#name whatever trashy thing you like its not expecting its entire audience to be under 23

[k1ngj0ve]

rambling annoying feelings

fully agree that (the post i saw earlier about a harry potter themed wedding) was cringe and weird but 'how do you function among adults' is kind of nonsense. Adults are just people. some people are cringey. if they have their life together enough to throw a wedding with 60 people then they are perfectly functional adults. you dont just stop being a fandom nerd suddenly when you hit 23, you dont drop your whole cringe personality, youre the same person but your back hurts now

when i was a teenager and twilight was coming out my mom was obsessed with it, went to the store at midnight to buy the new books, was always wanting to talk about the the relationships in it, she was in her mid 40s. when i was around 18 and the movies were rolling out my boss (around 50) was desperately engaged in shipping discourse about it-- but only out loud to people she knew, her coworkers, she just didnt have an online fandom aspect. She was a fully functioning person with a career and two kids and a horse and show dogs she brought competitions-- and she had long aggressive conversations with me about Team Jacob vs Team Edward where other adult lab tech coworkers would also drift in to engage.

I didnt even like twilight, i just prefered talking about twilight shipping than i did about how incredibly christian and homophobic she was. Even uncool and unnerdy adults are just people and get sucked into movies-- its what movies are for.

most people are cringey and weird if you talk to them long enough. My aunt hates the very concept of movies, cartoons, video games, and television and she throws football parties and screams at the tv-- but she went upstairs to put on some fucking fish movie for babies at the party and got totally sucked in by it, laughing at all the fart jokes, and forgot to go back down and watch football. This woman almost disowned me once for insisting she had a game system in her house as a child (because my mom said so)-- but she still would watch the worst comedy movies once a month and start crying and sobbing with investment into the characters and universes, no matter how low brow it was.

the woman was a senior member of a well known computer company that got sent to europe every other week to hold meetings with the foreign task forces and im pretty sure was a millionaire built on her hard work and charisma (and luck)-- and she was just full wet sobbing at the movie 'just friends' and completely thinks 'idiocracy' is a portent of the future (yes, she has some clear 'poor people breeding will ruin america and we have to control them' thoughts. this high powered executive type)

'being an adult' doesnt mean your mature or have good taste in media, is what im saying, havign bad taste in media doesnt mean youll never be successful at life or cant communicate with people-- they just live in a nice little bubble and have no concept of the word cringe and are their regular terrible selves 24/7 without worry.