Box under the stairs

Just my little corner of the internet I don't mind any pronouns

[joshlovesyou]

[joylessmarxist]

One time i tried to explain this to someone at a party and i stopped in the middle of it because i realized how stupid i was sounding

[ravioliet]

btw romance isn't real and you can't have it. just so you're aware

[trangoldin]

To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

[icedsodapop]

I'm so done with the whole "Gen Z is so conservative" rhetoric I'm seeing online, esp from millennials. Becos firstly, Gen Z isnt a monolith? Secondly, with what data are you drawing this conclusion from? Thirdly, you don't think that Gen Z being the generation to have spent most of their youth with social media, smartphones and internet access might have something to do with it?

Jfc, begging terminally online millennials to go touch grass and actually talk to Gen Z-ers.

[icedsodapop]

Highkey amusing watching elder Millennials falling into the nostalgia trap of thinking that their generation is the best or at least better than the generation succeeding them. Yall are more like your Gen X and Boomer parents than yall want to admit.

I remember feeling so bad for Millennials when I was a kid reading all these articles shaming them over avocado toast and bleeding hearts, and now they are becoming just as annoying as the elders that have shamed them.

[icedsodapop]

Yall literally had clocks counting down to the day child actresses and teen popstars "turn legal". I was a child of the early 2000s, miss me with this bullshit.

[icedsodapop]

Are the millennials so obsessed with receiving compliments that they are hyping up Jonathan Haidt for saying that they are the last "normal" generation?

[icedsodapop]

POV: One millennial bumps into 3 teenage assholes who were mean about what she was wearing at a library, and now she thinks they represent the entire younger generation 🤡

Assholery isn't uniquely generational and I need the chronically online millennials to not forget that teenagers, regardless of generation, can be fucking mean. Same mean, judgemental online millennials are also logging onto social media to constantly give their hot takes and reactions, and complain about young people. Mean Girls is a pop culture staple for a reason 🙄

[icedsodapop]

I honestly think this is the result of what I like to call, "hot take culture". Everybody wants to go online to blurt their opinions on something they have usually observed in online spaces but they don't want to think deeper or research the socio-political events that have influenced/led to the phenomenon in the first place. And this is how we get millennials (esp those over 35) making fun of how "uneducated" and "purritanical" Gen Z-ers are or how we have "no culture" (which can be due to the fact that Gen Z-ers are either schooling or just entering the workforce and have yet to build social capital + death of published media like magazines), and it can be reactionary.

[icedsodapop]

Yall really act as if millennials are above being reactionary and unlearning shit. I'm not saying Gen Z-ers can't be conservative or reactionary, I have met a few of them myself, but yall chronically online asses just want to shit on Gen Z so bad it makes yall stupid 🤡

Yall met a few annoying young-ins online with bad takes, something that's part and parcel of being in your teens and early 20s, and yall think yall can use that to paint a diverse group of people in that singular broad stroke. Hot take, but that's really colonizer thinking.

Most annoying thing is how there are Gen Z-ers so desperate to be seen as mature and one of the "one good Gen Z" and not be lumped in with us cretins that they will shit on their fellow Gen Z-ers as well. Like, stand the fuck up, at least the millennials are quick to defend their generation no matter how wrong they are.

[kinoselynn]

Please keep in mind that anxiety is not a small, meaningless thing that can be brushed away easily. It's really hard to have and can affect you so terribly that even the act of simply putting yourself out there or being known can feel like taking a dangerous risk. Even if you don't personally understand it, please don't degrade the people who have it or minimize their experiences. This goes for many other disorders.

[bebx]

Every day I love AO3 more and more

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[wonderwall]

We finally figured out what makes Kristen Stewart smile: hot wings! The “Twilight” star posed for this amazing photo after dining at a Hooters restaurant in Texas recently. Get the details at Wonderwall.com.

[teaboot]

Yeah it was probably the wings

[surprisemoose]

What kind of Millennial™️ are you?

Avocado toast millennial

I am bird watcher now.

I ran a marathon for fun?

Yes, I am currently working on five fiber art projects…

Other millennial stereotype that I will write in the tags.

I am unfortunately not part of the greatest generation aka here for the result

Remaining time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Please share!

[fiftyfandomsinatrenchcoat]

*takes your wattpad-socialised hand* *holds it gently* you will survive without an app. you will survive without censorship by filtering out tags yourself. you will survive learning a new platform‘s etiquette. now go forth and observe ao3 culture without making immediate demands. it’s our house, and for now, you are a guest

[decepticonsensual]

Not to be all "the children have forgotten the sacred texts!" but I just saw someone refer to a ship between two people who are good friends in canon as a crackship.

Hon. No. Crackship doesn't just mean "not canon". It's difficult to imagine two people who spend significant canon time together as a crackship. Crackship is when you write Galactus getting fucked by Tony the Tiger.

[decepticonsensual]

Gotta say, my absolute favourite notes on this so far have been the number of people congratulating Tony on his rebound from the Grinch.

[el-ffej]

[daggersandarrows]

you know, the more i think about it, the angrier i get about how mainstream media and even people in general treated marie kondo when the life changing magic of tidying up got big. it's just so unnecessary and sad to me and i think the vast majority of people would love what she has to say if they just actually looked into it instead of maliciously memeing her to death? i'm not talking about the cutesy does it spark joy stuff but all the things portraying her as some bizarre evil cleaning dictator.

i actually read her book when i was about twelve years old, in the most shocking and probably only example of me ever being ahead of a trend, and even at twelve i really loved everything she said. at that point in time i lived in fear of my mother's threats that she would come and throw everything away while i was school, and my small and very adhd mind simply could not grasp the concept of "have less stuff". have less of WHICH stuff? how? i'd never actually been taught how to clean my room besides being told "pick up stuff" and "be organized", and as she points out multiple times, cleaning is not an intuitive thing. it's a learned behavior and skill.

anyways. her entire philosophy centers on surrounding yourself with things that you love, and only things that you love (or things that you absolutely need). she explicitly says over and over again that it is not about throwing things away, it is not about minimalism, it is not about "what is the smallest amount possible that you can survive on". she literally has a whole section where she talks about how hard it can be to throw things away when you've lived in poverty all your life and you don't have absolute confidence that you can replace something that you really needed if it gets thrown out, even though you're not likely to ever really need it--you've just been conditioned to think that because that's literally how you survive, when you're poor. she talks about how that mindset can serve and how it can damage. she talks about how minimalism is sort of a rich people thing, cause they can afford to throw everything away.

this woman really came out here and said "i want you to be surrounded by things you love and i'm going to validate your fears and your difficulties in getting to that place" and people somehow got mad at her. i don't understand it

[stevishabitat]

👆👆👆

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[cosmovain]

like i cannot stop thinking abt moaning beatboxing accordion Its So.

[diebymybeyblade]

[shadowed-yet-vibrant]

I love having friends who reject diet culture. I love going out when everyone buys food and drinks that they enjoy. I love people who will pipe up and suggest we stop for a snack or grab a meal. I love ordering what I want and no one making comments other than how good it looks (and maybe asking to steal a bite off my plate). I love revelling in how full we are after a good meal and taking a break to appreciate how fortunate we are. I love sharing snack from our bags with one another. I love enjoying the pleasure of food and drinks and good company.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[extrathicccarlwheezer]

the gif is even funnier

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.