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Do A Lemon Drop Shot In My Memory

@theonlystraight

In west Philadelphia born and raised on the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin out maxin relaxin all cool and shootin some bball outside of the school when a couple of guys who were up to no good started makin trouble in my neighbourhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said “you’re movin with your auntie and uncle in bel-air

One thing I’ve learned is that working with children can either ruin baby names for you or give you the greatest names in history

For the longest time, I’d sent random names to my mom and asked her if she liked them, and we agreed on one particular one over all the others.

Amara

And when I started working as a youth volleyball coach, I met a 13 year old girl named Amara

We didn’t have the best relationship starting off. She was disruptive, didn’t pay attention, and overall harder to work with than most.

But over the six months that I coached her, I saw the most incredible thing happen.

The first day I started to see her as she really was, she came up to me and her head coach, and cried to us. She apologized for interrupting practice, offered to do better, and sobbed in front of us both.

I have never cursed the pandemic harder bc all I wanted to do was hug this little girl and tell her that she was just a kid, and it’s okay to be one.

After that day, we saw so much improvement. She helped other athletes, trained extra hard, helped with coaching demonstrations, and even joined mentorship programs.

Now I’m honestly so honoured to think that my child could be named after such an amazing kid. Someone who took it upon herself to better not only her own game, but the people’s around her.

I am honoured to have met you, Amara.

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liquidstar

I just saw someone say the words "jokingly gaslight" this might be a good time to reintroduce the internet to the terms "lying" or perhaps "pranking" or even just "joking" on it's own

Okay, say it with me guys…

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they'll believe that it's true, then that's lying.

If you are giving someone wrong information under the assumption that they'll ultimately realise that it's false, and that they will find this funny, then that's joking.

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they'll believe that it's true and that their response will be funny, then that's a prank.

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they will notice the differences between your presentation of reality and their perception of it, and come to doubt their ability to judge what is and is not real, then that's gaslighting.

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manywinged

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

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manywinged

Dylan O’Brien as the villain is so outrageously hot I will not be taking any questions at this time

Our amazing First Nations people in Canada are 100% valid for asking for reconciliation from the new king, but this is the man who couldn’t accept the colour of his own grandchild. There’s no way we get an apology about residential schools—or any other of the Canadian atrocities towards indigenous people from him.

It always surprises me how many deactivated users there are here. And maybe most of them are the natural consequence of URL-hopping, but beyond those, the ones that intentionally deactivated--just the idea of actively deciding to terminate an account is so foreign to me.

I'm in the business of atrophy.

My Neopets exist, and persist, and are dying and continue to die for the last ten years my account has been dark. My penguin lived until the day Club Penguin died, immobile in its igloo, decoration among the puffles. My Webkinz stand in rooms which time refuses to allow even the dignity of gathering dust. My footprint stuffs the digital shelves of datacenters for sites and accounts I do not remember making.

I've made a horde of scattered exoskeletons, shells which I cannot even call ghosts because that implies a presence. They are husks. They are archives. They are records. I do not ever consider the mercy of allowing them to die.

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pure-egg

Well this got real eldritch real fast

the frequency of needing to food shop because you eat food and therefore deplete what you previously bought and need to restock…………being an adult is a nightmare

i bought bananas LAST week and you’re telling me because i ATE them i need to buy bananas again THIS week?????? we live in a hellscape.

Had a dream that I was being chased by Ghostface, and I knocked him out at some point I think, and when I pulled of the mask for the big identity reveal, it was one of the Property Brothers. Then the other one came rushing around the corner and attacked me, and I woke up.

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failchild

vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers

The absolutely hilarity of imagining some older vampires hectoring younger ones. “Back in my day, I had to drink blood with radium in it and I liked it! We glowed in the damn dark for weeks!”