really cool hat

I remember how rare it used to be for a kid to die. I remember how we had one kid die in a car accident in my high school class: one in a decade. The school literally shut down for three days for a long weekend. It wasn't normal. It wasn't average. It was a big deal. Now in an average school system there are two or three dying of illness every year, and our government wants you to believe we're all "#BacktoNormal." I'm so tired of reading news reports about 11-year-olds dying of cardiac failure. I'm so tired of reading news reports about 15-year-olds dying of illness. I'm so tired of reading news reports about 21-year-olds having strokes. I'm so tired of people pretending like this is normal and there is no reason to avoid covid infections. Now it's business as usual when kids die. It's normal. It's average. It's no big deal.

Hiromu Arakawa’s genius is obvious throughout all of FMA but her first and biggest leap of genius was in how she crafted her protagonist. 

a good thing about having friends with kids is that you can just sow the seeds for something that you’ll never need to address again. like tonight my friend’s three year old saw me eating blue corn chips.

Checking back in years later as a person who now has a four year old and a six year old and finally understands just how awful it is to have small children randomly screeching at maximum volume in a way that only someone with lived experience can

a good thing about having kids is that you can just sow the seeds for something that you’ll never need to address again. i mean, you probably should, but you don’t gotta. like a few weeks ago, I taught the kids all about the F word and why - even though it has incredible conversational utility - you shouldn’t say it because it’s a very very bad swear word and people will get upset.