#millennial things

[marzipanandminutiae]

announcing that you lost the game is nothing. ahem:

zydrate comes in a little glass vial

[whimsymanaged]

Me at 10pm: Gotta sleep so I can work 11 hours tomorrow.

Me at 4am:

“You’re impossibly fast—and strong.” Alex tries to keep his voice steady. He knows Henry’s right behind him, but the body heat he normally expects from someone standing that close is missing in a way that sends a shiver down his spine. “Your skin is pale white and ice cold. Your eyes change color, and sometimes you speak like… like you’re from a different time. You never eat anything. You don’t go into the sunlight.”

Henry doesn’t respond, but Alex knows he’s still there. Alex takes a breath and makes himself keep going, because his mind won’t stop whirring until he gets all the answers.

“How old are you?” he asks.

There’s a shorter pause than Alex expects before Henry replies, “Seventeen.”

Alex nods, then swallows. “How long have you been seventeen?”

This time, Henry does hesitate.

Finally, he says, “A while.”

[ginnsbaker]

lol

[multifandominfj]

Coachella for Millennials

[shewhotellsstories]

My brain is weird because at my age my mother had three children, a house with a backyard, and was married to my worthless stepfather. I go back and forth between wondering if marriage is something I should crave and wondering if I could ever love anyone enough to give up my solitude.

[goldenwingediris]

I would just like to thank the Barbie movie for rekindling my love of Matchbox 20.

[mbrainspaz]

Excuse me I've just been beaming at my screen like a maniac since I saw this thumbnail. This is the first I'm hearing of this but apparently she came out last October. 🏳️‍⚧️ Always lovely to get a positive life update from one of ye good old youtubers I watched in school.

[rory-bor-e-alis]

Millennials listening to New Romantics

[ladyfarona]

The only thing keeping us millennials alive right now is pure spite, the HOT BOWSER Mario movie premiere, and the upcoming Zelda BotW sequel. 🥴

[terribly-late-for-tea]

I had the loft bed with the desk underneath (nothing fancy, my mum Ikea-hacked that shit), but I longed for the other stuff.

Still kinda do, to be honest, although sometimes for newer reasons; for example, the cost of heating is ridiculous, but if you have a canopy bed, especially one with curtains, that would keep ya pretty cozy! (no idea if the CO² output would make such a thing dangerous, but it's my fantasy damn it, and I want Scrooge himself to be jealous of my canopy bed!)

remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

[multifandominfj]

Liberty’s Kids walked so Hamilton could RUN!

[shewhotellsstories]

Tonight in self-reflection I wonder, was I a highly sensitive child or was I just the normal amount of sensitivity and my Gen Xer mother just lacked the emotional maturity to deal with my emotions?

[mbrainspaz]

I had to work sunrise to sunset this christmas so I guess we're doing a christmas work rant. The young employee who's always tried to bully me high school style has been trying not so subtly to get rid of me, right? Well anyway, I can't tell if she's lying about the corporate boss plotting to give me the boot or just trying to scare me into leaving. If it's the latter, joke's on her because it's next to impossible getting hired anywhere else as a noticeably neurodivergent 'too old to still be single' queer woman? whatever guy with 3 dogs & a senior horse. Doesn't matter that I still don't have any tattoos.

The work 'evaluation' meeting we had recently seemed to go well with the boss even admitting that she'd short-staffed the business for the hardest part of the year and caused me to have problems. Corporate types are all snakes though. I don't even trust her as far as I could throw her, which is probably only 1 or 2 feet because a 5 gallon bucket of water is about the limit of what I can toss without messing up my back.

I was just thinking back to the clash we had over the summer. I'd been picking up the slack for months. Doing 50 hours a week of ranch work on average, and not even logging all of it. My one coworker (the 'manager') was slacking off and taking tons of vacations. I was tired all the time. I had no life outside of work. I even put my 3x more profitable illustration work on hold. And still when I asked to be paid for 2 hours too many the boss turned on me like grandpa Bilbo seeing the ring. She actually accused me of trying to "steal" from the company. Because I was requesting too much overtime in order to keep her damn business running somewhat smoothly in a 3 month 100+ degree heatwave.

After that I had a long talk with my corporate CEO uncle, who loves talking about Business. He said it was my mistake all along. That was hard to take but I can admit I messed up. I had to reevaluate my whole life from that point. Again.

When you're raised with that puritanical 50's martyr-like work ethic you're set up for failure. "Nobody wants to work anymore"? I want to work! I want to work harder than anyone will pay me to work. And like a fool I did anyway, and I got burned for it. Again.

Sometimes I really can't believe where I am now. Like true, I am insane by some metrics, but I still got a degree with honors, customers love me, I speak 2.5 languages, I have management experience, I've successfully run a whole boarding stable on my own, and my personal hobby that I do for FUN is finding the most efficient way to do the most tasks possible. Time blindness who? I don't need to see that bitch, I know exactly how long it takes me to walk across the room. And here I still am getting paid 2k a month, stuck living behind a barn, with a boss who was deeply offended when I told her the 31 cent raise (gotta appreciate that extra penny) she gave me was the second lowest I'd ever gotten. The only lower one being the automatic $.25 raise I got for working at the roach infested college sandwich shop for 2 semesters over a decade ago.

But nah, it's a always been a me problem. I should've known better than to work harder than they were willing to pay me. Am I also about to get nerfed by corporate for not volunteering to do extra unpaid work now? Uh—YEH. Of course I am! Foolish of me to imagine there was any way to win this.

I just can't get over the fact that I was giving them so much value for the pennies they were paying and it still was barely enough to qualify for basic survival. The boss doesn't even see or understand a fraction of what I did for this business. At one point she haughtily tried to remind me that I was also getting 'free rent' and board for my horse, but it's like, 'yeah, and you're getting someone present at your business 24/7 and a worker who can better connect with boarders.' Don't act like you're doing me a favor. I'm not your charity case. I'd rather have an extra 2K a month and live offsite. Except I'd need another 3k a month to afford rent within 50 miles.

I'm just so angry at every hustle culture shill and out of touch boomer who's still out there lying—saying that all it takes is a 'can do' attitude and maybe a college degree.

Apart from the year I was too ill to work I've worked multiple grueling jobs, 40+ hours a week for my whole adult life, I've lived on eggs and bologna for most of it, and if I lose this job in January I'll be homeless. Again.

Make it make sense. Make the meritocracy they hallucinate exist for me for FIVE MINUTES. Just once.

I just want someone with money to see everything I can do and say, "you're cool, I think you deserve to live. Not only that, but here's enough money that you can afford to do something crazy-banana-town like some regular maintenance on your car."

What's worse, sometimes, is that I know if I just gave in and played the stock market and did the credit card schemes and maybe did a few other crimes and exploited some other poor saps, I could probably actually make it. I hate it so much.

I am the ghost of christmas future.

[fanblurb88]

this movie was the reason I got into the book series. I thought it was awesome and then when I saw that it was based on a book? immediately sold and I've been a huge fan ever since,

@pscentral​​ event 28: throwback

↳ percy jackson and the lightning thief being a 2010 period piece

[stephtuckerauthor]

"Tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef, that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him" still stands as one of the best lyrics of my generation.

[20dollarscanbuymanypeanuts]

Rewatching Dawson's Creek after all these years and I can't remember where I stopped watching but I think it's in the vicinity of Season 2.

Man.... This show is crack, whack and everything in between. I have so many thoughts and most of them are super retrospective millennial thoughts ending with wtf lol.

I'm hanging around to find out how the infamous ship of Joey and Pacey comes about.