#rip childhood

[yoohoosara]

the world you were born into no longer exists

#nostalgic #nostalgia #toys r us #the past #the past is dead #dead past #past #toys #aesthetic #nostalgiacore #childhood #rip childhood #adulthood #grow up #grown up

[hotstreak2k3]

Got some unfortunate and sad news to any fans of the Power Rangers: It’s confirmed that Jason David Frank have passed away in suicide.

First kevin Conroy and now JFD? These are the darkest days for any 90’s kid like me. Tommy Oliver/Green Ranger has given me a strong influence of my childhood. 😢 💔

RIP Jason David Frank💚 You’re the most definitive Green Ranger. May you and Thuy Trang(Trini/Yellow Ranger) keep kicking Rita Repulsa’s butt elsewhere in heaven. And may the power protect you! ⚡🕊

#jason david frank #power rangers #mighty morphin power rangers #MMPR #tommy oliver #green ranger #JDF #RIP Jason David Frank #90’s tv shows #90’s nostalgia #rip childhood #this cant be happening #november 2022

[mindymav420]

what a sad time to be alive, to watch your childhood die

#rip choco taco #you will be missed #rip childhood #choco taco #ice cream #nostalgia #early 2000s nostalgia #90s nostalgia #nostalgic #y2k #y2k aesthetic #klondike #lol memes #girls who smoke #cannababes #weedlovers #cannablr #stoner #420 #cannabis #weed #marijuana #rest in peace #sad boy hours #cute food #tacos #taco lover #food lover #inner child #80s

[maria-tries-to-write]

I FINALLY finished watching Adventure Time and my heart is aching! Like, I can’t accept it is indeed over! It feels like my childhood is dead. I remember when I was just a little kid and I would happily lay down on the sofa to watch the new episodes…

Sorry guys, it’s just my existencial crisis hitting really hard! Like, damn! I’m so fucking old, I’m crying over a cartoon that has ended YEARS ago!

#always forgetting the damn tags #adventure time #I’m crying #existencial crisis #I’m no longer a kid #rip childhood #me

[champagnexowishes]

RIP Matthew Perry

No one else could’ve played Chandler Bing🩵

#friends #matthew perry #chandler bing #chandler #ms chanandler bong #rip #childhood #fav shows #champagnexowishes #love #comedy #angel #f.r.i.e.n.d.s

[multifandominfj]

He gave me Hope that the remaining 5% of men were worth not giving up on love.

#matthew perry #chandler bing #chanandler bong #f.r.i.e.n.d.s #FRIENDS #i’ll be there for you #rip #my childhood

[489292]

Kinda close to my home as a kid there used to be THE BEST ramen shop ever. The door was gated and painted black. It was kind of hidden in a corner and there where no signs or windows showing that it was, in fact, a restaurant. But they had the best tasting ramen ever. I was in love with that place. The lighting was always dim and walls and roof where covered head to toe with this giant aya takano mural. It was the most elaborate mural I’ve ever seen. I would always find knew details the more I stated it felt like I was in a new dimension.

I remember asking one of the workers if they painted the mural and they where like no an artist flew in to pain this which blew my mind. AN ARTIST FLEW IN TO PAKKN AT THIS HELLA OBSCURE RESTAURANT IN KY NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!

Anyways one day it was just closed never opened again. My mom told me the place got shot up or there was some sort of gun violence Involved around there.

#aya takano #rip childhood

[docgold13]

Rest in Peace to the great Carl Weathers

#Carl Weathers #rip #Action Jackson was a childhood favorite

[karlrincon]

Matthew Perry, you're always in our hearts 🤍

F.r.i.e.n.d.s always.

Thank you for giving us Chandler Bing💔🕊️

#rip #Matthew Perry #childhood #memories #love #amazing #photography #art #tumblr #friends #tv #actor #series #chandler bing #chandler #courtney cox #jennifer aniston #lisa kudrow #david schwimmer #matt leblanc #f.r.i.e.n.d.s #nbc #television #show #video #rest in peace #black and white #photo #rachel #phoebe

[not-so-rosyyy]

Dumbledore now reuniting with Snape and Hagrid on the other side. OH....MY CHEST...

#RIP to these legends #thank you for being part of my childhood #harry potter #michael gambon #albus dumbledore #severus snape #alan rickman #rubeus hagrid #robbie coltrane #WANDS UP!!! #this is very millennial of me and idc

[mischiefmaverick]

We lost another legendary creator

RIP Akira Toriyama

#rip #akira toriyama #thank you for being a part of my childhood #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dragon quest #blue dragon #chrono trigger

[blue-mood-blue]

I’ve grown to appreciate the aus where Shen Yuan enters the story as “Shen Yuan” - same name, probably similar face, generally able to interact with PIDW as himself and change the story through his added presence. I like the sense of “if only you’d been here, things might have been better the first time around” of it all.

And I was thinking, it’s a funny coincidence in that scenario that someone named Shen Yuan gets put into… another Shen Yuan. What are the chances? What a weird twist of fate that Airplane would pick out the name that his most dedicated critic could slip into seamlessly.

What about a version where it’s not coincidence at all?

Airplane goes to school with a kid named Shen Yuan. He’s prickly and hard to approach and a little intense, but Airplane is persistent. In fairness, Airplane is relentless - and maybe it’s a good thing that they end up being friends, because they’re a little too much for anyone else to handle. They balance each other out. They’re the “weird kids” in class and they’re okay with that, because even when they don’t have any words for it, they know they’re not like their classmates, not really. That’s okay; they don’t want to be.

Recesses and breaks are consumed with the elaborate stories that Airplane wants to tell, and all the holes Shen Yuan pokes into them. It’s not mean-spirited, though, even though Shen Yuan isn’t the kind to temper his words. It’s passionate. He cares about those stories the way Airplane cares about them, and it can’t be mistaken for anything else when they lean together conspiratorially across the lunchroom table. They’ve both got notebooks filled with details and characters and monsters. Shen Yuan’s practically got a whole bestiary sketched out in wobbly childhood attempts at art, entries fervently scrawled beside them. Airplane prattles out plots nonstop, always with the promise of shining eyes and being asked “what happens next?”

They come up with a whole world together. Airplane’s going to write about it someday. Shen Yuan is going to read every word.

Shen Yuan misses school. Shen Yuan starts missing school a lot.

Airplane goes to the hospital room instead. He doesn’t think to worry, because Shen Yuan is okay - that’s what he says. He looks okay, and he’s a kid, and it doesn’t feel real that anything bad should happen to a kid. He doesn’t think to worry. He doesn’t think to say goodbye.

It’s one of the older Shen brothers who catches him on the way up to the room one day, in the hallway just outside - snaps at him to go the fuck home, and when Airplane hesitates, pushes him into the elevator and tells him not to come back. “Tells” is a generous way to describe the way the words come out - a growl, a hiss, the sound an animal would make when a hand got too close to a wound.

(It’s not fair to name a villain after him, even if the name never really comes up in the story. He wasn’t trying to be mean. He’d lost a brother minutes before, and he was getting his brother’s friend out of the way so he didn’t have to… see. It isn’t fair, but then, none of it is fair.)

Death feels very real after that.

The notebooks get shoved into a closet, and it’s not until Airplane’s moving out and one falls on him from a high shelf that he thinks about it again. He’s written things, lots of things, but nothing as ambitious as this - nothing as important. It could be good, he considers. He’d promised. Shen Yuan wanted to read it.

The problem was that no one else does, not for a long time, not until Airplane has whittled himself and his art into a corner and into such an unfamiliar shape that he has to wonder how it’s still his own face he sees in the mirror. He has to eat. He has to pay rent. Shen Yuan would yell at him, but Shen Yuan isn’t there to yell at him, and who cares. Who cares if it could have been better? The people who actually are here love it, and it’s paying his bills, and sometimes stories don’t go the way they’re supposed to and the world is fucking unfair. It doesn’t matter.

(It does. But he shoves that thought away along with styrofoam cups and soda bottles to the bottom of a garbage bag.)

Authors are not gods and their power is limited, but Airplane exercises just a sliver of what he’s been granted and gifts an inconsequential sort of immortality. He thinks about making him a rogue cultivator, maybe the kind that goes around documenting beasts and compiling his findings. He thinks about making him someone too powerful for death to touch, or too important to threaten, but when Airplane looks at the world he crafted and everything that’s become of it, it feels like the kindest thing he can do for Shen Yuan is a childhood where he’s loved, and a death that’s peaceful. What does it say about that world, that he’d kill off his best friend too early again instead of making him live there?

(The best writing he ever does is the only, shining moment of humanity that his scum villain ever displays: a lament about death that comes too early, about a brother gone too soon. The commenters praise him. The commenters flatter over how real the emotions feel. The commenters don’t get any response from Airplane on that chapter.)

Death is incredibly real when it comes for him too early, too, still hovering over his keyboard with the story technically finished and incredibly incomplete. Airplane could tell himself that’s because the written version can never be the version in the writer’s head, always shifting and with every possibility still on the table, but he knows better than that. The System knows better than that, with its condescending message about “improving” his writing and “closing plot holes” and “achieving his original vision”...

…and he’s a child again. He’s a child in his own story, he’s Shang Qinghua now without the benefit yet of a peak or cultivation or anything, and maybe he’s a little bitter, and a little scared, and…

And Shen Yuan - with longer hair, with robes, with a couple of older kids watching him from across the street, but undeniably the prickly little boy who used to sit down imperiously across from him and tell him everything that was wrong with the chuck of writing that had been handed to him last period, but with that smile that said he was only invested because he knew it could be better and they were going to make it better - marches up to him with a fire in his eyes and a frown that warns of a coming tirade.

“You told it wrong,” is the first thing he says.

Shang Qinghua wants to ask how him how he’s here, how this is possible, or maybe laugh because, yeah - yeah, Shen Yuan has no goddamn idea how wrong he got absolutely everything.

(Shang Qinghua wants to say “I missed you” and “why did you leave so soon” but he’s here now. He’s right here.)

“I know,” he says instead. “I’m sorry. It all kind of… spiraled out of control.”

Shen Yuan frowns, but then it dissipates the way it always does, and his eyes shine with ideas the way they always used to. “That’s okay,” he relents, grabbing for his hand. “We’ll fix it. We’ll make it what it was supposed to be.”

#scum villain self saving system #svsss #shang qinghua #shen yuan #airplane shooting towards the sky #this got more into the feelings than i thought it would #surprising no one #anyway just! childhood friends au! as a reason for a shen yuan insert! #obviously he is not going to die as a child in this version #shang qinghua would not have that nope not again #also pls consider poor shen jiu who looks at this child that shen yuan has picked out for a best friend like '...really? that one??' #(it's up to you if he's shen yuan's actual brother from his first life) #(put there's a part of me that likes the idea that shen jiu also gets a second chance to spend more time with his brother) #a second chance for them to grow up together! #THAT SAID #RIP TO SHANG QINGHUA #WHEN SHEN YUAN IS OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT ALL THE PAPAPA #the LOOKS shang qinghua is going to get #anyway here have a thing because I CANNOT add another au to my drafts thank you and goodbyyyyye

[introspectivememories]

the funniest possible thing that could happen is if mercedes keeps hiring childhood best friends for their team and everybody's holding their breath waiting for them to tear each other apart like brocedes except it doesn't happen bc everyone else is normal about each other and brocedes is just that fucked up that they would've torn each other apart even if they were on different teams

#i like to think that in this hc both nico and lewis were waiting for the new team to tear each other apart just so they could feel like what #happened to them was an inevitability. except the new team doesn't tear each other apart and now they have to deal with the fact it was #their faults. not competing for the championship or the stress of being on the same team but just them. ripping each other apart for even #the slightest advantage. just them digging their fingers into the rotting carcass of their childhood friendship to hit each other where it #hurts. just them cannibalizing their childhood dream for even the most miniscule chance of beating each other. and what do you do then? #when the reason your friendship fell apart is bc you two couldn't put each other before the trophy? and what do you do when you know that #you wouldn't be you if you chose each other? what then? maybe it was inevitable. maybe it was fate. #auugh i love the inevitability of tragedies!!! this all came bc ppl kept saying that albon in merc would be brocedes 2.0 and like no!!! no #will ever be brocedes 2!!! nobody has the drama or the ethos/pathos/logos to be brocedes 2.0!! you dont have the frosties or the dreams or #greece!!! you dont have greece!!! and more importantly!!! nico and lewis were /weird/ about each other!!! no 1 else on this grid is weird #about each other the way nico and lewis were/are!!! nobody else is obsessed with each other the way they were!!! #anyway breakdown over #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #brocedes #f1

[dogboy-mustaine]

The culprits

#i don’t think any of this is new but w/e #lars sure had an interesting childhood #..farm boi jason #fun fact! james says fuckin’ 24 fuckin’ times #f?!kin’ shit f?!k #metallica #jaymz #lars ulrich #kirk hammett #jason newsted #my scans #rip magazine

[champagnexowishes]

Could you BE any more of an angel?🤍

#friends #chandler #chandler bing #cutie pie #rip #childhood #cult classic #classic #tv show #shows #fav shows #champagnexowishes #love #collage #comedy #funny #matthew perry

[darcania]

For all of the flaws in X-Men Evolution there was a lot it did very well, and letting Wolverine be this grumpy father figure to most of the X-Men was one of them.

#yes it can be argued that most of his adaptations could be described this way #but i think evolution did this dynamic the best #in the 90s he had his moments too #but the tension with jean seemed to over shadow that #here he just got to be a dad with 30 quirky kids he didnt ask for but loves anyway #also don't mind me I'm just rewatching shows from my childhood rip #x men #xmen #xmen evolution #x-men #x men evolution #rogue #logan #wolverine