#age: early twenties

[klaineineverylifetime]

Bide & Stay

Title: Bide & Stay (2013-14)

Author: lurkdusoleil

Words: 30k (total);  POV: Blaine;  Rating: E

Summary: Kurt and Blaine are souls meant to meet again and again. But sometimes they don’t quite catch each other. (And later, even reunited soulmates have to figure each other out.)

Review: This is not your typical soulmate story but a literal exploration of, “my soul knew something that my mind and body didn’t know yet.” This story manages to nail their dynamic while transposing it across time with all the obstacles and climate changes thrown into the mix (and yet you never really lose the sense of them as individuals, either). It’s got supernatural themes without dipping too far into the paranormal—it really just is them, in every lifetime, and who they might be and how they might cope if, in some of those lifetimes, they missed each other.

#klaine fic rec #alternate universe #supernatural #soulmates #grief and mourning #ghost kurt #major character death #developing relationship #mental illness #homophobia #20k to 50k #age: early twenties #Blaine POV #nyc #magical elements #2013

[reasonsforhope]

Hey adults: Why do you like being an adult? What do you like about your life?

A couple weeks ago I told the kids at my work that "Being an adult is pretty nice, actually," and they looked shocked, laughed incredulously, and told me I was the first person they'd ever heard say that

So clearly we adults need to talk about this way more often

The past few years have been hard for a lot of people, me included. Covid sucked. I lost three relatives and three pets in one year. Right after lockdown ended, I got badly injured, and ended up housebound for six months and (much more) disabled for two years, and that sucked too.

And you know what? Literally all of that was easier and better than being a teenager.

I like being an adult. I like my life. Even when it's hard, it's mine, and I am building to the best of my ability the a life that I want to live.

I talked about a lot of why being an adult is something worth looking forward to in my last post, so right now I'll simply say this:

I love actually knowing who I am now. I love that I learned and am learning what I want and need. I love that I have independence and autonomy and don't get treated like a kid. I love the fact that I'm the one who gets to decide want I want to do and what I need. I also love that I'm learning to sew. I love that I've had pet rats, and next will have a pet cat. I love that I got top surgery. I love the way I've decorated my room. I love traveling to visit and crash and even just hang out and do work with my friends, when I can. I love that I started reading good news every day, and that I actually have hope for the future, and that I started this blog and have been able to help give so many other people hope, too.

So, here's a call to action for my fellow adults: comment or reply or tag what you like about being an adult. What you love about your life.

Let's give some kids some reasons for hope.

#hope #not news #life #life advice #growing up #teenagers #adulthood #adulting #hopepunk #hope posting #hopeposting #also feel free to put your age to help make things feel more concrete and real #and make it clear that “being an adult is good” isn't just limited to your early twenties #in fact it's often better after your early twenties #I'm around 30 personally #I hope this post sounds poetic rather than pretentious lol #that last bit in particular had me going “hmm is this too much” #but actually I think that we dismiss hope and happiness too often #hope deserves to not always have to be serious but I think hope also deserves all the seriousness and gravitas that we can give it

[thefairmaidenoffandom]

so, for all the firefighter!yuuji aus that i adore, i never see any ems!megumi, which feels like a crime

#itafushi #fushiita #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #itadori yuuji #fushiguro megumi #i did in fact have positions fleshed out for the entire cast but i'm honestly not into jjk enough to draw it all anymore #so i'll be posting any last wips/unfinished jjk pieces soon #and no this is not based on 9-1-1 im just an emt in training #au #jjk manga #megumi is obviously an aemt here but i feel like he'd go for paramedic in another two to three years #love the idea of him showing yuuji the ropes around the station #they'd ideally be early-twenties at least for all certifications to work with some wiggle room but idk it fits them #i think yuuji would make the ff choice at twenty for the earliest #so by the time the exam rolled around and he finished the academy halfway through twenty-one #megumi would have to pick ems right out of highschool to keep ages in line and give time to move from emt-b to aemt #idk im rambling #fanart #jjk fanart

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Master manipulator vs Master manipulator

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #a-qing #The scenes with XY and A-Qing are so delightfully tense and anxiety inducing #They are both so deep in the mind games with each other. Convinced they have the leg up when in reality they do not know the full scope #Also is is just me or do XY and A-Qing give off the vibe of internet nemeses? #A-Qing coming in hard with 'Oh you think blind people cant do XYZ? Get canceled idiot' #Meanwhile XY is the kind to purposefully use leet speak in descriptive text to antagonize the screen reader population. #a teen girl and a 4-channer who found his way to tumblr would be awful to watch fight irl but the vibes are equivalent. #Meanwhile XXC is going on a nice little walk to pick grass. I love him so much actually. #through writing these notes I have also gone down the rabbit hole of trying to pinpoint Xue Yang's age. Hello? Is it actually not known? #The best resources I could find put him as 1-3 years younger then xxc and song lan #So? early twenties? late teens? Someone who has absorbed more mdzs knowledge...Please help #Oh no I'm even deeper in the rabbit hole now. What do you mean the ages are mostly just relative? #What do you mean cultivators can age differently (usually slower in xianxia) #Oh no oh no wwx doesn't have a golden core. I was too accurate in my homestuck AU re: lifespans. I want to go back. #(I love angst and am now marinating this thought in my little thinking chamber)

[lunamond]

The disproportionate hate show!Criston gets is so bizarre. No argument I’ve seen his haters make sofar has made any sense to me.

He is outside of Mysaria the only siginficant lowborn character we meet. He rises up from the son of a steward of a minor house to the position of King‘s Guard thanks to Rhaenyra, who then pressures him into having sex with her, sth that could get him executed. Afterwards she not just rejects his proposal, but laughs in his face.

And when as a result of this experience Criston is shown to be emotional distraught and bitter, people call him an incel? (I assume that they refer to his ideology and not his actual status as a celibate, because not being celibate is literally what started this mess)

It really rubs me the wrong way, when people remove all context from this situation. A lower class person getting a well-off position from a person with authority, who they then end up having sex with is ALWAYS a relationship with a power imbalance (Obviously there are irl relationships like this, who work out and manage to be relatively healthy, but that doesn‘t remove the imbalance of power and the increased likelyhood of abuse).

We see Criston‘s reluctance when Rhaenyra makes her move. It does not matter if Criston was attracted to her or not. The simple fact that he is in a vunerable position makes him denying her a risk. It also does not matter that Rhaenyra had no malicious intentions, the simple fact that she ignores Criston‘s refusal and continues pressuring make this whole scene super uncomfortable. Her ignorance and naivety does not erase the impact of her actions.

Criston growing to hate her afterwards is perfectly justified.

As a man who grew up in Westerosi society, he inevitably holds misogynist beliefs, which is reflected in the insults he uses after this. But compared to the acts of every single character on this show, singling out his character is pretty ludicrous, when we have plenty of male (and female) characters who have done worse:

Like commiting SA (Viserys, Aegon), grooming young girls (Viserys again! I really hate this man, Daemon, Otto, Corlys and Rhaenys because telling your daughter she has to sleep with a grown man when she is 14 is pretty much the same thing Otto does to Alicent) and the only major crime Criston is guilty of sofar: murder (Daemon killed his wife and the servant in Driftmark, also he did large scale police violence which people love to forget about, Rhaenys killed potentially hundreds of smallfolk at the coronation)

Obviously, anybody is allowed to dislike whatever character they want, but a lot of people flatten Criston into just a misogynistic bitter incel who is just mad that Rhaenyra has sex, ignoring every bit of context we get for his behaviour.

This becomes escpecially weird, when those same people have no problem stanning Daemon, who calls his 1st wife a „bitch“, „uglier than sheep“ and then murders her, because he sees her as inferior as a none-valyrian. But Criston calling Rhaenyra, a person he feels personally wronged by, a „spoiled cunt“ is apparently a too far.

It is just really frustating when the character with the canonically lowest social standing gets afforded the least amount of nuance by the fandom (the writers are obvs not excempt from this criticism either).

#There are also people who like to bring up Christon‘s age relativ to Rhaenyra and accuse him of being predatory towards her #This is dumb because for one this still doesn‘t erase the power imbalance #Nor has Christon ever been shown to make an inappropriate move towards her #Also them having a significant age gap in the show is debatable (book Criston is another matter) #We never get a clear age for Christon Fabien never being aged up doesn‘t help either #But based on context clues he is relatively young when we first meet him #He is a knight and fought in one war that doesn‘t mean anything when we have characters who are 16 and are full fledged knights in asoiaf #So he might be anywhere from 18/19 to early twenties when Rhaenyra is 14 in ep1 #Rhaenyra in the ep4 is 18 so at most Criston would be 25 #Compared to all of Rhaenyra‘s relationships this is fine actually realistically she and Harwin would have had a similar age gap #And that relationship is broadly regarded as her most healthy relationship #hotd #house of the dragon #criston cole #pro criston cole #rhaenyra critical #anti rhaenyra targaryen

[weaponizedducks]

absolutely wild to me that your whole life is defined by exams you took when you were seventeen. their brains are not even fully developed yet. please pick a lane, adults. you dismiss their words. you call young people stupid and unable or not old enough to have good opinions or make choices or participate in the choosing of their own futures and yet you define their futures by one little test. well guess what an exam has a fuckton of choices and if they can't be trusted to have an opinion on their own lives then maybe they can't be trusted to make academic choices on a test either. either you give us a voice or you will not hear until it's too late

#by that i mean we will overthrow the government #get in losers we're going to overthrow the government #i am british so i do mean a levels/gcse's #i am not against exams or school but please #this doesn't just go for teenagers this goes for all young people- like late twenties early thirties their opinions get dismissed bc of age #but not too young for people to harrass/assault/take advantage of? #the people in charge don't care about the things that matter #school #exams #gcse #government #fuck the government #this is about kosa #STOP RESTRICTING FREEDOM #stop kosa #kosa #i'm not even from the usa but this is horrific #do you realise how stupid you sound telling teens they can't make their own choices then giving a forty page test on random unrelated shit #yeah no if i can't have an opinion how am i supposed to do well on tests?

[utane]

Here is my take on young Tarn from @mxbenz 's fic 👀

#Idk his age but I assume like early to mid twenties before time jump #he wears grunge clothes and has weird straps to look more cool... bc this man is rizzless #Tarn #humanformers #maccadam #human au #transformers #art tag

[pempempemto]

I LOVE YOUR MICHAEL AFTON

AUGHH THANK YOU SO MUCH

im not fully happy with him myself so his design may be subject to minor changes bUT

so far he's pretty solid for me for now :] i appreciate it a lot !

#asks #michael and eclipse au #i think in this au he'd be #around his early twenties maybe? #around the age where he died in sister location #yurh

[sttoru]

guys gimme motivation so i can finish this on his bday. . . 😞

#𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆. #also forgot to put age gap LOL reader 20 / early twenties & satoru early 30’s #also more tags to be added probably to the fic once i read it all over :3

[qcomicsy]

Did lazrus pit made him older too?

It sure made him a bad bitch.

But seriously

Not really. Jason died pretty much at 16-17, the math is rough annoying and hard to do. But technically he got brought back around 17 (dead bodies don't get older and I will fight people on that) trained with the Ra's pretty much until his "early twenties". Made his crime empire and it's probably around 20-25 now.

If I'm not mistaken, and I think I am not, but again the math is hard and annoying. Dick was 16 when he was kicked out by Bats (or moved from college, or fired take your pick) and Jason was 12 when adopted. Jason died at 16-17 Dick was around 18 and around his early 20's when Tim was 13. Tim was 15 when Jason embarrassed himself beat his ass at the Titans Tower Tim is 17 now.

If we make the math,, Jason: 17 back. Probably 18-20 when he whooped Tim's ass (this is so fucking embarrassing). Tim was 15, he's 17 now.

Jason is probably a 21-23 year old.

Unfortunately cursed by DC artist to have a mid-life crises face, he should sue.

#I'm making this right now based fully on my (???) memory and questionable math skills #I bet someone gonna show up with better resources but I am really not going to push up comic lore/knowlegde on that one #but I'm pretty sure I'm right this time #(lying) #the point is they're forcefully aging my man #don't even get me started on Deadpool because I would get much more bitchier and violent about how they draw him #but yeah #'early twenties' bott text on the Jason panel carrying that dead men heads #JASON TODD BRUCE WAYNE DICK GRAYSON choose your character on your insane early twenties arc #q asks

[klaineineverylifetime]

Scholars & Gentleman

Title: Scholars and Gentleman (2011-12)

Author: mary flanner

 Links: Klaineficspdf [x]

Words: 161k; POV: Alternating; Rating: M

Summary: Blaine tries to find his place amongst a family never meant to be his own while Kurt tries to move them all beyond the people they once were. Later, they grow up and apart until the darkest night and a failing heart brings them together once again. An interrogation of Kurt and Blaine’s friendship and, later, relationship as it develops—loosely from Never Been Kissed to The Purple Piano Project (Parts One and Two), and a jump after that into the near future (Parts Three and Four). 

Review: This diverges from canon after season two (Blaine is the same age as Kurt) and it was written so early on and yet it still manages to capture Blaine’s earnestness, Kurt’s bravery, and their connection. This story gives you the kind of heart in your throat/clutching your chest/holding your breath kind of feeling that can only come from a story that moves you. It’s bittersweet, and it hurts so much—to think of a timeline wherein Kurt and Blaine went their separate ways, to imagine them hurting so much, to consider any reality where they aren’t theirs forever (no matter how brief that consideration). Sure, we only deal in happy endings here, but sometimes the getting there is full of bittersweet yearning. Any story with well-written Burt will knock me off my seat, but this one does it with a subtle finesse that might bring you to tears.

#klaine fic rec #AU: canon divergent #season two #character study: both #friends to lovers #major character death (not klaine) #grief and mourning #angst #dalton #the warblers #pining #coming of age #age: late teens #age: early twenties #same age #mary flanner #2011 #over 150k #rating: mature #Alternating POV

[houseofache]

being in your early twenties is comprised of debt payments to your student loans and to the people who took care of you two years ago and to your friends who love you now and to the guardians that caught you when you fell and to the elderly neighbour across the street who has always said good morning to you since you were 13 and to the sun for keeping you alive and to the moon for giving you a reason to live

#i hate being this age #but i know its for the better #or at least that’s what i tell myself #early 20s #early twenties #writing #shut up lana #poetry #poem #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #college #uni #student

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

Idk if this thing I writing rn is going anywhere, but I love this bit too much to not post it somewhere.

The previous Golden Guard being an annoying older sibling figure my beloved

#also i couldnt fit this in anywhere but Quill usually insists on getting takeaways and streetfood everytime Darius wants to go out together #he doesn't like fancy food and compared to the blandness of castle food the flavours of boiling isles foods are heaven #also also i love writing him as rowdy and childish for his age (early twentys) in comparison to darius always acring older than he is #anyway #previous golden guard #golden guard #darius deamonne #darius daemonne #darius mentor #toh fanfic #toh fic #i make shit sometimes #hunters predecessor #pgg quill lore

[tsukinobherzhoka12]

Hold on, Garp had Dragon in his trainee days?!

#monkey d garp #monkey d dragon #monkey d #Garp in his early twenties when he had Dragon #And I meant he is twenty three #Sakazuki and Dragon are the same age #Garp is a young dad #Dragon is the opposite he had luffy in his thirties

[iwonderwh0]

If there's one thing to thank anti hankcon discourse it's for the folks around their thirties gathering to tell the teens that they are, in fact, adult enough to decide for themselves who to fuck with and that they do, in fact, find older people attractive.

(And also collectively asking folks in their teens-to-early 20s to stop using the word p*dophilia when talking about literal 30+ years olds.)

Like really, throwing this words in relation to adults downplays its actual weight in its actual fucking meaning, and this is really scary. Age gap might be a controversial topic but not anywhere near it is a matter of comparable scale to what the word ped*philia stands for. Don't turn this word into a buzzword, I'm begging you.

#I think it's like when you're 5 years old #all the 8 years old feel like they're just infinitely older #then in your twenties 3 year old difference is absolutely nothing #The further you're away from being a kid #the less of a difference it makes #10 years difference between 10 and 20 years old is abso-fucking-lutely not the same as between 30 and 40 years old #even though it's the same amount of years #and the same way it's hard for a 5 yo to comprehend that for adults three year old gap is barely a difference #(as it is literally 60% of their life) #here it's perhaps something similar. #I'm in my relatively early twenties and I too feel like I wouldn't date a person who's X years older than me #but in ten more years I don't expect myself to think the same way anymore #as it wouldn't make that much of a difference when it's not 50% of my lifespan anymore #I still don't think I'll find myself in a relationships with someone significantly older #but it would be wild to think that people in their 30-ies aren't old enough to make their own decisions. Let's be real #in this day and age #after you've been an adult for some time #there isn't this much of a power imbalance anymore between you and people who are X years older #or #the same kind of imbalance can be found within the same age category but not due to the age anymore #but things like social class. #Hell #in this sense 30yo can be the one overpowering 50yo.

[fox-guardian]

i just want to say that as a chubby transmasc person, it means the world to me that the progression of your tim design has given him a dad bod (same kinda bod that i have). it feels so good to see a transmasc that isnt the typical white twink (plus ur artstyle is gorgeous)

anyway HAPPY TIM STOKER TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!

I'm glad you likies him <3 dad bod tim is important to me as a slightly bigger person as well <3 i had seen a couple bigger tims and went "wait that's amazing. that's so real why aren't I doing that" and then i dids it <3 also THANKIES HAPPY TIM STOKER TUESDAY TO YOU AS WELL <3 <3

#fg's answers #asks #idk why every sentence was punctuated with a heart but yeah <3 #also (kinda related) i hope that ive done well in terms of making him read as yknow. a 30+ year old man. #ive seen a lot of tims out there that look more early twenties or even teen-ish. he looks like he has a tiktok. he would not have tiktok #i hope I've conveyed his age well is all <3 #also if either of them would've had tiktok it'd be Danny and im right about this