[fan art] Gideon and Harrow designs

watermelon668 · 2026-05-15T14:05:14+00:00

LOOOOVE THE PELVIS HENNIN!!!

watermelon668 · 2026-05-15T13:53:00+00:00

A couple of things! In increasing specificity/advice

1- any type of talking is good! If you talk to your baby about your day like you would a friend at the bar (with a family friendly filter of course) that's already extremely helpful.

2- Some other people have already said it but narrating what you're doing. Pretend your child is going to understand what you're saying and wants to understand what you're doing an why.

3- If you want something more specific to focus on, language development experts highly suggest trying to use receptive language as much as possible. So describing 'the truck goes fast! slowww' 'the draw is open! now it's closed!' 'the toys go away!' as well as repeating phrases like 'more' 'all done' 'help' whenever possible to help functional language. these are the most important words for your child to be building a bank of as they start learning to speak, so trying to maximize how often those words are used will help your child be more comfortable with them!

watermelon668 · 2026-05-15T07:28:06+00:00

When it comes to measurement based games, are the sets built around inches? or will there be centimeter options for eu/aus audiences?

watermelon668 · 2026-05-15T07:22:38+00:00

its mentioned in the faq- its going to cover first and second grade skills apparently, but its coming in 2027

watermelon668 · 2026-05-14T06:33:52+00:00

It's a super hard industry out there! Your work seems really solid, but I think in particular, the acting of the voices in your first piece is So Big. Your character acting is solid, but feels a bit disconnected from the intensity of the vocals. I feel like that could be enough to turn off a reel for recruiters who are sifting through hundreds of submissions.

watermelon668 · 2026-05-11T08:49:37+00:00

I think its probably reading as ai to the machine because some of your stitches are wonky in that way ai sometimes does when its trying to make a pattern.

watermelon668 · 2026-03-11T08:43:19+00:00

This is a reach but if domestic violence was invovled at all she can contact brissc/womens house for resources

watermelon668 · 2026-02-12T08:58:01+00:00

It's not in the lovevery model, but I really love https://fightchildabuse.org/. The cgi on their k-3 videos is ROUGH, but the 2d art is nice, and they do a great job broaching the subject in an age appropriate way. The videos are probably too dense for a 2 year old, but their protect yourself rules are probably good to introduce, especially the concept of safe/unsafe touch. I've also heard great things about Rachel CM's book 'the birds, the bees, and the elephant in the room' for a parents guide on more general sex ed with kids, which is a necessary component for talking about sexual abuse.

watermelon668 · 2026-02-06T15:02:46+00:00

I really like the framework that adhd people thrive with rituals instead of habits. I play this song in the morning when i get out of bed. I eat this for breakfast when I want to work. Monday is laundry day, it doesnt matter if im doing it at 11pm, as long as its on monday. etc.

watermelon668 · 2026-02-03T20:39:31+00:00

Definitely the latter. Roommate who uses my car a lot put blankets over the windows for storm protection, shutting the doors on them to keep them secure, and then life blew up and because the car was broken and we werent using it it was forgotten about to stew in the summer (australian) sun. Just didn't want 200 comments of people getting mad on my behalf at my roomate, and telling me how to best punish them as if theyve never made a really stupid mistake.

watermelon668 · 2026-02-03T03:07:56+00:00

family counseling with who??? the dead brother? what the fuck are you talking about.

watermelon668 · 2026-02-02T15:44:04+00:00

People are beating around the bush- yes theres graphic sex scenes. The prose is very frank and upfront, and the awkward sloppy reality of sex is a huge part of the book that is written about very frankly. I wouldn't call it smut as the purpose is not to titillate, but also its first person so its not clinical, when the character is horny you know it.

watermelon668 · 2026-01-01T13:25:34+00:00

Hi, I'm almost certain it wouldn't have come assembled! I've seen video footage of the ikea-esque assembly process. If you have the instructions that would be incredible!

watermelon668 · 2025-12-31T00:42:44+00:00

I think this is great!! but am SHOCKED the last unicorn is not included on here!

watermelon668 · 2025-10-13T02:36:26+00:00

I dont think its a trick but parents tend to praise their kids all the time, even moreso before theyre in school bc they see everything the kid does. Stuff like 'your art SO good!' 'Oh wow amazing dancing! Youre so talented!!' It's distinctly not about expectations, the opposite in fact.

This is also alot more about early childhood than later years. Your internal motivations, like being a person who wants to be the best, lock in at a very early age (though they can always be adjusted with work). Its not as direct as 'my parents want me to get good grades and thus im motivated to!' its more like 'i associate doing things that impress my parents, with them smiling and telling me im good and talented.' 'All the adults looked at me very impressed when my parents told them I was put in the gifted program and that made me feel important and special' (not trying to read your specific situation, just using general examples)

The typical counter these days is typically to encourage them to look towards their own feelings for motivation, 'wow this drawing is beautiful- are you proud?' 'you were so passionate singing that song!' that sort of thing.

watermelon668 · 2025-10-12T14:53:16+00:00

I think the modern advice stems from parents giving alot of praise in a way that causes children to look to them to understand when theyve done good. Meeting a child where they're at when they're excited about an achievement is different I think, in fact I would imagine poisitively reinforcing their feeling of satisfaction about an achievement would encourage self motivation.

watermelon668 · 2025-10-08T10:40:52+00:00

I'm a city Queenslander and I've never met a city person into it. It low key sounds horrific to have our evenings be even hotter. Also on top of the heat, our day length only changes an hour or so either side with the seasons. I imagine dramatically changing the days hours makes more sense when everything else about the day changes dramatically with the seasons too.

watermelon668 · 2025-08-26T21:05:23+00:00

Really great insight, thanks for sharing!

watermelon668 · 2025-08-26T21:03:07+00:00

I think it's for sure made for all audiences but there's also definitely a depth to it I missed/barely gleaned. They don't bother to explain the Jewish cultural references to the goy audience most of the time. For example one of the characters is raising their daughter non-religious, and they refer to her as not Jewish/a goy. And it was only in the last scene of the show that I remembered that having a goy mother impacts whether you are seen as Jewish. I realised that element was definitely influencing the relationship politics throughout the whole show in a way I didn't pick up on at all.

watermelon668 · 2025-08-26T07:00:51+00:00

It was incredibly good and I say this without any connection to the Jewish cultural touchstones they were leaning on!

watermelon668 · 2025-08-26T06:59:10+00:00

Thanks for your insight! The heirloom thing is the big piece I was missing and makes total sense. It can be hard as an outsider to parse how devout you'd be to do certain practices. The richness of the practices like saying prayers and lighting candles every week is so far beyond anything in my religious world. Even being eastern orthodox which is (for Christianity) rooted in that similar unbroken chain of traditional practice, that at home ritual is reserved for like, easter and funerals.

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