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Ok but why am I here like Wdym I'm NOT in 1978?? Wdym I'm not a teenage boy with major anger issues? Wdym I'm not that kid that everyone sees playing that same pinball machine? Wdym? Nu uh. My memories prove that's wrong. /hj

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we aren't so different, really. we both think cellphones are weird.

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oh, sometimes the loneliness is hard to bear

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Everytime I see Asta Neilsen as Hamlet the gender envy I feel levels a mountain.

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Asta Nielsen in Joyless Street (1925)

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Hiya! I don't remember if I got around to sending this ask the other day, so sorry in advance if I already sent this in.

I'm a new split here. I was a time traveler back in my own life. It's only really hitting me now that I'm never going to live that way again. It was a huge part of my identity. Now it's just, gone. I try to stay positive and not take all this too seriously, but it's just a bummer. Big bummer. So, I just wanted to stop by your ask box and let you know that it's at least nice seeing I'm not alone in the whole "stuck in the wrong time" thing. Thanks for showing me that.

(P.S.! Do you know if there's any online community places for this stuff? Maybe discord servers? Anything like that?)

Hello! I am so terribly sorry for taking so long to respond here, I sometimes struggle to respond to things online (I think predictably for someone who has a hard time relating to modern tech)

yes, it is very lonely, especially as I feel this is not talked about often in alterhuman spaces. I'm thinking I will make some sort of list of coping mechanisms to post here at some point. I like to take comfort in the progress that has been made in the world, and gratitude for that. welcome to our time, and thank you for sending this ask! it is reassuring to know that at least one person found this blog helpful!

as for your question, no, I don't think there are many spaces for this. even when i asked about it a while ago in some alterhuman spaces people reacted mostly with confusion and hadn't heard much about people experiencing this. that's why I am trying to create one here.

there are a few old forum posts in a vintage fashion forum that I found when looking for people like me, and I believe @velvetvexations talks about this sometimes (and people send in asks about it) but also I don't follow her blog super closely. I have heard whispers of discord servers about a similar thing but I don't have access to them and they are quite inactive from what I've heard.

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Emilio Sommariva • A woman with her cat, 1927

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Illustrated front cover by Guy Edgar Fry of July 1929 edition of 'Nature Magazine.'

Source: Sean Tracy Restoration by: magscanner.

Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1

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No matter how many years pass, I am still shocked over and over again by the changing times. It's always strongest when a long time has past since I last fronted. This century has so many opportunities but also so many obstacles. I do not think I will ever fully acclimatise.

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studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday

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anachronistic displacement flag!!!

seems like everything has a flag these days, and that's just the cat's meow so I have made one for us.

grey represents the past, pink the present/future and white the transitional state between. the purple star represents a feeling of being out-of-place or disoriented by the current world

anachronistic displacement: when one has an intense connection to/identification with a time period they do not inhabit, often (but not always) experiencing dysphoria related to it.

star-free version & additional info under the cut

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