#child leashes

Mine? Oh, I've just been arguing with this random person online who insists on convincing me that child leashes are such a massive necessity that you are tempting fate if you don't use them.

During this conversation, I also told them how in my country it's completely normal to leave your baby in their pram outside while you shop or go inside a cafe etc. The conversation even encouraged me to research it for a bit, and no babies have been stolen from their prams in my country since 1965. I knew this was such a non-problem here, but holy crap was that just really cool to read. I shared it with them and what did they say?

At this point, it became clear to me that either they just want to be right or they want me to be wrong so much that they almost kind of wish for this "record" to be broken? 🤨

(Millennial tree is the one taking the picture)

Wind archer, Clover and Honeydew melon, aka tired oldest sibling, bard, and small wasp child who fights bee's

I wanna talk about this au so bad so I am.

The village turns into a sort of new base of operations for Chris and his team as  everyone's like... dead

The lords and the winters still live in the village

This is because Chris can’t really let a bunch of somewhat hostile or easily aggravated bio weapons out in the wild

Chris is working on how to reverse the effects of the mold or stabilize it for Ethan and Rose’s sake (Also Moreau’s cause watching him exist like that is painful)

The mold makes those infected by it feel a bond much like a family, so this is why the lords saw Miranda as a literal mother figure

This is also why they immediately put Ethan, the new mold god, in the position of “father”

However, if a strong enough outside connection or emotional reaction happens you can ignore/break the bond

Why Karl was able to defy her so much. (It really was a gut punch to find out she never cared)

Karl doesn’t see him like he saw Miranda but is grateful to him

Ethan is kinda weirded out by this but he also understands seeing as he literally died to have his family back

Also like he’s 100% sure they are centuries older than him and it’s weird they call him Father

He enables it but Ethan also tries to pull them out of the mindset that he’s in charge of them

Ethan has mold abilities but can’t use them unless highly stressed

Rose can control the mold but she’s a whole baby so she also can’t

Chris is working on renovating the village to be more baby and Moreau friendly

Everyone is generally ok with this situation but it’s hella awkward

I was leashed as a child and I hated it. I'm not against adults wearing leashes in public though.

Mmhmm. I’ve heard that kind of thing a lot (well, I say a lot, what I mean is “exclusively, but a very small sample size”) from people who were leashed as a kid. 

My parents got me a leash when I was little because my ADHD ass kept wandering off, but they never ended up using it, and just held my hand instead. Leashes can be super helpful for keeping track of kids, especially if your hands are full or if they need to run around a little to let off energy. Personally, they make me kinda uncomfortable, but I don't know why.

I mean my parents are not at all people to emulate, but I craved being on a leash (well actually, being on a rope tied to each of our belt loops because we were poor and ropes were available but like whatever) because it meant that I didn’t have to necessarily spend all my time at museums or whatever attached to my mother’s side.

But, some people get the feeling that it’s restricting a child’s movement in some way, which is Bad. I can sort of see what they’re saying, except,

Ropes/leads/whatever are significantly longer than a person’s arm, and because I’ve been snatched before (god, what hasn’t happened in my life), and ropes are also a hell of a lot stronger than someone’s hand when they’re having a relaxing stroll around the fairgrounds late at night.