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
Me, a Hawaiian: “While Hawai’i had a queen we were at the forefront of innovation, technological advancement, and international alliances. All the way up until the “democratic” government of the US illegally arrested her in her own palace and threatened to kill her and massacre her people unless she signed her country over to them. I’d like to have a queen who cares more about her peoples lives than her power again. Also, fuck Trump.”
Reposting cause I can and it’s still relevant
Its worth mentioning that Hawaii is also one of the few countries with a mythic, “Hero King” who they can actually prove existed. King Kamehameha the Great (yes like in Dragon Ball Z), was seven feet tall, the guardian of the war god Kukaʻ ilimoku, and took Hawaii from an archipelago of rival Kingdoms who hadn’t really gotten out of the Bronze Age, unified him under his dominion, and turned the Kingdom of Hawaii into a global trading empire who’s monarchs were greeted at the Court of Queen Victoria.
Guys I’m legit about to cry.
A post I made has over a thousand notes!! And most importantly it’s starting a conversation and spreading knowledge about what was done to my culture.
It is also so heartwarming to go in the notes and find people sharing more information and sources! And even more so to see that only two idiots decided to chime in with their misinformation.
Like, I am damn PROUD of y’all tumblr, we out here learning how to respect each other’s cultures and it’s dooooope!!!!
when i was 12, my dad left my mum. it was sudden, unexpected, one minute we’d been a happy family, the next he was telling my mum he was having an affair with her best friend. a lot of stuff happened after that.
my mum’s depression kicked in hard (she’d been suffering from it since she was a teen, but she’d been pretty good for the past few years). my mum and dad’s friends both chose sides and my mum lost a lot of her support. I re-read the harry potter series 3 times (we didn’t realize until years later that my obsession with the series may have been caused by the fact that i was watching a harry potter movie when my dad left). my mum tried to kill herself, and upon hearing this my dad (who i was with at the time) didn’t tell me anything and dropped me off outside my aunt’s house, where no one was home. we moved in with my mum’s parents because neither of us was mentally well enough to take care of one another. I lost most of my friends (the real kicker for me was hearing two of them talking about me, not knowing i was behind them, saying “she needs to get over herself, she’s not the only one with daddy issues). I watched my dad almost choke my mum, then try to hit her and only stop when i screamed at him. my dad constantly tried to force me to like and spend time with his new woman, who i felt (and still feel) nothing but hatred for. I myself developed depression and anxiety. it was a lot.
As well as reading harry potter obsessively to cope, i also played a lot of Skyrim (and later Dragon Age). it was nice, to escape into this fantasy world, where the only thing that mattered was to fight dragons. I made characters, spending so long getting their appearance right, getting the right names, etc. Then i joined tumblr and learned what an OC was.
i had a lot of OCs at first, not wanting to abandon a single charatcer, but there were 2 that really grew and that i bonded with, and who i still have to this day. I’ll call them Crow and Llewellyn. I projected on Crow and Llewellyn a lot, each of them taking an emotion i was struggling with a lot at the time of their creation.
for Crow, it was sadness. She was the stereotypical depressed sad backstory character who everything bad happens to. She had a dead twin sister, both her older brothers ran away from home and left her to fend for herself against her abusive mother, her father was never around. She was suicidal and tried to kill herself and cut herself and didn’t really talk to people. She stopped me from actually self-harming, or worse Because even though all these horrible things happened to crow, she always managed to still survive. She made it through. She got BETTER.
for Llewellyn, it was anger. She was a child who’d suffered from anger problems since she was born, was hated and locked up by her family, blamed for her older brothers death (idk, i apparently had a thing about giving character dead siblings???), left locked in her room to stew in her rage, breaking things and screaming. She helped me when i wanted to send angry emails to my dad calling his new woman a cunt and bitch and slut and telling him i hated him and such. And eventually, Llewellyn escaped, she got away from her family, she found a way to help herself and she THRIVED.
(and once i started to realize i wasn’t straight, i added bits to both their backstories where they met and ended up getting together)
self-insert(/heavily-projected-onto) OCs saved my life honestly. They gave me… hope? i’m not sure if that’s the right word. But they helped me. I made more OCs, some less projected onto than others, and you know what? I got better, just like Crow. I thrived, just like Llewellyn.
People say self-inserts are cringey and stupid, but without them i don’t know where i’d be now. So please don’t shit on people with self-inserts. you don’t know what they’re going through
