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“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

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On a practical level, what exactly is going to happen?

A teenager will read the word 'cock'? A teenager will read the words 'graphic evisceration'?

Except they probably won't read the latter because fanfiction.lol will be playing by Canada's No Fun rulebook. No underage. No slasher horror as kink. BDSM is on thin ice. etc.

Like... are these 8-year-olds or 16-year-olds, dude? I frankly don't care that every 8-year-old already knows every common swearword and genitalia term and fake sex act nobody actually does that only exists on Urban Dictionary and in jokes told by said 8-year-olds anyway, but I'm assuming that Brennan wants marginally competent tag wranglers, so that would likely mean older teens whom I would never bother restricting the fiction reading habits of in the first place, much less the metadata reading habits.

I read explicit romance novels as a teenager. I read horror novels. That, to me, is both commonplace and perfectly healthy for a teen.

Do you disagree?

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

Double-sided tape, Vincent thinks to himself fiercely

They see electricity, the same electricity of your brain. If something is not charged they can't see anything at all, and a room of non-conductive objects would be a complete sensory deprecation chamber. They can see a little bit, but they are nearly blind and only use it to notice sudden changes. If you flash a light at them they scream. Instead they just bring a device that generates a charge everywhere they go. They claim their whole planet is charged, but you have doubts

This apparently allows them to see secrets of the universe. They knew about the big bang through out their entire history, because they can apparently just see the beginning of the universe. They find it beautiful, but not all that interesting. You are jealous

Despite being in space, they have not yet discovered steel or had the industrial revolution. It's basically still alchemists and philosophers, but the alchemy and philosophy works and got them to space. You are no longer jealous

They rely on the temperature being way below 40 degrees Fahrenheit so all the fat stays solid and frozen, and die if it's warm. They consider you burning

They get all their energy from air, like eating, to the point they cannot hold their breath at all. They get other things from food, but refuse to prepare it aside from digestion. They just plop it in basically untouched

They age in dog years, dying a few months after turning 9, and only reach adulthood at age 4. That's an absurd amount of time to spend as a child. The one you met is apparently 5 and considers himself a mature adult. The tantrums say otherwise. Yes, he also has arcane knowledge naturally. You are more surprised they live this long considering everything else about them

They have 4 genders and assigned you one, maybe randomly. Kind of rude, apparently very complex, but they have no idea how to explain it. You aren't asking

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"