Kimberly Tanskanen

“Come on,” Briar whispered in Tris’s ear. He got an arm around her waist, to steady her. Tris’s shakes were much worse. “Another one of those and you’ll faint for certain.”

Nodding weakly, she let him help her down the stairs.

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia

Cave of Crystals, Mexico

Socotra Island, Yemen

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Explain the science of taste buds to children, tell them it’s okay they don’t like certain tastes because it means their body is trying to keep them safe, and tell them they might want to retry foods throughout their life because they’ll taste different as they age. Every single time I’ve done this the child has been excited to retry foods as they grow

Also undiagnosed allergies and especially intolerances are a thing.

So I was raised in a ‘clean plate club’ house. I remember being forced to sit at the table for literal hours because I *could not* choke down canned spinach. Gag reflex every time I tried to take a bite. To this day I can’t even smell it (found out I love it fresh years later, though!).

So when I became a parent I swore I would never do that to my kid. I make him have one ‘try it bite’, and if he’s not into it then that’s okay! Knowing he had that power, he would accept some and reject others. Some were vegetables or fruits, but his biggest turn off? Potatoes.

My dudes, I cried over this. I am Irish American. I grew up eating potatoes literally daily, sometimes at multiple meals. But I realized that, 1) potatoes are not the worst thing for him to dislike - at least he loves most veggies! And 2) because I never forced him to eat them he was more than willing to *keep* trying them! Still not a winner when they’re mashed, but he’ll eat them in things most times.

So now that same son is 12. He was diagnosed with autism along the way, and they warned me that he may react strongly to some food textures. I had already figured this out, and because of our food policies in my house he was never forced to eat anything he couldn’t stomach.

He does eat whatever I make most nights, and he’s an *astonishingly* unpicky eater. But the coolest thing? He’ll try any kind of food. And I mean ANY. I don’t know many Midwestern American kids who are perfectly calm and willing when Mom puts shakshuka on the table. His verdict? It was a bit spicy but he loved it and happily eats it whenever I make it (I make it with sweet paprika now instead of my good spicy paprika).

as a grown ass autistic adult, i now have ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder) and food is a barely navigable nightmare for me.