#first year guide

[filipinawanderer]

Navigating the First Year: Guide to Your Baby's Milestones

Buckle up for the exciting journey that is your baby's first year! From first smiles to first steps, navigate the world of parenting with our comprehensive guide. #BabysFirstYear #ParentingGuide

Welcome to the fast-paced, ever-changing world of your baby’s first year! From first smiles to first steps, this is the year of the “firsts” — and boy, is it a wild ride! Congratulations on your new bundle of joy! Your baby’s first year will be filled with precious moments and important milestones. But let’s face it, being a new parent can be overwhelming. This guide will help you navigate the…

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#baby milestones #Baby&039;s first year #first year guide #infant development #parenting tips

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Valentine's Day! (and this blog's first post anniversary!)

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Woah...it's been a whole *year* since I took the leap and uploaded my 'first attempt' art. #It's outdated now but it holds a special place in my heart for the fact it started all of this off. #Calling this 'poorly-drawn' was always about accepting that my art was going to be imperfect and messy - and doing it anyways! #There has been a staggering number of times I have drawn something I almost didn't upload because I didn't think it was 'good enough' #only for someone to say they liked it - or that it made them laugh. And it has helped me realize - #-The worst critic for my work has always been myself. If I listened to it all the time...well we would not be here now B'*) #And now that I have dabbled in other fandoms I can truly see how lucky was to start out with the MXTX fans. #The supportive messages and tags have truly been a guiding force toward my artistic and self improvement. #I really can't describe how grateful I am. #Thank you for seeing something worth rooting for when I was just figuring things out. #Thank you for being sweeter than the candy I have strategically hidden in the nooks and crannies of this house. #But watch out! If you forget to find them we will get ants. #I remembered to not hide chocolate in the bed this year. Yes I know it melted last time. Yes it did stain. I'm still sorry. #Thank you for loving me regardless <3 Even if it looked like I shit the bed real bad.

[ghostpajamas]

pretending

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #ritsu kageyama #shigeo kageyama #first mp100 art in years : weird prose thing about reigen and ritsu and their projected selves and metaphorical light #reading guide: white iris = psychic powers. so the spotlight thing giving reigen an eye highlight (and the 1000% thing) is like. the brief- #illusion of being a real psychic. #being shaded in is like. okay i dont know how to put it. the projection of normalcy. yeah #poetry #ghostart #comic #hope theres no typos or alignment issues i missed orz

[cottoncandysprite]

Y'all ever look back and realize your least fav character in your fav show was actually the one most painfully similar to who you were when you first watched it

#the guide my love I'm so sorry #to be completely fair tho most of the stuff I relate to in her came after season 3 (the last season when I first watched) #also shes not my least fav anymore I actually love her dearly in s4 and especially 5 #but yeah jesus christ shes so me from 3 years ago... #yall ever fall deeply in unrequited love with your girlbestie #whose cool queer friend group want nothing to do with you bc of how weird and awkward you are #all while dealing with trauma you had buried for years but you now realize severely changed you as a person #anyway. #wwdits #ramblies

[baeshijima]

it’s officially the 26th for me so !!

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSAY TO HONKAI: STAR RAIL 🫶🫶

#AND ALSO HAPPY 2.2 LIVESTREAM ROBIN BOOTHILL OFFICIAL REVEAL DAY AAAAAA #AND WE HAVE THE CONCERT GOING LIVE ON 1ST MAY AAAAAA #sobbing i cant believe its been a year since official launch…. cries…. #i remember being so hyped since the first closed beta testing and following it ever since #man this is kinda emotional knowing ive followed this game for so long pre release #anywho #heres to another year of compelling story and characters 💪🥹 #(also this is scheduled for exactly midnight so if it doesnt post on the DOT then execute me for being lousy pls n ty <33) #may the stars guide you <3

[hecksupremechips]

Shinjiham is cute when it’s romantic but tbh I think i vastly prefer the idea of them being best friends instead. Like, neither of them really saw it coming and weren’t really looking to get another best friend (Shinji has Akihiko, Kotone has Junpei and Yukari respectively) but it happens anyway. Kotone takes a liking to Shinji much faster than she does anyone else and I’d say a big reason is just the fact that he’s so reserved that it allows Kotone to do most of the talking while he just listens and they love this arrangement cuz Kotone doesn’t get to talk about her own interests very much. Though I think some of her needs to talk to Shinji stems from this insecurity that he isn’t happy in the group and she has this people pleasing problem and wants everyone to be happy so she makes a much bigger effort to talk to Shinji. And it’s very unfortunate because Shinji intentionally acts cold and distant because he doesn’t want to form any attachments because he wants to die soon, but aaaaaaaagh dammit this girl just keeps talking to him and being sweet and encouraging him to engage in his interests and share them with the others and he just can’t seem to say no when she’s got those damn puppy eyes. And Kotone is just able to get him out of his shell by being persistent but not in an overwhelming way, she’s very cheerful and supportive of him. And Shinji is able to offer her support by encouraging her to talk about herself and by making sure she’s taking care of herself. They just click really well and make such a positive dent in each other’s lives and it’s all about basic acts of kindness going a long way you know?

#persona #persona 3 #kotone shiomi #shinjiro aragaki #i uh. probably didnt do much here to prove that their relationship is best when its platonic akjsks i mean idk how to convey it #that these two are just so good for each other but that im just not feeling it romantically #and why should i honestly like cant a guy and a girl just be platonic soulmates like me and jackie aljsks #plus i just have other ships with these characters i like better ahem akishinji and mitsuham yall already know #and i just feel really comforted by their relationship being best friends cuz it makes the pocket watch a lot more power of friendship #and it just. irks me the idea that its romantic love that saves shinji and its romantic love that gave him a will to live #cuz first off you can save him without romancing him and also like if you think kotone is the only person he wants to live for #youre just wrong like in fact its very clear in his social link that he feels this strong love for everyone #its literally like why other characters are so ingrained into his link he loves everyone and they love him back #its just kotone who organizes the time for them all to get together plus like idk when ppl say shinji only wants to live after romancing #kotone its like. well hes not gonna have a good time post coma then huh #and i suppose the point being made is he has to learn to live even if his gf isnt there but again like. shes not the only thing he has #idk i just hate this like pedestal romantic relationships are put on and i hate the implications that like #akihiko has been trying for years to protect shinji and his love doesnt matter cuz it isnt some heterosexual romance #grrrrr it just irks me is all and yeah i just think theyre besties who do everything together #kotone is like shinjis emotional support animal that guides him through the scary crowds and shinji is off putting enough to scare away the #meanies that come their way and they have a dress up montage and make cookies

[fatehbaz]

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#thinking of dinosaurs and troodontids were my favorite dinosaurs as a child #when younger i had a real full troodontid tooth fossil that meant a lot to me #for a time we lived within a few kilometers of hadrosaur sites and troodontid sites #while wider general area had many sites of recovery for the big celebrities like tyrannosaur and multiple dromaeosaurs #at that time troodontids were kinda infamous for i think the depiction in some childrens field guides and dino books #which depicted like a fantasy speculative humanoid troodontid based on 1980s model at Canadian Museum of Nature in ottawa #anyway would visit a small local paleo center a lot and woman in her 70s or 80s ran the counter of their center and rock shop #one day she asked me what my fave dino was and i said troodon so she pulled out the tooth and just gifted it to me #in little black case size of ring box with padding and transparent plastic viewing cover kinda like laminate for displaying a trading card #tooth got stolen from out my vehicle while giving some people a ride while at university before i got too poor for tuition #later during first year of pandemic owner of my storage unit died and new property owners threw away everything i ever owned #i was homeless anyway lost job due to early pandemic closures and had to allocate any money to insulin and other prescrip meds #but wouldve found a way to save my things if the new owners had contacted me #they threw out photoalbums y backpacking gear y books y musical instruments y clothes y artwork y camera y all family keepsakes #and all childhood treasures like souvenirs and gifts and school awards and writing portfolios and all the little memories #which i was always sentimental about as child #from earliest age my room looked like a natural history museum with plants and maps and library of field guides #and rocks and field trip keepsakes and all kinds of little animal figurines and mother had painted room in forest greens and browns #to feel like a forest and among the succulent plants and a globe sat the troodon tooth #parents passed when i was a child #never near any family and were always moving never got to settle into proper stable place then father passed after long sad illness #and mother put in so much effort but she passed few years later and i could not take care of myself or my remaining material possessions #and so im still quite hurt having nothing whatsoever remaining of my childhood or school friends or mother or life generally #and when trying to process grief my thoughts often come back to the troodontid tooth as a focal point a distillation of what was lost #even when young i knew it was advised not to become too connected to material physical possessions #but still there are some small little trinkets in our lives that seem to hold so much meaning and i tortured myself for losing that tooth #thinking about troodon reminds me of childhood

[stickeykeys]

soft rain outside, aircon on, just took a shower - perf shifting conditions if u ask me

#amber posts #shiftblr #shifting #reality shifting #desired reality #shifting realities #desired reality shifting #shifting community #shifters #anyways using a guided med for the first time ever ??? #yes ive been shifting for 3 years and ive never used one oops

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

What kind of tablet and app do you use or recommend for digital art?

personally i use Procreate on an ipad, like the vanilla bitch i am! it Is a good program, but i've previously used & been happy with Medibang, i've heard good things about Krita and Clip Studio.

as for tablets, i started out with a Huion pen tablet! that one worked pretty damn well once i got used to watching a screen instead of my hand as i drew! it's a pretty decent brand, but there are tons of others that are Not Half Bad too

but really, you can make anything work! there are a lot of different options out there - a good way to find Your Best Fit is looking up programs/tablets, reading reviews, comparing and contrasting to see what appeals to You!

#like my first program was autodesk sketchbook on my phone #and that worked for me for a While! i even continued using autodesk when i got my huion #then i used medibang for a spell before i was gifted the ipad for my... eighteenth maybe? or was it graduation... dont remember #but yeah and procreate i think Is worth it #like i hate apple (the company. love the fruit) but daaaaamn procreate #all i can say really is Dont do photoshop #some people will say 'oh get photoshop' Its Not Worth It #its expensive and complicated and other programs do the same thing Cheaper and Easier #the only thing i can actively complain about procreate is a lot of the features are hidden #there's no immediately accessible guide #ive been using it for the past hmmmm 3 years i think? #and i JUST discovered a new function last week #and theres definitely more #the program with the second-most-glowing reviews ive heard of is clip studio paint #but krita sounds mighty fine too! #rambles from the bog #hope this helps!!!

[kraviolis]

Belos: I’m going to raise Luz as my daughter and ensure that she remains pure and loyal to me.

Also Belos: I’m going to let the 7-years-old clone of my brother take care of her I’m sure he’ll be able to do that.

you joke but thats LITERALLY his entire thought process at first. he's so isolated and arrogant that he couldnt possibly comprehend the idea that luz wouldnt see him as her father despite the fact he literally told hunter he was going to be her older brother and never once encouraged hunter to see him as anything but an uncle.

i attribute this to the fact that philip is an orphan who only ever knew his blood brother as his only caretaker, so he sorta took having a brother for granted and didn't realize that was something you could want rather than something that just Is.

(also caleb was the only person philip ever truly knew + loved and even well into his 300s he never once picked up a child psychology book and realized that Perhaps His Worldview Was Skewed Because Of That.)

he literally like. could not comprehend the idea that you could even choose your own family outside of like. being adopted by someone. thats the other thing with him being so annoyingly christian in this AU, he was taught that your blood family (esp yr parents) is always the most important thing in your life & you should always be grateful to them no matter what.

(this is another factor into why he keeps making grimwalkers. in his own twisted viewpoint, it's him giving caleb another chance. and another. and another-- at least in this specific characterization of him.)

philip thought that him adopting luz would mean she would immediately be eternally grateful to him and call him father and the whole nine yards. but he forget to actually express that expectation until it was too late (aka until he heard her call him uncle for the first time)

honestly, hes not MAD about it. he's just sorta :( about it bcus hes not actually insane and can still logically think like "she did say she had just lost her real father to an illness its perfectly reasonable for her to not want to replace him" (he doesnt think it outloud but he also enjoys living thru her vicariously

but also later on as she gets older it gets to a point where he's like "ok its been years now why isnt she trying to replace him yet" bcus he thinks its a normal + healthy part of the grieving process to replace the person you lost (figuratively or, in his case, Literally)

#qna #anonymous #little lamb au #toh #also luz is sort of catholic in this AU bcus she was raised like that #as in camila + manny would take her to church on sundays and she did sunday school sometimes and they'd encourage her to pray #but they never like. enforced it on her. it was more of a cultural thing for all three of them than a spiritual thing. #but belos is DELIGHTED when he hears baby luz praying out loud before bed on her first night in the castle #he tries to casually ask her about it like 'what is this God can you explain it to him' #but then as he listens to her little five year old explanation of God and Jesus she drops enough hints to make him realize #'Oh Good Lord She's Fucking CATHOLIC?' #'god truly is testing me by guiding this lamb into my care but no matter. no child is beyond redemption' #cue belos trying to push her more towards protestantism by attempting to have religious debates with a fucking. five year old #who has no concept of religion beyond 'jesus died for my sins which means i shouldnt lie to my abuela about taking an extra empanada' #sorry i love belos forgetting that religion exists up until luz arrives in the demon realm #and then he realizes Oh Fuck Thats Right. Im Doing This For God & Jesus Not Just For Fun #and then suddenly remembers everything his pastor from 400 years ago ever said to him

[fictionadventurer]

It's "longing for a gorgeous box set of the Blackberry Bushes books" hours again.

#every year #when the 'gifts for book lovers' guides start popping up online #first gorgeous children's box set i see #makes the yearning start again #consoling myself by considering they may exist at wright's #(inventing my own imaginary book store containing all the beautiful books that don't exist may have been a bad idea) #(may be a few layers too deep in the flights of fancy department) #the blackberry bushes #isfjmel-phleg

[phoenix-flamed]

Me, fondly remembering my playthroughs of FFVII, VIII, IX, X, X-2, and XII: I don't need more blogs I don't need more blogs I don't need more blogs I do --

Though if I did RP as anyone, it'd hands-down be Beatrix from IX.

#Out of the Flames #I loved those games so much... including X-2 #don't look at my poster of Shuyin and Lenne on my wall #or my collection of X-2 wallscrolls from anime cons when I was younger #or my statue of X-2 Yuna #RANDOM VONNY FACTS: I WAS PLANNING TO COSPLAY AS LULU AND BEATRIX AT ONE POINT #AND I ALSO WANTED TO COSPLAY AS SORCERESS EDEA #AND MY PROM DRESS WAS CUSTOM MADE AND BASED ON GARNET'S CORONATION GOWN #AND I SANG 1000 WORDS FOR THE ANNUAL TALENT SHOW DURING MY JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL #AND DURING MY FRESHMAN YEAR I SANG FOR THE FIRST TIME ON STAGE EVER AND IT WAS EYES ON ME FROM VIII #which is a weird contrast because Senior year I sang Think Of Me from Phantom of the Opera because go out with a bang BUT ANYWAY #VIII WAS THE FIRST FF GAME I OFFICIALLY PLAYED BUT MY SISTER AND MOM KNEW HOW MUCH I WANTED TO PLAY VII #SO FOR CHRISTMAS THEY GOT ME A PS2 AND THE FIRST KINGDOM HEARTS GAME AND A COPY OF VII #AND I WAS SO EXCITED AND EVEN MORE TOUCHED BECAUSE THEY HAD TO RUN OUT AND GET A PS1 MEMORY CARD FOR VII #AND THEY DID IT FOR ME... AND I WAS SO EXCITED #OH MY GOD I'M AKLSDGL AAAAAAAAAAAAA I COLLECTED STRATEGY GUIDES FOR ALL OF THE GAMES BECAUSE #I DIDN'T WANT TO MISS ANYTHING IN THE GAMES AND ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY SO THAT I COULD READ THEM LIKE BOOKS AND #USE THE CHARACTER DESIGN SECTIONS AND THE SCREENSHOTS AND ALL OF THE ART WITHIN THEM TO PRACTICE ART #AND AKSLDJGLKFDGLKJDLGF OKAY I'LL STOP RAMBLING NOW BECAUSE HOLY SHIT SO MANY TAGS LOL

[volcanicflowers]

Arthur "Murder" Dent

#Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #H2G2 #Arthur Dent #My Art #i first drew this meme about umm a year ago. and put off coloring it for a year.

[arcann]

i decided to look for a clear guide of the kotor 2 abomination operation in swtor and remembered ffxiv absolutely spoiled me with those step by step guides

#average s/w/tor gamer: yeah this is my guide! *loud ass electro music* *raw footage of them fighting* #*just an ad to join their guild* #anyway. the first boss is just a reskinned mount. not even another npc. A MOUNT. I HAVE THAT MOUNT #i remember people saying it was ''inspired'' by the ff/x/iv mechanics and. yeah. #it's like seeing a sped up raid boss fight but it takes wayyyy longer to kill it #i've only played like one operation in all these years......... idk how much they last on average but. this is an enhanced damage sponge

[v4mp123]

useless part, this useless heart

(alternate title: your local guide kinnie is straight-up not having a good time rn)

#and the guide kinnie is me. #this song has been on my guide playlist for A YEAR. it was the FIRST SONG. #HOW did i predict that things would get worse. #sorry for my weird monochromatic canvases im having a phase #and also still fucking around with learning csp #the guide #the guide wwdits #wwdits #wwdits fanart #wwdits guide #this was like . cathartic but also im still so sad for her #vv.art #regina spektor

[roseworth]

the only people that say that comic books arent hard to get into are the people that have been reading them since they were a kid. and the only people that say that comic books are too hard to get into so you shouldnt try are the people that have never bothered opening a comic book.

#as a bitch that got into them like 2 years ago. its fuckin hard #especially if you dont like not knowing things #however its not as hard as some people want u to believe #like one of the first books i read was batgirl 2000. fantastic entry book #first of all its amazing second of all you dont really need a lot of prior knowledge to understand it #but even then. it gets confusing. #since i didnt know a lot about other big events i didnt know what was going on in any crossovers #like ok um why is bruce wayne being convicted of murder rn. #like when i was getting into comics i had wikipedia open for like half the comics i read #i think the hardest part is finding a starting place #then continuing to expand from there. like there’s so much and it’s HARD #and sometimes saying ‘just use a reading guide for a character you find interesting’ um. does not work #my rose reading guide is my baby but it is NOT a good starting point for people that haven’t read comics #anyways i’m sorry this is not meant as a slight to anyone #i just love to give my two cents all the time