#(hint: it was me)

[avengedbiologist]

Guess who finally watched bill and ted face the music.

[minibunz]

Guess who successfully got past the tip of their bad dragon for the first time 😎

[grape-souffle]

Bro who peanuts-ified my boys? D:

[beenovel]

GUESS WHO JUST PASSED THEIR DRIVERS TEST AND GOT THEIR LICENSE!!!!!!!!

[intosnarkness]

@maybetwice and I were just reminiscing about a former mutual friend in STAOS fandom who tried to warn them that I was a wanker and a drama queen and like, am I occasionally a nightmare? Sure thing! But that call was coming from inside the house and it’s hilarious to think about 15 years later. I cannot think of anything I care about less than fandom drama.

[dont-open-dead-inside-net]

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[alexialcove]

guess who just got a magnemite

[like-phantoms-forever]

guess who just clowned and bought fall out boy tickets again 🤡

[blasto-the-hanar-specter]

Well somebody got REALLY drunk last night.

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

[bethanydelleman]

One of the things I loved about The Wild Robot from a writing/world-building perspective was that it was clearly set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the details were very vague, and you don't even know until about an hour in:

"Beautiful shot," you think, and then it hits you that the whales are swimming over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Abandoned, crumbling satellites and a sunken city. And then when we do see the human city, they freak out at the sight of geese:

Animal-derived plague? Global warming? We don't know. We only know that something has happened. But like the general theme, whatever bad has occurred, the natural world is thriving. An unexpected positive from a history of tragedy.

[yuutaguro]

gift made for unwrapping 🎁

[tooquirkytolose]

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[akanemnon]

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[lotus-pear]

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