I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it. But I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.

Nancy Drew 1932

One of the most important things a parent can do for a child is teach them to think for themselves.

I’m Getting Off My High Horse

I’m Getting Off My High HorseDo you sometimes feel like throwing in the towel? You’re done and done with the heavy load you’ve carried way too long. The Apostle Paul must have felt that way many times. In fact he expressed his dependence when he wrote about the ‘thorn in his flesh’. Three times he pleaded with the Lord to take it away. But God said to him, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my…

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REFLECTIONS - Family Culture

REFLECTIONS – Family Culture

This is the third in a series of “reflective” postings I hope to be making for some time to come. These are random memories I have of things and people that have left an impression on me, regardless of significance. This time the subject is “family culture.” Because of the “culture” in which I was raised, I was placed in an environment at an early age that encouraged stability and independence. …

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Vocal For Local - New India 🇮🇳 Voice

Vocal For Local – New India 🇮🇳 Voice

Vocal For LocalVocal for Local is a campaign to promote local/Indian products/services in the market that are competitive with global standards and can capture the spirit of local brands in both domestic and international markets.Products should be “Made In India” & promoted to make them competitive. During the Independence Day speech in 2020, Prime Minister Modi said; “The mindset of free India…

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Take control of your Personal Safety while traveling: Part 3 Tool of the trade.

Take control of your Personal Safety while traveling: Part 3 Tool of the trade.

I’ve been solo traveling for the better part of 20 years. One thing that you can never be too prepared for is your safety. Let’s be real here. When you’re traveling you’re moving away from your comfort zone. Even if you’re going somewhere you’ve been before. You’re going from an environment you are in full control over to one with twists and turns you could not have expected. Now I don’t say this…

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Been spending my time lately thinking of a House MD au where, through a series of accidents and lies and a bet he didn't rly intend to win, House ends up as a registered foster parent (he's still addicted to Vicodin and his normal dickish workaholic self but for some reason he cleared the requirements and trust me he's as stunned and mildly concerned as everyone else is).

Through further Shenanigans™, he ends up accidentally getting handed fostership of not one, not two, but three hellish but brilliant kids:

1. This total smartass 16 year old named Robert Chase who yeah he's a bitchy teenaged boy and a former rich kid and Australian with enough mommy and daddy issues to reawaken Freud after his dad dipped and absconded all parental rights and his mom drank herself to death, but he's also got a nice car left over from his rich kid days and an eye for detail and weirdly enough his best friend/mortal enemy (some other teen named Eric Foreman) and his on again off again girlfriend (Allison Cameron, totally won't last if u ask House) both work at the hospital as a candy striper and after school in the cafeteria respectively so House can get all the inside gossip from Chase. Plus Chase has no problems breaking and entering into patient's homes which helps bc since he's not employed by the hospital Cuddy can't complain as far as House is concerned.

2. A 14 year old girl who only answers to Thirteen (House knows he could look her name up in her file but honestly it drives Chase nuts that she won't tell him her real name and that's good enough for him) and who's dad was declared unfit after the death of his wife to Huntington's devastated him. She's a total nightmare, snarky and quick witted and freakishly smart even tho she puts most of those smarts towards things like shaving Chase's entire head (eyebrows included) bc he's trying to grow a sucky teenage mustache, and trying to take House's wallet bc she keeps calling him Old Man and he informed her he's actually only 25 but the stress of fostering has aged him prematurely and she's like 95% sure that's a lie but she wants to check his license and make sure bc everyone lies. She loves tormenting Chase by telling him his best friend and/or his girlfriend is hot and asking if they're single.

And 3. This 6 year old boy named Lawrence Kutner who's weirdly cheerful considering his parents got killed in front of him. He's way too chatty and excellent at puzzles and the only morning person in the entire house and therefore frequently tries to make breakfast (he likes to be helpful and he hasn't burned the place down yet so House doesn't feel the need to stop him). Once he told House he was gonna build a Death Star in the living room and House said lol sure go ahead whatever, only to return home from work to discover Kutner called himself out from school and has a huge wooden frame made of broken furniture in the living room. House rly can't argue since he did say go ahead. Benefits of fostering a 6 year old are 1. The babes love it, 2. Free excuse to leave work early/come in late/not show up at all, and 3. Justification for buying juice boxes and Ritz crackers. The neighbor kid Taub is his go to babysitter bc his mom volunteered him forcibly and Taub is lowkey praying that babysitting Kutner could lead to an in at Princeton Plainsboro once he graduates high-school and finishes medical school (it won't, House doesn't believe in nepotism unless it benefits him).

The adventures of House and his Foster Ducklings mostly revolve around being a Found Family, but do involve frequent plots such as:

House fired his brand new fellows again (he tosses em every three or so months, he hasn't found The Right Team yet) and will sometimes bring his foster kids in, hand em doctors coats, and tell patients that they're just a bunch of medical savants here to consult yes even the 6 year old he's actually Harvard's youngest graduate ever.

House sends the kids to break into a patient's home. They refuse. House tells them the first one to find black mold or lead paint or a dead animal or whatever gets $20. They agree. Chase drops Thirteen and Kutner off at a bus stop across town and drives over himself so he can get an hour and a half head start (ultimate fuck them kids moment, however Thirteen did steal his wallet so guess who's paying for lunch and their taxi ride to the patient's house? Net loss.)

Cuddy demands House does his clinic hours. House sends his foster kids to do his clinic hours for him. Tfw you go to the free walk in clinic for a sore throat and a cough and your doctor is a 6 year old boy who keeps asking for help with spelling whilst filling out your chart.

Wilson babysits them one (1) time since House doesn't trust Chase not to throw a party or sell his foster siblings on eBay if left as the one in charge. He wakes up with a big strip of hair poorly bleached right down the middle. Chase crushed up stolen sleeping pills and mixed them into a juice box, which Kutner 'innocently' offered to Wilson. Thirteen was going to bleach and dye his whole head blue (for practice, she wants to dye her hair but she's certainly not gonna fuck up her own hair until she has the method down) but Wilson woke up pretty quickly due to years of House drugging him. Wilson has not offered to babysit again.

Anyways this is my House Foster Ducklings au which I'm thinking about actually writing. Thank u 🫡

reading the boba fett junior novels as a kid: mace windu is the bad guy!!!! >:(((

reading the boba fett junior novels as an adult: jango fett i'm coming for your fucking kneecaps

When they were in the war room (Trolls writing room) they had to think of four new trolls that could feasibly be Branch's brothers so they just took all four of his braincells and made them individual characters and I love them

i think himeru would be a light weight. honestly

A Power Unbound, ch 18 // ch 32

Text: Christ, he was so tired, and Jack was so unbearably solid. If Alan went over and hit him, or flung obscenity in his face, or leaned his forehead against Jack’s sternum—that stupid broad chest clad in expensive wool and silk and cotton—Jack wouldn’t shift. Alan had never needed to lean on anyone. It was intolerable that he now kept turning out the pockets of his soul and finding caught in their seams the desire to let someone else take his weight. The desire to be held, even kissed.

On the way there, it illuminated Alan. The part of Jack that enjoyed being right and was generally convinced of his own rightness tried to tell him that he wasn’t surprised. But he was. Every large and dreadful thing that had ever happened to him in his life he had worked his way through, afterwards, alone. It was a new experience, to want his solitude and then find someone intruding on it and be glad. A small gladness, like a mouthful of good wine, but world-shaking in its novelty. Not since Elsie died had there been someone whose company Jack preferred to his own.

I am on the hunt to replace my middle school music interests with stuff that hits the right vibes but doesn’t trigger my religious trauma...

Here are the bands I’ve had in my ears all the time this month, listed in alphabetical order:

born without bones (emo-inspired indie rock)

mccafferty (punk-inspired alt/indie, midwest emo, emo-folk, folk-punk)

microwave (post-hardcore, indie rock, alt rock)

modern baseball (alt rock/indie rock)

mom jeans (alt rock/indie rock)

movements (post-hardcore, indie rock, alt rock, spoken word)

neck deep (pop-punk, indie rock, alt rock)

pinegrove (alt-country, emo)

remo drive (indie rock, emo-punk)

sorority noise (emo pop, indie rock)

the front bottoms (indie rock, folk punk)

the wonder years (pop-punk, alt-rock, emo)

tigers jaw (indie-rock, emo pop, pop-punk)

tiny moving parts (midwest emo, math-rock, indie-rock, post-hardcore)

I would love to get your suggestions of similar artists! 

Please. I'll do anything to change this. / What choice did I have? You pushed me to this, sister.

I'm starting to wonder if there is actually something legit about the 'right time' to turn Guillermo that Nandor keeps talking about...

It was brought up again in the premiere and something about how Guillermo said that "deep down I'm not ready [to become a vampire]" before Derek jumped him...

...what if Nandor hasn't actually been putting it off for no reason...what if there is actually a 'right moment' for it and this whole time we were thinking that moment had to do with Nandor being ready but what if it's about Guillermo being ready??

wyll has a specific thing for rangers and here is my evidence

has flirtatious class-specific dialogue at the tiefling party but ONLY for ranger and ONLY above an approval threshold

calls minsc 'the beloved ranger'

becomes a ranger in the hells if he breaks his pact with mizora & loses his warlock levels

My hot take is that ppl on here and That Other Social Media Trashfire get like. Annoyingly attached is singular interpretations of media. This is mostly abt Frankenstein and his monster btw bc ppl got so fucking annoying abt the father/son reading like ok sure but it's not just that it's also God and Lucifer it's Man and Himself and the danger of progress the world and self is not ready for and also just maybe its about a man's battle with his homosexuality