#as individuals

[cosmic-spider]

I just really like Kris Statlander and Thekla, you guys

[spidermansballs]

i started cm for spencer and every minute i become more attached to derek and emily

[krenenbaker]

I'm in my Jade and Trey obsession era methinks

[otrtbs]

you’re back ! hello !!! 💛

i feel like james potter is babygirl coded. like barty (and boris). thoughts?

also. a very important psa: i love you <3

hope you’re well in yeehawville!!! 🦅

hello!! hey!! <333333

first of all:

i love you!! <33 i am doing well in yeehawville for these holidays !! (reunited w my dogs and coffee creamer u know how i feel abt my beloved coffee creamer <3 )

SECOND:

here is the thing. yes! i agree!! and i have thoughts! barty crouch jr. and boris are like so so so so babygirl coded to me in the same ways. but i also feel like (and this is just a personal thought™️) there can only be one babygirl per relationship (this town aint big enough for the two of us,, like this relationship aint big enough for two babygirls, yk).

so james is babygirl and regulus is not (to me) and barty is babygirl and evan is not (to me). but james potter is differently babygirl coded to the way that boris and barty are babygirl coded, and while i cannot explain exactly why or how,,, it is in these nuances where my characterization and love of all these characters is born.

[blackwoolncrown]

It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

I love this song.

“Today, a little less than a third of the population is under twenty-five, but youth remains a big consumer base for social-media platforms, streaming services, computer games, music, fashion, smartphones, apps, and all kinds of other goods, from motorized skateboards to eco-friendly water bottles. To keep this market churning, and to give the consulting industry something to sell to firms trying to understand (i.e., increase the productivity of) their younger workers, we have invented a concept that allows “youth culture” to be redefined periodically. This is the concept of the generation.“

“The term is borrowed from human reproductive biology. In a kinship structure, parents and their siblings constitute “the older generation”; offspring and their cousins are “the younger generation.” The time it takes, in our species, for the younger generation to become the older generation is traditionally said to be around thirty years. (For the fruit fly, it’s ten days.) That is how the term is used in the Hebrew Bible, and Herodotus said that a century could be thought of as the equivalent of three generations.

Around 1800, the term got transplanted from the family to society. The new idea was that people born within a given period, usually thirty years, belong to a single generation. There is no sound basis in biology or anything else for this claim, but it gave European scientists and intellectuals a way to make sense of something they were obsessed with, social and cultural change. What causes change? Can we predict it? Can we prevent it? Maybe the reason societies change is that people change, every thirty years.“

Like I really need ppl to understand that ‘generations’ are RELATIVE and when I say ‘relative’ I don’t just mean ‘it depends’ I mean literally one person can be generation n in relation to someone else’s generation m.

Since humans do not have a mating season (fun fact the concept of ‘cuffing season is also entirely bullshit related to seasonal marketing and there’s no ACTUAL pattern of humans ‘hooking up’ or mating more around this time)- which is like, one of our species special traits- humans are not all born around the same time meaning there’s a consistent output of new people,,, constantly throughout the years.

So there can indeed be accurate generational tiers in, say, one family, but since our society is a mashup of a bunch of intermixed nonlinear families it doesn’t actually hold up at scale.

Hence, there is 0 discrete boundary between the generations. They can only b used as general sweeping nods to certain eras and are extremely inaccurate is personal identities largely pushed and kept in prominence by companies trying to control your sense of identity via marketing so you’re easier to sell to.

[yankingmyvajane]

And I've always lived like this Keeping a comfortable, distance And up until now I had sworn to myself that I'm content with loneliness

Because none of it was ever worth the risk

Well, you are the only exception.

[corcracrow]

mary poppins and bert are both iconic and goals in almost every way goals can exist and people can be iconic and i love them both

edit: honourable mention for the bird woman and also the admiral guy who stands on his roof and shouts at people

oh and also that moment when michael’s tuppence are taken and he goes absolutely feral