I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
This AU is pretty much an open sandbox with a set of guidelines and major plot points, much like tabletop RPGs. There are constants and important info in the summary, and character relevant info of the most common characters in the bios. The core of the story revolves around the canon characters, but a lot of people have made branching side-stories involving OCs!
You don’t have to know anything besides the core information in the summary and bios pages to get the gist of most fics out there.
A lot of them are tiny, self-contained arcs that can be very ambiguous when it happens in the timeline. Which is very easy to follow, since the timeline itself can be divided into two major sections: during Mabel’s lifetime and Dipper is a young fledgling demon with familiar characters and a modern setting–and after Mabel’s lifetime, which each story creates its own setting as to how far in the future it is (how technology has changed, how stable Dipper is at the time, etc).
Frankly, unless getting eaten or caught in magical traps ended up being a massive concern for a large human population for some generations to the point that children without the Sight are far more likely to die before growing to maturity and having children of their own, it probably wouldn’t have enough evolutionary pressure to affect anything, and genetics in general aren’t as straightforward as “it exists now, lots more will certainly exist in the future.” Yeah, some people inherit the Sight from a parent, or a grandparent. Other times it apparently vanishes from a family, and others it just crops up without warning.
Basically, the Sight remains roughly as rare as ever in its natural form even into the future. People just learn to work around it to some extent.
““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””
— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)
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I just want to yell so many good things about Britney Spears. Look at this parenting right here; rather than just twist their arms and tell the ‘smile or no McFlurry on the drive home’ she’s checking if her little boys are comfortable with the cameras and attention and if not, no problem baby boy, you go chill. And I have no problem with her staying to get more pictures, especially not when her other adorable kid wants to. I mean, it’s her job up to a point. And we all know for a fact she probably watched the film with both the little bugs in her lap anyway.
Considering what she dealt with and went through in front of paps….god, I love her.
people can say what they want about her supposed meltdown, but frankly, that entire ‘episode’ always made perfect sense to me. she and i are of an age, and no matter how young or old i was, i always understood perfectly why she did it, and thought it was utter bullshit that a court could order what they did, instead of reprimanding the many, many people that felt so entitled to her that they drove her to extremes just to get 5 seconds of peace.
and now seeing this kind of thing? she has just gotten more awesome.
i remember reading how she got herself a tutor so she could help her kids with their homework. not got THEM a tutor, but she got herself one because she wanted to be the one helping them. that’s a+++ parenting right there ok?
This makes me so happy :’)
She got a court order because she was, by her own admission, raising her kids like her mother raised her. The judge sent her to therapy and parenting classes to work out all of the horrible stage-mother bullshit she had to live through. I mean, she thought it was normal to give her kids cough syrup and whiskey so they’d sleep, because it’s what her mother gave her to knock her out when she got rowdy.
I think Britney is a great role model for adult abused children and is living proof that you are not trapped in the cycle of abuse.
The purest 90s kid experience is being so happy for Britney Spears in her new life
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