harder then those kids ever have.

Then there is flat out Homophobes who are scared being happy and expressing yourself will make you a sinful gay™ which is so strange. I remember in 3rd grade, I had a friend who once said she wasn't allowed to watch spongebob and I didn't really understand the reason why. Yeah my parents we're strict with the shows I watched but spongebob never did anything on their list of what they considered inappropriate for a kids show. Yeah now I get what she meant. But also there were a lot of signs her parents were abusing her too but I just didn't really recognize besides things I thought were slightly weird.

You know I remember when I was younger, I have a medical condition so I had to go to a children's hospital for appointments a lot as a kid. It was always so long and so boring in the waiting room.

To the least they had a tv you could watch cartoons on. Usually because the activity table was full and you usually had to wait your turn. One time a lady asked for the channel to be changed to the news and she said "cartoons rot your brain". This is a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. can't you let some kids who are in PAIN enjoy some cartoons? My dad asked "you aren't upset about that are you?" And I had an overwhelming fear of most adult figures anyways so I didn't want to say anything to make them feel less of me. It was just easier to say I'm fine and mind my own business. Then she goes on talking about how cartoons are just mindless and pointless to my dad like it was a fun silly conversation. How its a pointless distraction. It might have been a pointless distraction but it was at least something when you have nothing to do and awaiting an appointment that is discussing about your condition and that you'll probably need surgery.

Can you not let kids enjoy things??

Some adults feel so entitled sometimes. I didn't get it as a kid besides "adults are strange" but now being one, I really see how weird and fucked up they can be over something so trivial.