#just as a general rule

[lesbianredpanda]

PSA the tumblr op of the post with the dandelion crayons tiktok is a terf so like, be careful of that I guess

[conjectureand-gloom]

things i’ve sworn off doing with my future kids

- pressuring them into anything

- commenting on their body

- reading their texts/journals

- ignoring them when they discuss their hobbies

- ignoring them full stop

- shaming them for anything

- giving them the silent treatment rather than communicating what’s happened

- basically anything that will make them feel as if they can’t talk to me

[ramshitposts]

Why can Simon Pegg do such a good American accent like he genuinely sounds like he's being dubbed over in The Boys

[honourablejester]

This is probably one of those things you’re not supposed to take seriously, but I’m not sure a time loop is the best mechanism for any of that. A time dilation field or pocket dimension would probably work better?

Because, if you’re trying to use it for free time, time off, and learning hobbies, there’s issues with a time loop. Your materials reset. Your projects reset. Your notes reset. You can only ever do what can be done in a single day (or however long the time loop is), and you can never see or keep the results of your work. That would make it very hard to keep track of your progress. Also, does your body also reset? Because then you can’t build up muscle memory for more physical hobbies either. Your fingers will never get less clumsy in these motions.

It’s also not the best vehicle for free time either, depending on your circumstances, because no one else knows it’s supposed to be your free time. So you have to go through the hassle of not showing up for work/blowing off everyone around you every single loop. That’s probably not an issue for some people, but anyone who has someone out there trying to hold them to their responsibilities will have to fight that fight every single loop.

You also can’t really test anything you learn unless it can be done with what you can reach in a day. You can’t go to craft fairs, you can’t learn from other people, you can’t speak a new language with someone unless it’s casual conversations on the street or someone you already know because you don’t have time to build up a relationship with anyone.

You can use it to read more books and discrete, time-limited things like that. And sleep. Those will work. But the loop just feels like so much hassle? You’re reset every morning and you have to go through the whole rigmarole of getting out of your obligations for the day, getting your materials together from scratch all over again, trying to remember what you learned from scratch all over again, starting your projects from scratch all over again …

A time loop is not an endless stretch of open time. It’s an endless sequence of very short, very limited stretches of time, and nothing you make, write or do will carry from one to the next, so the further you go, the more of that time is just spent trying to recapture all your lost progress.

I’m going to be honest, that sounds like an exercise in frustration and also a minor hell to me.

Just give me access to a personal pocket dimension where time doesn’t pass at the same rate as outside instead. (Though, granted, that might run into aging problems too. Logistics are always a bummer).

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to hand make lace so all is well

[spitblaze]

I don't see people gas up gnc and butch transfems nearly enough, can we get a fuckin round of applause for gnc and butch transfems

[inkskinned]

we were sitting on the floor and i was cutting out tiny pictures to make a collage for a friend's birthday. you were on your phone and you laughed about something, and i was still in love with you then, so i asked what had you giggling.

"sorry. i was just..." you took a moment and went back to texting. "i was telling someone about how you're afraid of the dark."

i'm afraid of the dark because something bad happened. "oh." i felt a little slinky of shame crawl down my throat.

you glanced up, and maybe it showed on my face, because you rolled your eyes and held the phone to the side casually so i could see the group chat. "what? was it a secret?"

i looked down to the scissors in my hand. "i just..." no, it's not a secret. it just felt like something private, something serious. saying why would you tell someone that just feels like an accusation. it's unfair. i honestly am not even ashamed of it, it's just a fact about my person that i don't usually share.

what a strange experience. is this a human thing or a generational thing? for our grandparents: did they need to worry about how quickly someone can just... share your personal information? again, i didn't even really have a true objection. what could i say? i want any person in my life to feel they can be honest with their friends. it's not like i said don't tell anyone this.

i cut out another letter to complete the rainbow happy birthday, started hunting for the exclamation mark. i heard you sigh dramatically.

"don't make a big deal about this," you said.

this entire conversation was a pattern for us, and this was when we got to my least favorite part of the pattern. i would get my feelings hurt in some oblique not-technically-terrible way, and then it would be making a big deal about something. you'd get frustrated for me for being soft, but i was born soft. you knew i was soft when you pierced me. it's one of the things that made controlling me so easy.

"i'm not," i felt my voice crack. the question came without my wanting. "why are you guys talking about me?" and why are you saying that thing? why not like - i'm telling them how you're generous and kind and pretty.

you let out this low, tragic groan. "oh my god." you tossed the phone away from your body. "there, see? i just won't talk to them if you don't like it."

the rest of the hour went the way it always went, between us: i said i don't actually mind if you talk to your friends but -, you found a way to call my minor expression of discomfort "being dramatic." you got upset that i had been offended. i ended up apologizing, even though i hadn't actually done anything.

afterwards, you picked up the phone again. after texting for a little bit, you snorted. "okay," you said, "but it is kind of funny you're afraid of the dark. i mean, when you think about it."

[welliguessimin]

Don't listen to a word I say~

[spirit-of-a-kiger]

What the fuck?! HOW does something THIS COOL exist in real life???

Eternal Flame Falls sounds like the coolest concept for a fantasy book. A path you follow down into a ravine until you find an ever-burning flame inside of a waterfall? That’s fuckin metal! But it’s not in a fantasy book it’s like an hour away from my house I can literally go see it any time! I remember it like once a month and lose my shit over it every time

[wormshirt]

Evil. Evil evil evil evil EVIL!!!!!!!! EVIL that I was BORN to RUN and RUN and RUN FOREVER from EVERYTHING carrying the past with me only in the way it molds me and makes me who I am only to be born into a world where the only way to survive in to sit in one place forever. EVIL.

[ennn]

Let's appreciate how complex Agatha's relationship with Billy is

GIF credit to @isagrimorie

The genuine emotion brimming from Agatha in this moment is very interesting and I really want to break down all the layers of how Agatha is relating to Billy—because it is truly not as simple as Agatha feeling sentimental or motherly to Billy.

There are a few layers at work here (and I also want to give a shout-out to @trickofthelights for her excellent recap points):

Billy reminds Agatha (enough) of herself

There are two driving forces at the core of Agatha as a character. We know this because her characterisation has been incredibly consistent throughout the show and Schaeffer has talked about them, which is: (a) Agatha is self-serving and (b) Agatha loves powerful witchcraft.

Billy is a powerful witch who did a horrifying thing in order to survive. He's been lying to these wonderful parents. He also just tried murdering three people in a fit of rage, provoked by Agatha no less.

Would Agatha care if he was less powerful? Would Agatha care if he didn't have a dark side? If he hadn't shown to be duplicitous and dangerous and subject to his darker impulses?

If he wasn't alone and without a coven, a possible outcast even among witches because of his unusual origins and power?

I'm pretty sure the answer is no, she would not. She would have dismissed him the same way she did his "Teen" persona. Agatha doesn't care about witches, Agatha cares about powerful witches –because that's who Agatha is and what drives her.

And we also got hints of this with Agatha and Wanda (hello consistent characterisation). In Schaeffer's words:

There is respect and almost affection inherent in [Agatha's interest in enormously powerful witchcraft], as indicated by how she felt about Wanda. She was mean to Wanda, but really she was fascinated by Wanda and admired her and wanted to hang out with her. 

And if this wasn't clear enough, what Agatha tells Billy shortly later about breaking the rules and being a true witch just screams projection (more on that in my next point).

I was delighted that Agatha really did bounce back from the attempted murder – but it's not because she's forgiving. Oh no, I think, Agatha was testing her theory by poking the bear (calculated move, bad at math) and she's glad she was proven right.

I mean, she not happy about the attempted murder but her curiosity wins out. You see her poking at Billy and trying to figure him out in the rest of this scene.

Agatha also hates self-righteous moralising and searches out for the darkness in people – delights in it even – because she knows people and she knows her own darkness.

Billy is different but also not so different from Agatha, as much as Billy or his mom would hate to admit.

Agatha is dealing with her childhood trauma

Yes, Agatha is projecting on Billy, but she makes a choice about it. We hear her telling him what she would have wanted someone to tell her: that they shouldn't be afraid or ashamed of who they are or what they did to survive, that they are part of a community.

Don't you dare feel guilty about your talent. ... That's what kept you alive. That's what makes you special. That's what makes you a witch.

She's trying to be the person she needed when she was a child, because she simply doesn't want someone else – particularly a younger witch – going through what she did.

She doesn't want anyone to go through what her mother put her through. And that's a choice.

Because there are a number of ways a character can deal with trauma: they can lash out and bring others down, wanting others to experience to the pain they went through, or they can realise that what happened to them shouldn't happen to anyone else in their position.

There's something beautifully self-serving but also selfless in that, because this is a way for Agatha to heal from her trauma. She can tell Billy things she may not be able to tell herself.

And it's interesting because as a self-serving villain, Agatha could just be jealous of Billy's power. But in this moment at least, Agatha's empathy and compassion – as buried as they usually are – prevail.

And yes, Agatha was fond of kid Billy

This is what Schaeffer touched on in her interview answer and it makes sense, with the insight that Agatha – like any good actor – does invest a bit of herself in every role she plays.

Agatha does have feelings (as much as they might make her vomit) and I do believe she has a soft spot when it comes to kids, given her experience with her son and her own childhood trauma. And that kids don't have the level of hypocrisy and darkness that adults do.

It makes sense that Agatha would have some level of care about the Scarlet Witch's magical kid Billy. And that is a fondness that has carried onto teenage Billy – who is powerful and a survivor and has a potential for darkness in a way she can relate to.

There are layers and they intersect and it all ties back to how Agatha is incredibly complex and yet consistent as a character.

[klavierpanda]

Aroace people are aromantic too, please remember that

[bixels]

Hey, I need some advice. For anyone experienced with kids, how do you deal with young children with hyperactive ADHD. I’m doing well babysitting but I’m afraid of being a pushover and letting these two kids get away with too much, especially when they’re rough-housing.

[catmask]

Having a debate with someone

Would or would not, laika and roadboy impulsively dye their if they had the ability

oh they did. thats just canon

rb's hair is not dark blue or black his hair is the same white/light blue as his fur but he dyes it. laika had green hair at one point and if she was a human she would bleach her hair to be the cream color her fur is (she would probably have a darker hair color naturally, more like her ears)

[atoriv-art]

older designs for my specialest guy

[dlartistanon]

My own little height chart...

[nappingpaperclip]

y’all we r not beating exorsexism and misogyny by calling every transmasc that pisses u off a ‘theyfab.’ Idc if they are annoying or have dumbass opinions, literally using someone’s agab as an insult is wrong and treating transmascs as annoying little afabs is deeply misogynistic and transphobic. What happened to just calling people fucking idiots