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Particular Scarf

@particularscarf / particularscarf.tumblr.com

36, single mom, writer, fangirl. Cis, bi, she/her. Mostly Tom Hiddleston but multi-fandom and whatever else I like. Ask me stuff!
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i feel like people got so weird about age gaps in this very abstract sense that now there's this taboo about being friends with someone who's a few years older or younger than u....like, i have friends in their 70s and i have friends in their early 20s and im always friendly with teenagers & kids too because they all deserve to have adult friends in their lives who they can trust! other people projecting their gross shit onto those friendships is not my problem

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indieninja92

guess what! its good for us to have intergenerational friendships actually! its good for all of us to have healthy, friendly, respectful relationships with people of different ages! it works in all directions!

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Do you ever see something that fills you with so much joy that if you don’t share it with people you’re going to explode? Yeah that’s this

🌺 Cheyenne

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runcibility

I really super appreciate that the music wasn’t dubbed over, but live audio was included because I cannot overemphasize HOW MUCH the flailing noises add to this

I don’t know who this person is or where they are but I adore them and their absolute commitment to being the very best of whatever the fuck this is that they are.

SHRIMP! HEAVEN! NOW!

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i should be very clear that i have nothing but sympathy for everyone who uses facebook, instagram, whatsapp, and all other social media run by the same company that owns them and has been affected by the mass outage of communications through them. it's very satisfying to see such a massively irresponsible, malicious and corrupt corporate empire fall victim to such a blow to its ability to make profits and reputation, but i completely respect everyone who uses it because it's the best or only option and is frustrated and upset that their ability to communicate with friends, family and other important connections has been made much harder.

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leepacey

did you guys see yesterday that a whistleblower came forward and said that facebook knows how to remove the conspiracy theories and nazis but chooses not to because of the ad revenue those kinds of things bring in (and actively turned off the bare minimum safeguards they had when biden won the election), and now today, immediately following this whistleblower’s report: facebook, instagram, whatsapp, and all the sites owned by facebook are mysteriously down and have been down for over two hours now

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Next time you go to write a ten year old child, please know that mine just gave me a fairly accurate explanation of fiat versus commodity currencies, in those terms. So for goodness sake, just have them talk like the adults they’re around most.

Also I saw a post yesterday that said that children under ten don’t understand sarcasm, and I assure you, that is not the case.

I talked like an adult when I was 10. So did all of my friends. Writing children believably is not about making them not know stuff, or making them struggle to express themselves. Kids can be very knowledgeable and very expressive, especially if they’re little book weirdos like I was.

To write a believable child, DO NOT make them:

- dumb

- inarticulate

- prone to outbursts

- superlatively innocent

DO make them:

- totally incapable of accurately calculating delayed gratification or the long-term consequences of their actions

- intermittently sociopathic

- sometimes choose to lie in a way that cannot possibly be believed, due to a dearth of life experience making it impossible to determine the likelihood of their own statements

- only sometimes, profoundly weird

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lacylu42

I just want to add: intermittent competence. 

My 10 year old can do her own laundry, cook simple meals, look after pets, carry on a sophisticated conversation, make jokes that will make adults laugh (with her) for days, and do long division, but sometimes wears the same pair of underwear for several days in a row or forgets to wash the conditioner out of her hair. 

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heywriters

My favorite thing about kids of all ages but especially pre-adolescents is they will casually observe and absorb whatever older kids and adults are doing and be doing it too within a day.

Also, if your little kid has older siblings/kids they spend time with, they have the advantage of learning stuff sooner than expected. Older kids are who you learn dirty, dangerous, and “grown up” knowledge from. If adults won’t tell you, older kids are only too happy to sound wise.

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hyrude

this is the text of good fortune, reblog in 60 seconds and $1200 will spontaneously materialize in your bank account🙏🙌💪🏻😤

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