#mom hack

[healthilyathome]

Mom Hack

I feel like every mom needs a Warmie. They're microwavable stuffed animals.

Little Man has this puppy one my parents got and it's great! He's been having a lot of tummy pains from gas, so I microwave this for a minute and put it on his tummy. The heat really seems to help calm him down and he usually falls asleep. You can freeze them too for bruises, sprains, or reducing fevers.

[ittybittyave]

Embracing Chores: A Step Towards Independence for Your Kids

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Sundays often feel like slow days for me, as if my body is instinctively going into a mini hibernation in preparation for the early morning routine that awaits with the start of the school week. To combat the snail-like pace of the day, I make it a point to catch up on household chores. While some Sundays are more productive than others, I find that my kids are typically eager to lend a helping…

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[thatsbelievable]

[marzipanandminutiae]

something something aging userbase but I just discovered that pre-treating with Dawn dish soap before washing gets out avobenzone stains (sunscreen ingredient; leaves yellow or rust-colored stain on white clothing) WONDERFULLY

stain-free antique Edwardian summer blouse, here I come

[taivans]

[specialagentjazzy]

okay here's how mike afton can still happen (delusional)

alternatively - so, Mike's dreams are canonically hiding something?????? hiding what????? hiding WHAT

[gonkaccino]

I swear to god if Nina calls in season 4 and reveals she and Priya are a couple now, I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. It would be so incredibly Ava of a thing to happen, for her mom to get into an age gap relationship with a significantly younger woman who helped her see the world through fresh eyes and acknowledge how much of life she's been missing out of, while Ava herself fumbles every single woman she meets trailing after Deb.

[mrbrightxside]

Ya no se si me gusta pero..... Hm... Nature.

[glittercatfairy]

ooooohhh yes mother lalonde ^_^

[clouds-of-wings]

The secret to living to an incredibly old age could be far more straightforward than previously thought, as you’ll find out in this interview with a scholar at University College London’s Centre For Longitudinal Studies.

Instead of eating olive oil, walking 10,000 steps a day or never having children, Saul Justin Newman’s best advice for living past 100 is to simply not get a birth certificate when you are born. For those of us who didn’t have the foresight at the time to not ask for a birth certificate, misplacing the document is of course an option, too.

He has tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 on Earth and has found that the most common trait they share is not a lifestyle choice so much as the fact that their date of birth has not been properly recorded – and that their real age is unlikely to be what they say or think it is. And these are the lucky ones. In fact, many of the oldest people in the world are already dead.

[princessheatherblossom]

Well, I guess that's true to a degree...

[mifunebooty]

Don't tell Greta Gerwig I teared up at barbie telling that older woman she's beautiful and she said I know it, I've been drinking tonight

[cinderflower]

Hey! I love your works, thanks for sharing them! Your stuff is some of my favorites in the fandom!

I just wanted to ask your opinion on how Malenia and Miquella (from FoR and your characterization of them specifically) would view Millicent. How do you think they'd interact with her? Would they avoid her? What would that mean for their own relationship? Etc etc.

Just asking because I think your take on Malenia and Miquella is so interesting to play around with.

Thanks! Your stuff is awesome!!

Wah, anon this is such a sweet message, I'm always humbled to hear people like my works and my characterizations! Thank you so much 🥺💕

I'm so sorry this is so long but as I'm sure you can imagine, I have Many Thoughts about Malenia lol.

I've actually thought quite a lot about Millicent and her sisters and I think, first and foremost, that she doesn't know about them at all. I think after her bloom and being carried back to the roots of the Haligtree that she's basically been in a pseudo-coma as the rot progresses now that she's needle-less, so she might know about the kindred of rot but not Millicent or her sisters.

With Malenia, I really focus on her lack of autonomy as a character throughout the most formative years of her life and the trauma that undoubtedly came with it, where she is burdened with the rot which would have effectively ostracized her from most people except Miquella (because of his immunity to the rot). This is also in addition to her being named as an Empyrean and already having her fate decided for her. So the nature by which Millicent and her sisters came to be, after her bloom and presumably like offshoots or cuttings from plants, they'd be another blow against her autonomy because she didn't have a say in their creation (implied by Gowry raising them and her rejection of the kindred of rot).

Specifically with Millicent, I imagine Malenia would see a lot of herself in her, and I think she would harbor a deep resentment because of that - not because she'd dislike Millicent, but because Millicent would be a reflection of her younger self. Someone who is spawned from her, consequently cursed BY her, to suffer the same hardships. Millicent is the same as younger Malenia, which consequently forces Malenia into the role of the Outer Rot God in their dynamic - unwittingly having taken on the role of the thing she hates. If Malenia had embraced the rot like Romina, I think it would be different, but every time she accepts it, it's when she's at the end of her rope with no choices left and she's essentially resigned herself to death.

This might sound harsh, but it's also why I love her as a character - I believe Malenia is ultimately deeply selfish in her actions where Miquella is concerned (and vice versa ignoring all the DLC). She's sworn herself to his cause, has proven herself willing to die for him, to go to war for him, to commit countless atrocities in his name and inflict the very thing she despises - the curse that has caused her so much misery - on countless others. For him. But! In a twisted way, it's also for herself! Because for once, this is HER choice. She decided to take on the title of his blade and devote herself to him. No matter the ask, no matter the cost.

Miquella, who knows Malenia better than anyone and has been by her side throughout the worst of it, knows all of this. I believe he would be sympathetic to Millicent and her sisters (also seeing a younger Malenia in them) but I suspect that while he would also try to help them in secret, he'd be (selfishly) keeping them away from Malenia so that she wouldn't have to deal with all the trauma I mentioned above. He might feel some guilt about it, but with how I write him in FoR, he's always willing to harbor some secrets if he believes it's in Malenia's best interest. He wants to save her, to give her back the life she's been denied - a life free of her rot and any burdens. And that would mean a life without five magically spawned new dependents whose existence would be inflicting constant psychic damage on Malenia and that she'd feel responsible for.

In a timeline where the twins are far less codependent, and where they're not both so focused on Miquella's ambitions to cure Malenia of her rot and revolutionize the world, maybe Malenia is able to take the time to heal and make peace with herself. In that timeline, maybe Millicent would serve to be a positive and healing influence on her.

[sisterdragonwithfeathers]

*mentally laying face-down on my bed*

(not physically, I wouldn't be able to breathe)

[ahsxual]

VI - Who would you rather date?