character who is sun-coded but not in the traditional ray-of-sunshine way. character who is sun-coded in the sense that they burn hot and bright and powerful, that they’re a raging fury of fire and passion, and that maybe, just maybe, they are destroying themselves as they do so.
why are you even having children when all you want to do is get rid of them legally when they hit 18
i don’t think you can separate this white north american attitude from the idea of ownership and property that’s built into capitalism. seeing your kids as little moochers that you own. thinking that your kids are “taking advantage” of you or pulling one over on you by “slacking off” is just an extension of the notion that work = morality. so “teaching” your kid that “life is unfair” and “you have to work or you’ll have nothing at all” is the right thing to do. yeah life is unfair, do you have to be too? did your kid ask to be born? did your kid sign a contract with you? its so twisted
the funny thing is that from what i’ve seen the more you treat kids this way the more they will treat YOU this way, so if you make everything in the family transactional they will start to approach your relationship transactionally. then these parents will turn around and whine about how their kids just try to hit them up for money and nothing else, no love no care, sorry who raised them to value money above all else? wasn’t me
the close connection of this outlook to whiteness in north america is also constructed through the valorization of capitalism as a moral correct and “civilized” way of life. it’s adoption is basically necessary (but not sufficient) to access whiteness as a category or property. bc i can almost guarantee that if you go to a random house in the balkans you’re gonna find kids over 18 living with their parents
sorry to everyone in the tags who have families like this i don’t know what to tell you. this doesn’t mean everyone else has perfect families obviously like lots of ppl will attest that there are specific forms of abuse that are enabled in closely knit families but detachment and neglect being the norm over here is depressing i won’t lie
Having ADHD is so stupid bc you’ll be like “I’m gonna start this task at 3” and then 3 rolls around and the executive dysfunction doesn’t magically disappear like you told it to
Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.
It’s not good when skilled tradesman are standing in the middle of your room pinching the bridge if their nose, is it?
Mark just referred to the wiring in our bedroom as “creative” and “interesting”.
This is fine.
And now he’s taking apart the ceiling. I’m not worried, are any of you worried? I’m not, haha, it’s not like this house was previously owned by someone who would do something stupid like try to wire their house themselves…or store tins of varnish under the furnace behind a secret alcove…
Ha ha…
Ha.
Hm.
Fuck.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO NEUTRAL WIRES??!?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S GROUNDED INTO THE SCREWS HOLDING UP THE CEILING LIGHT???!?!!
This post crosses my dashboard every so often and every time, I’m reminded of when I discovered that my whole house was grounded to a gas line.
When I walk into the mall and see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween, I feel the same way Hamlet did when his mom married his annoying uncle so shortly after his father’s death.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the Halloween Mars Bars/Did coldly furnish forth the Christmas stockings
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