Axolotl

Attacks/revenge I did for Art Fight! It was my first time so all of these are my friends' characters. I had a lot of fun, so I hope to do this again next year! ^^

Marigold: @gayartistthings

Luna: KrisAF on Art Fight

Lyra: @maiiistar16

Esme: gayartistthings

Get a flu shot

Brush their teeth

Wear shoes before going outside

Not run directly into the path of an oncoming truck.

Learn ANY subject that is not directly relevant to their immediate interest. (Kids would not learn to read in order to learn about trucks or dinosaurs, especially not in the tiktok era. Goes triple for STEM subjects)

This most often comes from people whose "experience" with children maxes out at having BEEN one. And is directly countered by...ANYONE with education in childhood education, pedagogy, childcare or child welfare.

I am SORRY that you were abused by your parents, but the reason human beings even RAISE our children, evolutionary and socially speaking is because every. Single. Human child develops an ability to hurt themselves or others MUCH faster than they develop an ability to understand the consequences of their actions.

Now making emancipation of OLDER children and teenagers easier, making authorities and systems that are more likely to listen to evidence and reports coming from a child directly I full agree with. CPS is left toothless in the vast majority of situations when they really shouldn't be.

But going for the all or nothing position ignores one truth anyone who has ever been AROUND a child knows.

Children DO NOT know what is good for them and are ENTIRELY uninterested in listening to reason in ANY scenario.

“maybe they had good intentions!!”

yet when you share with them a positive experience you had with your parents the response is never:

“but what if they had bad intentions?”

Hey just wanted to let everyone know to stay clear of the user @ somnovalite. This morning, they attempted to post extremely graphic self-harm artwork of Gumball and Rob uncensored in the tawog tag. Not only that, but there's lots of past history of this user (also known as @ chimerical--creations) being a known creep and proshipper, drawing artwork of adult/child relationships (such as Rob x Mr Small ewww) and incest. Block them, and report if you can.

ARTWORK MENTIONED DOWN BELOW. Censored for obvious reasons.

a custom DNS resolver that blocks access to Fox News and other right-wing propaganda outlets

a keylogger to capture the admin password for your router so you can disable parental controls

a VPN or a virtual machine running the Tor browser to bypass access restrictions and age verification checks

your own "parental controls" browser extension, set up to send you notifications if your parents visit websites that indicate they might be spying on you (e.g. Life360)

a userscript that adds a fake virus warning popup to the donation pages of fascist political parties

have fun! make sure to do loads of reading and learn how things work so you can break them safely and effectively!

Crawford County Library Board member & censorship advocate Tammi Hamby arrested for kidnapping her disabled daughter to "teach her a lesson" about online safety

archive link

1. Do not do age verification.

its the same when people superspeed normal civilans bevause that, if for an extended period of time, would damage the civilians since the g-forces would tear them apart. kon obviously uses his ttk to shield civilians from it (or something like that-- I'm so scientist so don't quote me on this (you can correct me if I’m wrong though!)) but when it's barry or bart or wally, they dont have ttk to shield them with!

its mostly that water think though bc, just as it takes tim for a penny to fall from your hand to the floor, it takes time for water to fall from the shower head to the floor. They wouldn't be able to shower at superspeeds because they wouldn't actually be abke to get clean. They eould be abke to shower faster than average, yes, because they can lather soap on and scrub at their scalps faster, but water still needs to fall.

Bart can play them very well, his reflexes are quicker than the game itself, he thinks faster than a computer, but he cannot make a video game operate faster than it was programmed to go.

The video games in all actuality help Bart slow down and ground him to "normal speed".

Tracking (phone tracking apps are getting increasingly popular for parents)

Controlling appearance

Stopping a child from spending time around friends (grounding, taking away communication with people outside of the house)

Making a teen ask before going anywhere

And more that I don't have the energy to write out

I wrote a longish post about my feelings some years ago here

but basically, I feel like a lot of adults are very self-congratulatory about being anti-book-ban in theory, without recognising that book bans almost always target youth specifically and that you have to engage with that reality if you're going to accomplish anything. an adult "reading a banned book" doesn't fucking mean anything because that book isn't banned for them.