Daily #2,527! I'd always been the type of person who would get depressed over angry, so anger was not an emotion I felt very familiar dealing with. And it also wasn't something I expected to feel so much after being a parent. But some days the exhaustion, overwhelm, and frustration really get me. It's the part about needing a minute (or more!) and not always feeling you can get it at times that makes me feel like a shaken bottle about to explode.
I don't want to take my feelings out on anyone, especially not my very own child. (Been there, done that when I was a child myself.) So learning how to regulate my emotions and keep calm has been one of my biggest challenges. It's one of the things I've worked on through books and therapy. Sometimes I still mess up. But I apologize. And always try to do better next time.
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Book Review: Mom Rage by Minna Dubin
Minna Dubin really lets it rip in this jarring review of motherhood. She says many of the things most moms experience, but are afraid to say out loud. Her hold nothing back approach made me fall instantly in love with her book.
While at points I laughed out loud, other points I couldn't stop nodding my head in agreement.
Dubin mixes her own personal accounts with facts and statistics to back up her claims and shows she is not just writing on emotion, but has thoroughly researched what she is sharing.
Mom Rage is an un-sugarcoated look at motherhood and the many many emotions that come into play mentally, with children but also family, and especially spouses. Bravo to Minna Dubin for her transparency and having the courage to share her deepest thoughts and saying what so many are thinking on a daily basis.
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My Mom Would Have Liked
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I have to get my thoughts together but I'm wondering about Kipperlily and how she was asking Jawbone about the details on how Kristen made a god including where it happened. And how we learned from Lydia this episode about gods needing to come back in a specific spot. This feels obviously related but my question is, is there actually any evil plot here like in Season 1 or is this just a case of, "Hmm looks like the Bad Kids found an exploit. Let's Fantasy Google some faded gods and see if we can conjure ourselves a personal deity like Applebees somehow managed to. That's gotta be worth a ton of points." Like, it's way too soon to say and the Helioic cleric obviously wouldn't be down for this but I think the idea of accidentally unleashing an ancient evil because you're trying to minmax the best transcript possible is extremely funny.
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COD men as Party Animals characters
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thinking about camila getting unrelentingly pummeled by Parent Fear After Parent Fear After Parent Fear in like. EVERY episode she's in from s2 onward.
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ok willow ik you talk a lot about dad katsuki (forever grateful for your thoughts) but i need to know your thoughts on marriage or engaged katsuki!! he’s definitely not a big wedding guy and he’d be so funny when proposing🥺🥺 i would love to know!!!
yeah i don't think he's a big wedding guy either !!!! which i think would make his mom so mad LOL like i have this vision that—she was never really sure ??? if katsuki would ever get married ??? so then when it's announced that you two are engaged, she starts planning everything right then LOL she knows what she wants him to wear, she has several different options for you, she knows where she wants it to be, all the extended family she wants to invite, what she wants catered like. the whole nine.
and then katsuki is like, scowling— "i ain't havin' all that frilly shit," LMAOOOO
i really think he wants a very intimate thing for the both of you, maybe even very casual. not too traditional. i think he's a romantic enough that he wants something with a lil bit of light, but—for the most part, you two are all that matter 🥺 he's also shy hehehehe but he still has his close friends and family there 🥺
he gives the party afterwards to his mother, she can do whatever she wants with that LOL but the actual ceremony, he doesn't let her touch. he does let her pick something out for to wear him, something SIMPLE. i think his stupid handsome face is a lil pink the whole time 🥺 does his big happy boy smile 🥺🥺🥺 WAAAHHH I'M CHOMPING HIM
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Forspoken • And you will have your mother by your side.
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Today my uncle called me fat and my mother bought me foundation to cover up my acne
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Why is it the daughter's responsibility to be the mother of their mothers and not the other way around? It's like they birthed someone to hold their rage, as if it was the only thing a daughter is ever good for.
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oh my fucking god i feel. SO stupid rn at How i didnt make the (super sane very normal just absolutely. Yes. Surely) connection earlier but uhh
so anyway im now like 89% certain that whatever the "traces" of the narwhal that remain on ajax and facilitate their (ever-growing) innate connection are like. an actually fundamental aspect of it (them?) more or less.
why? because if you consider its pov just for a moment. the narwhal was literally about to depart teyvat for good. it had nearly finished consuming the primordial sea and preparing to breach surface to finish the job by eating the french for the leftovers their human bodies were made from. its an interstellar voyager it does not linger on planets it devours. it goes glug glug and it leaves.
and like if it wasnt for traveler intervening its confirmed through narzissenkreuz and renes world formula that teyvat wouldve just been destroyed. no one could have stopped the narwhal not neuvillette not focalors not anyone.
so what was the one other thing it did right before going for that french brunch? calling for ajax. getting them reunited in the primordial sea. like all the possible implications aside bc theres many different ways to speculate on the exact reasons why and the nature of that link. the point remains.
it wasnt leaving teyvat without finding him.
like the narwhal is about to fucking Dip from this cringe planet and whatever part of it that ajax carries within himself his narwhal Absolutely wanted to be reunited with. what the fuck am i supposed to read from that. hoyo???????!??! answers?!?!?!
and its not only the calling from the narwhal side itself either bc this is ALL coinciding with the growth of a 'restless power' within ajax and his vision malfunctioning (the things celestia is literally confirmed to harvest energy thru to repair its damaged authority) and his connection with the narwhal reaching an actual conscious level (arguably subconscious n emotional too bc i find it Curious his mood is poor right as the narwhal is repeatedly described as positively malding to the point its boss fight mechanic is literally a rage meter). ajax' power is growing. his destiny is starting to shift and something is drawing him to fontaine... right as the narwhal is getting close to finished with the primordial sea. funny how it overlaps eh. how it aligns 🤨🤨 why are they orbiting each other like this (they should kiss)
(& not to even Mention how ajax just Happened to get that absolutely exponential and borderline unbelievable feat of power spike in extending his foul legacy endurance as massively as he did. while. within the primordial sea. with his narwhal. who had at that point all but incorporated the power of that sea into itself. i s2g if childe was getting passive home turf co-op bonus exp with a 4x multiplier automatically the whole 40+ days 💀💀)
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