lifeguard of the bathtub

Over on Captain Awkward someone has written in about a husband so addicted to games he even plays them on his phone while bathing the kids. In fact if you read the whole letter the gaming sounds way out of balance, I don't mean to trivialize it, but I was surprised by how many people seemed to see the bath thing as the most excessive of the excesses. Because kids! can drown! in the bath! Which... seems excessively paranoid, to me? I don't ever *leave the room* while my kid is in the bath, and I would not be happy if I saw a lifeguard at our local pool playing games on her phone while on duty, but a lifeguard might have a dozen people all moving around doing complicated things. It just does not require as much processing power to tell if a kid in the bathtub is okay or not; if you're sitting there and not, like, asleep, you can tell.

But I am curious what y'all think about this, and so, a poll! (A fake poll, as I don't have a paid account.) Which of the following do you consider unsafe to do in the bathroom while supervising a kid's bath?

- play games on phone
- text on phone
- talk on phone
- knit
- read a magazine
- brush your teeth
- poop (yes, sorry, ew, but it's a thing you might do in a bathroom that is harder to instantly put down than a phone)
- hold another kid/baby (another thing somewhat harder to instantly drop)
- breastfeed another kid/baby
- anything whatsoever other than remaining crouched in a ready position next to the tub with both hands free

Red Glove and also vids

I am still loving the Curse Workers series as of finishing Red Glove, sequel to White Cat. Maybe I'll say more about the trilogy after Black Heart, but let me just say that I am enjoying genuinely not knowing what's going to happen, or even what I think *should* happen.

Vids! There is this annual vidding convention and thus a lot of new vids come out around this time. I read a lot of fic for fandoms I don't watch and that works pretty well for me; vids don't work so well. But here are some for fandoms I actually know

Mama Said Knock You Out, Avatar:the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. The ladies Bei Fong.

Gone, Real Genius. You could read this as Mitch/Chris or just as everybody/yay.

Idiotheque, Iron Man and Avengers. My favorite of the several Tony Stark vids.

Blue. Many fandoms. So blue ah ba di ah ba di.

Starships. Also many fandoms. If you are only going to watch one WATCH THIS ONE.

CinderFella. Not a fanvid, but a video thing. I died of squee at about 5:20.