#idk maybe if i was a teenager but i'm almost 30

[wewontbesleeping]

seeing posts about people lining up for eras tour at SEVEN AM to get barricade. oh. i would not be doing that. in any lifetime. lol.

[forestgreenlesbian]

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[jonsnoodlearms]

u ever start questioning your entire gender identity

[littlepetbee]

alriiiight @seeinhindsight i thought long and hard and came up with a list idea for your reading and cheering up pleasure! one of my fav things in narratives is when the setting is inseparable from the story: it shapes it, it causes it, in some ways it is the story. or maybe, if we're lucky, the setting is almost a character itself.

so without further ado, here is A List Of Setting-Oriented Stories That I Love (in no particular order):

1) Here Today by Ann M. Martin: (Setting As Personhood and Protector) a gut-wrenching little middle-reader novel that has haunted me since i was 13 where a cul-de-sac full of weird outcast poor kids and their parents/neighbors are both harmed and held together by being from Witch Tree Lane. 10/10, have not stopped thinking about it for 20 years and upon reading it again in my 30s was happy to find that it holds up <3

2) IT by Stephen King: (The Horror of Setting) the novel and the movies are both really good, but when it comes to the setting aspect, the book wipes the floor with the movies. 1153 pages of how derry, maine eats people alive (sometimes literally), shapes them into what they were destined to be from the foundation of the world (for better or for worse), and creates the cycle of violence while also being the only way to break it. 9/10, mr. king, you and your cocaine are fucking crazy

3) Teen Wolf: (Setting As Villain) i'd be remiss not to put this on the list when it ruled my life for almost a decade, no? even in the batshittery that this show could be at times, you can't escape the fucking brilliance of beacon hills, california being a literal beacon for the supernatural, awoken by the heartfelt sacrifice of three kids that were willing to die to save their parents. god. if only jeff davis knew how to delve deep. we really could've had something there. 6/10, because s5 brings that shit wayyyy down

4) Outer Banks: (Setting As Motivation) i'm mostly drawing from season 1 since anything truly meaningful went out the window after that, BUT setting a treasure hunting story on an island where "you either have two jobs or two houses" is just. the best fucking decision they could've made. you see the stark contrast between Figure 8 and the rest of the island in the same light as the pogues do, informing their desperate (and sometimes bad) choices and rewarding these kids for not knowing when to quit. 10/10 for season 1, 5/10 as a whole

5) Low Tide: (Setting As Motivation 2.0) following up obx with this one because it's literally exactly the same thing lmao. once again teenagers, once again treasure hunting, once again a setting that breeds wealth inequality - in this case, a beach town where the rich swoop in for the summer and then get to leave, while the poor are stuck there forever, holding everything down. what can i say...when i like a theme, it'll always be the more the merrier. TWO CAKES, as they say. 7/10, thank you jaeden martell for my life

6) Feel The Beat: (Setting As Story Success) idk if that tagline makes sense, but i mean that if this cheesy little dance movie that i love with all of my stupid, sentimental, old lady heart was set anywhere other than Bootyass Nowhere, Wisconsin, it wouldn't have worked. sure, the same sort of plotline could play out, but it would be missing most of the heart, depth, realism, and casseroles that make it great. 10/10, no notes. and i really truly mean that.

7) Attack The Block: (Setting As Both Savior and Destroyer) this is a newer one (and it was on my last list lol) but it really fucking got me, guys. the backdrop of an alien invasion being a british housing estate where the people are already used to banding together against outside forces is a stroke of genius. and then the intersection of classism and racism and how they link up to punish the people that deserve it least...fuck. 8/10 as we established last time

8) Plan B: (America Is Hell) not a #deep and hard-hitting exploration of setting in any way, but a hard-hitting story so deeply american in nature that you can't really ever forget it during the entire runtime. it haunts the narrative at every single turn, from parties to pharmacies to rundown little dive bars and playgrounds after dark. the usa is its own special brand of Fucked and even our teen comedies can't escape it. 9/10, just because I Did Not Ask To See That Penis, Thanks

9) Tarzan: (Finding Yourself Through Setting) GENUINELY MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME! (and maybe where this whole Setting thing started for me? who knows.) just. the jungle as a place to get away from all the societal noise and expectations and rules and just learn to Be. to be and feel and love and make your own choices. and for once in the damn movie canon of the world, the heroine gets to stay! she gets to stay. she doesn't leave her happiness behind and even gets to keep her father, who stays with her too!! 10/10, god fucking bless my soul

9.5) also shoutout to The Legend Of Tarzan which is much, much different but a solid 8/10 because all tarzans are good tarzans :')

10) Joy Ride: (Setting As Suffocation) the vast majority of this horror/thriller movie happens either 1) inside a car or 2) inside a single hotel room and that makes it so much more terrifying. it really does feel suffocating and like there's nowhere to hide and no way to escape this angry faceless man growling at you over the radio. guh, i'm shuddering just thinking about it. 8/10, when will boys stop being so stupid

the end <3

[barkhoffman]

I hope you’re doing better since The Previous Horrors. I loved your writing (no pressure to come back ofc!) and hope if you write anything in the future that the bullying doesn’t happen again

nature is healing but slowly

tbh I dunno if I'd even use the word "bullying" since no one came to me directly, but idk maybe public twitter bash sessions count?? honestly the fandom drama I've seen lately has me really hesitant to engage lmao bc I'm almost 30 years old and don't need teenagers yelling impotently at me online, but

I still do love these old fucking gayass murder trap fools

[ara270904]

I had made a post about Big sister Twilight, middle brother Spike and little brother Shining where I had said that the only change would be swapping Shining and Twilight ages. But the little problem would be that Twilight would be older than the Mane Six so

A) Different ponies for the mane six that are the age that Shining was (which would now be Twilight's age)

B) Make Twilight the age she was in the series but we make Shining younger than Twilight a proportion of age, like roughly younger than Twilight by the amount he was older than Twilight (in other words if he was 10 years older than her in this idea he would be 10 years younger than her so if Twilight was idk 20 and Shining idk 30 that means Twilight would still be 20 but Shining would be 10) and now the mane six would work almost the same.

C) The same Mane Six are used even though Twilight is older than them.

No matter the option chosen, there will be more changes involved with the idea in general. Although I think there would especially be more changes in the first two options because in the first you're changing five of the main ponies and that would change the story because different ponies interact differently with each other and are different so it wouldn't work the same.

And in the other you are changing Shining's age more than it would already be in the first and last option and that would change many things because an adult Shining is not the same as a teenage or kid.

In these types of AUs the interpretation of what you want to do changes a lot because okay Twilight is still the element of magic and you could say that she still goes to Ponyville and all that disaster but perhaps depending on the chosen idea, the use you would give to Shining would fundamentally change because in option B you could even make him with the same age as the Cutie marks Crusaders or idk maybe a bit older.

And the third could be that it is not very different to the original, the problem could be that all six of them got their cutie marks at the same time or for the same reason (something like that I don't remember well) but if Twilight is older than them it would mean that she would get her cutie mark first and then the others would get it later but if I'm remembering correctly the Rainbow boom (or something) was what made Twilight have the magic boost to hatch Spike and be Celestia's student but how would it affect if that didn't happen on Twilight's admission exam if there isn't that special moment? How would Twilight get in?

This post is getting long but is that it's a good idea to overanalyze and think about what would happen and what you would need to write a fanfic about this topic because as I said before you can't just try to make it look like the original because it has changes that alter the plot.

Just thinking about it I already love it, just think about Twilight being a lonely only child until she gets Spike and maybe after a while they got used to just Twilight and Spike being together but surprise she's going to have a baby brother.

Also there's the thing about Cadance, in my very honest opinion the ships of ex-babysitters with the guy they babysat maybe it just me but personally I don't like them, because if Cadance was Twilight's babysitter so you could say that in this AU she would be Shining's babysitter and that using the B Shining option I would probably be a little kid or maybe preteen so the Cadance x Shining wouldn't work very well here in my opinion again.

I honestly don't know how Cadance could be used in this idea, what role she could have. Hmmm

But a lot of writing already, I only wrote this because I wanted to share this with Tumblr people and because it occurred to me and I wanted to write it, then I decided it would be a good idea to post it. Thanks to everyone who read all my mess/ideas :d.

[stackthedeck]

Can you imagine if someone, After they unmask Spider-Man, do the math about the age he started fighting crime.

I Can imagine some of his enemies being like "oh god, I almost killed a kid"

Or some of his friend being horrified by how young he was. Especially when they discover it was at this age he gain a guilt complex

respectfully, what spider-man villain has a problem with fighting children lmao like I see this joke a lot about Peter's villains freaking out about fighting a teenager, but I think the substantially funnier joke is that no one gives a shit about Peter being a kid. Real fuck them kids energy you know?

Do we, collectively as Spider-Man fans, actually think any of Peter's villains give a shit. Like the only one I could imagine having hesitations is maybe the Punisher but he shows up when Peter is an adult. Like villains introduced before Amazing Spider-Man #30? Norman doesn't have a problem with hitting kids canonically, Doc Ock is like that, etc. Maybe the Lizard, Connors is cool but idk early Lizard appearances show him as having pretty limited control when he's the Lizard. Idk I'll think on which Spider-Man villains draw the line at killing a teenager

also i promise i'm not trying to be mean... but like I think his friends would not give a single shit about him being spider-man at 16. like say Harry by nothing short of a fanfic miracle, survives and works through everything after his dad's death and forgives Peter. what's he going to do feel bad that his dad was hitting him too? I mean probably, but like they've got a lot of shit to unpack together. Flash enlisted in the army at 18 and really admired Spider-Man before and after he knew he was Peter, I think he sees it as nothing but heroic. MJ canonically always knew because of a retcon that I think is bullshit, but nonetheless. Gwen never knew Peter was Spider-Man which I do think is one of the greatest missed opportunities of comic books, maybe she'd have a bigger reaction to him starting young, but like she'd have a bigger crisis to deal with if she found out. Shit, what other friends does Peter have? Johnny Storm? The dude that started at 15, yeah he'd make fun of Peter for getting into the game late. My niece was fighting Doctor Doom when she was six, web-head, sorry the shocker brained you before your SATs lmao

I think why I'm struggling with his friends having any reaction to like Peter's age is that when they do find out they're not that far removed from 16, they remember being that young and feeling like they were basically adults. I mean you're not basically an adult at 16, you just feel like it, but really the idea is only horrifying to us as the reader because we're not the intended audience of the high school years anymore. kinda like reading hunger games hits different when you're frontal cortex finishes cooking

I think the only kind of person that would have to have a reaction to Peter starting being a hero so young would have to be like someone with good parents and a stable home life and in comic books that's just the latest generation of heroes and like they did a whole arc about it

[dearmrsawyer]

floor time!!!!

i'm trying to find things to post about, even if they're not actually that interesting to share LOL, bc i have more time since I'm not hosting someone 24/7 but i still feel very overwhelmed by ~~life~~ so i am trying to use it to idk be present. retain some small level of connection, because my instinct when i feel like this is to disappear and be as invisible as possible, and i always find it hard for myself to walk back from when i give into that. i have so many msgs from the last few months i still haven't answered 😫 i still have birthday messages i never replied to, also a couple of friends that i should be catching up with but i don't want to lol, so i'm uhh just not messaging them back

our current 'theme' for afternoon tea at work is personality quizzes, this week's person chose a love language quiz, i've always thought love languages were about how you /show/ love, apparently it is about how you prefer to receive it!? even tho its not inherently romantic and these activities are supposed to be shared in a super low stakes and fun/silly way a big part of me was like uh i don't really want to do this in a work environment?? also the particular quiz that we did had like 30 questions that i genuinely think were the same 5 questions over and over and over, for some reason about five questions in it started to make me feel extremely uncomfortable, almost upset?? i don't really know why, it could have been bc it felt like i was being asked the same thing over and over, as if i was answering questions and not being heard. also i felt like 25 of the questions were 'do you prefer a gentle touch or an unexpected small gift', 'would you like to be hugged in public or overhear someone compliment you' will this quiz please STOP asking me if i want to be touched after i just said i don't!! i have a reputation amongst my family and friends for preferring not to be touched, its something that people have always commented on especially when i was a teenager. i was just never very tactile! the only time when i feel like i participated in a lot of social/casual touch was at church camps growing up, i think bc its one of those very short but heightened experiences that almost have a sense of fantasy? like you're not in the real world. and i did like being close with those people a lot, we shared important and intimate moments of growth in my life and they were people i loved but only got to see once a year so yeah it felt right to put more into it in the few chances we all got to spend together in this very formative environment, but it never felt as natural for me to be that way in regular life, i always preferred not to be touched once normal life resumed again and i feel like people always thought i was strange for not wanting it. maybe i still have a complex about that lol. anyway my main love language turned out to be quality time, which i didn't even know was an option. also i think. i don't like the term 'love language' it feels yuck maybe. my work friend and i both scored highest for quality time but were confused because we both love to be alone, we decided it was how we showed love to ourselves 😂

[antiradqueer]

Dunno if this is the right place to ask this, but I need some advice.

So there's this guy in an online writing group I was previously in that writes straight-up, really bad CSA material on AO3, and no matter how much I try to tell other people in the group what he's doing, nobody believes me or fucking does anything because "aw, you've got it all wrong, he's a great guy he's just going through some stuff, and it's not like it's real anyway."

He is not just "going through some stuff", he's a 30-something self-admitted pedophile who assaulted his own teenaged sister and almost assaulted his own child niece, and feels zero shame or guilt about any of it. I don't know who he is offline so it's not like I can contact the police, but anyone who interacts with this guy regularly and considers him harmless has a right to know he's really, really not. Which is why I'm sending you this, in the hope that you might know a way for me to get the word out about him without having to post on my own blog and have him and his friends come and harass me for "making shit up".

The only reason I even dug around and found out what he was doing is because some of the stuff he said reminded me of the man who hurt me as a child, and there's no mistaking that once you know what it sounds like. I am NOT "making shit up".

first of all, I believe you. I want to put this first.

I don't have the best advice ever, but if you know he did those things, you must have proof in some way? (/genq) screenshots, audios, etc? I'm talking about the rl assault, the AO3 content prooves itself of course.

I understand you don't want to call him out on your main blog, but maybe you could make an entirely seperate Blog (like, a seperate main, not a side blog) and post proof there?

unfortunately, depending on where you live, fictional content dealing with CP doesn't have to be explicitely illegal - I'm not from the US and Idk if you are, but just as an example, from what I understand: fictional CP is not covered by federal law in the US (feel free to correct me on this!). So, while I very much agree that what he does on AO3 is not okay, it doesn't have to be something you can hold against him legally.

but honestly, my biggest advice would be to distance yourself from him, his friends and that group entirely. sounds like a very toxic place, enabling harmful behaviour and I don't want to imagine what could happen there. stay safe anon!

for real, always remember, your own safety comes first. always. and this goes for everyone! if you feel like something is putting you in physical danger, like it takes too much of a toll on your mental health or is otherwise harmful - take care of yourself <33

[unburntdragonqueen]

I liked Cole*Rhaenyra sesx scene much more than any of daemyra. Maybe because Rhaenyra looked having fun there. In the beach scene daemyra simply found comfort after losing their loves, it wasn't a "joyful" sex.

Well before Rhaenyra was actually able to have fun bc even though she had responsibilities she was young and she didn't realize it specially since no one in her life helped her with that and no one taught her what she needed, so she was able to have fun she was free she was able to be the rebellious teen, but now she has kids, now she finally knows her responsibilities and has to be careful with what she does bc it can hurt her and her family there's a lot at risk (clearly as we see what happens in episode 9) so she has to hold herself back and contain herself bc things that as a teenager could be forgiven bc "oh they are just a kid" "they are growing, they will learn" well not anymore, so she still has the fire in her if you (and I mean in general not you in specific not attacking anyone) but anyway if you actually pay attention to her character you can see the nuances in the expressions that Emma puts forward in episode 6 we see a lot of her usual self but you also see her almost putting on a mask, and when she decides to leave for dragonstone it's almost her way of needing to step away bc that mask is "breaking" and in episode 7 you see it actually break when the fight between Aemond and her kids happen she puts everything out to protect her kids even to the point of running into a dagger to hold it back to protect her babies and that's the fire in her but mature now bc she's in her 30's not in her teens, about the sex scene itself I think it was for comfort but not just that I think that sex scene was very intimate and slow opposed to "quick" and "spicy" that people are used to, they were in that whole scene expressing the feelings of longing for each other and the feeling of "cloud 9" or almost like "well shit this is happening", it's them doing something they wanted for a while but now they are actually ready and it was the first time they saw each other in 10 years so there was still that fear of abandonment that you can see perfectly by how Rhaenyra holds Daemon and when she wakes up after and doesn't see him her face fell bc she thought she was alone again, so yeah the scene with criston she had more fun bc it was also her first time she was a teen with hormones all over the place everything was new to her you could see it in the way she looked at those people having sex she was mesmerized bc she probably knows little of it considering the time they are in so yeah naturally that was more "fun" with Daemon she loves him so it wasn't just for fun it was bc she needed him there was that urgency so in my opinion that's another perfect way of showing different stages of life.

Anyway I'm rambling idk where this all came from but I guess I felt inspired lol 🤣

Once again this is no hate to you or literally anyone at all, so I might sound a bit harsh but I promise I'm not trying to

[angevinyaoiz]

Love the designs in the new comic! How would Richard's later years look like in the AU?

I actually haven't thought about how the boys would look like or what their lives would be outside of my Humorously Recreating Historical events--especially since the timeline is very compressed so everyone is basically speedrunning 30-40 years of Events in like 1-2 teenage summers lol. I wrote a lot of thoughts below (also going into overthinking of How Burger King Universe even works), TLDR the binary is he'd either be a Dead Teen who rocked out a little too hard and made the wrong random person mad or he'll grow up and become a completely normal guy with no relation or connection at all to the historical Richard the lionheart aside from that tumultuous period, but to do so one has to exit the story I make in my head hahaah

Burger King Edgyverse : In this verse it would prob sort of be one of those really edgy teen narratives that follow the Richard timeline of he goes to the crusade concert, has massive interpersonal drama stemming from the 10000 personal and familial issues that escalates and catastrophizes all the relationships, goes home, tries to fix things, continues to have massive drama, maybe comes close to fixing it but then ends up dying really randomly out of some weird karma situation IDK maybe it's like the legend where some kid who he forgot about HATES him and then idk hit him with their car or smth on Châlus street while he's busy beefing. And then everyone is finally like damn.....he was a hot mess but he did some cool stuff so now we are all going to watch his videos and think Abt his life from another angle recontextualized and we now think he was cool now (PR internet movement gets built up. ). idk I'm a bitch who loves weirdly anticlimactic tragedy so that's one universe.

Kind of is my processing and sticking to the main points of the historical Richard life which always struck me as very Dramatic and almost cyclical, which Is very fun for me. Idk there is something very "cursed" about all the family members and their ends and relationships so following up with that (in a more modern sensibility way) is fun to me.

ALTERNATIVELY:

I also thought about...what if characters in the Bk universe aren't cursed to that eternal return...idk. I had a funny thought earlier like that Geoffrey in BK universe doesn't die, he just becomes self-aware of and chooses to exit bc he's tired of the bullshit hahaa (tv equivalent of actor having to leave the show). In my mind, for the Narrative, some people do have to die, namely in my mind Junior does die in BK universe and shifts the mood from haha sillie goofy conflict to more strained and bitter. After all it IS an AU. Maybe BK Richard can leave being "Richard" timeline behind and be just a guy in an unrelated story who grows up past the predetermined historical event timeline parallels and can be a normal person with average life sort of thing. But that's beyond my scope since I'm mostly interested and focused on reinterpreting specific dynamics in that timeline, and deviating too much is when characters feel less AU and more distant and become different People to me (which would be the point...the historical figure must die for a person to live? Idk.

I know this feels like a weird distinction to make, and prob plenty of ppl probably see my delusions and think it's ALREADY so deviant but its more internal like in my mind I like having specific connections to historical stuff even if it's a weird tangled thread heheh. In general though, all is in good fun.....it's late so I may write later so apologies if this makes no sense at all but thanks for reading this far if u got it hahaah

[kiwi-tmntfan]

-gun- just tell me about yourself

1: A song you like with a color in the title

2: A song you like with a number in the title

3: A song that reminds you of summertime

4: A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD

6: A song that makes you want to dance

7: A song to drive to

8: A song about drugs or alcohol

9: A song that makes you happy

10: A song that makes you sad

11: A song that you never get tired of

12: A song from your preteen years

13: One of your favorite 80’s songs

14: A song that you would love played at your wedding

15: A song that is a cover by another artist

16: One of your favorite classical songs

17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18: A song from the year that you were born

19: A song that makes you think about life

20: A song that has many meanings to you

21: A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22: A song that moves you forward

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

24: A song by a band you wish were still together

25: A song by an artist no longer living

26: A song that makes you want to fall in love

27: A song that breaks your heart

28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29: A song that you remember from your childhood

30: A song that reminds you of yourself

Uhm ok well I don't think I can do all of these because I just don't really listen to much music but I will try my best...

Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte

One Jump Ahead from Aladdin

Summer (Where Do We Begin?) from Phineas and Ferb

Upside Down - Jack Johnson

All Star - Smash Mouth (I always turn this one up because why not)

Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

no. (no really idk one)

When Can I See You Again? - Owl City

Almost Home - MercyMe

How Bad Can I Be? from The Lorax

Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

Avengers theme (I get it, I'm weird)

12 Days of Christmas by Relient K

Für Elise by Beethoven

A Whole New World from Aladdin

Low - Flo Rida, T-Pain

Gathering Stories - Jónsi

IDK You Yet - Alexander 23

Irving's Camp Fire Song from Phineas and Ferb

I Can Only Imagine - MercyMe

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song

look idrk any bands

not gonna try and research for this one either

I don't really think there is one for me

Can't really think of one

um uhh- My Lighthouse by Rend Collective? I think??

Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

How Far I'll Go from Moana

There. 25 out of 30. Are you happy.

[goldenpinof]

Idk I feel like he does look 30, I think people just have a skewed veiw of what 30 y/o is supposed to look like. Like if you look at him in 2015 and him now you can tell he has aged, and thats a good thing. He looks older but also healthier and happier.

i'm almost 30, and the majority of people around me are like 27-34. and i've got to say Dan looks good for his age, better than some people who still didn't hit the 30 mark (all white Europeans). ofc he has grown since 2015, his shoulders became broader, his face changed a bit etc etc. but it's still a babyface, and he looks young in a sense that his hair and skin look better than you would expect. and better than Phil's. maybe we should wait till Dan hits 35 mark for it to be more fair. but even looking at the generation of 1991-1992, celebrities who turned 30 recently changed within a year or 2 drastically imo. Miley, Selena, Ariana – it's not a sudden change but there is one. and maybe it's unfair to put Sel on that list because of her lupus, but i think age played some role in all of them not looking like "grown teenagers" anymore. aging is a real thing, i'm not shaming anyone! it's more like why do i have gray hairs everywhere at the age of 28 and Dan doesn't when he is 31 😤 and it's not like he is chilling 24/7, so what's his problem?

[sandsstorms]

omg !! for that ask game: 3, 7, 16, and 27 🤍👀

hi mera! 🧡 ok. here we go...

3. What was the last song you listened to? 

officially my music app has Everything I Wanted by Billie as the last song I heard... buuut my little sis has had on repeat, and I wouldn't even be lying if I said around 30 times in the past hours Arcade by Duncan Laurence. man. teenagers obsessions are something else 🤣 she was decided to memorize it

so yeah. that one

7. What’s your ideal number of blankets to sleep with? 

yess. the good questions 😂

well I like to have like weight on me when I sleep (why? no idea) the thing is I live in an almost all year long hot season country so it's hard to do that most of the time. but the ideal, whenever is cold enough, being that right now 🙌 is a sheet and two heavy blankets 😂 so I'm happy today ���

16. Want any tattoos? What of? 

oof. I really couldn't tell. have some? none. want any? idk, I'm terrible at decisions, and kind of big decisions even worse. so right now is a no 😂

27. What’s your favorite book? Or just one you’ve read a few times? 

oh I really like Pride & Prejudice, but one I've read like 4...5 times (and this is a lot because I'm a terrible reader. tho I really enjoy it) was The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. it was when I was 18...or maybe 20. and I fell in love with the idea of teens just enjoying life as it comes and being and doing something beyond their diseases. I got diagnosed with T1D when I was 13 so I kind of knew the feeling even when the circumstances are completely different. the feeling when you live with a disease that in some way limits or changes your lifestyle and even more at that age is the same. so yeah. that was me 🙃

might read it again. it's been a while. I miss it now 🤣

[wlwtfock]

Hey!

I just came across some questions about anobbie's sex scenes, and i just wanted to.. idk put some info about it :D so i watched an instagram live the cast did some time ago ( its up on youtube if u would like to watch ) and they got a question about making intimate scenes. They all agreed on that they worked with a sexual consultant ( if im correct with the name/definition ) and they only did things they were comfortable with and were able talk about their opinion and borders. They were guided - and if i remember correctly they mentioned they did it with a close set, so it wasnt in front of literally anyone.

Its still a thing that the actors are young adults, who had to make these scenes as a work. Back in my teenager years ( :'( which was about ten years ago ) i've had sex as a 17 years old almost like they pictured it. Its sometimes feel like a one night stand - like the other anon said.

My friends and schoolmates were watching porn when they were 15 years - or maybe less ( including me i am not a saint :D ). That was way more destructive in my opinion and its still a thing that too young ppl see "wrong" sexual content too soon. I'd prefer for example my child to see a series with scenes like this at age 15-18 rather than porn.

In my country i know that above 16 years you can have a sexual relationship within a normal range so obviously not with a 30 years old or something. Seeing this from this perspective, i think they acted really lifelike.

Maybe i am rambling now and i dont know if i have any point, but the interview helped me a lot to understand and accept this more. Yeah, i'd also prefer a waaaay more intimate scene between them for sure but we had what we had and its good to know they were okay with that. I just hope it maybe makes others feel better about it :)

Okay, this feels weird that i asked nothing yet :D so here's a little question: what song did u liked the most in the series?

( i barely use english, so sorry for any mistakes :) )

sending hugs to everyone ♥

Thank you so much for this in my inbox anon, I love hearing other people's point of view and I also love to hear that they spoke about their scenes online.

I'm always open to other point of views, because maybe my point of view is very conservative I think? I've not grown up with the internet being what it is now (older millennial here), so my growing up around sex or porn is so different to what it is to other generations.

The main takeaway I think is that the actors were fully comfortable and clearly my first time was very different. I guess I also need more or a romantic connection? Who knows.. I guess you could say vanilla lmao

But if this helps others, I'm all here for it so thank you again for your thoughts!

Now I'm rambling!

And your ask about my favourite song, wow you really caught me off guard! I don't think many stood out. I still have very fond song memories of skam Espana and France so I am sorry I cannot answer that one unless I re-watch Belgium one again. Maybe someone else would like to comment?

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I mean there definitely WAS a certain amount of "staple foods gone I'm hungry can I eat this?????" going on, especially in the hunter/gatherer years. Like do not underestimate the power of hunger. I honestly don't think most of the weirder foods like cheese came about through purposeful means, but I do think there was a certain amount of willingness to experiment involved in *eating* weird shit. My own personal headcanon - after reading many, MANY archaeology and anthropology papers and after doing actual archaeology and also being a people - is this: Aurochs stomachs were probably used as skins for holding liquids, like Aurochs milk. One day, someone improperly cures a stomach and there's some rennet residue in it. This residue does the thing on the milk in it and then the owner of said improperly cured skin (probably a teenaged boy because they're just Like That.) is dared by his friend to consume the results of said storage blunder and realizes it's not so bad, actually. Then what Jenna Marbles calls the "too much" gene kicks in and this kid follows his human "let me turn this dial up to 11" instincts kick in and he starts experimenting and then figures out cheese. Because the mixing of acid and dairy isn't that hard to figure out, but the rennet part is like...that's what gets me. On what planet would you look at a perfectly good bunch of milk and go "know what this needs? Aurochs/cow stomach acid". I mean maybe they looked at what was going on inside a not-quite-aurochs-not-quite-a-cow-yet when they butchered it and were like "ah yes, a fermenting, lets do that to the milk", but idk...something about that just seems unlikely to me.

WRT to fire....fire, although we don't have evidence for this, is almost certainly one of the things we figured out like several hominin species before humans. I'd guess probably somewhere between 3 and 4 million years ago, even tho there isn't evidence for it. It just makes sense that we figured out fire around when we started eating meat. But I think that like the dropping meat in the fire thing was not how it went, because I think cooking drove the figuring out the controlled use of fire not the other way around. Probably what happened is that they started getting their hands on animals that died in naturally occurring fires (and not stealing from carnivores.) and opportunistically consuming it. Especially bc meat that's raw only lasts for about 30 mins in the savannah before it's unsuitable for hominin consumption. So like if you wait for the lion to finish eating before you steal the meat, you're gonna get sick. But the lion probably won't eat the deer that burned in a brush fire. Once they realized this they probably started to seek these things out, or even cause the fires themselves. That actually was one of the earliest hunting methodologies: burn sections of land and the new shoots draw out the herbivores. So like...given that the ones who started cooking probably weren't human you can't really apply human behavioral logic to them. Their brains were definitely more chimp-like than human-like. And sure, chimps are curious creatures, but ah....humans turn that up to 11. ;)

Edit: it occurs to me that it couldn't have been the citrus in milk thing bc cows, cheese, and milk FAR predate citrus domestication and citrus comes from Asia, where they never domesticated cows (that's why they never evolved lactase persistence.). so unfortunately, @sometransgal, it wasn't citrus.

I keep thinking about that one post that was going around talking about the potential origins of cheese and everyone immediately jumps to it must've been rotten milk that they ate out of desperation. But I'd like to posit that the first cheese was probably someone adding an acid to warmed milk and realising it splits it. Like it's not that big a stretch of the imagination for someone to think "oh I like warm milk but I also like this acidic fruit, I wonder if I can mix them". From there a little experimentation on separating the new curd from the whey and you've got a simple fresh cheese.

I dunno I think the reason I wanted to make this post is just that we tend to desscribe a lot of discoveries around food as desperate acts of starvation and not genuinely thought out experimentations based on observations like every other form of human knowledge. Ancient people weren't stupid starving unwashed masses and it's important to remember that. They were people who could think and deduce and logic their way through things as good as you or I.