Cal • 20 Years Old • She/Her • INFP • Gemini • Hufflepuff
Well, I don’t really like how it turned out but I spend too long on it
to just not share it..I really need to start shading my art again
though
Jevil has some advice (made in Firealpaca)
In all honesty, keep some breathmints or gum on you at all times and when you notice their breath stinks take it out and pop one in your own mouth first. Then ask them if they want one too before you put it away. That way it just seems like you’re being a generous and sharing person.
god today i ID’d an old dude buyin booze and he pulled out a fake ID with an elvis pic, then laughed and pulled out a matching one but with curly from three stooges on it, and im like okay please and he finally pulled out his real license and his legal name was steve sinner
What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.
What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’snot merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.