real talk my mom never invaded my privacy, always knocked and waited for my “come in” instead of barging into my room, never tried to read my texts or journals or notes, and I always came to her with sensitive subjects; to the point of telling her I lost my virginity the /day/ I lost my virginity

what I’m saying is: respect your kids’ privacy and they will come to you with shit you’re worried about them doing

take it from someone raised the opposite; not respecting your kid’s privacy and rooting thru all of their shit, making them feel paranoid etc, will just turn them into a very good liar who withholds everything/makes up convincing stories and is really good at hiding things from you right under your nose.

not to vagueblog but some of you are clearly experiencing dragon madness

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

I possess several shocking and alarming hot takes, such as "people should be nicer to each other more often", and "telling strangers to kill themselves is wrong".

Persons with any pronouns engaging in a conversation with two people that are aggressively trying to one up each other with how obscure of a pronoun they can use. Xey do not realize this and are just happy that people are using variety for once.

“This character can’t be trans, they’re the same gender as a child!!!” Okay so they transitioned early

The fact that transphobes are unaware of the fact that transitioning as child is literally just a wardrobe change and *maybe* a haircut would be funny if it didn’t ruin so many peoples lives