#me snd my twin were 8 when Dipper and Mabel first graced our screen

[mix-macher252]

We keep getting older and they stay the same. I can't help but rewatch these shows or think fondly of them because of how old I was when they started and how I grew up with them on air. These characters mean so much to me because I see myself in them.

I started off younger then Dipper and Mabel in Gravity Falls, Steven from Steven Universe, and Star Butterfly from Star vs. The Forces of Evil. However, I was their age when the shows concluded. I started a Greg when Over the Garden Wall first aired and became Wirt when I watched it earlier this year. I watched Total Drama when I found High School a distant future and my older brother had a few years before he went into it. Now there's a remake and I'm in college, fully aware of the flanderized and over-exaggerated caricatures of teenagers.

The beauty of these cartoons is the very thing that makes it cruel; their immortally. I had the ability to experience these shows, but so does everyone after me. A new 12 year old can watch Gravity Falls and see their birthday at the end as something for them to look forward to. Some other young teen can watch Steven Universe and see Steven grow, relating it to their own experiences discovering the world. So many of these shows are for younger kids, so we are bound to "outgrow" these shows. But do we really ever outgrow them? We still watched them, we still experienced them, and we still have the lessons and stories these shows taught us. How cool is that?

(Excuse my rant. I kinda wanted to talk about this and never really had an opportunity to)

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.