#the first one i heard in middle school

[tomfrogisblue]

WAIT I DIDNT REALISE HOW MUCH BETTER MY PORTUGUESE IS

I CAN UNDERSTAND FOREVER WITHOUT CAPTIONS

WHAT

IM SO HAPPY!!

#i wanna thank cellbit and the thousand hours of o segredo na floresta i finally made it through #maybe this isnt a lot to some but im so happy - i freaking learned a language i cant believe it #the first time i ever heard portuguese out loud was when the brazilians crashed the boat (i live in the middle of the pacific ocean lmao) #i couldn't learn any languages in school but an egg children minecraft server taught me one #qsmp #thanks quackity #now to learn spanish french and german mwahahahahaha

[thebobbiebrown]

I still cant get over today. A fight happened at my school 2 times in a row in just one day. like damn???

#b's txt #this is the first time i have ever seen a fight #1st fight happened at 7 in the morning and its like wtf?? #Its too early for that shit #i couldnt see what happened fully cuz everyone was crowding around and jumping on the tables n shit #but i saw a girl get swung at #And she started crying too☹️ #and then 3 hours later as lunch JUST begun--another fight broke out #everybody started crowding again #on the tables #but i saw the officers restraining some of the people and yelling theres a fight #shit was wild #And apparently the girl i use to take algebra with was apart of the fight?? #like girl go eat lunch #shit was crazy today #thats one way to end a friday ig #i heard a 3rd one happened #But cant be too sure cuz i only heard that from some random guy passing by outside #but jesuss #i always assumed fights happened the most in middle school #and rarely in high school #So this is a first #Especially at this school you rarely hear fights #the only time i knew a fight happened was at a soccer meeting #And another that went on the news but idk if it was the high school or the college #Shit might be even a different school #anyways im done yapping sorry

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

shoutout to that girl in elementary school who forced suggested we sing nine in the afternoon by panic! at the disco at my 5th grade spring concert.

not only were you onto something with pretty. odd., but you got baby gooze obsessed with that song for years even though they had never heard the actual panic! song.

#i LOVED that song all throughout middle school #and then heard it for the first time after i got into p!atd and absolutely lost my mind #that 6th grader in my elementary school choir: you’re a legend and a real one. #gooze’z zhitpoztz #pretty odd #pretty. odd. #p!atd #panic! #panic! at the disco #emo music #nine in the afternoon

[melodic-operator]

mcr has such a solidified legacy that i think i forgot how fucking weird danger days is. like as a concept

#this album is FUCKING BIZARRE #the fact of its existence is WEIRD #bullets. three cheers. black parade. three albums with markedly different but fairly cohesive vibes #many similar themes. similar sounds. #keep in mind i loved this band in middle school and saw NOTHING weird about danger days Being There #but i bought it on cd today and was listening to it in the car #after spending the last two weeks spinning three cheers nonstop #i swear to god the first time i heard a synth i nearly crashed into the median #this is not me clowning. i was bumping party poison like my car was on fire #but it's weird like i don't think we talk about how weird it is because it's just a thing that's there #i'm not an mcr historian like i am a fob historian so i can't speak to any reasoning here but i was so caught off guard by this album #despite it being one of my favorites for literal years when i was younger #anyway. weird album. weiiiird album

[hazardsoflove]

i think danger days is mcrs best album

#i say this as someone who heard anything from it for the first time like. last week #i saw a tiktok of this girl learning the bass for planetary (go) and i was like hold on….this fucking bangs #and so i added it to my likes and then later for my steddie fic i asked julie to make me a playlist of mcr songs eddie would go crazy on #the guitar to and they did and ive been listening to it and i heard na na na for the first time and i think like. thats the best song ever #the guitar goes fucking INSANE im obsessed with it #since then the mcr song in my likes have grown from 3 (wttbp teenagers and mama) to 14 #and all of those songs are either from tbp or danger days but the majority is danger days #if theres one thing abt me its that i love a concept album #also yeah ik its 2022 but i was too busy listening to indie music in middle school #i will say i LOVEEEE listening to bandom artists (fall out boy mcr) and having NO connection to any of the shit that happening in bandom #*happened #like i love fob and i love not being burdened by the lore <3 im better than everyone #icb its ppls least favorite according to julie. where is yalls taste #r.txt

[funshinebf]

i need to reread yotsuba&! so fuckinggg baddddd the last time i read it was in middle school on an illegal manga app i had on the family ipad that didnt even have all of the chapters. i have to try again

#my post #one of the first mangas i got into i think #my middle school's library had a small manga section #and it had a few volumes of tokyo mew mew as well as the first yotsuba&! volume #they were good :•3 #i read sooo many single volumes of stuff ive never heard of before. and still never seen anyone else mention anywhere #i dont even remember the names of most of them #i did the same with anime too tbh. i would just watch random stuff from crunchyroll's explore page #plus stuff my one anime friend recommended to me from youtube #shits crazy

[unproduciblesmackdown]

similar to the greentext stuff - i was visiting with my neighbors and their grandkids were around, and I said to this eight year old, "Hey, you wanna know something cool? I was playing the game when the Endermen came out." and his eyes went wide, like this kid looked like i told him i landed on the moon. His grandma thought it was really funny, and she said she has no idea what i'm talking about, but her grandbabies do, and that's incredible to her.

oh that's fun lmao, when minecraft & that update's existed for more than your whole life, and yknow being that young and like Next Year fr is this huge time scale away, a couple of years is a quarter of your life thus far and like maybe nigh half of the part of your life you actually have longterm memories for....i was checking out this dev's blog's archives about a:tdd's release in 2010 & in one entry they compared the implicitly Roughly concurrent release of Minecraft and i was like hey whoah. forever primarily being a game i've Heard Of more than any more direct exposure so i had no precise sense of [before minecraft release] [after minecraft release] Year 0 there but it's like for sure back in thee day when minecraft was a new thing, huh

#add in that [i also basically Heard Of mass effect but that's a game series w/a 2010 median which i had Any knowledge abt already] #so i have that reference point for a still like [niche video for When You've Played These Games For Sure] there but then like #if you were ten or even 5 yrs younger at the time you May Well Be much more at sea as your starting point there #(but i mean not that much; i didn't know a ton. reread those wikipedia plot summaries myself) #enderman came out? happy pride #shoutout to this one time i crossed paths w/this kid who was at the time probably like late middle school early high school age #who started talking abt pokemon like Clearly A Big Interest and i'm like my only Direct experience is playing pokemon go but i know Some #stuff b/c i was 5 in '99 when it was first making that huge splash lol. can make Some remarks....but also just Listening Attentively To You #Monologue like uh huh go off....i sure remember like the Sense of a couple yr's sagacity like being 9 i think reading a book abt 6th or 7th #graders (i.e. two or three yrs older) like My God They Must Be So Mature.... #and like ofc when skimming passages as an adult it's like omg l'enfants. Both Perspectives Being Accurate respectively lol #my vintage experiences like i've def saved things on the floppy discs of [save icons imagery]. have heard the dialup tones organically.... #but also; say; Home Computers That You Didn't Really Need To Know Much Abt Computers To Use were forever an everyday thing for me #having been born mid '90s....vs like in the '80s being nicher but also like. the programs to amateur code not being As Complex either #like [working on cars] of yore vs more modernly lmao....plus ofc in their designs; opening up a desktop Tower vs what? a tablet?? #ppl my age who had more substantial Online Access earlier than i did maybe having at least picked up some html; which i did not lol #also didn't have too much Gamer Experience ever; what i did largely desktop then laptop pc wasd+mouse style.... #didn't have a smartphone till maybe 5 yrs after they were starting to become more commonplace #vs that again to an 8 yr old of today [commonplacer smartphones] is your whole life basically too. i remember when we flipped those phones. #(i do fr lol. did have one of those first for a good while.) #granpa granpa....mh being fourteen yrs old meaning like the Teen Fans of Today were probably not watching it as it aired lol #whereas i Was that teen fan of those yesteryears. and all my stories for it like fuckin uhhhhhh [crickets chirping] [studio audience laugh] #though You Don't Need The Fans like mh is a long movie ppl can newly discover Whenever that holds up; plus it has bonus lore #mostly what i could even Possibly bring is just the particularly nicher older bonus lore. but like grandpa simpson (the simpsons) for sure #which is to say: humorously irrelevant & perhaps somewhat cantankerous #whilest i'm vaguely aware there may have also been that minecraft resurgence (esp through streaming?) from 2020 on.... #but evidently Like Mh something that continually revives / takes on New Fans / Participants #for sure i might well be playing some tf2 myself if i had the technical capability (i would have the poor personal ability i always did lol #real games of yore but it never gets old also. though i know Of Late there was a bot problem / just neglected maintenance? that get fixed? #These Have Been The Tag Tangents. maxed out thirty tags i know that's right

[ectonurites]

PUP and MoBo for the music thing

oooo okay for PUP I think I'm gonna go with Kids, I just love tht one forever and ever

and oh GOD trying to pick one MoBo song............. i'm gonna pick two bc im indecisive. Fine, Great because oh god tht song is so 'my younger self' that it hurts and Apple Cider, I Don't Mind because it always just scratches a particular itch in my brain

[send me a band/artist and i’ll tell you my favorite song by them]

#he first time i heard 'Fine Great' it was just the biggest gut punch because the. the situation of 'friend venting about getting #ditched by other people when they had ditched you in the first place to try to go hang out with those people' uhm. did in fact happen to me #like. about a year before tht song dropped/i heard it for the first time back in 2014. tht song just perfectly captures the dynamic btwn #me and one of my childhood best friends once we hit late middle school/early high school. and she moved away in 2013 so #like. when that song dropped it was all this Fresh and Recently Ended situation so. it was a lot to process for teenage me sdgfhggh #ask games

[boys-and-such]

sometimes i mayhaps would like a boyfriend

#so here is my life rn im going to explain using letters representing people instead of their names bc there are two people w the same name #a and b are dating and c and d are dating then band d cheat on their respective partners w each other and a and c want to date and they #find out abt the cheating so they all start dating - b c and d are in a play that i am in along with e and f #e and f are also dating - f is one of the only other trans people in the cast so we talked a lot and he said he thought he only liked girls #and was thinking about breaking up with e because he is also a trans guy #one day we were going home from rehearsal and f left then e and i were watching b c and d say bye to each other all loveydovey #and e said he wanted that and i said yeah me too and he mumbled something i couldn't hear and i was like 'yeah' bc i couldn't tell and he #said 'join me!' and held out his hand and i took it and boom we were holding hands (his skin was very soft in case you're wondering) and we #shared phone numbers and said that's like how he started dating f and i was like oh interesting and we left and i realised he was asking me #to date him and i was like okay free bf! two free bf! then he texted me and said f didn't want me in their relationship and oh. no free bfs #and then flash forward i was in the friend group with a b c and d and i made friends with a super controlling guy who didn't want me to be #friends w the friend group and only him and was all 'if you're friends w them that means you don't like me' and we were friends w benefits #so i ditched that friend group for him and he was mean to them and wanted me to be like that too so i was kinda rude to them #flash forward again i finally left the toxic guy wow i have no friends now i was in 1st yr high school but e was in last year middle school #i didnt talk to him much bc i was focused on school stuff and now this year e is in first year of hs and im in the second year and he's #hanging out w the old friend group and I noticed him even before i knew who he was and i was like oh that person seems really cool hm #wonder who he is hes friends with old friend group how interesting OH that is e he looks different but he looks cute and now i kinda want #to text him bc he's in one of my lunches and he was in student council on friday and we looked at each other and i waved hi but he didn't #wave back and now im worried hes heard that im mean bc the old friend group but i still like him bc we were really good friends but also #ive been thinking about what might have happened if we did start dating and i really want to text him but i only have him on snapchat bc id #what happened to his phone number but i don't have it anymore #i really want to talk to him but snapchat gives me anxiety and idk what he thinks of me now #but i really want to talk to him!!!!! #help #what #should #i #do #does looking at him count as flirting #zen is gay :]

[k1rishiki]

something abt realizing you're listening to someone sing for the last time really hits in an awful way

#so there's this girl who's a year above me and to say that she's good at singing is an understatement. if the goddess of song #herself were to appear in front of me or anyone who's ever heard a note come from her mouth and asked which one was more talented the only #appropriate answer would be that the goddess pales in comparison. i first heard her voice at the auditions for our middle school musical in #the sixth grade and i've been in shock and awe ever since. it's in the name of her voice that i decided i wanted to learn how to write musi #bc i cannot sing but wanted nothing more than some sort of reason to stand next to her. and by some twist of fate. i took music theory last #semester and guess who ended up sitting directly next to me. and who i also said no more than maybe 5-10 words to the entire time. . whoops #in my (and her) defense. it's not like she's unapproachable or anything. she's one of the genuinely kindest people i've ever encountered bu #the problem is. it's a music theory class. i was the only one in it not affiliated w the music department. and everyone in it had known eac #other for 4-7 years. even my like. actual friend in the class was ignoring me a lil (he wasn't he was just hanging out w his closer friends #and so i kept to myself the entire semester bc i didn't want to feel like i was intruding on anything + am terminally shy #(like. to the point where i get physically ill bc of it) #flash forward to today in ap world w our song parody project. our teacher was showing past examples from previous classes and guess who too #the class last year. and ofc. you Do Not get [name redacted] working on a project w/out having her sing for you #her group made a stalin-themed mr sandman parody and our teacher paused the video halfway through and it was my own personal 9/11 #bc there's no good reason for our paths to ever cross again. unless she becomes some celebrity. which i have no doubt she could if merit wa #the only factor at play there. i will never hear her voice again and i'm not sure what i'm going to do abt that. #romeo.txt

[cherry-ari]

Not to be the edgiest man ever, but Sarcasm by Get Scared altered my brain chemistry.

#i havent been the same since i heard it for the first time in middle school #listening to it again rn like woahhhhhh #one of the songs of all time #ari speaks

[whisperofthewaves]

gods, I uttered “booyaka booyaka” today on a reflex and a coworker said it’s from a wwe song when I couldn’t place it,and then I forgot about it for the next ten hours only to remember it now, bc that explanation didn’t sit well with my foggy memory, which is how I ended up at half past 10pm going down a rabbit hole of early/mid 00′s metal/rock music

what is wrong with me where is this whole nostalgia coming from this is not hygienic isn’t it enough I already suffered on the hands of that romance book two days earlier

#I am THIS CLOSE to missing my damn middle school years and that is NOT healthy #nothing important #it's bc that wwe song was made by p.o.d. and it went from there #also I first heard booyaka booyaka in the ali g clip #ALSO I HAD NO IDEA ALI G WAS SACHA BARON COHEN BTW #2023's been nothing but one crisis after another so far

[yo9urt]

today i return to the sea

#mine #its my last first day of school (until/unless i go to grad school but thats way off if it even happens) #the rest of these tags are all just going to be complaints so keep scrolling if you dont gaf #ok first complaint. my schedule is stupid and awful i think #winters schedule was weird too. but this one kinda sucks #the main problem i see is that both of my main classes are in the middle of the day so theres probably going to be people eating #(i have mis0phon1a) #so thats number 1. 2nd problem is that those classes also have the grading scale where u need at least 95 PERCENT to get an A. girl! #they are also both 400 level spanish classes so theyre just going to be kind of hard and annoying and a lot of work in general #the next problem is that my other class is actually not quite a class it is a teaching practicum. which i didnt even 100% want to do #but the certificate could be useful so im doing it anyway. #one of the guys in that class (i know some of the students already from winter) eats like a hog for like the first 20-30 mins so thats goin #to be miserable i bet. also at some point im gonna have to teach a lesson myself #which is scary and also frustrating because again i didnt even really want to do this. WHATEVER #ok what else. ummmmm #oh i think i might be unemployed LOL normally my boss would have done schedule coordination stuff like last week but i havent heard from he #at all. this is because we are government funded and the government does not want to fund us anymore -_- suck my balls #and my hog too. so money is going to be a concern which is especially awesome because ive already been trying to save up #becaues im moving out this year hopefully so im gonna need $ for that and for probably upgrades like i might get a new phone and computer #and stuff etc. and i live in an HCOL area so even though i literally just buy groceries my bill is like $294358939358/month #SIGH. also of course the final problem on the list is the behemoth of them all: i have to apply for jobs #i made a little spreadsheet to hopefully make the process easier. but its going to be agony lol fucking resumes and cover letters how about #i just kill myself now -_- and fucking interviews too. fuuuuuck you suck my nuts and dick and balls #i dont know how im going to cope iwth any of this LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and also as usual i have like no friends so its just me going it alo #alone* in this big awful spring. 2 and a half months of this. #i suppose i will need to go back to the dispensary. #fuuuuuuuuuck man

[hazardsoflove]

my favorite thing about me is that i was never in bandom so i’m not burdened by anything. peace and love to the rest of you

#the first fob album i heard was save rock and roll. i started seriously listening to mcr just a month ago #panic i dont rly care abt but i also first listened to them around when i first listened to fob. vices will always be famous tho #everything ik abt bandom i learned from julie and kel. and des #i am Free #i guess the offset is i was a superwholock so. slay i guess #i was too busy listening to indie bands no ones heard of in middle school. that and mainstream pop i guess #like. i knew Of it bc my ex best friend was in it. i just did not ever feel like listening to it until it happened in a way i couldnt avoid #like w fob my songs know what you did in the dark played on the radio and i was like this slays….and that was that fob is now one of my fav #band of all time. and w mcr like Obviously ive know wttbp for a long time idr when i heard it for the first time middle school prob #and then i knew teenagers. that was it until julie and then i heard mama and planetary and asked for an mcr playlist for my fic #and that was that and now look at me. crazy how things happen u know #r.txt

[snekdood]

i think some ppl dont understand the difference between being full on consciously bigoted + going out of your way to harass a minority and someone who heard phrases from their friends and family while not actually holding any ill will towards whichever minority

#i was both best friends with a black girl in middle school and also had my sister showing me racist videos and stereotypes #did it make me say things that i totally shouldnt have and didnt know i shouldnt say? for fucking sure- regardless i still never personally #saw her as bad or less than or anything at all. it probably helped that my childhood friend was filipino bc i was already exposed to #different people. its like the whole words vs actions thing. ppl would say words to me and i would parrot them thinking i was being #funny like my brother or sister but ultimately i never saw anyone as different than me and never really treated anyone differently either #i was a child who didnt understand the weight or meaning of things i parroted and trusted those around me to know better #since i was literally a fuckin' child. thats kinda what they do. and no one ever really countered me if i did something wrong? #there was one time in like 2nd grade where i had just come from a really christiany catholicy school to a different better cooler school #that was less oppressive and DIDNT require me to participate in church shit and wear a uniform- #and i was still not very exposed to black people at that time yet #so when i was in second grade there was a black kid (different person from my friend in middle school) and we were sitting at a table #and i was just kinda making an observation like 'you're black!' not a negative thing just like 'oh! i understand what this is! i know what #this is ive heard of ppl like this before and maybe met one or two black ppl previously!' lmao and then i followed it up with 'like martin #luther king!' bc he was probably one of the only black ppl i knew about and i literally learned about him when i visited the school for #the first time to try it out in first grade and then apparently everyone thought i was being super offensive?????????????????? #?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? #i dont really remember the details and my gma remembers an entirely different thing so idek whats the truth but thats how i remember it #going down. i wasnt trying to be rude or offensive i was just like 'oh you're this! like this person ive heard of! neat :)!' and apparently #it got interpreted as a really bad thing that i said and idk. that was probably one of the weirder experiences i had growing up #like maybe its not always fun to be known for the minority you are bc of a famous person whos of the same minority...?? idk #i still to this day dont know what i said wrong really. i just wasnt exposed to very many black ppl #i knew of like one black girl once at a gymnastics thing i did sometimes and we were friends and i was a tiny tiny child all of this #happening way before 2nd grade and all i remember is her dad and my dad talking and me going to her fancy house to swim in her pool #once. and then i stopped doing gymnastics for whatever reason. so i wasnt exactly super exposed to black ppl frequently. #esp since the christianty-catholicy school was full of rich white kids. and so was my neighborhood at the time. #so i wasnt trying to be mean or offensive to this guy in 2nd grade but it got interpreted that way and then everyone treated me different #bc ig they thought i was a certain way bc the teachers were overreacting a bit. i have no idea. i really just think that one white #girl just liked to bully me and didnt actually have a good reason why and im tired of trying to humor ppl thinking its bc i was a bigot 😒 #like i wouldnt be surprisedif nowadays that how she tries to justify it but NONE of what she ever did was calling me out or anything #it was ALLLLL treating me different for being 'weird' in her eyes. but i digress.

[inkskinned]

i love finding out how big this world is. my girlfriend has only visited boston a handful of times, but i grew up here. i told her we'd be going to do the tourist traps in salem, and she said - which salem?

to be fair to her, there are a lot of other states that have a town named "salem." and i think there's some evidence that the witch trials actually happened in what is now called Danvers. but the thing is - she thought "salem" was like, a made-up thing. there wasn't actually a salem, massachusetts - like there isn't a gotham city.

they don't talk about it that much where she grew up, is the thing! and this made me laugh. a week ago she was talking about her hometown and said something akin to "well the museum's kinda like the one in richmond," and i had to explain i still had no frame of reference for what the hell this museum was like.

i love finding out what knowledge i take for granted. i used to live with 5 other women. 3 of them were from south korea. they had to take, like, a solid fifteen minutes to explain their birthday system to my gay math-blind ass, laughing as they did.

that same month, our roommate from denmark taught me the danish word for wreath by accident - she'd been talking about decorations, used krans, and i'd been able to figure it out through context. i just picked it up and kept talking. our entire house used krans as the word. she came home and slammed the door one evening, mock-angry, shouting: you motherfuckers! it's a - a wreath!

and how often do you use certain words, anyway! i am cuban, so i was raised with certain spanish words sort of sprinkled in there; but never how you'd think. in middle school i asked someone to pass me the recogedor - in a completely american accent, like i was speaking english. i hadn't registered it as a spanish word. i mean, how often in school do you actually use the word "dustpan" - i'd only ever heard it in the context of cleaning my house.

there are places that you grew up that you, just, like, know. that you assume everyone knows. there are things and people and "common knowledge" that you have that, just, like. doesn't exist for me. i don't know what you call your public transportation system, but in boston we call it "the T". our train cards are called charlie cards because of a song where a father accidentally abandons his family, which was written because our system of transportation. in boston, most people would snort and say everyone knows that, kid.

i think you and i should go on a long walk - it's getting dark early these days and we need any sun we can manage. tell me about the first time you saw snow. tell me about the stuff everyone knows about your home. tell me about the cities "everyone's been to," about the food "everyone's already tried." who knows. maybe it will feel nice to you - watching someone learn about it for the very first time.

#spilled ink #warm up #4/10 #loved this interaction with them tho i have to be honest.