#fuck all boomers

[bucksangel]

so, as of 2023 in texas the cost of living per year is around $49,401 a year, just to live without worrying about rent and groceries and other expenses. Because of this, a texan would have to make $24 an hour for 40 hours a week.

the minimum wage in texas is $7.25 an hour. and after doing some rough calculations, that means a texan would have to work around 142 hours a week just to be able to live comfortably.

fuck anyone who says i don’t deserve a higher hourly wage just because i’m young without a lot of “professional” job experiences. you are actively telling me you want me to suffer. boomers were able to make less and still buy a house because they hadn’t crashed the market yet.

and fuck greg abbott for refusing to up the wages.

#fuck all boomers #and certain gen x too #like i make $13 an hour but barely get 21 hours a week #i have a side job too but that still isn’t enough #i’m tired and exhausted of working myself to the bone #texas #politics #us politics #greg abbott #𓆩♡𓆪 angel's thoughts 𓆩♡𓆪

[cherry-bomb1985]

I feel like The Father and Hell both understand and experience love in all the worst ways.

The Father sought to create a life form that would follow and love him unconditionally. It wasn't enough that he had a great cosmic kingdom of angels who are unquestioningly loyal, no, he needed something that knew suffering and mortality and the threat of oblivion, and would still find love at the end; love for him above all else. But after numerous implied failures at that, in his desperation, he instead created the threat of eternal damnation to force them to love him in order avert that fate. Lucifer's words must have been like a splash of cold water, but by the time he realized sheer magnitude of suffering he had unintentionally set into motion, it was too late. He could not destroy Hell; he could not stop the cycle of violence.

That guilt drove him to seek a death that, from the looks of it, eluded him in spite of the hollowness consuming him. And now he is... somewhere, helpless to stop his experiments from consuming one another and themselves in a glorious show of blood and violence.

And then there's Hell itself, who seems to recognize love as an act of violence and cruelty. It is something that derives joy only from the suffering of other living creatures. God gave it so many toys to hurt and break and reform, and Mankind gave it new ones. Why would it understand love as anything but? It gave Minos a facsimile of the son he is most ashamed of, and delighted when he cast it, once more, into a labyrinth. Gabriel flattened all the souls within it's confines beneath his heel and gave those that did bend false hopes.

Now there's V1, tearing its way through the remaining layers and creating a spectacle of violence like nothing Hell has ever witnessed before. How could it not love them all for all the entertainment they've provided?

But deep within its recesses, hidden away from the eyes of Heaven, there was a Gutterman. A machine built for war, who eventually came to love that which it gave it life at the cost of their own. Enough to give the human welded within their coffin the mercy that both Heaven and Hell had denied them; enough to write a single love letter to them, even knowing that it would never be read by its intended recipient.

So, as things turn out, you /can/ teach a machine to love. And they will understand and experience it more sincerely than God or Hell ever could.

#ULTRAKILL #ULTRAKILL spoilers #Mind you this is all just speculation #We still don't know if Hell is aware that the machines will inevitably try to consume it too once the souls and demons run dry #and if it is then whether or not it has a plan to stop that from happening or if it actually /wants/ to be destroyed #or perhaps--like Father like creation--it simply thinks it /cannot/ be destroyed #and we certainly still don't know where God fucked off to after his suicide attempt or why #If he left to seek the end of his days elsewhere #Or--as the first testament might imply--if he's got a new angle #Sorry 7-S got my brain buzzing and there's not a whole lot of game left to get the answers to those particular questions #If they are intended to be answered at all or simply left unknown by the blank slate boomer shooter protagonist #through which we all experience this wild ride #Anyways not a lot of this fandom talks about the Testaments effectively being God's vent posts #and I find both amusement and mild horror at their very existence

[brainrotcharacters]

My Favorite Line In The Show

that line with that expression with that hand angle? oh you just know they did it

#and shanks tops #a pleasure dom if i dare to speak #no honestly i'm half joking #i only ship their opla versions a tad #in my defense shanks had no business saying that line LIKE THAT #what was i supposed to do? NOT think they fucked? come on #shanks x mihawk #opla mihawk #opla shanks #one piece live action #i could still take you #shanks i need a demonstration #for research purposes #look all I'm saying is #a boomer didn't write that line #whichever one of us in these hell sites are actually ppl from the writers room #I thank you #And i salute you

[bonefall]

Are you going to keep Goosefeather's curse? If so are you going to change anything about it? From my memory the book was... depressing.

It will probably get rolled into Pinestar's Crusade, building it up into an SE rather than just a novella. There's actually a lot going on in that specific moment, and it makes sense to go over it all at once.

So to answer your question, yes, most of Goosefeather's Curse is staying. Most of the Crusade Generation have depressing stories to tell. If the Thistle Period is defined by the fact that Thistle Law metastasized and went terminal, and if the Campaign Era was when it was newly born, then the Crusade Era was when it was first conceived.

I've been thinking about Pinestar's Crusade idly and mentioned it a few times, but here's my fragments so far;

PINESTAR'S CRUSADE (Fuses Pinestar's Choice and Goosefeather's Curse)

We start in the Crusade Era; there is now more focus on 3 major characters, though it's still built around Pinestar as the POV

Pinestar, Goosefeather, and eventually Pinepaw's apprentice Speckletail.

Pinepaw is born into the start of the Crusades, a bloody period where the Clans are invading Chelford and brutalizing cats in the hopes of appeasing StarClan. He only begins to learn the full story of what happened in Darkstar's Commandment once he begins going to Gatherings as a warrior

The truth being that Oakstar came up with this idea because he couldn't take an L

But even as an apprentice, it becomes quickly apparent to him that what they're doing is evil. They were brutalizing kittypets who aren't trained to fight back.

During his first raid as an apprentice, he allows a ginger-and-white mother and her kittens to escape

This came back years later, when that queen, Crystal, forms BloodClan in response to the Crusades.

Pineheart watches Oakstar die barely a year later to the queen he saved, using early claw extenders to cut right through him. Even if he hadn't been on his last life, it would have ended him.

But, Crystal lets Pineheart go, recognizing the Clan cat who had saved her life.

Watching his dad die along with several friends, and countless more innocent Chelford, plus being released by Crystal, is a Formative Moment.

Doestar continues the Crusades in the name of revenge for Oakstar, but now that BloodClan exists and is ARMED, the easy raids become bloodbaths.

They slowly peter out, not with a bang but with a whimper. She never announces an official end, eventually she just stops organizing them. No one gets closure, especially not Pineheart.

But the 'peace' doesn't last. Just before Heatherstar takes power from Smallstar and begins the Campaign to take the Mothermouth Moorland, ThunderClan deals with the Great Hunger

Pineheart and Goosefeather become very good friends, part of a little buddy group that also included Tawnyspots and Pheasantfeather (who will become One-eye later)

Pineheart was given his first apprentice, a rowdy little one and the niece of Doestar, Specklepaw. He's tasked with helping her fill the pawsteps of greatness she's destined to walk in.

Just like canon, Goose predicts the Great Hunger... though, he is an adult this time around because of some timeline changes.

And, like canon, it fails. They couldn't stockpile enough food to last an entire year of famine, a scorching summer and a frozen winter, they end up losing a huge stock of their food as if it was destiny.

Goosefeather was forced into a role he hates, given horrible visions of the future, and argues ferociously with Pineheart; if they hadn't tried to stockpile, they wouldn't have lost all that food to begin with.

It is in this moment, he comes to realize that every time he's fought back and used his visions like a warning, it's backfired.

So, perhaps, they are instruction.

But, meanwhile, Pineheart can't loose his apprentice or his friends. While others were hunting desperately, he was keeping cats alive through scouting for grubs, foraying into other territories, and...

Every bite of kittypet food he took for himself was a morsel in someone else's mouth. But this... this he kept quiet.

It started a "bad habit" he could never break.

Having lost the previous deputy to starvation and on her deathbed, Doestar nominates Pineheart to the position. He was shocked and upset by this, but he was the obvious choice.

Son of Oakstar, Hero of the Hunger, the cat who had kept Specklepaw alive when all the other kits and apprentices starved.

But, Pinestar took the helm to extreme controversy.

Everything Pinestar's ever done that worked was nonviolent. He's never seen battle do anything but bring harm, and the thought of leading people into war... it makes him feel sick.

But the rest of the Clan can't see what he sees. They yearn for the glory days (even though they were not glorious at all), itch to die for a cause, and leave this old, disgusting subsistence survival behind them. ThunderClan wants blood and Pinestar just wants peace.

Taking back Sunningrocks is an example of this. To avoid losing Clanmates, he proposed to Hailstar that they would have a Joust, instead.

ThunderClan's strongest against RiverClan's strongest. Adderfang vs Mudfur.

It didn't go well.

The problem with those sorts of situations is you have to abide by the deal. RiverClan took Sunningrocks for 6 months. It was humiliating for ThunderClan.

Even the cats he'd saved from the famine were furious with him

The only things that DID seem to please the Clan was when he would throw them fully into battle. Such as Goosefeather's prophecy that WindClan's herbs needed to be destroyed...

Every time a situation like that happened, where Goosefeather would phrase things as a Holy Struggle, Pinestar was thrown right back to the Crusades

Terrified eyes, screeching, cats begging for mercy, his father dead at his paws and feeling horror and relief swirling

Sitting vigil for old friends killed in these horrible fights, like Moonflower, it made him feel like how he felt the day he buried Oakstar.

And the bile rose in his throat, remembering that Oakstar was not there at his Leadership Ceremony, damned to the Dark Forest.

A thought was born, here. What does StarClan truly want? What do they expect of him? If they will send the architect of the Crusades there...

What of a cat who stayed fed on human food and fed grubs to his Clanmates? Or a leader who never knows the right thing to do?

When Mumblefoot retired and Sunfall became deputy, the Clan seemed to love him more than Pinestar. He found himself just... sitting back, and allowing Sunfall to call the shots.

It was towards the end, when Leopardfoot proposed an Honor Siring. He was from a glorious legacy, she wanted kits... and on his end, he wanted the peace that raising kittens could bring.

The warmth of human dens was calling him, but perhaps the warmth of love for children could keep him home.

UNLIKE CANON; Nothing about Tigerkit was born evil.

There was no StarClan vision of Tigerstar; Goosefeather knew full well that Thistlestar was the Leader of Prophecy.

But Pinestar would never give Thistleclaw an apprentice in time. Nor would he ever give his own little son to a cat as vicious as him.

Goosefeather never hurt anyone... but Pinestar just needed a push.

Pinestar was already anxious, unhappy, clinging to the goodness that was his little kits. Even as two of them were lost to minor illnesses, shortly after receiving their names.

It wasn't a lie. It was just half of the truth.

"Pinestar... you have a choice to make. StarClan has given me a vision of blood and war, and Tigerkit will have a role to play in it."

He DID have a vision... of Thistlestar. Not Tigerkit. But that was enough for Pinestar, his fear and trauma took the helm from there.

He'd seen his friends, his apprentice, the kits who had been born and died in his rule, all of them turn into the monsters Clan Culture demanded

Nothing he did ever seemed to work, why would THIS moment be different?

How could he prevent Tigerkit from becoming like that too?! Was StarClan telling him to KILL his son??

Pinestar's never had a vision from StarClan. He doesn't have the aptitude like a Cleric... what he has is a nightmare, of Tigerkit growing so large he crushes the whole camp under his claws

After a week of agony, Pinestar unknowingly creates a prophecy of his own,

"Can only the death of a child break fate?"

Sensing he was close to victory, Goosefeather dipped his head, not denying his question.

And it's the last straw.

And that is the climax of Pinestar's Crusade. Broken from his experiences, every turn taken for peace causing him more pain, the idea that he might have to hurt his own son plaguing his mind, he makes the choice to leave.

It wasn't hard, he'd still had that old bad habit of taking bites of kittypet food, a couple friends on the other side. But what he doesn't know is that by leaving with his life... he prevents Sunstar from acquiring his own.

Sunstar had ONE single life, StarClan was not able to give him more with the previous leader still alive. For leaving his Clan, for unknowingly preventing the transfer of power, and for dismissing the Warrior Code, Pinestar is sent to the Dark Forest after his death.

He can choose to walk there, or spend time in the mortal plane as just a spirit, but StarClan offers him no place in the cosmos.

#Pinestar's Crusade #Better Bones AU #So yeah it's still depressing LMAO sorryyyy #im a sucker for the theme where someone you raised and loved became part of an evil system #failure to protect. How COULD you have done differently? Was there anything at all that could have saved them? #i've mentioned it before but I love Pinestar most as the foil of Firestar #and it's very underexplored as an idea #How Firestar succeeded where Pinestar failed #Literally like a brighter version of you #someone who never gave up past the point where you would have broken #and how painful and uncomfortable that idea must be #It doesssss things to me #Also I am still shuffling the timeline #Pinestar might end up being old enough to remember Mapleshade... BUT we'll see #It might be pretty funny to have Pinepaw watch his dad take several Ls in Darkstar's Commandment #''this is my cringefail boomer dad who I have a complicated relationship to. he cannot swim. oh god. oh fuck''

[latenightsundayblues]

I want more "bad" LGBT representation in media. Not the harmful stereotyping kinda bad, but a "most horrible fucking people on earth get together to wreak havoc upon each other's lives and actively deteriorate their mental health in a jumbled co-dependent mess of arguments and hatefucking only they could call a relationship" kinda bad yknow. Like completely fucked up for everyone involved in the narrative. I need it to live actually

#extra points if they still end up together but really fucking miserable in the end #finding familiarity and comfort in the tears u shed bc of your loved one's venom-laced words and in ur headaches after loud 2 am arguments #in the shared silence following something you most definitely didn't mean to say about them and vice-versa #<<<<<<<<<GOOD SHIT!!! #if i ever say no to toxic yuri/yaoi call the cops cause it is NOT ME!!!!!!! #its kinda like boomer “i hate my wife” jokes but heart wrenching and joy sucking and hope crushing #ofc you still shouldn't glamourize and romanticize verbal abuse n all that #i just like characterizing pieces of shit who absolutely deserve each other

[athina-blaine]

while watching nimona, my friends and I got into a huge argument about how they could have scottie terriers with no scotland and jazz with no harlem renaissance so now I too just like to drop explicit references to real world things in my fic that have 0% justification being there in the first place and i feel like the funniest mfer alive

#current kill count: #italian food #rube goldberg #boomers #the universal constants #actually obsessed with the worldbuilding in the nimona movie #idk how it is in the webcomic #but ive been having a time working out how an industrial city that size is able to keep itself fed #with no international relationships and thus no imports #yet with no visible dedicated space for farming or livestock #future tech you might say? made all in house with no global exchange of ideas or technology?? #where'd you mine the metals for that big fuck off canon of yours huh director?? #short answer is it doesn't work #long answer is #im inclined towards a lil bit of north korean style propagandist isolationism and a lil bit of 18th century dutch mercantilism #digging into this with the enthusiasm of a dog with her chew toy #stay tuned #he who controls the canals controls the universe

[get-back-homeward]

I know it’s all just standards.

But Ringo’s Sentimental Journey is utterly charming.

We really should talk more about how he turns to this project as therapy as the band is falling apart. It’s pure nostalgia in a bottle but with Ringo jazz drumming and just having fun with it singing and adding these cute little improv bits. Blues Turning Grey Over You is a highlight for the “I just lost myself there, child!” laugh at the end.

It’s all utterly charming.

It’s a really cool collaboration too. He recruited different musicans arrange each piece (including Paul, who arranged Stardust, perhaps before the breakup drama heats up). George Martin produces and gets the big band together. They start recording more sporadically at first, starting Oct 1969. Night and Day, Stormy Weather (which got left off the final album but I love he tried it), Stardust, and Dream, all recorded before Christmas. The rest are Jan-Mar 1970.

It gets ripped to shreds by the rock cred sector. But Ringo using this as a grief project, sorta returning to childhood in the midst of a blow for comfort, feels more honest and healthy than he gets credit for. It’s also brassy af. This is the height of “fuck jazz,” and Ringo’s just like “so what? I’ll do what I like.”

George said he liked it. John slagged him off for it in interviews, but I bet he secretly liked it too. Not sure whether Paul ever commented on it given the dual release drama. He does his own standards album decades later, after it becomes a thing artists do. But when Ringo does it in 1970? No one was doing that.

#sentimental journey #ringo starr #blue turning grey over you #particularly sounds like ringos version of grieving #pringo folks yall should be all over this one #pauls recording all by himself while john and george recruit ringo for their solo work #we know ringo took that hard with that lyric about not knowing if paul will play with him #you always hurt the ones you love #thats why that quotes on his mind #ringo appreciation post #my text #hey hey found that post i thought i lost! #when i say fuck jazz i mean fuck 40s big band #boomers saw it as their parents music and rejected it for decades #ringos like i know its my parents music but its also sounds of my childhood and like a warm blanket and thats kinda beautiful

[devouringyourson]

had to apologise to an angry scary man at work today just to get him to calm down and move on even though I was completely in the right and he did nothing to help me all day and just sulked about. god the way men get to be so emotional and aggressive and bitch about being asked to do their fucking job and the women of the workforce (often the managers in my industry) have to run around accomodating their stupid egos and putting ourselves down to keep the peace. so fed up of tip toeing around emotional men and being called a nag for asking them to do their fucking job. If you question their process they take it soooo personally like im just trying to get the job done 😭😭😭 I'm so sorry I asked you to vaguely document your work or questioned something jfc learn to communicate without violence or sulking

#not all men ofc but boomer men who can't read very well or use technology and sense of pride comes from their manual labour YES #i apologised (while seething) and he went 'be careful' like THE FUCK is that a threat get your emotions in fucking check #you can't take a single question??? leave before you hurt someone #same men will gloat about beating criminals up or smth like the jumped up ego bs thinking they're not also the problem

[kaban-bang]

I just learned about crab day and adapted this vent meme I made earlier.

#sorry to get all boomer like but these all happened within the span of a month and I am so fucking tired #you are not immune to doing free advertising #context for non hispanic people the blue beetle meme in latin american facebook is literally just advertising the release date

[blakyoo]

looking up ONE OFF MIND on youtube and seeing genshin mmds being above the fucking original song makes me want to commit acts of terror.

its my favorite vocaloid song what do u mean,. this shit has nothing to do w genshin man fuck outta here

#maybe im a boomer abt this #fuck that tho they dont get the message at all #feels disrespectful to what the song is abt

[philsmeatylegss]

Glass child on the internet: “I have experienced profound emotional neglect throughout my childhood due to the pressure and unmet emotional and sometimes physical needs forced upon me since my parents were very busy taking care of my disabled sibling. Thus leaving me with severe emotional scars that I deal with to this day and it’s very invalidating and triggering when people don’t listen to my perspective or understand the gravity of my situation.”

People who put “neurodivergent” in their bio and self diagnosed with seven different disorders: “IT’S NOT THE SIBLINGS FAULT!!!!!!”

Glass child: “I never said it was—”

People who think they have autism because they are very interested in something and sometimes get overwhelmed: “Oh, so you’re ableist? You should probably just kill yourself. No, you definitely should kill yourself. Like, actually do that. Stop crying because mommy and daddy didn’t pay attention to you. Yeah, you’re a lost cause. Kill yourself pls”

#this is fr what it’s like sometimes #mostly on tiktok #but you’ll see it here too #no seriously most of the time when non glass children see a glass child sharing their story #the first response is ‘yOu KnOw iT’S nOt YoUr SiBLiNg’s FaULt’ #I FUCKING KNOW #I NEVER SAID IT WAS #LITERALLY NOTHING I AM TALKING ABOUT IMPLIES MY SIBLING IS AT FAULT #IM LITERALLY SAYING MY PARENTS #it’s so fucking ironic because a staple symptom of glass children later in life is being sensitive to feeling unheard #and when we tell our stories #(not to sound like an absolute boomer) #everyone just has to make sure to defend the disabled person WHO ISNT EVEN THERE #THEY AREN’T HERE #it’s so bad on tiktok #and not to rustle any feathers but it also does happen here #that’s all I’m saying because I don’t want to be cancelled #it’s just so delicious that I lived right next to autism 24/7 the first 18 years old my life meeting many others with the same disorder #effectively being so familiar with it I basically have a step below understanding of the disorder than people with the disorder #I was the fucking shadow I was there #and the second I share my opinion #someone super familiar with autism and it’s complexities #suddenly I’m an abliest asshole who hates autistic people #and I suck for blaming my sibling even though I literally never blame my sibling #rae’s rambles #delete later #glass child

[thecoolblackwaves]

Elderly woman at my table: you know, it's quite rude to say "we" when talking to us! It's YOU, not WE, because you're not a part of this! You're the waitress not sitting at the table

Me: 👁👄👁 .....okay ma'am are YOU finished with your husband's french fries

Him: Margaret, I sweat to God

#hdidudhdueuruey #PEOPLE #i understand using “you” not “we” is a concept in fine dining but this is most assuredly not fine dining #also not to be all “ok boomer” but... i am of a different generation and WE do not fucking care about that #youre at a highway stop eating pancakes and fries this is not a formal dining place #im polite and friendlg but i am not high class and honestly i do not care to act like it #frustrateddddd #my posts

[officialkendallroy]

i fucking hate what tiktok has done to people's brains so much why do you need to film yourself at a concert STOP

#last week at the hozier show at the encore some girls stood next to me and started filming themselves #and i was clearly in the background of those videos and that shit pissed me off so bad #like??? im not consenting to that at all #especially when it's a million degrees outside and i look like fucking shit #and it happens more and more these days i literally feel like a boomer but ????????? I DON'T GET IT

[icannotgetoverbirds]

litcherally how the fuck do men hate their wives this is like the best shit ever i love my girlfriend so gotdam much

#byrd chirps #guess we're just built different #go ahead call me pussy whipped I'm having cowpoke times in space with my geefie #genuinely though what the fuck is wrong with 'i hate my wife' boomers #is it the christianity? the sexism? the toxic masculinity? the heteronormativity? all of it? #am i missing a piece here? #anyways if you hate your wife first of all how the fuck are you surviving on tumblr #secondly fuck off and let me enjoy this #third. consider a divorce or separation or like. marriage counseling #i get that not all marital issues can be solved just like that #but it sounds like your problem is you buddy #by the way when i say 'if you hate your wife' what i mean is #'if you're one of Those Boomers that constantly complains about a wife that does everything for you' #or something along those lines #anyways can't wait for these tags to get misinterpreted if and when this post blows up or smth #but if i genuinely fucked up it'd be good to know ig