#which fits… because… it’s ike.

[prompt-master]

#tmnt #rottmnt #michelangelo #baron draxum #ik a lot of people dont like draxums redemption cuz it felt rushed which is totally fair but #dragging him against his will into the found family is so great #the main thing about the episode i would change is when draxum decides on his own to save those humans #because he was def not there yet #i wouldve prefered him not caring until he sees mikey distressed about not being able to get to the ferris wheel #because hes busy with the bounty hunters #and THEN barry goes ''ugh FINE ill save the [gags] humans'' #i think thats a good first step for him. he doesnt save them for necessarily the most heroic reasons but #him caring about what mikey cares about and the willing to save a human for mikey shows progress that fits him

[doctorsiren]

Im getting “I love you like a alchoholic” vibes from monster au kristoph and Phoenix

ough you’re so right

#doctorsiren #ace attorney #ace attorney au #phoenix wright #kristoph gavin #krisnix #beanix #silly little monster au #ace attorney fanart #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #other lines in the song fit ace attorney really well too #‘i love you like a statuette’ and it’s the thinker clock that was used to kill Mia #‘I love you like a negligée’ and it’s Dahlia’s dress (which ik isn’t a negligée #but it’s close enough haha #but the ones I used specifically #‘i love you like a pack of dogs’ because bro is literally a dog #‘I need you like I need a gaping head wound’ bc uhh uhh hit with bottle over the head 😨 y’know? #Phoenix could literally kill Kristoph so so easily like dude has to have crazy self-control to not let his more animalistic side take over #and just uhh uhh bite the dude’s head off- #YOU KNOW WHAT’S CRAZY #I had never heard this song before but the band name ‘The Taxpayers’ sounded familiar #TURNS OUT THEIR SONG ‘MEDICINES’ IS THE SAWBONES INTRO #I USED TO LISTEN TO SAWBONES CONSTANTLY BACK IN 2019 LIKE BRO WHAT

[themyscirah]

Obsessing abt the Amazonian embassy and embassy day & tours and the details of all that while at the same time being BONE tired from all my schoolwork.

Like I am lying here with aches all over and the remnants of stress pains and also my energy drink (not to be confused w my coffee from earlier) leaking out of my system and all I can think about is color symbolism and what the flags would look like for the different Amazon tribes

#also this is spiralling into headcanons about the location of themyscira as mapped onto the Mediterranean (but still in fantasy land) and #how that would play into art and fashion and the flag #anyways what im saying here is i think they have access to tyrian purple dye #or at least the snail in some capacity. because hippolyta is almost always wearing purple (for queen symbol reasons ofc) but that implies #continued access to the dye or at least their own synthetic version #which honestly i feel like they could have either way. but the snails would be really cool. especially if they had their own method of #extraction or some other way of doing things #and especially if they were making a flag to fit with conventions of mans world then they could totally use purple because it 1. wouldnt be #widespread like the flag of a real nation it would just be on like 3 buildings irl. or if it needed to be widespread they could just use #synthetics. also themyscirans would def have time to collect hundreds of snails they had time for that like cmon now #aaaaannnyyyways this is my reasoning for why themyscira should be the only country w a significant amt of purple on their flag #in my mind there is also black lines for their bracelets the lasso for truth and a dove for peace and also messages #and thats specifically the themysciran one. bc in my mind there would also be flags for the bana esquecida and amazonia in general although #they would mostly exist just to fly outside a few buildings and not do much but idk #havent thought too much abt the other tribes but ik esquecida would have some green the bana either some blue or red and the amazonia one #would have a depiction of both girdles of gaea on it

[fourteenthz]

Changes for wip roundup? 👀

anna!! sorry for taking so long answering this one as well!! but thank you SO MUCH for indulging my wolcred propaganda! <3

And lright this one is a MESS. I wrote it right when I was playing endwalker and I was really overwhelmed with the story™ that I made  mess of this wip so like for the last few months or so I’ve been working on rewriting everything lol so I’ll give you some of my thoughts abt it and a small snippet since I can’t get anything more substantial that I’m satisfied with lol

wip roundup :)

This fic is like following right after the scions are back from the moon. I was overwhelmed with the fact that the WOL didn’t have much saying with the twins and how Fourchenault reacted to them. I was like, yeah, she’s proud of them. They deserve to know that, but also, I’m not sure she would be brave enough to do so. So well this fic starts with me realizing like “alright, thancred would get it. better than anyone” so the first part follows him seeing how she reacts to everything that’s happening with the WOL and making the connections like how he felt about ryne, etc etc

But of course,,, my excuse for this fic was Thesa’s haircut first and foremost. Basically I hc Azem to have insane long hair, and Thesa always had longer hair, and this is like the first time she cut it out and it’s incredibly short. Basically the second part goes from her having a bit of breakdown seeing the moon burning + overthinking about that image of hythlo she saw on the moon and everything that happened there and going “I need new. The final days can’t happen again, things gotta change NOW.” Until she interrupts my Alisaie like knocking on the door which is like the cannon visiting for her during that quest!!

And ofc Alie changes her mind a bit… but she still gets that feeling so this is SO SPECIFIC but like you know the whole “wrapping the red thing around your thinger so you don’t forget?” She does it with a strand of hair, just a reminder (things he has lost etc etc) and chops everything off. But then, ofc, the beginning alone isn’t enough for me so the last part is Thancred’s reaction to it, since I like to think they spend their nights together whenever they can and they DEFINITELY would want to on this one night. There is a bit of that part before any rewriting lol:

A knock on door cut off any other conclusion that Thesa would have come with. She hadn't heard footsteps down the hallway, and the beat was too light to be anyone else — though she doubted many others besides Alisaie would be awake and willing to visit after a day like this. So she calls his name lightly as she walks to the door, and from the suppressed laugh, she was sure.

“It's me.” Thancred’s voice is softer beyond the closed door. She finally quickened her pace to unlock it when he laughed again. “I hope you didn't have to crawl under the covers to-”

From the look he had on his eyes, Thancred seemed to have specific intentions for the visit. However, as soon as she appeared from behind the door and their eyes finally met, the hyur could have sworn that all the thoughts he had — along with all the rehearsed words he had cooked up - slipped his mind.

Thesa freezes for a second too, unsure how to react. Maybe she would explain later, but for some reason, she waited for his reaction to continue.

Thancred seemed entranced for a second as a smile seemed to bump into his face, and then, he made the greatest effort to move; forcing his hand up until he finally reached the messy strands. His right hand stops to her left side, with his thumb behind his ear so he could feel each of the threads between his fingers — clenching his fist to lightly pull them and feel them falling off before repeating the same thing but resting his palm next to her face.

“By the twelve.” He says in a sigh, slightly embarrassed to clearly see the situation they were in as his left hand reached for the longer loose strand and curled it around his fingers before resting his hand on the side of her face, cupping her cheeks, and finally confessing, exactly, the same conclusion of hers. “Perfect.”

He looked at her with different eyes than First and even more different than Walking Sands. Eyes that stretched far farther than he had previously seen — and yet, without missing all the admiration and affection he had always carried. Maybe slightly more, even.

"For a second I didn't recognize you," he smiled, tugging lightly on the strand with a teasing smile, which soon turned into a relieved sigh when he tilted his head to the side, finally meeting her eyes again. "But there she is."

#it just feels ooc for some of them and I don't like how I did some of the exposition so yeah rewriting it. I just need to get in the right #headspace to finish it lol those more canon ones makes me anxious to finish for NO REASON other than my girl deserves the best. so yeah. #ALSO fun fact I feel like I need to share: this fic is only something bc I was frantically doodling on my sketchbook after finishing that #quest. i have the date here lol 3/3/22 (not that long ago ik) but yeah i end up with thumbnail for this little comic #with a BUNCH of notes around it. its kinda overly angsty bc i was feeling like thag at the time bc HYTHLO's “Don't you agree hades?” OR WTV #the notes summarizes to 'but then it does not matter if you hair feels lighter because you have their images engraved in #your mind and you do not have the strength to cut those off so all you do is ask /what now/ but haven't you learned? images can't talk' #and the progression of the coming is her cutting her head and the panels kinda move like a camera to finalize focusing on her back staring #at a mirror reflection the image of emet (black robs + hole in his chest) and the image of hythlo she has for now (from the moon cutscene) #so yeah...... maybe it all started with my hythazemet brainrot and then the fic was too much on alisaie and thancred so i had trouble #idk findinh middle ground with what I wanted ?? but yeah... I'm someday finish rewriting it THIS IS NOT my best exposure of my wolcred work #u guys I'm gonna be honest.... but it's mostly bc i love writinh them being sooo independent so it makes sense when i play and i forget #they are important to my cannon for her lol xiv is just so love coded. all the kinds of love. and i love them all so much its A LOT BUT YEAH #ill stop rambling now LMFAO sorry for this anna but yeah this is my excuse to why thesa will never have 100% short hair #I'll always pick the short + braids hair which is why: 1. im happy the pvp hair is available for viera now and 2. im SO HAPPY with the new #7.0 hairs... there's one there that OOOOH BOY... I WANT THAT. if it fits her it's giving dawntrail :) if it doesn't welp pvp hair it is #but again YEAH THATS IT SORRY FOR TAKING EXTRA LONG I was going through like 3 sketchbooks back to search for this sketch comic lmao #and also... writing this whole essay why can i never be concise man... ANYWAH KDJFJDJDJD TY AGAIN ANNA!! #I'm always here for wolcred on wolcred action ❤️ #ask game #ask #kelly says #my writing #myreia

[pneumonic-screamers]

I think my worst trait is that I need too much. and I don't mean in a "I'm needy" way I mean it in a want things so bad that I cannot discover it from need and it turns into a need when I start feeling ill over it

#jinx's hijinks #example. i get attatched really quickly to people who are interested in me romantically. this is probably because my last ex abused me. #but that attachment becomes extremely unstably very quickly too. if they arent talking to me or interacting with me. #i crave them to the point of not being able to focus #not being able to think about ANYTHING other than them and then it manifests physically #with nausea. throwing up and various other bad things #like it can cause genuine suicidal ideation #and idk i questioned that maybe i have bpd but idk because i dint fit many other symptoms i think i just have really bad anxious attachment #and im still traumatised from my ex. which ofc usnt gonna just go away. but i wish it was just easier to manage #i just wish that i handledthis all differently #and ik i dont really control it at all #but i wish i could.

[nordfjording]

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#ik that ive come some ways and had some sobs since the whole #getting blocked for not having the mental sturdiness to educate myself on trans issues #ordeal #but goddamn it #if im not still skipping the hole trans/transition/theo storyline in sabrina because im #honestly just trying to get by and every time i #look too closely it shakes the ground on which im standing and im not #made to be a revolutionary im just trying to get by #and by and by and by #i spent so much time grieving who i wouldn't be and chipping away the things that didn't fit there's just not enough #left of me to start over. theres not enough #material to work with to melt into something else to withstand friction and to come out recognizable #as a person i mean #and all of that work would be for nothing. my world isn't made for people like me #and i built my entire life on being no one and dying quiet. #and you cant just. take someone's future away like that.

[devilbrakers]

OC DUALITY

was tagged by @morvaris​ to take this uquiz for my ocs >:) thank you nico this was super fun!!

tagging: @numbaoneflaya @time-is-a-lake @aartyom @nuclearstorms @girlbosselrond @druidgroves @malefiicarum @swordcoasts  @aldcaldos @sufferthorn @steelport @calenhads @lavinet​ and anyone else who’d like to join in !!

you and the hat man

oh boy you're fighting demons aren't you? it's like you're in a constant staring competition with something that's always in the peripheral. what the fuck. (at least, that's how people who don't know you would react). at this point you've probably gotten pretty familiar with the hat man. he's a reliable kind of guy. keeps to himself, sure, but you can trust him to be there. maybe a haunting isn't too bad if it's never left your side. you can only imagine what it will be like when he's not there any more.

god-hungry scientist and their abominable child

you stitched something together inside of yourself and gave it life with light from the sky and now it won't die and you can't kill it because part of you loves it and you're not quite right in the head or the person you used to be but at the end of the day it's simply a beast of sadness. you crave the mercy you didn't get from your creators and so i'm telling you please forgive yourself. please hold the monster by the hand.

moon curse of the werewolf

you have found yourself hungered or sickened or ambitious to the point of emotional carnage. you are fine, until you're not, and then you could rip someone in your way apart with your bared teeth by complete accident, and later claw at yourself in fits of pain trying to apologize. do you look at the moon that blessed you in her name, at her marred beauty and baneful eyes, and wish she could just crush that loving-hateful heart of yours before it crushes itself? every bite you take out of flesh is a response to the threads of silver bullets in you that haven't healed. the duality is that the human inside is howling too, gnashing, and without the wolf pelt, everyone can ignore it and turn away. at some point, you got tired of the moon being your only witness. now the wolf is there to make sure others know that you are hurt, and deserving of humanity, of attention to wounds. because that wolf loves you; all of you; and knows when you are hurt better than yourself.

#feel free to ignore this if you want !! idk how many people have already been tagged fjsdkl #anyway. going to be annoying abt this in the tags now <3 #the main thing that gets me abt gray's is the 'maybe a haunting isn't too bad if it's never left your side' #like????? ik the hat man thing is probs supposed to be funny and it kinda is but it fits them so well #almost everyone close to them has died or left them atp but maybe it isn't so bad. just to have one constant #dmitri :| yeah. yeah #everything he felt he had to become to save his sister who was dead the whole time anyway but ended up being a better survival tactic anyway #so he just stuck with it until he died but then he comes back as a demon and now he has to live with what he did forever #i don't think he really could ever forgive himself. mainly for failing nina but it's started to eat him alive less and less over the years #mainly bc he does everything he can not to think about it too much but he also doesn't really want to totally get rid of that part of #himself. the part that was capable of torturing and killing all those people bc it really was powered by love and desperation to some extent #and that proves that maybe he has some shred of humanity left even if she's been gone for decades now #not that he does shit like that anymore. but he's capable and willing to for those he loves even if they'd probably hate him for it #and miko's :( #yeah #lashing out at people when it gets to be too much which is often given the life that she lives and then beating herself up for it nonstop #but it's also a way to protect herself and even tho she died young it got her pretty far #and it helped her protect other people (mainly gray and blake) when it came down to it because she couldn't stand seeing them hurt either #idk if i articulated myself v well but yeah jfdsklfdjs my dmc gang are all my blorbos #my ocs #tag #gray #dmitri #miko

[penisbutterjellytime]

#rdr2 #mlp #my little pony #dz.rdr #dz.mlp #I had such a difficult time figuring out who would be which gang member #i tried restricting myself to the main characters and characters that show up in both games #ik applejack is litteraly perfect for sadie #both being blonde farm girls #but applejack is the closest to arthur none of the other 6 could fit him #also yes pinkie pie is uncle cause unfortunatly hes in both games #i couldof made her sean but hes not that big of a character #fluttershy is only kieran because they're both my favorite #also had difficult time figureing out who would be dutch or javier #dz.art

[poopingonthefloor]

I would just like to thank you because your post on the subject of proshipping was what allowed me to firmly take a stance against proshitters. My blog is non confrontational and I don’t want to argue with people so I unfortunately had to remove the tags and block replies on my post when people started replying to argue with me but still it was your post which gave me the confidence to make this post in the first place and for that I thank you.

Although I've been particularly avoidant to any sort of discourse lately, I am glad I could have helped you (or anyone in general) have confidence to express themselves and try to speak out on issues that constantly infect fandoms and make unsafe spaces for basically anyone. Sorry that your post got dogpiled by a bunch of chronically online people LOL! Trust me, those people got literally no argument that they werent CONVINCED into believing LMAO.

#ask #I've been less actively bitchy about it but my stance has stayed the same #adults into that should not be allowed in the internet and they are backhandedly gr**ming children into embracing that creepy shit #and then children (who i dont blame for being into that stuff its not usually their own fault) desensitize themselves and actively LOOK - #-for creepy pe/do//ince//sty ships to ship because children just have a natural desire to “fit in” - #-which some children find that in following a contrarian crowd #so when they see art they like and dont yet understand the issues with it and then see the artist getting flack for it they jump to- #prxshitty defense and then that just causes them to grow up embracing that shit bec they think it makes them cool or unique or something!!! #and then that causes a spread bec then obviously impressionable minors attract other impressionable minors T_T #trauma response I dont doubt is true to some degree and i pity those for that but 1. keep that shit private im sorry but venting doesnt- #-excuse romanticising that shit and basically CONVINCING other impressionable children that its fine when you must KNOW its not okay if you #-KNOW its based on trauma and thats all you have to validate it #and 2. like thats unhealthy on its own right...... but like ok..... #((though i dont promote harrassing kids or telling them to hurt themselves like that doesnt rlly do much esp if theyre already traumatized) #I believe young people like that should try to strive to at least keep that stuff private esspecially if theyre an adult because idk how- #-adults DONT see the gr**my aspect behind it (bec from what ik most adults dont care about being surrounded by minors T_T)

[rocaillefox]

can people please stop turning furry worlds into fantastical racism/making up furry stereotypes. i do not want to read 'all cats are troublemakers. all bears are police. all rabbits are caregivers.' like, peoples features and bodies do not signify anything about personality, morality, political stance, etc. and the bioessentialism inherent to that concept absolutely reeks. this is not a politically neutral thing jsjfbvj

#esp in furry aus where you turn canonly human characters into these weird stereotypes #like. how is this not at least a bit uncomfortable for you to read about #like does this portrayal of a world not make you stop and think about how #limiting prejudicial and horrible to live in it would be #how can you use this to portray whats supposedvto be a lighthearted premise completely uncritically #dont you feel uncomfortable putting a character of color into any of those stereotypes? #like. ik animal fantasy is often a form of caricature in and of itself when multiple animal species are involved #but this is so overt and really doesnt fit the premise of a happy romantic story #to live in this world sounds like living in a form of hell actually. #ramblings #racism #but like. same reason i hate redwalls portrayal. like- #species is something inherent to every being in a furry universe #with actual significant biological differences irl #and to use species difference as a race allegory has so many issues #namely that it implies race is biologically differing rather than socially constructed based on features #which is a part of white supremacist schools of thought- the idea that people of color and white people are biologically distinct enough - #-that they should be treated differently because of inherent capability or lack thereof. #and to see this inherently racist school of thought recreated uncritically in fanworks #like. wholly sucks actually! #its why zootopia sucks! its why beastars sucks! #PLEASE look at animal fiction with a critical eye instead of using it as escapist literature #as- as is shown in rikki tikki tavi for example- the animals chosen to represent groups of real people #can and are often used to discuss irl political events including justification for said events #across multiple cultures. #biological essentialism

[felinenthusiast]

finally had a chance at totk and actually liking it a lot!! esp more than botw which is aargh.. a complicated game for me because I like some things but there are other things I REALLY don't! It's just done a lot of stuff thus far that feels really good and like they heard the things I didn't like specifically. So really happy :]

#playing with the japanese voices again because i really don't like the english voice cast. #which is no offene to them i think the casting choices are just way off and not fitting :/ #i honestly feel bad for them cus it's not their faultd they were cast badly #ik especially zelda's english VA didn't know the significance of her role and feels awkward because she feels she doesn't suit it? #regardles. japanese voice cast DOES fit. #which is nice. if you dislike hte voices i implore you to try a different language #rambles

[sonknuxadow]

hoping adn praying that whoever is in charge of the casting for the sonic movies is watching chris pratt get all this hate for voicing mario and are now being very very careful about who they pick for any new characters that show up in sonic 3

#get actual voice actors Pleasepleaplseplae no celebrities that dont fit the roles #theyve done well with the casting so far but its just shadow and rouge specifically that im really worried about #because a lot of people seem to have very incorrect ideas of what shadow and rouge sound like #and rouge especially has had some REALLY bad voices in the games. the only one i like is the one from sa2/heroes #and a lot of people think of her 4kids voice when thinking of rouge. which is one of the ones i Dont like i dont think it fits her at all #and ik rouge isnt confirmed but im still thinking about the possiblity of movie rouge #sonic movie spoilers #sonic 2 spoilers

[snarltoothed]

i need to be in a female separatist psych ward but alas they don’t exist! and as such i will continue being a problem

#r #like not taking my dysfunctional ass to any womyns land #but i’m also not taking my traumatized ass to a mixed sex psych ward #however i am ummmmmm unwell and not fit to be in society #i dont even get sad about shit in my life not working out anymore but at this point my anxiety is so so so so bad i can barely function #and ngl im on several medications at once at almost all times which should decrease anxiety and im still anxious #i hate thisss im not even sad or distraught but the suicidal ideation is hiiigh #just bc like ohhh my god i need to endure extreme anxiety in order to just like live a semi normal life #and whoooooo girly i dont know if i can do it over and over for another half dosen decades (if i’m lucky) #if youve read this far sorry firstly lol and secondly dw i am not in immediate danger #like as much as i ever want to it wont be a risk until my mom’s gone #and after that i’ll probably feel like responsible for not leaving my brother alone #ik not as feministe but he is part of her as well #+ he seems not evil somehow because my mother is amazing and unique and also we might all have autism #not that that exempts men from being evil misogynists typically but he didnt/doesnt socialize much outside of family #and my dad is impossible to talk to and he & i fought like hell as kids so my mom was his 1 socialization influence lol

[redysetdare]

I think the thing that makes it so hard for me to understand ships because it's almost always people shipping characters because they think they are hot and want two hot people to kiss, which i don't see the point in either of those.

Like.... i don't find people hot and i don't understand the need or want to kiss so the fact so many ships revolve around this idea of "We want these conventionally attractive characters to kiss" just goes right over my head.

Which is why whenever I do ship characters it's never in a way that i would label it shipping. Like... i just like the idea of how characters interact and change each other. How having a certain bond can make them start to rub off on each other or how their dialogue just bounces off one another so easily or in a fun way. i could care less if they kiss but to me they are inseparable. I want to see them in a quiet intimate moment of just being in each others company. that is all.

#text #aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #aroace #shipping #romance #idk what else to tag #idk i just realized im so disconnected to shipping culture and it's so often because of how people express ships #it's just so different from how i express it ig #like i dont even really do this for romance only it's like these characters are together in some way it doesn't matter which #they just have a bond and what that bond is doesn't matter in the end it's just the fact that bon exists #thats how i see it at least #and some people can say that counts as shipping but idk #i dont like using that word for what i do #with how it's usually used it just doesn't fit #so i dont use it #idk this is just a interesting thing i noticed abt myself #ik not every shipper is like this it's just a common thing I've noticed in terms of shippers

[verystressedcollegestudent]

if there's one thing i hate more than slackers in group projects its goddamn hypocrites

#this guy did jack shit for two full weeks when we're building the damn prototype #but STILL brought up the fact that most of our team blew off a report till the last minute in the beginning of march #*prototypes don't work* “sEe tHis iS wHy wE nEedEd tO hAvE a cOnvErsaTioN aBouT MS3” #like hon you lost the rights to the “y'all need to contribute more” argument the moment you left me hanging for 2-3 FUCKING WEEKS #like excuuuuuse me you been prioritizing extra curriculars all week get off your high horse stop lecturing everyone else about contribution #he made maybe 3 contributions? maybe? #first he 3D modeled an adapter and sent it to someone else to print (couldn't even do THAT himself smh) #then he sent the gc a sketch of an idea i roughly proposed literally the NIGHT BEFORE as his own contribution (that I ENDED UP BUILDING #then he...screwed on a few pipe fittings and called it a project :) #would be a LOT less pissed if he didn't show up to One Thing outside weekly team meetings/class #then apologize for slacking off BUT then launch into a FUCKING SPEECH ABOUT HOW HIM BEING HERE PROVES HIS COMMITTMENT #all because he DOESN'T LIKE GETTING UP EARLY. like sir. sir i am rIGHT FUCKING HERE. i was up till 4-5am working on this stfu #we've been building for three weeks and he's come into work on stuff wo me there ONCE for an HOUR #for context id spent about fifteen hours in the shop alone working on the fucking thing that WEEK #like im trying to be understanding ik tech week is hell #but i took “stepping back” as “i only have a few hours here and there to be in the shop and will do the writeups” #NOT “won't show up outside meetings AND we're splitting slides and writeups 80/20” #like id been in the lab all fuckin day and notice we have an assignment due (missed a SINGLE meeting due to exam) #and i ask him if theres anything i can do (and im thinking like look it over maybe add a spec or two) #and this fucker has the AUDACITY to ask me to write the full four paragraph summary cause he #*checks notes* copy-pasted some specs from milestone 3 so of COURSE its only fair that despite the fact I've been in the lab ALL DAY #that i write the four fuckin paragraphs too #course we're troubleshooting and he's like “did you clean the pump? did you disassemble it and rinse it?” like yes??? #i did EVERYTHING i could think of before i even bothered texting you cause i know you're fucking useless #and then he raises fifteen different concerns which while valid would have been NICE TO HEAR WHEN I SENT YOU MY INITIAL DESIGNS #y'know BEFORE i spent over fifteen hours of my free time building this damn thing #with slackers i just pick up the work and move on with my life this idiot is trying to gaslight me into thinking that he contributed fairly #when i heard “i need to step back due to play stuff” i thought we'd be splitting it like 65:35 NOT FUCKING 95:5 #and now hes probably going to give ME a poor peer review because I've been passive aggressive with him in the few meetings he showed up to #like i got shit going on too? how the fuck does he expect me to respond to being abandoned to do this shit myself

[fozmeadows]

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

#millennials #technology #personal #generations #generational change