#last year as a YOUNG adult

[bonesmarinated]

been playing a lot of Avatar Frontier of Pandora lately and im really enjoy the game. Here is my cat boy, his name translate to "Half Seen". He's vivacious, curious, always ask too many questions. He's interested in human craftmanship, the precision and technologies despite it being frown upon by his own kinds. Thanks to his fast adapting and isn’t afraid to take risks to complete an objective, Half Seen is tough and self-reliant. But he also has a compassionate heart that drives him to help people in anyway he can.

#the last time i properly draw a Na'vi was back in 2009 with watercolour after i watched the first movie like 7 times or something... #na'vi avatar #na'vi oc #nav'vi #avatar frontiers of pandora #i don't like the voice acting/direction at all #aren't they supposed to be young adult why does he sounds like a people pleaser 16 years old #yeah i just imagine he has a different voice and mannerism #james cameron avatar

[lightpurplelilies]

every time i think of anything fairy tale related i have to lean back in my chair and remember the absolute brilliance of the sisters grimm series by michael buckley. the storyline about the big bad wolf and the storyline about snow white’s evil stepmother in particular are absolutely masterful, and the big twist at the end of the second to last book is so intense. can’t believe those are children’s books. they are a masterclass in storytelling, adaption, suspense, and character design. even rereading them as an adult i was blown away

#the sisters grimm #puckabrina #i read it again like last year as a young adult and damn do they still hold up #and they just get better #like the last few books are so fucking amazing #michael buckley #how did you do it #novels #books #writing #writer #kid’s books #fairy tales #the brothers grimm #adaptions

[rationalisms]

hi. i would just like to say that this is an attitude i've seen around increasingly often and i find it deeply baffling. like, genuinely could not relate any less to what is being expressed here.

personally, almost all media i'm obsessed with and talk about constantly is because i think it's good and i love talking about the ways in which it's good. yes, criticism can be fun and breed conversation, but so can positive critique. thoughtful, long-lasting engagement with a piece of media doesn't have to be negative. there are in fact ways for media to be good beyond "competent but generally unremarkable"?

and this is ymmv, but complaining about something is more the snack food of media criticism for me. it's fun and great in the moment and it absolutely is something i need to do regularly to feel normal. but i can't live off it. i need to experience genuine appreciation and esteem on a regular basis too, or i shrivel like a raisin. (expressed more seriously: the kind of critique i find actually nourishing in the sense that it allows me to refine what kind of art i would like to make, and what makes me tick as a human being, is the positive kind about media i love very much for being excellent.)

idk guys. is it just that i'm autistic and therefore discussing for the nth time why xyz rules never stops being entertaining? what am i missing here. maybe it's good when media is good?

#my best friend and i did a thing last year where over the course of several months we got wizard high every couple weekends #and attempted to replay a game together that we were both obsessed with when we were younger #and we were both already aware that it was an incredible piece of art #and we had countless conversations about that #so at the start we mainly treated it as a joke like 'haha lets see if we unlock any new diagnoses' etc #but the most wonderful part of that project was realizing progressively that there was in fact So Much to love we hadn't even realized yet #that this thing we adored as teens/young adults does in fact not only hold up but is even better than we were aware of at the time #and how much of a difference our additional life experience made and how many things we only realized on this playthrough together #and it's the most fun i've ever had analyzing a piece of media and taking it apart from top to bottom in my life #and almost all of that was entirely positive. like. we had negative stuff to say too ofc lol. but not nearly as much. #anyway #highly recommend doing this with your formative media of choice that a friend and you were both independently obsessed with #txt

[mumbledramblings]

How old do y'all think Stampede!Wolfwood is?

We know he was forced to grow up physically (and emotionally) very quickly, and is probably younger than he appears/pretends to be, but how old do you think he really is?

Personally, I like to headcanon that he tells everyone he's either 26 or 33-years-old (depending on what's most convenient) (most people do not believe him when he claims he's 33). However, he doesn't remember his real age beyond a vague understanding he's somewhere between 19 and 21-years-old by the time the events of Stampede happen. (The flashback scene with his confrontation with the rogue Eye of Michael seems to imply that he's been running around as the Punisher for a little bit.) I imagine he'd be closer to 20 or 21, but he isn't confident enough to be sure.

What do y'all think? Is he older? Younger? I'm curious.

#trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #nicholas d. wolfwood #nicholas d wolfwood #wolfwood #mid writes #yes his potentially young age is part of the reason i see him as a lonely frat boy #he's baby #and he hates it #so he's desperate to be seen as Not A Baby #he's in this horrible purgatory of neither fully adult nor truly adolescent #and he wants OUT #it's like the last year of highschool if it started WAYY too early and stretched on for WAYYY too long

[haveyoureadthispoll]

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

#polls #book: last night at the telegraph club #author: malinda lo #genre: romance #genre: lgbt #genre: historical fiction #genre: young adult #year: 2020s

[akkivee]

surely it’s not too late for kikoku to use his technology to like………. do just that??????

open up a chill vibes restaurant named ‘chiaroscuro’ where its chains are food stalls all over japan serving whatever the heck the chef feels like, and they’re all run by akira and satoru’s drone clones????? like it’s still possible right??????

#this is vee speaking #hypanispoilers #kikoku destroys the glass apparatus that was containing their data ig???? #like it looked like a neural network so that’s what i assume was processing and building chiaro and scuro #but it’s not like all that data got wiped just because they destroyed the server room right????? #it’ll probably take another two years but kikoku can rebuild them!!!!!! and repurpose them so they can run a restaurant!!!!!!!! #if they can interact with microphones and cars and physical stuff then they can cook and serve!!!!!!! #build a restaurant empire kikoku!!!!!!!!!!!!! make their legacy last far beyond everyone’s lives!!!!!!!! it can’t be too late right?????? #also akira was one hell of a romantic lol a restaurant where young adults can talk about their romance???? #no wonder chiaro told scuro they’ll always be together romance is in his dna 🥺🥺🥺

[luvsavos]

random vent(?) in the tags, feel free to ignore i just have a lot of pent up emotions to get out today apparently

#mar.txt #it's weird being aro(?) and yet also longing for a relationship. maybe its just bc almost all of my friends are in one #maybe it's bc of how easily jealous i get #maybe its the fact that i'm constantly being reminded that i am nobody's most important person. there's always someone more important. #maybe it's just the all-consuming，gaping hole of loneliness within me #idk. #i don't even know if i AM actually aro or if i'm just so demi that i may as well be aro or if ive just had so many bad experiences that it #feels impossible for me to feel romantic attraction #a few of my ocs (shara and the alatreon) are how i think i'd describe myself; aro，but willing to be in a relationship provided the other #person isn't bothered by them being aro，bc they have their own equivalent to romantic feelings #i know i'll never have one though. for all my confidence and whatnot i still very much am insecure about my own loveability. because the #only thing life has shown me is that i very much am not loveable. all the way back in first grade ppl were already using me instead of #actually caring #'dating' me to make someone else jealous. so they could have a drug buddie. a fuck buddie. so they could try to manipulate me into things #because i was a young teenager desperate for validation and to feel like i mattered and belonged and they were nearly adults who knew they #could exploit that. i'm surprised i never had anything happen to me beyond being pressured into trying chew tobacco (awful and disgusting) #and doing it every time i was around my 'boyfriend' and his friends #the only two genuine relationships i had didn't last either; one lost feelings after three years and the other just sorta stopped talking to #me and iirc eventually picked up a boyfriend that was actually local instead of long distance #i am not worthy of love. i will never be loved in the way that my friends are. hell i won't ever even find a qpp(?). and that makes me sad. #to know i will always be alone. that i'm destined to die alone. but it is what it is i guess. i just wish it didn't bother me so much. #i wish i could be content in my loneliness and not be jealous of everyone around me. i wish i could accept that i will never be anybody's #most important person. that the only person i can or will ever be the most important to is myself. self love，yeah? ha. #maybe 2024 will have something in store for me. god i hope it does. but i doubt it will. more of my friends will get into relationships， #those already in them will stay in them and/or take a step forward in their relationship. and i will remain alone. just as i always have. #anyways. sorry vent over i'm just. ugh. upset today. emotions are stupid and i want a refund on them. i did not ask to be saddled with the #burden of feeling such intense，suffocating displacement and loneliness. i did not ask to feel these negative emotions so strongly. #i just want to be someone's most important person. i just want to matter.

[themonsterunderthebed]

guys it's time we all talked about your use of the words "young" and "old"

you seem to think. that this is a binary. a person is either young. or a person is old. i am here to give you the joyful news that there is a whole swath of time - the majority of your life, even - where you are no longer young but are also not yet old. something in the middle, so to speak. a..... middle age.........

but seriously the reaction to people calling a 38 year old (which is ridiculous) does not need to be insisting that 38 year old is young (ridiculous in the other direction). like. they're not. sorry. they are nowhere near old but they are no spring daisy anymore either

in summary life does not exist on a strict binary where you are Young until one day a switch flips and you are Old and perhaps it is a minor quibble but i think it would do people good to realize and recognize that

#age discourse #am i gonna regret that tag? probably #i'm in my late 20s. i don't consider myself particularly young anymore #when i consider the amount of life i've lived and experiences i've had and maturity i've gained in the last 5 years or so #it feels like doing myself a disservice and discounting all that growth to group myself with people who are just starting out on that path #like yeah i'm not old or even middle aged but friend i don't think i'm a young adult anymore either. and that is so okay #i don't need to be Young(TM) i'm happy just existing along the axis of maturity+experience inching my way along #without needing a specific word for where i'm at right at this moment #themonster

[layla-carstairs]

okay something that's been bothering me for some time is that Cordelia was born in 1885, the same year as Thomas. and like Thomas, that should mean she's eighteen in tlh, which takes place entirely in 1903. but she's 17 in ChoG (I think??) which is fine, since her birthday could just be in the later part of the year. but she never has a birthday, never once is it mentioned Cordelia, the main character, turned 18 and therefore reached the age of majority (which would have been relevant in choi when Thomas was patrolling alone for example). but chot ends at the end of 1903 so even if her birthday is the 31st of December she still shouldve turned eighteen.

and the reason this is important is shadowhunters can only become parabatai in childhood aka before the age of eighteen. but Cordelia & Lucie's parabatai ceremony happens in March (?) 1904 and Cordelia definitely should've aged out by then... Also if you look on the wiki it does say the cut off is nineteen but that's wrong, in the codex it says eighteen & I trust that more tbh

#also travel years are only things 18+ shadowhunters are able to go on #like it's a young adult thing were you go on patrols & see the world etc. #and Alastair met Charles on his travel year to Paris meaning they've known each other for a year max 😐 #like there's quotes where they mention years.... what years Alastair just turned 19 #ALSO Charles got engaged to Ariadne in 1901!!! #before he went to Paris!!! #anyway I need to stop #moral of the story is cc wouldn't know what a timeline is if it hit her on the head #actually wtf was Thomas doing in Paris in 1902 anyway. he wouldve just been 17. #also at the beginning of chog they mention he was gone 9(?) months and just got back but it's like... August #none of this makes sense it hurts my head #alastair carstairs #cordelia carstairs #thomas lightwood #cassandra clare #the last hours #chain of gold #chain of iron #chain of thorns #is this spoilers? #chain of thorns spoilers #cot spoilers #chot spoilers #the shadowhunter chronicles

[shaxxophone]

Hey heres a question for my folks born between 1995-1999, my Zillennials

Feel free to put the year you were born or the reasons for your choice in the tags!!!

#millennial #millennials #gen z #generation z #yesterday i had a convo with one of my fellow cusper co-workers #and like #we both feel like children around millennials #but adults around gen z #i went to a concert for a band I loved the other day #and the band members were all FIRMLY millennials #and they were talking about how young their audiance was there last night….which was mostly the tail end of gen z #it just felt so surreal #and i realized i really did not fit in with either group #but if i had to CHOOSE which I will with this poll #i feel like i identify far more as a millennial #even though 1997 is often regarded as the first year of gen z

[a-yaos-little-murder-beans]

So, apparently I am the Jiggy of a Sweet Paradise Cosplay Group now.

#I am very excited for this cosplay #starting to sew this right after the first con of the year #at least that is the plan #and also jiggy gets new fancier donghua robes #prob will also make hensheng #though I am not sure if I will make ir floppy or not #it's a soft sword after all #akikos shitpost #cosplay #jgy #jin guangyao #late night shitposting #so much to sew until the big summer conventions #and I can't start yet bc I have no money lol #luckily that's going to change in February #2024 is jiggy cosplay year #or trying to get better pics of him bc the last time the weather was against it #young jiggy #adult jiggy #and wen yao are planned #and sweet paradise jiggy too now

[area51-escapee]

YOU hate booktok books because you can’t conceptualize what a fantasy is and think these readers need therapy and professional help for enjoying dark topics in explicit material even though it takes exactly .2 seconds to understand the difference between something that is interesting and exciting in fiction and something that would be deeply unpleasant in real life. I hate booktok books because they all feel like overhyped copy and pastes of one another, the amount of bigotry that goes unchecked in these stories is astounding, and I also get tired of this attitude that if something isn’t 🔥spicy🔥 it’s boring and not worth reading. We are not the same.

#I am a hater through and through and mostly through the booktube community #I LOVE hearing slander on booktok books and authors #but people are forever like. appalled and horrified and disgusted that. adult women have fantasies #like bro I think this book is shit too. I don’t think the 34 year old office worker reading this wants an ACTUAL man to act like that #but fictional fantasies are fine because it’s not actually going to harm her #I specify women because I see this kind of thing most used against women reading these books #like people act like they’re stupid and brainless and saying they WANT to be abused #do you. do you know what a fantasy is #or a common one I hear is #‘what if a CHILD read this??? this would seriously damage a young girl!!!!!’ #and the book in question is full of hardcore smut between grown adults by a grown adult for grown adults #like I was a teenager once I know we read shit we shouldn’t have #but as an adult author it is not my job to monitor other people’s children #and to be clear on that last point I don’t think there is anything wrong with reading purely for entertainment and enjoyment #and if you need smut in your fiction to enjoy it that’s fine #but I hate that it has to be a selling point in everything #I don’t care about these characters enough I’m not reading any smut of them #I read one (1) extreme horror book that had been hyped up by booktok people #it was okay. #there were some things in it I liked #some things I didn’t #but people were making it out to be the most disturbing and gruesome thing ever #and while I would by no means suggest it to anybody who isn’t comfortable with the subject matter #as someone who expected horrible and gruesome it was just. okay #it felt like a case of people being extra shocked and appalled #because they forget that main character does not equal Good Guy #so I didn’t find his actions particularly shocking. I just thought he sucked akdjahdkdk

[pepprs]

definitely not an original thought but so many submissions on the aita tumblr aregenuinely so depressing. like “aita for not coming out to my parents when they have repeatedly demonstrated that doing so would be unsafe” “aita for standing up for myself in an abusive relationship” “aita for having a critical thought about someone who was cruel to me” good god.

#purrs #relatedly… and not to say this but. i truly truly truly think it is sickening how many ppl have emotionally unavailable / abusive / whatever #parents like how did this happen to so many of us. i think that’s the reason that we think things like this are our fault. because fucking #ADULTS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO NURTURE AND TAKE CARE OF US made US take care of THEM. it’s that meme about having beef with a 5 year old but its #so unfunny in this context like. why are you forcing your child to be someone they are not or sacrifice their identity / desires / whatever #so YOU can feel good about yourself. as if that does not do devastating lasting psychological damage to a young person lol. #this is why with every day that goes by i think more and more that iprobably shoudl not have kids. i wanted to so bad a few yrs ago but it’s #like… god. even if i tried my absolute hardest to not emotionally harm a child like that i do not want to risk making eben the smallest #mistake. i don’t want to subject someone who didn’t even ask for it to a lifetime of feeling like this. lolllll #delete later #<- in part bc im abt to go practice drivin GB for the 3rd time so my thoughts aren’t clear rn imjust mad about this. #like… kids are YOUNG! they don’t have emotional.. whatever it is to shoulder their own emotions and then a whole ADULT’S. and it’s so sosick #the way that so many kids have had to and STILL have to. and how it’s a cycle and all that. and the only way to break it is not having kids! #* sometimes more than one adult’s not to mention other kids in some situations. like good god. it’s so so so sick. #ask to tag

[kxllerblond]

reading book? too much effort. sitting down and writing replies?? can't focus.

youtube rabbit hole of in-depth Barbie history and architectural design of dream houses and playsets? i got all da focus in da world baybeee!

#barbie has always been an Interest especially in adult years since i more or less refrained from being #a hardcore barbie enjoyer because ykno not to gender talk on a tues but i rejected just about everything typically femme because i did not #want to be seen as femme or fully femme from a young age #so even if i really liked barbies i distanced myself from them pretty fast :'( #so now i think im compensating by like. instead of buying them for myself because i dont really want to collect. i just like lmao #obsessively info dive and watch commercial compilations and shit kdjfgdg #anyway did you know barbie has two younger siblings besides her main three that were actually her youngest ones #tutti and todd and they havent been seen since the late 90s? like theyre recognized in terms of history but in terms of #barbie lore and canon theyve been completely retconned out cuz theyve never shown up in sets or movies or anything #did you also know they were made of a bendable soft plastic as opposed to hard and the wires were prone to poking through and stabbing kids #and that the plastic stored like shit and if you put them (soft plastic) on your other dolls (hard) they would literally #melt into each other?? :) #barbie also has lots of cousins just got mentioned briefly and then annihilated from technical canon lol #oooh and then there's also Blaine who is an ex bf of barbie that was made specifically to date her briefly during a sort of campaign #barbie broke up with ken and got with blaine but ofc she got back with ken and after that blaine was never seen nor mentioned again. he deA #anyway happy tuesday im gonna eat my soup and try and break out of this info consuming trance so i can wrITE #oHOH and last silly trivia being barbie has lots of canon relatives that havent been retconned or anything BUT they've also never been made #into dolls. off the top of my head i think some of these include like uhhh her mom and dad and some aunts and shit #tho i think these are either just mentioned in passing or from the barbie movies or some in books

[terrainofheartfelt]

that bit in gilmore girls after luke hires lane at the diner and they're like "having help is stressing him out"

that's me when i have too many student workers to manage.

#sometime in the last ten years universities now have this bullshit capitalist idea #that when students are on the clock they must be working on work things the entire goddamn time #but back in MY day I did so much homework/nonsense at my student library job #but now i like. have to find ways to keep these young adults busy? #i got my own stuff to do!

[aidenwaites]

I want you to imagine The Bear but instead of an Italian sandwich restaurant in Chicago it's a fishcamp in nascar country. Now you know exactly how I grew up

#one time last year i showed up to work like two hours before opening #and i walked into the middle of a fight bc a woman (who's worked there for as long as i can remember) showed up late and drunk #and she talked a big game about quitting and after she stormed out and got a ride home my dad talked a big game about firing her #and then neither of those things happened she just showed back up again the next day #my cousins have gotten into physical fights back there everyone's always talking shit #the only thing The Bear is missing is the teenage to young adults that make up hald the wait staff that always have their own interpersonal #drama #half*