genuinely if you like the death related mysteries/fun facts that watcher brought you, mortician Caitlin Doughty covers all sorts of death related topics like iconic corpses, FAQs regarding death/dying embalming, and more. she is incredibly respectful and knowledgeable about everything and everyone she talks about in her videos, you should check her out <3
In addition to being pastors, my parents were both also professional teachers. My mom has a master's in education.
I still wish I wasn't homeschooled.
Like, I run into folks now who get super excited when I tell them I was homeschooled because they're thinking about homeschooling if they ever have a kid and want intel, and they get super grumpy and dismissive and defensive when I tell them how absolutely debilitating it was socially, and that it really wasn't worth it just to be a year ahead in math.
And part of that is this sense that homeschooling is an opportunity for you to customize your child. It's usually an extension of a broader fantasy that that's what parenthood is about. That you can minmax your child's stats and construct the perfect build, and the only reason everyone's all screwed up is just that nobody sat down and really micromanaged their child's education enough. Other teachers (and peers, for that matter) might steer them in directions you don't want.
Even when done well, homeschooling is about removing those outside influences so you can control their environment and prioritize your own goals for them. It's a magnet for people with narcissism and control issues as a result, it's a magnet for fundamentalists, but it's also a magnet for idealists. Sometimes it even works out great, hell, there are people who for accessibility reasons will likely be taught far better at home. But that's more a "lesser of two evils" situation.
One person cannot be smarter in every single subject than every single teacher that the kid would ever have. They can't singlehandedly replace the socialization, the networking, the mentorship, and the life experiences. And to think that they can borders on megalomania.
FALLOUT NEW VEGAS IS ON STEAM FOR 3 DOLLARS
all descriptions gender neutral, based on vibes only
MY FAVORITE DAY
Neil!!!
Adapting a movie into a pinball machine is a surprisingly difficult task. But the Princess bride pinball machine does it really well!
LIKE THIS POST SO I CAN BOOP YOU!!!
I WANT CAT PAW BADGES!
Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen
the funniest part is that like my dash isnt even that active rn its just a handful of us online booping each other and reblogging all the same posts like we have the zoomies
Capcom. You had one job.
Apparently dragon's dogma 2 is filled with micro transactions.... Even you change your character appearance?? Or create a new game??
Hey guys, just putting out a PSA because now that's THREE people I know of who've got these identical messages on Discord last night alone.
If a friend messages you apologising because someone "with a similar username to you" tried to deceive them so they reported your account as hacked, and sends an image of a discord email, your friend is the one who has been hacked.
It's hard to read in the screenshot (sorry!) but it looks like the "advice" is something like "file a friend request with our CORPORATE HEAD OF SECURITY to open your case. You have 12 hours to do so or we might suspend your account."
I've been told that if you do contact that user, they try to get you to "prove" you own the account by making a "100% refundable transaction" to them. Which is so scummy.
Scammers catch people out by imposing a time limit and dramatic consequences of not acting fast enough. In that moment of panic, you might not figure out it's suspicious, especially when the email looks so real (it will have your screen-name in it to make it seem legit, but the request code will likely be identical to the one in this post, #40557035) and you're worried about both an impersonator AND losing your account.
If you get sent the above message, try to let your friend know through other ways (socials, etc) that they've been hacked. If you are ever worried, your best bet is to check Discord's website and ask for help through their support page, which has a section for hacked accounts.
some people in one of my circles almost got scammed by this No Text To Speech on Youtube has some great information on this and other Discord scams that have been going around exercise caution and if you are getting link from somebody to do something critical and account-related, be very wary
monogamy is so weird. you at least need to have a third person to balance things out you cannot just have two people come on
someone is going to get tired if you’re all attention all the time but when you don’t have attention you get lonely. you need to have a third person so you don’t burn each other out and have someone to be around when you need space. come on
“But but i like monogamy so I can be my partner’s favorite person” do better. be two people’s favorite person
My therapist just told me my problem is that I need to write more fanfiction.
This sounds fake but the logic behind it is actually really interesting? She said obsession with a new fandom triggers quick dopamine release when we consume all this related content--it's easy and addictive.
What we're NOT getting is that 'slow dopamine' that's more sustainable and engaging. That's the kind we get from DOING things that take effort but are ultimately rewarding.
So like, she suggested that writing fic and making fanart are ways to balance the quick dopamine of watching a show/reading fic with the slow dopamine of working at something that takes effort.
Moral of the story is you should engage in the process of creation around your favorite things. You'll feel better for it.
Oh.
OH.
Let's all go do fandom.
FOR SCIENCE!
:)
time for an ancient tradition….. how many of these artists have you heard of? miraculously i’m at 42
