#i'm too old for this

[project-walrider]

Shipping discourse in a fandom like Outlast is honestly an entire new level of ridiculous.

#please if you try to defend the rights of fictional characters don't follow me #I'm too old for this #miles // bla

[tidesreach]

some of you are being so weird about 911 like there's "i refused to watch bucktommy kiss because i am loyal to buddie and this makes me better than you somehow" levels of insane at one end and "actually eddie isn't good enough for buck anymore and if you don't like bucktommy you clearly hate buck and also bisexuals" levels of insane at the other what is going ON with some of you this isn't twilight fandom 2008 why are you drawing battle lines please touch some grass

#i'm too old for this #911 abc #911

[galadrieljones]

https://www.tumblr.com/celtic-crossbow/749968238350352384/hi-did-some-poking-about-after-hearing-rumors-re?source=share

Are you seeing this shit? Why are they accusing you? I scrolled their blog it's a Caryl blog but I'm confused. They're joking about domestic violence - I don't know if it's a Carol/Ed joke and somehow you're involved?

Lol. I read the post. Thanks for cluing me in. I have no idea why this person would think my post has anything to do with that anon. It was just a post, and it has nothing to do with anything that anon said. Further, I would never start a "war." I am not "Machiavellian." I wouldn't even know how to do that. This speaks to a level of paranoia I personally don't understand. There is zero connection between anything we do or say in the Bethyl fandom to what's going on in any other ship. In fact, that was the entire point of my post!

Secretly, I knew better. I shouldn't have posted that. I knew there was a chance the wrong people would see it and get the wrong idea. I couldn't help myself though. The gif was so perfect, based on everything I've observed 😂 And it's funny. I just forget sometimes that people on this site and elsewhere just can be really unforgiving and they can take things REALLY seriously!

There is something in this ask that you linked, however, which is making my TD spidey sense tingle, which is that Bethylers think we have "the upper hand" right now. Why on earth would anyone who thinks they have the upper hand start a war? And also like, WHY would we think that????? I thought Beth was dead!

#fandom wank #i'm too old for this #it's amusing all the same #if you're reading this #and you hate my ship #please rest assured that i don't hate yours #i don't even care #i'm just having a little fun on my downtime #it's been a long time since i've been involved in any sort of wank #makes me feel alive lmfao #the fandom LIVES

[fourtyfaregates]

Little doodle of Narrator/Broadcaster 405 when he's flustered. He can choose what kind of head he wants to have- so to prevent people from reading his face he goes Camera Mode.

#embarrased blorbo man #did I use that word right? #blorbo? #i'm too old for this #artyfourty #the stanley parable #tsp #tspud #the stanley parable narrator #tsp narrator #the narrator #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #object head

[fidgetspringer]

"Just download tinder!"

Pal, i'd rather eat glass.

#at this point if anyone's gonna date me they're just gonna have to ask me the old fashioned way #i'm too old for this #also how tf do you date as a trans guy?? #idfk

[have-a-treato]

hi I have a Thought I must throw into the void. Not a response to anything in particular, it just crosses my mind from time to time and makes me stupid angry.

I read "trashy" romance and do not apologize for it. It's just romance, it's not trashy. It's not a guilty pleasure. I fucking love that shit. I read my faerie porn voraciously.

I don't judge other people's intelligence by what they choose to read for fun and I hope you don't either!

I feel like there's a steady metaphorphosis of the bored housewife stereotype into "the booktok girlie" specifically for romance novel consumption. It's derogatory when it really shouldn't be.

I'm not absolving the community of its problems, because lord knows there are many, but that doesn't mean it's free range to drag anyone that reads a lot of romance.

You aren't into it. Cool. Move on. I'm not sure why it seems like the same people that talk about not yucking yums in fanfiction turn their nose up at afab people reading a lot of romance.

Is it because it seems "normie" to you? If you bothered to crack one open you might find that your fanfiction and what they're reading isn't that different.

#I'm too old for this #romantasy #booklr

[delborovic]

FYI

Anon asks are officially closed hahahah we had a good run of it ya'll but :) please use your common sense online and don't send inappropriate messages to people who are essentially strangers to you! I am a real human person behind this tumblr so use your best judgement.

The vast majority of you have been very well behaved so I wanted to say thank you for that. ♥ Thank you all for your support!!

#del replies #looks into the camera like on the office #i'm too old for this

[dollelujah]

No offense but when is aliexpress gonna come out with factory extras of these already

#Rainbow high #God I hate blind boxes so much this whole experience was painful #I'm too old for this

[reynawonders-art]

Kiner Brothers will be the end of me.

It's Cloneover

#star wars #life in the outer rim #the clone wars #the bad batch #does it mean that I will truly never see them? #I'm too old for this

[jerzwriter]

I simply cannot express how much utter joy this has brought me!

#hozier #unreal unearth #we get more!!! #2024 is gonna be amazing! #i'm too old for this #but i don't care

[soul-wanderer]

I just realized that one of the things that have been bothering me (apart from certain people in the Marina fandom lacking boundaries and moderation) is the fact that oftentimes Maya’s and Carina’s relationship is labeled as “relationship goals”, which is also kind of ironic, given the sheer hatred Maya keeps receiving for being traumatized and mentally ill.

The point is, I don’t think their relationship was ever meant to be anything close to perfect or have a role model function, which is why it is concerning to label it as such.

Both of them entered this relationship with a lot of emotional baggage, especially in regard to their own families (especially their fathers). On top of that, they both didn’t really talk about said emotional baggage for quite a while and refused to get professional help for it, too. And then we have the fact that they disagreed on topics that were highly relevant for their relationship: marriage and children. In the end, they still get married and Maya even agrees on having kids, but if this were a real relationship, this almost certainly would go wrong in the long run, and it’s just not realistic that Maya would change her mind so quickly, just like their wedding was extremely rushed. And that is not even taking into account that Maya cheated on Carina with Jack and that Carina still ends up being friends with Jack again.

Fast-forward to more recent struggles, and we once again see a lack of communication between the two of them. Carina preferred to talk to anyone but Maya about her marriage problems and Maya just completely shut off, which is understandable but doesn’t help their marriage at all.

And I am not saying that their entire marriage is completely dysfunctional, because there definitely are beautiful moments between them, but in the end my argument still stands that the writers weren’t going for a beautiful, picture perfect, functional relationship.

And that’s okay!

They decided to show a relationship that had a less than ideal start, with two people who come with a lot of baggage that they refuse to talk about and fail to resolve in healthy ways a lot of the time. They often need a metaphoric explosion before they come to their senses and realize they cannot go on like this. Their relationship is deeply flawed because they are deeply flawed. And that’s just what relationships are like, sometimes. But I still wouldn’t suggest that anyone take their relationship as an example for what to look for in a relationship, because in real life this would almost certainly fail or lead to some sort of toxic trauma bonding, and I’m not sure anyone would want that for their own relationship.

That being said: The main issue seems to be the discrepancy in what demographic this entire storyline was written for and the demographic that is a big part of the actual fandom. As someone who grew up with Callie and Arizona as the main queer couple on TV, I know what it’s like to see a dysfunctional relationship and overlook the dysfunctional parts because that’s just the little representation you get, after all. There’s a considerable gap in the positive and healthy representation of queer couples for younger folks, and it’s showing. I personally don’t need or want positive representation, because I am at an age (oh, here we go) where I quite enjoy messy and realistic representation. Because I know when things are messy and problematic.

However, that does not mean that there is no hope left for this relationship. If they both! go to therapy and make amends, they might as well find ways to a healthy relationship. It’s fine if they do, it’s fine if they don’t. Again, the writers have done a remarkable job at portraying a realistic relationship - and sometimes realistic does mean messy and dysfunctional and problematic, and I hope more people are able to acknowledge that in the future. And by the way, that doesn’t mean that you can’t ship problematic couples - heck, I do it all the time, but it does mean that sometimes we need to use our critical thinking skills and not sugarcoat behaviours that weren’t meant to be healthy in the first place. Thanks for coming to my ted talk about problematic relationships!

#Station 19 #Maya Bishop #Carina DeLuca #a rant #oh here we go #I'm too old for this

[gilbirda]

Status: Tired 👍

#gil talks #not vagueing not nothing #I'm too old for this #i truly want to move on #i don't reblog drama but truly this has to stop #(usually) #I'm once again asking you to stop

[marioandretti]

You don’t have to say USAmerican. The reason people from the USA are called “American” is because it’s the only country with the word “America” in it.

This is an insane ask to get in the year 2024. Yes, I am aware I can refer to myself as an American. As I said in the post you're referring to, I live here, was raised here. Born here, even.

The reason I clarified 'USAmerican' is because a lot of people in North, Central, and South American countries take offense to our use of the term "American" as if only we can use it as an identifier, when they, too, can called themselves that. The US took on the name of its continent, and the other countries on said continent can take exception to how we in the States refer to ourselves in different, specific contexts.

I use "American" a majority of the time, when talking with my fellow residents or if it's already been established in the conversation (with whoever from wherever). However, in my post about Spanish speakers, I am directly asking people from other countries in the Americas a question specific to them and their experience.

Again, this can be multi-layered, and it can depend on who you're talking to and when. But I will always be considerate when talking directly to a group of people I am not a part of.

I first heard about this 12 or 13 years ago? Maybe even earlier, I don't remember where. But, here's an article from the Atlantic in 2013.

#asks #I really hope the person asking this didn't know this already #bc if they did then: #I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People #I'm too old for this

[alistairian]

I admit I'm... skeptical of the broadness of autism diagnosis that's gotten popular lately mostly because that would mean I'm almost definitely autistic and every social struggle I've had through my life could be easily explained as something other than "I guess I'm just an asshole fail person who doesn't want friends" and the reason socializing is so frustrating and draining is because I spend the entire time masking and trying to guess how I'm supposed to react and the reason I like being alone is because I can hyperfixate and act like a creature in peace with no witnesses to call me weird but that almost feels... too convenient.

Like I can attribute all my faults to various traumas and identities like this is because I'm trans and this is because I'm an only child and this is because I'm introverted and this is because of what so and so did on and on forever. Or maybe I'm just ~autistic~

#not to mention the pretty significant overlap you see with people who are trans/asexual/creative/introverted also being on the spectrum #idk man #I'm too old for this #who the hell is ''normal'' anyway #anytime I see those posts/videos that are like 'adhd/autistic moment when..' and think uh everybody does that?

[essrambles]

when the universe gives you a perfectly functional foosball table on a neighbour's nature strip.... ofc you summon your inner amazonian warrior and walk that thing halfway up the street home

now i just have to figure out how to get it through my doors

#my shoulders and my back #i'm too old for this #ess rambles

[cafecitowriter]

.

#tried online dating after what feels like a millennia #found someone i kind of liked #and thought i was really vibing with #then they stopped answering #came back 24 hours later saying “oh sorry i know it's cliche i'm just so bad at these apps” #and then gave me their snapchat #saying “i only offer because i'm SO much better at replying there 😝” #i hate it here #i'm too old for this #to delete later