Another Thing I've Noticed Working As A Children's Librarian Is Like... Kids Get So Paralyzed By Choice

Another thing I've noticed working as a children's librarian is like... kids get so Paralyzed By Choice and the adults in their lives never really register why. Like, for example, we have little scavenger hunt sheets in the children's section and when a kid completes it, they get to pick out a cute eraser from our prize basket. We also have a little toy prize chest as part of our "1000 books before Kindergarten" challenge for when kids complete 100 books--and kids will spend minutes carefully picking through everything while their parents are shooting us anxious looks like "sorry they're taking so long! I know this is silly and it's completely ridiculous that my child is taking so long to choose between a bath toy and a cube puzzle because these are cheap and arbitrary objects! Hurry up, Harper! Just pick something! You're embarrassing me!!" But in the kids' perspective, they already have so little control over what objects come into their lives, and in this case, the object represents labor and effort on their end, so of course they feel they must choose very carefully. I've always been an anxious and indecisive person, so it's striking to see how being rushed really doesn't help that and really only makes it harder for kids to figure out what they want.

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11 months ago

i raise you: percy tying his camp necklace around annabeth's neck before she goes on the mark of athena quest.

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1 year ago

irritating that both the percy jackson movies and the tv show take things that annabeth did (showcasing her personality and her dimensionality and whatnot) and giving it to percy or grover

like why write a female character if you’re going to butcher her in the adaptation

like they did the same bull shit to katara in the avatar movie and the live action show

#stopbutcheringfemalecharacters

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9 months ago

THIS FIC IS ONE OF THE BEST PERCABETH FICS I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME

I need every percabeth shipper out there to read Cardigan by Omnifiasco on Ao3.

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1 year ago

I‘m a burden for everyone. I’m even a burden to myself.

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5 months ago

I'm not entirely sure im right but maybe it was the Never Shall We Die series on a03, by captainjackson, and timelesslords.

I just read two pirate percabeth au fics in a row and I need more but I genuinely can’t find any

HELP A GIRL OUT PLEASEEEE

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1 year ago

my contribution for the netflix avatar remake

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9 months ago

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1 year ago

To be quite frank if you are anti Percy and Annabeth's grey streaks I am anti you

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11 months ago

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4 weeks ago

my preferred form of self-harm is waxing

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