#like millennials i love us

[thelikesoffinn]

Fanfictions now: A bit of fluff. A bit of Angst. A little bit of real life. A lot of the nastiest smut I have ever laid eyes on.

Fanfictions then: Mary Sue Smith always wanted to live in BIG CITY. Now, after turning 16, her dream will finally come true. But who is that pretty new neighbour of hers? He seems....different. (268 Chapters, all teenage Angst and fluff unless there's talk of lemons. 90% chance that MALE LEAD is a super uberfamous celebrity that everyone and their mothers prostitute knows, but Mary Sue has never heard of because she's "not like other girls". Has at least one car accident scene. Will likely throw in a surprice pregnancy, a miscarriage and kidnapping. There will be attempted murder halfway through, and nobody will know why or how.)

#you can not tell me this isn't true #like millennials i love us #but our ff's were intense #fanfictions #fanfiction writer #ff #character x reader #character x you #character x oc #millennial culture #millenials

[mirrorbird]

#neopets #where my online millennials at #i use the css and html i learned TO THIS DAY #neopets nostalgia #neopians #i was also email penpals with an older british girl who wrote a multipart story in the neopian times that i loved for like 5 years #chrissy with the lime green hair and the pennangalan boots #wherever you are #i hope youre doing well #im still writing and also im fully goth now #which im realizing at this moment is probably thanks to you #tumblr polls

[tenitchyfingers]

ok i found this on the beatles subreddit and i really hate men atm (because you know this is straight white men saying this shit)

BITCH MCLENNON HAS A LONG AND ANCIENT HISTORY AND MCLENNON SHIPPERS ARE THE WHOLE BACKBONE OF THE BEATLES' WORLDWIDE SUCCESS FUCK YOUUUU

#btw i'm a millennial and PROUD MCLENNON TRUTHER GO GET FUCKED YOU PUNY BITCHES #besides IT'S PAUL DOING THE ENTIRE HEAVY LIFTING LIKE WE'RE JUST PAYING ATTENTION #like he literally said they slept together #that he dreams of John like all the time #he says corny and extremely romantic shit about John all the time #if you saw Get Back you know #like what else should happen for people to get off of us #it's not my fault that paul literally defined himself as John's ex wife and he had to cut all contacts with John because of Yoko #as if that's a 'just mates' thing #is it my fault that he keeps writing songs explicitly about john where he says 'i love you' #is it my fault that he spent 43 years constantly not getting over it #is it my fault that every time he performs Here Today he can't help but cry #is it my fault that he explicitly said he and John had such a deep understanding that they could communicate without speaking #LOOK AT HIM NOT US #the beatles #mclennon #and btw zoomers who are beatles fans are 100% welcome fuck you #the Beatles are for EVERYBODY

[araneitela]

Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. #[ post-it. ] in a way; you are poetry material. you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. #[ i'm so tired. i need to write a post on this or something. and somehow add it to my pinned. in some way. ] #[ 'sex' and 'seduction' are /not/ wrong in my opinion. HOWEVER-- they are /very wrong/ if we go by modern labels and perception. ] #[ god the horror of writing a muse that is so interlaced in a modern world; setting and culture but seems to /ooze/ something archaic. ] #[ this level of refinement isn't of our times in my opinion. these things that she loves aren't commonly loved nowadays. ] #[ there's so much about her that is old-fashioned to me and it's so in my face. and yet fanon doesn't see it. ] #[ i can't believe i'm an old millennial who's screaming boomer or older things. ] #[ but like can we acknowledge that sex in today's age isn't the same as it used to be? not /always/ but more generally so. ] #[ can we acknowledge that /seduction/ didn't always mean what people see it to mean now? ] #[ can we acknowledge that the FEMME FETALE TROPE HAS CHANGED /LEAGUES/ since the 2000s? ] #[ which is my biggest beef actually. and maybe all of my frustration plays into this most. it's that the femme fatale now is sexualized. ] #[ while that is /not/ what the femme fatale used to be. kafka plays into the old school femme fatale so well. film noir days. ] #[ i had this same struggle on yelan where they make VERY OBVIOUS draws to it by her music in her trailer. god; the jazz. ] #[ but kafka suffers from this so very much as well to a point where i don't dare to call her a femme fatale because then it's fanon. ] #[ the fanon i hate so much. ] #[ but just uuuughhhh. UGHHH. it's so much to explain. ]

[kezcore]

i hate to break it to you, millennials, but gen z does, in fact, know what dvds and cds are. we grew up with them. we grew up with a lot of stuff y'all obsess over, actually. not my fault all the tech companies collectively decided to get rid of dvd players

#you're not an elder you're 30 #ALSO: WE KNOW WHAT LANDLINES ARE #I USED TO USE THEM TO TALK W MY FRIENDS BEFORE I GOT CELL SERVICE #BUT PAYING FOR A LANDLINE IS EXPENSIVE NOWADAYS SO THERES NO POINT #sorry but i just saw an article about millennials crying over how gen z apparently think dvds are useless #i mourn the loss of dvd movie home screens everyday #BRING BACK DVD PLAYERS PLEASE I LOVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!!!! #but like..make dvds scratch resistant. please. all of my old dvds are so scratched up and it makes me sad #omg i just remembered that my mom used to have a bunch of cds BACK WHEN CARS STILL HAD CD PLAYERS #tangled 2010 soundtrack cd ❤️ #i used to jam out to my kidz bop cd on my huge cd player #ummm what else #unrelated but i used to be so jealous of my friend's mp3 player #also was super jealous of my friend's flip phone #i wanted one sooo bad. more than i wanted an iphone bc i thought flip phones were COOL #i had an ipod #not one of those stupid mini phones but like an actual ipod music player #i had 1989 by taylor swift on it #god i miss my ipod #I MISS WHEN PHONES HAD HEADPHONE JACKS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE #the only reason i regret upgrading my phone 💔 #kez.txt

[not-poignant]

I'm here only to say

"Hi! I love you"

#asks and answers #gif post #no but really sending you love anon #i hope you're taking care! #(this is my favourite gif response to things like this i'm sorry) #(i know i'm telling on myself as a millennial by even using gifs like this) #(but i'm not about to pretend i'm a teen dsalfkjsa when i'm an old lmao)

[konfizry]

He would not fucking say that but listen,

#they made him a guru but didnt actually commit to the bit so the result is this very surface-level 'oh he can manipulate people woooo' #and we barely know how that translated into like. anything like. what did it look like. what was life like in ganath haros when he took ove #what means did he use to make everyone submit to this extent. the game tells you he reigns through fear but #please show us something to go off of. im sorry but brainwashed people is not enough. you gotta add little clues and details #that hint at the terror. this is. this flaw is present all over tales or arise. it's very symptomatic of whats wrong with the writing #i mean obviously there are other issues #anyway im saying nowhere in the game does it say he was not a skincare guru #arise curse #yeah this is reductress what can i say im a cookie-cutter female millennial with depressingly bland political opinions and tastes so #thats where i go unfortunately #yeah anyway in my modern AU he's a techbro who also leads a (pretty successful!!) wellness cult hes great hes great i love him #oh no i made it about my obsession for modern esoteric movements somehow oh no it keeps happening aaaaaaa

[frecklystars]

sorry for the long ass post but this has always my favorite scene in the entire film - for obvious reasons - and im so glad greta talked about it and the way she worded it made me laugh so hard i had tears in my eyes. haha... god. my boyfriend sobbing his eyes out over the metaphorical crusts on his patriarchy sandwich......

#i dont think ill ever love anybody quite the same way that i love Ken #because he came into my life during a time when i was like. dying. not in a haha millennial way. i was genuinely fucking dying. #he is so. special. to me. he is so... everything to me and i truly mean it every time that i say it #i miss and love him so deeply so WHOLEHEARTEDLY *EVERY* single day #and i didn't used to be able to do that anymore! but he!! HE made me feel SAFE again and thats INSANE #because i was SO UNSAFE for SO goddamn long! and the feeling of safety is STILL unfamiliar to me and foreign and horrifying #but he's constantly such a Safe character. Barbie too even moreso. and it's so refreshing after feeling Unsafe for so. long. #i spent over a year feeling like my whole world had ended and i was destined to die but then he! shows up! in my life! #and no other character was able to spark life back into my heart the way he did #AND I HAD *TRIED* I had tried so hard to get into old special interests and find new ones but NOTHING worked #i was just an empty husk. just a shell of a person having flashbacks *constantly* #feeling unsafe *constantly* suffering *constantly* every single second i was awake i was in so much pain #and then every time i'd sleep i'd have the goriest nightmares about all the abuse i was put through and all the F/Os i'd lost #but then Ken Carson plucked a star out of the sky and said 'hey sweet girl you don't know me but i miss you and love you' #'and barbie is here and im here and allan is here and everyone loves you already. we're so happy to meet you' #'and everything is gonna be okay because we've got you! we came for you! and we will fight for you!!' #and then hearing greta comment abt this scene made me laugh so hard and then it hits me. i laugh now. #i laugh so often because of This Dude. i didnt used to be able to laugh before but now i laugh like i used to #i used to say all the time about my past main F/O i had lost from abuse from an IRL person 'i will never love anyone more' #and true i will never love anyone more than i loved my starlight. but here is the thing #i will never love anyone the way i love Barbie. i will never love anyone the way i love Ken Carson #because it was IMPOSSIBLE for me to feel joy for so long and it was. THIS MOVIE that brought me back #when this movie is so full of the most specific triggers. colors. clothes. yet i push thru it every time #and its because these characters make me feel THAT safe!!!! like if i see a trigger i tell myself that's BARBIE'S Thing. and Barbie is safe #ive never ever once had a flashback during the barbie movie NOT even once even tho logically i Should. but i dont. #because these F/Os are like!!! sweet girl!!! we've got you!!! and i'm like yeah you sure do now don't ever let me go #god i cry my eyes out every single time i think about this i need to sleep LMFAO SORRY FOR THE LONG RANT #love notes #💕 I'll fight for you!! - ̗̀🐎🏖️✨ ̖́-

[dogwhizzer]

love how all the men who have ever played whizzer have their own version of annoying fag voice

#stephens straight but idc hes an honorary fag to me. masc king #he's got like a nerdy flair about his it's great it's very classic #andrews is silly it reminds me of my grandma a little bit it's great. love you midwest girl #nick a hes like. Well he's like la millennial fag. is the masc in the room with us type voice #i don't know man just look him up youll understand #garfs barfs

[magentagalaxies]

i really want to start making a table collecting statistics on the audience demographics i'll perform my aubrey material for (like what generation most of the audience is, whether i'm performing in a predominantly queer space, etc.) and how well the jokes land bc like. i need to collect more data points before i can properly present my findings but the results so far have been fascinating

#again i do not have enough performance experiences to make any definitive claims about who ''aubery's audience'' is #but i find it funny that any time i show my aubrey material one-on-one to a queer gen z person #they're always like ''i love it but straight people will definitely hate it or not get it'' #and i get the inclination to be like. ''i like this thing so people like me will like this thing'' #and cishet society seems so polarized w/r/t queer topics it's like. the assumption makes sense #however. whenever i've done an aubrey performance in front of an audience that's predominantly queer and gen z #i've actually received a primarily negative response!! and somehow straight people have never given me shit for my aubrey material #(''well straight allys don't count'' i told some of my aubrey jokes to a joe rogan dudebro and he enjoyed them) #(which yeah maybe could be a mark against my comedy but i like to think i opened his mind a bit at the very least) #i really want to test my aubrey monologues in front of a primarily gen x/boomer audience #bc so far i only have actual performance experience in front of gen z or millennials #and the older people i've told jokes to individually or shown videos of my stuff have really liked it #luckily paul has said a goal for when i'm in town this summer is to get me to perform my aubrey stuff in as many different places as possib #for both queer audiences and non-queer audiences so i can gauge reactions since i don't want to be confined to one demographic #so i'll get a lot of data points this summer #@ paul get me a performing slot at senior citizen pride lmao these are my people #(shoutout to paul going ''jess stop collecting the old homos!'' last time i was in town) #(and when i imitated him and was like ''old gay men are not your pokemon!'' bellini was like ''ok but they may be your audience'') #also one data point i really want to see the variation on is how my one specific joke plays in these different demographics #bc i have a joke that like. it's literally not even about AIDS and doesn't punch down at all #i literally say ''if you're gay and over the age of 50 you could violate the geneva convention and i'd still be like support our troops'' #like obviously being like ''you have been through hell so i will let you get away with literal war crimes you deserve ultimate immunity'' #BUT. in the line right before the quote i use the phrase ''AIDS generation'' not as a derogatory term but being like. #this horrible thing impacted the entire generation y'know? and bellini and scott and their friends call themselves that it's just the term #but when i said the phrase ''AIDS generation'' in front of my gen z audience i heard gasps and felt like they all hated me #and when i did the same line in front of millennials it wasn't quite as striking but their eyes did widen #like i was suddenly an ''edgy comedian''. but like this is a part of our history and it does inform the story i'm telling #the story i'm telling is comedic but it's grounded in this real world context #and i'm like. @ the audience who was offended: when was the last time any of y'all spoke to a gay man over the age of 50 #bc bellini loves that section of the monologue and was offended that people would even take offense to that phrase

[perexcri]

#im gonna work on responding to comments on irresistible #also doing this is only cringe when i do it ok #to other authors and commenters: long comments are beautiful please ramble about whatever i love to read them #to me: shut up and say something normal for once #also the emoji/emoticon mix comes from being born in the weird millennial/gen z gen gap #in middle school everyone was typing out emoticons #in hs everyone was using emojis #it's like i can speak with both of them but i mix them up all the time #it's called being bilinguini or whatever 🙄

[james-isqueer]

yall will hate to hear this (not being able to put people in boxes so easily) but generations (baby boomers, gen x, millennials, gen z, etc) are based off of U.S. events in history (sociopolitical stuff that defines generations) and therefore they. do. not. APPLY. outside. the. U.S.

they might in some ways because some things are universal but. not every country was on the winning side of world war II -- the cause of the baby boom in the U.S. they can't all be baby boomers.

Millennials are defined by 9/11. You can't just say other countries are defined exactly by the same things when they age range could be totally different based on history in that specific country.

not everywhere is the U.S.

#god this irks me so much #like wow I love US centrism sO mUchH uGHghGhH #yeah I know not everyone knows this which is why I'm saying it but #a lot of people d o know because we bring up what defines them all the time #like ‟yknow how millennials lived with the aftermath of 9/11 and therefore...‟ YEAH #like we KNOW we just aren't THINKING #yay #idk #rant #generations #gen z #gen x #baby boomers #millennials

[stinkrascal]

theres nothing i want more than for an older millennial couple to adopt me and my boyfriend i want to be friends with two millennials so badly

#imagine theres a couple who are in their early 30s #the man is a techbro but not in the annoying cryptofascist way just in the i work in the tech industry way #and the lady is a quirked up autistic housewife who obsesses over video game franchises and has 100 ocs #and they have that cringeworthy yet oddly charming millennial humor to them where theyre always using reddit catchphrases #fucked around and found out! #play stupid games win stupid prizes! #ERMAGERD! #that kinda stuff #and we'd have dinners at each others houses #but mostly the millennial couple's house cuz they actually own their own house and we're just renters #they could tell us about idk their animal crossing island and what episode of friends they're rewatching #and we could tell them about the intricacies of the plot of one piece and what new skins we got in fortnite #and we'd all be slightly confused about the other's interests but we'd still respect our love for nerdy shit #and whenever we take selfies they post the pictures to their facebook because to them facebook is still a viable form of social media #and the captions are like 'babysitting these dweebs!!' to poke fun at the slight age difference #and me and bf would make comments like 'i'm gonna put you in a nursing home soon' in retaliation #and we'd have a cool discord server where we play minecraft together. because that is the one thing all generations can agree on #which is that discord and minecraft are just kinda epic #that's all i want. is that so wrong

[godofsmallthings]

i just know we’re never going to get intense press waves from taylor again, which is absolutely for the best for her and for me but i also really do miss her in the down time between her popping her head up for release promo

#unfortunately i am still a swiftie #i'm sure this has been pointed out before but it's funny how she went from years and years of like...constant streams of exposure #about her day-to-day life and friends and whereabouts #and now we literally have zero insights into that #but she's so open and vulnerable whenever she does do press (and also just so much more vulnerable in her music) #i'm sure when she tours again she'll be a little more 'on' for a while and i'm just looking forward to it #i love her being a goofy millennial online idk #also i just literally do not know who she is as a person. like there are several versions of her that exist in my head and rotate through #them depending on the scenario #i just think it's so funny that i used to have so many intense/strong opinions about a literal stranger's life and relationships #i do not know and i kind of don't even care now #BUT ALSO i miss being obsessed with stuff like i am still insatiable about her but it's all reminiscing about the past #idk i think maybe i'm just too old to be a swiftie now. it's probably not any deeper than that lmao #vi is typing...

[le-suspect]

sometimes i forget most of 5sos fans are old people

#like they’re millennials #and i love them #even though they use way too much emojis #5sos #5 seconds of summer #5sos fam #maias bs

[lovesjustachemical]

Not trying to bag on the hospital because they did end up helping us, but why the hell is it shocking to them that two millennials whose lives revolve around the care/medication/medical scheduling of one party don't exactly have a bunch of "close friends" we can ask to come stay with us when that party needs around the clock monitoring? Like, we're both transplants to the area, and we didn't exactly have time to build up those strong warm bonds in the area with it being freaking covid and us being fully preoccupied with my partner's health.

#my partner's mother is luckily both lovely and has the funds to fly here but fuck no I can't get someone in the same city #to drop everything for us and establish a base at our home with only a few hours notice #like we do have friends but our 'oh hey come do immediate caretaking in a medical emergency' friends don't live here #and if they did they have jobs too! #millennials are poor