#I'M GOING NUTS I NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT..

[sandersstudies]

(this is about your post about playing with kids)

I know you don't know me at all, but I'd like to commiserate - I work for my local school district as a campus (re: playground) monitor and crossing guard and it drives me NUTS the way some of the grown-ups over-police the kids 😭 Like, I raised a boy myself, and I fully believe kids need to run and scream and get dirty and wrestle and negotiate disagreements with other kids without adults hovering over them. In order to focus in school they need real exercise, and they need less-supervised interaction to build social and reasoning skills, but sometimes it seems like the other playground monitors just want them to sit quietly and do nothing all recess.

Today in my kindergarten recess, some kids were 'burying' a girl in the sand. They were being good and respectful about burying her - they didn't put any sand on her head or near her face, and they didn't put any sand near her shoes, so they were really only burying her torso and arms. She was wearing a knee-length one-piece dress, so the sand wasn't going to get into her underwear or anything. This was a wholly voluntary entombment, and my plan for when she was finished was to just take one of the large paintbrushes we have in the toy-kit, dust her off front and back, and send her back to class. But the next thing I know, someone's coming over going "NO NO NO DON'T DO THAT" and I'm over here like "???? No one is being harmed by this? It's sand, not mud, so she's not even getting that dirty? Plus it's fine for kids to get dirty? They're playing respectfully? She's a willing participant (who wants to rise from the sand as a 'mummy' and chase the other kids which is a perfectly reasonable game)?" but the other monitor wasn't interested in my reasoning and just made them stop. 🙃

Like if it's not a danger issue, a health issue, or an ethical issue, what's the problem?

LET THOSE KIDS LIVE.

I completely agree. I have been learning to reduce the amount of corrections I make on kids, but I already make way fewer than many adults. Is someone getting emotionally or physically hurt? Is something of personal or community value going to be damaged? No? Okay then that’s fine. And sometimes if the damage is going to be minor it’s still fine because there will be natural consequences that will teach you better than an adult saying “no no no.”

[syndrossi]

It's officially Thanksgiving break and I'm off for four days, which means I have to bombard you with Resonant-related questions and prompts. First, I'll start with what I asked 208 middle schoolers this week:

What's your favorite kind of pie? 🥧

But for you, hard mode: what's Jon and Rhaegar's favorite kind of pie??? Shadow and Qelebrys??? Daemon??? Anyone else in Resonant related verses who has strong opinions on pie???

Finally, what would Qelebrys do if someone tried to give her apple pie... 🍎🥧

Congrats on reaching the Thanksgiving break!

This feels like a very appropriate question, as my job for Thanksgiving is to make the pies. 😅 I'm making an apple, a peach, a lemon-blueberry, and a blueberry. My favorite of the bunch is the apple, honestly. Homemade apple pie is just...S tier.

(Apple is in the oven. Once it's done, peach is up next. Then the blueberry. Lemon-blueberry is probably tomorrow.)

Given Rhaegar's love for cider, I like to think he enjoys a nice apple pie too, though as you mentioned, he may need to find a new favorite given Qelebrys's crusade against apples. Given Jon's love of peaches, peach pie is the obvious answer, though I could also see him enjoying something rootier, given the colder climate up north. So your pumpkin or sweet potato pies, or maybe a strawberry rhubarb.

Daemon probably cheats and claims to love savory pies over sweet ones, but I could see him enjoying brighter flavors, like lemon. Maybe a lemon custard pie, or even something in the nuts category.

(Viserys enjoys things on the creamier side. Where Daemon would go for a lemon custard, he would rather a lemon cream.)

Is it a coincidence that their favorites (or varients) number among the ones I made? Surely!

The hatchlings gotta go savory. Chicken/duck/fowl is probably a delicacy for them, since it's not something dragons generally are fed, given that you'd need SO MANY for even a drake-sized dragon. So some kind of meat pie with chicken or ham. Or even something quiche-y? It's a similar deal with egg: it's just not worthwhile to feed to a dragon; it's an order of magnitude smaller than even a chicken!

As for what Qelebrys would do...probably her best to blacken the apple pie, and if the person giving it to her is a stranger, probably checking with Rhaegar whether she should attack them!

[raayllum]

This has probably been pointed out already (maybe even by you, I don't know) but I was thinking this morning about how little Claudia in Puzzle House saw sadness in Kruha when everyone else just saw a monster, and how little Ezran in Dreamer's Nightmare saw sadness in the Dream Warden when everyone else just saw a monster. And how that was how they were able to connect with them; because they saw pieces of themselves or their loved ones in these beings that everyone else feared and wanted to help them.

Anyway, just made me think Claudiez which of course made me think of you tips imaginary hat

Yes! We have Claudia and Ezran see through others being monsters in the graphic novels, and then we have Soren and Rayla doing the same in show canon (5x08, 6x05) with Elmer and Esmeray, respectively. I think a lot about how the bulk of the kids see themselves in the 'monster'—Rayla with her grief, rage, loneliness; Soren in feeling worthless / forced to obey in a verbally abusive relationship; Claudia in feeling trapped and stuck and abandoned—but Ezran even goes a step further in empathizing with the Dream Warden not because of his own pain, but because he recognizes his brother's ("You remind me of my big brother [...] I love him even when he doesn't feel like himself. I bet you don't feel like yourself anymore"). His ability to empathize beyond his own experiences is why I think he's such a compassionate character, and one of the similarities he has with Terry that I think Claudia really needs in her life in particular.

I talked about it a little bit here but I'm deeply interested in how the rest of the kids have had this moment, and Callum sort of... hasn't? Callum has had his own moment of "seeing past human hatred," he did that with the elves and Rayla specifically in S1, always believing that peace and reasoning wth them was possible (and it was). He sees past his anger and hatred towards Avizandum because "that was Zym's dad".

But it's never used the word 'monster' directly, and Callum (after Claudia and pre-redemption arc Soren) is probably the most likely to label something as a monster. It's one of the first things he does in 1x01 and he sees the corrupted soldiers as nothing more than monsters either (3x09, 5x03) despite being his own people, which Janai describes fighting against as a nightmare, and Soren has utilized the silver lining of. He trusts Rayla's intuition in 6x05, but he's the first to label Esmeray as a monster in-canon and thinks at first that she's nuts to believe otherwise. This is understandable for numerous reasons! But I do find that Callum is inclined to "I either never believe this person/thing is a monster" or "I do and never question it" is the camp that he tends to fall into, rather than going in between the way some other characters do.

It's not quite the hard black-and-white thinking we see Soren ("It's nice being one of the good guys this time") and Rayla ("and find it before the bad guys too" / "evil jar of toenails") fall into, until they don't ("you have to help them" / "because it's wrong?" "because it's dangerous! because it hurts you!") but it's... adjacent, at least in my head? Something something he doesn't usually dehumanize but if he does good fucking luck getting him to change his mind and not follow through with the original intent (rip Claudia).

Which really means I'm just deeply interested for Callum to get his more formal "I see myself in you / someone I love in you, you're not a monster" moment either with someone else in future seasons, or even maybe with himself / his corrupted self in S7

[zeiktreats]

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[essektheylyss]

literally laughed out loud at Matt's face when he admitted that Lester was trying to hide something, truly the scrungliest detective in Newfaire

[froganni]

Maybe a little overly serious approach to the situation, but y'all have GOT to be more respectful towards the creators you watch and consume content for. fWhip's message about getting a lot of hate is honestly abysmal.

Like, don't get me wrong, I love lore-related series! I think they're a lot of fun and I love watching them.But give non-lore series a chance! They're also a lot of fun!

These creators are all responsible adults who are very capable of creating boundaries for themselves and deciding amongst themselves what rules they want to follow when joining a project.

Obviously, there are many viewers and community members who this isn't directed at. :D

Please don't send hate to anyone, it's not helpful. If you don't like something, don't engage with it. Just leave it at that. Show respect to the community you're apart of, and to the creators that head it.

(It's fine to be annoyed with something and talk about it, but don't force a creator to see that negativity. It's not benefiting anyone.) The more hate a creator gets, the less they engage with and organize fun things for the community. Please remember to be kind.

[abyssal-narration]

Okay so like I haven't done any deep dives but after just finishing Wild Blue Yonder (which broke my heart in so many wonderful ways), I kept thinking back to the episode Midnight. Like holy shit. Creatures that mimic and perfectly copy? I know they had a lot to fit in but oh man the look Fourteen shot the Not-Doctor when it copied him made my entire day.

[david-watts]

becoming a little bit evil because my room's in a mess and I can't really do anything about it until other things happen and I am so so so tempted to be a complete and utter arsehole until it happens because. honestly if I don't it won't happen. but if I do that I open myself up to getting into even more shit than I already am by just existing

[thatfaerieprincess]

if one more well meaning relative asks me if i have done any drawing recently i will start screaming and flip a table 🤪🙃

[neverendingford]

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[blunderpuff]

my mom hates the house, hates the neighborhood (can't walk to anything/have to get in the car for everything), can't find stuff she packed, doesn't have good places to put her stuff, her big desk doesn't fit in the "office alcove", the cat is days away from being put down and so he's clingy and sad...

MA'AM. YOU WERE THE ONE WHO WAS DESPERATE TO MOVE. BUYING THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS SINCE JULY OF THIS YEAR. "MOVING" AS A CONCEPT HAS BEEN THE SUBTITLE OF MY LIFE FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS. YOU DO NOT GET TO BE A PISSY TODDLER NOW. THIS IS LITERALLY ALL YOUR DOING.

[bugsbenefit]

the major thing why the Wheeler and Creel theories are so prevalent is essentially because there's two fuckeries going on at the same time and people are connecting them (not unjustifiably)

there's 1.) what the fuck is Karen Wheeler's deal? and boy there is a lot that even dates back as far as s1. with the way s4 ended we can also infer that her weird supporting-cast-but-also-main-girlie arc will not be over anytime soon so we'll hopefully get some insight into her. i could make multiple posts about what's so weird about her narratively alone (might actually get to that soon)

and then there's 2.) what the Fuck is Up with Alice Creel? which is it's whole other can of worms. there are SO many weird choices made here. her entire presence in the show is odd to say the least. implications get made but don't have narrative pay off yet. and even the timeline of her actual death doesn't fully add up with the other events of the family massacre night. there's a lot going on here (actually posting on that in a teeny tiny bit)

and having Two characters in the viewers eye who have no congruent answer to their purpose in the story and who both bring up more and more questions the harder you try to think about it... we'll no wonder people started to connect them. and that's not even mentioning 3.) yet of what the fuck do the Wheelers and Creels have to do with each other? because they really shouldn't have Anything to do with each other. these two families parallel each other to an extremely unusual amount and keep interacting, which is odd given that they should have no narrative connection. Henry is a parallel and antithesis to Will, wouldn't it make more sense to show a narrative connection/parallel between the Creels and Byers? why do the Wheelers get dragged into this and why are the Wheelers even Presented as such a central and questionable family in the first place? - which is a treatment no other family gets anywhere close to their level

so to get into what i mean by there's a LOT going on and the general questions of What The Fuck Is This? you can split the Creel/Wheeler theory down into three independent parts. the Karen and Alice parts stand on their own separately and are both 100% correct in my mind. there is something narratively questionable going on with both of these characters, no matter if you want to believe they are the same person or not, and we'll likely see this get addressed in s5. but that could also happen without them being the same person. the part that connects them is the 3rd aspect. the instances that actually make people think that the parallel of the Wheeler and Creel family isn't just a tool to compare these two families that have no prior connection for thematic purposes, but actually implies a familiar connection that would simultaneously also give an answer to the questions raised in both points 1 and 2

[the-wanlorn]

A Story About Me

Y'all I just want you to know I it snowed 3 feet in 2 days where I live, literally. I haven't had power for two days. It's 45F in my house. It snowed so much my tinyass town made the news. I called my parents, who are in their 70s and live 2 hours away, to come get me finally and told them it was too cold in my house and the dogs were sad.

I lied. I was fine. The dogs were fine.

It was just, I had used up all my laptops' batteries and almost all of my phone battery on Day 1 and was devastated that I was going to miss the Ides of March on tumblr, our biggest holiday. :(

[luxraydyne]

pop quiz what breed of childhood trauma borne neuroticism is it called when being condescended to on just the most neutral, limpid, nothing thoughts you express like you’re a little silly child, or “out of your depth”, or woefully misinformed, or just speaking on something you shouldn’t cause fuckin hell you’re doing it *wrong*, and with the most plainly obvious remark too, makes you want to chew on your own arm until you reach bone marrow

[arklay]

Hi, would you ever consider uploading the PSD of that pairing template, if you didn't already? I keep seeing people talk about it and i don't know if you published it or not, i can't seem to find it at least :( it'd be a huge help because this thing is so hard to edit!!!

hiii omg i can definitely figure out a way to upload it (that's like safe and secure lmao) some time today!! i had just sent it to some moots through dms, but i can definitely do that, and i'll like reblog the original post and add it to that!!

[stopfunkinwmyheart]

So many agents come thru tha shoppe n they’re like “listen I need this thing that’s kind of like a nail but it’s not” and I’ll be like “a screw?” And they’ll be all “maybe I’m really not even sure” so naturally I take them to the screws. They’ll be all “yeah these are similar but I was talking about the smooth ones……” nails. U need nails.