#lessons for children

[reality-detective]

Old photos never lie 🤔

[grandapplewit]

Harem AU where Shen Yuan transmigrates into one of Bingge’s wives shortly after he returns from the other world. After a brief (and frantic) realization that’s she’s a woman (and always has been, but we’re not getting into that right now), she delves deep into this harem drama she’s been thrust into. It’s not until she comes face to face with Luo Bingge that she realizes just WHICH harem drama she’s living, and immediately sets about making his life as good as she can manage. Oh, harem infighting is causing strain on his containers? Simply nudge Liu Mingyan and Sha Hualing into working together to manage the harem. The Northern Desert is hinging on disaster because of clerical neglect? One of her harem sisters has a brother who’s in need of a job, no stress. Luo Binghe’s kids are unruly and there’s no clear successor? She has a college degree and a little sister, teaching a dozen or so demonic children is a breeze! All in the name of giving Luo Binghe the time to find a new wife, of course, one who will disperse with the need for this sprawling harem, and once that happens she’s free to travel and document monsters to her hearts content.

[bixels]

I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

[livwritesstuff]

Steve comes home from work early one day to see that not only is his kindergartener, Hazel, home from school (which is normal), his third grader, Robbie, is also home (which, seeing as there are still several hours until when her school bus would usually be dropping her off, is not normal).

Steve: Oh, Jesus.

Steve: What’d you do?

Robbie: *no response*

Eddie, prodding his daughter: Explain.

Eddie: Own your shit, girlie.

Robbie: *continues to silently fume on the couch*

Eddie: Fine.

Eddie: When I picked up Hazel, the principal made me take her home too after what was described to me as a relentless verbal onslaught against – wait for it –

Eddie: A first grader.

Steve, baffled: Robbie – what the fuck?

Robbie: *positively massive eye roll*

Robbie: She was being mean to Hazel.

Robbie: All I did was tell her that if she messes with Hazel, then I’m messing with her.

Steve: *long, tired sigh*

Steve: I just…

Steve: Robbie – you pushed Hazel down the stairs yesterday.

Steve: On purpose.

Steve: For my sake, just pick a side.

[henk-heijmans]

Children taking lessons in a music school, Afghanistan, 1963 - by Paul Almasy (1906 - 2003), Hungarian/French

[soshadysoquiet]

Childhood Lessons

The lesson that day, whatever it was, was being well received.

[palatinewolfsblog]

“Keep me away from the wisdom

which does not cry,

the philosophy

which does not laugh

and the greatness

which does not bow before children. ”

Khalil Gibran.

[brightlotusmoon]

Husband is playing a game called Tower Of Fantasy and screenshot this

KING: "Having barely enough to survive is the same as having nothing. For, if you find yourself in that state, whatever is left will soon be taken."

[vintage-sweden]

Kindergarten home economics, 1934, Sweden.

[semioticapocalypse]

Cornell Capa. Hebrew lesson. Brooklyn, New York. 1955

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[reality-detective]

4 years before his death Beau Biden won the Darkness to Light Courage Award for his statewide efforts to eradicate child sex abuse.

Makes me wonder if this was the real reason he was exterminated? 🤔

[blackbatcass]

hunter accusing wally of having never experienced any tragedy is so intensely hilarious to me. bc you know that dumbass’s internal monologue was ‘man he’s right. nothing bad has ever happened to me ever😃’

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[bumblingbabooshka]

Concept: Vulcan clowns that exist solely to exhibit and discourage illogical behavior for children.

[spookberry]

Angel OC content

[zazikels]

[once again here be dragons]

ngl one thing that IS making me roll my eyes into the sun is how bland and flavourless some of the interpersonal conflicts between companions are as I've seen them in reviews.

Rook is standing between two companions and "sorting out" their arguments like they are talking to fucking children and the problems these chars have with each other are kind of just tiny, petty things? and so much which amount to shit like taash no like skeleton, emmrich find dragon boring, harding think emmrich takes too long to pack or has too many books, emmirch judging harding for sleeping on the dirt?? like what is this, genuinely. rook is always talking to these grown ass adults like they are fucking toddlers and i'm like...really. i saw one scene between davrin and lucanis that appears to have at least a bit more bite (even though the line i saw from davrin was legit just jacob's beef with thane) but apparently even that gets resolved very quickly and doesn't come up?

also rip dorian, he has been completely teaganed.