Jolan Tru

~Celtic-Romulan | USA~ Sci-fi/fantasy fan and bookworm. This is a multi-fandom blog. I have separate ones for Star Wars, Gundam, and Attack on Titan (links can be found on my Links page below).

[celtic-romulan]

10/10 icon, Mátyás király forever🔥🔥

Aw, thank you! I love that episode. 🥰

Best royal dog dad in all of Europe. (I might have a bit of an obsession with him…)

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think it's weird and/or predatory for a 13 year-old and a 30 year-old to be best friends if they're not family members or related by blood? Assuming everything is innocent and platonic. Nothing romantic or sexual.

Yes, it's weird and predatory

It's weird. But not predatory

It's predatory. But not weird

No, it's not weird or predatory

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[creelson]

unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

[dianxiacantastemolecules]

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

[creelson]

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

[the-bar-sinister]

Don't forget shared hobbies?

A 13 year old and a 30 year old could reasonably meet at a tabletop gaming store, a fiber arts group, a book club....

[audacityinblack]

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

[olderthannetfic]

When I was 13, an art teacher who worked for my mother (who ran after school programs) got into the X-Files. This was season 1. Neither of us knew anyone else who was into it, and she wasn't very online given that this was 1994, so she had nowhere else to discuss it. I'd call her every Friday night after the episode, and we'd obsessively go over it.

I'd probably have called her my best friend at the time, though I very much doubt she'd have said the same, partly because having One Single Best Friend and being super weird about which of your friends gets this coveted spot is not something middle-aged people care about.

Some of you have very weird ideas about 13-year-olds living in hermetically sealed bubbles. Frankly, many neurodivergent weirdo 13-year-olds who grew up to be Tumblr users were far, far better at talking to adults at that age than at talking to other 13-year-olds. Many of you would have had a way happier year if you'd also had an old-ass "best friend" to talk to back then.

[katanahime]

People really need to be more normal about intergenerational friendship.

This concept that it is still "weird" even if it isn't predatory is cutting kids off from community and from the concept of safe adults. And I think it's really really important to have that outside of spaces where people can legally control you.

And as far as what the adult gets out of it. Basically the same thing you get out of any other friendship? Teens are people just like adults are people. You may not be on the same maturity level, but that doesn't mean they aren't fun to hang out with and talk to.

[avayarising]

Also, is ‘friend of the family’ not a thing any more? At thirteen I was good friends with a 27-year-old whose family had been friends with mine for three generations at that point. Our generations were a bit out of sync (due to differences in when people had kids) but it didn’t stop us being friends.

[katieaki]

HANG IN THERE BABY!! instagram | bluesky | patreon

‼️prints here

[anglaised]

everytime u go outside ur spending $60 automatically its crazy $60 is the new $20

[exhuastedpigeon]

Sometimes you hear a song and a fic pops into your head full formed. This is a trap. The fic may be fully formed in your brain, but you still Have to write it down. This is an important step that most people forget about.

[tarakonas]

a bag of salt and vinegar chips hates to see me coming

[slayerbuffy]

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head (1954 – 2026)

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

[minotauri]

ocean sounds for those of you who need it

[fullmetalfisting]

I know that “fwiw” means “for what it’s worth.” I know that. But every time I read it, my brain translates it to “fwom what I wemembew”

[meangirlnurse]

oh my god

[meangirlnurse]

[meangirlnurse]

[depsidase]

[anchovy]

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

[hungary-lore-for-kulfoldiek]

Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III in 1439 after Habsburg Albert's death: can I be the new king?

Friedrich III in 1457 after Ladislaus V's death: can I be the new king?

Friedrich III to Hunyadi Mátyás in 1463: if you don't have a legitimate heir can I be the new king?

Friedrich III in 1490 after Hunyadi Mátyás' death: now can I be the new king?

He died in 1493, three years after Mátyás, but I'm 100% sure that had he not, he would have asked in 1516 after II. Władysław/Ulászló's death if he could be the new king since Ulászló's son was *drumroll please* ...a child.

[femmedummy]

the tragedy of distance is simple I want to sit on the couch with you and do nothing sometimes

[artsekey]

I cannot TAKE IT anymore!!!

"Would you like your AI assistant to summarize this document for you? It's soooo long, don't you want it shorter? Oh, no, don't worry about all the work that someone put in to writing it, no! Tone? Nuance? No, no, you don't need that! Let's just summarize it. Oh, grading student work? That looks awful long, why don't I summarize it for you? I know you asked your students to put in the effort, but you don't have to! You're a teacher, you're soooo busy, just look at and grade the summary! Who cares if they made grammatical errors? I'll fix that when I summarize it for you!"

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP. I HATE AI. I DON'T WANT YOU TO SHORTEN HUMAN WRITING FOR ME. I DIDN'T ASK YOU TO BE INSTALLED WITH FIREFOX OR ACROBAT OR CANVAS OR WHATEVER THE FUCK ELSE!!!!!!

[marzipanandminutiae]

many of our ancestors worked so hard to be not farming and I deeply appreciate that

I love not farming

I respect the hell out of farmers and I'm glad that's someone's dream. because it's sure not mine

I would not be taken in by the tradwife influencer grift about milking a cow in a sundress. I have been around cows. my uncle was a dairy farmer. I love not milking a cow. I love getting milk from a store. I love getting vegetables and fruit and meat and bread from a store.

would I rather it be a local farm's store or a local bakery or butcher shop? yes! maybe when I make more money!

but oh. my god. I love not farming so much