Winter Enthusiasts Rise!

Welcome to all who wish to enter the depths of my insane mind plz buckle up and donations r up at front. Hyperfixations galore.

[stuckinapril]

The sexual tension between a girl and not feeling real every time her birthday comes around

[bananafishdepression]

Today I'm turning 19 so I'm leaving my Ash Lynx era and joining my Eiji Okumura era

[drugballad-deactivated20240821]

Bong Joon-ho

[allsadnshit]

Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

[monsterlogic]

[allsadnshit]

Thank u for this contribution

[thoodleoo]

his name is "loud is his bark." if you even care

[edwardbateman]

this is what is happening between us when i like your vent post

[wewindondowntheroad]

That post about 30 year old coming of age stories?

I’ve been thinking about it all morning. What would the plot points be for that? What makes a 30 year old coming of age story?

Old folks sound off in the comments

[lawfulgoodness]

A few ideas:

Burying a parent that never encouraged independence

Acknowledging a trauma you've spent your life ignoring

Finally opening yourself up to a truly mutual, non-transactional relationship (platonic or romantic)

Leaving a community (religious or otherwise) that has kept you from growing

[intrepidheroine]

Obtaining a diagnosis for a health condition (mental or physical) and finally getting treatment and recontextualizing your life.

Student loan forgiveness kicking in, suddenly you can afford to live. That one small change snowballs into something big.

Starting over after the end of The Big Relationship you thought would define your life. Engaging in a new hobby/social group that adds context to how small life felt in that relationship.

You find yourself with a pet you have to care for, which teaches you to care for yourself.

You take a class somewhere that unlocks skills you didn't know you had.

[heywriters]

In limbo between leaving the job that used your degree and finding the job you know you actually want—either your "calling" or something that pays well, is low-stress, and you will be treated well.

You've settled the wild and restless needs of your youth, as well as the mistakes you made or opportunities you missed, and you realize the first 30yrs were training wheels. Your real life is just starting.

[twosides--samecoin]

getting sober and realizing that just because habitual drug use wasn't life-ruining, bankrupt-level addiction, it still controlled your life

realizing when you were the bad person; trying to make amends & dealing with the ramification that people aren't obligated to accept an apology for the way you hurt them

getting a diagnosis for a long-suspected neurodivergent brain & living with the duality that comes with a) recontextualizing each time you got grounded, punished or each failure at school or with social situations, and b) figuring out that even with medication, you aren't "fixed", learning that neurodivergence is something you have to counterbalance & work with. the hard, ugly road to self love vs figuring out that self love is a journey not a destination

yes I am talking about myself what of it

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

not going to the memorial of the only parent you cared about because you've realized she was right about not worrying so much what people think OF you, so you go for a practice drive instead in the rain like she was always trying to get you to do and give an awkward ride home to a stranger on the road, and a year later you've started to understand how she managed to do so much for the people around her

you are now the proud owner of a single filing cabinet drawer and it is stressing you out but also working

[worgens]

reconfiguring my entire wardrobe and lifestyle around this hat i just got

[klairluna]

ITS A HAT ON A HAT

[kosmogrl]

[nervousyouthcupcake]

[klairluna]

My type is a man zesty enough to watch broadway musicals w me but not too much to the point where he wants another man

[wiiwheel]

Whoever PREFERS cold weather you're literally so so so wrong

[wiiwheel]

"You get to be snuggly under blankets! Hot drinks! Jumpers!" It is my desire to have my arms and cock out and be sweating gulping iced water this is peak comfort to me I do not take joy in layering and sitting in cold rooms and feeling my toes get numb. that shit sucks supremely

[creepymutelilbugger]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Leon Dolice, Clearing Skies, Chrysler Building, 1930s. Pastel on paper.

Photo: 1st Dibs

[nycto-rotting]

idk what it is but MY GOD i love pieces of media or stories that have themes of religion!!! a family struggling to keep it together!!! a shitty dad that would run off with his gay lover???? a wife going crazy?????? and destruction of toxic masculinity!??!? i’ll eat that shit up any day

[nonbinarybeartrade]

one of whizzers friends: Hey how do you feel about that married guy you've been boning lately lol

whizzer:

[klairluna]

I do think that the bananafish anime is cinematically a 10/10 but I do not like how it’s not set in 85, so much pop culture missed out, they don’t even talk about how Ash is HIV positive this whole time????? Antisemitism mentioned??? Also just the general gang/crime stuff would be way more plausible to be so public… due to lack of government. Anyways the 80s is my area of specialty so that’s why

[newyorkthegoldenage]

During World War II, even dogs pitched in. Nearly 400,000 Boys Club of America members throughout the nation participated in a victory program to train themselves for the part they might have had to play in the war and in defense industries. Many of the clubs also adopted dogs and carrier pigeons. In this photo, Richard Barnes of the Madison Square Boys Club teaches his dog Hercules to hold a stick in his mouth after finding a “wounded soldier,” April 1, 1942.

Photo: Robert Wands for the AP