#be nice to kids

[onyxedskies]

god i joked about this with my mom earlier but i think i need to like. actually address it.

i don't think older generations understand just how fucked up gen z is. and not in a "gen z is an awful generation" or in a "heehee hoohoo all of gen z is mentally ill" way, in a genuine things are, across the board, wrong with gen z because of the things we are forced to see every moment of every day of our lives.

we are surrounded every day with every single crisis the world is facing. we are made to care about it, made to think we are bad people for not caring about and spreading news about every single crisis the world is facing. every moment of every day news about some crisis or another is staring us in the face, even in the places we turn to in an attempt to escape the realities of our lives.

older generations don't realize just how exhausting it is to deal with school, work, extracurriculars, and news 24/7. and yet they call us lazy when we find ourselves lying in bed doing nothing on the rare day we get off.

but genuinely, how do you expect us to react? how do you want us to feel when every other post is about the housing crisis, or the genocide of Natives in one country or another, or a revolution in france, or climate change, or another shitty ruling by POTUS, or new laws designed to silence us, or the war that is happening half a world away? how are we supposed to care about all of that when we have so little power to do anything to change it? most of us can't open a credit card, or vote, and some of us can't even drive yet. and yet at every turn, we're told that it's up to us to fix it.

most of us have resolved ourselves to the fact that we'll be paying for college until we drown at 50 years old due to lack of space above sea level.

so yeah idk be nice to teenagers we're going through a lot of unforseen struggles that older generations have no idea how to wrap their heads around

#onyx talks #important #rant kinda #gen z #politics #teenagers #teenager #be nice to people #be nice to teenagers #be nice to kids #just. be nice.

[slicedblackolives]

"I hate children because of the recent attacks on female bodily autonomy" children aren't blocking abortion access. children who are in fact disproportionately raped and lack agency or knowledge to know they require and seek reproductive care are the most harmed by such laws.

#be nice to kids #its such a low bar

[bunabi]

the abusive aunt of my childhood friend died last weekend and its really really hard to push down my personal feelings and attend this funeral for emotional support

#the thought of sitting there and celebrating the life of a person who robbed a child of so much makes me furious #be nice to kids #PLEASE just be nice to kids #text post

[djcranberry]

If I see any of y’all being mean about or to kids in Sephora know that I am biting you and shaking you around like a Rottweiler

Like direct that anger at the corporations and influencers marketing to them and the parents not properly educating them on skincare/makeup/the fact that all those influencers they like are both paid to promote those products and likely using filters etc. Not the kids themselves. They’re like ten, they don’t know better

Also stop acting like it’s weird that ten year old are into makeup. That’s the age a lot of kids (especially girls) start to show an interest in it. That’s normal.

#be nice to kids #unless they’re rude to you personally #then you can drop kick them out of the store

[good-to-drive]

It's kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I'd prefer if no one else saw it

#kidding obviously #likes are also really nice and fun #shitpost #it's just funny lol

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

#this is just me ranting sorry #im very tired and hungry #and i want to sleep but brain go brrrrr #well i used to be nice and smart and now im neither of those or however the song goes #pretty sure he was exaggerating cause looking back. it was good. but some of the wording was a lil wonky #adhd #actually adhd #executive dysfunction #actually neurodiverse #adhd paralysis #adult adhd #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #adhd hacks #academia #neurodivergent #adhd skill regression #confessions of a burnt out gifted kid #<< i guess #former gifted kid #burnt out gifted kid #gifted kid burnout #realizing i sound rly pretentious here sorry -- formal speech patterns i picked up as an autistic child and never put down again haha

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

#9/11 #serious post #not a shitpost #this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks #politics #this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it #i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed #because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes. #and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries #we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government #but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation! #a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!! #a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support #so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*??? #well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains #and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel #truth is irrelevant #worse: to the people in charge #truth is a HINDRANCE #'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase #facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

#star trek #Vulcans #Humans #not based on a specific thing #but I used to know this annoying couple that were ‘family friends’ #who would show up to potluck dinners and the like and would either bring nothing or bring something really just. out of left field? #like a bag of frozen chicken to a bbq #and then proceed to make sure they are first even if it was stated to let kids go first #would take HUGE amounts before anyone else got a chance to get a plate #and then make off with the leftovers again even if they were already claimed for #and it wasn’t a food insecurity thing trust me I would never speak bad about a person getting food if that was even a remote chance #the adults who raised us knew them really well and we’d been to their house a ton of times #they were just dicks #and yeah. they’d occasionally insult the food. while eating the MAJORITY of it. #it was so weird at their home they would go out of their way to get the healthiest options possible #you know the really bland tasteless expensive stuff that apparently was healthier #but then if they were visiting our house they would. eat all our unhealthy snacks. #that always pissed me off so much as a kid because we actually had a food insecurity thing going on #and also a variety of other reasons that are a bit too depressing to bring up on this post #but anyways we’d hardly ever get to have nice snacks #and this couple would just take them all??? even after we’d tell them repeatedly that it was ours and those snacks weren’t gonna be #replaced #hated that couple #if you’re wondering why they were ‘family friends’ it’s because the couple who raised us #(it feels weird to type it out like that but apparently legal guardians doesn’t fit since they never finished petitioning 💀) #liked having them around because it made them look like ‘such great Christian’s’ being nice to the people #that no one else wanted to be friends with #I always thought that was a really weird and fucked up reason to be friends with someone #this got long sorry 😭

[ditzybat]

just imagining a teeny tiny tim being absolutely devastated about jason’s death, that he manages to get on to dark forums to contact a mercenary for a hit on the joker’s life.

and who happens to be that mercenary? deathstroke.

tim wires money from his (admittedly very high) allowance to slade, who finishes the job within the week — news outlets are going crazy as nobody knows who pulled off such a stunt — bruce is confused, and dick is both grateful, that someone took the bastard who killed his baby brothers life, and angry, because bruce wasn’t the one to do it.

slade however? wants to investigate, someone finally had the gall to order a hit on the joker and he’s a little curious to see who it is.

only come to find a little boy all alone in a big house who spends his nights following around a vigilante in a furry suit.

and, well, slade hasn’t been the best parent, and probably doesn’t know how to deal with an average kid, but who can blame him when he begins to train tim into becoming a mercenary just like him — after all, how else is he gonna defend himself on the streets of gotham when he gallivants around with an expensive camera, a sign basically saying ‘kidnap me!’ strapped to his chest?

so what if the kid becomes robin and uses those skills in the cape? that’s batman’s problem to figure out.

#tim eating ice cream as someone’s artery pops all over deathstroke: you’re so nice mr slade! #slade: maybe i *should* talk to my kids… #dc #dc comics #tim drake #robin #red robin #slade wilson #deathstroke #ravager #rose wilson #batman #dick grayson

[dazzelmethat]

Some crickets and grasshoppers and my thoughts about them.

I've always been interested in bugs since I was real small.. I should draw them more often.

#my art #bugs #insects #katydid #grasshopper #cricket #insect art #bug art #crickets and grasshoppers were one of my favorites as a kid because of how fun they were to catch #i've never caught a tree cricket so I didn't include one here.. even though their song is also nice #there are likely anatomically incorrect stuff in these doodles but i was trying to half go off of vibes and memories #grasshopper nymphs are like bunnies to me...

[bulletsgirl]

ppl who werent changed forever by youre gonna go far kid by the offspring when they were like 11 and insanely impressionable you just cant understand me

#SLOWLY OUT OF LINE AND DRIFTING CLOSER IN YOUR SIGHTS #SO PLAY IT OUT IM WIDE AWAKE ITS A SCENE ABOUT ME #THERES SOMETHING IN YOUR WAY AND NOW SOMEONE IS GONNA PAY #AND IF YOU CANT GET WHAT YOU WANT WELL ITS ALL BECAUSE OF ME #NOW DANCE FUCKER DANCE MAN I NEVER HAD A CHANCE #AND NO ONE EVEN KNEW IT WAS REALLY ONLY YOU #AND NOW YOULL LEAD THE WAY #SHOW THE LIGHT OF DAY #NICE WORK YOU DID #YOURE GONNA GO FAR KID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[americas-sass]

Using Lo-fi Study Nights at Seacaster Manor as a way to boost his popularity and help further the goals of his friends while also refusing to acknowledge that the actual purpose is to never have to be alone in that big empty house is PEAK Fabian behavior. Can anyone hear me?? Lou I am in your WALLS

#fhjy #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fabian seacaster #fabian aramais seacaster #d20 #d20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy fabian #it's the way that he kept inviting the bad kids over to study and hang out #it's the way he kept them there after the party #it's the way he invited the freshman not because he's nice but because they're the ones who will most reliably show up #lou is always doing something with Fabian that everyone else either doesn't see or won't acknowledge and it drives me insane

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

Achievement unlocked: discovered piece of media at exact right time in your life to experience maximum peak emotional impact and infatuation

#tv shows #movies #this is about me watching buffy as a teenager #and absolutely sobbing #fandom #relatable #textpost #love seeing the media people tag this as it’s nice #also person who tagged Megamind realest response I watched that movie 21 times in a row as a kid #oh god my new piece of media was not what I expected oh no oh god will not be saying its name

[inkiedraws]

"LOL this flip-flop wearing loser thinks he's gonna kick my ass and destroy my whole kingdom in the span of an afternoon. What an idiot"

I didn't intend for this to be a full comic, which is why it just kinda ends. Sowwy

#one piece #monkey d luffy #donquixote doflamingo #trafalgar law #i've been too nice to dofy so im gonna draw him suffering #dofy feels insulted and takes out his annoyance on the ptsd victim #also really loving trebol being the manipulator and then being like “hey this kid is alright!” then becoming the manipulated himself #him turning into a weird enabling father figure without ever intending to is great #but oda intentionally made him so gross an unappealing bc HE KNOWS he can get away with it bc the story is so good #and i hate him for it #anyway dressrosa's a good arc

[the-phantom-peach]

skyward sword… yeah <3

Crimson Loftwing

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#exploding the entire Skyward Sword ost with my mind #thinking a lot about SS lately #I could fill your dash with how much art I make of this game I’m so so obsessed with it #I did some character design stuff and misc doodles for funsies so I post here #feels so nice to make art for a game I loved so much as a kid #still top 3 loz games idc #I hope younger me is happy haha #okay please stop rambling #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #skyward sword #tloz #loz #loz ss #skord #ss link #ss zelda #ss zelink #link #zelda #zelink #groose #fi #fledge #pipit #zelda art #nintendo #art #artists on tumblr #my art

[pachimation]

the harbinger theatre troupe decided to put on a production of the nutcracker this year! now if only the choreo choices weren’t so questionable,,,,,

#genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #scaramouche #wanderer #theatre kids au #la signora did the choreo #shes still pissed that she had to adapt it around the fact that childe is the only one of them with any ballet training #ANYWAY take some parallels to scara’s character teaser i think the nutcracker would be a nice production for them to put on #my art