The worst excuse I’ve ever heard for gendering books is that, “What if it confuses my kid? What if they grow up gay or trans because I let them read about too many girl/boy things?”
Your son’s first crush might be the rowdiest boy in a story about boys doing “boy things”. Your daughter might want to be with the gentle seamstress who makes the magic cloak, not be her. Your tomboy might be a boy, and he might identify with the protagonist’s science-loving crush, not her.
Your kid is your kid, and they will be who they are meant to be. Give them all the boy/girl books you want, but you can’t control how they’ll feel about them, or what they’ll take away from the story.
As a parent, you can’t iron the world flat to keep your kid from stumbling, but you can absolutely prepare them for the bumps. If they walk an unexpected path, having read more widely will only ease their way, and get them where they need to be.
it was a fucking house phone that i was so stoked to have because it was mine that i kept in my own room and i cannot believe technology has progressed at the speed of FUCKING light to the point where this is a hilarious artifact to have had in like 6th grade and now theres kindergarteners with iphones
How did you know if you dialed the right number
each button made a different tone so the numbers you dialed a lot became a subconscious melody in your head and if you hit the wrong button by accident it would sound like a wrong note in a song you know by heart
i can’t beleive that is a legitimate question in my lifetime
Other acceptable answer: the wrong person answers on the other end.
Another acceptable answer: the robot lady comes on the phone and tells you number doesn’t exist.
for whatever reason, you suddenly gain godlike powers of control over the universe. what’s the first thing you do?
every single food in existence now grows on trees. pizza trees. cake trees. ramen trees. any food that you normally have to prepare now grows on trees. and these trees grow everywhere. they’re in parks and neighborhoods and forests. even trees that previously could not do this now possess delicious, ready-made food. fruits trees and stuff like that still exist but now every tree in existence is a vending machine that costs nothing. if you’re homeless, you can go up to a nearby tree and pick an entire meal’s worth of tomato soup from a tomato soup tree. Just pick the bowl off the branch it’s as simple as that. if you’re not homeless but you haven’t eaten all day, you can grab a quick snack from the the chocolate bar tree at your college campus. anyone who tries to use the trees for profit or tries to remove them is killed and turned into a food tree right where they stand.
the food trees can survive any climate and no natural disaster can harm them. world hunger is solved. the thing everybody needs to survive is literally all around us.
the trees never run out of food. there are also trees that grow gluten-free, dairy free, vegetarian, nut free, etc. versions for those with special dietary restrictions or needs. everyone can eat and it doesn’t cost a goddamn thing.
they last for millions, even billions of years.
even when the world ends, the trees still exist, continuing to offer its nourishment in the empty void where our planet used to be. if there’s any life outside of earth at that point, they will have food too.
the day is literally not even over and i got something else to add:
The Mary Sue publishes an interview with Dwayne Johnson claiming that he thinks “snowflake culture” is “taking us backwards,” The Rock responds on Instagram claiming that the interview was completely fabricated.
i love how edward elric dresses like the typical anime protag (all black, red cloak w/ huge emblem, tight leather pants, always puts skulls or spikes on everything, huge belt with a chain on it, etc. etc.) but literally everyone else dresses like normal fucking people so he just constantly gets berated for his Shit Awful Taste
cf also everything he makes with alchemy.
me at first: “Wow this magic sure has a kind of gothic sensibility with all the dragons and spikes and shit that comes out”
me another few volumes in, “Oh, no, Ed’s just… Like That”
