Taking A Psych Assessment Thing Online And They Had Me Stare At God Damn Shapes For Like 20 Minutes And

I just remembered one time in like sixth or seventh grade (we had the same teachers and class both years so hard to remember which) somehow we got into a debate of “who is better, boys or girls?” and instead of stepping in to stop it our teacher formalized it and egged us on by providing thoughtful prompts and counters to each side and by the end each group had built a barricade of desks on either side of the classroom and we were throwing balls of paper at each other and screaming about personal hygiene while our teacher just watched and enjoyed a Baby Ruth candy bar.

I find it fascinating that people who choose not to have children are generally assumed to feel really strongly about not having children (or even to feel really strongly against children, anyone’s children, in general). I am probably not going to have children, not because I REALLY REALLY HATE the idea of having children, but because I don’t really really love it. Out of all the major decisions I will make in my life, this one is the only irreversible one. I can sell a house, quit a job, divorce a spouse, whatever. I cannot unhave a child. I cannot opt out of being a parent once I become a parent. I can’t even take a step back for the sake of self-care or whatever, or else my child will suffer.

So for me, having children is fuck yes or not at all. The default will be to remain childfree. Having children should be an opt-in decision, not an opt-out one. Until/unless I develop really strong feelings about wanting to have children, I won’t have them, even if that means I never end up having them at all.

maybe in another universe

HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS

Losing their marbles !!

I know these are supposed to be bubbles but the collector would love to play marbles.

Timelapse under cut

One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it's the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.

For context here is a picture

Still collecting the full alphabet of the “live, laugh, love” variants if anyone has some good examples.

Bonus if they can fit the “We can’t ___, _____, ____ our way out of this.”

Do you have any idea when you’re book is coming out I wanna mark it down so I can save up to buy it?

Hi hello! I'm still waaaaaaaaaay at the beginning of writing it, currently on chapter 6 and at like uh *checks notes* 31K? So it'll be a hot minute! Once I get closer to being done I think I'll start looking for a publisher?

This is the first time I've done this so I'm not sure how long that takes, but I'll post about here and twt (if it survives)!

Also worst comes to worst and I can't find anyone to publish, well that's what the art degree is for bby!