#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

[serial-unaliver]

someone tell boomers who complain about millennials they have to update it to gen z to hit the target demographic now

[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

[purpurussy]

[3liza]

carefully scanning every picture the "mall goth nostalgia" blogs unearth from Flickr for appearances by me and my friends

[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

[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]

example image:

bonus points: tag your generation/time period

[blossoms-phan]

dan and phil as edward and jacob for Halloween send post.

[myspacerevivalist]

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

[toadminako]

While I love the Terror BTS photos as well, I'm lowkey obsessed with how millennial-coded Liam Garrigan's social media posts are

The earnestness punctuated with jokey sarcasm! The excessive use of emojis! He's just like me fr fr

On a semi-related note the second volume of the indie horror comic he's working on is so close to getting funded on kickstarter with only a few days to go so maybe consider throwing something their way if that interests you!

[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