Kairi's character development when

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

Lust is not wanting to have sex with other people. Lust is using sex to hurt other people or hurting another person in a sexual way.

Gluttony is not eating lots of food (your own stomach will tell you when enough is enough). Gluttony is when you have enough resources to yourself that you could house and feed the rest of the population of your city but you keep it to yourself because you do not want to give up the power associated with it.

Greed is not wanting to improve the state of your material life because it would improve your quality of life. Greed is taking opportunities and resources away from already marginalized people. (And if someone tells you that a service you benefited from and it actively improved your life was not meant for you specifically, then there needs to be more of that resource).

Envy is not looking at someone who has a higher quality of life and wanting to improve it. Envy is when you are looking to take away from someone who is in the same situation as you. The example the Bible (or catholic school) uses is a man looking at another man’s wife when his own wife loves him very much and is equal to the other woman in every way that is important.

Sloth (aka laziness) isn’t when you’re exhausted or hurting and being too tired to do anything else. Sloth is when one contributed nothing to the work and yet reaps the rewards of the work.

let me introduce you to a few 100% real, totally unphotoshopped photos!

First of all: What is Spider Rain?

Spider rain refers to events of mass ballooning. many spiders have the ability to move through air by using spider silk as a sort of parachute. that’s right: spiders can FLY.

when spiders do this en masse, you get millions of spiders travelling through the air on gossamer strands of silk (the phenomenon is also nicknamed “angel hair”). if you aren’t afraid of spiders, apparently this can be quite beautiful to watch. in fact, i would argue it should be called spider snow, not rain, bc many viewers report the combination of white silk threads and the gentle floating motion make it resemble snowfall. except for, you know. all the spiders. (video here)

Where does it happen?

Spider rain is not uncommon, though the size and location varies. Theoretically, it can happen anywhere that colonies of social spiders live. These colonies are scattered around the world, but they only consist of 23 species, compared to over 45,000 non-social spider species. Spider rain usually occurs in unpopulated or rural areas, but occasionally the wind can turn (literally) and spiders accidentally end up is urban areas, as happened in Australia, where spider rain is most common (*pretends to be shocked*).  

In fact, not all spider rain happens on purpose! Strong winds blowing through a colony can pull webs off their anchors, leaving spider and home airborne, as happened in Brazil where: “While the humans gawked below, the flustered spiders were simply trying to pull themselves together after an unexpected journey.” Spider rain is highly dependent on local weather, which provides spiders with both the ability and sometimes the need to migrate (as happened in Pakistan after widespread flooding).  

And before the Americans breathe a sign of relief–it hasn’t happened in Texas yet, but there’s a colony just east of Dallas to keep an eye on :)

How do we stop it happening?

We don’t. It’s….not really a problem? The spiders are like, really tiny, so even the venomous ones aren’t able to bite humans–our skin is just too thick for their itty bitty fangs. It’s still occasionally a pest issue, with the main issue being that their webs can be thick enough to cut off sunlight from crops.

But spider rain is mostly harmless (unless you are a spectacularly unlucky farmer), and it doesn’t happen often enough to pose a real problem. The real risk is to the spiders–most of them aren’t expected to survive the trip. Fortunately, only a small percentage of them need to in order for the colony to survive and set up shop somewhere new.

Overall, spider rain is a good thing! The spiders keep the skies free of disease-carrying insects, and in turn provide food to birds and small animals. It’s beneficial that a staple of the food chain can disperse so widely and quickly. In fact, ballooning is one of the reasons spiders are often the first animal to reappear on land that’s been destroyed. Their appearance after a fire or flood is a sign the ecosystem is recovering. which is, sort of beautiful actually.

and here’s a photo of a spider colony

I mean that the ‘gifts’ I had are useless

Reading books above my age isn’t a talent when I’m not eleven

Knowing big words isn’t a talent when I’m not a kid, it’s just growing up

Thing is, gifted children are not amazingly better than everyone else. Gifted brains just don’t work the same so they build their skills in a different order

Basically when you’re very young, most people brain learn social skills and how to interact with their peers, but gifted brains are already at the next step which is how to understand and interact with the world

That makes the stereotypical young children that are very good at math, always asking questions about how things work, very upset when they don’t know a thing

But the thing is, when everyone gets older, they’ve mastered most social skills and now turn towards understanding the world

But the gifted children have already mastered that part and are turning towards how to build social skills. Except there’s no one left to teach us about that! Because we’re late to that party

Long story short, at the end everyone, gifted or not, goes through all the necessary steps to make functioning adults, so the difference that was obvious as a child has disappeared