#we be millennials

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

Hoagie & Wally definitely the type of parents who use slangs wrong to tease their kids, like mixing early 2000s slangs with 2020s slangs

Are they doing it on purpose… or do they really think that’s how YOUTH speaks?

Bonus:

They had to be prepared.

[shimmeringspiritstar]

what I got from the newest crk trailer

[crimeronan]

the barbie trailer did dredge up this long-buried memory of one time when i was ten and at conservative christian school with a bunch of my very sheltered conservative christian peers and one of the girls i was having lunch with mentioned something about going to college and i said "yeah, that'll be cool! as long as we live that long i guess" and she said "what??" and i said "i mean, it's a long time away?? a lot can happen?? we could die in a car accident?? someone could attack the school?? i don't know if i'll be alive in eight years"

and she just.

made. the D: face.

in real life.

[wangbotam]

quick millennialcacao that actually took a few hours because i kept procrastinating

[devils-little-mouse]

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…

[realian]

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bonus points: tag your generation/time period

[myspacerevivalist]

Guys how do i actually get cheap tickets to When We Were Young Fest?

[ask-shane]

....are you a millennial....? /very neg

no. i’m a boomer.

that’s how old some of you seem to think i am…

[nonasuch]

took the longarm quilting certification class at the fabric store today!

very excited to start whittling down my pile of quilt tops and start a new pile of actual finished quilts

[liusumeowhua]

shen yuan raging against the system being a dick to him will never not be funny to me. buddy. it's a service you don't pay for. you're not the customer, you're the product

[lolo3h]

Yet another comic of shadow milk commenting on pure vanilla's life like a tv show

I was confused when at the end of the Golden Cheese story, they decided to travel to beast yeast without the other legendaries. They'll most likely be added in the future, but with Sherbet Cookie's story (Towards the Light) Wind Archer said that he'll go to Beast-Yeast to fight the darkness. I seriously through he was going to show up as a npc or cameo.

[marzipanandminutiae]

wanting to talk about having a different Millennial Teen experience than the former "popular kids" who make all the nostalgia tiktoks, but not wanting to sound NLOG-y about it because you're 30 and you realize that Different doesn't mean Better

[wafflesrisa]

I think none of the F1 drivers should be allowed to cut their hair after the summer break actually

[seawitchkaraoke]

So funny to me, a person in my late twenties who's been chilling on tumblr for years when the kids are surprised that the late twenties youtubers with tumblr accounts they watch know about their headcanons, like buddy, they live here

[ianthoni]

I wonder how different Ian would’ve ended up if he(?) didn’t get so well known so young. Being put under a microscope at a young age in a time where the internet was an even less nice place, especially towards the lgbt+ community. It sure would stop just about anyone from doing any kind of exploration

The movie, Heidi’s comment, Pam’s drawing, his own joy when playing female roles.

(Also i don’t remember who’s account i saw it on that someone made an ask about lws with Amanda and Anthony staring him down when they’re talking about lacey bras and people being like “what’s the story there” but that plus Pam’s drawing? Bruv i think there might be a story there LOL)

I wanted to make a short summary of all the mentioned things+ a little edit about Ian feeling gender. Honestly i don't wanna assume or speculate anything but he does give very egg. Idk how different everything would be if he was not famous so young and so long. And it is so hard to come out especially if it is gender related, especially when he's coming from a time where this was so not welcomed. They talked about getting bullied about being gay, Ian talked about personally how the slurs affected him and how he felt so bad people use these slurs, not because he doesn't like people calling him gay or gay slurs but because they're using that slurs as a weapon. If they were gen z, if they come from a more accepting place wonder how different things would have been.

This is Pam's (Ian's ex) drawing of Ian that he keeps on his fridge. It is seen she draws him in a bra and writes "totes a dude". (Side note Pam is bi and thought she was a lesbian for a while)

This is the movie Ian watched last night about a closeted queer person.

Which could mean nothing.