#healthy aging

[wahroh]

Kinda like a time zone for the aging.

[manic-maddie]

The world was safe yet again, perhaps now the Inquisitor could stay retired?

A doodle, I really wanted to draw Cullen with a beard and crows feet

[luckysheepharmony]

I just got into several interesting conversations on fanfiction writers unite community where we discussed relationship to creativity and writing process. One of the things that interested me was how people give and receive feedback on AO3, I've been reading that negative feedback on there is not encouraged because the person has been generous with their creativity sharing a fic and it might be experienced by others as hurtful.

Another conversation we were having was about me being a middle aged woman probably twice the age of most people on here. I don't mind critical feedback, I believe for me personally it is because I've reached the age where I DGAF (less than before) about what people think because I am more comfortable in who I am, whereas when I was younger my self concept was a lot more brittle and I would have really shrivelled up if I has put my creativity out there and others had picked it apart. That doesn't mean to say I won't take feedback on board, just that I can critically engage with it more without taking it personally.

Because of my self critical voice and worries about how others my respond to my writing, this actually blocked me from writing for over a decade despite being encouraged by my wife and family. It's wonderful to be part of a community where people are joining together to create and I feel like being in a community like this is inspiring me to grow my creative muscles. Like being in a gym of creativity and you are all my workout partners 😜.

I wanted to share a poem by Philip Larkin about being young that resonated with my own experience of that time, the brittleness but also strength and clarity of purpose that I think gets more muddied as you get older. (Think of inside out, when sadness touches the joyful core memories and they become a blend of joy/sad, because Riley thinks back of that time, which she will never have again). I want to encourage any young people out there who are mired in self doubt or feel they are not good enough to attempt to push through: what you create is beautiful and valuable. Everything has its place in the world, and should not just be measured by its potential financial value in this capitalist hellscape we are all forced to inhabit: which this corner of the internet gives us some welcome respite from ❤️

[sunsetsandhope]

as long as i can remember - i used to said that i will never make it to 26

like this age seemed so crazy to me because it’s so close to 30, closer to 50 and making out alive beyond 20 looked like big achievement to me

yesterday i had my birthday, my 26th birthday, the age i was worried to never witness because of depression

i am 26 years old and i am the happiest i have ever been since i can remember

so maybe life is beautiful sometimes and it’s worth living? even if it brings us pain and suffering sometimes because the other day we get to smile and laugh and to make silly jokes.

aging is not scary, we are growing up in a culture that tells us it’s scary to get older.

[geraldwalker324]

[melisssg99]

I can't believe girls my age and younger are getting

"preventative botox"

I just hope I get the chance to grow old with my partner without too much pain,

embrace my gray hair I'll inevitably grow

and maybe someday even hold my grandchildren with wrinkly loving hands.

We shouldn't be scared of looking our age🩷

Growing older

is a privilege

[sparkly-heretic]

I'm an Old, I'm nonbinary, I was afab, and I've been in denial for a while now that menopause could ever happen to me. Anyone else like me, or like me but younger, needs to read this. It's the first time I've ever felt seen or understood around this.

[wahroh]

No warning either.

[di-kot-o-me]

Rosalind Fox Solomon

[alteredstatesstuff]

a long life

[lemonbombsfjl]

VP Kamala Harris will create an economy of care! 🫶💙

I know from personal experience how much this issue matters to you all.

Please share so others know this welcome change is coming!

[searchingsilk]

Ocean Reverie Kimono by Jan Kirstein Rigor. From my “Aging Gracefully” Series. The Kimono Series is available as giclee prints here: https://janis-kirstein.pixels.com #kimono #abstract art #contemporaryart #giclee prints #painting #drawing #artcollectors #ipastelspro #aginggracefully #jankirsteinrigor #mixedmedia #collage

[barbwillbrb]

Your resident nutcase reached level 29 today.

It is the dawn of the final year of my 20s.

Those bitches who whine about life being over at 23 can go suck my nuts. While you are busy bitching about aging I am here getting cooler.

Anyhoots— I am gonna work on my first cosplay, do some writing, finish some arts, and maybe get a bubble tea.

Also gonna thirst some more about Ketheric, Ethel, and Yurgir but that’s just your regular scheduled programming.

[silvermoon424]

I believe in Emilia Clarke supremacy

[fandomshatewomen]

Halle Berry's Statuesque Dress Celebrates Female Strength

I hate the title of this article but I loved this bit

[rosielindy]

I’m coming up on a major milestone birthday next month, just came across this message today and I really needed it. 🥰