#but also. that's a 20 year old girl....

[bybdolan]

taylor fan brain rot is reading an article about the sexualization of young female celebs in the 2000s and immediately knowing that the very wise writer shaming that behavior is the woman who wrote Taylor's 2009 Rolling Stone cover story.

#shoutout vanessa grigoriadis #fell down a whole 'taylor media in the 2000s' rabbit hole yesterday and GIRL... #i think newer fans (me as a 1989ie included) really don't grasp how she was perceived during that time #she was essentially the ANTI everything. anti sexy siren anti feminist (that was a whole shabang) anti weirdo #and i do think some of the criticism could be injected back into the debate whether she is like countercultural or an underdog or whtvr #but also. that's a 20 year old girl.... #there was a super mean article that was just. intense. BUT t actually brought up the very interesting point #that taylor was treated as a 'child prodigy' when she actually is not that much younger than adele or gaga #who were viewed as young women #much 2 think about #because some swifties still did that when she was 24/25 #which is SUPER young!!! and a messy time #but i have rarely seen that happen with other artists

[rainedroptalks]

What is it with fantasy high and girls dying before their lives ever began. How we can never really know who they are, or who they could’ve been. Brennan Lee Mulligan I will find you

#ramblings #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #lucy frostblade #yea yea this is obviously about Lucy. but also.. #um #penelope everpetal #(collective booing from the crowd) #(I am dragged off the stage) #jokes aside tho #they both have that quality of haunting a narrative (Penelope specifically in the seven and Lucy in fhjy) #they’re gone. their stories are over. and yet #they have a hold over the ones they left behind #we will never truly know Lucy past anecdotes and old stories #penelope was an array of false faces and honestly? we’ll never know her either. all we’ve got is that old picture of her and Sam #and obviously Lucy was kinder. she definitely didn’t deserve what happened to her #while you could argue Penelope got what was coming for her #but the fact remains #Lucy Frostblade and Penelope Everpetal we’re both teenage girls who we can only catch glimpses of. forever #in some ways #they’re the same. dead girls who never fully leave. their ghosts still visible in the corner of your eyes #anyway rant over I’m just obsessed with d20 girls and I can draw parallels from anywhere #I might make a more… comprehensive post about this one day who knows

[bethanyactually]

this is, imo, some of the most hilariously teenaged conversation on this show

#you can't think of a SINGLE reason why it would be inappropriate nancy?? #for an FBI agent who is old enough to have gone through med school and quantico and risen up the ranks to head an investigation #to kiss a 19-year-old who is barely out of high school? in his public place of work? in the town where she's a local celebrity????? #also george's look of outraged incomprehension at the idea that park didn't wanna kiss nancy is so good #girls supporting girls! why WOULDN'T he wanna kiss nancy? she's hot! is he full of himself? geez! #also george....did you not have an affair with a man in his 30s QUITE RECENTLY which you now regret and say fucked you up??? #oh this show and its timelines #the characters are kinda treated like they're in their early-to-mid-20s because time has passed in the real world if not in HB #and then these kids have a conversation like this and it's like being slapped with a reminder that they're all SO very young <3 #nancy drew #george fan #nancy drew cw

[bugeyedfreaks]

IT CAME IT IS HERE THE 20-YEAR-OLD PPG SOAP MAKING KIT FOR CHILDREN YAAAY 💖🥳🎉

I saw this being sold online, you all wanted me to buy it, so I did, and now you can all see what horrors you’ve wrought upon me.

The first thing that I noticed when I opened this package up is that it smelled terrible. I didn’t even have to open up the envelope you see in the picture: the actual shipping envelope smelled bad. It was definitely a soap smell gone very wrong. Needless to say, this wasn’t a good sign of what was to come.

… well, spoiler alert, it really doesn’t get any worse. In fact it’s a little underwhelming. 😆 But read on anyway because I do suffer a little while doing this, and I know if you all love at least one thing about me… it’s my suffering. 💖

I opened it up, and the first thing I looked at was the instruction manual that seems to be written in the perspective of the Professor. That’s kind of cute and on brand. I also chuckled because both of the soaps in this kit are named after Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girl who hates bathing the most. Whoever made this knew what they were doing and I love them for it. I hope putting this together made working at the Delta Education company a bit more fun for them.

Here are the instructions for people who like to read 20-year-old instructions of crafts for babbies:

After I looked through all of the instructions, I found some PPG stickers (not shown because I’m already pushing my photo limit for this post) as well as all of the ingredients for our experiments. Oooooh~.

I was actually a little bit disappointed, because I thought there would be more ingredients involved to make these things (you know, like an actual educational science kit would normally have), but this is all it came with. The shampoo base was just premade shampoo without the (apple!) scent in it. The green soap was just premade soap, cut into chunks that you would melt and pour into little heart shaped molds. The little glitter stickers in this picture weren’t PPG themed, and the “PPG trinkets” were straight up just erasers.

So, yeah, it was… underwhelming. From what I can gather from the other kits I saw being sold online, I suppose these were “educational” in the sense that they were used in educational settings. They were probably just little craft kits for kids in classrooms rather than kits that were going to teach them anything substantial (I think the other kits I saw were for making jewelry and door hangers… just fun projects for kids to have fun and learn how to put things together 🤷‍♀️).

Still, I purchased this kit, and I’d be damned if I didn’t actually get some shampoo and soap makin’ out of some of these ingredients. …and I say some because I had to find out whether I should even USE these products, given the warning on the front of the bag that said the contents warranted adult supervision. I mean, I’m an adult and I felt like I needed another adult.

There was absolutely no way that I was going to use the shampoo base, because I am pretty sure that it would make my hair fall out or disintegrate my scalp if I tried using it (or even if I touched it). It looked really slimy, and had a weird, translucent stringy texture to it, so I tossed it. I snipped open the apple scent packet because I was curious to find out if it still had a scent to it… and it was actually sort of pleasant! It had a bit of a chemical after-scent to it, but it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever smelled. Still, I don’t think I should be putting a 20-year-old scent anywhere near my body (I probably shouldn’t have even smelled it, come to think of it… my chemistry teachers would have been so ashamed of me) so I decided I would not be using it in the final product either.

I opened up the green soap, hoping that that would actually be okay or at least smell normal, and… I actually gagged. BLEEEEECH. That’s where the awful smell had been coming from. Immediately tossed it in the trash. It was AWFUL, and there’s absolutely no way, not even for the sake of comedy, that I would willingly put it in my microwave or even let it come in contact with my skin (although yet again, like an idiot, I smelled it… oh well, my idiocy has its limits, I guess). I looked online later and also found out that, apparently, glycerin soap can produce mold and ferment after 4-5 years… so yeah, it was probably a good call for me to trash it.

That means I now didn’t have any of the actual soap products I was going to use to make these! However, I had a trick up my sleeve (at least for the solid soap) and that trick was called… buying new soap to use. 🤣 I got some dye, grabbed some apple scent to add to the soap, and voila! BUTTERCUP SOAP!

Beautiful! 💚

They’re actually kind of cute, and I’m using them as little dish soaps right now (I’ll probably toss the erasers later though… I don’t think they’ll work after being in glycerin soap that long). The new apple smell I bought is, weirdly enough, not as great as the 20-year-old one, but it’s still something I totally think Buttercup wouldn’t mind using, even if bathtime was still torture for her. I also ended up making some blue soap themed for Bubbles (aka the original Soap). As for the shampoo, I basically just added the apple scent to some shampoo I already had and decorated the bottle that came with the kit accordingly.

…and that’s all she wrote! There it is! Soap and soap for your hair made with help from a kit no one else but me would, in their right mind, ever purchase! I hope you are all now fulfilled, free to live enriched lives knowing what mysteries were enclosed in the kit, and that I successfully made something with it for your enjoyment. It was all… for you! 💖🫵💖

#powerpuff girls #the powerpuff girls #ppg #20 year old soap #weird merch #also if anyone needs apple scented soap lmk I can now provide you with it #hope you enjoy….?????

[jolionio]

In addition to the Molly and Burrich stuff at the end of AQ being Fucking Weird it’s also like the last thing Fitz says to Burrich is accusing him of not being able to live his own life at all so Burrich goes to set out and abandons his adoptive son (that he just raised from the dead!!) to prove that he can live his own only for (he believes) that son to get murdered. But he goes to look after Fitz’s ex and child, before getting together with Fitz’s ex and raising his child! Like it just proves how right Fitz is because no Burrich can’t be his own person, first he takes Chivalry’s place in the story and then he take Fitz’s! Burrich has devoted so much of himself to each of these people that when they are gone from his life he becomes them.

#Jo’s posts #rote #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #burrich #I think that Molly’s feelings regarding all of this is also fucked up #like here is 20 year old girl with extreme daddy issues who marries a man 15+ years older than her #like Burrich and Molly are really together to play out their worst traumas #Burrich’s being the loss of Fitz and Molly’s being the abuse she suffered from her father #it’s a lot

[thebusylilbee]

ive been sort of randomly rewatching Dr Who episodes based on my mood since the specials aired and man.. the Jack Harkness & Martha team ups were the fucking best ! just these two being heroes and bitching about The Doctor to his face while simultaneously being in love with him. tremendous fun really.

#season 3 and 4 are just *chef kiss* #also im gonna get murdered for this but I feel like we're all mature enough to exchange our opinions without drama anymore so ill say it : #Rose was both super fun and tragic but of all the first four seasons companions she's actually my least favourite now #I think it's bc the whole '19/20 year old girl gets the several centuries old guy's love' hits less once you stop being in your teens #I appreciate the ambiguity and tensions of the Jack and Martha dynamics more as well as the perfect (platonic) relationship with Donna #doctor who #martha jones #jack harkness

[true-bluesargent]

literally kicking my feet and giggling over pride and prejudice like i am from the 1800s

#im actually watching the lizzie bennet diaries #episode 80 and i am down horrendous for this darcy! :“) #but also i started reading the book #and like. it's the same story essentially #so it just makes me think like #about the 20 year old girls who read the book in 1813 when it came out #were they staying up late for just one more chapter to see what would happen with lizzie and darcy??? #were they having to put the book down for a second to squeal about exciting things happening? #idk something something human beings have always been the same even though everything else changes #and there's something so emotional and cool about that #im a history student this is just where my mind always goes x #pride and prejudice #jane austen #the lizzie bennet diaries

[matchamiko]

I really dislike the new trend of videos with “I’m a 21 year old, these are the things I’m ashamed of about myself” and it’s just a recycle of living with parents, having no savings, having no job related to your degree or never being in a relationship. Poppet, you’re so young !!! Don’t be ashamed of that stuff !!!! I know you mean well and are trying to be relatable and individual but you’re not because you’re a baby and babies don’t need to have their whole life sorted out !!! Especially in this world and this age !!!! We all are small girls (gn) living in a mean mean world, let’s just have a cup of tea and some cake and not worry m’kay?

#I could’ve been meaner but I realise it’s mainly young 20 something girls #why r u ashamed if the point of the video is to make people less ashamed of a situation you share? #also I would be more inclined to watch and listen and relate to these videos if it was a 30 or 40 something year old #yall are babies please cut yourself some slack #also it’s one of those I saw one video and don’t need to see the others cause they’re all the same #boohoo I’m trying to be individual with my struggles:((( but also I have the exact same struggles as everyone else #precious child we r all suffering let’s just hold hands quietly #I could be so mean rn I’m so torn between being mean and kissing their heads #miko.online

[lollytea]

How do I say, without coming across as a jaded miserable little bitch who likes raining on everybody's parade, that the PJO Disney plus adaption is nostalgia bait, in the same way that their live action remakes are

#it'll probably be good #it sounds like its gonna be a pretty faithful adaption #im not denying that #but #20-30 something year old you ARE being pandered to by the Walt Disney Corporation #its fine to be excited for it. just so long as we are all aware of whats happening #also we gotta stop acting like mr riordan is some underdog in this situation #hes written one of the most successful teen lit series of all time #and in disney's current quirky girl phase of grasping hold of anything that already has a following #of COURSE they snatched this shit up #''Percy Jackson. A Disneyplus original.'' #do you have any idea just how much theyre salivating to have their name attached to this series? #(tbf the books were owned by disney too. but a streaming service makes their link to the franchise all the more evident) #anyway. maybe i sometimes get a little bitter when i think about all the original projects in production that were abruptly cancelled #usually because of the current fear to take risks and put something new into the world #and then i remember adaptions like are going ahead #there is no risk associated the pjo series. the first few books are relatively squeaky clean for a teenage audience #this is a comfortable direction for them to go in #''but but but theres gay people in it'' hush. disney is not afraid of captilizing on the gay experience #also im pretty sure the gay people dont show up until like. 8 books in #thats 8 seasons #can you imagine #''guys we need to keep giving this show our support so we can eventually get solanjello (or whatever its called)'' #ooooh theyre quite evil. very interesting #even tho like. dont worry you'll get your gay people eventually. you'll get all your book adaptions. you'll get all those seasons. #this franchise is disneys new pet #you can smell it #the hype. the cast announcements. the promotion #LIN MANUEL MIRANDA??? #theyre going to squeeze every last drop of engagement they can get out of it

[thedreadvampy]

like clockwork someone who's been openly a sex pest for decades gets named as a rapist and sexual predator and we all get to play the hit parade with such classics as:

oh my god oh my god did you know this industry full of rich people who are rewarded for exploitative and abusive behaviour...has an issue with rape and abuse??? CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE'S ABUSE IN THIS INDUSTRY???? (yeah man we know. we've known for quite a while actually. for longer than I've been alive for sure.)

oh my god I can't believe there are rapists among us (1 in 3 women have experienced rape, who do you think is doing it?)

but he seemed so nice! (not really tbh)

well I met him and he never raped me and like, I'm really hot so if he was really a rapist he would have (Jesus fuck get help)

is it really rape to fuck 16 year old girls when you're in your 30s? (yeah it is if you fucking rape them mate)

can't believe everyone knew but never said!!! (they literally did say and also hey imagine if you will what reasons there might be too not say anything, such as, say, it's not your story to tell and the victim had expressed a wish to not be at the centre of a whole shitstorm)

Real Victims wouldn't go to journalists they'd go to the cops!!! (hey guys I have some upsetting news about the experience of reporting rape to the cops)

This is a conspiracy to make this irrelevant celebrity look bad! (please touch grass)

it's all just a bit of fun innit (no)

and every time we all over again have to go to this place where rape is simultaneously a significant threat and common experience (agreed) but also everyone who's ever talked about being raped is lying, and nobody's ever done a rape even if there's 20 years of documented evidence and on camera confessions and also their whole public persona is 'cheeky sex pest' (fucking. what?)

and then that guy hopefully gets cancelled and people feel a bit more guilty about watching him. and then they'll go HOORAY THE EVIL IS DEFEATED WE HAVE GOT RID OF THAT GUY THAT DID THE RAPES. OUR WORK HERE IS DONE. COMEDY/FILM/MUSIC/TV IS FREE OF PREDATORS NOW

and then 6.5 seconds later allegations will come out about someone else and we will start the whole thing again from scratch OH MY GOD CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE'S ABUSE IN THIS INDUSTRY???

#red said #it gets SO under my skin like how are people STILL SURPRISED????? #like this happens SO OFTEN you canNOT still find it this unexpected??? #especially when it's someone like Russell Brand who is the kind of 2000s comedian who built his entire career on predatory misogyny as a bi #like I'm sorry I'm sorry this isn't a time you so moment #but some people you're like oh that's disappointing. he seemed like he might be sound. #others though. you cannot tell me at any point in the last 20 years anyone's looked at Russell fucking Brand #and not thought at least a little bit oh this man's a fucking nonce #'russell brand predated on teenage girls for years' may be up there in the least surprising sentences I've ever heard #i have never seen a man who's more obviously used to regularly using the phrase 'I waited until her 16th birthday so it's fine' #the fucking fedora ass incorrectly loquacious cult vibes '''''ironic''''' hipster misogyny known-in-thr-scene creepster #like we all know that guy right? sometimes he's a famous comedian and sometimes he's a 38 year old musician who only ever #dates girls under 18 and hangs out at spots frequented by students trying to show off both how hip he is and how he's got Adult Money #but the vibes. the vibes. tbf a lot of those fuckers in the 2000s were probably also modelling their vibes off him also. #the looming monster of rape in the abstract

[archersartcorner]

I KEEP THINKING ABOUT NORMAN WANTING TO BE A DAD AND I VERY RECENTLY REMEMBERED THERE’S LITERALLY 3 8-YEAR-OLD GIRLS RUNNING AROUND THE WURST. ADOPTION!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!

#my art #described #dimension 20 #dimension 20 a starstruck odyssey #a starstruck odyssey #norman takamori #idk if the girls have a tag!! I’d assume it’s just the girl guides but that also fees general enough that it could be used for smth else #THEY EARNED A NEW BADGE AND HE TOOK THEM OUT FOR ICE CREAM. THEYRE CHAOTIC LITTLE BABIES AND DESERVE ICE CREAM. #genuinely imagine that Norman like. he’s known as being a mean hardass and even post-campaign I imagine that even tho he works on it.- #-he’s still a bit abrasive. but VERY noticeably he never is to children. #he can be this 🤏 close to chewing someone out and as soon as one of the girl guides comes in he’s like. ‘SON OF AAAAaaaaa hey kiddo. #you doin okay? need anything?’ #the rest of the crew while like. wary of the girl guides. they don’t want Norman unloading on them at all. and I think they’re surprised at- #-how… incredibly even-tempered Norman is with the girls. #thinkin like. Norman’s intent on making sure the girls never feel like they have to meet him at his level. he’ll meet them on theirs. #he doesn’t want them to have to grow up faster just because they’re surrounded by a bunch of adults. #and yea sure they’re con artists and thieves and notorious for that. but they’re also 8. like they’re 8 year old girls. they’re kids. #and while most of the crew sees them for the thievery. norman sticks out cus he sees them as kids. #THESE ARE BOTH TWO INSTANCES OF THINGS MOSTLY PLAYED OFF AS BITS. AND IM COMBINING THEM TO MAKE THEM MEANINGFUL AHDVSJS

[i-made-a-bg3-blog]

The nice thing about Gale being a Certified Old™️ is that when I make Certified Old™️ references in modern AUs, it's just because I'm so good at writing him in character, and certainly not because I myself am a Certified Old™️.

#like i feel like all my cultural references are from like 2004-2011 #can we still reference queer as folk in the year 2024? #i also refuse to believe that the og mean girls is 20 years old #gale gives me millennial who still thinks 2014 was 2 years ago energy #gale #bg3

[autism-swagger]

Local girltwink in her boydyke era

Closeups under cut

#butcher? more butch?? butchlier???? idfk man #RIP Jackie Taylor you would've made such a handsome butch 😔 #also I just realized that the little guy kinda looks like Nat. it's not. it's supposed to be me #but ​you can choose to interpret it as Nat lowkey swooning over Jax if you want to lol #this's part of my au wherein Jackie almost freezes but is brought inside by Nat n Travis #(a lot fewer people die than in canon. it's (relatively) happy) #(they don't hunt each other. a couple of the girls (gn) die from various causes. but not murder. this includes Coach Ben) #she loses several fingers and an ear to frostbite #and Shauna still cuts a chunk outta her arm lol #because let's be real that bitch is crazy (affectionate) #these are of ~19-20 year old Jackie #she moved outta Wiskayok the first chance she got #(to either California or New York. I'm undecided. some major city) #she holds a pretty major grudge against the rest of the survivors for uh. fairly obvious reasons #she's roommates with Nat and Travis (who's relationship is a lot healthier than canon because Javi didn't die) #but she hasn't spoken to any of the others since they were all rescued #it has JackieNat bestie-ism. and maybe more. who knows #(me. I know) #wow this's just turned into me rambling about my au #my art #Yellowjackets tag

[zhongscara]

hm.

#mine.txt #short was well animated but also felt like a whole lot of nothing #the previous harbinger being a caricature didnt help #like i could tell she was gonna be shitty immediately #and they just really hammed it up instead of implying more depth #i get its only 7 minutes but genshin has done a lot in shorter character teasers #idk... worried abt arles character w this #but at least im interested as to what her curse is #also if thats the same girl in the preview art... time shenanigans? #and was that freminet at the end? #tbh the timeline makes no sense unless arle is actually like 20 years old #or there was another head of the hearth between that woman and arle #bc freminet was in the HoH before arle took over

[hella1975]

the closest ill ever get to being a pick me girl is the joy that fills me when the chefs at work so clearly favouritise me. like im there nicely cleaned up in my smart-casual uniform just a 20 year old waitress smiling my customer service smile and behind me spawns Scary Dog Privilege 10x in the form of several burly middle-aged chefs at least three of which have criminal records and would all stick a bread knife in someone for bothering me

#like it's really funny bc i worked HARD with back of house bc i knew my job would be significantly easier if they liked me #(it speeds your orders through. you can ask for things without being told to fuck off during a rush. they'll get you food on shift etc) #and also there's a stereotype especially in fancier places where floor staff look down on kitchen staff and i think that's shitty #so i was always going to be try with them and be nice but ALSO when i first started my job it was in a peak era so while these days #we're struggling a lot and have had to employ a lot of college kids that dont know what they're doing #when i joined it was all private school girls that would swan about the place very snootily. so the divide between front and back of hosue #was INTENSE when i joined. and there i was a little state school girlie and the chefs immediately recognised that #and took me under their wing. so even though the class angle doesnt exist so much anymore and theres majority state schoolers #im still very much in with the chefs in a way not many of the other floor staff are. and there's also the fact im not scared of them #like chefs ARE rude and a lot of them DONT like or even respect floor staff but i will GLADLY tell them to fuck off if i think it necessary #and that's a language they understand like ironically there's one chef that doesnt get on with ANY of the waitresses #(i talked about him on another post he's the soup one) but he likes me bc when he tried that rude dismissive act i told him to shove it #and now the other waitresses literally SEND ME TO TALK TO HIM when they have questions/want something bc they know he'll listen to me #and me and the head chef are besties and the one kp will talk OVER THE OTHER WAITRESSES' heads and completely blank them #so she can talk to me and it's all just really funny bc the kitchen staff LOVE me and that's not even me being arrogant #it's like a known thing at work that they love me and im just. a 20 year old 5'2 waitress with my little pearl necklace and blouse #and some tattooed ginger mohawked 6ft chef is there getting angry for me when i come in complaining about a table #or the kp that is literally on probation will give me a sticky toffee pudding and tell everyone to leave me the fuck alone LMAO #hella slaves to capitalism

[venndaai]

Mass effect for all its extreme flaws did something great when the series kind of accidentally created one of the most iconic women characters in video games just by giving fshep the same lines as mshep. ME1 was the first video game I really played and I remember how absolutely revelatory it felt just to be playing a stupid power fantasy space marine who got all the hot alien ladies… but *a woman*. BioWare never really understood the glory of what they had unintentionally created

#relatedly. is liara a stupid annoying male fantasy. absolutely. but she was also 20 year old me’s fantasy girl too and I love her #also the total death grip jennifer hale had on a generation of gay girl gamers…