US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains
I think we should do this but leave Colorado alone so there’s just an extremely jarring rectangle in one part of this
I like how you think.
enough. to the Box with you
Truth emerging from the dirt to shame mankind
near-life experience
Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-
Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me
My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten
the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this
not again
When I see people sharing so much of their kids' lives, I think about that one time my child told a joke, I shared that joke with ONE FRIEND in a private conversation, and my child said "can you please ask me next time, before you tell people something about me?"
And, yes, I absolutely should. So I apologized, and now I ask.
"I love that video of you, can I show it to a friend?"
"Can I tell a friend about how clever you were just now?"
"Can I share this in the family group chat?"
"Can I show your art to grandma and grandpa?"
And it's not like my kids don't like when I share their jokes and puns and fun moments. They love it! But they want to have control over what I share with people. Even without their faces or their names. Even people we know and trust.
And they deserve to have that control.
My children are small so the examples are small. They wanted me to ask, so I ask. Just like being told to kiss my grandma's cheek when I was a kid was far from traumatizing, but I don't do that with my kids because it's a way to practice consent and become aware of bodily autonomy.
It gets both me and them in the habit of asking for consent and drawing boundaries and seeing the lines between their life and my life, their stories and my stories.
Yesterday night a lady came through our drive through and was like “the way the planets are aligning and the fact that we’re getting a blood moon has me worried. I sense severe werewolf activities on the horizon. You better walk your coworker to her car tonight after you’ve closed” and I didn’t even know what to say I was just like “yes ma’am”
You heard that and just went <END DIALOGUE>
this is what i was talking about by the way
[video description: a male deer swiftly trots around a red truck near a wooded area toward a female deer. he repeatedly sticks his tongue out as the other deer begins trotting away faster. he eventually stops chasing her and lets out a long groan.
image description: a screenshot of a post by OP with the “underwater filter” that reads, “(chases a girl around w my tongue out) AROOGA AROOOOGA…..! (she runs away and I stop for a moment before letting out an agony filled scream)”. /end ID]
one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off
