#THESE ARE CHILDREN

[iseathegalaxy]

me, completely new to the fandom and having knowledge only regarding the movies and therefore always having thought batman and robin had a partnership (absolutely platonic) kind of relationship, finally becoming interested in the comics and reading about the non-movie robins for the first time and realising they're all just insanely traumatised children:

[chipistrate]

I hate this image so much I hate it a lot it haunts me any time I try and look for Elizabeth or Gregory references this image sucks it's SUCH blatant mischaracterization of both of these characters it drives me so insane every time I see it and the worst part is that I don't think it's satire.

[queenie-says-free-palestine]

Oh Rascal Children of Gaza by Khaled Juma

Oh rascal children of Gaza,

You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window,

You who filled every morning with rush and chaos,

You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my balcony,

Come back –

And scream as you want,

And break all the vases,

Steal all the flowers,

Come back,

Just come back…

[stephstars08]

I know I said that I wasn’t going to post anymore about football but something was telling me that I should say something about what happened yesterday and I’m just tired of hearing about happy events get ruined by gun violence. It’s gotten so bad people aren’t even surprised by this violence happening because it’s something that happens everyday and anywhere here in America. What hurts me the most about this gun violence is that these are children that are getting shot or the ones that are shooting. There is way too much hate and anger in this world and the ones that feel those the most are kids. People who are against gun control need to wake the hell up! There are kids and teens too scared to go to school because they are scared they will get hurt. There are parents that are scared to send their kids anywhere because they are scared their child won’t come back. Some kids are too scared to even walk out of their houses because they are scared they will get shot! GUN VIOLENCE IS A PROBLEM!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I’m tired of seeing innocent people get hurt or lose their lives over a stupid argument! Guns are a dangerous weapon and shouldn’t be used to end an argument! WE NEED CHANGE AND WE NEED IT NOW!!!

[lovexlarkin]

They definitely aren’t giving Larkin the mini title this year hence why Ruby was added in. If Lilly and Harper were top 3 the judges would have no choice but to have one of them win. And Elsie couldn’t make top 3 either or they’d have to give it to her and Ellary is already winning bd in Orlando as a club kid so they would not allow Elsie to win.

I think some parts of this make vague sense, and others are just pure rubbish.

They ALL earned their there spots and don’t deserve to have people making up reasons for why they did/didn’t win

They worked hard and deserve to be celebrated regardless of placement. End of.

[epiphanytear]

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[queenie-says-free-palestine]

a second grader wishing for death. are you happy, bibi?

[blueskittlesart]

i’ve started babysitting for a VERY christian family which is great because they pay me a lot of money but as someone who was raised almost completely agnostic it’s kind of insane. the 2 year old keeps asking me to read her stories from the bible. (why are we reading david and goliath to a 2 year old????) the 5 year old told me today that he was going to bring his legos to heaven with him. he also has repeatedly told me that the lego spaceships he builds are stronger than jesus. (not sure what to say to that. do i deny it??? are things allowed to be stronger than jesus??) had to stop myself mid sentence today because i almost told them im not going to heaven which would DEFINITELY have caused several meltdowns. they’re also both completely fascinated by my nose ring

[inbabylontheywept]

my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.

i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.

point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.

i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.

i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.

i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.

(i think i was...six?)

anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.

(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)

so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?

so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.

the compost pile was full of worms.

she then told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and go to heaven, and be able to talk to the worms face to face. that i'd be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident, driven only by excessive Love, and that she was positive they would forgive me because worms have six hearts and no malice.

at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.

and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.

but because she loved me.

[geraldsmame]

BECAUSE PEOPLE LEAVE STAINS, STAINS SO DEEP EVEN BLEACH CANNOT GET THEM OUT

MY BRAIN IS COVERED IN DARK STAINS OF LOVERS AND PAST FRIENDS AND I WILL NEVER WASH THEM OUT, BECAUSE THEY ARE AS PERMANENT TO ME AS WINE IS TO A WHITE COUCH

why do people stay longer in my head than they do in my life

[sayruq]

If you, for some reason, still have a subscription to the Atlantic, cancel it

[motherofplatypus]

This is how many bullets they shot on a fucking kid.

This post has been compiled in Record of Genocide.

[queenie-says-free-palestine]

انا لله واليه راجعون

A Palestinian child captures his final moments on camera as he sings in praise of prophet Mohammad, before an Israeli airstrike hits his home in Gaza, killing him and his family.

Your life can end this abruptly simply because someone wants your land & your killers can be defended to the ends of the earth. Death to israel. Death to america.

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

Edit: Now that we're talking about it, look. There is all the countries ratification dates, along with considerations for their laws.

And you can check the convention here.

Edit 2: For those in the US who want to check their state's laws compliance to the convention, there is this site.

Edit 3: The map source btw. Its from wikipedia.

Thank you people in the notes for the info and image desc.