Formaldehyde

I love my moots who are never online and I haven't heard from them in months

I love my moots who are constantly changing their blog and URL never stays the same

I love my moots who's blog theme and URL haven't changed since the day they made it

I love my moots who are super energetic

I love my moots who are super mellow

I love my moots who I just made and still have so much to learn about them

I love my moots who I've known for so long and we're super comfortable with each other

I love my moots. All my moots.

1. Something that might surprise your moots ab you

2. Your favorite drink/soda

3. A activity/hobby you do

4. A TV show/movie you're watching rn

5. A book you're reading

6. You're favorite desert

I know these r like stupid questions but I wanted something kinds fun lol

1. Something that might surprise your moots ab you

I am hyper mobile!! I just found this out recently!

2. Your favorite drink/soda

My favorite drink is chai and my favorite soda is blackberry gingerale

3. A activity/hobby you do

I crochet!! I am currently making a small messenger bag style purse

4. A TV show/movie you're watching rn

I'm not currently watching anything but I recently finished schitt's creek and I watched but I'm a cheerleader for the first time yesterday (they are both amazing and if you haven't watched them you should)

5. A book you're reading

I've been reading the amber spyglass (third book in the his dark materials trilogy) since like March but I'm getting pretty close to the end

6. Your favorite desert

Ice cream probably

1) Something about me that might surprise my moots: I've had short stories and poetry published

2) Favorite drink/pop: Dr. Pepper

3) Activity/hobby: nonprofessional dance, and guitar playing

4) TV show I'm watching: Steven Universe

5) Book I'm reading: The Black Carnival by Harlequin Grim

6) Favorite dessert: cream cheese chocolate cupcakes 😋

1) Something about me that might surprise my moots: I was email pen pals with Marie Lu for like a month when I was 12 and working on a story. Cool stuff, I know? (popular author for people who don't know. This was when she was taking a long writing break)

2) Favorite drink/pop: Apple juice.

3) Activity/hobby: I act, draw, write...I guess I also do a lot of research projects for fun

4) TV show I'm watching: TADC (waiting to watch the last ep when it is free), and Lessons in Chemistry

5) Book I'm reading: Currently reading 3 books at once. Thy Kingdom Come (physical), The City Beautiful (ebook), and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (audiobook). Right now, The City Beautiful is my favorite.

6) Favorite dessert: Sweet potato pie with marshmallows melted on top. Yes. Yumm.

1. Something about me that might surprise my moots: Um I can feed the wild birds in my yard out of my hand.

2. Favorite drink: Chai

3. Activity/hobby: horseback riding (specifically jumping)

4. TV show I'm watching: Taskmaster, it is very silly and I love it so much. I watch it with my dad.

5. Books I'm reading: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman and the other books in the trilogy, a zoology textbook, Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall

Something that might surprise your moots ab you: Idont knoww uhhh,,,, I've got a mullet

Your favorite drink/soda: This is tough cause one of our spinterests is beverages but lately I've been a big fan of matcha

A activity/hobby you do: Games! Card games, ttrpgs, toys, video games, whatever. Ilove games. I wish my grandpa named me Epic Gamer Warrior/ref

A TV show/movie you're watching rn: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

A book you're reading: Ummm?? Technically I've started Project Hail Mary, but I don't have a physical copy so it's super on and off. I'm also reading Way of the Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Your favorite desert: Probably boba tea

Source

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

- guy at work "Yes, and -" ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff

- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the "- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*" as loud as possible

- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names

- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change