i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren’t allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.
Link as as character is… so funny to me. He’s the hero of legend. he’s just a guy. he’s literally a child. he’s a tired adult. he helps people around hyrule with chores. he’s a cryptid who hasn’t had real human contact for months. He wields legendary weapons unlike anything the world has ever seen. He will kill you with a stick and two seeds. He can run for miles. he gets exhausted after 5 seconds of sprinting. He is bisexual. He is transmasc. he is transfem. he doesn’t know what a gender is.
LOVEEE when i’m in the kitchen while someone else is cooking and they say “could you give that a stir for me?” brother. i would be HONORED to give that a stir for you
Not “I always knew I was different”, not “I thought it was normal”, but a secret third thing: it never occurred to me to think about whether it was normal until I was forced to, usually in a cruel way
looking @ the notes on that ‘everyone needs to grow up’ article and i think the subtle point that a lot of the commentary on that post is missing is and what muva toni morrison was saying…..adulthood isn’t just ‘responsibility’—taking out ur trash and making ur bed—children can do those things…..adulthood is operating emotionally from an empowered place and not from the vulnerabilities and fears of ur childhood. to not get stuck in cynicism or escapism or to expect other adults to provide for u the way a parent should (which automatically disempowers u emotionally).
as we grow older, many of the very legitimate fears and self-protection mechanisms we developed to survive living under the brutal conditions we live under, worked for us as children, but they no longer serve us as adults. to be an adult is to cultivate urself, to understand what to keep and what to discard. it is an activity—a practice—a verb not a noun.
ALT
