#i wonder if they can become aware..

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

No actually the band assuming chive and glam are fucking and never outright stating it (beyond the drummer's fucking bizarre convo with glam about condoms) is hilarious because it implies the band lives on with this misconception. To this day the rest of the band believes they lost their lead guitarist because he refused to move on after they fired his boyfriend & lead singer

#random thoughts #metal family #radio host interviewing who are those freaks on stage: keeping in mind mercury's status as a queer icon #have you ever performed with any lgbtq artists? #lordy: oh have i got a story for you #glam in the midst of cooking another wonderful family dinner suddenly feels a chill running up his back #and this leads to this controversy where some people are like 'he outed chive and glam without their permission' #and some are like 'lordy's gay it's fine' (he's not) #and there's a divide between watfos hardcore fans who prefer the classic music with chive on vocals and glam on guitar #and new-age fans who like leo on vocals #some are like 'can't believe my favorite band is based in faggotry can nothing be politically free nowadays' #and some are like 'were chive and glam fired because they were gay???' and some are like 'obviously not look at leo' (also not gay) #meanwhile glam is blissfully oblivious for awhile until chive busts into their house like '???? DID YOU KNOW WE WERE FUCKING???' #and glam's like ' . . . excuse me? 😃' #and then when fans become aware of victoria opinion is split between 'glam and chive broke up' and 'victoria is glam's beard' #which like glam didn't really care about any of this until they started implying he was using victoria as a cover for his gayness #which like. gets him REAL pissed #he ends up having an interview with a radio host about it and they ask such fucking infuriating questions he leaves a glitter bomb #idk i just think people assuming two dudes are gay is funny but only if they're unaware of the assumption #and chive and glam have matured as people. they can probably handle the idea of people thinking they fucked with grace #they would NOT handle this well when they were first starting out. probably divorce over it just a little #glam's unconscious bias against being seen as gay stemming from his desire to conform instilled by his father (he is very autistic btw) #chive calls people faggot and says things are gay i know it in my heart #they make this vacuum of assumed homophobia #i also think glam just does not like being touched like at all. it freaks him out #he does it casually unless pointed out and then he just goes STIFF.

[saintprivateer]

The funny thing about stuff like Mystery Flesh Pit and other ecological horror where a part of the irony/ tone comes from explaining the horrors in understandable and scientific terms or making pamphlets simplifying the horrors is that if it’s TOO well done, the part of my brain that loves learning about lifeforms and going to parks and zoos and aquariums lights up and I just start seeing that thing as a little organism and it neutralizes the threat in my mind and I just think it’s a neato and a sweetie! and ofc it gets to stay and be a part of this earth!! That is just a blood siphonophore, and as we know siphonophores are one of the coolest angels in the ocean. what I’m saying is the propaganda is working on me I’m the one that trusts the blood siphonophore :0/

#listen you can pick a guy out of the ocean and that is basically already the mystery we’re afraid of!! #NO need to he afraid! that is an animal and it needs nutrients and well. what is so bad about giving it my blood. #I’m fully aware how Seymour Krelborn I’m being about this #it is a philosophy I’ve built for myself and is proven over and over for me that the more I learn about the thing #the less afraid or squeamish i am because everything starts to become a wonderful little function!

[starbuck]

nostalgia-as-haunting is such an excellent concept… the idealized past you remember never truly existed, but damned if you aren’t going to destroy yourself trying to bring it back to life anyway because what the fuck else do you have?

#and you can NEVER succeed because what you think you remember was never real #so nothing real can ever live up to it #nothing you accomplish will EVER be enough #it will always be Wrong #did they really Come Back Wrong or have you just been remembering them wrong this whole time? #you know? #you KNOW????????? #i’m obsessed with it #we love a doomed and cyclical effort #and the message of the dangers of becoming obsessed with the past and losing objective sight of the future #because i hope i don’t have to say this - but i am aware that this is a Bad Thing #i just find it to be a compelling tragedy - especially when it’s motivated by grief #(hmmmm… i wonder if there could be a personal reason for that… let’s not analyze that at all…)

[luxrayz64]

does anyone else ever think abt ai no uta. the song released in tandem with pikmin 1, and included as an easter egg in pikmin 2, sung from the pikmins pov about how they are aware of and embrace their own mortality, how disposable each pikmin is, how they'll follow their captain to the death even if the captain doesn't care for them. "today again we'll carry, multiply, fight and be eaten" can anyone hear me. it's so dark in here

#pikmin really is such a unique series #the first one is like. extremely aware of and comfortable with death #the pikmin tend to get the cute + marketable treatment but make no mistake they know that they'll die and they're okay with that #between ai no uta being the pikmin saying 'we would die for you and we don't care if you don't love us back' but also the 30 day time limit #+ bringing the enemies corpses back to make more pikmin #the pikmin series is about nature. right. and nature is equal parts beautiful and grisly #there's beauty in death. your pikmin died but because they died you're a little closer to surviving #your pikmin died fighting that giant but now they can take it back and create more pikmin out of it #and so many people go in thinking it's a cutesy kids game with goofy character and creature design #I think you're meant to wonder what the pikmin would do if you died #and if you have a dandori issue you get to find out that yes they do take your dying body back to their onion #but you don't get consumed. you get a leaf. you become a pikmin #and you have to wonder why they brought you back. did they know it would save you? did it save you because they love you? #does the onion know what you did for them and pay you back out of kindness? or is it because it knows you're the key to survival #cutting myself off here because this post really got away from me #something about love and mortality #espeon cries #analysis

[chennnington]

how tf do you have healthy parasocial relationships?

The most important thing is that you never forget that the other person is a stranger. So you gotta treat them accordingly. You may know a lot about them that they decided to share, but to them you're just a stranger. So maybe don't walk up to them like "hi dude, nice to see you, your kids have gotten so big!" Just put yourself into their shoes and imagine a stranger being super familiar with you.

I also noticed a lot of entitlement from fans. Remembering you're just a random stranger helps with that too. No celebrity owes you anything. Or do you wanna be the creepy guy who begs a woman he doesn't know for a date cause she just HAS to get to know him cause he's such a nice guy? Probably not. I know how important it is to get a photo or an autograph or a short talk with your fave, I flew to different countries and waited for hours in the rain at night after concerts, unsuccessfully hoping for any of that. I understand that you may get mad and impatient. It's not too much to ask, right? The dude could just come outside for one second. And yes, he could, but he doesn't have to. He just played a show. He wants to relax. He's been doing this for decades. He releases new music and does interviews and goes on tour and releases new merch, everything else is absolutely optional.

And, no matter how well you think you know them: don't forget that you actually don't. All you know is what they choose to share. By now we all know that what people post on social media is fake and staged, but many people still seem to think that it's different with celebrities cause they watched every interview for years and put in a lot of "work" to be as close to their idols as possible. Accept that you don't know shit about them, only their public persona. Don't try to connect some absurd dots like those Swifties apparently did.

TLDR: Your favorite celebrity is a stranger. Treat them as you'd treat any other stranger if you ever get the change to interact with them, but also in your general existence as a fan. Respectfully and with the proper distance.

#trust me it is super hard #we all want to be special #Chester told me to my face that I make him feel special and he even recognized me a few months later #but I'm still aware that he's not someone I know. he doesn't even know my name #it was just a few wonderful unconnected moments. will I carry them with me forever as the greatest moments in my life? yes. #will I assume that I could've become anything more than one random stranger among millions? no. #will I ever give those horrible disgusting conspiracy theories any attention? absolutely not #when I was younger I was less distant. I'd google his kids and all and wanted to know what they did. now I stopped even that #I mean some of them have public social media accounts and good for them and for anyone who enjoys interacting with them #but that's not for me. I don't wanna follow someone just because they're 'the child of' #I checked out that rap track one of them released a while ago and didn't really like it #I know fan culture can be weird. people tell you you're not a real fan unless you obsess about every aspect of their life #I think that's dumb. being a fan isn't a competition. it's enjoying something. and people enjoy things differently #idk just treat your faves the same way you wanna be treated by random strangers #also disclaimer maybe: I'm old. I know emotions are different when you're young which makes all of this harder #just stay respectful and always remember your fave is a human being

[dan-crimes]

Where is the Candy Queen love? I mean maybe I'm just a sucker for her design and voice work and just general demeanor but I can't be the only one

#also I kinda wanna get to thinking abt what specifically the Winter King transferred over to PB #cuz like we know the crown causes madness but Ice King's specific madness is different from the OG madness when it was first created #Ice King's madness is specific to his own characteristics so if Winter King transferred his obsessive love over to PB #then maybe that's why he was so chill about the mention of Betty? I know there's the whole memory thing goin on there too #like I dunno I really dig the implications of what specifically plagues Simon abt the crown like the kidnapping and obsession is obvious #the memory loss is anothet aspect but Winter King seemed to keep the confidence and self love from the crown #ooo I wonder if we had more of a chance to see Candy Queen if we would have saw the depression and self destructive behaviour #or if Ice King's madness while having aspects of his own madness goes ahead and mixes with PB's personality and psychology #causing for a slightly different effect to it all so while her madness was similar it still had aspects of herself in it just mixed together #anywayy I could totally get into this but again I'd have to rewatch like all of Adventure Time which I am not gonna do #I would pay heavy attention to everything Ice King related tho #I wonder how Winter King even managed to do all that... cuz he was Ice King so how did he become aware enough to do that to PB? #interesting interesting maybe a strong emotional trigger of some sort... #also I wonder if the madness was building up bcuz Winter King said this was an escalation... like was it a steady stream? #Just him beaming his madness into PB's head and the more he slipped away the worse she got until eventually the blender lmao #as you can see I think people should be talking about Candy Queen more

[tariah23]

They’re calling my baby Gojo, Joseph Joestar now

#rambling #the diff is that Gojo did apologize after being called out and face to face with his racism whilst Joseph literally befriended nazi’s 😵‍💫 #and there was never any explanation from araki as to why he’d even wrote German soldiers in the shit in the first place like that was #absolutely jarring as hell to read for the very first time back when I’d gotten into jjba #well I watched it first but you know #like Joseph really thought fondly of Stroheim as this stand up guy even though he’s first of all #a Nazi #and second #the first scene that we were introduced to was of him sexually harassing a Woman #it’s……. 🗿 #still to this day I wonder if araki had ever addressed this because lord #Joseph was just happy to get the help I guess but that felt so ooc for him from what he’d seen 🗣️ #happily receiving the help of a Nazi and calling them a nice guy ahhh Joseph- #Gojo would never sjjsaj #my boo boo is a little prejudice but he’s working on it 🗣️ #I still think that gege was trying to have a ‘racism is bad’ moment but again #the execution was pretty awkward and it felt out of place considering what had been currently going down in the manga #like the Racism was pretty random but it was swiftly put to a stop which I can appreciate even if it shouldn’t have been a point of #conversation to begin with since why couldn’t Miguel just exist as a character instead of him being the now token negro #who everyone sees as instantly more frighteningly powerful than everyone else like this didn’t even need to be brought up wllssldk #idk gege was trying to be ‘woke’ 😭. sorry nbs and wp ruined the term for me but like basically lol #gojo’s pretty intelligent and extremely gifted but he’s never been perfect lol #it’s just that idk why gege chose to talk about antiblackness in Japan out of nowhere about the only black character on screen hehhhhhh #like gege tried but lmfao #this is so funny to me #at least it didn’t drag on putting Miguel in an even more awkward situation than he already was and it was nipped in the bud quickly #Gojo isn’t one to dwell on things but when he’s face with new information and is taught something he does try to reflect and do better and #I’m sure he probably started to become even more aware of what he’s saying especially when talking to Miguel in an honest way since that’s #always been the kind of character who he was despite the horrors #the only ppl who’ve been kinda annoying about this are nbs and white people as always 🗿

[dawntheduckrb]

Would you look at that, it's the consequences of my actions

Does anyone else just chew out the entire inner lining of their mouth? It's not that uncommon, right? :')

#this is gross but #if my teeth can reach it #it is not safe #my lips+cheek+and even parts of my tounge have been skinned and now it hurts to eat #itd be nice if it could properly heal but i cant let it #on the bright side my fingers are healing which means I've been better about not picking at them #lets see how long my subconscious lets that last now that I've becomr aware of it #*become #anyway my mom said it was extremely not normal and now I'm wondering if this actually isnt something everyone does #late post bc work kicked my ass and my back+knees hurt so no easy sleeby tonight #debated putting this on my main but nah #not rb

[tvrningout]

i drank some wine, got possessed with the need to write about alvina and levina bc they're gonna be important for ciaran's story as well as the overarching story, hit a lil wall bc it became more like a scene out of a book than an info post, and now i'm like. what do i do :' )

#perhaps answer a few more asks from last night but ngl #i'm tempted to offer some lil quick and easy one liners #do we like that idea do we wanna roll with that #get ready to ramble | ooc #btw every day i become more and more aware of how big dorverold is getting and i'm really wondering if this is gonna lead up #to me actually attempting to write a book?? #i've attempted a few times when i was younger and actually wrote a whole book back in??? high school or middle school??? #i followed a national writer's month book guide and used it for the summer and really wrote an entire novel #i'm so sure it was absolutely horrible and cliche asdfgh but i did it once so i can do it again right :' ) #just a lil thought that i'm having bc dorverold and all its characters have been so so much fun to develop and i would love #to do something with it rather than let it live in my brain #like there's some stuff i've thought about that i haven't talked about here and just!! it's very exciting to think about honestly #anyway asdfg lemme go decide what i'm gonna do #might really do a small one liner call bc i just wanna toss muses at people without having to pull out a developed idea y'know

[2003toyotaprius]

In short the article on wiki says Ocelot has completely gotten over BBoss during mgsv and on?? I dont know about this one. He says that about a completely different person! And I dont mean the obvious spoilery stuff, from his perspective this is The Big Boss. But The Big Boss for some reason woke up a completely changed person. He isn't the person who made Ocelot all yeehaw anymore. I think that's why Ocelot is so chilled all thorough the mgsv, because he feels like this obsession/relation is over. Maybe he thinks they both changed too much, maybe he even feels like he misremembered some things about bb. There's probably some resignation in there. The thrill is gone, the fun is gone.

And then when he learns the real Big Boss is here again he immediately jumps on the occasion to light him a cigar and go back to being unhinged mess around him for the next twenty-so years, so no, it doesnt seem like he got over it lol

(It's about 95% overthinking mgs to 5% actually learning about mgs canon, so it may be very well a complete bullshit. Or beating a very dead horse.)

#i read some reddit and they were wondering why is ocelot so goddamn normal in this one game and one game alone #also i looked through lgbt characters wikia again and i think those two questions are linked #bosselot #nobody gets over big boss thats in the very core of mgs #i see it like some kind of not straightforward breaking of the fourth wall #where the characters are on some level aware he's the protagonist and it makes them suffer #because they can only cling to him either with love or hate or become unrelevant #spoiler #metal gear solid #mgs #mgsv #spoilers #metal gear bits and pieces #metal gear

[octoooo]

HDJXJD FINISHED SAILOR MOON

It feels so weird that it’s over like,,,

I started it this summer, just some months ago and now it’s,,over?

Not entirely though since I still have a few movies to watch, then ill read the manga THEN I’ll watch Crystal & Eternal & Cosmos <3

SAILOR MOON AINR OVER JUST YET! IVE SUBK MY TEETH IN & IM NOT LETTING GO

Okay first off;

I love you Outer Guardians

I love you gay couples (Kunzite & Zoisite, Haruka & Michiru, Siren & Crow (see tags))

I love you gnc icons (Haruka, Sailor Starlights)

I love you Seiya

I love you Nezu (Iron Mouse)

I love you, Enemies (Dark Kingdom, Black Moon Clan, & Amazon Trio)

I love you, silly minions the Main villains would create

GHFUCNSM

Ofc it ends happily with everyone alive & well (after they all died but shhh Sailor Moon fixed it by seeing & reaching out to the Good left in Galaxia <3)

I’ve also become addicted to the intro (Japanese & English translation AND the American ver. theme song that played back when this show actually aired)

#sailor moon #sailor moon anime #90s sailor moon #normally when I finish a show I get this hollow feeling #BUT NOT TODAY #I’m still swimming in content #love the outer Guardians so much their lil family means the world to me <3 #sailor moon says a family can be 2 moms a dad & a kid (the dad is Haruka/Uranus if ur wondering) #you can’t tell me Sailor Lead Crow didn’t have feelings for Sailor Siren like.. #after home girl died Crow tried to find the pure Star Seed for Siren’s sake. to make their dream become reality #she joined Siren on Earth WILLINGLY. Siren was SENT there but not Crow. she chose to go after her #under the guise of ‘ur my rival i gotta make sure you’re..y’know’ #she kept the lil photo of them on her desk after Siren died..she tried to keep what was Siren’s workplace in the same state she left it in #now ofc it’s never stated they’re dating or anything. not like Haruka & Michiru were hinted @ at least #but you can’t tell me they don’t have a strong relationship #I feel a lot for them #ALSO SEIYA I LOAF VERY MUCH #they mean a lot to me <3 #Kunzite & Zoisite don’t date in the manga as far as I’m aware but they do in the anime so I’m leaving them under the ‘gay couple category’ #coconut octo (mod talking)

[bookwyrminspiration]

one thing I've learned from writing a 300k+ word fanfic is that I am going to be a lot kinder if I ever make a "I just wish they'd done this" or "this had so much potential!" comment. Because while I do think sometimes there are missed opportunities, there are infinite numbers of them and you have to chose one. Maybe the author chose something I wouldn't have, but that's okay; they're not writing for me personally and it's okay that our tastes differ

And this isn't about anything like harmful representation or similar issues that are valid to critique, this is about critiquing the story for being the story it is, I suppose is how I'd phrase it

Every day when I write I'm so conscious of all the potential things I could write and the details I could add, and I have to choose between them all because it is literally impossible to include everything. Not even 300k+ words is enough to do everything. Sometimes I recognize something that would be so fun to explore, and I have to let it go no matter how much I love it because my story isn't the right place, my story needs to focus on something else, my story couldn't do it justice, and because I have to narrow it down.

And the further you get into a story, the more it narrows, and the more you lose some people, but that's unavoidable. Odds are, authors have recognized numerous moments where they wished they could've done something. I certainly have. There are some we as readers might never be aware they let go

So while I'm not saying I'll never--or that no one should ever--make a comment like that again, because there are definitely moments in stories where I really wanted something and think it would genuinely add something worth the effort, at the end of the day the author had to make a choice. That's how writing works. And I don't think lamenting every single missed opportunities is fair because they are infinite.

And if what you want doesn't match what the author wants and does? That doesn't make it a bad story. That just makes it a story that wasn't for you. Which is fine.

Just something I've been thinking about

#writing #reading #fandom #how do I tag this what does this fall under #to be very clear I am not trying to tell anyone else what to do here #these are my thoughts and something I've become more aware of #the possibilities of a story are infinite. it could be anything you want #sometimes I wonder why people are even in fandoms when they complain about what could've been #there's being critical and then there's just being mean #but that's something else #it's not that you're not allowed to have negative thoughts #it's more like...if that's /all/ you have and /all/ you talk about. why not find something that makes you happy? #why stay here when clearly something isn't what you like or want? #there are things and content and stories you can find to be happy about! find them! be happy! I want you to be! #making posts like these makes me nervous sometimes but. hmm. thoughts. #long post #i didn't want this to be that long but felt the need to clarify things #though I suppose for me it's not very long

[b1gwings]

i’m so into dndads rn i might make a separate blog just so i can RB everything i see

#i might include dimension 20 stuff in it too because i'm just so insane about those two things rn #sometimes i think about keeping this blog tidy but then i see a funny little post with my funny little guys and i think 'ok well people can #just scroll a little farther to find my art' #it's not like i post my art on here very often anyway #but i post the most of it on here out of all of the socials that im on #anyway i've suddenly become aware of the fact that i don't really talk to my mutuals and i'm kind of really sad about it #i want to have friends and be able to talk to people w #ith mutual interests because i love people so much and i love talking and i have so many thoughts in my brain about the things i like that #i can't keep in #i dont put a lot of effort into curating this blog at all but im wondering if a second one would be too much energy #idk ill figure it out LMFAO #i mostly use tumblr to throw ideas and art and stuff into the void and hope that people like it #but maybe it would be nice to have some place to save all the dnd posts to look back at #anyway this is just me thinking #if we're mutuals hi i want to be freinds with u but im shy pls talk to me about anything if u want #and if we're not mutuals hi i want to be friends with u but im shy pls talk to me about anything if u want

[kachulein]

someone: how are you these days?

me: hm, do you want a detailed version now or just a summary like "I'm fine"?

#the more aware i am becoming the more i realise i can't talk to people #like i can but i can't #hope that makes sense #but really #sometimes i see videos that just make me go 'how can people talk to others so smoothly? why are they not awkward #?' #like i can live with it bc i already branded myself as a weirdo #but sometimes i wonder what other people think when they are on the receiving side of my poor attempts at small talk #even when i imitate what other people say i still do it wrong #maybe it could be my own personal charm to suck at this #and i guess i have the power of shyness on my side #bc usually people still seem to like me despite how strange i am #me being like 'oh uh bye uh yeah enjoy the uhm nice weather over the weekend' #the other person: well the weather forecast said it'll be bad weather #me: oh yeah uhm right #meanwhile in my head *gosh yes i KNEW the weather will be bad but i haven practiced implementing that into my small talk protocols* #or another classic™: 'waitress: have a good meal!! me: thanks you too!!' :)))))) #kachu rambles

[steviesnailbat]

I think I've figured out part of why everyone talking down to Steve and constantly acting like he's a complete fucking idiot bothers me so much. It's because some people do that to me.

#i didn't even notice people doing it to me at first #but more and more i've become aware of it #and it fucking sucks #it makes me feel like shit #sometimes i wonder if it would be better if i just didn't talk anymore #or at least didn't ask questions or point out things that don't make sense to me #so that people would stop treating me like a fucking idiot #and by people i honestly mean a few specific family members #who i love very much #and i can have nice conversations with #they just sometimes make it clear that they think i've said the stupidest thing imaginable #just add that to the ridiculously long list of reasons why i relate to steve #stranger things #steve harrington

[the-busy-ghost]

Am re-reading Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and I know it's not a new or original thought but it's just striking to me again how young George (younger) and his brother Robert must have been during the tennis match and Black Bull mob scenes.

If the 'famous session' refers to the 1703 session of parliament (or even if it refers to the previous year's sitting which Queensberry also oversaw), and if old Dalcastle married in 1687 (or later), then at most George could have been 16 and his brother 15, and it's probable that both boys are younger.

I don't remember too many of the details from the first time I read this book so will have to finish it before I make any further judgement. However I don't think it detracts from Robert's culpability or nastiness in any way to take into account his probable age in the earlier portion of the narrative. I think makes for a more interesting reading when forcibly reminded that he's a young teenager. Even taking into account different social mores and expectations placed on children in both the period in which the novel is set, and the early 19th century when it was written, it seems to me that that's an element that will still have particular significance for readers in the 21st century, regardless of one's personal experience with extreme forms of Presbyterianism.

#I mean it's probably been said before I haven't read much analysis of the novel in a while- or at least not of the psychology aspect #But I do feel that the image you first get in your head is that Robert is at least in his late teens and early 20s #at the time of the tennis match nonsense- I.e. a grown up demonic genius albeit with a chip on his shoulder #I'd say he's probably about 14? #Idk if anybody else remembers being 14 but oh boy does that make sense #I mean he's still a very unpleasant teenage boy don't get me wrong but nonetheless #In our day and age even grown adults are regularly affected by all kinds of brainrot and conspiracy theory stuff #We live in the internet age but I'm not entirely sure that there aren't comparisons to be drawn #Between unpleasant child Robert - called a wonderful boy by his parents; convinced he is Elect #highly book smart but deeply aware that there is something wrong about his family #Being tempted continually by visions of the Devil and raised in an age of constant civil and religious debate and strife #Where every side is utterly convinced of the complete moral validity and right of their own particular views #And some kid today coming out with all sorts of absolute nonsense as a result of being exposed to internet brainrot #Be it fascism or misogyny or even political views that I agree with but can become dogma and conspiracy theory in the wrong hands #In particular Robert's been raised in a very dogmatic household but also told exceptions will be made for him because he's special #Also something something late 17th century print culture boom and propaganda wars vs 21st century internet etc is this anything #I'm not necessarily saying this is a story for our times all I'm saying is there are timeless qualities in it #(Obviously that's what makes it a classic it's just I tend to notice more the portrayals of ill-made marriage #or Edinburgh mob violence and was less interested in the psychology of Mummy's Little Fanatic on the first reading) #Possibly the early part of the novel accidentally gives the impression that Robert is slightly older #because of throwaway lines like George mistaking him for a student of divinity #Even if Robert had been attending the university though that doesn't track #Based on what I remember of early 16th century norms and what little I know of late 18th century stuff #It would be perfectly normal for university students in Scotland in this period to start around the age of 14 #Some went even earlier- I definitely remember coming across lads who matriculated at the age of 12 or 13 or younger #Idk maybe I was the only one who had that particular image of him as a young adult in my head #Maybe I was the only one who was too stupid to work this out earlier and it affected my reading #But still if there's one thing I'm taking away from this re-read it's going to be 'Dear god that is a 13/14/15 year old boy' #That being said don't want to overdo it; as a former teenage girl I used to hate when reading the Crucible and people were all #Oh that's just OBVIOUSLY what all teenage girls are like so not trying to compartmentalise boys; but at the same time o.O