#the Millennials are barely there!

[opalescent-apples]

I just saw someone say gen z is having a midlife crisis

I...no words.

[sharky-the-idiot]

he keeps staring at the tree. I think he misses his dad— *gets shot and killed*

[myevilmouse]

something smexy for @ele-millennial-weirdo on her special day

Gorgeous Thryce art courtesy @blackmonitor, accompanying double drabble from me 💙 We hope you enjoy! 🍾🥂🎉

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“Your highness…I…”

A gust of air left her lungs as Arihnda raised batting eyes to meet Thrawn’s gaze.  The slight twitch at the edge of his mouth pulled her from the fantasy.

“What is it?” she sighed.  “What’s wrong?” 

Thrawn couldn’t ever carry through the kriffing roleplays she wanted… Her lover tried, he clearly aimed to please, but maybe Chiss just didn’t act out fantasies in the bedroom the way humans did.  Or perhaps the Grand Admiral lacked imagination.

Thrawn laced blue fingers in hers, the smile that had threatened his lips softening into something indulgent, gentle.

“Nothing is wrong.” 

He stepped closer, pressing the back of her hand alongside her bare shoulder. 

“You think it’s silly…”  A flush that was more embarrassment than desire crept along her neck. 

“No.”  A firm shake of his head accompanied the negation.  “I am flattered to act the hero, your Prince…”

“But?”  She knew one was coming.

“But reality satisfies…” 

The tightness in Arihnda’s chest loosened, anxiety melted by the admiring glow of his eyes.  So this was love, maybe.  To be enough for one another. 

“It does,” she agreed, pulling Thrawn into a kiss that would have done any fairy tale proud.

[designernishiki]

ok gonna be real I’ve never understood the “daigo is like a son to me” route that the writers took with kiryu. they’ve never, at least for most of their time knowing each other, felt like they’ve had a father and son dynamic– an older brother/younger brother one sure, or maybe a young uncle/nephew one. because I mean? they’ve known each other since they were both kids and they’re literally only 8 years apart in age. in y0 it’s implied that kiryu played with him and babysat him more or less when he was around 16-20 and it just doesn’t feel like a Dad sort of thing At All. kiryu was also a kid. just an older kid. daigo was a little brat to him just like an annoying little brother while secretly thinking of kiryu as a Cool Teenager he looked up to and wanted to be more like. it feels way more like an older/younger sibling sort of thing or something akin to that and it only starts being a little more like a father/son dynamic some time after daigo loses his father and feels the need to fill the void– which he couldn’t even begin to do until at least ten years later because kiryu was in prison. and it’s not particularly in a healthy way either, considering. well. like I said. kiryu’s never actually been like a father to him. I don’t even mean that in a negative way in this case, it’s just literally not the role kiryu fundamentally had in his life (especially because their age difference is a good 10-20 years too close to be that of a parental relationship.) so idk. having kiryu say all of a sudden that he sees daigo as a son (especially rather than as family in some other way) just feels kinda. wrong. and jarringly unfounded.

I mean shit, even majima would be more of a dad-ish figure to daigo realistically considering kiryu basically assigned him to look after daigo for like. years. while kiryu just kinda left without any known plans of reconnecting at all. or even kashiwagi on a certain level because of how he stepped in alongside yayoi after sohei’s death. kiryu has barely been around, hasn’t really showed any interest in legitimately being in his life, and has barely had any deeply personal interactions with him since they were basically both kids. and as much as I think how long they’ve known each other and what they’ve both been through is a means for a familial bond of SOME kind, there just seems like no room or evidence for a paternal role being taken on.

at least nothing healthy in that regard; if kiryu’s like a dad to him then he’s undoubtedly a deadbeat one and perhaps feels like a dad to daigo in a way because daigo’s paternal model (his birth father) was also emotionally (and probably largely physically) absent and near-impossible to live up to. that’d at least make sense, regardless of how unhealthy it’d be, but it STILL really doesn’t explain kiryu saying he thinks of daigo like a son.

it’s just. it’s such a weird thing to have him say and I wish it was this confusing because of nuance but honestly I just think the writers watered their dynamic down to supposedly father/son because it seems more emotionally impactful for kiryu to say “you’re like a son to me” than anything else he could’ve potentially said about their bond.

[carolofthebell]

Our nation is burning because Boomers refuse to respect anyone younger than them.

They don’t pay livable wages to younger people, so we’re all in debt or living paycheck to paycheck, and don’t have enough money to contribute to campaigns. They won’t contribute to campaigns of anyone younger than them. Neither party has put forth a Gen-Xer since Obama (and born in 61 he’s barely Gen-X.) Does anyone else remember the articles about Obama being the first of a new Generation of leaders? That hasn’t happened.

List I made organizing Presidents by Birth Year:

[chicknparm]

I am the only person on earth who is Normal about Taylor Swift.

[frances-kafka]

A giant chunk of my thing with Twentian Studies is that as a Jew, I am very, very alienated. Jews left an outsized mark on Twentian public life and pop culture and our cultural footprint is disappearing. We have no real place in the current Victorian order and they made that clear. But what's more is that Jewish culture changed drastically in my own lifetime and stopped being something I recognize. I feel like my kind of Jew is a thing that is basically dying, and I've been left here on this island by myself. I feel like one of the very, very youngest of this kind of Jew and like most of the core group alive are Boomers. People love our culture but don't love US, and that can be said even of later generations of Jews. Public Jews of my generation are increasingly either deeply assimilated and rather de-fanged, or just more and more actually trad. There is a certain American Ashkenazi 20th century *thing* that died. You will never get another Blazing Saddles but it's not for the reason that internet blowhards think; it's not that it wouldn't be made. It's that another Mel Brooks will not exist, and would not be allowed to write it. Nobody who made anything you love, would ever be in a writer's room today. And when he is gone, he is gone.

[anakinh]

update on inquisition: solas broke up with my inquisitor, so she swore at him and then stomped off to lure and fight a high dragon while her companions complained the whole time

[elmelloill]

they should invent a walk where you can write stuff down without having to stop on the side of the path typing things in your phone

[animezinglife]

Millennials: We can't afford a $450k house and rent is eating our paychecks alive.

Boomers and the older half of Gen-X: The real question is why you think you need to live in a $450k house. This generation is so spoiled and lazy!

The "house" priced at $450k by Boomers and the older half of Gen-X:

[2leggedshark]

Jimmy being very confused and slightly concerned over absurd memes makes me so happy.... my little millennial

[chaoslynx]

What should the adults in bf discord be nicknamed? Chaos Boomers? I appreciate how you give advice that is helpful for teens & struggling 20s adults.

CHAOS BOOMERS 😭😭😭

[mrs-lockley]

i love working with students and student assistants, you younger gen z folks are wild

[designernishiki]

follow-up to my last post: I like the detail that kiryu gets ayaka’s email and they keep in touch, partly because I like to imagine that he has so many fucking questions for her about queer shit. both because he’s figuring himself out orientation-wise and also just cause he’s a 40ish year old man who takes care of gen z kids who isn’t super in touch with all this stuff but he really wants to know so he can be more educated and a better supporter and all that

[saint-starflicker]

Someone: the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking

Me, who's already written 4 novella-length future fics, constructed paracosms of 50 more, and can no longer tell the difference between the source material and my headcanon: no longer what

Someone: yeah it was so sad when this character died

Me, who’s already read 15 fix-it fics and no longer can tell the difference between canon and fanon: when they what

[fingertipsmp3]

Genuinely not sure if I cry easily or if I just have a habit of dwelling on my problems and past grief that I should really be well into the fifth stage of by now but am instead stuck on stage 3 or 4