Virgil 💜

We were all so wrapped up in dad jokes that we forgot grandpa humor

grandpa humor is dad jokes aged like fine wine

Once upon a time, two androids met by chance on the street, that was love at first sight, they just didn’t know it by then… :)))))

Thank goodness!!

Window wings, fragile panes

Shield me from the dark

Warm me with your spark

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Full resolution images and painting videos on Patreon

Part of my glass wings series

How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

Reblog to literally save a life

whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”

This is important, even if it doesn’t work with your blog theme REBLOG IT!!!!

Women need to know this, not all of us have ever been told what we need to look out for!

yeah reblogging especially for my transmasc fellows who (like me) might be real uncomfortable with their chests and not know what to watch out for because we try to avoid this kind of thing (just me? okay)

Cis Men need to know it too.  They can get breast cancer even though the odds are lower.

Everyone needs to know Breast cancer symptoms

NB 👏 Does 👏 Not 👏 Mean 👏 Woman 👏 Lite

every single person who uses “nonbinary” as a stand-in for “people i consider to be women” needs to do some work on themselves, no matter their gender, sexuality, or any other marginalization

A comic (?) about my love of weird little bats for this halloween

Reblog if you appreciate all the world’s goofy bats

can we talk about how this fucking pbs show aimed at little kids easily talked about how anxiety is stressful but normal

Ok no but can we talk about this entire episode? 

It was called April 9th, and it was actually a response to the 9/11 attacks. It didn’t talk about the attacks themselves, but rather focused on teaching kids to deal with the all of the emotions that they might be feeling as a result. They set up a situation that might evoke similar emotions in children: a massive fire at the school.

Arthur’s dad was in the fire, so (as you can see above), Arthur is constantly worried about his dad’s safety.

Sue Ellen is grieving because her journal, which contained a huge amount of precious memories, was destroyed in the fire. Muffy is confused why she can’t just cheer Sue Ellen up by giving her a new journal.

Buster wasn’t at school that day, and feels confused and guilty that he isn’t sad about the fire like the other kids. He then befriends the school janitor, who has to retire due to an injury that, at his age, is pretty serious.

Binky actually saw the flames, and is constantly traumatized by the event. He doesn’t tell anyone because he feels like he would lose his tough-guy reputation if he admitted that he was scared.

The episode teaches kids that all of these emotions are perfectly normal and natural, that there’s not one right way to feel, and that even if it takes a while, things are going to be okay.

The thing that makes this show so great, in my opinion, is that it knows that kids are intellegent and strong enough to deal with these things if you present them in the right way. It doesn’t hide them, it doesn’t sugar coat them, it just presents them in a way that children can understand and shows them how to deal with them.

pretty incredible

Because my partner and I were just talking about the Wonka thing before this crossed my dash, it struck me that this is the exact opposite way of looking at children.

As stated above, the show clearly respects that children are human beings and treats them as such, even as it makes sure to stay age-appropriate with the language and situations, etc. (and not just in the “nsfw” way, but in the way that pays attention to how children learn and what the target age group is likely able to understand)

On the other hand, you have the wonka thing. And the flood of AI-written children’s books. These people view children (and, by extension, their parents) as easy marks. They have zero concern or respect for children as people. Due to their youth and lack of experience, kids are thought of as “stupid” and considered the easiest audience to scam out of money.

Comparing PBS kids shows with the stuff put on Youtube for kids is so depressing. Content mills are awful and Youtube has broken their court mandate to protect kids from them.

Roxy decided that she needed to be in the photo

This makes me laugh so hard. Like a photobombing bird torpedo.

Congratulations on your recreation of the classic surrealist painting Man in a Bowler Hat by Rene Magritte (1964)

oh my god.

Woman with a Necklace (2016)

graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

Lynx by Raymond Barlow

band-aid ^-^

this site has one setting

I’m laughing, but there’s a super useful corollary, which my husband calls “the Red Balloon.” He was a defense lawyer and had a fair number of drug addicts come through, and there is a thing where if you’re like, on your first offense, they’ll do a thing where you can go to treatment and if you complete it they’ll take the conviction off your record.  And he would tell his clients, “Look, everyone’s going to tell you not to do drugs. They’re going to say it over and over again. And it’s like, if people tell you not to think of a white elephant, you’re going to think of a white elephant. But the trick to not thinking about a white elephant is to think of a red balloon. So you need to find your red balloon. For some people it’s yoga. For others it’s woodworking. For some people it’s scrapbooking or gardening or any of a long list of things to do. They focus on that, it’s a lot easier to succeed in ignoring the white elephant.” So yeah, “watch yourself” is one thing… but the better idea is to watch something else. (Even if it’s fanfic about werewolves fucking.)

It’s a form of productive dissociation, and is super, super helpful. It’s easy for me to get bogged down in how much pain I’m in… but some of the most painful periods of my life have also been the most productive, writing-wise, because writing is one of my red balloons. 

There is a phrase I use A LOT in my parenting and my son gets very sick of it, but it’s true:

The thing you practise is the thing you get good at.

You may not intentionally be practicing “being grumpy” but if you don’t put effort into practicing “not being grumpy” then I’m afraid that’s what you’re doing. It’s hard! It’s really hard! Sometimes, for some things, it’s pretty much impossible and that sucks!

But being carefully aware that you are going to get good at the things you do most of is a good way to be more careful of what those things are. If that makes sense.

You gotta appreciate sometimes how tumblr works in such a way that everyone who wants to reblog this interesting or useful psychological advice is also forced to reblog the thing about werewolf fucking

Bloom at Night 🌷

Damn girl, go for the jugular

Inspo here