"I don't know how you can keep teaching so many things about the triangle. They have three sides and three angles, that's it! And circles! They only have one side! Come on already!"

I think he's feeling the pain of pandemic schooling. Also he really doesn't like his Pre-Calc teacher. Or Trigonometry, I think. This entry has been cross-posted to ( Read more... )

Havoc: "Kidlet, Mr. Havoc says you were up at 3:00 a.m. when he came to bed. Laying there with the lights on. Could you not sleep? Lights on in the middle of the night really isn't a great thing."

Kid of Havoc: "I don't remember any of this."

*five minutes of increasingly confused conversation later*

Havoc: "Letting the house gremlins turn the lights ( Read more... )

He always fake-complains that we bombard him with books every year for gifting events, but then he says things like, "I don't know what to do when I go over to someone's house and they don't have eight bookcases stuffed full of books."

He's wrong, our house has eleven bookcases, nine of which are stuffed full of books, two of them have mostly DVDs ( Read more... )

As safely as you can these days, at least. He's supposed to be done, but I suspect he's taking his time leaving.

We're going for victory
smoothies on the way home. Here's hoping this one does NOT end up all over my car like the last one. This entry has been cross-posted to Dreamwidth (
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Last night we discussed the taxonomy of magic user sources - for example, would fairy godmothers and witches have the same magical taxonomy? Would sea witches fall under the same taxonomy? (Think original Andersen, not Disney.) Would mermaids even count, and would merfolk count separately?

What about Tolkien elves, and the entire taxonomy of D&D ( Read more... )

It's hard to find someone to go back and forth with you on the formative parts of a story, but apparently the kidlet is taking his love of urban fantasy and turning it into a love of worldbuilding ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who commented and encouraged. It's just you all said so many thoughtful things and I want to take my time in my replies. :) You're the best.

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1. Worldbuilding. So much worldbuilding. Roleplaying games where other people do worldbuilding and it's just constant and well thought out and interconnected. Roleplaying games where other people don't mind if you do your own worldbuilding ( Read more... )