Gearbird

it’s fucking disgusting that i just lost 6 followers

If you think like that, please don’t ever have children.

kids are not your chance to make the abuse you suffered “worth it” by getting to finally be the rule-maker

Dragonsspire’s parents did it right

this was my childhood in a nutshell. my dad even took my door off its hinges at one point because I wanted privacy and would leave it so it was harder to see inside. I only got my own laptop during a brief stint in homeschooling, and I didn’t get to know the password. There were passwords on TV as well, and if it was rated anything above a TV-Y7, we had to ask one of them to type the password in so we could watch it, which sucked, because at the time my fav shows were Doctor Who (TV-13) and Transformers Prime (TV-PG) so I couldn’t watch anything i wanted to without their say-so. I had to ask to do anything, and they HATED it if I just sat inside. My dad even went as far as to confiscate my journals I had secretly had, and read through them, didn’t like what he read, and so he kept them to hold over my head and guilt trip me with. I once got yelled at for reading a book all day. I wasn’t even allowed to sleep in, because “Idle hands are the devils tools” and “Early bird gets the worm.” however on Saturdays and Sundays, I wasn’t allowed to leave bed for any reason until 8:00 AM. and I do mean ANY reason. If I was thirsty, too bad. if I had to go to the bathroom, hold it. If I couldn’t sleep, then just sit there. and the worst part was I couldn’t even have a book with me, because my dad would get upset that it wasn’t put away, and would say “That’s not where books belong.” and the threatened me if I my feet so much as touched the ground before 8:00, and that they would know if I did because “perhaps we’ve hidden audio recorders in here. we aren’t saying we did, but we also aren’t saying we didn’t.” I was happy to go to school because I was way less restricted there than at home. I also wasn’t allowed to play video games because they were what caused people to commit mass shootings. all of this to say take it from me, restricting privacy and taking away trust for NO REASON AT ALL from your kids isn’t good for them and it doesn’t build character, it builds resentment and fear because they feel they can’t be who they are. then again, my parents also had a strict idea of who i was supposed to be and become...and I didn’t become that person. I feel like most parents would know that shit isn’t right. Give them their privacy. don’t push them to tell you how their day was. let them come to you about it.   

Never was a more appropriate post right now.

She and her son deserve JUSTICE

Plz help this woman

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@trans-wooloo

Some girl in my class was talking about McDonald’s shamrock shakes and this yeehaw dude in cowboy boots said they suck and then he looked me in the eyes and said “what you’re gonna do is go to Arby’s, and get yourself a mint chocolate chip shake.” And he said it with such authority and certainty that I did so as soon as I got in my car

I see your concern y’all but this wasn’t a man telling me what to do. This is a man who had important knowledge and shared it with me. He was aiding me on a quest I didn’t even know I was on.

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

minecraft music… has a sadness to it… this cannot be denied

minecraft music feels like knowing you can’t go home because it’s not there anymore

because a creeper mcfucking exploded it

if you relate to having an idea for a story for 4 to 8 years with almost zero progress towards actually writing it down, clap your hands

This post kicked down my door, came into my house and publicly shamed me in front of God, my mother, and my cat.

Call me vain but one of my personal development goals is to not be a draining person. I want people to feel listened to and refreshed after spending time with me.