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x4c0ld-hvnds4x · 4 months

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Obscure PBS Kids Shows (Sagwa: The Chinese Siamese Cat, Cyberchase, Between the Lions, Maya & Miguel, George Shrinks, Zoboomafoo)

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cptsd-kitsune · 7 days

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#my edit #lost childhood #traumacore #ventcore #vent art #actually ptsd

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starlonga · 5 months

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#nostalgia #nostalgiacore #childhood #lost childhood #dreams #teenage years #longing #yearning #divorce core #quotes #small town america #teencore #weirdcore #dreamcore #wandering #feeling lost #childhood loneliness #teenage loneliness

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germtimes · 3 months

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Some people have this weird (and sad) mentality that when you turn into a "real adult" (usually 20), that suddenly fun stops and life gets dull and every day is the same.

You won't have to suffer the constant stress turmoils of exams (unless you go back to school), you might work the same job for a while cuz now you're skilled and have been there, some friends will go and the best ones will stay close.

You can still have fun, even without the emotional roller coaster of pubescent hormones. It just takes time to readjust your view. As a kid adults have no fun, they are boring and lazy and lame and work all the time.

But that's not the case. There are so many things you can do as an adult you did as a kid. You can still sing and dance, make silly jokes and randomly scream at the playground. It's not weird, it's not cringe, it's humanity. You would never shame an older dog for playing with puppies, so why shame yourself for wanting to play catch or swing on the swings.

20 isn't old. You're a baby adult, even less than that. One age doesn't suddenly change your entire personality. It hurts to let go of being a teenager, but you will never stop being that teenager. You'll just become so much more.

So to all people (including my own bf) who are entering their 20s this year, or maybe even their 30s, you are still young you still have a huge life ahead of you!

It's gonna be exciting, hope to see you there.

#long post #growing up #nostalgia #childhood #lost childhood

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eccedentesiast-skies · 3 months

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Learning to grieve aspects of yourself once believed would be apart of you forever, is one of the scariest yet most enlightening experiences.

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cassemiah · 10 days

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A picture of a purple flower pretty in it's simplicity and unknowingly blunt in it's nostalgic delivery.

Suddenly I wasn't looking at a badly lit computer screen, I was on my knees beside a bright green mailbox plucking the first purple of spring to rush inside to my mom.

I'm going to plant these.

I'm not quite sure yet if I'll have to find bulbs or learn to keep seeds alive long enough they can be left alone.

But I can never get back, that green mailbox and those too short limbs nestled in the muddy grass.

I can plant these.

Pretty purple flowers that show up after the winter just to let me know everything is gonna be alright.

#nostalgia #childhood #lost childhood #poetry #spilled poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #spilled words #spilled emotions #poem

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angelunderheaven · 6 months

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but I feel like I still know nothing 'bout the world

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likeadragonfruit · 2 years

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The end of Avatar: the Last Airbender presents an ending that’s framed very optimistically. Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai and didn’t have to compromise his ideals! Aang is a fully realized Avatar and theoretically capable of handling any threat! Zuko became the new Fire Lord and is committed not only ending the war but not restarting the war! The Gaang all gets together later still, and Mai is included now too! (But not Ty Lee, and no, we won’t be answering why.)

But in doing so, the finale skips over the tragedy it set up. At the very least, Aang and Zuko aren’t getting to be kids again. (Though, Katara, Sokka and Toph getting theirs back aren’t guaranteed either.)

Katara and Sokka can go home. Hakoda and the rest of the men who went war are coming home. It might not be perfect, but they have a possibility of reclaiming something of their remaining time as children, or more accurately their remaining adolescence.

Toph can also go home and try to work things out with her parents. Her situation is a bit different since she left home to get away from their desire to keep her under lock and key. And with parenting like that, who knows how well any attempt at renegotiating what her adolescence with them would look like would go.

But Zuko? Zuko gets saddled with an impossible task of deradicalizing the Fire Nation to prevent another war. He’s been banished without any of the education in statecraft he’d need to run a country.

He needs someone older and more experienced who, even if they didn’t rule as his regent, would at least be present as an advisor. What Zuko got was Iroh retiring to the other side of the map and leaving him to figure things out on his own.

And then there’s Aang. He, more than any other member of the Gaang is the least likely to get his childhood back. He already lost almost everyone he knew to a genocide, then to cryostasis time travel. He had saving the world thrust upon through the cruelty of destiny. But who is going to look at him and say “just let him be a kid again?” After all, he’s the Avatar! A fully realized Avatar! He can handle it, right?

Also unfortunately for Aang, even though he never wanted to be the Avatar, he got several lessons in how he can’t ignore his duties. I doubt that will incline him more to seeking out a work destiny-life balance.

Again, I understand wanting to end on a more upbeat note and there’s nothing wrong with wanting happy endings. But it’s something that if it wasn’t covered in the finale, it would’ve made decent material for a hypothetical book 4. After all, the very nature of children as your main cast in a war-torn setting is to show how war affects childhood. And just because a war ends doesn’t mean things go back to the Way They Should Be instantly, or ever.

#aang #zuko #lost childhood #I fully admit that an Ocarina of Time post inspired this #this post focused primarily on the Gaang #whether Suki and the other Kyoshi Warriors #or the dangerous ladies fare any better is another thing #and yes this analysis isn’t factoring in the comics #dragonfruit’s oc

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averwonders · 2 years

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how long should i wait? later is too late.

Navillera (2021) Episode 5

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Tom Stoppard, SHIPWRECK: THE COAST OF UTOPIA Part II

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Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) Episode 9: The Pied Piper

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N.O by BTS 방탄소년단 (trans. doolsetbangtan)

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Eileen Caddy

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Makarand Kaprekar, To Race Or Not to Race, That is the Question

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“The reality is: there will always be more work. From our jobs and owning businesses, to being a manager of our families and our homes - there will always be more work. It never goes away. We never escape from the responsibilities that life presents us. But one of our main responsibilities should be ourselves, after all, there's only one of us anyway.”

Vanessa Autrey, The Art of Balancing Burnout

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[Verse 4]

I used to think I'd be done by twenty

Now at twenty-nine, the road ahead appears the same

Though maybe at thirty, I'll see a way to change

That I'm living for the knife

Working for the knife by Mitski

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cutout from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 17, 1988

Class of 2013 by Mitski

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vodkacranberry · 2 months

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#mine #lost childhood #2000s nostalgia #childhood nostalgia #abandoned #abandoned core

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x4c0ld-hvnds4x · 4 months

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Obscure Treehouse Shows (Dragon, Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends, Zigby, Little Bear, Angelina Ballerina, The Mole Sisters)

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cptsd-kitsune · 4 months

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Blythe Baird - If My Body Could Speak // Di Brandt - Questions I Asked My Mother

#mothers #abusive mothers #my edit #words #di brandt #blythe baird #toxic family #lost childhood #alone #web weaving #mother #poetry #poems and poetry #abuse #neglect #trauma

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starlonga · 5 months

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My childhood was normal! Bleak! Dull! Boring!

No! I don’t want to go back. Not because it was painful and horrible.

No! Because I know it could have been so special. So magical and fantastic. So full of light. I am longing for the unachievable. Something I’ve heard people talk about. Something I’ve read about in the great works of literature, seen in the movies; something I’ve felt during those late nights alone.

Something which, in essence, cannot exist.

#childhood #nostalgia #impossible longing #nostalgiacore #childhood loneliness #lost childhood #childhood memories #sad nostalgia #divorce core #quotes #small town america #teencore #weirdcore #dreamcore #wandering #longing

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thatautisticlesbian · 9 months

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i speak for the little girl who was told to man up

#trans #inner child #lost childhood

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stillhealinghere · 7 months

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A small cathartic project.

Remember, greif isn't just for mourning the dead.

#catharsis #greif #greiving #loss #adulting #lost childhood #lost love #lost loved ones

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varolianenigma · 1 month

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I'm not a Britney stan but I feel bad that she never got to experience herself as a person in her most formative years. Everything she did was because someone was making money out of it or losing money by not doing it. While she is a sexual person i think she should be able to find herself outside of that.

To dance in the rain not because someone is watching but because your spirit calls you to it.

#britney spears #its britney bitch #lost childhood #sorry for being depressing #trauma

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