Yes But Also The Discussion Around How Annoying Skibidi Toilet Is Is Important! Its Not Just Technology

Yes but also the discussion around how annoying skibidi toilet is is important! It’s not just technology that is changing kids’ behaviors, it’s the media they are consuming. Other than the obvious overstimulation problems we see, media like skibidi toilet is not teaching kids anything, and when your job is to help them with writing you can see they need now more than ever media to teach them language/phonics. Skibidi toilet is the opposite of that.

Also it is annoying when you have to hear it every day.

i think we should care more about how the parents of gen alpha are giving them technology addiction to the point they throw tantrums when its taken away than how annoying skibidi toilet is

Character Profile Tag

Thanks for tagging me @willtheweaver! I’ve been dying to do this one for Daron

Full name: Daron Spiritwalker

Age: 18

Sex: Female

Species: Witch

Appearance: Daron is very tall, about 6 feet. She has pale skin and sapphire blue eyes. Her hair stands out the most out of all her features. It’s knee-length and black with a singular white streak.

Occupation: Lady/student

Family: Madame Spiritwalker—mother, Lukas Spiritwalker—brother

Pets: She doesn’t have a pet but is close with a horse

Best friend: Catalina Hemlock

Describe her room: Plain. The headmistress set it up and she kept it that way. Her bedsheets and curtains are both black. The most interesting thing she has is a bookshelf with her spellbooks and a romance book Cassidy recommended her.

Items in her bag/purse: If she’s at school she only has her spellbooks. When she goes out she usually takes some money and water.

Hobbies: Studying

Favorite sport: She’s grown fond of horseback riding

Abilities/talents/powers: Daron is known for being intelligent, skilled with magic, and a natural leader. Her powers include being able to see and communicate with spirits and to travel to the Spirit World at will.

Relationships: Daron tries to keep all her relationships professional, including those in her own family. She is eventually forced to open up to friendship by a group of girls at school who won’t leave her alone.

Fears: Being anything less than perfect

Faults: Doesn’t allow herself to feel emotions, self-sacrificing

What she wants more than anything: To serve the needs of her people and spirits

Gentle tagging @the-golden-comet @kaylinalexanderbooks and open tag!

Would you mind telling me a little bit about Catalina?

LOL I am finishing up her playlist right now. Great timing, friend!

Catalina is my mc, Daron's, best friend (even though it takes Daron the whole book to realize it). She's the daughter of a mistress, which pretty much equates to a duchess, and her mother is also the headmistress of the school all my characters attend. While Daron keeps a professional relationship with her mother and barely interacts with her brother, Catalina contrasts her by being very close with her mother and her little sister. Because of her relationship with her family, she serves as a mother figure in her friend group.

Catalina is an incredibly strong witch, but she has trouble believing it because Kelsee has been out to get her for years. Their families have been fighting for more power in their clan for generations, but Catalina's mother was over it and decided to run a school instead. Kelsee saw this as a bid for power and bullied Catalina into doubting herself and made their classmates believe it too, but don't worry, Catalina realizes her strength.

From the start of my writing, I intended for Catalina to have ambitions other than succeeding her mother as mistress--she thinks she suits a smaller lifestyle better--but I just added in an arc for her recently where she is put in a leadership position and learns that she is good at it. In the end, she decided she really does want to be mistress and lead with Daron, who has one of the highest positions of power in their country.

Catalina's the kind of person who always knows what to say so I gave her some of the best dialogue. A friend once told me that I have a kind smile, and I thought that was the nicest thing anyone's said to me so I wanted to immortalize it. In my first draft, Catalina already had a similar line so of course I gave it to her to say to Daron. She also says this line that was rated the best line in my wip from a poll I made: "We cannot be perfect. We can only be better."

Like other witches of the Herbneivorous Clan, Catalina's powers include being able to grow plants, tell their properties by touching them, and being able to eat poison. She's eaten so much that her blood's actually poisonous, but it's not much of a threat because she's typically calm and grounded.

Thanks for asking! That's Catalina.

This far into my draft I can really see Daron’s character development. I’m so proud of my baby girl. Look!

Chapter one Daron

Something sweet rose up from my chest but I promptly tamped it back down.

I did not take even a single glance back at the black-brick mansion. My path had already been laid out, and it led away from Spiritwalker Mansion. I would not be able to keep moving forward if my head was turned back, even for a second.

Daron now

“How are you?” I searched Catalina’s foresty eyes and found no judgment; none of the expectation for apathy that I was used to. I only saw compassion. It broke me further. “It hurts.” “I know.” Catalina gently moved my head so it rested on her shoulder…and I let her.

IT'S SPOOKY MONTH!! HERE'S A SPOOKY SNIPPET FROM SPIRITWALKER

The icy tiles warmed beneath my skin. No more waiting.

I pushed at the wall and the entire section behind the mosaic shuttered. My strange suspicion was correct—there was a hidden passageway in the tunnel—but I needed more force to open the door all the way.

I pressed my other hand to the wall and pushed harder, straining the muscles in my back and shoulders. The wall moved inwards this time, rotating like a cog, until it was just a sliver between two gaps. There was enough room for a witch to comfortably walk on either side.

I gestured to Maya. “Are you coming?”

The younger witch, ever loyal, followed me into the pitch black that awaited us. The smell of mold slapped me in the face, and I had to resist the urge to cover my nose in order to keep my grip on the wall. I stretched my foot as far as it would go, trying to gauge how far the passage went, but only felt emptiness. This vast, dark, unknown space should have frightened me, but instead I was struck with a strange familiarity. I had been here before—in my dreams.

Once we were both fully inside, I let go of the wall. Considering its weight, I assumed that it would gradually slide back into place. Instead it slammed shut, sealing me and Maya in the mysterious hole. I could hear her hands frantically scraping against the bricks, searching for a way out.

“What do we do, Lady Daron?” 

“I am sure that Ann Marie will open the door if we stay here for too long. As for the dark, you can leave it to me.”

I slipped my spirit dagger out from its hidden holster with one hand and used the other to locate a wall. When I could feel the solid surface, I stuck the tip of my dagger into the stone. It cut through easily as the brick was so old it chipped and crumbled upon force. Muscle memory took over, carving out the rune spell for light for me.

All of the walls illuminated brilliantly, as if a star was hidden inside of them. Keeping my dagger in my hand, I surveyed my surroundings. The room was smaller than I suspected, only large enough to fit about ten people. Moss and mold grew on the walls and weeds sprouted from cracks in the stone floor. How long had this place been forgotten?

Maya’s gasp echoed across the walls and I turned to see what startled her. In the corner was what appeared to be a girl, but she had no skin, no color. Her body was solely light, occasionally sparkling with the intensity of her energy. I tightened my grip on my spirit dagger.

“Hello,” the spirit said. “I would introduce myself, but I do not know who I am.”

Spiritwalker taglist (ask to be added or removed) @the-golden-comet @pixies-love-envy

I’m just “yes and”-ing you! Yes, kids are addicted to technology and are having behaviorial issues. Yes, we call what they watch cringe. And we should explore why we think it’s cringe because it could lead us to part of the problem instead of shutting that line of thinking down. Sorry if that didn’t come off clearly.

i think we should care more about how the parents of gen alpha are giving them technology addiction to the point they throw tantrums when its taken away than how annoying skibidi toilet is