#babies take up so much space?

[rebellum]

I wonder how my perspective as someone who lives in a city with pretty good public transit influences my opinions of car-free cities.

Cause i am for walkable cities and more reliable public transit

But I also am VERY against the idea of huge swaths of the city where cars can't go.

And I was thinking like "ugh have these extreme anti-car people never had like a disabled friend or relative or have never had a grandparent or a cousin with a baby" and then I thought

Well, realistically, they have

But if they live in extremely car-centric areas, then their opinion is influenced by how they are FORCED to take cars

Whereas mine is influenced by how public transit is my default, but when my cousins with kids visit or an elderly family member is here, we choose to use cars

Like my opinion is heavily influenced by the ability of me having a choice to use cars for convenience due to a) having access to cars b) having access to good public transit

[honeysghost]

i'll never be able to move on from how soft sam was with darlin' in "your vampire mate makes you a promise" 😮‍💨 samuel the man that you are...

[momotonescreaming]

Hear me out, single dad Tommy.

He's dating a woman (not Abby) and maybe they're engaged, maybe they're just dating - but something feels off, feels wrong and Tommy is still figuring himself out. The conclusion he's coming to is terrifying in the way that it doesn't feel wrong.

He thinks he might be gay,

And then she tells him she's pregnant, and it's his. Maybe the condom broke, maybe she was changing birth control, or maybe we just handwave it away as an accident like the show does. They sure as hell weren't trying for it.

And he's terrified and it hits him that he can't do it anymore. Continue to live the lie he didn't quite know he was living. So he tells her he's gay. He breaks her heart, and listens to her cry and he can't help but feel relieved at the weight off his shoulders.

They continue to live together as they figure it out. She starts looking at apartments, they start talking about dividing their stuff, and then they start talking about the baby. And maybe she doesn't know if she wants to keep it or not. There's a lot more crying.

Together, they come to a decision. Tommy keeps his house - it's in his name after all - and she moves out. She pursues her career, goes travelling, finds herself.

He keeps their baby.

[akai-anna]

[fernhelm]

pls talk more about narcissa

welll since you asked….

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she’s her mother’s dress-up doll, she’s clytemnestra, she stabbed the dark lord in the back, she’s precise, she made an unbreakable vow to protect draco, she’s a strategist, she just wants to be left alone, she’s the ugly little duckling, she’s a lake that looks placid on the surface, but is raging underneath. if there’s one word for her, it’s bitter. she did everything she was supposed to and got fucked anyway.

narcissa in canon is defined by her role as a mother in a similar way to lily, but she is a mother who is present and therefore is able to disappoint; who sends her son sweets in the mail, but fails to protect him from joining a cult at sixteen….she is so interesting precisely because of those contradictions. she is the devoted wife & mother, ensnared by the same black family allegiances & obligations as the others, but she fights to create her own paradise within that aristocratic hellscape while still obeying its rules. she wants her cake and to eat it too. to belong to a crumbling, stifling magical dynasty and still raise a son turns out okay. her house is her domain (“this is my house, bella, you don’t give orders in my…”), it’s the small bit of power she’s carved out for herself. and you’ll have to pry it out of her cold dead hands.

my narcissa has really intense control issues. i think she has some paranoias & anxieties around eating. she likes to look impeccable so no one can sense the disaster going on inside. she enjoys the riches and prestige of being a black or a malfoy but she’d sell every piece of jewelry in her jewelry box to read a book alone by the sea…to me, she is a lesbian and she knows it, it just isn’t something she’d ever be willing to acknowledge. of everyone, she is in the most need of a rage room. imagine her in vintage dior and a black headband brutally beating the shit out of lucius’ car with a baseball bat (he cheated on her, and she wouldn’t care but he got caught and now it’s tabloid news.) after a childhood of disassociating to cope with her dysfunctional home, she has a hard time identifying her own emotions. she’s a marionette being piloted by a blonde chess prodigy in black patent leather mary janes. its like ratatouille. most of the time when she’s shaking hands and smiling serenely she’s thinking about a ballet performance or fencing or opera or wizarding history (i think she really likes history). in writing her it’s such a joy to explore who she becomes if she gets to do whatever she wants. what does she want anyway? outside of being a mother? do we know?

ALSO, something so fairytale perfect about her and her sisters…a pretty pair of three. she is the exact in-between of the two–if bella is fight and andy is flight, she’s freeze. she’s the little blonde outlier who was paraded around at parties until her face hurt from kissing cheeks. her sisters are the only ones who see through to the core of her. she needs both of them- bella as her shield and andy as her sword. when andy leaves it’s like she gets frozen in time.

my favorite pairing for her is alice, but i can accept lucissa if they’re in the background of a drarry fic. her and alice would live in a sea-side cottage in france and run a winery or something. she’s the ice queen and alice is the knight in shining armor. finally someone wants her to have every good thing she’s ever denied herself. she’s supposed to be a good little lady, and i think alice would make her want to go wild and roll around in the mud. yum.

[caimitos]

Every Day i get so mad that apple products don't have sd card slots built into them.....the enormity of your greed disgusts me

[halogalopaghost]

[milomaxxy]

Fucking childfree people complaining about parents not "shutting their kids up" or staying out of public have got to be the most idiotic group I've ever seen.

Like, you do realize parents don't have 100% control over their kid(s)... especially their fucking EMOTIONS?? Right??? You do realize that asking parents to DO THIS is emotional abuse and/or emotional manipulation, right???

You realize telling parents that they should keep their kid(s) home bc they're "yelling they want to be at home" isn't a fucking option for A LOT of people? Kids screaming at the grocery store don't want to be there bc they're bored and don't understand that their parents HAVE TO get groceries. Kids wHiNiNg about being out are doing so bc they're fucking DEVELOPING and LEARNING, and you want their parents to shut them inside all the fucking time just so they don't annoy YOU?

You realize that children NEED to be out in public spaces, even if they don't necessarily "want to" so that they can actually fucking develop into society? You realize that kids can swing from "this is the best day ever" to total meltdown with banshee wailing in less than a fucking minute? You realize that everybody has to do things they don't like to do, and that keeping them home 24/7 is setting them up for failure when they DO eventually have to leave (i.e. when they have to go to school or when they grow up and have to go to the store)? You realize that children can't fucking protect themselves and that you complaining about them being in public is fucking weird???

Gotta be the most fucking boomer-ass idiotic fucking shit I've seen today. And yet they're the same fucking crowd telling people who homeschool their kids that they're ruining their children's social lives. The same fucking group telling parents that they can't take their kids out unless it's specifically children-oriented places. The same fucking people saying "everyone wants to act like children are stupid and censor everything" are the ones that are fucking CAUSING it- bc gods forbid they see a kid not being coddled, then you're neglectful.

I am so sick of people who have NO FUCKING HORSE IN THIS RACE telling parents how they need to fucking raise their kids. I'm so sick of seeing people say "idc what the reason is, if you do xyz and have a baby you shouldn't have a baby" (most recently was about fucking taking babies on air planes 🙄 as if there's never been a reason someone needed to fly with a baby). I'm so exhausted seeing people who don't KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CHILDREN accusing parents of neglect and abuse bc they think kids never fucking cry (seriously, look up the purple cry if you believe babies don't cry for no reason) unless they're being neglected or abused. I'm so exhausted with people who have ZERO FUCKING EXPERIENCE around kids AT ALL telling me, someone who is not only a parent but has been raising kids SINCE I WAS FUCKING EIGHT, that I don't know what I'm talking about when I say that some kids are just louder, have more needs, or are just "extra". Fucking people who have NO FUCKING KNOWLEDGE about an entire fucking demographic that WE ALL START OUT AS has got to be the most willfully ignorant bullshit out there

[bisexualmaedhros]

what year is it

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Stuck on the first few eps of Farscape after finishing up Fantasy High s2 and maybe its the whole most recently consumed bias but I'm really struck by how much it feels like a dnd game??? Bunch of weird lil renegades slapped together and put in weird situations, honestly it would make a really interesting starting point for a game

Anyway John Crichton is a bard/wizard; he does a lot of persuasion as performance and that scene of him collapsing to the floor to write slingshot equations is THE most wizard shit- perhaps Artificer would be more accurate to him but it's not a class I'm familiar with.

[creaturefeaster]

to the person who wanted elliot and april hangouts. ik you said doing crimes or somth but i was thinking about pubert addams

[theintelligentfool]

i enjoyed high school! i had a lot of friends! some of them were even close! but holy SHIT . i can say, with full confidence now. HIGH SCHOOL SUCKS SHIT and im GLAD I DON'T GO THERE!!!

[meownotgood]

care to share your updated Aki collection? Would love to see the new wall grid especially now that there's more Aki keychains!

To more Aki purchases ahead <33

yes, of course!!!!

pls ignore the messiness in the aki shrine... I am going to be reorganizing everything as soon as I have the time... I'll post some more pics and closeups whenever I do that.... this is temporary setup

[afniel]

Maaaaaaaaaaaan, come on.

(the post has ended up in the tags btw. I am not changing this and I need you to understand that it is just me talking to myself semi-publicly)

[rosicheeks]

🤦🏽‍♀️

[savage-rhi]

Cue the pink!