Serious talk:

When people say adults shouldn't be friends with kids, it bugs me. True honest adults care for their internet children and want to take care of them. No matter how old you are, there is this horrible taboo that if you're an adult you shouldn't be friend minors. Those adults should be willing to explain to minors what to do for safety. Some people genuinely care about their adopted fandom kids and want to relate to them- to help them- to share their experiences with their mistakes so that they can be protected against the evils of others.

I want children to be wary. I want their self esteem to soar and I want them to feel comfortable and happy with who they are. They deserve no less. They are our future and the only hope that things will change for the better.

Especially for those children who's real parents are abusive. They often times have no one else. So if you see a child struggling, help them if you can. Even if it's distracting them with happy thoughts and special interests and hyperfixations.

They need good adults around to help them more than ever. I know that there are some horrific adults out there, but please don't think of all adult child relationships as abusive. I would take bullets for my Once-ler kids. End of story. Many bullets. The children of this fandom are my lifeline.

Literally anyone meeting bruce and his family for the first time: So how did you get so many kids by 30?

Dick: HE WAS A TEENAGE DELINQUENT

Jason: *shouting over him* HE LEFT MY MOTHER AT THE ALTAR

*tim is sitting, just happy to be included*

Bruce: BE-quiet.  They're ADOPTED!

Jason: *not a beat missed* Because he’s never known the touch of a woman.

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11:00 PM EDT May 14, 2023:

Gordons - "Adults And Children" From the album Future Shock (1980)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Gordons were the progenitor to the legendary New Zealand band Bailter Space

File under: Kiwi Skronk

It’s that time of year folks

Prompt 261

“So is no one going to talk about the eldritch space child or…” 

“I mean, do you want to get between a child and Batman? I think the only one who could even get close right now is Superman…” 

“No you’re right, I think- oh my god the eldritch space child is playing with batman’s bat-ears and he’s not doing anything about it what the fuck I thought only Robins could get away with that-” 

My dear friends: When a librarian or teacher says "Audiobooks count as reading", we do not literally mean that audiobooks are the same as decoding visual meaning via symbols representing sounds. We mean, among other things:

Audiobooks can expose listeners to new vocabulary and forms of syntax.

Audiobooks can present listeners with long-form fictional narratives with engaging characters, interesting literary devices, and poetic turns of phrase.

Audiobooks can teach listeners new information in a long-form manner that goes into depth or wide breadth on a particular subject or subjects.

Audiobooks can help listeners' verbal comprehension skills.

Audiobooks can do all these things without presenting the same difficulties to blind, low vision, partially sighted, visually impaired, or dyslexic listeners; listeners with ADHD; listeners who experience physical difficulty with holding a book or e-reader; or listeners who are disabled in a host of other ways that a physical book or e-reader might present.

The written word is not specially imbued with magical noble worth above the spoken word, and if you think it is, you may have some ableism and/or racism to deconstruct.

I don't trust parents who think their young children are narcissists, sociopaths, or schizophrenic

Family Gatherings

I was the youngest child, I've never spent much time around children, I don't really know how to talk to them? So I end up in situations like:

My baby niece: [cries loudly]

Me:

"This will not achieve the goal of removing the shit from your pants."

Parents, for the love of everything that ever pretended to be holy, do not make household cleaning a punishment for your children.

My parents did that. As an adult, I would rather stare at a blank wall for five hours straight than wash dishes. I would rather do math problems without a calculator and have my answers read aloud in public than clean a bathroom. If my hatred of cleaning was a capturable energy it could power interstellar travel. All because, growing up, cleaning house was a primary form of punishment.

Don’t fuckin’ do that. You’re not instilling discipline. You’re instilling hatred for something they need to be able to do as adults without hating every microsecond of it.

What Is Masking?

Mrs Speechie Pi

Sandra-Lynn and Sklonda are having a "What Do We Do About Kristen" phone call as we speak

Old man, young man, whatever time guy

I haven’t actually drawn him yet which is surprising, so I’m making up for it (^v^)

8:01 PM EDT April 7, 2023:

Gordons - "Adults And Children" From the album Future Shock (1980)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Gordons were the progenitor to the legendary New Zealand band Bailter Space

File under: Kiwi Skronk

also re last post i think a crucial part of treating your ace friends like you actually respect them is not acting like non-sexual content and child-friendly content are the same thing. which also means not assuming all stories and media aimed at adults need to contain sex (@ creators, take note). because it's shitty to be an adult and find that there is nothing out there written for someone like you and everyone's suggestions are always for children's media. there's nothing wrong with kidlit etc but sometimes, you know, you're an adult, you want stories that reflect the fact that you're an adult, and you want acknowledgement that adulthood and interest in sex are not synonyms. and likewise when you are writing non sexual content for an adult audience it sucks to have people assume it's meant to be for kids and to expect it to fulfil a purpose it wasn't made for

May Your Hands Always Be Loud

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 5 years old— subsequently I was forced to take various high levels of stimulants, be in special ed classes, taught to have “quiet hands”, bullied for being weird, and over and over was still unable to keep up with neurotypical peers. It was suffocating.

I remember my senior year of high school, I was in alternative education. It was the one and only year I got honors, didn’t fail any classes, and it was the only year I got the accommodations I needed: being able to stim freely in class, listen to music whenever I needed to, arrive late/leave early, able to do homework in class, and whenever I struggled, my teachers checked on me.

Such simple accommodations changed my life. And it wasn’t until after 12 years of continuously failing classes, punished for being the way I am, years lost to being grounded for never being able to have good grades, so much more. I internalized that I was the problem. But I never was. It was the inaccessible world around me.

Let neurodivergent people, children especially, exist as they are. They are beautiful just as they are. May your hands always be loud.