favedump:

Mr. Rogers had an intentional manner of speaking to children, which his writers called “Freddish”. There were nine steps for translating into Freddish: 

  1. “State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. ​​​​​​
  2. “Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe.
  3. “Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet make subtle distinctions and need to be redirected to authorities they trust.” As in, “Ask your parents where it is safe to play.”
  4. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate all elements that could be considered prescriptive, directive, or instructive.” In the example, that’d mean getting rid of “ask”: Your parents will tell you where it is safe to play.
  5. “Rephrase any element that suggests certainty.” That’d be “will”: Your parents can tell you where it is safe to play.
  6. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate any element that may not apply to all children.” Not all children know their parents, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play.
  7. “Add a simple motivational idea that gives preschoolers a reason to follow your advice.” Perhaps: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is good to listen to them.
  8. “Rephrase your new statement, repeating the first step.” “Good” represents a value judgment, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them.
  9. “Rephrase your idea a final time, relating it to some phase of development a preschooler can understand.” Maybe: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children – The Atlantic

mamalaz:

bauliya:

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whoopace-kosi:

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mamalaz:

Avengers AU – If Tony was Peter’s biological father

Tony is super protective of his son. And Peter, inspired by his dad, becomes Spiderman anyway (his dad and his Uncle Rhodey figure him out in a second though).

My other Avengers AUs

Just wanted to add:

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hate to be That Guy but who’s gonna put the Infinity War gif in ????

now add the umbrella scene for all the sadness you’ve caused me

cannibalcoalition:

falseprophet:

cannibalcoalition:

falseprophet:

kaylapocalypse:

dykealectics:

Mark Zuckerberg is a despicable misogynist and a capitalist pig who sells all of our private information, and is responsible for selling that to the people who used it to ensure the election of a crypto-fascist president, but this site reaaaally needs to stop with the “secretly inhuman / alien / lizard person” jokes because he is jewish and that shit comes DIRECTLY from literal antisemitic conspiracies started and propogated by genuine neo-nazis so why is it so hard to just not do that?

Before you recoil from this and develop defensive emotions, I used to joke about him having to go to human classes (a real thing he did) but then when i was watching the Live Congress thing he’s doing yesterday, youtube had the comment feed on and i got to watch people literally in real time at like 8 mph use that rhetoric while spamming stars of david next to it and i recoiled back from that joke/line of mockery so fuckin fast my guys.

Consider yourself informed and move forward from it. We can think up new things to mock him with that aren’t being glorified by neonazis.

Could someone explain where this came from? I’ve never heard that the ‘secretly a lizard person’ thing was antisemitic! That’s distressing. I’ve seen variations of it in shows (Robot Chicken did a sketch that comes to mind) and I’d love to know the origin.

David Icke is a famous conspiracy theorist who champions the ‘lizard people’ rhetoric, which he uses frequently to thinly disguise his anti-semitism. To quote a follower of his: 

“Just because he believes a Jewish elite run the world doesn’t make him an antisemite.” Which is literally antisemitism. 

So essentially he’s using it as a joke to seem more relatable when he’s really just talking about Jewish people?

Disclaimer: I am a gentile who knows maybe 1/8th of what is and is not anti-semitic. But here is what I’ve gathered from what a lot of my Jewish friends have told me. 

It isn’t a joke to him. He’s serious. He’s written several books about it.  From  his Wiki

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He’s got a lot of similar things to say about Israel. 

vampireapologist:

cyanideending:

cyanideending:

relevantlyrambling:

northisnotup:

vampireapologist:

admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream

THAT is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would have wanted

I swear if this isn’t floating around on the internet I’m gonna cry

Oh buddy IT’S ABOUT TO BE. I am like, 98% sure this was my high school’s production and I’ve got photos and video clips like craaaazy…

Here are some fun additions… the Mechanicals were also based on the characters of The Breakfast Club (here I am below, eating an actual Captain Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich on stage.)

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…and the one on the longboard was actually our Puck – he rode it through the whole play in the background. Please note his “Forest Cafe” shirt… which we also had logos for on the cups.

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…and we had both a flash mob at the end AND an interlude where myself and one of the other Fairies danced to “Sexy and I Know It” while we were cleaning up the tables at the cafe.

I will post more of this later. I have a DVD at my house and will endure cringing at myself to bring you some quality clips… there’s probably one of K eating the burrito before the start of the play, too.

@hullaballoons Here is more Ktown Lore for you 

@cupcakelirry 

Here ya go kids… all 2h20m. if you make it through the whole thing once, that’s probably more times than any of the cast watched this DVD. You can probably see why. Tbh if you watch this, I am sorry in advance.

Important notes:

– Chipotle burrito makes a cameo about 30 min in,

– the end has a flash mob and a “commercial” for the Forest Cafe, 

– unfortunately, the lunch scene where all the mechanicals whistle like the Breakfast Club got mostly cut for some reason?

@vampireapologist in case you have any interest in reliving this… at the very least you can prove to any doubters that there was, in fact, a Chipotle burrito onstage.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/254265090?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

I cannot even fully conceptualize, much less put into words, how wild this chain of events has been.

I have dozens of posts going around that have broken 50,000 notes, and plenty that have broken 100,000.

On every single one of these posts, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of comments and tags calling me a liar and the story fake, but none so much as this post.

This post was my most doubted of all.

And you came in………

with a Two and a Half Hour Long video.

I’ll never forget this.

We have a bond forged in fire and spirit now.

https://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/dontbeanassbutt/179672090131/tumblr_p6u5onWhxF1qmsplx?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
http://dontbeanassbutt.tumblr.com/post/179672090131/audio_player_iframe/dontbeanassbutt/tumblr_p6u5onWhxF1qmsplx?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fdontbeanassbutt%2F179672090131%2Ftumblr_p6u5onWhxF1qmsplx

kazoo-goddess:

sometimes I feel I’ve got to

DUN DUN

run away I’ve got to

DUN DUN

get away f

theocseason4:

I remember someone posted an article once about how during victorian times i think the tuberculosis “look” became the new beauty ideal for women, like unhealthily skinny, pale skin, glowing (with sweat due to fever), rosy cheeks, etc and i for real think about that almost every day because its like. We never had a chance lmao