#but a store is not the same as a parent

[glowsticcc]

my new favorite thing has become complimenting peoples cc merch in at school bc i love seeing their faces light up

like my friend's friend who started sitting with us at lunch had a lovejoy sweater on yesterday and i went OMG LOVEJOY THATS SO COOL and they just went :)

or when i told a freshman i liked their genloss jacket and they just got that look of recognition that i would get when and upperclassmen complimented a thing i liked

its just nice to have that sense of community not just online but in real life bc idk about you but school social life has gotten me into the habit of being ashamed of publicly liking the things i like if they aren't mainstream??? and its nice to know that there are people out there who are less weird than me and like the things i like its like im in a secret club >:3c

#generation loss #lovejoy #i have other examples #like yesterday the person in front of me in line at the grocery store had a ranboo jacket #but i was with my parent so i didnt say anything but i got so excited #sophomore year i had both a friend in my pre-cal class show up in a tubbo hoodie #and that same year someone in my english class came to school in philza merch and it was so fun :DDD #i love getting to bond with people!!!! #i love the human connection!!!!!! #i love having shared interests with people that allows me to get closer to them!!!!!

[artsycooky13]

cringe ahh shoe fam with stevonnie doodles

#ok so like #stevonnie is like 3rd parent for von #at the same time von is aware they are both their parents #its wack idk how to explain #hoped doodles make more sense and u catch the vibe lol #one of the ideas here is that stevonnie has quite a lot of additional love for chilb due to steven and connie's combined love for chilb #sometimes its very hard for stevonnie to say no to von if they ask for things like getting more candy or buying a VR set or smth #when von is aware of this they will absolutely will take advantage if they are feeling cheeky #steets and con of course work on stevonnie so that they dont just up and give vonvon the entire ice cream store #my art #connverse #steven universe #connie maheswaran #vonvon

[noperopesaredope]

People be out here saying "don't get the free plastic bags from the store, just buy reusable ones!" as though my parents haven't been using the same 10 free plastic bags for the past seven years.

Most things are reusable if you have enough determination.

This is a shitpost I support environmentalism and also people who need disposable shit for health reasons I just thought this was funny please don't hate me-

#environment #environmentalism #reusable #reduce reuse recycle #recycling #waste disposal #plastic bag #shitpost #made this post because i (college) student was buying emergency groceries and realized that i forgot my bag #and i had too much stuff to carry in my arms so the cashier asked if i wanted a bag #and my first thought was 'oh good a free bathroom trashbag' #like yes plastic bag are still bad but i also think it could be interesting to talk about the ways in which we still reuse disposable thing #i have been using the same paper plate for the past three meals #i throw it out when i think it will attract ants #growing up my parents subconsciously taught me every possible way i could reuse a disposable bag #so i don't completely mind it when i get one from the store because for me it's really similar to a normal reusable bag

[soldier-poet-king]

Tattoo session officially booked for Sept 2!!! Had the hour long in person consult this morning, artist was super sweet and seemed genuinely really excited to do the project. It's a full day (8 hr) session so it's not the cheapest, but not unreasonable given artist experience, selected style, HEALTH AND SAFETY STUFF, time spent on design, etc

Like I am so fuckin nervous and almost threw up this morning but the artist was SO kind and lovely and non judgemental, of this goes well I'll want her to do my whole half sleeve tbh

#franposting #also like. it's a lot of money but ive been saving for eons and its only a tiny fraction of what i have saved #and when you compare it to like. rent prices. its like. oh. well in the grand scheme of things this isnt even half a months rent so #if i have to live with my parents im at least spending SOME of the money ive saved #esp worth paying well for health/safety and also smthn that will yknow. be on my body forever #its at the same studio a friend had work done at recently and she had a fantastic experience #so im comfortable going there #im just!!!!! #parents will be unhappy but oh fuckin well! i know i can never be good enough for them anyway #also like. go big or go home. this is a significantly sized upper arm piece to anchor my eventual half sleeve #upper arm tho so its easy coverage with a rolled sleeve cardigan during the warmer months #bc yknow. workplaces. all that bullshit #after my consult my friends came over we drank and watch part of s2 sab and bitched about terrible fantasy novels #and how from blood and ash is basically just sjm tropes but worse so ofc we have to read it for trashy bookclub #ive already been warned about all the nsff (not safe for fran) scenes im gonna have to skip lmao #but we love sitting around tipsy garbage talking mediocre books #anyway off to play bg3. tmrw is church. nonnas. grocery store(?). pathfinder #still havent meal planned whoops

[brainworms-all-night-long]

You know considering that Tails is yellow, scared of lightning, was bullied for something wildly out of his control, has little belts to hold his gloves and shoes cuz they're too big for him, lived under a tree and may or may not have been consumed by the horrors (Nine) I think I have found the ideal fusion between Dream and Night

#yes hes yellow but hes more of Night's fursona if Im making sense #the story goes the same if not even worse lmao #hey haha he has two tails because he is the embodiment of both positivity and negativity #they are stored in the fluff #whatver this creation of mine would look like 🤝 knuckles #being the sole guardians of an ancient place that your dead parents left for you with no explanantion #im on a roll this is amazing #dreamtale #sonic the hedgeog #miles tails prower #dreamtale and sonic tomfoolery #silly brainworms

[1327-1]

unmedicated anxiety disorder person befuddled by brain doing the disorder

#this shit is fucking crazy #im like ok! lets get our clothes out bcoz i know u’re gonna freak out but this will make it easier #and then i’m like oh my fucking god what if people look at me #and then i’m like no i dont give a fuck but then i do i do so bad #it quite literally always takes jumping myself and beating my brain with hammers just to go Do Something #like i will map out my route. i will envision myself walking that route. i will be like yes i can see myself in this building i need 2 go 2 #all of that? FICKLE. #2024 xanax in my mouth plsplsplsllspls #.jrnl #i dont mean to psychoanalyze my family before 12pm but u ever have two parents who clearly have anxiety but as ure growing up theyre like #why dont u talk to ppl??? its a little weird ure this shy?? and then when u talk to ppl u’re reprimanded to HELL #and its like hey guys i unfortunately dont think this cycle can be broken i am ur literal child and u gave me this #and the world but its all the same shit fucking itself into top ten worst brain to have #me: u can go to the store and nothing will happen to u! [SOBBING]

[legolasghosty]

Toy Store AU!

I AM SO SORRY ABOUT HOW LONG THIS TOOK! I blame college.

ANYWAYS...

This is more of a toy factory(but like the fun kind) than a store, but that's the vibes I'm feeling. The Molina family runs a toy business, making super cool stuff from scratch rather than all that cheap plastic stuff that gets mass produced. It's a Molina family tradition that Ray married into(Yes Molina is Rose's last name, you can pry that headcanon out of my cold, dead hands).

Rose was the master of all things woodwork, and passed on many of these skills to her daughter. Their house has always been filled with little carved animals, handmade dishes, and lovely woodburned signs on the bedroom doors. Ray was slightly terrified when Rose started teaching Julie to carve pretty young, but it was mostly without serious injury.

Ray is better at the stuffed side of the toy world. He and Rose met when he was an apprentice in the stuffy workshop and she was learning the ropes from her dad. They fell slow and steady (Rose's parents shipped it from the beginning), even when Ray took some time away to act as the tour photographer for his friend, Trevor. Rose and Trevor ended up being good friends as well when they finally met!

Back to the present, Julie has just come back from a year away at boarding school. It wasn't anyone's first choice, but after Rose died, trying to be around the toy store was just too much for her. Boarding school was Tia's idea, as a way to give her some space to find herself. It helped some, but Julie comes home for the summer sick of being the girl with the dead mom. It's still hard to enter the workshop space though, so she starts working at the shop part of the business instead.

Enter Flynn, who got the cashier job back in January. The two of them become fast friends, bonding over stupid Karens, after hours restocks, and helping kids find just the right new friend. Julie discovers a surprising link between them, that being that Flynn is dating Carrie, Trevor's daughter. Trevor and Carrie hadn't been around much since Rose passed, so Julie hadn't seen Carrie in ages, but they start to get to know each other again through Flynn. It's sweet!

Alex grew up near the factory and he and Julie were super good friends as kids. They still are. Ray and Rose took a liking to him as well. So when he showed up one night when he was 16, explaining that his parents had found out he was gay and made it clear that they wouldn't be paying for anything for him outside of the roof he was 'allowed' to share with them, they quickly got him a job. He floated through positions for a while, doing well in most areas but just trying to find something that he really loved. He's settled at the moment as a delivery driver for the store. He likes the freedom of it, and how concrete it is. He's the best driver they have.

Reggie and Luke are partway into their first year as workshop apprentices. Luke mostly applied to satisfy his mom, who was angry about him not going to college, but he has discovered the fun of music boxes and maybeeee is slightly obsessed. Reggie has ended up in Ray's old position as the stuffy apprentice with his knack for tidy stitches and adding a bit of love to every single one.

Luke ends up poking around a bit in a closet of older models and stuff and finds some of Rose's music boxes(one of which has Julie's voice on it). He loves it and immediately goes to ask his boss/mentor, John, about it. John explains about Rose and how they all thought that Julie would follow in her footsteps as a woodworker, as she was one of the most talented he'd ever seen at such a young age, but how she hadn't been able to keep creating after losing her mom.

Not realizing that Julie is back now, at least for the summer, Luke gets sad but lets it go. And then she walks in on him listening to the music box in the break room a few days later. She kinda flips cause where the heck did he get that, and he goes on his whole thing about talent and art being something you have to let out. Julie ends up bolting into the workshop to get away. Luke is like, "Frick I came on too strong again didn't I..."

But who should Julie run into other than Reggie and Alex, who were packing up an order near the back of the space. And Alex immediately realizes she's having an anxiety attack and sits her down. Reggie grabs a big teddy bear for her to hug, and then ends up pulling Luke away when he comes in after her. After Julie calms down with help from Alex, Luke apologizes and they all just kinda... keep talking after that. And eventually Julie starts doing woodwork stuff again. The first thing she actually finishes is decal for Alex's bass drum with the logo of the boys' band on it. They all cry.

Andddd why must these always get so long when I do them? /nm

Anyways, hope you like it!!!!

#legolas tag #julie and the phantoms #legolas answers asks #jatp #also Willie is definitely around too #he's super good with electronic toys #and grew up in his uncle's toy store a couple of states over #but he bolted once he turned 18 cause uhhh... Caleb isn't the best boss... or parental figure... #but he had the skills still... so he just started working at the Molina's #he's still a little confused by the lack of disciplinary action if you don't meet the exact quota that gets set by someone higher up #but he is very much enjoying actually getting his lunch breaks #especially since he's managed to time them pretty well so he's in the break room at the same time as the cute delivery driver boy...

[magdaclaire]

my parents being fucking weird has ruined so many of the activities queers typically salivate over

#my mom and dad used to go axe throwing with my aunt and uncle once a week #my uncle built a forge out of cinder blocks in my backyard and we moved it with us after for like ten years #my dad forged for a long time #even like. making and serving alcohol or some shit. my dad is an alcoholic who used to make his own mead #cottagecore ass lesbians?? my mom was an apothecary and my dad has always had a garden #dark academia ass gay people? my parents get into ethical debates to pass the time when they're in line in stores #art or singing or dancing? my mom was a theatre major her first time through college. we do that here #my mom used to customize jeans for her friends free of charge bc she could just draw on them to stim during long conversations #my siblings and i split up roles in musicals before we start them bc of my mom #dancing is about my grandparents but anyway they were competitive line dancers and that's not the only dance they did #everybody in my family has adhd and/or autism and there are no safe interests in this house #and my siblings would probably say the same thing about shit that i've hyperfixated on in the past that they cannot look at bc i #talked about it too much. i know enough about literature to make any normal person fall asleep. i have a borderline encyclopedic knowledge #of big cats. i literally read a series of encyclopedias as a child because i wanted to have a base knowledge of most things #how was i not diagnosed !!!!!! how did no one diagnose me !!!!!!! #and it's bc everybody in my family thought it was normal for me to read at a collegiate level in first grade. please be so for real rn #this turned into talking about my family's autism but isn't that what it was always about lmao #mer rambles

[strangesickness]

getting a ps3 and a TV fundamentally changed me as a person. not because of all the new video games i suddenly had access to, but because of all of the movies i can now go out of my way to pick up once a week at the library that i've always had instant access to on my computer.

#okay but for real #i never ever watched movies before i got my ps3 #like i only ever watched movies socially #i think the last movie i watched by myself before i got my ps3 (a month ago) was alice in wonderland over a year ago #watching movies was only ever a social activity for me #i'd watch the same 5 will ferrell movies with my dad and i'd go to the theatre with my friend #but other than that? i had little to no interest #whereas now its like i can't get enough lol #pre-ps3 i can think of six movies that i was ever genuinely excited to watch (not for social reasons) #and those were barbie (2023) rocky horror the sonic movie IT chapter 2 frozen 2 and the batman movie #thats it. my entire life. those were the only movies i was ever genuinely excited to watch #and now its like every week i'm beyond excited to pop in a dvd and watch a movie #reminds me of being a kid and going to the video rental store with my parents #really heartbreaking to me that kids these days will never get to experience that #scrolling on netflix will never capture the same wonder as spending 20 min in the store carefully considering your options #i'm really not very old so it's weird to think that “kids these days” will have such a different childhood to me #anyways i love watching movies and have so much stuff to watch so thats cool

[devilfruitdyke]

how is my family so whimsyless. we're in the city put the windows down get some music on. feel the Wind the temperature is perfect..

#stop getting pissed at arena employees man.. its a sports game we could be having fun #driving back rn and like. why are my parents fighting #church on the left side has the biggest steeple ive ever seen. boba store on the right is the same chain i got one from in boston #lets look around this shit is awesome

[glittertimes]

Me: I don’t have any special interests

Also me: if I see anything with miffy on it I have to buy it

#everyone knows me for being obsessed with miffy #I used to make my parents rent the same miffy cartoon on vhs every time we went to the video rental store by our house loll

[angiestown]

I love looking at the treats you bake it really inspires me!! How long have you been baking?

ty ty !! baking I've been doing almost as long as I can remember. we're a big baking family, especially on my mom's side, so I've just always done it. I can't cook for shit tho, most of my groceries are freezer aisle premade stuff lmao

cake decorating I've also done a few times growing up, but I started working as a cake decorator in 2017 I think? and I hadn't really seriously decorated a cake before then. I just had a background in art so when a decorator left our store they put me in to cover for a bit and they were like wait shit she's good at this. my nan was a cake decorator so my dad picked up a bit from her, and he decorated all our birthday cakes growing up so I picked up a bit from him. kind of a shame my nan died shortly before I started decorating. but yeah my mom and dad are like this one-two punch where one likes baking and the other likes making things look nice

#I remember as a kid dad decorating our cakes was so normal so I assumed everyone's parents did it #and then I started working here and I'm like wait some of these cakes we offer #are the exact same ones some kids had at their birthdays I went to lmao #specifically the little mermaid one I so vividly remember this one girl having #it also didn't occur to me before working here how many people buy their christmas cookies instead of bake them #I'd see christmas cookies at the store and be like of that's for bringing to class or office parties #and clearly the good cookies are at home for just your family to enjoy

[naturenaruto]

every time i see a new news story abou how some kid needs trans care or w/e and their parents are like "well we just dont agree~ with all thaat" i am reminded of tht post that was like "WHOS hair is it?!!!! the FAMILY hair?!!!" nsjxnjsndjahdjajsbsnsnsj like WHOS body is it?!! the family body?!!! we all just share one body?? hivemind family values 2k24 i guess

#we all have to be Exactly The Same #same values same religion must shop at same clothing store #everything same! #why are parents so insane with the 'rights' they want over someone else #they say 'its my child' but they dont see their child as a legitmately seperate person #like that is an entirely different human being than you do you not realize that? #you cannot control this entirely seperate person who are you big brother #the invasiveness and level of control and want for authority is astounding and evil

[laylamva]

Ellee cannot catch a break.

#precure #pretty cure #hirogaru sky! precure #like she JUST got home and now both her parents are comatose #she’s like a month old! #poor baby’s gonna have issues later in life #hirogaru sky spoilers #and she's currently in the care of people who don't understand that SHOE STORES SELL MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE SAME PAIR OF SHOES #not a genuine criticism i just hate that episode

[kt--extinction]

nooooooooo the cowboy store in my small pnw logging town is shutting down because rent was too high

#i used to get my parents to take me there all the time when i was in my elementary school cowboy phase #same bullshit got the sewing store

[inklingofadream]

my little brother has an Object. the Object is a tiny tv set. but it is also. a compass. a lantern AND a flashlight (opposite sides). a radio. it is jeep branded. it is older than he is.

he and his buddy are going camping Exclusively. because of the Object. so that's also a feature it has.

#ink post #my family #'camping' is probably overly generous? i cant deny the fishing or the tent (with dog door)(no dog same thrift store trip as the Object) #but also like... my mom is packing them RAW STEAKS???? maybe leftover ones i think? #and they'll be like. A mile up the mountain from our grandparents who are charged with calling an ambulance if/when needed #they are NOT bringing smores supplies. i know this bc i am now in possession of a Lot of chocolate not being used in smores. #just. i would not trust these 2 to make me a steak at home under parental supervision #my brother has no camping knowledge and while his friend does he also goes by gibby exclusively. yes after the icarly character. #on the upside they wont see any dangerous wildlife bc gibby is a cheering football stadium in human form