Want The Shiny Number Rock

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A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy Holidays, everyone!

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#Neil, i see what you did here

phrasing of this is taking me out

I've seen so much cool Jason Todd fan art where he has the autopsy scares but also people worried that him having those scares wouldn't make sense, for that I offer you this solution. Jason Todd originally wasn't brought back by the Lazaris pit alone. I think Originally (if not one of the first versions of his resurrection) he gets brought back as this kind of like living zombie through DC shenanigans, crawling out of his own grave and wondering the streets of Gothem surviving on instinct alone until Talia finds him, takes him home and uses the pit to restore his mind. You can tottaly buy that mind healed Jason Todd would have those scares while pure Lazaris Pitt Jason Todd might not meaning there is so much room for both head cannons.

mmm soob

Tfw your shapeshifter friend forgets how to turn back into a human and has a crisis

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.