my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"
OP the tags!!
““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””
— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)
In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Lindgren spoke against corporal punishment of children in a speech entitled Never Violence! After that, she teamed up with scientists, journalists and politicians to promote non-violent upbringing. In 1979, a law was introduced in Sweden prohibiting violence against children in response to her demands. Until then there was no such law anywhere in the world.
What a legacy. We’re so lucky to have had her.
fnaf is such, a fascinating cultural object.
An extremely right wing pro life Christian weirdo attempts to make Christian video games but fails miserably and then immediately pivots to making one of the most iconic horror games of all time. Which is based on the Chuck E Cheese restaurant franchise. The game turns into a long running series with the most prominent reoccurring themes being stranger danger tropes, child death and mutilation, the things fathers do to their children, and the corruption of innocence. On at least one occasion he totally flipped out about people implying his work had CSA/abuse themes and called it degenerate. The series is incredibly preoccupied with the concept of immortal souls. It practically invented multiple other separate genres of online video media. Most fans of the series have never played it. It is now, functionally, a series for children.
this is a quick appreciation post for my mutuals who have my actual real life address and have never sent a hitman to my door to assassinate me you all are real ones
this bull amulet from 3250 bce felt so familiar and i figured out why
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