i don’t like texting because it fosters this idea that we have to be accessible to others and to interaction 24/7??? stop that!!! if im not texting back, it’s not bc i i hate you, it’s because im just chilling, ok? and interacting is draining. i don’t think every person should have to be accessible to everyone that has their number literally every second of every day. stop apologizing for not texting back “on time.” do you, live ya life on your own time okay????
how is this shitty parenting if i tell you to be home at a certain time you better be there. Shit my mom would have been out looking for me.
Right? How is this shitty at all?? If i tell you to be home at a certain time you better be there or else you aren’t allowed in the home. I care about my kids safety so much I’ll endanger them when they dont listen to me.
i do not have the energy to explain why this is a shitty thing to do but yeah it’s shit
I do! If you’re gonna be a vindictive little shit to your kids,you shouldn’t be having them. Having abusive parents like the ones up here fucked up my perception of love and affection.
I got locked out of the house all the time just like this poor kid. Do you know how fucking cold it gets at night? NO because you’re cushy and comfortable behind those decorated glass doors! I slept in 30
°F weather. I was on the swim team so I had to wake up and run with the team at 5 am then go to class. I’d wake up with frozen hair and bugs crawling on me. I’d start crying and it would rain fucking cold water. I had no friends in the neighborhood to go to. I’m still somewhat scared of the dark.
There’s wild animals and predatory strangers and shit out there. You’re gonna put your fucking CHILD in that situation and FAIL to be their guardian at one of the most important times of day just because they made it home late? Kids make fucking mistakes, and if you aren’t prepared for that, you shouldn’t even have pets. You’re not a caretaker, you’re a lazy abusive perfectionist snot. I’d kick your ass if you were my neighbor and I saw you pulling this shit! No joke!
My roommate talks all the time about how if her kids mess around she’d smack them around, but she and a LOT of other people do not understand that punishments like those are abuse. They fuck your kid up for life.
If you leave a kid out in the cold they’re more likely to get into more trouble/danger to keep warm anyway. Who’s gonna take your kid into their home? Do you even give a shit what happens to them? No because you wanted to play god and get back at someone who is still developing. Be a fucking adult.
Your kid is not a robot. It’s so shitty these parents have done this kind of stuff before and have NOT given the kid a blanket.
Neglect is the chronic inattention or omission on the part of the care giver to provide for the basic emotional and/or physical needs of the child, including food, clothing, nutrition, adequate supervision, health, hygiene, safety, medical and psychological care and education. Emotionally neglected children do not receive the necessary psychological nurturance to foster their own growth and development. The consequences of neglect can be very serious, particularly for young children. The child who does not receive adequate emotional, cognitive and physical stimulation, physical care and nutrition may experience lags in development. These lags in development may be irreversible.
SOME FORMS OF ABUSE & NEGLECT:
*Rejection, ignorance and isolation
*A lack of shelter
*Emotional neglect or lack of supervision
*Deliberate locking children out of the house
So if you think pulling this childish bullshit is ok, I will break into your house and steal whatever funds it takes to care for your child. I’ll fight you in the morning because you’re a garbage human being.
Stop teaching your damn kid they’re worthless. YOU made them.
Stop being your child’s enemy, start being their actual fucking caretaker.
Just so y’all know… in the state of Texas, this is grounds for me to call CPS on your ass.
And I will, too.
Same in Illinois and I fucking will.
TBH all the people coming out in support of locking kids outside for missing curfew need to just not have kids
Reminder that one of the victims of Ted Bundy (the serial killer) was locked out of her house because of missing curfew, and he offered his “help.”
This can get your child KILLED.
Also, not everyone chooses to get home late.
There may be traffic, or an accident of some kind, or they may simply have a shit sense of time or direction.
I hope that these parents got called out and arrested for child abuse.
In the future, they might keep things this way. Josh mentioned in his latest panel that he didn't want anyone asking questions about ships. Bex was probably okay with the shipping but noped out of it thanks to the shoe discourse. Of course Lauren or someone who has her contact info likely told her not to engage in the Voltron fandom when it comes to relationships anymore. Barlee told fans at Ax that she can't draw anymore ships on her twitter anymore. It's a process but they're really doing it.
Thanks to a handful of children throwing tantrums and waving anti signs, the very people that help create the show can’t be vocal about the stuff they love anymore. Well done VLD fandom, we’ve surpassed SU in terms of how terrible we are lmao
“If I can’t have it, no one can” aka. “If I don’t get what I want from the thing, no one else should even be allowed to enjoy the thing and if they do I’m gonna make up some reason why they’re Problematic for not abiding by my moral judgement”
Seriously that’s all it does. I’m feeling cheeky today, so I thought I’d share.
welp, i’ll be using this in every meeting i attend
So I work at a pretty progressive company so at t the last meeting I brought a click counter and I clicked it every time a man cut someone off. I used a pen pad to keep track of the women cutting someone off. Because it happened twice. Both times after they’d been cut off and were trying to finish a sentence. Eventually the men noticed the clicking and would pause and look around. At the end of the meeting I told them the results. In a one hour meeting men had cut someone off a total of 236 times. Two hundred and thirty six.
I reread Audeamus by @runicscribbles and @itdans the other day, and because I have further disrespect for my already fragile Sheith-loving heart, I decided to rewatch S2E8 last night.
And I’ve come to some conclusions.
The quickest one is this: that is definitely Papa Kogane. As in, Keith’s biological dad. The more I look, the more I see Keith’s eyes and mouth in that man. The more I can see his jaw line one day evening out to be like his father’s. Keith is definitely half human.
Only question is, how much Galra is his other half?
But that’s not what I’m here for. I’m here for Knowledge or Death.
Keith clearly had to achieve something in order to awaken the blade, and therefore pass the Trials of Marmora. He thinks he has to fight through every living Blade or whatever, to prove his strength or resilience. We all know that the true test was in the mindscape.
First instance: the knife, or Shiro. Keith is still desperate to find some kind of connection to who he is. He’s been alone and floating in the vast emptiness of his own existence most of his life. Of course he wants to know. He needs to feel something in the same way Pidge, Lance, and Hunk feel about their families and their homes on Earth.
He chooses the knife.
Shiro turns to leave. And within a few steps, Keith realizes he’s made a mistake and runs after him, begging him to wait.
Second instance: the knife, or joining the fight against the Galra. This is a sucker punch because now we know that desert shack was his home, not just some temporary space. And he’s facing someone who is part of his past, his father, just as he remembers him, probably.
(Lots has already been said about how Keith sees Shiro as present Shiro - scar and white hair and metal arm - and not dwelling on the happier past Shiro from the Garrison. It shows Keith’s total acceptance of Shiro, which Shiro will return shortly.)
So Keith is standing tantalizingly close to answers to his past. The house he lived in, his father - a link he no longer has, for reasons we don’t know - and the knife in his father’s hands. Hell, it’s on the small of his back when we first see him, strapped to his belt just as Keith carries it now.
But Keith knows what’s at stake in this instance. He remembers his mistake in the first instance, the immediate regret.
He rejects the knife.
He walks out the door, and ultimately wakes up. The mindscape trial ends.
The Trial of Marmora ends.
Did Shiro and Kolivan see that? Because next thing we see is Red tearing shit up and the screens they’d been using to watch the Trial showed nothing but static. I don’t think we know for certain. Maybe they saw his choice, but did not see if the Trial ended?
Then Shiro is there beside Keith and looks pretty much ready to take down everyone in the room if it meant they could escape. Antok (I think) attacks to forcibly take the knife from Keith, but Shiro intervenes and they lock in.
Third instance: the knife, or Shiro. The real Shiro. The Shiro who did not so airily tell him to give up the knife. The Shiro who was ready to defend Keith’s right to the knife even if it meant flattening everyone in that room or die trying.
Keith chooses Shiro. Or, he chooses everything that means rejecting the knife. Because he learned he would regret the choice of the knife in the first instance. In the second instance it was clear that rejecting the knife was the right choice.
That was Knowledge.
If he had chosen to stay in that instance with his father, waiting for his mother, he would have most likely died in the mindscape.
If he chooses to keep the knife in the third instance it was highly likely he and Shiro would both be killed trying to escape.
That was Death.
So he chooses Shiro. He uses what he’s learned to make a third choice, and that awakens the blade.
And this is all well and good, because for plot purposes, this really, really works. Knowledge or Death isn’t just some fancy-schmancy ideal: it matters. It matters that Keith learns what he needed to in order to pass the Trial and earn his right to the knife, and therefore securing an alliance.
But I saw something that hit me very, very hard.
Look at Shiro’s face.
A second ago he looked ready to kill. Now, he’s gobsmacked.
(Again, a lot has already been said about how awed and floored Shiro looks when Keith awakens the blade, that if anyone deserved to be there for this point of Keith’s life, we’re all glad it’s him. But this is moments before that.)
He watched the mindscape trial. He watched a version of himself come to Keith - “At this moment, your friend desperately wants to see you.” - and watched Keith reject him and choose the knife instead.
I’m not sure Shiro expected Keith to make a different choice. I think he was certain Keith would make the same choice as he did in the mindscape, because he thinks he knows Keith well enough to know that Keith does not easily give up a fight.
Look at his face.
Keith chose him over the thing that has been agonizing him for who knows how long. Keith chose him over the reason he was always alone and lost. Keith chose him over finally ending his aimless floating in the vast emptiness of his existence.
Keith. Chose. Him.
Platonic or romantic, that means a hell of a lot to Shiro. That means a hell of a lot to their dynamic.
So how could Shiro not hug him before they parted in S2E9? How could he not?
