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Hi if you've seen anything about the Indian student protests most of the on the ground reporting is by an independent news organization called PeekTV. They've been facing significant censorship on Instagram, their reporters/co-founders got tear gassed during the protests and they've been subject to many many threats from the incumbent government and their followers. If you're someone who has the means maybe consider donating something to them so they can keep running one of the only media platforms with a spine in this country.

other comic sites for fellow rco orphans (check out the reblog, tumblr seems to be hiding the other post from the tags)

if i was a soccer player i'd simply kick that ball in the goal instead of wasting everyone's time

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

i do think children tend to like me & learn from me bc i have a personality & interests around them. like u have 2 strike a balance & be aware of their age + maturity level & keep their social + emotional + cognitive development at the forefront of ur mind ofc but saying "i like this thing even if u don't" and "im doing this for myself not for you" can lead to positive outcomes. today i sat on the grass by myself with a book about earthquakes and volcanoes aimed at children much older than the preschoolers & soon one of them approached me to ask "why are you reading that?" so i said "because it's interesting and i want to." ten minutes later i had a cluster of kids around me asking me what all the pictures were of & asking me to explain earthquake drills & ash clouds & tsunamis. they weren't old enough to read the text & they wouldn't have benefited from me reading something that complex aloud but they still learned something from the book bc they actively engaged w it. & they actively engaged w it bc they could see that i liked it & i didn't think it was beneath me.

children want to know what you're doing & why you're doing it & they often want to do it too. but when they try to join in they're frequently rebuffed bc u r doing Grown-Up Things & they should just go do Child Things elsewhere. or else u r doing Child Things with them but they're aware that u r in a sense "sacrificing" your time for them or doing something u don't really like for their benefit. the implication being that anything they like is beneath u & anything u like is inaccessible to them. so if u can find something u like & are interested in & welcome them wholeheartedly if they seem interested & want to join u that can really be huge for them. most things can be adapted to their developmental level. i read a book about ambulances to a group of preschoolers once & quizzed them afterwards & they had a blast. now they know what an emergency is & what number to call & who will come and help them. they don't need to be shielded from the fact that people get sick or hurt & sometimes die – they learned that there are people who will help them if they ask & that hospitals save people. & i personally think that's better for their development than treating them like they live in a different world from you with different, lesser concerns.

I do really love it when women write graphic and fucked up things. I feel like so often people react to fucked up fiction with “of course a disgusting man would write this 🙄” and it often carries an unspoken (honestly sometimes spoken) message of “a woman’s PURE and DELICATE and FEMININE mind could NEVER think of something this VILE”. Thank you women in fucked up fiction 🫡

okay this is a list of exclusively bangers, not even counting the fact that WE HEXED THE MOON is on here which obviously makes me feel joyous. but kushiel's dart fuckin RULES as did on sundays she picked flowers and patricia wants to cuddle. 10/10 no notes

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

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!