#that generation being gen x

[a-cosmic-elf]

Wip Wednesday

My AO3 comment box has blown up! My heartfelt thanks to @tafferling and @turbo-toast , I will reply as soon as I can. I should be working, you’re all gonna get me fired from my new job! 😂

I’m tagging my lovely beta @kalliesa , who might be a little jealous that after all this time she’s not the one reading new stuff from Absolution after a goddamn year hiatus.

Tbf, it’s been a hell of a year, and since nobody seemed to be actively reading the Abby, it’s easy to forget that people read it at all, and my attention wandered off elsewhere (Starfield, mostly 👀 lol, which reminds me, I’m tagging the whole of The Coemancer Crew in this post too, I’d love to see what you’re all working on, but no pressure!)

Do not underestimate the power of commenting on a fic that looks as though it may have been abandoned. They rarely are, it’s just the authors are people, and people’s attention spans tend to wander, especially if they think they’re in a boat on their own.

Without further ado, here’s a very rough (unbeta-read) snippet of Chapter 17: Their Law.

(and you know when a chapter is inspired by The Prodigy, it’s going to be action-packed).

Shouting, grasping, pulling and shoving, the Cerberus soldiers burst through the doors, dragging Sebastian and Tegan from their cells at gunpoint. They forced them to their knees in the main holding area, alongside all the other C-Sec detainees.

“Dad, what’s going on?” Faith asked through their connection.

“Honey, it’s Cerberus,” said Sebastian.

“And some fucker must have told them we were here,” added Tegan.

“Why ARE you here?” But she knew, oh, she knew. They were her parents, after all. And they were alive!

A combination of relief and irritation flooded the connection from all sides, “Honey,” Sebastian didn't need to finish the sentence.

“I’m not going back,” she stated defiantly.

“Can we talk about this later?”, asked Tegan, “so good to hear you, possum.”

“I-”

A single gunshot made them all jump.

Two Cerberus operatives moved methodically down the line, they scanned each human prisoner, then shot them in the back of the head.

They didn’t pause to scan the aliens.

One after the other each prisoner fell to the floor. It sent the rest into a frenzy, they pleaded for their lives, for their gods. The smell of fresh urine further assaulted the senses.

“Please, why do you have to kill us?” The next prisoner asked. Another single gunshot rang out, and he died without an answer.

The soldiers moved onto the next, more screaming, another dull beep on the scanner followed by a further gunshot.

There was just one human and a baterian between Cerberus and Tegan, “Seb.” He warned.

“I know,” said Sebastian, he could feel Tegan’s rising terror, coupled with his own. But he could also see the back of their own heads from Faith’s perspective, as she swung over the ledge two stories above. A glass roof was all that separated them.

“There are six,” he told her. “Four grunts, one officer, and a phantom”, he looked around as best he could, marking their positions. “They’re all wearing civilian grade, standard issue, full Cerberus armour and helmets, which means-“

“Which means they’re using tech to see. Even without the cloak I am a ghost to them.”

“Exactly, sweetheart-“

Another gunshot. The batarian was dead.

The two Cerberus operatives stepped across placing Tegan between them, the gun was inches from the back of his head.

“Seb.”

“I know.”

A different kind of beep emitted from the handheld scanner, and the Cerberus operative laughed, “Well, well. So, the rumours were true. You’re Tegan O’Hara. Which means you must be,” the scanner beeped brightly again, “Sebastian Crosse. It’s your lucky day, you’ve won yourself a little chat with the Illusive Man. Now, where is that little alien bitch of yours?”

Sebastian began to physically shake. After days of solitary confinement, intense questioning, he felt like a coiled spring, wound too tight. He tried to hold on to his composure, closed his eyes briefly and he knew Faith had let go, she was falling, he could feel the cold wind in her hair…

He’d never felt such rage, but could not help smiling up at the doomed Cerberus operative, “I think you’re about to find out.”

#wip wednesday #cosmic writes #mass effect absolution #oc sebastian crosse #oc tegan o’hara #oc faith #the prodigy #“fuck ‘em and their law” #music for the jilted generation #that generation being gen x #I love the top comment on this YouTube vid #‘Keith ain’t dead he’s just gone to outta space to find another race’ #lmao 🤣🤣🤣

[rainymoodlet]

these eyes? all the better to see you with, my dear.

these fangs? all the better to taste you with, my dear.

#ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 cas #ts4 screenshots #ts4 aliens #sim: carmen (adx-169n) #oh man i am like way too ridiculously proud of this dfjkhd #could i have finished the next arc??? MAYBE but i spent two hours on this instead mwahaha #and half of that was being picky abt the kaleidoscope brrr #meet carmen moore! (aka assassin drone x-gen model 16 genetic code 9 subdesignation N) #her moles are 100% tomie's fault brr #she DID NOT land in strangetown with her SPOTTER (masquerading as her single mom) and she IS NOT here for the EXPRESS PURPOSE of #TAKING DOWN DIVISION 47 FROM THE INSIDE #(that also just might mean from inside the general's bed cough) #she's developed alot from the original character she was (some gen 4 heir who ended up romancing buzz and happened to be an alien which #i found OH-SO-HILARIOUS as a bebe) #and now she's just my... mwah my everything #the boooys the giirrrrls they alll like carrrmen #there's a fallen ophanim in her save too 👀 but you'll meet miss salome vega later mwehehee #pls listen to the songs associated with their two personas #the ventures is the theme album for my entire strangetown save 🥰

[front-facing-pokemon]

#on the gourgeist post‚ when i clicked Add to queue‚ tumblr just Hung for a solid two minutes until i refreshed the page #and then i checked the queue and it was already queued up anyway. but the page reloaded all weird and looked like for a split second #some posts from my dash had entered the queue. so in lieu of this Being A Website‚ i'm gonna leave that post where it is and hope the queue #has not been contaminated #anyway i thought this thing was gen 8 because that was the first place i saw it. which is weird because i'm the big gen 6 proponent #but i guess i just never saw this one when i played pokémon X as a kid #inb4 someone is like. yeah it's pokémon Y exclusive. like what happened with spritzee #naw bulbapedia says it's not. i was just bad at video games i guess. or it's a rare spawn or something. or i just got unlucky #bergmite #however the pokédex entries seem to suggest it has gotten two (2) degrees warmer since generation 8 #from gen 6 to gen 8 the dex entries stated it used air of -150ºF #but now in gen 9 the dex entry states it's only -148ºF #climate change is affecting even the bergmite. what has this world come to

[void-sand-cat]

I just realized, Michael is late/mid Gen X.

Both of my parents are late Gen X.

Give me a second.

Correction, Mike would be early Gen X

#michael afton #seriously #gen x is generally defined as 1965 - 1984 #mike is a bit older than my parents #i never considered the consequences of early fnaf being in the 80s #fnaf #i need to think for a bit

[wrongspacetime]

I went to daycare with this girl named Roxy. She and I were, like, best friends throughout grade school, and then we sort of, like, made out in high school, you know? (...) She's like family. Dani & Roxy in The L Word: Generation Q

#the l word generation q #tlwgq #dani nunez #dani x roxy #arienne mandi #paula andrea placido #tlwgqedit #wlwsource #dailylgbtq #the l word gen q #mygifs #for what it's worth i really really like roxy #so i'm cautiously into it #but i refuse to get invested until they hire new writers #instead of being rushed i wish they had build this up through the season!!! #but yeah why not throw me a childhood best friend #they're so lucky the actresses have lotssss of chemistry

[disasterhimbo]

Hey, remember like 10 years ago when many of us were in our teens and twenties? Remember how there were all those news articles making fun of “millennials and their avocado toast,” that they didn’t know certain skills that had stopped being taught in school, that they were ruining the economy by killing various industries?

Remember how we rightfully said that was bullshit and we would be the generation to end it, that we would be nice to the generation after us?

I’ve seen a couple posts shitting on gen alpha kids. Don’t do that. Remember that they’ve already been through climate disasters, political unrest, and a global pandemic in their young lives. Talk to them. If they’re being rude, it’s probably because they’re struggling, not because they’re evil. Treat them as we wanted to be treated when we were their age. Children are people.

#I’m so tired of these made up reasons to hate young people #you are not allowed to hate children actually #you can be frustrated with them but you have to be compassionate towards them #being a child is fucking hard #especially now #children #generations #future generations #boomers #baby boomers #gen x #millennials #gen z #gen alpha #youth liberation #children are people

[terrence-silver]

Random Concept: Terry Silver with a TikTok-obsessed Beloved

It would be cute if beloved wanted to film cute couple moments with Terry.

Spicier with Terry during the Halloween season because of all the Ghostface masks trending.

I can imagine Gen Z beloved doing something like the Gothic Baby account if they have a kids with Terry.

Like, I do think Terry Silver, in his old age majorly keeps up with trends.

He always has.

He always had his finger on the pulse of the 'brand new thing'.

More so than young people, undoubtedly --- he's a businessman, after all.

He's too clever not to keep up. That's how he can blend in so perfectly and adapt if need be, being chameleonic in nature, changing and transforming with the times. It's how he can manipulate perceptions and cultural norms --- by being in touch with things around him, sure, like the advent of social media. The Online sphere. Being Vegan for a while, because that's a la mode and acceptable in a more Liberal, upper crust crowd in Los Angeles --- it's admirable, even. A societal badge that says one's a conscientious, good person (And Terry Silver's just that? Right?) when that wouldn't have been the case in the past. Thirty years ago it was perhaps the discourse between nuclear and fossil fuels or green new energy that mattered, and today, it's all about Tik Tok. It's Twitter. Or X, rather. And what's trending on there --- the type of stuff that can make or break one's reputation because someone said something stupid or cancel-worthy two decades ago. Heck, even the branding of social media itself changes, having one name and taking on another practically overnight! The world moves fast and Terry Silver moves with it. But, in spite of him been keenly aware what's what and what it means, I envision his Online presence is incredibly scarce and unbelievably curated on purpose and what information can be found on him on the Internet has been fine combed and is continuously fine combed so really, not only can you not find anything too controversial about him on there (maybe just the right amount of controversial, tactically speaking; acceptable controversies, as to not make him seem too inhumanly saintly and by extension, unrealistic, too suspicious and fake) --- you can't even really find anything much of anything in general except what Terry deliberately and specifically wants on there. Man's incredibly private all while putting up a facade that he's an open book --- which, don't be fooled, he's anything but.

What I mean to say with this is that Terry Silver undoubtedly wouldn't be on Twitter, for example, posting his actual, real opinions about...anything. He's smart like that.

So, any beloved of his? Gen Z or otherwise?

Chances are, they wouldn't be chronically Online either.

They wouldn't be on Tik Tok, plastering videos of themselves, their family or Terry Silver himself for the world to see consistently, because the thought of thousands of people (Voyeurs, the way an already voyeuristic Terry would see it) tuning in to see and watch his beloved --- random punks commenting on them, expressing their opinions willy-nilly, judge, complementing them, leering, passing, bookmarking, downloading and sharing said clips around unstoppably, without any monitoring as to how they could use and abuse such material...legitimately forever --- well, it presses the button of someone fiercely territorial, jealous, possessive, protective and control oriented like Terry. He doesn't like it. He doesn't allow it. He thinks it's bullshit. He would take advantage of someone's else's uploads Online for sure, if push ever came to shove, so maybe it is a bit of projection on his behalf, that somehow, someone, somewhere, would do the same to him and someone who belongs to him to weaken him or retaliate against him, so to take precaution against it, beloved's presence Online becomes, possibly, even scarcer than his, because they're the most precious thing he has and when something or someone's precious or valuable, they're tucked away. Hidden, in ways. Plus side to this, though --- I can envision Terry Silver, like a man who was young in the 70's and 80's being big on home videos instead. Private collections for his private viewing pleasure and usage only. Cute couple moments galore are permissible --- everything is permissible, in fact --- but these recordings, lets call them, belong and remain explicitly in Terry Silver's private care, because he's a man who doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve and tends to strategically tuck away everything that ever mattered to him. Everything that makes him vulnerable. Everything that can compromise or damage him. Most of everything he really is from the public. Includes beloved. Whatever children he might or might not have with them.

If someone was somehow skillful enough to discover their names and Google them, chances are, nothing specific comes up in their search results. Not anywhere.

That's deliberate.

#would be hilarious if someone tried to look up terry silver's beloved and several of his ex conquests come up instead #you know...as a way to distract and kill the trail from the one he really loves being in the search engine's spotlight #terry silver #kk3 #cobra kai #the internet #technology #social media #tik tok #gen z culture #tw; generational gap #terry silver x reader #terry silver x beloved #halloween

[wolfshystuff]

Deuce and Rochelle could be a perfect t4t couple in g3

#just saying #deuce gorgon #deuce g3 #g3 deuce #rochelle goyle #rochelle g3 #g3 rochelle #mh g3 #monster high g3 #monster high gen 3 #monster high generation 3 #rochelle x deuce #deuce x rochelle #t4t couple #trans #trans couple #OR being in a queer platonic relationship! #because in the recent episode deuce have some aro vibes #aro #aromantic #aro headcanons #aroace maybe?

[wc-m0ch4]

Really enjoy the theory that Sonic x Shadow Generations was named that way so that search results would show the game instead of Sonadow

This is particularly because of how much more Sonadow fanart/edits/fanfics I've been seeing as of late BECAUSE of the title LMAO

#like actually the best and worst marketing to have sonic x shadow gen come after all the gay ass clips we saw in Sonic Prime LIKE– #Frozen made people forget about the whole Walt Disney's body preserves in ice thing #Sonic x Shadow did the opposite LMAO #god I fucking love gay people I wish they were real #god I fucking love hedgehogs I wish they were real #literally don't know who at Sega thought they could stop people from being gay #bro we are literally spreading homosexuality and indoctrinating children #^^/J /J /J /J /J /J /J I SWEAR /JJJJJJ #I like to imagine there was one younger employee in the conference room trying so hard to be like 'guys... this isn't gonna work...' #and the ceo goes 'ofc it will! what'll they do? call it canon? make more art?' #cut to the present the ceo is all: 'un-fucking-believable' #'these bitches gay... good for them... BAD FOR US' #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sonic fandom #sonic x shadow generations

[champagnemoon]

It’s so interesting watching old fashion documentaries about the 80s and seeing how abrupt the 90s came in and kind of killed that type of glamour lmao like all the supermodels went from having that ginormous blown out hair to the Jennifer Aniston hair cut immediately

#everybody always talks about Gen X being a forgotten generation but their youth culture turned everything on its head in pop culture

[fierceawakening]

Goddamn do I hate it when I know more than apple techs

Arena only works in full screen mode now for me. I called support today to make sure there wasn’t some setthing I could change to fix this and there was not (that we found.) so I ask the guy”isn’t there a keystroke I can use to switch back to my desktop since this is full screen”

Guy goes “no, you’ll have to force quit the app.”

I decide this is fucking stupid (force quitting is not generally a great idea when nothing is actually wrong) and I feel like proving it if I’m screen sharing with this chump

So I quit the game (properly) and googled while he’s watching and find and read aloud “command tab to switch back to desktop”

He goes “yeah, command tab works”

I’m like “yeah, I thought it was odd you didn’t suggest it when I asked.”

“oh.”

Yes oh, you idiot motherfucker.

Apple please hire people with more than one brain cell.

That or, as an alternative, give us a key we can press or code word we can say to skip the bored morons and go straight to "I'm a nerd, can an actual tech confirm for me there's no way to do this thing? I swear to Moloch I turned it off and on again."

#it saddens me because I worry that gen x will end up being the only generation that's mostly computer literate #and that this is because corporations decided they want it that way

[brightlotusmoon]

#stop demonizing adhd drugs #congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs #cannabis is medicine #being high is not a bad thing #better living through modern chemistry #fibromyalgia and dopamine depletion #adhd and dopamine regulation #adhd and caffeine #we can't all be neurotypical karen #don't make me tap the sign #if you can't make your own neurotransmitters store bought is fine #new age bullshit for the next generation #we know better now #drugs are good #medication is good #don't tell me what to do #gen x annoyed with all the rest of you t shirt

[astoriachef]

#gen x #being a baby bust generation that generated the best pop culture of a century took a lot of the pressure off to be honest

[god-u]

if you're Black and a cate stan there's really no saving you

#i'm not elaborating like seek help bitch cause how.... #anyone on homelander's side would off you without hesitation wake tf UP!! #x #💌 #also all the supes of color from the woods got taken out of killed violently before the others i’m just never surprised anymore #or killed* #the supe supremacy shit is supposed to align with shit that has obviously happened irl so yes it is that deep infact it’s deeper #(the shit irl being n*zism if it’s not clicking btw) #(also genocide in general) #any of the supe supremacists that don’t look like homelander’s aryan ass may as well sign their own death certificates #gen v spoilers #the way i said i'm not elaborating then did it anyway in the comments ksjhslds i have a lot to say okay #also not responding to anyone who says it’s just fiction (especially the minor who replied) #as if stanning a fictional fascist makes it any better 🙄

[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

[holdtightposts]

With streaming and VOD, I’m starting to realise I miss commercials. NOT ADS. Commercials. The ones where you watch it and it’s like fuuuuck yeeess. I want that.

“Wanna exercise? NO YOU DON’T! You want a motherfucking MORNING STAR for your feet. NOW GO OUT AND BUY IT. Steal the money from your parents if you have to. Fuck it. Your parents will buy it for you because we marketed it as an outdoor toy so they could get that peace of mind after spawning your unwanted annoying dumbass through a night of lust.”

“Now with music and blinding light to use indoor and fuck it up.”

“Want a bb gun? TOUGH SHIT. But here’s a work around for you to still shoot bb’s at each other and get that shit everywhere. TIP: Break the safety bar and you’ll be able to aim up at each other.”

“Have younger siblings? This shit is candy to them. Let’s add in big candy too with sharp edges for that fun scratchy throat feeling. YUM.”

“Want to smash shit and then chuck said hard ass shit at your friends and loved ones? Wanna do it in a quickness and be able to get away with it?”

“Now with more surface area for those with shitty aim.”

For real though. Being serious now. The biggest offender which have injured multiple people and literally killed a little girl. I couldn’t believe this shit even hit the shelves.

I mean… look at this shit! You just chuck it up in the air and tell everyone else good fucking luck. The sharp ass pointy tip is weighted by the way so it comes down with a force.

After it was recalled, because of the death, they eventually released a still dangerous weighted blunt version. Which has also caused many injuries.

I miss these toys and commercials but not lawn darts. That shit scared the fuck out of me because no one, NO ONE, used it the way it was meant to be used.

#Skip it was my jam #We were bashing the shit out of each other with it #Bop it got boring fast #Crossfire was a pain to clean #I didn’t even go anywhere near lawn darts it scared the shit out of me #I miss these commercials #And i miss being able to actually get my hands and these very actual harmful and super fun toys #Skip it #bop it #crossfire #lawn darts #90’s toys #90’s commercials #90’s kids #Generation x #gen x