#i am old as fuck now
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I'm currently sitting on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD. My family has always taken vacations here, and coming here as an adult is basically just me doing all the things I used to do as a kid, but also the things I wanted to because I couldn't... I was a kid. For a long time I just couldn't afford a vacation. I was bound to my job at the cost of my health. And that led to me getting sick when I just wasn't taking care of myself. Being as sick as I was, I wasn't sure I would ever come back here. There was no guarantee I'd recover, and a good possibility I would be dead by now. So I see being here as a triumph on several fronts. I can now afford to take a vacation, and I am now healthy enough to make it here.
Often I would entertain the idea that I was actually dead, watching the world from the afterlife as it just moved on past me. I came back to a world just similar enough to be familiar but different enough to feel like I'm out of place. I felt like a space alien when I tried to swipe my debit card at the supermarket the first time and they told me to tap. And I was just like "that works?"
I told the cashier I was "gone for a while" and they gave me a strange look. I can only imagine they thought I was just out of prison. I tell people now that "I spent five years dead for tax purposes" and that usually gets either a laugh, or a stranger look than the implication I was in prison. A win for me either way.
But returning to places after the passage of such time is bittersweet no matter the circumstances, and being on the Ocean City boardwalk is a good feeling but one that carries a twinge of sadness.
Arcades have always been my happy place. From the Dundalk skateland that had a Darkstalkers machine and an MVS cabinet to Aladdin's Castle where I spent so much money playing DDR, I always felt so at home and comfortable in those spaces. So being back at the boardwalk for the first time in so long, I had to go to the arcades here. I walked along the boardwalk, and man, it's different but in all of the important ways nothing changed. The weird t-shirts. The Thrashers fries. They're selling deep fried oreos now which I am sure is delicious, but the things that would do to my intestinal tract make me cringe in horror.
I stopped at just about every arcade on the way. All of them left me disappointed that they weren't like what I remember. It's all ticket games, coin pushers, or claw machine variants. If they're actual video games they're reworked versions of old school games like frogger or space invaders, or mobile games. I don't mean to sound all boomer about this, like these kids just don't know, that's not what I am complaining about. I saw a lot of kids having a ton of fun, and it was so good to see. The laughter and joy was a delight, and being in such a place is a wonderful experience. Somewhere among those kids is someone building those core happy memories that will make them love the place like I did. Arcades are an important space where, as the great Charles Entertainment Cheese once said, a kid can be a kid. And going to an arcade makes me feel like a kid again.
But being there was also a stark reminder that I am no longer young. The arcades I remember are out of fashion. Those games are niche now. They don't make it to America often, let alone the Ocean City boardwalk. I made it to Sportland, one of the arcades I went to most frequently. I saw more of the same coin pushers and ticket machines. The place changed. Of course it had. Everything changes. But I mourned those days. In a way I was mourning my youth. I found a single neglected Tekken 3 machine and made my Person play me in a first to five. They 5-0'd me. That's how bad I am at Tekken, I got 5-0'd by someone that doesn't play fighting games. But it was fun, and they were a good sport. I also let a kid beat me in Mario Kart, so that was cool. The kid had to be like 10-12. He was happy, and that made me feel good. I won my Person a weird sonic plush, too. I had a good time! A great time! But as I walked out of Sportland with that bittersweet feeling in my chest, I looked over at Marty's Playland, THE arcade I used to spend most of my time at, and I couldn't bring myself to go in. I need it to be just the same as I remember, even though I know it isn't. I need there to be a place unchanged by time, exactly as I remember it, even if it exists only in my mind. And I know that's not reality anymore.
Maybe this is what W.B. Yeats meant when he wrote "There is no country for old men."
But I saw a kid in an Electric Wizard shirt so there is definitely hope for the future somewhere.
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they have been rotting my brain for a WHOLE year and I CAN'T STAND IT .
#this is my first time posting#idk what i am doing#GAY PEOPLE GUYS IT'S GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!#AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH#i am so fucking normal right now#i hate and love them this is insane#kimharry#harry du bois disco elysium#kim kitsuragi disco elysium#disco elysium#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#harrykim#old men yaoi#sea power#artwork#fanart#Spotify#art#zira draws
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OKAY BUT THE CALLBACK TO THE THE FIRST THOR MOVIE
Anyone remember the theme the first time we had a broken bridge and Loki? Death and destruction.
And now? Life and creation.
#loki#fucking hell#loki spoilers#brb i am crying forever#not to mention he's now become old loki on his throne at the end of time#which sets up agent of asgard which just.....FUCKKKKKKK
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#not only am I embarrassingly late to the TLOU party but now I wanna fuck an old man so bad it makes me look stupid. sorry guys#Joel miller#joelmilleredit#tlou#tlouedit#the last of us#thou hbo#Pedro pascal#pedropascaledit#🪐#my gifs
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Firefox-official vs electronicmail
Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby
okay come up with a better idea then. firefox-official is gone asshole it’s electronicmail or nothing
#this one was hard to respond to because it elicited the usual anon rage in me#but i had to think about it anyway.#this blog has been around for less than a month and it is driving me fucking crazy#don’t you think i know?#dont you think it hurts enough already#i dont want this blog either i want my old blog back with all my stuff on it#i would like to stick around#because i loved posting#and i get that you’re just having fun#but i’m making an example of you#less than a month vs five years#‘household name’ firefox official#spent five years building that thing#and now it’s just this.#i keep forgetting#and then i’m here again#not home#i know you all feel bad enough for me already#but it’s so hard to be myself because the environment on here is SO different#we were HAPPY#WE WERE SO HAPPY#Umm… Or whatever.#guess i could go back to firefox unofficial#but that feels far too close to the sun. and i’m done with the wings i think.#i dont mean to be so serious#a total mood killer i know#i just dont know how to proceed exactly#because when i post like normal i cant help but feel sad#and when i post about being sad its just sort of obnoxious#i’m not really asking for pity i just want to explain where i am at
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APPARENTLY JOHNLOCK DOESN’T ROCK ON JUST EARTH NOW
‼️⚠️this is NOT an au⚠️‼️
Our babies are on Mars.
Freaking MARS.
Okay backtrack. So basically both SHERLOC and WATSON are cameras attached to a robotic arm in search of life on Mars. SHERLOC detects organic molecules and minerals on Mars, and WATSON captures detailed images of the Martian surface to support SHERLOC's analysis.
(Apparently this program was launched a while ago on July 30, 2020. In 13 days our babies are gonna have their fourth Mars anniversary. I’m going to cry.)
In my mind:
SHERLOC: *bossily points at something*
WATSON: *heaves sigh and takes photos*
More information can be found at:
#I am 137 years old and I rock in space with my husband#the world explode and these two survive#johnlockians have officially infiltrated nasa#me picturing sexy robotic arm doing sexy things to sexy camera#mr arthur conan doyle do you want to wake up a teensy bit to take a look at just the exact legacy you’ve accomplished#they are LITERALLY legendary enough TO BE ON FUCKING MARS#name me another ship famous enough to be launched into space by nasa#THERE ARE NONE#I think I’m going to curl up in a corner and cry a little bit now#johnlock#acd johnlock#bbc sherlock#sherlock#sherlock holmes#john watson#acd holmes#acd watson#sherlock fandom#johnlock headcanon#SHERLOC and WATSON#tjlc#nasa#buckingham-ashtray
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Based on my observations, average zaundads enjoyer is living for the class divide storyline in Arcane (which makes sense) and shakes their fists at Riot/Fortiche for kinda just throwing that away in s2
We want these old men to fuck. For political reasons!
#talking about stuff#reason why I will make the AU universe far less “its all good now :)”#its not that simple riot/fortiche#them and their revolutionary plans in their youth is what i am here for fuck piltover fuck the enforces am i right#yea yea shades of grey but * old man shakes fist at cloud*
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saw a take so fucking rancid on twitter i almost deleted the entire app from my phone jesus fucking christ
first of all ao3 is an archive site. this is like going to the library and saying "oh i dont like this" on every piece of media you find that you dislike and thinking they should be stamped with some sort of a marker just cause you didnt like it
you can always click back and leave. fic writers owe you nothing to explain themselves and their creations. if they have mistagged or miscategorized fics, then i understand, however there are report tools for that instead of yelling at the artist tbh
im not saying free works arent necessarily above criticism. but this is just. fucking wild. its common courtesy to just enjoy stuff (or fucking leave if you dont, the back button is free) and if the artist specifically asks for critiques, then give one - constructive that is, shitting all over someones work is not proper criticism, mind you
i just find it fucking wild people are treating art and archive sites as social media these days like this and everything needs to be policed and ~catered to the algorithm~ like. no. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm. you should be able to fucking tell what you like and what you dont like and steer away from that kind of content and let people fucking be with their art. they dont owe you anything (except trigger warnings i'd argue, but i know some people disagree with that as well for some reason), and imagine how much more energy you'd have if you only engaged with things you liked and spent time looking at instead of going to places where you dont enjoy yourself. let alone spending time telling other people you dont enjoy what they enjoy. what a fucking life
#like what the fuck#where is the common courtesy of fandoms these days im just fucking asking. its ridiculous#the back button is free. shutting your fucking mouth is free. constructive criticism when people ask for it is nice but only then#these are fucking basic level fandom engagement things#am i old or are people just this fucking awful now that these guidelines dont exist anymore#im just. ough#sorry i had to get this out. idk as someone who has never left unsolicited advice for anyone and never gotten it back it just#it fucking grinds me that people are like this now. like fucking wow#ive been here for almost two decades soon and i still know how to behave. yall better fucking learn#im gonna go back to video game sorry i really needed to yell for a hot fucking second#if you choose to reblog this dont fucking clown on it okay. god#night is an absolute mess on main
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uhh oh!!! unexpected hospital stay 🤪
last night i fell flat on my stomach tripping over absolutely nothing, so i went in to get checked. everything looks fine aside from a scraped hand and knee but they kept me for overnight monitoring just in case. this, of course, happened while jose is out of town, so ngl chat it was a rough time!!! baby spent the entire night gettin funky, blissfully unaware of her mom's moment of lonely mortal terror.
I've never had the nuts to ask but idk how much this stay will cost and I'll be officially without an income in two weeks. anything you could throw my way would be so appreciated. 💛
#m2a#pregnancy#I've even felt shy about people online asking about my registry i am NOT good at asking ANYTHING#the bulk of insecurity with parenthood has been the impending loss of income#I've worked since i was 15 years old and I'm like!! aaaa!! loss of powerrr!!! 😆#even tho it's the best decision on a personal and financial level#now I'm sitting in a hospital bed thinking well everything is fine did i really need to get scared and come in#freaking alone? no less??#yeah dark night for mod but baby don't care#i was almost panicking in public right after i fell waiting for her to move but fucking bless her she didn't make me wait long#nothing can stop her boogie
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Ghost after meeting Soap.
Price : Have you slept?
Ghost : Depends what day it is
Price : Go to bed.
#cod mw2#simon ghost riley#captain john price#implied ghostsoap#implied soapghost#ghost is a catboy by the way#Soap is more complicated because he's a cat person and doesn't like dogs but also he's very dogboy leaning personality wise#dad price for the win even if he's only old enough to be big brother price; he's 50 spiritually according to his 'kids'#price would be like 'ok do you want to talk about it?'#and ghost would look at him like 'what do you mean “talk about it” what happened to bottle it up like normal people?'#“i'll just forget all about it” ghost tells himself#and then soap is bumping into him in the corridor and smiling up at him with the power of the fucking sun and wow ghost is in love fuck#i was supposed to draw something for valentine's day but my brain was all no : funny scene first but now it's 9:30 am and i haven't slept#maybe expect something for valentine's day at some point - probably not today tho but like at some point this week maybe ?
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"Do we have a deal?"
#billford#I had this idea at like 6pm bro. its fuckin 12:30 am rn. It was just a little idea now its fuckin 2 PAGES#sat and spent like 5 hours straight on this. i haven't been able to focus on ANYTHING for that long since before i stopped adderall bro 😭#toxic old man yaoi has me in a fucking chokehold girl i am NOT ok tf#gravity falls au#if you could call it an AU lol. the ''what if ford pulled a beauty and the beast'' AU#my art#art blog#gravity falls#bill cipher#bill x ford#bill x stanford#book of bill#stanford x bill#the book of bill#stanford#stanford pines#stan x bill#standford pines#gravity falls stanford#ford x bill#toxic old man yaoi#toxic yaoi#toxic old men yaoi#old man yaoi#billford fanart#billford au#billford comic#billford art#comic
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I hope leftists who think they’re above voting for president or are voting for Jill Stein or whoever because it’s their stupid way of protesting the system feel good about themselves, especially if Trump wins partly because of your negligence 😍 I know you’re not doing shit to plan the proletarian revolution, especially before January, so you guys better not complain about something harming you that you didn’t even bother to try and change
(edit: changed the last part bc I wrote “…if life gets a lot worse for you” cause that does nottt sound right at all and I apologize for writing that)
#if you have the option to help make change and do nothing then that’s your fault#ah yes! taking absolutely no action! that'll show the corrupt two-party system!#I’m literally a leftist too I don’t like aligning with the democrat party either but like… what other choice do we have right now#why not just vote for the one who sucks less#also you do know Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware don’t give a fuck about you or any leftist issues right#like they’re literally just there to get in the way for people who are too dumb to realize they’re basically just handing a vote to Trump#sorry for my raging here we see that I am very nervous for this election lol#and i know i'm being dramatic i don't actually want life to get worse for anyone but like... if you're anti-trump but don't vote for kamala#you're basically just getting what you asked for#american politics#vote blue#us politics#i know trump supporters are the ones to be angrier with ofc but this type of people are really irritating too#breaking: 20-year-old chronically online tumblr user changes the minds of thousands last-minute by ranting (/s)
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hasbro is killing g5 mlp, which means it's officially my city now...say hello to my new and suspiciously familiar "ocs"
#my little pony#mlp#g5 mlp#mlp g5#g5 my little pony#mlp g5 fanart#mlp g5 redesign#my art#sunzy#stormblazer#izzy moonbow#misty mlp#misty brightdawn#sunny starscout#hitch trailblazer#zipp storm#pipp petals#opaline mlp#sprout cloverleaf#allura mlp#twitch mlp#sparky sparkeroni#sparky mlp#flurry heart#<- spoiler alert i'm making that old theory about flurry heart turning into opaline real in my personal visions of g5#i tagged this with sunzy but technically that drawing is a polycule with sunny izzy and misty#but idk wtf to tag for g5 stuff. i have so many visions nobody else gives a fuck about.#hopefully i'll start writing g5 fics now that hasbro is killing it...i need to save these characters G5 IS MY BABY I ADORE IT#i'm so miserable about how g5 has been treated so i'm going to do my own thing with it. i'm going to miss it soooo much so i'm coping.#stay tuned for more out of context self-indulgent niche au g5 mlp art.........this is how i am getting through the deaths of mym and tyt.
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One of these scogan Post-X-Men: Days of the Future Past fics where Logan changes things so everyone from the original timeline is alive and he’s back at the school and about to find out somehow that he and Scott are a thing in this new timeline, but first, after Logan is done explaining himself to Charles, Scott is charged with showing him the way to his room and they talk sort of but not really and all of a sudden they both hear a very happy “Dad!” screamed through the hallway and they both turn and there is a little girl of age four (or more), smiling and running towards them and Logan doesn’t get it because he hasn’t seen her before and he had no idea a child so young could even be at this school and someone here is her father but who? Cyke himself? And he’s about tu turn to see if someone else is standing behind them when all of a sudden the girl slams herself against his legs with such force that it wavers his stance for a moment and surely she hurt herself just now because there is adamantium on his skeleton and there isn’t any on hers and she is only a child after all but then he looks at her and not only is she completely okay, she is also staring at him and she is smiling and as much as it doesn’t make sense, it slowly dawns on him and just as he is about to accept it, the girl lets him go and then hugs Scott, more gently but with no less amount of affection and Scott is affectionate right back but he is also trying to send her away. Only for a moment, though, so he can talk with Logan, and the little girl frowns and doesn’t like it but caves in when he promises to get her some ice cream and Logan doesn’t get it yet again and as if it wasn’t already bad enough, the girl finally smiles again and nodds and then she says, “Thanks, papa!” and runs back where she came from, leaving Logan so awestruck it feels as if he’s a mere breeze away from losing his balance.
Part II | Part III
#scogan#scott summers#cyclops#logan howlett#wolverine#x men#fanfiction ideas#hello yes I’m indeed 24 years late#it’s not exactly my fault as I happen to be as old as the first movie#and I saw these films when I was little and they traumatised me for so long#that I can only now say that I saw them twice#and lo and behold#here I am in the scogan trenches#with this idea in my head which is getting more and more elaborate#don’t know if a fic like this already exists#I wish it did#I hoped writing it down like this would help to a small degree#it did fuck all#but anyways#hope you enjoyed
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from being the youngest captain of the nhl to losing after being down 0-3 and forcing game 7. i don't care what you say. this is his team
connor mcdavid | EDM @ FLA | 06.24.2024
#do you ever think about how far connor has grown and the leader he has become#from being a terrified 18 year old who didn't know if he would meet the expectations that everyone put on him#from him dreading talking to the media and not showing any personality except to his team and his family#to ben stelter#to loosening up more because he's grown up now#to shutting people up and bringing us back from the fucking dead when everyone counted us out and no one but him and drai and the rest of#the team believing in themselves#to losing in the cup finals in this way but still standing in the benches while the other team hoists the cup#the dream he has had since he was a child to a teen to a young adult to now#to make sure he could hug his team and his goalie?#yeah i think about it#he is a captain i would want to play for#corey perry#stuart skinner#anyways i am devastated and tired#good night#and yes i realized there was a portion i did not gif so i went back and added it#leon draisaitl#mcdrai#oilers lb#edmonton oilers#perlinigif#connor mcdavid
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It's not abt situations anymore I put them on literal things.
#fight club#fight club 1999#the narrator fight club#tyler durden#soapshipping#yeah it's my old ass mp3 that kinda charges on itself however it wants#looks crusty cause there was another drawing on it before and I had to scratch it off#fits them teehee#second time I draw this cause the first pen I used didn't stick to thr mp3#can't wait to stay 14 hours in a car#!!!!!!#help they kinda look like those adobe illustrator traced drawings 😭😭😭😭😭#listen I ain't risking drawing faces on their minuscle heads I'd fuck up big time#wow am I simulating a literal conversation im my tags#what the flip#grrrr bye last post for now#martyryo
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