Real Question. How Do You Feel About What Scott Did When It Came To Gerard In The Second Season?

my dad saw ao3 open on my computer and asked if that was like my writing club and just so you know that's what fanfic writers are now, we're all in the same writing club where we all write about the same media and show each other our little stories and that's kind of cool actually

Scorpius Malfoy quotes vine on the daily and it confuses his dad

Scorpius: dad look its the good kush

Draco: what the fuck is a kush

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Scorpius: what up im Jared im 19 and i never fuckin learned how to read

Draco: you’re-

Draco: those- none of that was true, Scorpius.

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Scorpius, opening Christmas presents: it’s an avacado… thaaaanks

Draco: that’s- it’s a broom, Scorpius.

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Scorpius, trying to touch Draco’s face: how you get these bumps? You got eggzma?

Draco: I got what?

Scorpius: you got eggzma?

Draco:

Draco: Are you trying to say Eczema? Because you know I don’t.

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Scorpius, pointing to Draco’s shoes: WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE

Draco: … my shoes?

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Draco: Happy birthday, Scorp.

Scorpius: i cant sweem

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Draco, with another fancy rich person: This is my son, Scorpius.

Scorpius: hey, my name’s Michael eith a B and I’ve been afraid of insects my whole life

Draco: what, wait- stop, Scorpius.

Random rich person: where’s the B?

Scorpius: There’s a beeeeeeeeeee ?

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Draco: How was your weekend with Albus Potter?

Scorpius: hi thanks for checking in I’m still a piece of garbage

Draco: No, you’re not. Do you think that? Has someone been telling you this?

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Draco, when Scorpius comes home for the Holidays: Did you happen to miss all of your Arithmancy class last week?

Scorpius: I have never missed a class

Draco: Okay, well, I got a letter from your professor, and-

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Scorpius, pointing at Draco’s quill while he writes: CHRIS! Is that a weed? I’m calling the police!

Scorpius, in a female voice: 911 what’s your emergency?

Draco:

Draco: My name isn’t Chris.

Draco: What are you even pointing at?

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Scorpius: Hey everybody, today my brother pushed me, so I’m starting a kickstarter to put him down. The benefits of-

Draco: Who are you talking to?

Draco: You don’t have a brother.

not to be “that person who stares at gifs and makes a weird whining noise in the back of their throat all day” but

I’m kinda suffering

A LOT

So here’s some gifs to drag you all down with me

You know if you feel like watching Dean quietly implode via his hand on a loop all day

It's darkly amusing to me that some people thought my mom didn't "discipline" me enough as a kid, were not shy about making sure both she AND I knew it, and now as an adult I'm one of the only people in my friend group who still wants anything to do with their parents. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.

When I was a kid, I broke a ceramic soap dispenser. I burst into tears and was terrified that I was going to be in trouble. My mom told me that it was okay, because accidents happen sometimes, and the important thing was that I didn't do it on purpose and apologized.

When someone else I know was a kid, they broke a dish on accident and got screamed at and guilt tripped. To this day, they have to push down a panic attack at the sound of broken glass, and have had to actively work on healing from that trauma. They will always have to carry that.

I think maybe it's not MY mom who fucked up in the "how to discipline your child" department. Quite frankly, I think the idea of "disciplining children" is fucked up and deeply harmful on a fundamental level.

When a kid does something wrong, you have to teach them how to fix it and do better. Humans are messy and complicated and we don't know everything there is to know just by being born. Children are learning how to be human beings, and that's a really hard thing to learn.

Kids question and fight back against authority that mistreats them, but someone treating them like a human being with human emotions is usually going to have a lot of success. Kids just want to be respected, and it's our job as adults to give them that basic human dignity. The world is utterly terrifying, and made scarier when all the grown-ups seem to hate you and wish you would just shut up and go away, even the ones that claim they want you around.

Kids can be mean, because they're still learning how to socialize and communicate and collaborate. Sometimes you have to give them time to cool off, and sometimes you have to redirect them. Sometimes you have to be firm. Sometimes you have to be an adult, and hone your conflict de-escalation and resolution skills. None of that requires punishment.

And if a child does something truly cruel and fucked up and shitty, and it hurts someone in a big way? My first question isn't "what should their punishment be," my first question is always, "who taught this kid that, and is this child in active danger from them?"

Beautiful

(this baby dork) (is still a huge dork)

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I would love to read that fic

Harry: Did you know that Draco had a crush on Lockhart in Second Year?

Ron: Oh Merlin! Did you mark his classes in the schedule with hearts like Hermione?

Hermione: Shut up!

Draco: Like you didn’t have a crush on anyone when you were at Hogwarts, Weasley

Ron: Yeah, I liked Blaise

Harry, Hermione and Draco: What!?

Ron: What?