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So... I was watching Sandman and my mom asked that question and it was super strange for a second since her siblings are of other races or from the same mother (my uncle looks Mexican and my aunt looks like Regina George) so she was left confused an "awkward" moment so to speak...
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I am officially the Evilest Aunt Alive! Says my year-old nephew who wants to stick his hands in the toilet, eat cat food and climb in the cat-box, throw my teacups, and lick the jar my good clay mask is in, anyway.
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My grandmother, who was a teenager in the late forties, often talks fondly about the old flour sack dresses. She had a good friend whose mother actually enjoyed hand-sewing (the only person anyone around here knew who did, since most women were employed in the sewing plants from the thirties through the end of the 1980s, so they had no interest in anything even vaguely resembling sewing after work), and she and her friend would go with their parents to buy flour in order to pick patterns they liked, and then the friendās mother would replicate all the top fashions of the day for them at cost, adjusted to be as flattering as possible to their measurements. Nan went from owning three dresses as a little girl to wearing a different one every day of the week as a young woman. One time, the townās only department store got an unexpected order of menās dress shirts, white button-downs, for the first time since the War and she managed to get one for her younger brother on her lunch break from the sewing plant - theyād completely sold out by the end of the day. In return, he bought her a ring with a tiny diamond in it. When my grandfatherās five sisters met her, they were so impressed by her pretty clothes and just by her owning any jewelry at all that they thought it was like their baby brother (my grandfather was the youngest of ten) had done married a princess.
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"Twinkle Khanna's Hilarious Take on Motherhood: From Rotis to Modern Parenting"
In her latest column for the Times of India, Twinkle Khanna, the renowned author and entrepreneur, delves into the profound shifts in maternal roles and responsibilities from her own upbringing to her experiences as a parent. As Motherās Day swept across social media, Twinkle chose to reflect on the multifaceted demands placed on modern-day mothers.
Recalling the simpler duties of her mother, Dimple Kapadia, which included ensuring her and her sister Rinkeās dietary and grooming needs were met, Twinkle juxtaposes them with her own diverse roles as a contemporary mother. From playing the roles of therapist, event organizer, stylist, educator, motivational guide, to even being a nutritionist and hairdresser, the responsibilities have evolved significantly.
While Twinkle reminisces about her childhood social escapades, like chasing chickens or collecting bottle caps for contests, she contrasts them with the challenges faced by present-day mothers. Managing screen time, adhering to gentle parenting techniques, and shielding children from potential scars are just a few of the complexities modern mothers navigate.
Injecting humor into her narrative, Twinkle shares an amusing anecdote involving her husband, actor Akshay Kumar, inadvertently likening her to a cow during her early days of motherhood. His casual remark about her being āunavailableā because she was āmilkingā humorously symbolized her transition from a glamorous figure to a nurturing mother.
Delving deeper, Twinkle explores the myriad struggles modern mothers face. Balancing childcare, career aspirations, and personal well-being while navigating societal expectations can feel like an uphill battle. She questions whether the modern approach of shielding children from the realities of the world results in homogeneity among todayās youth, with their similar behaviors, attire, and interests.
Acknowledging the pressure to strike a delicate balance in parenting, Twinkle reflects on the perpetual sense of guilt and blame that accompanies motherhood. Whether itās granting too much freedom or being perceived as overly controlling, the journey remains fraught with uncertainty and judgment.
Ultimately, Twinkleās poignant exploration serves as a tribute to the resilience and adaptability of mothers through the ages, as they continue to navigate the ever-changing landscape of parenthood with humor, grace, and love.
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Sloppy Conformity, Vulgarity, and the Art of Dress (With A Guest Appearance from Agatha Christie)
Long loose hair, black high leather boots, white openwork tights, skimpy skirt, long sloppy pullover made of heavy wool--I laugh at Agatha Christie's open disdain of such an ensemble, but this sounds exactly like a costume for a highly specific concept for a K-Pop music video in which a group of young girlies is either making their debut or making a comeback. One thing Dame Agatha nailed, however, was the near-unanimous insistence of the baby boomers on conformity to the fashions of their peers. The same attitude rears its head today. The more things change, etc., etc.
My own mother--may her memory be a blessing!--dressed during her teen years in pastel mod outfits that didn't suit her, which gave way in the 1970s to a more magpie-like hippie sensibility. The Dress Doctors often referenced by Professor Pski would have written her down as a vivid brunette and prescribed a wardrobe of simple lines, cool neutrals, and a vivid-cool palette perhaps somewhat softened by a "late autumn/early winter frost" sensibiilty. As it was, she got into Carole Jackson's Colour Me Beautiful in the 1980s, although her fashion sense remained eclectic. By the time I'd been born and was learning what she had to teach me, she'd calmed down considerably, although she retained a love for vivid over-the-top jewel tones. She was the one who insisted I have my colors done as a child (Autumn, although my budding efforts at composing outfits were awkward and hilarious).
Nowadays I understand Dame Agatha's disdain for the sloppy conformity of 1960s youth somewhat better--it was a common refrain among women of a certain age--but I may borrow the boots sometime just for funsies.
#Agatha Christie#baby boomers#conformity#when you no longer understand the young#Dress Doctors#color analysis#typing#family anecdotes
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My great great grandpa was taken as a POW during WWI and taken to Italy to do forced labour (since all the men were on the front they needed someone to bring in the harvest). He and a group of fellow prisoners decided to escape by hiking across the gd Alps. They stole the silverware from the manor where they were being kept prisoner to barter for food and possible transport. We still have a couple of monogrammed utensils from that heist. They got the runs from drinking water from streams in the Alps and were basically constantly shitting themselves while hiking.
The "I just pretended I belong here and no one has noticed so far that I'm not supposed to be here" fics are hysterical to me. If someone pretended to be my cousin and showed up in my house they would absolutely get my inattentive ass.
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I havenāt seen the post about peeling skin but I have a moral; never buy socks at Universal Studios
Pre-COVID my family went to California and did all the fun stuff. AKA stuff I donāt find fun but who gives a shit whatever. We went to Universal Studios first, and back then, they had a store dedicated to socks. No idea if itās still there. Cool, I want funny socks so I buy a couple pairs, and I wear one pair the next day
My feet were peeling for weeks. Like, I could peel off a square inch of skin in one go. Didnāt hurt to come off, but boy my feet were sore. This was because I went on a water ride at Disney and my feet got wet
So, you might think it was because my feet were wet, not the socks. Nah. Iām the kind of freak who both enjoys peeling her skin off and wearing socks in the shower. And when we got home, I did Science
Only the Universal Socks did this. Also they gave my sibling blisters. We tested that too, with more Science.
So donāt buy their socks
#see previous posts#batman#batfamily#batfam#batman family#dc comics#story#anecdote#meme#ask#anonymous#tw gross#don't try this at home
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here's an update for all the "tOuRiSm iS fOr ThE pEoPlE" fucks. always remember that the second anyone steps foot on that land in the name of "tourism" or any other haole institution, that is colonizing&that person is a fucking explicit modern colonizer who made the conscious decision to be one and has spent a lot of fucking money on that trip to get their title. only that kine want more of their kin there-- don't pretend that shit is for anyone else.
drop dead of spontaneous combustion specifically, not even the sharks would want that pīlau fucking meat.
#video footage of haole families already in burnt wasteland is so fucking dystopic its almost funny#'funny' in the way of 'i might have rabies bc im foaming at the mouth lol'. bc fuck if i wouldnt literally#rip these ppl to fucking shreds. god bless whoever took the pics&vids bc i couldnt havd held my tongue.#you know we're all fucked when the governor is holding private back-chamber business-only meetings#to decide to open a fire wasteland two months after 1000+ ppl were killed&where ppl are still looking for remains to tourism#&it honestly seems so much less disgusting bc theres literally footage of haole families already disregarding any form of boundaries.#like this is what we've come to lmao.#i have so. much. violence. in me&no where to put it lmao. i want to go home. i miss home so bad. i am so fucking homesick.#i think the next person who responds to finding out im from hawaii w anecdotes of their trip there will probably get knocked out.#like i dont actually think i should be held responsible for that first hit. anything after is fair game tho i guess.#undescribed
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[George VI] liked to see how things worked and he could not be dragged away from anything that caught his eye. On defense tours he made it a point to try out all the new weapons. [...] One acquaintance noticed this quality under somewhat different circumstances during a family showing of Princess Elizabethās wedding presents. She had been given several beds as gifts and the King and Queen were going about testing them all, bouncing up and down on them to make sure the springs were solid.
THE ROYAL FAMILY by PIERRE BERTON (1954)
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The parallel between Sokka and Tenzin as their fathers' sons.
Sokka, left at 13 as his father and all the other men head off to war. Hakoda tells him "being a man is knowing where he's needed the most" and he needs to protect his sister, his home.
Tenzin is the second airbender. He is also half water tribe, he's a man. When Aang dies, he will be the last airbender. He understands what he needs to do.
Untold amount of pressure and responsibility have been thrust upon them by their fathers. Though, I believe it is not all intentional, but the unfortunate circumstance of being the fathers of sons who take responsibility incredibly seriously.
In Sokka's case, "protect your sister" is a vague instruction. It was meant to give him purpose, to help him feel okay about being left behind, He is too young for war, his father does not want to bring his child to slaughter. But Sokka will die with purpose. He will train the children of his tribe so they will be protected, he will face a fire nation ship until his last breath. He cannot go to war, but Hakoda did not see that war was all around them. In trying to give Sokka purpose, Hakoda put their world on his shoulders.
We do not get to see Aang be a father (in the TV shows), but we know he had hopes for the future. All his children were air nomads, and the air acolytes brought his culture back, but Tenzin could bend. This part of their culture is one ONLY they share. I do not think Aang would hide this, he is joyous that he gets to share his culture. When he feels respected, he always is, he taught the air acolytes after all. Off handedly, he could say, "I'm hopeful for a future where there are lots more air benders," and that, which feels mostly innocuous to him, is the nail in the coffin of Tenzin's fate. He is Avatar Aang's son, and the future of the air benders. It would not matter that Aang meant a future in generations. Tenzin sees the responsibility and it's his. He is his father's only air bending child, he knows what he needs to do.
Being a parent is not understanding the way the things you say harm your children. Even those things that feel innocuous in the moment can be life altering. Especially the more the child respects the parent. Purpose and Hope for those with a broader perspective, can be death sentences to a life that could have been when expressed to those who idolize the former.
#avatar the last airbender#avatar the legend of korra#atla sokka#sokka#tenzin#lok tenzin#aang#avatar aang#hakoda#atla#conspiracy lvl: text#i thought about talking about how my own mothers expectations for me broke me#they just felt like facts of life for her#just as like anecdotal evidence for my thought process#bc like we only know aang as a father from his frustrated adult children#but i REALLY REALLY dislike the takes that are like 'aang kept having kids until he got an airbender'#bc THAT doesnt feel like aang#like#if that were the case dont you think aang and katara would have had like A LOT more kids????#like if the goal was make airbender babies why stop at one???#but its because bumi kya and tenzin are reflections of sokka katara and aang#ive made a post about that#its about AANGS FAMILY#and he loves them#i think the favoritism is reasonable#makes me sad but thats cause my mom had obvious favorites (it wasnt me lmao)#another reason why i didnt wanna bring her up <- is doing it anyway how embarrassing#i ALSO thought about my dad though#but i cant talk about that here bc APPARENTLY tumblr only lets you add 30 tags now rip
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3.5 spoiler !
I CANNOT stop laughing the fact that kaeya as a little kid SHIPPED himself back to where he thought khaenriāah was because he read it in a book šššheās so SILLY imagine this tiny malnourished kid with fancy clothes on ur fuckin ship carrying goods across the sea with the most determined little face and then his adoptive dad goes ALL the way to sumeru to pick his ass up and drag him back to mond š this was the route they had to take
#adorable ā¤ļøāš©¹#but also so sad ! kaeya was always an independent person huh#he snook off and no one managed to notice until he was on the ship LMAOO#kaeyas little anecdote shows how loyal and dutiful his character is even at such a young age .. he went to such great lengths just to find#his family and home again#it also shows how much his new family cared for him too šcrepus went personally to bring him back#genshin spoilers#kaeya
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She would stop putting her paw out like this if only she understood stuff like the concept of āsometimes Mother does Money Work instead of just writing fanfic when she's on the computerā and the links between the concepts of āMother does Money Workā and āTati gets Salmon Foods.ā
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ok but historical lucrezia borgia giving birth to her first baby boy whom she named giovanni (juan's italianized name) in honor of her mysteriously murdered brother who died a year earlier...i can be totally normal about this actuallyā¦ i can be trusted to not be unhinged over this tiny crumb of information (a lie)
#juan and lucrezia underrated moments in history you will always be acknowledged by me#off topic but#love taking historical anecdotes and shape them in showtime's the borgias headcanons god unbless#the borgias#juan borgia#lucrezia borgia#history#italian renaissance#renaissance#the borgia family#juan x lucrezia#text post#tb text post
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Minkowski would be so intense about introducing Eiffel and Hera and Lovelace to any of her loved ones back on Earth. She makes the crew sit through a PowerPoint presentation on suitable topics of conversation to discuss with her mother. She gives Dominik a folder of detailed guidance about how to interact with Hera because he's never met an AI before. She asks Eiffel several days beforehand if he has decided what he's going to wear to meet her family, as though Eiffel has ever in his life put thought into an outfit more than 30 seconds before getting dressed.
She tries to control every parameter of the interaction in a way that actually makes it more uncomfortable for everyone involved. She spends the entire time sitting right on the edge of her chair, looking anxiously between each of these people she cares about, trying to tell whether they are getting on, and attempting to communicate with them individually through urgent expressions.
And of course it doesn't work. Eiffel puts his foot in his mouth. Dominik is confused and curious about all the wrong things. Minkowski dares to leave the room for a few minutes and when she comes back, her mother is showing the crew her baby photos, and Minkowski knows she'll never live this down.
#wolf 359#w359#renee minkowski#renƩe minkowski#That last bit was inspired by a conversation with @commsroom#She said Minkowski's mom should tell the crew a charming anecdote from Minkowski's childhood#that Minkowski finds intensely embarrassing#and I agree#Also thinking about how intense Minkowski would be about this is funnier#if you share my idea that Minkowski's family is generally more chilled out than she is#Like I don't imagine her mother to be the kind of person you'd need a briefing to interact with successfully#but Minkowski is giving that briefing anyway#She'd just be very freaked out about the colliding of worlds I think#Eiffel and Hera and Lovelace are so so important to her#but she's also known them in this very particular context#in which the parameters of her life were fixed and limited#and she could (mostly) control what they knew about her#When they are back on Earth#they've got to work out how to be important to each other in a very different context#They have to work out how they relate to each other in this wider world#which includes Minkowski's husband and family and friends#(and Lovelace's loved ones. and Eiffel's. such as they are)#And I don't think that will be an easy process#but I think it will add an important new dimension to their closeness#the empty man posteth
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christmas with no limits
really, this art was all an excuse to show you this image. i miss when old movie promo photos were awkward as shit.
#home alone#wet bandits#merry christmas#christmas art#christmas movies#really what do i tag this as#'solar is everything okay? you've barely drawn any weird ugly men lately'#no but fr i need to fetch an ugly man muse every few months to keep my art alive. this is the molting part of my life cycle#im proud of how i caricatured harry but what you see of marv is my 4th attempt and i'm still not satisfied. it doesn't look like him!#he veers more towards the pompous brand of bearded villain than the weed smoker he actually is#anyway little anecdote: home alone is one of the first movies i remember watching. we saw it in school on one of them old tellies on wheels#i didn't know much of america yet. being a toddler. so the whole time i was like:#why's it such a big deal the family's trapped in paris? it's an hours flight...
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Those polls are doing a number in my family : my mother started going on a rant about "those actor who had twenty years younger co-stars and that's disgusting... Please vote for Robert Redford. I don't care about the rest but Redford can get it.
Russian grandma is very distraught that Alain Delon is losing.
French grandma also sad to see Delon losing but mostly doesn't really care because Jean Marais isn't in this tournament anyway.
My father : no homo but Sean Connery hot
crying laughing. nothing but respect for the Sean Connery Dadsā¢
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