before there were blorbos there were little meow meows and before there were little meow meows there were cinnamon rolls

unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

Also, is ‘friend of the family’ not a thing any more? At thirteen I was good friends with a 27-year-old whose family had been friends with mine for three generations at that point. Our generations were a bit out of sync (due to differences in when people had kids) but it didn’t stop us being friends.

Adults being friends with kids is so fucking important too. Like, if a kid is in danger from an ACTUAL creepy adult, they don't always feel safe going to their established authority figures. Speaking from experience. As a child, I had approached those with authority (parents, teachers, principals, ect) with my problems. More often than not, I was treated like I was to blame, even if I wasn't. While it is possible that they would take a worse situation more seriously, as a child, my mind assumed that they would hurt me in a measure equal to the problem presented. But with adults I considered friends? Ones that tried to make my words feel heard and valuable, no matter how trivial? Those were the ones I trusted to tell my problems to. While I think it's important to observe a relationship between an adult and a child, just in case, there is nothing weird, nor wrong, nor predatory about it inherently. Especially if it's surface level, like some of the examples given by users above. Some random adult being kind and teaching me about pokemon cards and talking about pokemon with me at a cardstore, and that's the extent of our interactions together, is absolutely nothing.

i feel like whenever people discuss hatsune mikus age its always either "hatsune miku is literally 16 you cant treat her like an adult" or "hatsune miku is a piece of software with no thoughts or feelings you can do whatever" but never the imo more interesting "hatsune miku is a marketing mascot designed to be a virtual idol, what does it say about the idol industry that the people involved considered 16 to be the perfect age to assign her. why do so many vtubers played by adult women have 16 on their profile. why are so many idol anime about highschoolers. can we talk about the contexts and implications please please please please-"

and this isnt a "japan bad lol" thing theres so many characters out there who are functionally treated as adults but designated to be in their late teens. i think the oldest (official) disney princess is like. 21. its a feature of how society at large treats 16-25 as the only viable window of attractiveness yknow. the dicaprio problem. its everywhere once you look for it unfortunately and even characters i love are not exempt from reflecting the bias.

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills