#being old on tumblr

[covington-shenanigans]

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

[heyhanibee]

clocked

[sunlit-mess]

???

[cinderoo]

i miss my wife, tails

[askullandbones]

A few more for ya:

You might grey faster than others your age, don't worry about it. Your first grey doesn't mean you'll be all grey within a year, those suckers really just pop up and then vanish again just as quickly. Yes, stress can actually cause you to grey faster. Take this as my recomendation to chill out a little if you can.

Start asking your family members about their medical history and keep a record of it. This WILL help you in the long run when something new and concerning pops up but you already know your (insert family member here) suffers from the same thing. It will make diagnostic work 10x easier for both you and your doctor.

Don't put things off if you can help it, and TAKE MEDICATION!! It isn't cool to suffer. There is no harm in taking pain killers when you need them. There is no harm in going to the doctor if you can afford it. Please listen to your body when it tries to tell you something and make life a little easier for yourself, you deserve it.

Things will hurt. Your knees, your neck, your back, your feet, maybe even all of them at once! Find what works best for your issue; daily stretches, massages, acupuncture, chiropracting. One may help more than the other, then stick to that.

Never trust a fart over 30. I'm fucking serious. You will shit your pants at least once in your life when you're over 30. Before ya know it shitting your pants will be an in-joke between your friends who are all 30+.

You also might accidently fart when you laugh. Or pee. Maybe both. Stuff isn't as tight as it used to be. It's fine, really.

On the topic of butts: get a bidet!! I'm serious. Bidets lessen your chance of hemorrhoids and if you have a period also help you feel clean. They're super easy to install and cheap. GET A BIDET!!

Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:

you will get hair in fun new places. this is normal and fine.

these places include (but are not limited to) if you don't already have them: your asscrack, your back, your ears, and moles. it's fine.

some of you, dick or not, will also lose hair. this is normal, but also if you have ovaries maybe get this checked out for PCOS.

your acne will probably change. some people get better. some people get worse. it's fine.

your nails will probably get an infection or a fungus at least once in your life. this is fine. (but also let your doc know).

how you gain and lose fat and where you do so will change. this is fine.

how you smell will change. this is fine. (fishy or rotten smells mean doctor time though)

if you have a prostate: it gets harder to pee. prostates enlarge as you age (get this checked regularly). this is fine.

if you do not have a prostate: it gets easier to pee but not in a good way. as in as you get older, your pelvic floor muscles tend to lose some of their strength. this makes it harder to keep pee in. this is fine.

all breasts and pectorals eventually sag, with the rest of your body. this is fine.

a decent percent of the population will experience a cyst at least once. some of you will make up for the rest with multiple. this is fine, but keep them checked out by a doctor. (sometimes this is a condition! get checked for that too!)

almost half of everyone gets hemorrhoids. it's a good idea to just expect them since your chances of getting them get higher the older you are. your toilet will look like a murder scene. definitely get your booty checked out BUT this is almost always perfectly normal. just eat more fiber. "but I already-" eat more fiber. and maybe suck it up and buy some hemorrhoid cream, you'll thank me later.

yes, this means you will probably need to make an appointment for a doctor to see your butthole. it's okay. not only do they really not care but 1. they've seen weirder that day and 2. they'd far rather you see them now than later when it's been going on for forty years and now it might be colon cancer. it's okay. consider it a rite of passage.

adults need more sleep than children. don't believe the myth that you need less than they do. that is capitalist propaganda to make you give up more of your life to the work grind, comrade.

vitamins and medicine, something you are more likely to take as you get older, sometimes make the toilet turn weird colors. it's okay.

if you still have your tonsils and get those little stones and get sore throats more than once a year you should plan on getting those suckers out before the tonsils cause an infection and go septic. if you're getting stones at all you should get those reevaluated every year, especially if the stones are bigger than a needlehead (or get bigger over time). it's gross and yucky. I don't care. get them looked at before you end up in the hospital.

you'll probably need to add foot support to your shoes if you don't already do. this is fine.

your body changes. sometimes it can feel sorta weird and upsetting that it isn't what it used to be. that is okay, and it is okay to be upset. just know that this is normal, it's normal to be upset or not upset, but don't let it hinder your quality of life. trans or cis, there is a certain level of acceptance you just gotta give your body and forgive your body for as you get older. it's okay.

it's okay. I promise.

[bioshzrd]

this random ass guy who’s entire bit is that he can move like this is the only good wesker fan ever

[tacc0yak1]

grandpas being grandpas….

[lemons-and-pie]

Old man 🫵🫵⁉️⁉️

I keep seeing people draw old man Mcgucket as part of the Pines family and it makes me sob tears of joy AND THE FAMILY PHOTO IN THE BOOK OF BILL ORIGINALLY HAD MCGUCKET IN IT anyways that was my final straw I broke, I had to draw him and give him a post-weirdmageddon design. He looks a lot taller than I wanted him to be, I also forgot about his ass posture, maybe I’ll draw him again and fix those things idk okay happy finkleford friday

[toorumlk]

— chapter 7, goblet of fire

i felt the strongest urge to draw this endearing scene :’)

[umblrspectrum]

"smaller mass" you say

[nothingbizzare]

No face

[urghblergh]

Spock lets his hair grow out a little and everyone's in love with each other. 🤲

[cs-cabin-and-crew]

The wild robot!

(I need more fics of them being a chaotic cute family)

[mary-james-world-of-shames]

I died for a bit there but here is healthy old man yoai or whatever the kids are saying.

[lemonspades]

Yeah so remember how Zelda was a 16 year old kid when she effectively became the only reason anything stayed alive in Hyrule?

Cause I think about that far too much :D

Masterlist

< Part 23 - Part 25 >

[shinelikethunder]

You asked me to teach you chess, and I've done that. It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. Do you know why not?

Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little and everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings and pawns.

I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. I don't envy you the decisions you're going to have to make. And one day I'll be gone, and you'll have no one to talk to. But if you remember nothing else, please remember this:

Chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice.

The lesson is: Anyone who looks on the world as if it were a game of chess deserves to lose.

— Harold Finch, not knowing how to explain to his AI offspring that it should care about people (but doing his best), Person of Interest 4x11 “If-Then-Else”