Everything's Wrong With Me...

This happened btw

Spirited (2022) - Good Afternoon | Scrooge (1970) - Thank You Very Much

Bonus:

1. Small selfish sacrifices for your own benefit leading to becoming selfless and willing to risk your life for the happiness and prosperity of the next generation, to do better by them than their families and communities will

2. Santa's neurodivergent child cares so so so deeply about every single kid on this planet, he doesn't care if it's efficient, he doesn't care if it makes sense or how much it terrifies him, he is going to make sure this random little girl in Cornwall feels loved and important (the way he doesn't-)

3. Can a horrible human being ever be redeemed? Can I ever truly cancel out all the badness I put into the world, even after more than a century of helping humanity from the afterlife and refusing to let myself rest or to dream of something more, because I have to keep making the world a better place in bigger and better ways, if I don't how will I ever make up for the harm I caused?

Is that—

Is that a fucking dog in the hall of the redeemed?!?!

Maybe there's no magic wand Maybe there's no switch to flip Some days you may soar beyond And some days you start to slip

And whether it's Christmas Day Or a random day in May You're gonna wanna say That you tried the best you could And a little is enough

1. You need a Big Tree to properly support a tree house with adequate safety for multiple children to use and

2. You need an adult to build a safe one that is more than just a platform. (Most adults are unwilling to build one nowadays due to insurance complications with injury on one's property) 😑

3. Platform style probably started life as a deer hunting stand.

But here's some examples of the platform playland houses:

If you notice, these are 1. Expensive - and these are the Assemble it yourself types. So both time and money.

2. Require Lots of Yard space to setup as compared to 1 tree

3. Only make a good fort for all ages of child if the fort is on the ground. Otherwise your max age capacity is probably 10 years old.

4. Not as private as a tree house. (The height difference and sound dispersion through the leaves are key factors here)

When you look up tree houses now, they are deliberately built for adults for the whimsy.

For the first time in US history, mass amounts of children were not required to get jobs to support the family (below; poster circa 1941-1945)

and weren't on family farms but lived in a new thing called a "suburb." Child deaths plunged, but child boredom was an imminent threat. Something had to be done, and that one guy on the street with carpentry skills because he came from an era where if you needed a house you built it yourself with your own hands, he was the one to do it!

Then, families got smaller, crime got bigger, trees got cut down, lawsuits frightened folk, and close-knit neighborhoods gradually fell apart.

When you hear about the "tree-huggers" among the generation of boomers that grew up to become hippies, some of them were trying to protect the old trees their generation (and generations before them) had played in as kids. They lived in an era that did not care about any sentiment that did not support "progress" and financial gain. The tree that held the treehouse could be a parking spot instead, or an apartment bloc, or a shopping center. They were publicly mocked for wanting to keep a living thing that reminded them of treehouses and freedom and childhood.

a comic about verbal words :3