#child component

[eirianerisdar]

As a Chinese person from Hong Kong I'm going to officially say this absolutely blows my mind. Here's why.

In the video, Charles and Carlos were plainly copying calligraphy stroke-by-stroke from a large image in front of them. What makes Carlos' attempt so impressive is that he's effectively gotten nearly all the proportions, starting and ending brush pressures and tail-offs, and the structure right. It's not perfect. But it's damn well near perfect.

Compare it to Charles': Charles didn't do a bad job at all, and has successfully copied many of the requisite features, but he has seen each stroke as a line, as many people who write Chinese characters with ballpoint pens do nowadays - point A to point B, with natural loss of shape and flow in between. It's not necessarily a problem. Charles is writing the characters. But interestingly, Carlos isn't writing at all.

On rewinding the video you see why Carlos' was shaped so perfectly. He doesn't know Chinese. He doesn't know anything about stroke order, or speed. But he knows detail.

If you look at his hands as he writes he separated each stroke into a shape. Then he did his level best to recreate each shape as carefully as he could by pressing the brush until he could see it formed the right thickness of the line.

He didn't write, like Charles did. He painted.

If this is how good Carlos is at copying a language he does not know I wonder how amazing he would be at painting if he actually spent time to learn.

[morporkian-cryptid]

[Spoilers for The Murderbot Diaries - Network Effect]

I was going to have to answer Amena and I was in a hurry so I just said the truth. "I need to talk to ART in private." Amena's expression did something funny and she lifted her brows. "About your relationship?" "Very funny."

Murderbot then proceeds to tell ART they should have a child together.

[ineffectualdemon]

The idea that men don't ever belong in the same space as women or that they are creepy to want to be in those spaces cuts off even cis men from much needed community

When I was a young mum (before my gender journey) the few single dads (or dads whose schedule let them come to these groups more than mums) were always nervous or worried they would be unwelcome at baby groups or mums groups

Their babies needed socialisation and play just as much as ours

And they needed support and reassurance and help just as much as the mums did

But they either felt unwelcome or had been made to feel unwelcome in these spaces before

And while I tried to reach out to them and reassure them that they belonged there were women who eyed them with obvious suspicion and subtly excluded them from the conversations

These are dads who are there to do the right thing by their child and they are being treated like some kind of predator for that

The belief that men can only be predators. That they have no sense of self control and can only want to hurt women is so harmful

It's harmful to the trans community

It's harmful to men

It's harmful to women for many many reasons

Are there men who are bad?

Yes

Does the patriarchy reward or protect those men a lot of the time?

Yes

Does that mean most men are inherently evil?

Of fucking course not!

And things won't get better if we don't believe men in general can ever be good and support men who are reaching out for community support

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

*wakes up in a cold sweat*

Melusine Foul Legacy........

[fountainpenguin]

Oh right, I'm obsessed with toxic never-dated-yet-somehow-divorced & extremely one-sided clingy Zombiewood. Living on her lawn & begging her to take him back, but being horribly rude about it... Spitting vitriol at each other one minute, mugging her other ex together the next <3 His soulmate is doing soulmate things with another person btw.

Dale dialogue from HERE

Bonus panel for the FOP Double Life SMP AU no one asked for:

I'm sorry to disrespect you, Mx. ZombieCleo. ily.

[sincerely-sofie]

assumption: when you were younger you had an emo phase!

(Responding to this ask game)

Looking back on things, I feel like I could say that I had an emo phase! However, it wasn’t very visibly apparent to others.

[aetherdecember]

Another snippet from my Flipping the Coin au. Probably won’t make it into the actual fic, but I’ve been obsessed with these two and keep finding myself writing moments like this ^^

…

Mordred was sprawled over Arthur’s chest, with his thumb tucked in his mouth, and blue eyes serious as he listened to the story with the gravity of a judge. The two of them are slumped in their favorite armchair, the red velvet blotchy from numerous spilled drinks, sticky snacks, and misguided attempts at crafts. It was too warm for a fire, but in the dim evening, with the lone table lamp for light and the window cracked open for a breath of air, it took Arthur back to countless evenings spent in another room. One built of stone and lit only by candle flame.

Aloud, Arthur read, “Because he was the king…”

Personally, it wasn’t his favorite retelling, but Mordred had seen his name on the cover and insisted on hearing it, so he had conceded. Maybe he should’ve waited until Mordred was older before telling him that there were stories about characters who shared their names, but in these last few years, the events from long ago had been so close to mind Arthur had wanted to share it. He assumed Mordred would fixate on the sword fighting and tournaments. Instead, Mordred had picked a book that started with babies being sent out to sea.

“Two by two, he carried—“

Mordred pulled his thumb out of his mouth. “Did you really do that?”

“No.” Arthur marked his spot with a finger and ruffled the thick, black curls. Still damp from the bath, they were in need of a comb. And soon, if Arthur hoped to avoid dealing with tangles. “I never did that.” Dipping his fingers to tickle the back of Mordred’s neck, he smiled as Mordred giggled and tried to escape. “I could never.”

Sitting up, Mordred’s knobby limbs found all of Arthur’s soft spots as he settled knees first on top of Arthur’s chest. “If you had to, could you?”

“Would you,” Arthur automatically corrected.

“Would I?” Mordred’s pitch went comically high. “Nooooooo! Would you!”

Arthur gave him a look, one that Mordred immediately leaned in and mimicked with a giggle. “Would I, Arthur Penn, a man far removed from the ancient past, cast a boat full of babies into the ocean? Absolutely not.”

“What if Merlin told you to?”

He’d never had to. History hadn’t played out like that. But Arthur couldn’t tell his young son that he definitely knew it hadn’t happened because he couldn’t even explain his own past and all that entailed. All Mordred knew was that his father was named after King Arthur, so that meant he’d been named after Mordred. Because they were father and son and that was how it was supposed to be. He didn’t know that in another life they hadn’t been related and that the first time Merlin met Mordred he had helped save him.

“Nope.” Arthur popped the ‘p’. Out of Mordred’s sight, he set the book on the ground. It was time for a better story anyway. “Not even then.”

“What if Merlin did it?”

“Listen, let me tell you about the—“ He almost said ‘the Mordred I knew’ but luckily stopped. Instead, he says, “—the story I heard. It took place when Uther was still king. The first time Arthur met Mordred he was only a little boy…”

[moe-broey]

WHY THEY DON'T FUCKING TALK ABOUT IT.

Peony: Thinks everything is all fixed now 🥰

Triandra: Too caught up in her self-loathing and agonizing guilt to even consider speaking with Sharena, the only reason she's on speaking terms with Peony IS because of their closer proximity to each other (being alfar/shared background) and Peony's persistence

Sharena: Talks to Peony, Doesn't talk to Triandra????? Sharena is. The Ignorer. Maybe she wants to reach out, but doesn't know how or even where to begin. But honestly I think she's repressing a bunch of shit too. To speak to Triandra would mean having to Unpack All That.

Alfonse: Speaks to Peony and Triandra on business only. Very professional. Very cordial. Yes there's also the harsh self-criticism and agonizing guilt and holding even his child self to impossible standards like this never should have happened. I should have stopped it. I should have fixed it. I should have been Enough to Prevent This. For my sister to have been in the realm of dreams, her peers being abused and left for dead, what does that say? What does that mean? What happened? How could it have happened? It should have never happened. I should have

[swallowtail-ageha]

*video by a self proclaimed historian archeology with mary on a cross dramatic beat in the background fake crying hand on mouth in instagram reels* here is a funeral epigraphy of this young roman lady who got murdered by her husband! People especially men were such beasts right then and haven't changed much! *shows epigraphy where parents of murdered girl both father and mother denounce their daughter's murder as something abominable and either way Very Much Not Uncaring of the girls fate*

[tigertaurus22]

This time around, Mono gets taken by the Thin Man so Selene and Lumen have to go rescue him.

She and the light spirit get separated inside the Signal Tower, so while Selene finds Mono in his corrupted state, Lumen finds… something else. Or someone else.

[swordmaid]

for me… FOR ME..!!! and for shri’iia specifically the lock in for astarion’s romance is his graveyard scene in act 3.

i think it is too quick for shri’iia to be moving on to another relationship considering her previous one was with her mistress who essentially groomed and isolated her for like … more than hundred years. learning to chase her own desires and not moulding herself to what anyone wants her to be is something so new to her…!!! and something that she’s still learning how to be comfortable with….

and what I like abt romancing astarion with her is that I usually go for the dialogue path in his act 2 confession scene where you can ask him:

- what do YOU want to do?

and he goes like honestly idk what we’re doing but /this/ is nice. it just feels like two people exploring the option to love for the first time and taking things in their own pace rather than jumping straight into the relationship. they’re going at a snails pace… they don’t know what they’re doing but they like this feeling and the vibe and they want to more of it but they’re not ready to commit to anything yet and it’s fine for them …!! and they’re only committing by the end in the graveyard scene where significant time has passed and they’ve learnt a little more about themselves and they’re both more confident about their own desires and also how they want to be loved.

like it is so fitting I think… and sweet… not to mention astarion being a high elf & a vampire and shri’iia being a drow, they have all the time of the world for themselves so I def think they would want to take their time. except if shri’iia turns into a mindflayer or drider by the end then that plan is out the window lol

[nctjpeg]

starting to wonder if i’m using romantic relationships to fill the void in my heart that was once occupied by the many close friendships i used to have with men and amab ppl

[corvus-woodfordi]

Me watching a young kid trying to make an Aether portal with glow stone and a water bucket (I can’t stop them it’s a canon event)

[jokerislandgirl32]

Putting the rest below the cut because there is reference to loss of child, infant death, and expectant motherhood (nothing is explicit, but from past experience I’m not listing the p word for fear of backlash, please see TWs)!

So I was watching YouTube and one of the people I follow made this video (below) documenting each year she was carrying/had a child. And all I can think about is Zach and Violet doing this with their kids!

The only problem is…I’m not 100% sure on what their number/distribution of children will look like. I know Zach and Violet will have a bunch of kids (living vicariously through them since I’m unlikely/unable to have children), but aside from Alexandria (angel baby), Varina and Vera, I’m kind of stumped!

I want them to have a couple boys, but I’m not sure if they should be twins or if Zach and Violet will have any more children after the boys.

I have a few options I’ve listed above, and if you would not mind helping me out, could you pick an option you would like to see for them? Thank you!

Feel free to reblog/comment with your answers or ask any questions about this!

[jennystahl]

me trying to find the alternate universe fo4 game people played where gen 3 synths can't age, eat, reproduce, be injured, etc.

[heir-of-the-chair]

There was a post I saw not too long ago that’s done amazing things for my mental health and basically it just boils down to “Yeah I’m irrationally upset about this bc I’m crazy. There’s smth wrong with my brain and that’s okay.” And I’ve been reminding myself that every time I start spiraling over smth I’ve made up or finding myself checking and rechecking that I closed my door all the way, like yeah the reason I think this is bc my brain doesn’t work right and that’s okay. (That being said I don’t have ocd which seems to be what this post is about, this is just my experience with smth I saw that’s helped me)

being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways