teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults
I am a preschool teacher.
This is my “alone zone.”
At any time of the day, if my kids are feeling stressed, they can go here to cool down. There’s stress toys, silly putty, bubbles, sensory bottles…there’s books and headphones to block out the loud noises.
The only thing they have to do is “check in” by putting their picture on which emotion they’re feeling so I know how I can help them when they’re ready.
Kids. Need. Space.
Kids. Need. Coping. Mechanisms.
Not. Time-outs.
And the sooner we as adults teach them that, the better off they’ll be as they grow.
2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.
1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.
Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.
You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.
2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will
congrats OP this is literally the only grinch post i’ll ever reblog
it strikes me that some kids might not be familiar with the original grinch, and to those kids the lyrics in his theme song probably just seem vicious towards what seems to be just a regular if not grumpy green guy
cons: nintendo, being nintendo, would likely send a cease and desist to anyone who developed such a thing
pros: nintendo would have to acknowledge not only that Hotel Mario ever existed, but someone cared enough to make a sequel and basically they’re sitting on an opportunity for cold hard cash and are fucking idiots
if someone ever makes a hotel mario sequel they need to add a toggle to make the audio incredibly loud and horribly distorted like the quebec gamers video rips, if not the only option available
this actually makes me wonder, obviously this would never work for hotel mario cause blatantly every character in hotel mario is a nintendo trademark, but, if you were to say make a sequel to link: the faces of evil and just conveniently left out link and zelda (the only nintendo characters in the game) you could actually get away with it. characters like king harkinian, gwonam, morshu and the country of koridai are not nintendo property so you could actually do this
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