#respect your elders

[fcaruana]

rookies on both sides of the spectrum

[summerwages]

wild blue elderflower..

[guzhufuren]

creators of chinese live action bls i love you but is Pit Babe a joke to you

[karaspal]

i know the supergirl movie has a lot of mixed opinions (imo i think it’s a good movie), but one thing that’s for sure is how good of a casting helen slater was.

like, that’s supergirl right there. 10/10 cast.

[ox-imagines]

Guys I love Ed

[seeinginthedark]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the story of Pandora’s Box lately. The box that once opened unleashed all the evils onto humanity. And I’ve been thinking about the hope fairy at the bottom of the box. Hope theory, I’m calling it. It’s a dangerous thing, hope. You have to take a risk. Have to have faith. You have to believe that things are going to get better. Be a light in the darkness. That’s us. Surviving in a world that’s becoming more and more immoral, senseless and detached. People are allergic to truth and wisdom. Disconnected from nature and the spirit realm. This has made us confused and living superficially and artificially.

I know that some of you are reading this and understand exactly what I’m saying. We are the last hope. We are the hope fairy at the bottom of Pandora’s box.

When everything seems hopeless and pointless or terrible and painful and endless suffering, we carry on, we keep going. Keep trying. Keep fighting. Keep hoping. Keep praying. Keep believing. Never give up!

We might as well be all that is left of the light. The same light that “they” have been trying to crush and destroy for eons. Again and again and again.

And “they” even created a matrix-timeloop-simulation-reality to keep us all in so that “they” can just keep re-hashing it over and over and over again because “they’re” sick in the head, perverted, and want to watch it as content ! You know , like a reality show or The Truman Show, where we are Truman.

So that’s why, we give them a good show.

[jordieeeee]

I wonder what Tommy would think about his brother pushing three grown woman into mud

[mariusslonelysoul]

The problem with boxfly as a ship name is that it is too cute. Ineffable bureaucracy is long and stuffy and pretentious and kinda annoying -just like gabriel and beelzebub!

[thetitancurse]

kill me maim me but percy series made me appreciate the movies in a way i had never before & never thought i would

[illiana-mystery]

Mister...I mean Doctor...

[100jewels-between-teeth]

Julian Devorak walked so Astarion could run

[orionsangel86]

You know, I thought we were done with the ageism in fandom thinking that its purely for teenagers? Because it doesn't help anyone to have the attitude of this (now blocked) anon. People don't stop having passions and being fans of things just because they get older. Fandoms thrive BECAUSE older people put in the effort to MAKE them thrive. Do you really think that 100k word perfectly written epic fanfic that you adore so much was written by a 16 year old? Because I guarantee it was more likely to be written by a 35 year old mother of 2.

That amazing cosplay of your fave character you saw at a recent comic con that took phenomenal skill and probably a good deal of expense to look perfect wasn't put together by a 17 year old high schooler, it was perfected through years of passion into a hobby that more than likely required a full time job and a savings account to afford.

That amazing fanartist who has the BEST art of your OTP that captures their likeness in a really gorgeous style? They weren't born with that talent. It takes years to develop a personal art style, and capturing a persons likeness in art is a skill that has to be nurtured. The best artists are the ones who've had years to develop their skills. They aren't school kids. I have had mutuals on this site for a decade now and I have seen how much their art has improved and become absolutely beloved. These are people who at their youngest are in their late 20s now. Most of my mutuals are in their 30s, some of the best fanfiction writers I know are in their 40s and 50s. The meta writers I know are also in my age group. Hell, do you think teenagers run AO3? You'll be surprised just how many "old people" make the best fanworks. If you removed them from fandom spaces, I guarantee you would remove most of the talent, because no offence to you kids, but that talent is something that is nurtured over time, and time and aging go hand in hand i'm afraid.

The people who make fandoms what it is, the ones running events, pouring themselves into analytical posts, providing the best fanart, coming up with the amusing memes and textposts that go viral? Do you REALLY think they are all school kids? Fandoms are made up of PEOPLE, and newsflash assholes, people AGE.

This attitude always amazes me. There isn't an age limit in fandom. This isn't fucking Logan's Run (bet you the kids won't understand that reference) and honestly if these kids genuinely think they need to give it up and quit at a certain point in their future I just pity them.

Fandom thrives because of the older people that have nurtured it for years and carved out a space where younger people can enter in comfort and safety. Which are only possible BECAUSE older people built online fandoms and continued to put in the work to keep them going. If we all had to stop caring and leave fandom at some specific cut off date, the fandom landscape would be a vastly different space - and probably a lot worse for being predominantly run by hormonal teenagers - heh, I guess it would be a lot more like TikTok and we all know how dreadful TikTok has been for fandom so far. If nothing else that alone proves my point.

At the end of the day, no one can stop the passing of time. Even the horrible children who send adults nasty anons. Eventually, they will be the "fandom elders" and receiving their own anon hate from a future generation of brats, I personally can't wait to be the very old lady laughing at them when that day inevitably comes.

[prahacat]

Last line challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Many thanks to @rochenn and @cocotter for tagging me!

Here's what I last wrote for do not long for anything, an angsty Clone Wars fic. Can't say much about it because it has a disturbing twist, but it's about Obi-Wan, Cody, Ventress, Dooku, and other fleeting accumulations of cells that should never long for anything.

“Master,” says a quiet voice behind him, “I’m back. The Nightsister clan has been dealt with, as you commanded.” Dooku does not turn. “A thousand-flower.” Its stem with the delicate drop-shaped leaves curls around his fingers. The blossom stares back at him, a tiny golden eye with blue lashes. “It was my late brother who introduced them to our gardens, undoubtedly one of his less ambitious whimsies to better this world. He acquired a few specimens from a traveling botanist who, I’m sure, extolled their simplicity in cultivation. If left unchecked, they propagate with an almost absurd efficiency. Remarkable, isn’t it?”

Tagging @wibzenadarksiderwithasoftheart (hoping to entice you to share some of yesterday's work <3) and, as always, anyone else who'd like to share their writing!

[fernando-jpg]

just remember, when you overtake fernando you commit crimes against old people

[ant80in3]

At school a friend and me start at the same time the game Summoners War (really strategic game, I like it a lot) at the same time. Yet my friend ended get much more 5 stars monsters and ultra advanced runes and sets of runes (the equipment to build your monsters and make them stronger) while I was way behind with small chips and I didn’t understood a thing about runes system.

Years later I was playing The Binding of Isaac next to my father who decided to give it a try. It been a month since I play it. Now I have 700 hours in it and this madman have the triple. Yep. My 49 years old dad just leave me in the dust with more than 2000 hours on this game.

Finally a year ago I start Arknights a week before a friend. Today I’m level 74, they’re 107. I barely have 3 Operators at their full strength, they have so much full build Operators that among them there also useless/less viable Operators fully up.

Am I surrounded by pro gamers/whales ? Does I suck even at video games ? Both ?

[asaconservative]

As a conservative who believes in free speech and who believes that everyone gets offended too easily, I'm sick of this "respect your elders" bullshit.

If you want respect, you have to earn it. People are not required to respect you just because you're older than them and you'd be offended by them not respecting you.

It makes no sense to raise your children to live in fear of being hit if they offend an elder then wonder why everyone is so easily offended.