Time To Stop Seeing My Child As Fragile
I swore that night in the hospital I would change. I would accept her as she was, no matter what. I wouldn't try to put any of my own expectations on her any more. Whenever she made a mistake, I would chalk it up to her learning and not get mad.
My daughter said over the weekend I was treating her like a fragile piece of glass that could fall off and shatter if I say the wrong thing. She says I should be mad at her for the legal trouble she recently got in. Instead, I told her I’m worried about the distress it could cause her. She seemed perplexed and truly bothered that I wasn’t angry and ready to punish her or kick her out of the…
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When he and Eddie adopt their oldest daughter, Moe, Steve begins to experience a phenomenon.
The phenomenon is that whenever Erica Sinclair comes up from Indiana to visit them, Moe just so happens to discover a brand new way to misbehave.
Now, Steve knows that this is mostly a coincidence. Moe is eighteen months old, the perfect age for getting herself into trouble, and she does that plenty even without an audience. There’s definitely a certain level of consistency to it when Erica was around, and that was bad enough, but the real problem (for Steve, anyway) is that Erica is an attorney. When Moe inevitably gets herself into some kind of shit, Erica doesn’t hesitate for even a second to jump in as Moe’s unofficial legal counsel purely for her own enjoyment.
Which is exactly what happens when Erica visits and they find Moe in her bedroom (Steve knew there was a reason she was being so damn quiet) scribbling on her walls with crayons.
“Moe, wha–”
“Excuse me, I’m her attorney,” Erica immediately says, crouching down by Moe’s side.
Steve tries to ignore her.
Did you do this?”
“Absolutely not,” Erica says, her eyes on Moe. Moe looks right back at her with her big brown eyes for a moment before looking up at Steve.
“No,” Moe shakes her head.
“Why are you holding a crayon, then?”
“Where,” Erica demanded. Moe holds up her orange crayon with a cheeky grin, “Oh, I–”
“Did you do it?” he repeats.
“Objection – asked and answered,” she cuts in even as Moe shakes her head again.
“Okay, Moe, you know we only draw on paper, right?”
“Objection – art is subjective.”
Steve pauses to shoot Erica a look, but even in that short amount of time, Moe decides to turn back to the wall and resume her scribblings.
Erica does a double-take.
“Are you kidding me?” she mutters through gritted teeth, “Stop.”
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the type of person who at the same time reblogs posts about black blocs and protest security and police tactics and acab but also demands MLs to explain their revolutionary activities and alternatives to reformist actions must be endemic to sites like tumblr and Twitter. there is no other rational explanation but the latent influence of individualist moralistic posturing that used to be so popular. "how are YOU contributing" type of posts
even if we were firebombing supermarkets (not a real thing) we wouldn't fucking brag about it on tumblr.com
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My biggest red flag is that I think I’m better than Richard Papen despite being just like him (I hate myself, I was the last person to know I was bisexual, I 100% think I could bag Camilla, I’m low-key attracted to Francis, I believe in murdering annoying people, etc.)
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Jo, but Carnival!au by @sm-baby
Jo uses she/her and they/them
She still very much dislikes Jax, it's a constant.
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really weird thing ive noticed lately re: hermits getting critiqued for stuff theyve said or done is that as soon as someone holds a shit opinion (even if it's just them being stupid, or a centrist, or saying a bad word without knowing what it means, or whatever) people immediately seem to flock to the 'this guy should die' 'kys' 'why are we giving this person a platform' rhetoric and like. that's not how meaningful change is made?
like, yeah, if one of my beloved CCs posted a tweet or video tomorrow about how much they hate gay people, or believe in conservative ideals, or they just said a bunch of slurs or whatever (these are hyperbolic examples obviously) then yeah, fuck them, they should go rot. but like, having some dumb takes, or saying bad things in the past, doesn't = evil terrible person...
idk, i feel like we can critique content creators without getting so insane about it. like, shit, there are things some of my favourites do that i don't like, but theyre not even really worth bringing up tbh. unless its something actually important, i feel like it just creates more drama out of nothing and all these assholes come crawling out of the woodwork to tell everyone how much they hate that creator. or find their content boring anyway so clearly they have no real merit to anyone.
more of an explanation of what i mean in the tags but yeah.
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