#Empower Kids

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[tomorrowlandacademy]

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[saruvanthewhite]

My daughter asked for a woodworking kit for her birthday. When I asked her if she’d like a birdhouse or something she can put together & use, she said: “No, daddy. I mean tools for woodworking IN a kit!”

Nothing decent exists with stuff that could feasibly last into teen & adulthood. So I’m putting one together. Still gathering some things like tape measure & marking tools. But I think this is a decent beginning toolkit.

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

i met a queer high schooler today, at my job

throughout the interaction i had with them, i watched them become more relaxed and open, simply seeing me as a queer adult doing my job

i sort of feel like i served as an example for that student, of a queer person existing successfully in society.

i could pick up on their habits mannerisms and fashion, and related my own experiences to that. they were visibly disabled, so i wanted to ease their mind about accessibility concerns in the building, so i mentioned my heart condition and trouble with walking up stairs. they were immediately more comfortable. we used the elevator

i complimented their nonbinary pride flag bracelet, and pushed my hair aside so they could see my name badge with my pronouns, and they smiled.

it's so freeing to be seen without the expectation for any explanation, and i know that so i wanted to give them that peace of mind. i wanted to show them that the world outside of high school is survivable. hope is not crushed, i am here, i am visibly queer, and so it is possible for them too.

[the-modern-typewriter]

Adult!Villain and Teen!Hero are hilarious, an whole ass adult beefing with a OP high schooler? Comedy

Honestly, doesn't do it for me. (Sorry) I know it's a very common trope and it's totally valid if you or anyone else likes it!

(I don't think I'm drawn to antagonist &/ protagonist dynamics for the comedy in general. It's not what interests me about it. But that's partly also a semantics thing, e.g. 'rivals' versus 'enemies', 'villain' as in 'supervillain' which can mean like megamind versus 'villain of the story'. I can appreciate comedy in a story about rivals, idk, I can't explain the distinction.)

Anyway. Like, to me, this gives:

horror in the power imbalance between children and adults

themes of children/teenagers having to step up to save the world because of the actions or inaction of older generations

themes in the way adults are not taught its unacceptable to have public beef with a teenager + lessened boundaries in how we treat each other in public spaces

themes in the whole creepy child trope, e.g. a teenager who is so powerful and the ways that this can backfire

themes in identity formation and the myriad different masks we might wear as teenagers and how someone can pick up on just one part of who you are growing to be and hate it.

[kindlespark]

porter watching the bad kids in the final battle like goddamn i groomed the wrong kids. these guys have so much rage in them and they aren't even shatterstar'd

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Laughingstock Lives in My Head Rent Free because Of You (/pos)

YIPPEE YAHOO <3<3

[tempoaryblogformightyjensblog]

I need all newcomer FNAF fans to understand that William is not a normal child killer. Not in the sense that he has some great depth, but rather he is fixated on killing/hurting children to a weird degree. There is no normal degree, but he somehow found a weird degree.

I made a post about this a couple years back, and I did get the facts slightly off, so I will give an updated take. Ahem

He did not just kill 5 children at Freddy's, when Freddy's opened 2 years later he got a fake identity to kill 5 kids again. He used his apparently very wealthy company and his insane level of technological genius to build several highly advanced machines that function like they are from the 22nd century, have stuff like 'voice mimic lure' and many other advancements, and he used these godly accomplishments to kidnap and kill more children. He discovered Scarecrow-esqe hallucinogenic gas and used this for, you guessed it, torturing kids in his underground lab. They had like a whole fake house down there with a bed and a dinner table and everything bro was intricate.

After he became undead, he went to a fake pizza place he knew was a trap juuust so he could see if there were any actual kids here to kill.

So film fans if you are asking yourself if William is just a normal child killer, the answer is no. It is more that he is on some sort of crusade upon children everywhere and dedicates his entire existence to killing or hurting more kids. It's his goal in life, it drives him. He would invent time travel but only if every time the device was used to travel in time, it kicked an orphan in the balls.

[ducktracy]

i am very averse to "look at how much this thing sucks. let me shove said sucky thing in your face and laugh at how it sucks and cultivate an environment of suckiness" posting but the reaction to this i'm having is so severe and making my head explode that i have to share it. likewise because it doubles as an excuse to post a Good Thing alongside with it.

i just stumbled upon the Alvin's Harmonica segment from The Alvin Show and I LOVE ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT IT'S SO CUTE AND CHARMING. i like that Alvin tortures Dave even in his subconscious like some sort of horrible inverse of Jiminy Cricket. love the layout work and everything about this is extremely charming

and so now, having instilled that Goodness into your brains, i now ask you to look at this instead which got recommended to me. WHAT DID THEY DOOOOOOOOOOO TO THEMMMMMMMMMMMMM. THIS IS MAKING MY SKIN CRAWL. WHY DO THEY SOUND LIKE THAT. WHY ARE SIMON AND THEODORE MAD, IN THE ORIGINAL THEY ARE GLEEFULLY COMPLACENT IN ALVIN'S ANTICS AS THEY SHOULD BE. AH!!!!!! AND THE RAPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously making my skin crawl i'm going to sob

i. oh my goodness. for the record i am not Genuinely outraged at this Good Chipmunk Erasure because that would be even more stupid than the above clip. but this just elicited such a violently bewildered and shocked reaction out of me and appeals perfectly to my cartoon masochism in that i absolutely eat up stuff that makes me go "WTF" that i had to share. this is making me hyper from how. whatever this is. i hate it and its existence is so funny to me #NOTMYALVIN

[royalarchivist]

Full video of Quackity and Wilbur singing “Perfume” from tonight’s LA Lovejoy concert!

(Videos shared by @sootsit, edited together by me)

[anexistingexistence]

[Based on my empowered people can have unempowered children post.]

Shifter Honey who grew up in a small pack in Dahlia.

Shifter Honey whose one parent was the alpha of their pack while the other had a successful career in the department.

Shifter Honey whose pack had the highest expectations for them.

Shifter Honey who was taken to the doctor every month after their 13th birthday because they didn't have an aura yet.

Shifter Honey who was kicked out of their pack because they weren't a shifter at the age of seventeen.

Empowered born Honey who has no magic.

Empowered born Honey who resents magic and the magical world for all it's worth.

Empowered born Honey who throws themself into the most traumatizing, hurtful shit they can think of in hopes that they are just latent.

Empowered born Honey who runs into Darlin' at a club one fateful night, who proceeds to become one of their closest friends.

Empowered born Honey, who got invited to attend Shaw pack meetings by Darlin'.

Empowered born Honey, the first unempowered member of the Shaw pack.

Empowered born Honey, who will legally never be allowed to tell Guy about magic because they don't have any.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

So the relationship between well written women characters and "empowered" women characters is a classic Venn diagram right? With some overlap. Well written women characters aren't necessarily always empowered in their environment. I think both empowered and unempowered well written women are important!! And there's a spectrum of empowerment which I think is also important to keep in mind.

All of that being said, I think the problem is that when people hear "empowered", what they think is like "powerful" and "in charge" and "in control" when what they SHOULD think is "a character whose problems have nothing to do with The Patriarchy"

And I think people view Empowerment as a replacement for complexity. Which it's not. Every character has to have complexity. Not every character has to be Empowered.

[kelluinox]

Listening to westerners is becoming increasingly like listening to vatniks and it's frightening and depressing

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

got a comment the other day on my post about empowering queer kids that said something along the lines of 'come near my kids, you're getting shot on sight'

at first i thought it was solidarity, like 'wooo protect queer kids, I'll shoot if you dont'

apparently not, since the account was extremely,,, yikes. i cannot even remember the @ haha i just blocked them

but like.... is it so hard to let kids be? let them learn about queer subject matter without saying they have to be queer. it's alienating to NOT let them learn about queer matters. if the kids say they're queer, no matter if it's a temporary label for them or not, believe and support them.

it's more damaging to kids to regulate who they are in the strict ways of 'christian values' and 'kid appropriate' (as if someone being queer isn't suitable for kids to see), than any queer person minding their business and explaining their life and identity (especially when asked and willing to do so by a curious child!) will do.

so to that commenter.... come near MY kids, you're getting shot. on sight. :)

[your-queer-dad]

Hey kiddos! I'm so happy people are reaching out and sending an ask- hearing from you all is so sweet and I'm always here to help out! My inbox is open night and day so feel free to reach out, no matter the reason or question. I'm here for everyone.

I love you, I'm proud of you, take care of yourselves and I'm always hear to listen

- dad x

[mishkakagehishka]

I think "whatever a woman chooses to do is feminist on account of the fact that she's a woman" did awful things for the movement. I really do.