#i love my little nieces and nephews

[wildsummerrose]

The thing about this–or going "oh god I feel so old now"–is that it's basically a succinct way of saying "oh fuck, I am suddenly acutely aware of the passage of time, and feel my mortality. This is extremely uncomfortable!"

It's also delightful (but a little sad) to see your silly little guys and gals turning into bigger little guys and gals. Progress is made and it is joyous!! But the entry into childhood comes at the cost of babyhood, with all of its precious silliness. There's almost a ritual feeling to saying "ah, you're so big!!" We're acknowledging the missed milestones, and the death of the person the kids were when we didn't get to see them.

[myokk]

Anne, 11 years old💓💓💓

[sergle]

tonight I watched Return To Oz, for the second time in my beautiful life, and girl this is a HORROR MOVIE for children

[arliedraws]

My three-year-old niece is delightfully creepy. The other night, she asked my partner, “Do you have blood?” My sister called from the other room, “She’s asking if you’re bleeding!”

To which my partner responded, “No, I’m not bleeding.” Then my niece leaned into him, smiling, and asked, “Can I see you bleed?”

[vigilskeep]

?????? What do you mean Anders is all like, "We have a kid now" when Keir gets back from the Fade ??????? Where did he get the nugget?????

[okkennymay]

My darling Niece wants to be Dolores for her school’s Book week! (I’m not sure they do this outside Australia), It’s a themed event to encourage reading, and on the last day all the kids dress up in costumes as various characters from books (characters from comics, TV, and movies all count too because 1. most popular medias generally have book tie in’s for kids and 2. They’re kids, the point is to have fun!) and walk in a small parade for all the parents and teachers to coo and awe over~

It was a particular favourite of mine growing up, I've made a Minecraft Steve head, a Harry Potter wand and styled an Elsa wig for their previous years, but this year I’m going hard! I really enjoyed Encanto myself and I couldn’t be more delighted by her choice in character this year, so Unkie Kens pulling out all the stops and I'm teaching myself how to make the whole thing from scratch! and yah’ll get to watch me fumble and stumble my way through it ╰(*°▽°*)╯

[hotmess-exe]

rearranged my entire bedroom to accommodate my pole, so now my bed is next to the window. which means my cat spends a shit ton of time in bed with me again. which means i am happy

i also got to watch some A+ improv last night — 4 hours worth 😆 and a good chunk of the night i also watched with that nb cutie who's been flirting 😚😚

[forensicated]

Never let it be said that I rush anything... Finally watching Cardiac Arrest after purchasing it quite a while ago... 😂

Highly recommended to TB fans, not only is it a fab series there's also four ex tb stars.

Andrew Lancel, Peter O'Brien, Jo Dow and Melanie Hill are in the main cast.

Young Andrew is an adorable sight too 😂

There will be more series 5 episode guides coming soon, had a bit of a full on time recently with family stuff so haven't had the chance to get on the computer properly recently to have chance to watch and recap.

[smiles-rambles]

I LOVE MY NEPHEW!!!

[kakusu-shipping]

A bunch of Mario Family headcanons:

Because I think a very normal amount about the larger Mario family and very very very much want The Super Mario Brothers Super Show Reboot all about them

G-Poppy and his wife moved to American from Italy in their 20′s, making Mario and Luigi third generation immigrants

G-Poppy’s dream was to own and run an authentic Italian a Restaurant in America, but after the birth of his oldest son, Pio, the need for quick cash to pay rent was more pressing, thus why he got into Boxing

Papa Mario’s full name is Pio Mario Jr, he’s named after G-Poppy

Pio is a good 5-6 years older than his younger brothers, Arthur and Tony, who are only a year apart at most

Sense bills were tight, Pio spent a lot of his childhood being another income to the house hold, working hard labor work like construction to keep the family afloat while his brothers were young

Eventually G-Poppy got too old for wrestling and finally realized his dream of opening a Restaurant; Punch-Out Pizza. This put the family in more financial struggle, forcing Pio to take up more work while Arthur and Tony helped in the Restaurant

Now that G-Poppy is retired Arthur and Tony run the business together. Arthur’s the finance guy, where Tony runs deliveries and hands on manages other employees

It was actually their Grandmother who made Mario and Luigi’s caps for them, she’s also made G-Poppy’s. She passed before Louisiana was born, thus why she couldn’t make her a cap as well

Tony’s a huge horror movie buff, he loves old classics and has a huge VHS collection. Part of the reason Luigi is so scared of the paranormal is from catching glimpses or watching whole movies with Uncle Tony growing up

Another big part of Luigi’s fear though may just come from Uncle Tony loving to scare him. A big pass time for Tony was waiting around corners in Halloween masks to jump scare Luigi, or telling him ghost stories any change he got

Mario also got a bad fear from Uncle Tony’s movies; Pianos. He’d just happened to catch a pretty nasty scene of the lid of a Grand Piano crushing someone when he was younger and it stuck with him pretty hard

Louisiana is about 11-12 years younger than Mario and Luigi, so despite being cousins the three have a hard time relating to one another from the large age gap

Louisiana prefers to go by Louise, though only Mario and Luigi call her that. She was also the first one in the family to use the “Lou” nickname for Luigi, which Mario quickly also picked up

Arthur loves baseball, the Mets especially, but really he’ll watch any team play. He regrets not being on his school’s baseball team when he was younger, due to having to help at the restaurant, thus why he signed his daughter Louisiana up as soon as she was old enough. She’s stuck with it to keep her dad happy

Mia makes 90% of the meals in the Mario household, with the occasional help from Arthur. She learned most her dishes from her own mom, and a good deal more from Pio’s mother after marrying into the family

Marie is absolute rubbish in the kitchen. Mia’s given her multiple lessons and had her help with dinner many times around when she was expecting Louisiana, but she rarely made anything edible. The only one who ate her meals was Arthur, who just wanted to support his wife with all he had, even if it made him ill (which it did. Many times. Tony made fun of him for it)

Tony loves to work on machinery, mostly motorcycles, and has bounced around working part time as a mechanic here and there before his duties at the restaurant drag him back

Pio, Tony, and Mario are the only ones in the Mario family with a drivers license, though Tony was the only one who drove regularly until Mario bought the van

The Mario family owns 4 gaming devices; The Brother’s NES that they bought with their saved up chore money in Middle School, a Wii Marie and Mia do Wii Fit on in the living room, Uncle Tony’s PS2 that’s mostly collecting dust, and the Home Computer that Louise plays Roblox and Minecraft on

The Mario family apartment has 3 bedrooms; Pio and Mia’s, Arthur Marie and Louise’s, and Mario and Luigi’s. G-Poppy sleeps on a chair in the living room, and Tony sleeps on the couch

Louise has already called dibs on Mario and Luigi’s room when they move out, Tony says he prefers the couch anyway so he doesn’t mind

Pio pushes a lot of his own raising onto Mario, as the oldest he thinks Mario should be responsible, a support for the family, not chasing his own crazy dream that could crash down onto them into debt

On the flip side, Arthur puts a lot of what he wanted for himself onto Louisiana, pushing her to do new things and plays sports and do after school activities like he never got to do having to work in the Restaurant growing up

Tony’s the only one he sees this happening, and thus has stayed the fun uncle who’ll get you out of that thing you don’t want to do if asked. He’s listened to a lot of vents from the kids as he drives them from one activity to the next, and tries to remind them their parents are doing their best, and love them a lot. For everyone but Luigi that reminder fell on deaf ears

[you-are-so-much-better-than-that]

[fat-fem-and-asian]

NEED your college!karolina takes

my dear anon u overestimate my grip on these characters. they are like wild horses to me and i'm some farm dog.

i think she was in the czech student organization though as treasurer and also worked for the school newspaper.

double major poli sci/comms w/ a minor in east euro studies - summa cum laude i think

she dated shitty econ guys and had a homoerotic relationship w/ her roomate's best friend that culminated in them hooking up a decade later. no they do not talk <3

she went to college a few hours away from her family (somewhere east coast) and genuinely tries to see them when she can. very close w/ her little sisters and still has her dad reading her papers. he doesn't tell her that she's starting to be better at writing than he is.

[mispronouncing-michaelangelo]

new nephew born today!!!! ahhh hello!!! another i got another!!!! ahh!!!!

[roaringroa]

everyday i feel the want to be an aunt grow stronger and stronger

[ddaengju]

i met my boss’ daughter once; she came into our office area. she loved my office because i have sakura miku acrylic stands and funko pops and cute plushies on my desk. and she knows i like anime. so, my boss came to me this morning and handed me a little sailor venus keychain saying how her daughter had bought a bunch of sailor moon blind boxes looking for sailor mars and that she wanted to specifically give me her sailor venus duplicate 🥹🥹🥹 y’all,,,,,, i am so full of love for how purely wholesome children are. they meet you once and if they connect with you, they remember you and think of you. i only met her once and i am just blown away by her thoughtfulness. what a sweet girl i am overwhelmed 🥹🥹🥹 she reminds me of my niece 🥺🥺🥺 i’m gonna go cry now

[onehandshort]

I think my first big book binding project will have to be the Bee Movie script granted I'll have to find it in a format specifically for book binding.... or I could technically just perfect bind it.. hmmmm

A smaller personal project will be finding good paper for a fountain pen ink swatch book