Florida's a long way from Rhode Island

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

Was just informed by my mom that I do in fact have ADHD and the reason I thought I didn’t was because ever since I was seven whenever I got super energetic my mom would have me go chop wood so now when I’m feeling The ADHD I go chop wood and I thought it was just some sort of routine I started when I was little and wanted to blow off steam

I’d also like to point out that my sister has a really hard time staying present (I can’t remember the term because we’ve always called it Tethered at my house) and whenever she’s feeling Untethered my mom has her knead bread and make syrup because they’re repetitive and easy things to do that ground her

Now that I’m thinking about it- my brother has days where he doesn’t talk and doesn’t eat unless he’s prompted, and on those days my mom sits him down in the fish pond in the backyard and plays Mozart and because he’s so used to that being his wake up he always comes back in after like an hour rambling about random things

Oh yeah and when it rains my mom has a required hour where we all have to go outside and run around and whoever finds the most worms for the garden wins and then we go inside and my mom makes us tea and we watch Studio Ghibli movies

Wait!!! When one of us has a bad day at school we make a fire in the backyard and roast homemade sausages and my mom tells us stories until we laugh and then she tucks is in bed like we’re five again and sings us songs

Uh.... wait guys is my mom a witch raising a bunch of fae kids hold on-

“I didn’t know I had adhd because my mom gave me such an effective coping mechanism” is such a high bar to clear and she soared over it like a space-plane.

@tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

Hiding knowledge from kids will not benefit them but only render them helpless when faced with the unknown

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation 

You are a bug in bug hell but your spider torturer so fucking bad at their job that the devil himself has to grab you with his gay pitchfork and help them

imagine this heat and you roll over in bed an there’s some cunt there next to you. bruv id be inconsolable

remember when linguini brought a rat he found back to his apartment and got all embarrassed and was like it’s not much. to the rat

i work as an actor at a haunted house and this little girl who was dressed as a cat came through she saw me and was like “no thank you please dont get closer i am already scared” and i was like alright i appreciate the good manners ill back off. so her dad picks her up and starts going down the rest of my dark hall and i just hear her yell “everybody wait! i dropped my ears” so i find them and give them to her dad and she goes “thank you but i hope i never see you again goodbye” and waved over her dads shoulder. i waved back and she gave me a thumbs up. honestly this kid has a lot of guts props for being so polite when shes terrified i hope she gets a lot of candy this year

[cut to a kiosk on legs, sipping a boba, while wandering into the nearest forest on chicken legs]

Oh my goodness you're my hero this is so beautiful

Holy fuck my job got fan art

HOLY SHIT

I don't think its the same. Isn't the floor pattern different?

I’ve been reading short stories recently because sometimes you want something quick but hella good, and I thought this would be a good time to encourage folks to check out this year’s nominees for the 2026 Hugo Awards for short stories! They’re all worth reading and available for free online.

i think part of what made supergirl so special is that the whole time watching i never felt like kara was sexualized or objectified at all, normally in women superhero movies theyre in skintight suits or have perfect makeup on or there's a fight scene that just so happens to lift up their skirt (and that did happen but she was wearing a skort because of course you would if you can FLY) but that just didnt happen. her hair is messed up basically the entire movie and even at the heroic full body shot at the end she's just floating over everyone, not saying some stupid "you just got beat up by a lady!" one liner or doing some unrealistic pose just to make a good screenshot. she was always just a person. and parts of the story definitely connect to her more because she is a woman but being a woman didnt get in the way of being a person (...kryptonian).

this might be kind of a reach but is there a way for printers to connect to devices so that documents can be printed from them