#we are young 2020

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

James Vowles, you will not see heaven

[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.

[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.

[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.

[exsqueezememacaroni]

such a random patton thought but i just think mike with long hair is so dreamy... from the real thing/early bungle era to that one magazine picture of mike lying down on that odd taxidermied animal rug.. i cant help but having to hide in my room for hours thinking about those luscious locks...

and considering the stuff baby patton was into as well has my thoughts racing... video macumba for example my god...

he's so sexy tho.. those muscles

ok, hold on anon....for the picture of Mike on the animal rug, are you talking about the 2020 shot with scruffy Mike in a cowboy/aussie outback hat?? I usually am so super into anything that anyone is into with Mike...except for that pic. I'm so sorry!!!

but otherwise, YES to long haired Mike - that boy had some really beautiful hair in the late 80s/early 90s. combined with the fact that he was shirtless most of the time and flinging his hair back while rocking the fuck out....it's good.

and I would love to see him on days off and out of braids these days...his hair is pretty long by the looks of it!

Lastly...yes...video macumba...only a 20-something geek fueled by outrageous hormones, tour-depression/rage, and copious amounts of caffeine, who wanted to REALLY impress his new friends would be able to make that craziness...cue the "what does mike masturbate to" discussion....

[aeolianblues]

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

[unnamed-atlas]

MISTAKE

[ooblech]

i wonder if post god's menu stays realise how much of a shift that era was for skz? like obviously you can see retroactively by looking back at their discography irt their sonic signature, but i don't think people who weren't there can seriously grasp how big of a shock it was, they went from stan twitter's favourite punching bag to one of kpop's biggest up and comers practically overnight. they were already relatively popular by virtue of being a big 3 group, and they'd had a bit of success with miroh and less prominently my pace, but the absolute explosion after god's menu and their continued upward trajectory ever since was completely unprecedented for them. and especially given that they had JUST dropped a member. kpop groups do not tend to have massive spikes in popularity after losing members, and when levanter dropped we were all incredibly anxious for skz's future because it looked so bleak. we were crying cheering throwing up over ONE MUSIC SHOW WIN. ONE. they used to be less famous than everglow. do you understand me? are you understanding me.

[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

[fluffypotatey]

hey anon, honestly i feel your rant but like, i am not a good headspace to really give concise thoughts to it

[chengxiao-wjsn]

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[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.