#gen z thinks we're old

[cultofcreatures]

When I was your age, the alphabet had to carry our emojis on its back to school in the snow uphill both ways.

#i will use XD until the day i day #millennial #millennial culture #early 2000s #early 2000s culture #gen z #gen z thinks we're old #they're right #why fight it

[burymeinblack2022]

i’m starting to really think that some of y’all really can’t be saved from the tiktok misogynistic ageist complex....

#this is abt that one post abt em beihold with the comment that acts like she's 30 and old (???) #BESTIE WE'RE THE SAME AGE #mfs on tiktok will see ppl over 20 (esp over 25) and act like they're decrepit specimens from the stone age that belong in a museum #like type of mfs to post 'omg she's 26/32?? what water does she drink' like MF THAT'S NOT OLD UNLEARN THAT SHIT B4 #I'M FORCED TO KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO YOU #also they were thinking abt the tramp stamps/a mix of gayle in the comment but #2/3 of the tramp stamp girls are 24 one is 29/30 and gayle is 17 so. still #also mfs acting like everyone's an industry plant if they're gen z and can work social media lmaoooo #like u do realize. lots of people find artists randomly on spotify the radio or yt wt ever hearing of them on tiktok??? y'all spend too much #time on one single app and it really shows bc ur so unaware of everything else #didn't mean to turn this into a long rant but this covert misogyny gives me brain rot fr #go outside touch some grass read a magazine idk maybe go to therapy too #wow anna said something #anna's shitposts #maybe delete later

[rthko]

I think some of the worst culprits of the "gen z is going to save the world" thing are not gen z themselves but older people eager to dump this burden on them. I remember in 2020 or so I saw people posting about "we're passing on the baton to you. Don't fuck this up like we did. Signed, the millennials" and I was like what the fuck are you talking about. You are thirty years old acting like it's too late for you to get your shit sorted and that all the world's problems should be solved by overwhelmed teens and early 20 somethings with no real life experience. What's up with that?

[jinnie-ret]

Hiii can I rq a skz x 15 y/o trainy were she acts v gen z n stuff?

generation z

aka 3 times Y/N left the boys feeling old

stray kids x reader (platonic)

genre: fluff, crack

content warnings: none

word count: 1.2k

summary: she's the youngest of the group and the boys can't keep up with her internet slang

Ok first of all I'm sorry my mind got jumbled and I wrote this as the ninth member instead, but if you want to you can still read it as a trainee friend :) also I tried so sorry if you find this cringe lmaoo

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1) Slay

Y/N was currently on a VLIVE with danceracha, not that she was a part of it, but she was the best hypeman around, both the boys and Stays knew this. They were practicing 'Wow', the danceracha track and Y/N was obsessed.

"Wow, wow, wow!!" Y/N shouted along with the song's chorus, comically jumping up and down in the back of the room and waving her SKZ lightstick around. It was quite the scene, Stays laughing in the comments at her enthusiasm whilst admiring the boys dance.

As soon as they finished dancing she cheered loudly for them, handing them their water bottles and reading the comments from Stays.

"'Y/N is the best hypeman', duh!" Y/N jokingly pulled an obvious face at the camera as she continued reading comments, Hyunjin sitting next to her and wrapping his arm around her shoulders.

"'Y/N is so me'," Y/N read out and smirked, "hey Stay..."

"Oh lord," Hyunjin moved away, already anticipating that their maknae was going to do something that would disturb his ears. And he was right to do so.

"I AM YOU, I SEE ME IN YOU-" Y/N sang loudly at the top of her lungs, before Lee Know muffled her shouts with his hand.

"Aigoo, our Y/Nnie is so loud," he patted her head too, a condescending smile on his face.

"Yah hyung! You're normally the loudest! Let her be hyper!" Felix giggled, pushing Lee Know's hands away from Y/N.

"Yeah, Stays think I'm funny!" Y/N stuck her tongue out as the boys and her sat around reading the comments again.

"Go on then, give us a joke, Miss Comedian," Hyunjin poked her cheek.

"Ok, Lee Know your hands smell like cat litter," Y/N shrugged her shoulders and said bluntly, making danceracha burst out into laughter and Lee Know get up to chase her.

"That wasn't even a joke," Hyunjin giggled.

"It was a diss," Felix laughed along, the other two still running around the room. It was too much for Stays to handle, this moment going into many fan compilations in the future.

"Hey, hey Stays," Y/N stood in the middle of the room, fighting against Lee Know as he tried to drag her off screen.

"Hey, Stays, all around the world, you make Stray Kids SLAY!!" Y/N cheered and then squealed as Lee Know lifted her into the air.

"What-" Hyunjin facepalmed, shoulders shaking as he laughed.

"I'm gonna have to use that one," Felix nodded as he giggled.

2) Gyatt

Y/N was currently recording her parts in the ROCKSTAR album, entering the studio with an iced coffee in hand.

"What's poppin?" she matched Han's energy as he laughed and repeated after her, Chan and Changbin shaking their heads with small smiles.

"Ok, Y/N, we're recording Megaverse first, you ready?" Chan pressed the button to speak so Y/N would hear him once she was in the recording booth.

"Aish, my ears!" Y/N jumped at how loud his voice was and ducked down to crouch on the floor, making the staff laugh with the members.

Soon she began recording a small rap part which was new for her, she was part of vocalracha and so was used to singing on their tracks.

"Ok, Y/N, do the same again but just a bit louder, like you want the world to hear your message," Changbin leant over Chan as he gave some advice.

"Ok, ok, I got this," Y/N told herself, "GYATT!" she randomly shouted, before continuing to nod, not hearing or looking at the looks of confusion and amusement spread across the faces of 3racha.

She finished recording her rap part successfully and exited the booth, the boys praising her but they only had one question on her mind.

"What was that you shouted?" Chan rose an eyebrow at her, grinning.

"I shouted a lot of things, you told me to shout my rap," Y/N shrugged with a confused smile, hands resting in the pockets of her hoodie.

"Don't play dumb," Changbin pointed out, messing her hair.

"Ohhh," Y/N realised and laughed, "hey Changbin, just start walking over there for a second."

"Why?" Han laughed from the sofa, wondering what the maknae was up to.

"Just do it," Y/N further prompted and so Changbin sighed and nodded.

"GYATT!!!" Y/N shouted once again, as she very obviously looked at Changbin's butt.

"Omo," Chan covered his ears and laughed in shock.

"Understand now?" Y/N laughed.

"Not really, no," said poor Changbin, who had turned around in shock and didn't see what happened. It was often they didn't understand their maknae's slang words.

3) Rizz

Stray Kids were currently filming for Teen Vogue, taking part in the Compliments Battle, a video that would quickly win over Stays' hearts as one of their funniest videos ever.

Hyunjin, Felix and Jeongin had already gone, the latter unable to take Seungmin's compliments no longer.

"Innie, I'll avenge you," Y/N whispered to her fellow maknae, who in turn grinned right back at her.

"Yah what are the maknaes talking about?" Seungmin have them an unimpressed look, folding his arms.

"Hyung?" Jeongin asked.

"Yeah?" Seungmin asked back.

"Shhh," Jeongin commanded lightly, making the members laugh. Y/N took her seat opposite Seungmin whilst everyone laughed.

"Y/N is so precious, and has the purest soul, Y/N is my... everything," Seungmin stared Y/N dead in the eyes as he spoke to her, the girl cringing.

"Seungmin is my puppy, I love him so much, cute puppy Seungie so talented," Y/N said sweetly, being over the top as she spoke.

"Oh my gosh," Jeongin wrinkled his nose hearing the words.

"I think I just threw up a bit," Seungmin said in English.

"Wah? Who said that about me?" Y/N gasped and laughed.

"I did. About how you just spoke to me," Seungmin laughed at Y/N's face.

"Yah give me a compliment," Y/N folded her arms.

"Ok, ok," Seungmin stopped laughing, "Y/N is my queen."

"Woahhhh, I'm gonna have that on replay," Y/N smirked. "Let's see... Seungmin is so handsome and sexy- I'm not reading that... Forget the tweets lemme use the Y/N rizz," she smirked as she pulled up her sleeves.

"Rizz?" Jeongin repeated after her looking confused.

"Hey Seungmin, what do you say we go on a romantic walk and pee on a lamppost?" Y/N smirked, the guys choking on their breaths as they were shocked at what she said.

"Y/N... What?!" Seungmin gasped.

"He reacted, he's out!" Jeongin clapped happily.

"No, let me keep going I've got more. He's a puppy get it? It's not weird! Hmmm, what else..." Y/N defended herself and began, as her leader shared nervous glances at the staff, but she didn't need to know that. "Hey are you my dog when I'm depressed?" perhaps Y/N left a pause for too long, "because I just wanna... give you... kisses... Guys stop looking at me like I'm weird!"

Jeongin covered his face to avoid her wrath.

"This isn't just Y/N rizz! This is puppy rizz!"

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[isitcorrect]

So the right-wing press is currently in meltdown about Queen being cancelled, they're cancelling Queen you guys. Those woke Millennials and Gen Z made them remove "Fat Bottomed Girls" from their Greatest Hits album.

So is this true? Erm, no. What blog do you think this is.

There's a bit of deception in the headline here, which is of course all most people read. "Fat Bottomed Girls cut from Queen's greatest hits to appease younger audience". But if you go on Spotify right now, you'll find several versions of it, still uncancelled and listenable. So what gives?

Well, by "to appease younger audience" they don't mean Millennials or Gen Z. They mean much younger. See, the song was only removed...on a platform for literal children.

Specifically, children 3-12. We're not talking about Millennials (whose youngest members are in their twenties, by the way) being sensitive here, we're talking about eight year olds. Now, whether "Fat Bottomed Girls" is inappropriate for children or not is a discussion you can have, but it's a discussion no one is having, because they're reading a misleading headline designed as right-wing outrage bait, and talking about it as if the song has been banned for everyone, and not been left off one niche music service for grade schoolers. What a sweet life these people lead, you don't have to read anything when you can just get mad over a headline and decide it's the result of whichever group you hate the most

Anyway you can still listen to any Queen song you like, provided you aren't getting your music from one specific website for children

#music #skepticism #debunking #factchecking #queen

[yawnderu]

People who hc price as some crusty old technologically illiterate boomer are not only so wrong for that but it’s kinda lame atp. There’s other ways to highlight an age difference without completely disregarding his canon age. For a more fun example I work with people in their late thirties, They’re all tech savvy and intelligent but online culture is just weird to them and they ask me about memes all the time.

(Elder gen z, being 22 but I’m the youngest on the team. Picture a bunch of mid to late thirties blue collar workers standing around in mud borderline begging me to explain what the hell a skibidi toilet is and why their nephews can’t shut up about it. Sometimes I’m at a complete loss too.)

They also ALL simultaneously offer me cigarettes constantly but say « good girl don’t start » when I say no thanks. I don’t get it

I could never date price (he’s hot as fuck but I just couldn’t 😭) but he would probably be my work bestie and go to the shooting range with him

The way you're living my dream bc I love older men

Also saying ''good girl'' HELLO?? We're sucking dick and taking everybody's man. KJNLEFHKJNEFKJNEFBJKHEFJBHK

Yeah I totally get that!! I think a lot of people forget that Price is literally only 37— 37 isn't even old, and people that age don't act like boomers 😭😭

Also people seem to forget he HAS to be good at tech?? He's literally a Captain, he's not gonna have a stroke by using a smartphone. I think a mix of the tiktok girlies making those dumbass headcanons + the fact that Price gets called ''old man'' by multiple people makes others believe he's like 60.

ALSO, Simon is literally only 2 years younger than Price but I never see you guys portraying him like that 🤨JHNEFBHEFHJ

#captain john price #cod mw2 #cod mwii #simon ghost riley #call of duty #ghost mw2 #simon riley #ghost cod #john price cod #john price #captain price

[ponett]

Do you think the Sonic franchise should memory hole certain characters? Like, Chaos Gamma, Elise, Mephiles for example (I would’ve put Black Doom here but uh, he’s a bit more around now huh)

I mean, lots of one-off Sonic characters like these already ARE memory holed. They only really exist in the games they originate from. (Ian Flynn bringing up the thought of using them in a podcast does not count as them being relevant again)

I get the desire to play with all the toys in the toy box and give old ideas a second chance that fans (and Ian) have, and there are definitely a handful of currently unused or underused characters I'd like to see come back. (We REALLY need Sticks back, and the Classic comics desperately need more Honey.) And I'm glad we're in this era where the Sonic series is less ashamed of its weird history. But also, like. Some of those were genuine missteps, and we've moved on for a reason

It feels like every month I see more and more Gen Z Sonic fans who weren't even old enough to have played the games when they were new reminisce about how "cool" it was to give Shadow a gun, or how "awesome" 06's story was, and how we should go back to that "peak" era for Sonic, and I just cannot get on board with that. It was called the Dark Age of Sonic at the time for a reason. I had to actually play those games when they came out. I was hyped for them and really, REALLY wanted to love them. But they were janky, ugly, unfun games with terrible stories that abandoned so much of Sonic's identity in favor of chasing contemporary trends. They were Sonic games that wanted to be anything BUT a Sonic game. There may have been some stuff I liked in that era (the Rush games, and honestly I always liked Black Knight), but it was miserable not knowing if we'd ever get another truly good 3D Sonic platformer again

Maybe it's easier to look back on certain elements of those games fondly now that time has passed and we know we did, in fact, get more Sonic games after them that were actually good. But Sonic is in a WAAAAAYYYYY better place now than it was when I was in middle school. I do not yearn for Mephiles and Elise to come back. It would be funny if they did, but I don't think we need them

#anon #ask

[sixth-light]

ok ok slightly feral post as promised.

first, some context setting: I think it's really interesting to analyse texts in terms of both what the author was trying to do (and whether they succeeded) and what they ended up doing (intentionally or not) and I think their cultural/historical context is vital if you want to do this. I'm not interested in whether Robert Jordan or the Wheel of Time are, like, morally correct in their politics or whatever. I'm interested in what the art is trying to do.

and the thing about Jordan, see, is that he projected this image during his lifetime of a Genial Older Man (see: beard and pipe) but he...wasn't actually that old! He was 42 when EoTW was published. He died at 58. He was a Baby Boomer publishing books at a time when Baby Boomers were the hip young generation taking over from stodgy WWII veterans (Gen Z: It Will Happen To You Too).

What this means is that he was a child and adolescent during the Civil Rights movement, in a then-majority Black city in the Jim Crow South*. He would have gone to segregated schools. The tertiary institutions he attended had only started to desegregate a year or two before he attended each of them. I think his war trauma in Vietnam gets a lot of attention because he did talk about it and also because that's a narrative we understand for white men, but I think we...skim over the impact on white men of growing up at this time because? Civil Rights only happened to Black Americans I guess? but it's his context too. Similarly, he was an adolescent and young man at the time the (white) feminist movement was really kicking off in the US. he was in his mid-20s when banks were first legally *required* to allow women to open accounts and have credit cards in their own names. he went on to marry a woman a decade older than him, who had left her husband to raise her son as a single mother while continuing a professional career in the early 70s; these were issues that must have been incredibly relevant for her.

and what we see in his writing is attempts to grapple with gender and race that are self-evidently of mixed success, but I think have to be contextualised in light of this period of immense change he grew up in. Think about the predominance of women as merchants and bankers in WoT, in the context of how recent their rights to even control their own money were in the US. The...everything...he was trying to do with the Seanchan, making them extra-canonically Southern American-coded. The Whitecloaks as the KKK (among other things, of course).

As an example, I think there's also something probably unintentional but fascinating in the way he presents the pre-Breaking Aiel: bluntly, they are a distinct ethnic group in hereditary servitude (always thinking about how that ancestor of Rand's in the Rhuidean sequence had to get permission from Mierin Sedai to switch to someone else's service so he could marry his girlfriend, this is...uh...super cognate to issues enslaved Black people faced). They're associated with agriculture through the Song sequence. And they're pretty much the ideal of what slave-owning Southern American culture WANTED enslaved Black people to be: completely happy to serve. Then, as the post-breaking Aiel, they become feared as a source of violence, which resonates with the way that enslaved people were feared by their slavers.

I don't think for a second that the intention here was to depict the AoL as a Secret Slavery Dystopia, I think we're meant to take the Rhuidean flashback sections pretty much as they read on the page. But I also think putting Jordan in his historical and cultural context does pose the comparison. Similarly, I find it really interesting that he positions Seanchan as riven by constant revolts and uprisings (because it's a fascist slaver regime) but he never ever goes so far as to link enslaved people in Seanchan (damane and da'covale) to those revolts and uprisings, even though that is fundamentally the deep fear *for real and obvious reasons* of all slavery-based societies.

Or then there's the changes to the Two Rivers in the books - like, both then and now I think it's actually pretty radical to present an influx of Muslim-coded refugees of colour as a thing that enriches the Two Rivers both socially and economically. Various characters are wistful that it's changed, but they don't think it's bad. The text here is really clear that welcoming the Domani and Almoth Plain refugees is both morally right and beneficial. And this is in a book being written and published shortly after the first Gulf War.

There's so many more things like this where I just have no real idea what he was trying to do on purpose and what was accidental and what was fun for him in fiction but did not necessarily link at all to his real-world political beliefs. but gosh it's interesting to turn over and poke at.

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #robert jordan #and then there's things like...IIRC some stuff about Gareth Bryne is referencing General Lee #and I know a lot of you are Bryne haters but the point here is not #that that means Bryne is bad #it's: how hard was RJ thinking about that and why did he do it at all?

[annabelle--cane]

just stumbled across your computer literacy posts and as a 14yo gen z kid the whole topic is SO funny to me. i have friends as young as 12 that use a computer regularly. my 11 year old brother is easily the most computer-literate person in my family and helps my mom make powerpoints all the time. i take classes that require me to navigate a desktop computer regularly, and none of my classmates have a problem with it.

the “computer literacy crisis” never actually references or comes from the point of view of real teenagers because it is so wildly blown out of proportion. people forget that high schoolers and middle schoolers also grew up with family computers and that a lot of us are more comfortable drawing, writing, etc. on computers than phones.

and like I am 100% sure there are Youths who don't really know how to use computers, plenty of them have commented on my posts, but, I think crucially here, there are also adults who don't know how to use computers. there are school districts that never had computer classes in areas where most people can't afford computers but can maybe swing for phones and tablets, I really do not think this is a generation thing, I think it's about region and class.

related sidebar: I keep getting people on my poll telling me that asking about youth computer literacy on tumblr will skew results because outlier nerdy kids are on tumblr and nerds know how to use computers. the adults on tumblr are also nerdy outliers. we're a bunch of tech obsessed weirdos who think things like "it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows that firefox is the only usable browser." I'm willing to bet that there are comparable levels of tech illiteracy across all age groups, but my professors who put "google" into search bars aren't on tumblr to talk about it.

#answered #anons

[mylight-png]

looking at everything that's happening right now: hate rallies, calls for Israeli genocide, antisemitism, do you have any hope for our future? because I have been looking at this global reaction, and the fact that it's mostly young people saddens and scares me because this is the generation we will be living with for the next 80 or so years

Even though you asked one question, I feel like it needs two answers.

First and foremost, I understand completely where you're coming from. Statistically speaking, 51% of Gen Z oppose Israel in their war against Hamas. And that number is scary, I know. And it does worry me that eventually these are the people who will be voting, making policies, determining our trajectory. So am I worried for our future? Absolutely, yes. It's foolish not to be.

But do I have hope for the future? Yes. Just think about our next upcoming holiday, Hanukkah. Our Maccabees were drastically outnumbered, outgunned, outmanned by the Greeks. Do you think they had any hope then? Do you think our people had any hope while they were enslaved in Egypt, brutally abused by the Pharaoh's regime? Do you think our people had hope under Roman rule, or when our Temples were destroyed?

I know what we all fear. I know. But even the Holocaust did not get rid of us. Yes, it was a horrible tragedy and an absolutely awful number of our people died. But even just the fact that we're here now, even though there's fewer of us, is still a testament to the fact that we are here to stay.

The empires and "great civilizations" we learn about: Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Babylonians, Ottoman empire, and others. They are gone. But where are we? We are still here.

As terrifying and possible as it may seem, the complete extermination of Jews is unfathomable. We have survived tougher times, and we will still survive now.

There is a reason why one of our traditional songs is "Am Yisrael Chai". It is a proud declaration that we, Jews, Hebrews, Israelites, the nation of Israel, live. We live, we have lived, and we will continue to live.

I want to finish off by mentioning part of the national anthem of Israel:

"Ayin le’Tziyyon tzofiyah.

Od lo avda tikva-teinu,

Ha’tikvah bat sh’not al-payim

Lih-yot am chofshi b’ar-tzeinu

Eretz Tziyyon v’Yerushalayim."

Translation:

"To Zion, looks the eye –

Our hope is not yet lost,

It is two thousand years old,

To be a free people in our land

The land of Zion and Jerusalem."

We still have our home. Yes, our home is in danger. Our family, all seven million of them, are in danger. Yes, we do not feel safe anywhere, diaspora or not.

But we have a two-thousand year-old hope. And I see no reason for a hope that has survived for so long to die now.

So in short: I fear for the quality of our short-term future, but I still have hope for our long-term survival.

Our fear is valid, but we should not lose hope.

Am Yisrael chai 🇮🇱💕

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #jew #opinion #proud israeli #israel solidarity #discourse #hatikvah #the hope #we will outlive them #am yisrael chai

[penguicorns-are-cool]

some people from older generations act like gen z is gonna come in and save the day and like

first of all, you're already old enough to vote and do all the things you could make an effort too. That's not to say there are no older people making an effort but they're generally not the ones saying gen z will save the day

there are a lot of gen z white supremacists, and neo-nazis, and andrew tate fans, and trumpies, and tankies, and trad-wives, and TERFs. There have been for a while. Like I don't think some of you guys understand how much of an effect the internet pipelines have had on gen z

then, while I understand this misconception, there are not that many of us who are super interested in politics in activism. A lot of us are very exhausted by it all and will not participate nearly as much as you think. Like yes voter rates will probably follow the upward trend because that has been worked into us, but some of y'all are acting like once all the gen z kids are out of high school we're gonna succesfully organize the entire working class and succesfully organize large scale strikes and blackouts that shut down the economy, or that we're gonna somehow take over most of the seats in the government and magically fix all the institutional issues

and like, no, sorry to break it to you but that's not gonna happen

It's definitely gonna help when all of gen z is out of high school and the boomers are not the majority of all voters for the first time in forever, but it's not like the entire world is gonna magically become all rainbows and sparkles and everyone's gonna get super accepting just cause gen z is here to save the day. there will still be all sorts of extremism and discrimination, and a lot of it will be coming from gen z and I know that cause it is happening right now.

It also really sucks for us cause that's a lot of pressure that you've all been putting on us to fix the world and it's a pressure a lot of us have felt since we were quite young and it's really not helping. Like it's nice that you have faith in us but as a high schooler who's trying to get into college and is worrying about transitioning to adulthood and the cost of going to college rn, the pressure to fix the world is not helping at all so please just stop

#we've been talking about reproductive health in anatomy class #and every time gender and sexuality #or abortion comes up #our teacher starts waxing poetic #about how gen z will save the world #and make everything so much better #and it's been really annoying actually #anyway though #please stop doing this #gen z #save the world

[oysters-aint-for-me]

last night i saw kesha in concert and it was amazing obviously. but this post is not about how much i love kesha.

behind me and my friend stood three beings. they appeared to be three teenage girls, probably somewhere between 15 and 18. all three were wearing black crop tops and black skinny jeans. all fine and normal. this post is not about their outfits.

they were talking to each other the entire concert - which is fine, it's a concert, the music is loud, people are with their friends, they talk to each other. this post is not about how annoying The Youths are.

what this post is about:

i am like 99% convinced that these three "teenage" "girls" were extraterrestrials who, in order to blend in with humans during their visit here, had taken a 101 intro language class about the slang used by the current generation of english-speaking teenaged earthlings.

every single line out of their mouths was gen z slang, to the point that it was literally uncanny. they were using the slang...well, not incorrectly, at least from what i could tell as a 35-year-old, but there was something indefinably off about it. "is this giving senior year?" "oh my god it's TOTALLY giving senior year" "YAAAS KESHA" "YAAS QUEEN" "kesha's got rizz!" "SLAY" "she's giving taylor " "she's giving nicki minaj" "YAAAS KESHA!" "SLAY KESHA!" "YAS QUEEN!" "these vibes slay!" "kesha is SO based" and that was basically the extent of their vocabulary.

except it also truly seemed like they had never been to any kind of concert or performance before - except they also talked about having gone to a taylor swift concert. at first i honestly thought they were doing a bit, like, "oooh we're so dumb we don't get how concerts work hahaha," and sure, it might have been.

but in my opinion, their befuddlement happened way too often and way too sincerely to be a joke. like. near the beginning of the concert, people started dancing, like you do; these three creatures' reaction was: "We can dance here?!" if kesha left stage for a bit for a costume change or a water break or whatever, these three creatures would go, "WAIT WHERE DID KESHA GO IS SHE COMING BACK?" they were absolutely stunned and thrilled when everyone took their phones out with the lights on and held them up during a slower song - you know, like people used to do with lighters, like people do at concerts. and the encore situation utterly baffled them.

they also seemed fully convinced that another popstar was going to show up. and this led to them simply naming popstars. "nicki minaj." "macklemore." "beyonce." "britney spears." "taylor."

(yes, only "taylor" - their vocabulary class must have taught them that while "taylor swift" is her full name, human gen z girls are on a first name basis with her.)

now. if they were only confused but didn't go so hard with the gen z slang, my reaction would be, "aw, these kids are experiencing a concert for the first time (or second, i guess, if they had seen "taylor")--how sweet to see young people discover something new!"

and if the reverse was true, if they used all that slang but didn't seem so baffled by the concept of a live performance, i would simply be amused by their conversation and i wouldn't think much of it.

but the mixture of both, plus the moment when they started listing popstars, and they were all wearing the exact same outfit? you do the math.

so i put those clues together, came to the obvious rational conclusion, and now all i can imagine is those three (very enthusiastic, to their credit) extraterrestrials in their true alien forms practicing their gen z vocab:

"i have a question for you, my dear besties! macklemore: based or cringe?"

"YAS, macklemore. i have heard of this one. i believe he is based."

"me too. i am also aware of this macklemore. i too believe he is based."

"this is correct, he serves slay."

"YAAAAS, your highness."

"we are being very normal teenaged girls in this year on Earth two thousand and twenty three."

"YAS HUNTY, we are very normal, because Earth is where we are from."

"and two thousand and twenty three is indeed how we refer to this year due to one of the numbering systems that has been established by humans, which is what we are."

"YAAS KWEEN!"

"now, tell me, besties mine, would you say that ed sheeran is giving cunt?"

"yass, i believe that is based as well."

[all three nodding at each other, satisfied with their progress]

[sgiandubh]

Anon rebelde

Sam se está asegurando de que sepamos que está trabajando no de vacaciones. Todas sus etiquetas lo dejan bien claro, esas etiquetas empezando por las de Austria, Canarias no cuenta porque el fic lo escribió el famdom, tal como la de la productora de Love Again y ahora con Alex, implican trabajo, está vez Mordor se va a tener que esmerar mucho para conectarlo con la siguiente rubia del abecedario. Sam esta últimamente poco colaborativo con ellas.

Dear (returning) Anon Rebelde,

Totalmente de acuerdo, hagamos esa traducción primero, mantiene mi español en forma, gracias:

'Sam made sure we're aware he is working, not on a holiday. All his tags clearly point to it, starting with Austria (the Canary Islands are out of this, because in that case, it was the fandom that wrote the fic), then with the Love Again producer and now with Alex. This means work and this time Mordor would have to work hard in order to connect him to the next Alphabet Blonde. Sam hasn't really been very cooperative with them, lately.'

Well, this reminds me of Beauchamp Fraser /Eight Weeks Anon: traveling on a vacation ALONE for eight weeks for various appointments.

Vacation... appointments... as I said in a comment, the Ultimate Dream. People howled in DMs, with good reason.

On a broader scale, I can't ignore the notable increase in hysteria every single time he travels to the United States of A., the Mordor assigned Fuck Lounge. It must be really terrible for a 43 year old and good looking man, to have to travel thousands of miles in order to get in touch with his testosterone. But what do I know, I am just a stupid shipper, after all. And so are you, my dear Anon Rebelde, with your very inconvenient conclusions.

I might (I should) draw a SRH World Map according to this Fandom. We'll laugh for days, mark me.

No matter how many logical arguments we'd bring along, you can be sure that across the street they will find many alt explanations for his American Seasonal Tour. Each and every one of them not involving work. Or (😱😱😱) C - just because they imagine we think she must be there 24/7 or a neglected housewife (or something). And riding a bike in the rain, cue in the banshee shrieks (RECKLESS RIDING! INSURANCE PEOPLE WILL BE MORTIFIED! BAD EXAMPLE FOR GEN Z!) in 4, 3, 2, 1...

I am tired as hell and shall retire to sleep. Thanking you for this Anon, as always. And definitely thinking about a map: it's better than counting sheep, anyways.

#anon #fandom #shitshow

[onyxedskies]

god i joked about this with my mom earlier but i think i need to like. actually address it.

i don't think older generations understand just how fucked up gen z is. and not in a "gen z is an awful generation" or in a "heehee hoohoo all of gen z is mentally ill" way, in a genuine things are, across the board, wrong with gen z because of the things we are forced to see every moment of every day of our lives.

we are surrounded every day with every single crisis the world is facing. we are made to care about it, made to think we are bad people for not caring about and spreading news about every single crisis the world is facing. every moment of every day news about some crisis or another is staring us in the face, even in the places we turn to in an attempt to escape the realities of our lives.

older generations don't realize just how exhausting it is to deal with school, work, extracurriculars, and news 24/7. and yet they call us lazy when we find ourselves lying in bed doing nothing on the rare day we get off.

but genuinely, how do you expect us to react? how do you want us to feel when every other post is about the housing crisis, or the genocide of Natives in one country or another, or a revolution in france, or climate change, or another shitty ruling by POTUS, or new laws designed to silence us, or the war that is happening half a world away? how are we supposed to care about all of that when we have so little power to do anything to change it? most of us can't open a credit card, or vote, and some of us can't even drive yet. and yet at every turn, we're told that it's up to us to fix it.

most of us have resolved ourselves to the fact that we'll be paying for college until we drown at 50 years old due to lack of space above sea level.

so yeah idk be nice to teenagers we're going through a lot of unforseen struggles that older generations have no idea how to wrap their heads around

#onyx talks #important #rant kinda #gen z #politics #teenagers #teenager #be nice to people #be nice to teenagers #be nice to kids #just. be nice.

[revalentinee]

Pokemon Legends Z-A: Starter Prediction (but it's actually about more than that)

Since the announcement of this surprisingly early return to Kalos, there's been a lot of speculation regarding the starters. Following the trend of Legends: Arceus, we're expecting the starters to be ones from other regions. Snivy and Piplup seem like really likely choices given their inspirations, with things more up in the air for the fire starter. However, I have a different Idea.

The starters for Legends: Z-A will be...

...Chespin, Fennekin and Froakie, the same starters pokemon X and Y had.

Why, you may ask? A couple reasons, or rather, one main one...

Mega Evolution will be making its grand return in ZA. When this feature was first introduced, it was a way to breathe new life into old designs, without having to commit to a new evolution-even accessiable to pokemon who already had a three-stage line. This idea for rejuvinating old pokemon has stuck around, but not in the same way.

Gen 7 decided to leave Megas as they were and brought along Regional Variants. Generation 8 cut megas entirely, but brought the variants back alongside new evolutions of those variants and Gigantamax Forms. Legends: Arceus continued the variant + evo angle, including the starters...

...and then, gen 9 only gave only two old pokemon variants, with Paradox Pokemon taking up the majority of the "revamp old designs" idea as well as the small amount of so-called "convergent" pokemon, or regional fakes. Quite a few old pokemon even got straight-up normal evolutions.

My point is, when Game Freak makes a new way to rejuvenate old designs, the old way is reduced or not used at all...could the same not be true when bringing back an old idea? To put it bluntly, The Kalos Starters will receive Mega Evolutions.

-Lack of Kalos Megas. Out of all the pokemon introduced in XY, only Diancie received a Mega Evolution. The reasoning apparently being to let these pokemon stand on their own first, but it's been long enough, hasn't it? Especially for these three.

A few reasons to back up why this could be the case:

-Limited Scope. Legends: ZA is stated to be taking place entirely within Lumiose City. and while we know little of the specifics, one big city as opposed to an entire region leaves a lot less room for possible regional variants. All the more likely the old gimmick will take most if not complete focus.

-Starter Saturation. Assuming Legends: ZA beings back all previous mega evolutions, both the kanto and hoenn sets of starters will be bouncing around Lumiose. With the Kalos starters included as well, that's three sets of starters for one game. Legends Arceus only had two, and as shown with that game's 240-ish amount of pokemon, Legends will likely have a more limited pokedex than the main series. Feels like too much to throw in a fourth set.

-Galarian Precedent. The Base game for Pokemon Sword and Shield did not give its starters Gigantamax forms, but the DLC for it did. It's likely the same idea, but for megas, was intended for whatever XY followup was scrapped back in the early 2010s.

-Once isn't a trend. Some might site Legend Arceus' use of other starters as a trope of the "Legends" series, but Legends Arceus was only one game. We have no idea how much or how little of that game's ideas will continue into this one.

And well...They're in one game! The complete set of Kalos starters only had one set of games to enjoy being those starters, while starters of previous and later generations had multiple sets, or at least DLC continuation, to be >your< first partner in. I think they need another shot while not competing with pokemon that have had more chances to be picked, like snivy or piplup.

And...yeah, as someone who loves regional variants, speculated on what variants of other starters could look like and even somewhat preferts variants to mega evolution as a concept...I might be a little bummed if this prediction comes true. But the more I thought about it, the more likely this seemed, and the true Kalos starters frankly deserve getting what the kanto and hoenn starters got. Besides...

look at him face :)

#pokemon legends z-a #pokemon legends za #pokemon z #kalos #plza #plz #plza starters #starter pokemon #pokemon predictions #mega evolution

[olderthannetfic]

I laughed really hard at a fanfic written by a self-identifying fandom old complaining about the Zoomers being too sensitive today because they said a story with explicit cannibalism should be M and not T. One, that's how the rating system works, the more graphic the violence, the higher up it goes, and two, 4 different people in my dorm's group chat made fun of me for being triggered by people shooting pellet guns out of their rooms at people below and calling security, even when I explained I saw someone shot in front of me when I was 10 and I therefore don't think it's funny. 4. 4 different people hopped in my DMs to make fun of me for "we should call security and being able to shoot out your window without anyone stopping you seems dangerous, actually". But Gen Z is just allll bleeding heart Zoomers who hug and love and smile and coddle each other. Obviously. That's the only reason anyone could want a description of a character tearing about someone while they're still alive and eating them tagged or the rating upped. You know. Because we're so nice.

I'm sorry, I'm just going to say it: this person needs to touch grass. If you're so out of touch with reality that you think Gen Z is nice, not only have you not met any of them, I doubt you've met any of the people from the generation prior to mine, either. And if you're so sheltered "tag this" and "the rating should be M" is offensive to you, you have no chance of making it as a writer (and this fic writer's profile says they intend to be a published author someday), because editors? They're a bit harsher than "modify the tags" or "yeah I don't think this is T". They're not exactly known for cradling you close as they whisper to you of the perfection that is your manuscript. They're sort of known for the opposite, actually.

I really don't know why people like this post their fic. If you're just going to get upset when people speak to you, why enable comments, one, but two, why post it at all? If we're all just not getting your genius, then clearly we're unworthy of your magnum opus.

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One wonders what their personal definition of 'fandom old' is.

I suppose maybe they suffer from the delusion that only sex leads to high ratings, but even in the bad old days of almost no labeling, I think a few eyebrows would have gone up at explicit cannibalism.