I wrote a longer and more overwrought version of this post when I was slightly drunker (yay distillery book club) but the shorter, more sober-clarity version is: it's so ridiculous that about 50% of my current fandom experience is based on things that are now 25 years old (thanks for the reminder, lucasfilm) and yet I'm terrified of being left behind because I 'can't move on' from something that is now barely 5 years old
you could probably attempt to make some sort of sweeping statement about this, like the lifespan of media now versus the early 00s, but what it's really about is my own issues with abandonment which is affecting both my ability to move on (I really struggle with the 'crew breaks up between installment thing', always have) and also the general fear of behind left behind, rather than any real trends in fandom as a whole
ok I think that's enough for superb owl sunday
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[ID: A 9 gif stimboard themed around watching horror movies. From left to right, top to bottom:
1: Someone putting a VHS of "The Fog (1980)" into a VCR.
2: A TV playing a commercial for a horror movie, flashing between scenes of someone falling and people screaming.
3: A TV showing a scene showing a hospital room being destroyed, and someone looking over in fear.
4: Someone pulling the DVD cases for the movies "Cape Fear (1991)", "Carrie (1976)", and "Carrie (2013)" off of a shelf, then putting them back.
5: Someone pulling the VHS case for the movie "Scream (1996)" off of a shelf.
6: Someone pulling the DVD cases for "4 movie marathons" and "The Midnight Horror Collection" off of a shelf, then putting the back.
7: A commercial for "Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)" flashing between a light-skinned person screaming, a dark-skinned person looking away from a locker in fear, and a sign rising up labelled "Elm St."
8: A commercial for "Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)" showing someone looking through an opened door, a shadow of Freddy Krueger on a wall, slowly moving forward, and someone closing the door from the first scene.
9: Someone putting a VHS of "The Cave (2005)" into a VCR. End ID]
a watching horror movies board for @abysswizardstimstuff :•]
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just thinking about how lucerys and aemond are really the sons that define rhaenyra and alicent as mothers; both of their eldests are kinda non-entities to them -- jace because he's perfect and aegon because he's a lost cause -- but these second boys are really their foils and their hearts and the embodiments of their worst fears: Luke, with a weak claim and a weak dragon, always shown in positions of uninvited pressure and powerlessness and while hiding behind his mother holding her hand and all the things Rhaenyra was afraid to be in Viserys' eyes; Aemond, a royal Valyrian in command of virtually unchecked power -- all the agency and authority and implicit safety that unwillingly pregnant fifteen-year-old minor noble Alicent could have only imagined, with all the cruelty and resentment that Alicent was always horrified to find in her own actions, that she fought (and prayed) to drive from her own heart; i think it makes sense so much of the audience is taken by these characters. and it's also why aemond's killing (however unintentional) of lucerys is so tragic. the strong side of alicent killed the weak side of rhaenyra. just like when alicent married her father. just like when alicent crowned aegon king
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Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:
you will get hair in fun new places. this is normal and fine.
these places include (but are not limited to) if you don't already have them: your asscrack, your back, your ears, and moles. it's fine.
some of you, dick or not, will also lose hair. this is normal, but also if you have ovaries maybe get this checked out for PCOS.
your acne will probably change. some people get better. some people get worse. it's fine.
your nails will probably get an infection or a fungus at least once in your life. this is fine. (but also let your doc know).
how you gain and lose fat and where you do so will change. this is fine.
how you smell will change. this is fine. (fishy or rotten smells mean doctor time though)
if you have a prostate: it gets harder to pee. prostates enlarge as you age (get this checked regularly). this is fine.
if you do not have a prostate: it gets easier to pee but not in a good way. as in as you get older, your pelvic floor muscles tend to lose some of their strength. this makes it harder to keep pee in. this is fine.
all breasts and pectorals eventually sag, with the rest of your body. this is fine.
a decent percent of the population will experience a cyst at least once. some of you will make up for the rest with multiple. this is fine, but keep them checked out by a doctor. (sometimes this is a condition! get checked for that too!)
almost half of everyone gets hemorrhoids. it's a good idea to just expect them since your chances of getting them get higher the older you are. your toilet will look like a murder scene. definitely get your booty checked out BUT this is almost always perfectly normal. just eat more fiber. "but I already-" eat more fiber. and maybe suck it up and buy some hemorrhoid cream, you'll thank me later.
yes, this means you will probably need to make an appointment for a doctor to see your butthole. it's okay. not only do they really not care but 1. they've seen weirder that day and 2. they'd far rather you see them now than later when it's been going on for forty years and now it might be colon cancer. it's okay. consider it a rite of passage.
adults need more sleep than children. don't believe the myth that you need less than they do. that is capitalist propaganda to make you give up more of your life to the work grind, comrade.
vitamins and medicine, something you are more likely to take as you get older, sometimes make the toilet turn weird colors. it's okay.
if you still have your tonsils and get those little stones and get sore throats more than once a year you should plan on getting those suckers out before the tonsils cause an infection and go septic. if you're getting stones at all you should get those reevaluated every year, especially if the stones are bigger than a needlehead (or get bigger over time). it's gross and yucky. I don't care. get them looked at before you end up in the hospital.
you'll probably need to add foot support to your shoes if you don't already do. this is fine.
your body changes. sometimes it can feel sorta weird and upsetting that it isn't what it used to be. that is okay, and it is okay to be upset. just know that this is normal, it's normal to be upset or not upset, but don't let it hinder your quality of life. trans or cis, there is a certain level of acceptance you just gotta give your body and forgive your body for as you get older. it's okay.
it's okay. I promise.
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