So... Stelmaria Totally Named Pan.

New girl in my Sunday school class: Are you a girl?

Me: No, but people used to think I was a girl.

Girl: Oh. Is that why the other teacher called you (deadname)?

Me: Yes, that’s my old name I used before I told people I’m not a girl. But I haven’t used my new name forever so sometimes (other teacher) forgets.

Girl: Okay. I’ll remember to use your new name! *bounces over to the toy cars*

…….

Me: I want you to start calling me Mx instead of Miss. Okay?

Little boy: Okay. *violently stabs crayon into paper* Mx Roman, I broked the crayon.

Me: That’s probably because you stabbed the paper with it, buddy.

…….

3 y/o : Are you a boy or a girl?

Me: Sometimes I’m a boy. Sometimes I’m not a boy or a girl.

3 y/o: *proudly puffs out chest* I’m a girl all the time.

Me: Good for you, kiddo.

3 y/o: I know.

…….

Preschoolers understand better than any adult I’ve ever met.

Entitled moms and dæmons

So I was browsing r/entitledparents the other day and I had a thought: Karens like these would be so much worse if dæmons became corporeal.

Think about it:

They don’t respect boundaries

They don’t think their kids should have to respect your boundaries

In some of them, the entitled parent goes so far as to break the law

They probably wouldn’t care about the taboo

“Your dæmon is really cute! Can my kid pet them?” Yeah, hell no!

It would be awful (and probably illegal, falling under the definition of “assault”) it would be especially bad for cute, but uncommon forms. (Penguins, small owls, primates, small wild cats etc.)

Especially if they became corporeal in our world, instead of a world like Lyra’s where they’ve always been corporeal. The taboo wouldn’t be a thing at first, and it would be a while before the laws were revised to classify it as assault.

AMBROSIA BAKED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

I want to dedicate this recipe to one of my good friends, who is no longer here to see it. I just want you to know, I miss you greatly.

Her favorite movie growing up was Percy Jackson. She talked about how Percy Jackson would drink Ambrosia and for him it tasted like warm chocolate chip cookies that his mother used to make him.

She always suggested me to do a recipe on it for my blog, when I first started it.

Even though she will never see this, I’m sure she would have loved this recipe. I can firmly say this recipe is made with every piece of love in my heart imaginable.

Please enjoy…

Ingredients

3 ½ cups flour

½ cup browned butter

½ cup softened butter

½ tsp sea salt

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1 ½ cup brown sugar

½ tsp expresso powder

2 large egg

½ bag milk chocolate chips

1 bar chopped chocolate

1 tsp baking soda

¼ cup condensed milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F.

On a stove brown your butter and remove from heat to cool. Cream your softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Now cream in your browned butter. Beat in egg, vanilla extract, and condensed milk.

Add and mix in all your dry ingredients until just incorporated. Fold in chocolate and scoop cookies into even balls onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 

Put it in the fridge 1 hour to overnight before baking.

Bake for 8-15 minutes, or until golden brown and completely cooked.

Please enjoy these cookies! And remember to cherish the ones you love the most!

True death is when a person can love no more, so long as you can love, the person will stay alive, in your memory.

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT

Simon’s friends in the movie were so mean to him. After he was blackmailed they left him on the sidewalk in tears. And were straight up RUDE. 

Simon’s friends in the book were so fiercely protective of him. After martin outed him they stayed by his side and glared at anyone who even looked at him sideways Abby nearly beat up some bully’s and they all stayed with him nearly the entire day to make sure he was okay.

Conclusion book Simon’s friends deserved all the love and movie Simon’s friend’s do NOT.

this has been a psa 

Daemons in School

Students’ daemons lying down in gym to help their people feel less tired, but constantly being yelled at to stand up by the coach

Two students’ daemons discreetly cheating on a test. The teacher’s spider daemon trying to get them to stop, but they don’t notice her

A bully’s daemon in tiger form pins down another student’s pug-daemon, but he is pushed off by a third student’s moose, who helps the pug-daemon up and defends him

In art class, students get the assignment to have their daemon transform into the most colorful thing they can, and to paint it. Half the class are giant rainbow-colored parrots. Some are glittering snakes. One girl, who researches animals all the time, has her daemon change into a rare type of butterfly with beautiful markings. Another student throws realism to the wind and turns his into a giant dragon with neon claws.

A first grader has a “form fight” with a third grader, boths’ daemons changing into random forms as quick as possible whilst fighting. Finally, the first grader wins, her crab latching onto the paw of the other child’s lion. They both get in trouble, and are best friends ever since.

The cheerleaders use their daemons to their advantage. Two of them have big cats–a tiger and a panther–so they stand on the outsides, roaring on que. Three of the girls have birds that fly in sync. Another girl’s daemon hasn’t settled yet so he shifts from a peacock to a bear to a cat, all with varying colors.

On the basketball team, only one girl doesn’t have a big, intimidating daemon. The rest of the team teases her about her moth, who flutters frantically after her during games, but she knows they mean well.

Someone’s deer-daemon trips and hits a bass in the orchestra hall, causing multiple people and instruments to collapse in a startlingly fast sequence of events. After making sure no damage was done and nobody was hurt, all the orchestra students share a laugh about that event, nicknaming the boy and his daemon, “clumsy-hooves.”

I have so many ideas about daemons in school tbh

Fuck i just realised that Mun and Sun from sense8 literally are the Sun and the Moon :(

Many of the political attacks on trans people—whether it is a mandate that bathroom use be determined by birth sex, a blanket ban on medical interventions for trans kids or the suggestion that trans men are simply wayward women beguiled by male privilege—carry the same subtext: that trans people are mistaken about who they are. “We know who we are,” Page says. “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.”

Page was attracted to the role of Vanya in The Umbrella Academy because—in the first season, released in 2019—Vanya is crushed by self-loathing, believing herself to be the only ordinary sibling in an extraordinary family. The character can barely summon the courage to move through the world. “I related to how much Vanya was closed off,” Page says. Now on set filming the third season, co-workers have seen a change in the actor. “It seems like there’s a tremendous weight off his shoulders, a feeling of comfort,” says showrunner Steve Blackman. “There’s a lightness, a lot more smiling.” For Page, returning to set has been validating, if awkward at times. Yes, people accidentally use the wrong pronouns—“It’s going to be an adjustment,” Page says—but co-workers also see and acknowledge him.

Whatever challenges might lie ahead, Page seems exuberant about playing a new spectrum of roles. “I’m really excited to act, now that I’m fully who I am, in this body,” Page says. “No matter the challenges and difficult moments of this, nothing amounts to getting to feel how I feel now.” This includes having short hair again. During the interview, Page keeps rearranging strands on his forehead. It took a long time for him to return to the barber’s chair and ask to cut it short, but he got there. And how did that haircut feel?

Page tears up again, then smiles. “I just could not have enjoyed it more,” he says.

ELLIOT PAGE for TIME Magazine › 2021 interview by Katy Steinmetz, photography by Wynne Neilly

While watching the clip of Lee Scoresby’s introduction, I was wondering; why are Lee and Hester telling each other stuff about Iorek that they already know, like him getting tricked out of the armour and that they owe him? And then I remembered, naturally, both of them are actually talking to themselves, they’re the same being