#we are young 2020

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

James Vowles, you will not see heaven

[faffreux]

man I really do feel like I’ve only finally grown up in the last 5 years and I’ve been an adult that entire time

[sarasade]

I "love" this discussion around zoomers' media preferences. It's just:

"Oh no, zoomers don't want to see sex on screen! Why is this generation so anti-sex and puritanical! They only want to watch Heartstopper, these tenderqueers and puriteens! Why aren't the young people fucking and reproducing more!"

But also

"Why is Young Adult fiction full of depravity! Sarah J. Maas and Colleen Hoover are ruining art with their stupid sexy tropes!! It's not healthy that BookTok teen girls are so obsessed with "spice"! Maybe these people should read some real books! These yaoi fujoshi gooners are not beating the porn addiction allegations."

Yeah, it's pretty hard to take this seriously guys.

[eulaties]

[flamboyant-king]

I had an Isaac run where it was so stressful my heartrate was at a 145bpm and it persisted for 6 hours. After that, like every day that followed, my heart would just suddenly shoot up to 120-140bpm for an hour if I so much as thought about something I've been stressing over recently. Everybody encouraging me to go to the ER. And I'm just like "Oh please I've actually always been like this, I'm fine." Had to chop down my Adderall dosage. But I swear I've felt like this since high school, but I guess the medicine enhances the feeling and that feeling was ANXIETY.

So, suffice to say, playing The Binding of Isaac™️ almost gave me a heart attack.

[izzyznotbuzy]

Miss the friends I made on Tumblr in 2020 when I was 14, and had no social anxiety 😔

[chengxiao-wjsn]

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[annabelle--cane]

i think some people read ur posts and think “how dare you say we addiction metaphor on the poor”

XDDTYGHBHIYGTUJNB in all fairness this has gotten hugely better since the fandom cooled down in the last year and a half or so but god. yeah.

[aeolianblues]

I’m a Strokes fan in the way only someone who hates the Strokes can be

[unnamed-atlas]

MISTAKE

[frutavel]

Sometimes I feel an urge to apologize to everyone who I interacted with in any way around like. 2020 and before then.

[zombiejette]

mr. and mrs. tweedy walked so buttwitch and big deal could run

[britneyshakespeare]

you know what it is. i talk about how vain he is and how he only talks about himself and that is the impression a lot of people have of him and it is the impression i favor leaning towards. he has a very coded way of self-disclosure; he often seems like he's trying to impress people but i know him to be not-the-most-assured in a lot of ways. when i first complimented him on his poetry and told him how much i liked a few pieces (and i loved some of what i read before i knew his last name, so when i read his poetry i did not assume the person whose poetry i so loved was, well, that retired male model i met in passing every now and then). when i told him that. he was very moved by it.

and i do talk about how vain he is; i do say he only talks about himself; but every now and then when he does say something about me it is not at all hidden that he does admire me. some of what he says that seems to coded to impress me or to get my validation, i know he is doing this towards me because he thinks im this smart poetry girl. and i am? i am that, he's not wrong. i think it makes me feel hopeless to think that he really does respect me and care what i think of him because i'd rather he didn't. i'd rather him be this charming but shallow pretty boy which i think he has been seen as by a lot of people throughout his life. despite that he is hardworking, despite that he has (or at least tries very hard to have) an intellectual side. perhaps what he says about himself is so often coded to please me even while it is fishing for my attention, and i want to see that as a reflection of his own self-regard but i don't know that it is.

i don't know that it's not, but i don't know that it is either and as neither of us is very frequently vulnerable with the other, it's not fair for me to say which is the case. or even that there's a "which" like it can't be both. i don't know that he admires me; i don't know that he sees me as this girl who is (or at least used to be) very charmed by him. i do know that he always comes to me and asks me about poetry because as far as he's told me, i'm the only one who has ever cared about his. for all i know that could also be bullshit, but then why should i assume it is either? i'm quite unfair to him in my assessments of him. i do have to admit, he has never actually seemed to have a disrespectful or unfair assessment of me.

[chengxiao-wjsn]

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