Another Thing I've Noticed Working As A Children's Librarian Is Like... Kids Get So Paralyzed By Choice

Another thing I've noticed working as a children's librarian is like... kids get so Paralyzed By Choice and the adults in their lives never really register why. Like, for example, we have little scavenger hunt sheets in the children's section and when a kid completes it, they get to pick out a cute eraser from our prize basket. We also have a little toy prize chest as part of our "1000 books before Kindergarten" challenge for when kids complete 100 books--and kids will spend minutes carefully picking through everything while their parents are shooting us anxious looks like "sorry they're taking so long! I know this is silly and it's completely ridiculous that my child is taking so long to choose between a bath toy and a cube puzzle because these are cheap and arbitrary objects! Hurry up, Harper! Just pick something! You're embarrassing me!!" But in the kids' perspective, they already have so little control over what objects come into their lives, and in this case, the object represents labor and effort on their end, so of course they feel they must choose very carefully. I've always been an anxious and indecisive person, so it's striking to see how being rushed really doesn't help that and really only makes it harder for kids to figure out what they want.

I’m not big on ‘dumb Barty’ except when it’s like:

Barty: Do you ever just walk into a room and forget what you were doing?

bank teller: [eyes wide] uhhh

Barty: *scratches head with gun* man, I hate when this happens

woah Valhalla!Valgrace au where Leo actually dies while fighting Gaea and Jason dies shortly after re: tbm and by some mix up of the gods they are picked up by valkerie and become a part of the Floor 19 family.... aka a chance to work out feelings they never talked about while alive but also a chance for Leo Valdez and Alex Fierro to meet r u kidding me. I need this

I think it would be so funny if we make Reg just like an inch taller than Sirius.

James was the mum friend in a "wraps you in a soft blanket and makes you tea when you're not feeling well" way.

Sirius needed someone to love him.

Remus needed someone to accept him.

Peter needed someone to value him.

And James made sure each of them went to bed smiling.

Regulus was the mum friend in a "chasing you around the house screaming at you to not put forks in the plug sockets" way.

Evan had no regard for safety, his own or others.

Barty has no impulse control.

Pandora did dangerous experiments on a daily basis.

Dorcas would do just about anything if you paid her enough.

And Regulus was just trying to keep those fucking idiots alive.

i learn more and more french every black brother argument i read in fanfics