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You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad
This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again
By Talos this cannot be happening
Life path unlocked. He’s a scientist now.
If your dad is telling you in great detail about something he’s passionate about, you’re going to be hooked even if you don’t understand a word.
So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.
Anyway, I made this poster for him, based on the CPEP ones we used to have at uni .
Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.
It’s funny though — on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.
I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone ❤️
Addendum: he has really grasped onto the “everything is made of atoms” part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.
“And my bed?” Yes, and your bed. “And that wall?” Yep. “And the armchair?” Yes, the armchair too. … … “And… the book case?” Y—
“And my home?” Yep, the whole apartment block. “And your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.” Haha, it is. … … “But is it made of atoms?” Yep. “And… [best friend]’s home?” Yes, it is. And [other friend]’s home, and [third friend]’s home.
“Is [yet another friend]’s home?”
Update from the other night:
“Is my… is… [extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?” —Yes! Yes it is.
I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.
Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks “is [baby sister] made up of atoms?”
yep!
*runs over to her on the floor* *puts face up real close to hers* “HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”
“HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”
This is so pure and good.
You can’t convince me that loving people isn’t the most honorable thing a person could do with their life
everything is about reaching the ending except for the ending which is about wanting to go back to the start
found out today that the “no don’t [action] your so sexy aha” meme is, in fact, NOT well known outside of internet circles and you should not just Say That to an unsuspecting coworker
good to know. you took one for the team
this obliterated me
Antigonick, Anne Carson
Punishment, Rabindranath Tagore (Translated by William Butler Yeats)
me and my girls we see beauty in everything we encounter
"comrade in arms" yeah i bet he was in your arms. every night. fruit
From the makers of "this meeting could have been an email" we present: this universal moral dictum could have been a personal boundary
obsessed with stories where the message is that you can’t bring someone back from the dead even if you can bring someone back from the dead
Don’t you dare leave this in the tags!
one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".
Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people
also i had two quotes pop up in my head while writing this - du bellay's "heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage.../et puis est retourné, plein d'usage et de raison, vivre entre ses parents le reste de son âge" (happy he who, like Ulysses, has traveled much/ and then returns, filled with customs and [ways of thought], to live out his days among his family)
and Horace's "'Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)' -
there's a bunch more I could add on either side (Cavafy's "The City," for example) but the dialogue between travel as a complete transformation vs. personality as an unchangeable core is long indeed.
AYEEEE.
Always reblog
Hmm, interesting casting ideas.
I can see it, yasss 😍
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m here for ALL of this!
"There have been others in the past who doubted me. They came to regret it."
found out today that the “no don’t [action] your so sexy aha” meme is, in fact, NOT well known outside of internet circles and you should not just Say That to an unsuspecting coworker
good to know. you took one for the team
YOU! TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUAL! ARE YOU NORMAL ABOUT THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL!
sometimes i agree with a post but not the tone it was written in yknow. like yes you’re right but also maybe have you considered it from this angle. maybe you should just be a little kinder to everyone
