Hi everyone,
Not sure if this is the right forum to post. I have been home schooled (online) for the past year and essentially given the power to pick who I wanted for my teachers by my parents. I have been having the weirdest experiences and looking for support or explanations?
Here is a list:
• teachers getting angry at me for not being able to answer a problem and telling me “I never had a tutor” angrily
• booking lessons with me through the agency then not turning up. Pretending they booked the wrong time, telling me what the right time is, again not turning up. I have been there the whole time waiting for them. Don’t offer new times. This specific tutor is only available at 9am on Sundays for an hour and has now told the agency they ‘are not around for the next two weeks’ even though they know my exam is in 3 weeks and we have missed each other for the last 4 weeks. The week after they did not turn up, they turn up, start to test me on a topic as if we are in an exam, then get angry at me for not knowing it perfectly off by heart? They were like “have you read it”, “yes, I have studied this module”, “no, you may have studied it but you do not know it. There is no point unless you know it” then they made us reschedule for the next week now have disappeared? How am I supposed to know to do homework if they don’t let me know in advance? And they are only free on a Sunday at 9am which is a bad time for me because my dad works night shifts. I told them about my dad and they just completely ghosted the message making me feel unimportant to them. Also, the tutor doesn’t have perfect grades of his own, and keeps making reference to ‘boffins’ who get the good marks… and I told him I was in the middle of other exams and he acted completely surprised and disappointed I have other subjects to sit exams for. As if all I am doing with my life is meeting him on a Sunday morning at 9am.
• one private tutor completely forgot who I was. When starting each class, they would tell me to remind them which topic we were on because they could not remember, at one point this teacher got angry at me for politely asking them (with notice) if we could please start 15 minutes later so I could go to the toilet and have some water because I was coming out of a two hour lesson (never said I wouldn’t be fine to finish 15 minutes earlier if they had another lesson), telling me off and saying they are going to charge me for the whole thing rudely when I said I wouldn’t come to the lesson if they were going to treat me badly. This was our first lesson after they basically disappeared because they ‘had migraines’ and then forgot to arrange a lesson for two months, ignoring my texts. I had to call the agency and get them to make them book a lesson (this is all halfway through our module).
• tutor telling me “you want to take a break now” and making me wait in a “break” for 30 minutes, then charging me for those 30 minutes even though I did not need a break? Later found out what he was teaching me was completely awful and way, way too basic - I would have gotten a D if I followed his advice.
• tutor refusing to teach me the topic I asked them to teach, but trying to pressure me to pay them for internship ‘application review’ services I did not ask for help with.

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Sooo had to call the cops again at my restaurant (second or third time in the last two months) because my table not only walked out, but threatened us and came back banging on the doors and windows to come back inside.
Backstory: so for starters we close at 10pm and an 8 top came in at 9:30ish. we're a corporate company so they seat up until 10pm, no last call sadly. first thing that happened was they never got one of their appetizers, it was simply never made and so I just had it taken off the bill and I gave them the same appetizer to go for free to make amends. Next thing that happened was one of the guys at the table wanted a combo but we didn't have one of the items, which I didnt know about until I went to ring it in. Completely forgot to tell him to get a replacement from him since I had a full section and was also trying to clean in between taking tables, so I didn't remember until I was taking out the food. apologized to him and offered replacements but he wasn't having it, wanted a manager instead. my manager came out and idk what happened but they ended up fussing with her a bit and she got a little upset over that. She took off the dudes meal even though he did not get charged the combo price, he just got charged for the meal he ate. once I brought the bill they asked for the manager again and she came back to talk to them, they called her racist since she didn't give them a bigger discount and that's when she lost it in the kitchen. full on crying melt down, screaming etc. the table overheard her yelling in the back so they just started to get up and leave before paying and started cursing at me and coworkers, calling us b****** and said to 'meet them outside' if we had a problem with them calling us that. obviously we didnt do anything and about a minute later they came back, banging on our doors and windows, because they forgot their take out food in the restaurant LOL. it was past close so legally we weren't allowed to let them back in, even if we wanted to. customers that were trying to leave were afraid to leave bc of how they were acting so we called the cops. they sped off once they realized we were calling the cops of course. they also said they were calling corporate, but good luck trying to call them when you walked out on the bill and the police have your info so you gave it to us to be put on the waitlist! just a messy Sunday like always. I have tons of stories of the cops coming to our restaurant but this is the most recent one.

Hello everyone I’m looking to run a 5e one shot, it’ll be voice and over discord. No cameras needed. I’m Australian, but I’m happy for anyone to apply if they’re interested. I plan to run the game on a Monday 12pm aest, for GMT that's 1am Monday and for CST thats 7pm sunday. It'll be every week.
Your characters will be a group of adventures, theyll be doing good or neutral aligned quests. You can have an evil PC, but they have to be fine doing the quests and won't work against the rest of the group. The world will have dark themes, but nothing that would be consistent grim dark.
Your quest will be investigating a series of disappearances and inexplicable events around a small farming village. You'll all be new in town and there to either investigate the occurrences or just by coincidence.
The game will have heavy roleplay elements, as well as combat and exploration.
Character creation

• You start at level 5
• You’ll be using point buy
• Rolled or Average health
• 1 free feat
• one free uncommon magic item
• I’m using Tashas
• you can use any sheet you’d like as long as you send it to me
• I’m okay with some homebrew stuff, but I'd prefer it if it was just flavor more than anything else
• Make a character that is interested in advancing and doesn't need to be dragged into things
• Both you and your character need to work with people and not be too combative with the party
• No strixhaven

Basic rules

• No sexual assault of any kind, not against NPC’s and especially not against PC’s
• PvP will only be carried out against other players if every party if effects consents, this includes stealing from other players and rolling checks against them
• Dont be racist, sexist, homophobic or display any other toxic behaviour similar to that

I'll probably wait a day or so for people to get a chance to reply before going over the applications. Possibly post it again as well.
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After a long analysis of the fallout lore, analyzing the 3, 4 and new vegas (yeah I have no job) this is my following conclusion:
Fallout 4
The canonical ending of fallout 4 is the minutemen for the following reasons: the sole survivor, although by the time you start playing with it you can make absolutely any decision, he already had a personality and a story before written, Nate for example being a pre war ex-military, and Nora a lawyer, Codsworth for example is the best source to explore who Nate or Nora would canonically be, and the way they acted is what made him remain so loyal to the sole survivor even after 200 years, and considering that the actions that make Codsworth continue to like you the most are actions that refer to kindness and freedom, things that hark back to the American dream (Does it remind you of any factions?), remembering that it couldn't be the Institute or Railroad ending because Prydwen appears in the series and the ending of both factions involves destroying Prydwen, but you might ask, "Why couldn't it be the Brotherhood of Steel?", because if it was the brotherhood of steel, we'd see Liberty Prime in battle with the remnants of the NCR, since it would be a way of not losing manpower, and we'd also see institute's technology being used, since that's exactly what the brotherhood does, it steals technology. Also a very interesting proof that was hidden in the series as an easter egg is the Minuteman song that is played on the radio, which leads us to believe that probably the Minutemen helped settlements so much that the Sole Survivor had to help settlements outside of Boston, causing its radio to be spread even to California which is where the series takes place
Fallout New Vegas
Now what I'm about to say is going to be controversial but the ending that I believe was the canonical one is Mr. House, unfortunately there isn't much material to analyze but based on the post-credit scene of the series finale and also on the fact that bethesda seems to force you to choose the faction they want (as with fallout 4) you notice that it seems like they want you to go Mr. House's way because besides being the most viable is also the one that becomes the best for the wasteland, as for example in the name of the missions, ''The house always wins', in part VI of the mission Mr. House justifies that the main reason for the objective of protecting President Kimball is because he believes that he will be embargoed and this will not be good for his economy, but this is not entirely true, with Yes Man we can find out that in fact Mr. House was worried about being accused of assassinating Kimball and suffering a much harsher NCR penalty (such as an attack, for example) which proves to be true since NCR's main mission, "For the Republic, Part 2", asks you to kill Mr. House, which proves that Mr. House knew he was walking on thin ice in this diplomacy with the NCR, and if anything bad happened they would use it as a casus belli to justify killing him based on that, here's my theory of what happened: All the missions that Mr. House gave to Courier 6 went perfectly and the ending of Mr. House happened, and soon after all these events the exhausted NCR decided to cut ties with New Vegas, but a short time later right after the battle of Hoover Dam Shady Sands was bombed, and for the NCR the only person who could be logically responsible for this would be Mr. House (for having enough technology and arsenal for it) which results in the battle of the post-credits scenes, as a last blow, a desperate attempt to rebuild what was once a colossal bear that dominated the entire West Coast, but which in the end only hurt both sides, both independent New Vegas and the fallen NCR, because war, war never changes. And perhaps that's why Mr. House's plans to send people into orbit and colonizer ships never happend.
I would like to apologize if anything I have said has become strange or nonsensical, English is my second language, if anyone wants to correct me in any detail feel free to correct me

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/Decent_Lecture_1514
I run a DnD group with kids aged 7-11 at my local YMCA, and some parents are trying to get the game outright banned. I have to have a meeting with both parents and HR Department and effectively present my case. Please help!
Originally posted to DnD
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EDITORS NOTE: because it's mentioned and some may not remember or been born when it happened, a quick synopsis of the satanic panic
The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.
Original Post May 9, 2024
Sorry if this is a longer post, but important context below ⬇️
So yeah I'm a program coordinator at our local YMCA and I run an after-school program (effectively am a glorified babysitter hahaha). This past school year I passively mentioned that I play a lot of DnD when one of the kids asked me if I had any plans that weekend, and it totally piqued their interest when I explained to them what the game was like/about. Naturally they asked if they could try and play and I figured sure why not, I'll write a fun and fam friendly one-shot for them.
They all absolutely loved it. It's turned into a proper campaign with about 7 of the 24 kids me and my coworkers look after consistently playing. I've had to limit the sessions to just 1-2 days of the 5 day school week, because I have other kids too that aren't interested in it, and I obviously still need to give them attention and interaction as well (and as you know DnD can be a very engaged and attention demanding). I thought this was a fair compromise. Days that it's nice outside we are always out running around, being active, playing sports -- but if it's a rainy day, or on our weekly Friday Movie Day, we generally play. It's been such a blast sharing something I love so deeply with kids who I care about so much.
So here comes the issue:
Almost every parent of the core group that plays loves that we are doing this (one even plays weekly and we bonded over it haha), but there is one child whose parents certainly do not; they want their kid just constantly active and engaged and playing sports, not playing "silly make believe", which I guess I get to a degree because this is kinda the MO of the YMCA traditionally; healthy active living.
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I've explained that most days of the week we do just that, and that this is something we only do on Fridays or rain days when we are stuck inside, but they aren't budging. I think they have a misguided idea of the game and what it is, or maybe they are just fundamentally against it, I'm not sure. I don't think it's to the level of like the era of thought where media and the masses thought DnD was some kind of satanic game, but I feel like there could certainly be a bit of that.
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Anyway they want it to stop immediately. I've told them I'm not forcing anyone to play, and that if they really feel that way they are within their rights to tell their child they don't want him playing, but they are trying to take it a step farther and get it banned. ALSO I would feel horrible if this child were forbade from playing while all his friends have a blast doing so. Just doesn't seem right.
I understand that it's a game that can involve more mature themes and gameplay, and probably isn't reeeeeeeeally for super young folk, but I feel the way I'm running it mitigates this for the most part: there's no PVP (so no bullying can happen), I'm dealing with waaaaaay less serious themes and stakes, and I don't even include any circumstances where they fight any other humanoids -- strictly just heroes fighting big bad monsters and saving towns. You know the drill.
So yeah long story short(ish) the parents of the one child have called a meeting with HR to discuss the playing of this game at the YMCA. I have it on Sunday. I'm confident I'm gonna have to effectively state my case and explain why I think this is not only an okay thing to be doing, but actually in fact a good thing. I don't know if I'll be able to fully sway them if their mind is already made up, all I can do is just speak my truth haha.
I do whole-heartedly think this game can be super beneficial for young folk. I'll spare you my long form thoughts, but between the teamwork and communication required and rewarded, the problem solving (both ethically and logically and mathematically), AND the improvisation emphasized, I think it stimulates a young mind very well. Lets them escape their own world for a bit and take agency and feel they have control, something young people so desperately desire.
So in conclusion, I'm kinda just writing this to get it off of my chest and vent, BUT I guess my questions would be:
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• do you have any advice on how to properly communicate my points on why this game can be beneficial for young minds?

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• Do you know of any other benefits I'm missing?

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• have you ever had experiences similar to this?

Or maybe you disagree with me and think I'm out of line here, which is totally fair too. Just looking to start some dialogue.
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Thackebr

I know it is a hassle, but if you get to keep Dnd, you might want to start requiring permission slips. That way, you could avoid this in the future.

The_Law_Of_Pizza

This will make it less likely for the OP to get a surprise angry parent, but I don't like the precedent of demanding permission slips for a mundane board game.
It sets up an expectation that D&D is different in some way, and gives ammunition to these weirdos who are still trapped in the Satanic Panic - it lets them point to the permission slips and say, "Look, even your own policies admit that this is something to be hidden behind barriers and parental approval."
At a certain point we have to stand up to these people in society and tell them that they're being ridiculous and that we won't concede to their demands under any circumstances. That takes a great deal of backbone by the YMCA administration, though.

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probloodmagic

Geez. Really putting the "C" in YMCA. I imagine looking into how people fought back during the "Satanic Panic" might provide some good advice for this.

u/efrique had a great comment about handling a new round of the satanic panic
Here
Many offered sites that share good info about why DnD is helpful and beneficial to kids
thatdanglion

You can point the leadership and parents to the numerous studies showing the many ways playing D&D is beneficial for kids, too. One, for example.

g3rmb0y

I just looked through this thread, there's a ton of great stuff here.
Some additional good orgs that talk about the therapy side are: https://gametogrow.org/ https://geektherapeutics.com/ https://rollforkindness.com/ (That's me) https://www.thebodhanagroup.org/

dgendbreau

D&D has also been shown to be useful in teaching kids about social skills, creative writing, theory of mind, mental math, team work, problem solving etc.
https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/educators

Update May 13, 2024
Made a post a few days ago about how I run a DnD campaign for some kids in an after-school program I run for the YMCA, and subsequently how the parents of one of the kids was trying to get the game banned and whole operation shut down. I wasn't sure the best way to make an update, but I linked the whole original post above so you can have a read if you'd like ^
So firstly genuine genuine genuine big thanks to everyone who took the time to read and respond with input and suggestions. It means a ton and really helped a lot. So I'm just gonna jump right in with what happened.
Firstly, I took the advice about getting testimonies from parents who were super happy that I was playing this game with their kids -- we weren't allowed to have outside visitors involved in the actual meeting with HR, but I got emails and messages from mostly every parent (besides the one complaining about it lmao) to voice their support and why they think this is not a harmful thing, and in fact actually a good thing. I really think this helped a lot and was a big factor, so thanks everyone who suggested. It's not something I would've thought to do on my own ahahah.
I didn't want to come in toooooo heavy with the articles and very clear scientific proof about the benefits of developing minds playing TTRPGs', because (as it turned out) this was actually more just conversational and "pleasant" than I thought it was gonna be, at least from HRs side. I did mention to them the multiple studies done on this exact scenario, but it turned out I didn't even really need them. There were definitely moments of tension, but this was a more civil conversation than I anticipated from all parties involved. I'm not sure if it was the fact that the parents who complained had to talk to me in person WITH my bosses and HR reps present and it calmed them down a bit? But yeah anyway.
I wish it was a more dramatic story, but basically I just levelled with them person to person.
People who said they were betting on it being a Christian, satanic-panic angle: you were right, mostly anyway. As in, that was definitely a main part of their argument. They are in fact Christian and were concerned, but it was really coming from a place of ignorance about what this game is about, and they specifically didn't understand the fact that the DM (me) can entirely control what the contents of it is. I'm assuming they just googled DnD and probably saw some things they didn't agree with, but once I explained that the way we were playing it included no demon spawn or worshipping, or any killing of other humans, or allowing of murder-hobo activity, they softened up a bit. I told them it's a strictly G/PG rated experience that I'm curating for them. And of course I explained the social and academic benefits of DnD, and how much of a bonding activity this is for the group, and how much their son in particular loves it. This helped big time.
Ironically, it was their other argument about wanting active engagement for their child (ie; sports lol) that was a little harder to combat. From their and HRs perspective, this whole program and the YMCAs MO IS in fact healthy active engagement. I explained that most days of the week we are doing just that. I'm a tennis instructor as well and have played sports all my life (and they know this), so I tried to assure them that I get their child a SOLID amount of engagement (plus free tennis lessons effectively haha). I'll save you the whole back and forth, but this was a majority of our 45 minute meeting.
Im trying to wrap this up with a bow but not sure exactly how, so I'll just finish with the bullet points from the end of the discussion:
• The game is not banned! HOORAY HOORAY!
• I am now only allowed to play it with them once a week (on Friday), but all things considered I'll take this as a win!
• and best of all, the complained parents are letting their kid continue to play!!!! I'm sending them a detailed summary of the contents of my game so they can look it over, but they said with it now "officially" only being once a week, and with a better understanding of what it actually is, they will let him to continue to play. I'm so unbelievably happy.
So boom. Happy ending. Again big thanks to everyone for giving their advice and linking resources; it helped so much and meant a lot. This is a big win for "the community" I feel, at the risk of sounding too corny. You are all the best. I love this game so much 🥹
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OOP explains how they made DnD G/PG rated

So the method I've taken is that this is mainly an explorative and mystery solving campaign. There is combat occasionally, but it's heeeeeavy on the RP aspect of these aforementioned things (aka 7 kids screaming over each other lmao)
I briefly mentioned in the previous post that when I do involve combat I don't include any that js player versus any humanoids -- so no "killing" of bandits or raiders or pirates or anything resembling, it's strictly taking out big bad monsters, or a big spidebats/owlbear or whatever when it does happen. This takes a big amount of the potential nastiness out: Timmy cant go home saying "Mom I killed 4 dudes today!", regardless if he understands the deeply political and socio-economic rooted reasons why it may be justified he did that 🙄 hahahah.
So yeah eliminated that entirely, strayed away from words like "kill" or "dead" or certainly "murdered", and have a very very "heroes save the town from mishaps" type adventure. For a quick example our last plot hook/beat (which ended up taking up like 3 Fridays because of how long it can take with young kids hahaha) involved them stumbling into a town and discovering that it holds the map to an ancient treasure that is rumoured to be buried in a magical woods nearby. Maaaaaany puzzles and skill checks later they found it deep in the woods by a magic tree and had to answer (very basic) riddles from the speaking and living tree in order to get access to it. They succeeded and absolutely loved it and there was no combat at all.

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It was the friday and he didnt ask me out, so everyone suggested I do it, so I asked and he said lets do it, i said sunday and he said "its a plan" we continued to message and then sunday hit and i hadnt heard anything. I did realise we werent going on the date by around lunch time but i still messaged at 4 if we were still getting dinner.
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I'm not upset that he had a family event, I'm upset that he had forgotten about me.
He hasnt replied back to my okay. Is it over?

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Recently, I prayed to Hekate as I am currently worshipping her in some aspects of my free time. After I left my home to go take a walk, I noticed a light blue and black butterfly following me around and encircling the area I walk in.
Today, I prayed to Odin in thanks for being there for me (and doing whatever a god like him does) while boating in my local lake.
As I row back to the shore, I see an orange and black butterfly (Maybe a monarch? Didn't have the pattern of one) just casually resting on me and staying around me. It seemed content with my presence and didn't fly off like usual butterflies. I felt it was a sign today since the butterfly never left my side until I exited the boat and returned it to the rental owner.
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First time family 2 week itinerary
Hi, my family will be making our first trip this fall and I would like to get your opinion on our plans thus far. Hopefully traveling light with medium sized backpacks, we are happy to walk the city most days exploring and snacking. We have varied interests so are trying to do things each person wants, I could really use some suggestions as I will only be able to drag the rest of the family to a limited number of temples, castles, and gardens before they get fatigued, and likewise we have only so much stomach space to try all the great foods. Also wondering about the night life culture in regards to teens and if our kids will be welcome in venues/bars at night.
Day 1: Fly into KIX around dinner time, local transit to our hotel near Osaka castle, check in, grab a bite to eat, look around, then hopefully pass out.
Day 2: Osaka castle, rent bikes to explore, dotonbori in the evening
Day 3: Train to Nara in the morning, see the deer and Buddha then grab lunch. Train to Kyoto in the afternoon, check into the hotel and see Fushimi Inari late afternoon (we wont be climbing to the top), then to Gion for dinner and exploring.
Day 4: Kinkakuji, Kiyomizu-dera, lunch then off to Kinosaki Onsen. Take the cable car in Kinosaki to Onsenji temple, then do the ryokan/onsen thing.
Day 5: Shopping/onsen in the morning and after lunch train to see Himeji castle, then onto Hakata to our hotel. Nakasu area for dinner and nightlife.
Day 6: Free day in Hakata, just have to make it to Hiroshima at some point to check in to the hotel.
Day 7: Hiroshima peace memorial, possibly the ferry to Miyajima or just explore Hiroshima, catch a late afternoon train to Kobe for dinner
Day 8: Free day in Kobe, just have to make it back to Osaka to check into our hotel near USJ
Day 9: USJ, then hopefully nobinobi sunrise express to Tokyo (I realize this day is going to hurt)
Day 10: Yoyogi park(it will be sunday), Meji shrine, Hachiko statue, then check into the hotel and rest before exploring Shibuya
Day 11: Akihabara, Yodobashi Camera, Sunshine City. Does anyone have an observation tower recommendation for this area? Roppongi in the evening.
Day 12: Ghibli museum if I can get tickets, if not, Teamlabs Borderless. Train to Yokohama late afternoon. chinatown and Kishamichi Promenade
Day 13: Cup of noodles museum, a bit of exploring, then back to Tokyo. Rest of the afternoon/night is free time
Day 14: Enjoy the hotel gardens, sigh, wave goodbye and fly home in the afternoon
I know it's a lot, but we would like to experience the differences between regions. Train rides will at least be a chance to rest our legs. What are your thoughts?

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Monday
Dimmy: I hope you all had a great Mother’s Day! Stevie Kate surprised me with a balloon, baguette, half-eaten apple, and pinworms she picked up from the feral Denner tots, and I surprised Stevie Kate and London with a Sol Brush powdered sunscreen shill and carcinogenic particles of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide in their lungs. Stevie Kate’s spent the past 48 hours in her pajamas tearing through a bag of rotisserie chicken, so I decided to resume potty training to get her to stop binge-eating chicken. I am finally ready to start potty training again now that we are going through so many diapers with twice as many Contentots in the house.
Dimmy: Ta da! Here is Stevie Kate’s adorable potty setup! Complete with balloons and princess underwear! Stevie Kate, are you ready to go on the potty and wear your underwear? Stevie Kate: I’m ready right now! Neighbor Boy Harry: Uh… Imma head out and go help my mom with her shitty stationery line! 🏃‍♂️🎒
Tuesday
Dimmy: Would you like to give us an update on how potty training is going? Sassy Kate: Would you like to give us an update on how you and daddy exploit your children on the internet for financial gain? Dimmy: I’ll give you a cookie if you detail every bodily function from the past 24 hours. So Fed Up Kate: I’ll give you a swift kick in your bad knee if you don’t stop talking about my toilet training. Dimmy: That’s it, your punishment for being sassy is you have to stay in your pajamas again all day. Sleepwear Kate: We all knew that was going to happen anyway.
Dimmy: I need to get your guys’ thoughts. With potty training, do I just stay at home? Or do I carry the miniature singing toilet with balloons attached everywhere we go? I’ve been staying at home the past 24 hours and it is torture! We haven’t even been able to go visit the Astroturf at the shopping center by our house. Stevie Kate’s been doing pretty good. We’ve had a couple accidents today, but she’s been doing really well for the most part- OW! Why did you kick me in the knee, Stevie Kate? Here, go play with this bag containing an entire rotisserie chicken and eat as much of it as you want. Mommy’s busy talking to the people in her phone who fund our lifestyle. Anyway, I can’t just stay inside for the next two weeks! That’s insanity! I need your help! How do I go out with Stevie Kate while potty training? Drop your tips in the box! I know I could just ask my sisters, Iris, or Meta AI on Instagram instead, but that doesn’t drive up my engagement numbers like responses from you sorry losers do!
Dimmy: Speaking of Iris, I did text it for craft ideas to keep School’s Out Kate busy this summer. Also I contacted Iris for a color analysis and Iris responded that bright orange parachute I wore car shopping looked great with my skin tone, and I should consider cutting up some of the parachute material to sew it into a dress. I tried to explain to Iris that it already was a dress, albeit a voluminous one, but Iris just responded with these bizarre outfit suggestions of monochromatic business looks for fall and winter where each outfit is the color of Tiffany’s self-tanner-applied orange skin. I tried to tell Iris it’s summer time and it’s hot as fuck here in Texas, plus I mainly wear athleisure and billowy dresses, not business clothes, but Iris said who cares, these aren’t real clothes anyway, just weird hypothetical Fashion Plates looks a robot mocked up. Iris said whatever I do, to avoid wearing cheetah print. What the fuck! That’s never going to happen. I love cheetah print. Still, I think you gullible assholes should subscribe to Iris anyway and use my code BOYAREYOUDUMB for 50% off your first month! Don’t you want to be able to TEXT Iris instead of carry a computer around 24/7 to use ChatGPT? I know that question makes no sense, since you don’t need four laptops in a Nordace backpack to use ChatGPT, but all of my followers are gullible idiots and will subscribe to Iris despite my idiotic statements!
Thursday
Dimmy is wearing loads of dark makeup and another gigantic billowy dress, and you know what that means… time to go car shopping again with paid pal Diana! Dimmy shared stories from Wednesday’s car shopping excursion to Hyundai and Kia and once again the trimmed-down troll was “too busy” to go along. Sidekick Kate was a good sport through the whole car shopping ordeal, despite hopping from bathroom to bathroom, the charge running out on her Tonies box, and her Mylar princess balloon sailing away in search of a beach to pollute. Screenie Kate forgave Dimmy for losing her balloon since she knows there’s always plenty more where that came from and she has Wina from Balloonish on speed dial. Dimmy sailed from new car to new car thanks to a strong breeze and her billowy dress, looking for the SUV with the most charging ports for all of her devices and the largest number of adjustable cup holders big enough to fit even the most gigantic of Stanley cups in her collection. She found the “Hun-Die” Palisade fit the bill, with chargers and cup holders galore. She wasn’t as impressed with the Kia “Tell-a-ride” because it didn’t have as many cup holders and ports to charge her numerous devices. Dimmy is now torn between buying either the Palisade or the Escalade because those were the only cars she found that rhymed with “getting paid.” Should she go with the practical, convenient “Mom car” Palisade or the super nice and luxurious Escalade?
Today Jen is grateful Kimmy, Stevie Kate and London are coming over to bring hugs and content. Stevie Kate was excited to show off her potty training progress to Minnie and Papa.
Jen: Stevie Kate, what are we doing today? Sugarless Kate: Baking sugar-free cookies on this damn, dirty floor, like usual. Jen: Why are you using ghost-shaped cookie cutters? Spooky Kate: Because Mommy is a ghost! Jen: Your Mommy is a ghost? Stevie Chef: Yes! Because I want her to disappear!
Tiffany was furious when she saw on stories that Kimmy, Stevie Kate and London were getting all of Jen’s gratitude and attention, so she threw a giant bow and no shoes on Lily and sped over to crash their party and divert all the attention to herself. She immediately whipped out her boobs to shill her Eby bra when she saw Dimmy nursing, claiming she and Jen might start lactating at any moment. Then she publicly shamed Stevie Kate for having an accident in her car seat on the way to Jen’s.
Meanwhile, London is still alive despite the clouds of Sol Brush sunscreen powder raining down on her face yet again as Dimmy’s fascination with demonstrating how to use the high-commission product continues. Dimmy headed to the airport to pick up yet another sister to help her out with London, but not before posting a Ritual vitamin shill so she could take the day off stories tomorrow.
Saturday
London is finally being a cooperative Contentot, smiling for Instagram from beneath her giant bow, and doing a picture-perfect Swaddle Stretch channeling her older sister’s performances from back in her newborn days.
Sol Brush is back in stock and Dimmy is bursting with joy at all the commission she’s going to make from more sales of the ineffective sunscreen, her kids’ lungs be damned. If Sunburnt Kate doesn’t convince Dimmy’s followers it doesn’t work, I don’t know what will.
Stevie Sunburn headed indoors to get a break from the sun and play with the robot bug toy Dimmy’s sister brought her. Thank goodness the Tacky Screech Owl found an Amazon link for the gift so she can make money off that too. Dimmy even had an active Active Skin Repair code, so she shilled it them sprayed Stevie Sunburn to give her some relief.
Street Urchin Kate looked like a Victorian Orphan by mid-afternoon as her Belle princess dress mopped up dirt, sidewalk chalk, Dimmy’s makeup, and everything else in her path. Dimmy left Disheveled Kate with her sister and cleaned herself up, threw on her Paris dress, and headed to a baby shower for the Houghtons’ wealthy family friend Anna. The beautiful florals and tasteful spread at Grange Hall were too elegant for the tacky turtle bunch, so Jen set the centerpiece flowers on fire with the votive candles to protest the lack of balloon arches, then escaped by helicopter to go terrorize another Texas city, Austin.
With two days off this week and tomorrow being Sunday, Dimmy’s Saturday shilling was at an all-time high. She’s linking up everything but the kitchen sink, and she’d link that up too if she had a code for it.