#. i'm sorry i sound like such a boomer for being like

[seelestia]

in lieu of the boop fest: genshin men as boopers.

⎯ something made on a whim to commemorate the lovely booping chaos going on. may not be accurate but i tried!!! 🙏 which one are you?? tag yourself /j this is the silliest thing ever, forgive me. fluff & crack (and made with love).

the harbinger of dedication (???): boop them once and oh, it's on. boops you back and will not stop booping you back — it's an all-out war! or at least, to them. they take this whole matter as an opportunity and certainly don't mind tiring their fingers out just tapping the button on repeat. does it for the fun and to get a reaction out of you. also, probably eats (sends) super boops for breakfast, lunch and dinner. it's their bread and butter.

childe (of course), arataki itto, cyno (has a desire to max out his boop-o-meter till the end - a completionist's habit).

the menace (as simple as that): they have no need to be booped because they're the one booping you first and a lot at that too. oh, you got 99+ notifs? yeah, that's an act of love and it's from them. they hoped you liked the gift because they had fun giving it. grab a handkerchief because you're gonna have to scrub that smirk off their face, literally.

wriothesley, kaeya, shikanoin heizou, lyney (he apologizes by treating you to a meal afterwards).

confusion (awkward ver.): ...what. what is this? what does 'boop' even mean? why does it sound so oddly menacing when uttered out loud? and why are you smiling at like that? it's a trend, you explain and they — reluctantly and nervously — send a boop back. they have no idea what they're doing but at least, seeing that proud look on your face amounts to something. maybe, they did well? they then proceed to send you another one just for good measure. how cute.

xiao, gorou.

confusion (boomer ver.): their first thought was that they're getting hacked by a... feline virus? how interesting (please explain). with some explanation from you, they'll eventually understand the concept! a passive booper at best, but has a proclivity to treat boops as a “i'm thinking about you” button. so just know one boop equals to one time you crossed their mind.

zhongli, neuvillette, dainsleif (still confused at the end of it), diluc (secretly because he has pride).

the 'humble' reciprocator (dark horse?): all is in perfect tandem. you give one boop, they give one back. you give two boops, they give two back. you squint your eyes at them from across the room suspiciously, they chuckle into their hand in response. is that an act of mischief or demureness? you wonder what will happen if you boop them one hundred times? well, let's find out. (they will give back the exact amount, no matter what.)

kaedehara kazuha, baizhu, kamisato ayato (a true hybrid between being humble and a menace, he is. starts off nice until he spams boops when you least expect it... with a smile, of course!).

the bystander with the popcorn: thanks for the boop, you get one back. yes, only one, sorry. they'd rather not participate in the chaos and prefer to keep their inbox clean. no offense meant, you're free to have your fun so go ahead. they're just here to observe because in their humblest opinion, it serves them well enough as participating does. oh, don't look at them like that. you did get one back, didn't you? rejoice in the fact that you're one of the few — if not, the only one — they gave a boop to. treat it as an approval badge. it means you're special (to them).

alhaitham, tighnari, albedo, wanderer (he thinks he's above this childish and pointless act of booping... or is he?).

the victim™: is getting booped left and right without rest. suffocating and drowning in them even. lady luck is not on their side; they swore they booped everyone back to infinity and beyond — surely, it's all repaid and they can take a break now, right? wrong. they rest for 5 minutes and come back to 99+ notifs every single time. (if you relate, you might be a victim of affectionate bullying. feel free to riot about it.)

kaveh, thoma.

the loser at the start line: sneezes whenever the paw comes up on screen, yikes. A+ for effort, though!

venti.

— thanks for reading!

© seelestia on tumblr, apr 2024. please do not repost, plagiarize, translate, use for AI-related purposes or claim as your own.

[gilverrwrites]

Quick and Dirty

Pairing: Captain Boomerang/Reader

Digger has an idea, it involves highly inappropriate usage of the Speed Force Gauntlet. (Please ignore the fact that the gauntlet doesn't actually extend to the fingers - at least i'm pretty sure it doesn't)

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Rating: 18+

Words: >800

Content: Established relationship, coercion (kinda), clitoral stimulation, vibrations, dirty talk, spit, swearing.

Please remember: to do the things that make you happy.

“No. Fucking. Way.” You warn, leaning back against the wall and crossing your arms defensively. “You keep that thing away from me.”

“Oh, come on, Darlin’.” Digger is still smiling, crooked, confident, casual. He gestures to the speed gauntlet strapped to his other arm. “It’s perfectly safe. You’ve seen me usin’ it.”

“That’s what I’m afraid of.” You examine the glove in question. It would be a lie to say you weren’t intrigued. You didn’t know much about the speed force beyond whatever half-truths Digger rambled on about, it seemed intricate, and unsafe. But Boomerang was a good lay, and he’d used that thing to save your skin in the field more than once, so you were willing to tentatively hear him out. “If that thing goes off midway, I don’t want my bits going with it.”

“That won’t happen… Probably.” Concern did flash across his face briefly, but it was quickly hidden by his usual bravado. He stepped closer to you, not quite close enough to touch, but enough that you could smell him, that you could feel the high energy radiating from him. Or maybe that was the gauntlet. “Have a little faith in ol’ Boomer, aye. I’ll treat you right, make you feel real good.”

“Okay… but if anything happens to mine.” You point to your crotch before gesturing to the growing erection in Digger's trousers. “I’m using yours as target practice.”

That might have been a boner killer for other men, but Digger's enthusiasm when it comes to sex or showing off knows no bounds, and this is a perfect opportunity for both. His eyes glint with mischief, with victory. He licks his lips, and you know there’s no backing out now, you’re fucked.

Digger maintains eye contact as he reaches out, there’s no pleasantries. He makes quick work undoing your trousers, hooking his gloved fingers in your panties, and pulling them both down until they’re positioned halfway down your thighs.

“What, no foreplay?” You challenge, raising your brows at him.

“You’re not gonna need it.” The look he gives you is so coy, so amused. It should fuel your cynicism, but it looks hot on him. “But, since ya asked so nicely, I guess I can spare a lil somethin’.”

He rests his unarmed hand on the wall beside you and leans in, occupying your lips with his. You’re only allowed a moment to enjoy it before you feel the brisk metal finger plates of the gauntlet slide between your slit. You hiss at the contact, and Digger pulls his hand back immediately.

“Sorry bout that. Shoulda warmed it up first.” His expression flips to sheepish as he brushes his fingers against his scarf. He blows on it a few times before spitting on his index finger and continuing. “Right, let’s try that again.”

He resumes the position, one hand on the wall, one hand slinking back between your legs, and his face just inches from yours. The temperature has barely improved, but he’s able to sink his fingers back in without causing you to flinch this time.

You’re still unprepared and admittedly unimpressed thus far as he starts circling your clit. To give him a fighting chance, you close your eyes, hoping it will help you focus on the feeling.

“Aye, no no no. Keep your eyes open.” As you follow his instruction, you hear a quiet whizzing from below, a lesser sound than the gauntlet's normal powering up. “I wanna watch your reaction.”

Then it hits you, an intense pulsing pressed against your most sensitive area, like every vibrator ever invented is being utilised on you in that single moment. The wall prevents you from being able to roll your head back, so you stare at Digger, wide-eyed as your body tingles and burns.

“Shhhhiiiiit, you like that.” His voice is dripping with fervour, and it only serves to add an extra level of throbbing to your cunt. Already approaching your climax, you’re unable to find the words to respond, instead fisting your hands around Digger's leather lapels in anticipation. “You reallllly like that, don’t ya?”

A nod is all you can manage as you begin to jerk and quiver, hitting your climax in record time. It’s hot and searing, like lightning is running through your whole body.

The tips of your fingers and toes, among other things, are still twitching as you start to catch your breath moments later. You can barely comprehend whatever Digger is prattling on about. He’s waving the gauntlet around, his arm moving so fast you can’t make it out. There’s lots of brash laughter and ‘I told ya so’s. You’re finally able to fully tune in as he muses, “How many rounds of that can handle, I wonder?”

[olderthannetfic]

You recently mentioned that you've been out since your teens. As a person who managed to overlook a shitton of signs and only realized she was bi in her early 20s, I am wondering how you realized you were bi and also how you found out bisexuality exists?

Sorry if the phrasing sounds weird, I only noticed I was bi because I stumbled over the term on tumblr in 2016 and was like "oh, that's possible??" and then my earlier identity crises during my teens due to feeling attracted to multiple genders and being like "I'm crushing on [female person]. Am I lesbian? Nah, I've also felt attracted to [male person]. But I can't be straight either because this attraction feels the exact same. Am I broken?" were suddenly resolved with the realization that bi is also an option and that I'm not broken due to zigzagging between heterosexuality and homosexuality, but rather just bisexual. In retrospect, it's absolutely ridiculous that it took me so long, considering that as a kid I had crushes on Anna and Carter and Doctor from Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, and Vitani from Lion King 2, and back in primary school, I used to go to the kids' section in the library and look at the first pages of a sci-fi comic which had one or two women get out of a lab or space station thingy and go bathe in the nude in the first few pages. I don't remember what it was called or what it was about, but tbh I'd love to find it and actually read it properly this time lol.

--

Horniness. The hornier you are, the easier it is to notice.

But also... well...

The 80s were all about combating the AIDS crisis and trying to get basic recognition of the humanity of gay people (at least in the US circles I was familiar with). The 90s saw the rise of a much more organized bi rights movement.

And then we backslid.

In the 2000s and 2010s, interest in bisexuality as a distinct thing fell off a cliff as far as I can tell. The "hey, it's not just cis gays and lesbians" energy moved first to trans topics and then to asexuality but without bisexuality joining the stodgy old guard.

The 90s were different. I was hitting my teens just as Anything That Moves hit its stride. I bought that shit at the bookstore. Yeah, this was the Bay Area, but they carried it at all the regular bookstores, not just the gay ones.

On Usenet where I spent a lot of my tween years, one of the big groups was soc.bi. I even spotted them having an in-person meetup in a restaurant in Berkeley where I happened to be having dinner with my parents. I didn't go say hi because I was like 14.

My big eureka moment, though, was on alt.tv.x-files when two groups were having a satirical argument about who enjoyed The X-Files more: people who got to lust over David Duchovny or people who got to lust over Gillian Anderson. Someone showed up and was like "Hah! I get to enjoy it twice as much as all of you! I'm bi!"

I was like "That's a thing????" I'd grown up with very liberal parents and lesbian neighbors, but like a lot of boomers, my mom was pro-gay and deeply clueless about all other queerness.

--

So the answer is unsupervised internet access in an age with no algorithms plus things like bisexual magazines actually existing.

RIP Anything That Moves.

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 24 (Waiting For Baby)

To prepare for her son's arrival, Heather pored over job applications at the clinic. Once her son was born, she wanted to spend as much time with him as she could, but she was confident leaving the place for Marcus alone would be a mistake.

Despite Marcus' endless flirtation with customers, the clinic had done well enough that Heather could hire another employee, and she found Kaori Hayashi enthusiastic and hard-working from the start. "I hope you'll be able to lead by example," Heather said when she hired her. "I won't be far away once my son's born, but I'll be happy to know the clinic's in good hands. I think you'll be a great help to Marcus while I'm away."

"I'll try, Doc Nesbitt. He told me this morning my butt looks great in these scrubs."

Heather sighed. "I'm sorry, I'll talk to him."

Kaori laughed. "No, it's okay. I told him thanks but his butt could look better, and now I think he's afraid of me."

"If fear motivates him better than I've managed, I guess that's a win. But if he tries anything again, please tell me."

"Will do, boss!"

Heather made friends easily with Brindleton’s many strays. The town had no mayor, but the locals' favourite stray was a tuxedo cat who wore a tiny donated top hat – to the town, he was their honourary “Mayor Whiskers.”

After her arrival in town, Mayor Whiskers took a particular interest in Heather and followed her everywhere. No one in Brindleton grew better catnip than Heather!

But soon, he was spending so much time at Heather’s home with her other two cats, speckled grey King Tut and fluffy white Boomer, she officially adopted him.

It had been a long time since she’d had to think about training bad habits from her well-behaved felines, but even with exhaustion and back pains in her third trimester, she was up to the task.

Mayor Whiskers had spent his life chasing birds as a stray. He didn't know what was wrong when Heather lectured him about eating trash or scratching furniture, but he loved his new home, and slowly changed his habits to please his new human.

Despite the summer heat, Heather worked hard at her clinic right up until delivery. She knew raising a child would be expensive, and she needed to make as much as she could from the clinic before giving birth. Marcus Flex, her perpetual work issue, even picked up some of the slack when she grew tired more easily.

"You shouldn't work so hard, boss."

"I enjoy working, Marcus."

"And you're really good at it! But it can't be easy carrying that thing around." He glanced casually at her bump.

"I wouldn't mind being able to work a little less, but royalties from my VetConnect app took a hit from Petcare's splashy new competitor in the app store, so the clinic is the only way I'll be able to care for my son."

"It was pretty uncool for Petcare to do that," agreed Marcus. "Why didn't they offer to buy your app if they wanted the same one."

Heather sighed. "I have a feeling they knew I wouldn't have sold it to them."

"Too bad, Doc. Selling apps can be good business. Maybe you should design another one! Maybe instead of a vet finder service, you could do a pet finder service! Like one stop, with breeder reviews, highlighting shelter pets."

"What? Like PetConnect?"

"Sounds good to me, boss. I'd download it in a heartbeat!"

Heather cocked her head at her vet tech as he exhibited a flash of brilliance she never saw coming. "It's a great idea, Marcus. If I ever put it together, I'll owe you credit."

With Petcare's app replacing hers on the market, she was even more grateful Malcolm kept his distance after his visit. Just as she’d hoped.

With Petcare and Landgraab Corp. actively working against her ability to care for their son, she wouldn’t have anything nice to say if she saw him again.

Heather was beginning to feel like she'd been pregnant for an entire year, and couldn't wait to meet her son. ->

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[mewtwoandme]

from 1 to 10, how much Rizz do u think Jericho has?

I feel like a boomer for not knowing what "rizz" meant until I just looked it up. It's slang for charming, apparently...what ever happened to just using the word "charming"?? Some of these slang words are so stupid. Sounds more slang for going to take a piss. "Hey I'm gonna go do the rizz quick, brb" 🙄 Maybe I'm just too "old fashioned" for the younger generation these days. Guess I can't really say that either, since people my age say this shit too...

Sorry for the mini rant, but if your asking, if he has any skill in being alluring because of his charismatic way of communicating, he does, technically. He didn't really use it on Gwen when they first met, l but he's been practicing with her, he's been doing better, if the recent couple doodles I did tells ya anything XD

[aliennazero]

Thinking about why Kishibe and Yoshida Hirofumi is likely to be blood related (father-son) and not just senior/junior because of these small interractions.

I don't think Captain "I am the best devil hunterᕦ⁠(⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠益⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕤ" Kishibe would let a random emokid1125 he met in a high-risk mission to basically call him an "old boomer" even as a joke.

I'm certain there's familiarity between them.

That's why Kishibe is sure about Yoshida's ability and competence when it comes to devil hunting, to have the potential to be better than him. Even though this comment also can be seen as chit-chat convos between them to make the situation more relaxed.

(Let's be real the entire casts have been through a lot in this arc in the span of like 4 hours—I also like the interpretation of this scene to be played as distraction for Yoshida because he need to kill a lot of "doll people" in the background to prevent more people turning into another dolls—IMO his character is actually kind of altruistic like Kishibe but it's a topic for another discussion).

That's why they talk more "casually" when there's only them two. They have so much trust in each other to talk about their distrust towards Makima and do commentary to the whole chaotic situations. Octopus Devil also seems okay with Kishibe and that's why it let him sit down on top of it just like Yoshida.

That kind of interractions doesn't make sense if it's truly the first time they met each other. Especially for the latter reasonings.

"They could just be senior/junior then. There's no need for them to be blood related. We had seen Kishibe put trust on his disciples like Himeno, Aki, even Denji and Power. So why it can't be the same case for Yoshida?"

Because Yoshida start his Devil Hunter carrier as private Devil Hunter, he join Public Safety later on after International Assassin Arc and before part 2. Meanwhile Kishibe is from Public Safety since the start, and one of his job is to train PS's new recruits.

Public Safety and Private DH is a different work environment. It makes no sense for Kishibe to spend time with this random private devil hunter if not because they're already related in some way.

++ Oh, another thing of why them being only senior/junior didn't make sense is because of this.

They talked about school here, very family-type of chit-chat.

Later, Kishibe offers Yoshida a cigarette, then followed by forgetting about his school grade and his age (which sounded very absent father jokes btw, and to make it even better Yoshida didn't laugh at it but rather seems irritated to the point he directly called Kishibe an idiot [馬鹿 baka] LMAO).

If Kishibe and Yoshida really are just senior/junior, Yoshida won't call him by "anta" (which is a ruder version of "anata" that means you) but rather he would call him master like any other of Kishibe's students/subordinate. But nooo, he didn't hold back from showing his rudeness in front of Kishibe. He's such a little btch of a son lol, I love him.

TLDR; Kishibe and Yoshida are so deadbeat dad and his neglected emo son coded❤️ I guarantee you'll have easier times convincing other people about this than otherwise, tbh.

Anyway sorry for being insane again, I need to to let this out from my brain.

[kimkimrena]

I'm not really a fan of posting myself on the Internet, but since there's not my face on the photo, I'm feeling quite confident with posting that.

So, on August I was participating in the anime convention and I made a lazy Coby cosplay, just to share my fascination of him & OP with others and celebrate 🎉 Especially when I was told lately that a lot of people started to hate him for what he told in the manga I felt like I really want to do that. No spoilers, don't you worry 🩵 And, so many people recognized me (him) and so many of them wanted to talk, take a pic and share their lovely thoughts with me. It was SUUUUUUPARRRR! 😭

You know how little Coby stuff there is on the Internet. You can barely found a merch with him, only a little (but brilliant!) people doing a fanfics or fanarts with him (I'm grateful for every one of you sharing your beautiful art with the World 💕). I felt quite lonely (pls don't judge me, I know how silly it sounds, but it's hard to manage autistic urge to fascinate with something) and that convention and people I met there filled me with hope and happiness ✨ Sorry for being a boomer, but I wanted to share that ❤️

I'm really grateful that I waited with watching OP for so long. Why? I see how the Coby fans rose in numbers after the Netflix adaptation and with the recent episodes. It had to be really tough to be a Coby fan, like, 10, 5, or even 2 years ago. There was so little of him. I just knew, somewhere deep in myself, when to start 😂 And believe me, my friend pushed me to watch OP for 15 years! So I believe I watch it this year on purpose, even if I didn't know that purpose yet when I started 😂 Do I sound a little crazy? Maybe. But I'm an old hag, I can. In my age you don't care about your opinion anymore, sharing some stupid stories on tumblr 🩵

[stevebabey]

I just read your x reader post (and the anon response to it) and good Lord you are right. I read your whole rant and I felt it in my bones!!

I've been in this damn app for over 10 years, and written for almost as many fandoms, and I'll say that the x reader tag has NEVER been this bad. It's not just st, it's nearly all of the ones I've seen and it's just gone down hill. It's really so fucking sad.

I was huge in the SVU fandom, and there were So! Many! Writers! We all reblogged eachothers fics and not everything had to be about sex to get notes! We LOVED when reader kissed the character for the first time because we understood that it was the yearning, the 'Oh God finally I'm having you' and not all about just fucking! God now even the most hastly written, shitty smut gets thousands of notes just because it's smut. It's so fucking disheartening. I've written a few things for st (one of which is the piece I'm most proud of, ever) and it got like, 100 notes on here. That's it, but I swear some 'popular' writers get so much traction just because they write smut poorly.

And not to sound like a boomer (cause I'm not a SWEAR) but the tik tok-ification of fandom and fanfic is ruining it! The lack of reading comprehension, the fact that reader has to be as description-less as possible or else "its not realalistic, I'd never do that, etc etc" makes me wanna rip my skin off. Fanfic used to be an outlet for so many people but the way its treated now makes it near unbearable.

(I'm so sorry I went on a rant you don't have to post this but just know that I agree with you 110%)

RANT! RANT! RANT! i’m so happy to hear people’s rant, i talk about these issues a lot with friends in dms and it’s very vindicating to hear it’s something that has bugged and annoyed more people than just me !

yes omg the way x reader fics have shifted over the last 10 years is INSANE— hearing that it’s not just stranger things unfortunately doesn’t make me feel much better lmao

i’ve picked this fight before back when i was in the spidey fandom because of this EXACT reason — where i was like hey…… sometimes things that have more notes….. are worse - because people have this insane thing where they will judge a fic? based on? its notes? and its like buddy how do u think a fic gets ANY notes if you act like that. truly its the worst, writers that are already big just keep getting boosted (even if they just write characters nasty fucking which is! ur prerogative! but it shouldnt be SUCH a factor in being popular/getting your fics read)

i’m not pointing fingers but yes i know a couple blogs that get HYPED because they both A) write smut constantly and B) write fast. and isn’t that just such a kicker if you can’t and don’t want to do those things? like even though it means nothing, there is no correlation between writing slow = bad writing, this site reflects that SO much because they never give that shit the notes it deserves

tiktok-ification god ur so right. it’s the way the mindset has shifted from these being wips, writing, pieces that you develop into instead content. consumable content. there’s such a disconnect between people that read shit tons of fic and the realisation that it’s produced by a person. they just hit the like button and go on anon to ask for an update and it’s like buddy it can’t work that way! the same way u like to read fic, writers want validation and engagement and questions and motivation!!! talk about biting the hand that feeds you 😭

[grabs ur shoulders and presses our foreheads together] we’re not crazy. it used to be better and we can make it better in time <3

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

The Persona Series and the Generational Experience

Besides thinking about the ages of the protagonists recently, I had been greatly intrigued in the way that each persona game reflects the generation that would have come to the age that the main characters would have been as well as the social climate and environment that would have been present at the time.

The characters of the game would have grown up in a completely different age and environment from the previous generation, being Gen X in a world dominated by the post-war Baby Boomers, which causes them to struggle with what is expected of them and what they want to be. If not this, the characters are already labeled as outcasts due to their own individuality or personal histories they can't change. Yukino as a former delinquent and sapphic woman comes to mind and Reiji being a bastard and a delinquent himself too.

NOTE FROM OP AS OF 04/08/2024:

I feel like this wasn't the best worded post and I would rather rewrite a lot of this. I wrote this when I was fresh off of a serious personal event that led me to think a lot about Persona 1 considering I related heavily with Maki's experiences during the game. It sounds unrelated but uh, let's just say that's also the reason why the wording and research here is rather flimsy since I wasn't really in the most lucid or stable condition at the time. I don't think this post is that bad but I think some points aren't the best either and would rather not this post circulate but I don't really want to private it or to turn off reblogs so I'm just putting this note at the beginning. I'm going to try to read up more stuff and then I'll make a post about each game some other time. Sorry for the random note here but yeah. Feel free to read and still reblog the post though even if I don't really think it's my best worded one as of now.

Original Post:

Persona 1 (1996), besides being a game about how society leaves behind the disabled (Maki hating the world due to her inability to participate as a regular person in society due to her poor health), is primarily a story about the dangers of corporatization which was extremely relevant in Japan during the 90s especially coming from the economic boom of the 80s. The culture of this extreme progress also calls into question the traditional ideas of collectivism and how it could negatively affect the individual which is the core of the entirety of the Persona franchise.

This is more apparent in Persona 2 (IS: 1999; EP: 2000) which deals with a lot of discourse about rumors and propaganda and the early effects of the early internet on the community. There's also a sense of dread for the coming new age as such a possible reflection of the fears of things such as Y2K. An interesting thing to note about Persona 2 are the villains, mainly a serial killer and a terrorist bomber, which shows the communal fear of these events on a society-wide level as this calls back to how Japan just dealt with their own serial killer in the form of the infamous Otaku Killer in 1989 and the fresh from memory terrorist bombing of doomsday cult Aum Shrinrikyo in 1995.

The Persona 2 characters would have grown up in a similar environment as the Persona 1 characters as they are both within Generation X. Knowing my parents who had come from this generation as well, they had told me that there was a constant fear of the apocalypse. It was the height of the cold war when they were growing up and although we weren't directly affected by it, the sheer proximity of our country to large powers like China and our allegiance to their enemy America has created a constant panic. Japan falls in a similar position as a US Ally and a Chinese and Russian enemy that's extremely closely situated to them, so I could imagine that this sort of fear influenced the writing of the games as the writers most certainly had experienced this as well.

It's no wonder then that despite the characters coming from a post-cold war Japan, that these fears may continue in for them and everyone around them so rumors as ridiculous as Hitler literally coming back to attack Japan spread regardless of how realistic it could be.

Skip forward several years, and Atlus decides to brush off the dust of their shelved spin-off series and come back with Persona 3 (2006). The characters are now literally a completely new generation, a generation left behind by their elders and exposed to the harsh reality of the world at such an intensely young age - the millennials.

I know that a lot of people may see this as a stupid point to bring up, but I assure to you that as a non-American, that the war on terror still gripped and sensationalized my own country to such a degree that it did cause a level of apathy among the populace. I'm not sure if this is true of Japan as well, but I feel like tragic world events and the increased visibility of these stories due to the rise of the 24-hour news cycle certainly is a universal experience. It is not surprising that the members of S.E.E.S. needs to fight back against this desolation and desperation on a day-to-day basis when everyone is literally affected by this universal apathy.

An interesting thing to note about Persona 3 is how almost all the characters are either orphans, become orphans during the narrative, or have a complicated relationship with estranged family. I feel like this reflects the way that millennials may feel that they had been abandoned by their elders and now they're forced to navigate the world with little to no guidance or even possibly corrupted guidance from adults like Ikutski.

Technology is also an increased concern in this game, following the trends of the previous two. The progress of technology could lead to incredible and even helpful things such as the creation of Aigis as a fully-realized individual from an AI program or the creation of the evoker as a means to harness the ability of the persona which, in the lore of the franchise, needs to come more naturally but could now be summoned on command regardless of it all. No longer would the person with potential need to wait as long for their abilities to show, all they need is this macabre device in order to access it.

That's the thing though isn't it? This technology comes with a price and comes with disturbing progress as well. Aigis was created to kill shadows and the AI was just created to make her more effective. She was forced to destroy what were essentially her sisters in order to make her the perfect killing machine without any consideration about the possibility of her own humanity despite the fact that they programmed her to be as human as possible.

The evoker came about from years of research from the joint efforts of the Nanjo Conglomerate and the Kirijo group. The research involved in which abused children and destroyed the lives of those who opposed the research just to get where they want to go. There was no care for ethics nor humane treatment which resulted in these children to turn to crime in order to live as a consequence of the unethical research that harmed them.

The concerns of technology and the ethics of playing god were already prevalent before but the turn of the new century put it as a discussion front and center. Stories of cloned sheep or strange chimeras from experimentation had increased discourse of whether or not science had gone too far during this time. Vividly, I remember being s teenager in the 2010s reading these old articles and old Wikipedia entries about these oddities.

As Persona 3 discussed the increased societal apathy for the world, the struggles of the millennial generation navigating it by themselves, and the dangers of research that forego ethics, Persona 4 (2008) focuses on the world's obsession of media, the struggles of a small town in the center of fame, and how collectivism forces the individual to hide themselves to be accepted even moreso than the other three entries of the franchise.

Persona 3 focuses on the early to mid millennial experience in a pre-recession society, Persona 4 focused on the late millennial experience in a media-hungry, recession-era society. These characters would have grown up around the late 90s to the mid 2000s where things such as gossip and paparazzi culture was all the rage. People started to care more about their media presence and how they present themselves not only to the local community but the world.

Gone were the days where rumors only reached a handful of the informed gossipers and internet forum users, and here comes the rise of television! Found in every well-to-do middle-class home! The world is judgmental, unfeeling, and only cares about the hottest new headline and our Investigation Team needs to learn how to be true to who they are in a society that doesn't want them to be.

The setting of the story in a rural town in the brink of urbanization is such a relatable one as I also come from a similar background. The fears of the loss of the cultural and individual identity of the small town is a real one that I had the displeasure of experiencing recently. Progress is good, but it's destroying local businesses. Progress is good, but it's making everyone less personal. Progress is good, but it's making people lose who they are.

It's also not at all just a Japanese pandering situation for the themes of the game be centered on traditional Japanese culture such as the characters' personas being Japanese figures from history, literature, and religion, the main villain and basis of the grander narrative themes also coming from old Shinto mythologies, and the emphasis of tradition with the story even starting out in an old traditional Japanese inn.

Mass media is destroying culture and it's up to the younger generation to navigate these two worlds of preserving who you are and accepting the progress. As a child, I found some level of annoyance that the previous generation before me who acted as my teachers and seniors, both at school, at home, and on the internet, was too forceful on things such as local tradition to the point that some of them even shame people who aren't on the same page as them. In a way, this is them trying to deal with the grander pressures of what society is demanding of them and it's something that I myself grew to understand as I got older.

When I got older, I realized how these complicated systems had genuinely ruined too many lives and destroyed individuality and culture which I know for a fact is a definite almost universal experience for the next generation, Generation Z (colloquially now known as the Zoomers). A common experience for this generation is the shattering of wonderland and the intense exposure to horrible reality at such a young age which leads to such a desensitization that it's worrying.

Most often than not, this generation is told that they are responsible for the horrible state world around them, that they should be the ones to fix the problems of society, that they should do this themselves lest they want to die. This leads to a lot of youth activism and protests with people as young as 11 or 12 being so active in politics that it continues to permeate to this day. Think of those 16-year-olds in this website back at like 2015-2016 that rallied behind the discourse. This is that generation, and it's a universal experience among the group, not just in America, but globally.

I'm gonna be a bit salty and a bit cringy here and maybe a bit biased, but fuck it this is my generation after all.

Persona 5 (2016) is the persona game for the disgruntled Gen Z. As the previous persona games were criticisms of society that could be dismissed off as individual-motivational fluff by those that love ignoring the grander themes of the series, Persona 5 is a figurative punch in the face that's hard to ignore.

No longer are we in made up cities and towns, no longer are we just focused on finding our place in the world, we're in Tokyo, Japan, baby! And we're here to tell everyone in the world that the society that you pride yourselves in is a farce that actively oppresses the weirdos, the outcasts, and the miscreants! They've done fucked up and we're not sitting idly by no more! We're not just gonna defy you by being who we are, we're going to actively stop your shit before you continue hurting others!

As pompous and self-important and even stupid as that sounds, those words reflected the battle cry of the generation. Online slacktivism, exposés, cancellations, and borderline illegal activities that basically amount to doxxing and wiretapping are part of the gen z cultural identity whether we like it or not. The generation selects the shitty adult target and doesn't let off until they're gone and had paid for their crimes.

As how shitty these witch hunts could get, there is no denying that deplatforming dangerous individuals had garnered good results on the cases where it doesn't become a shit storm. In a way, the Phantom Thieves are the success stories that the copycats that we know about in-game try to emulate but just end up hurting innocent people.

As it stands, in the retrospect that we have more than half a decade later after the game's initial launch, Persona 5 interestingly also stands as not only a criticism of larger societal issues, but also to those who try to respond to it by force and how they don't help long-term and are simply contributing to society's oppressive systems. It's interesting to note here how the choice of taking Yaldabaoth's offer of keeping the Phantom Thieves a part of the grander influencers of Japanese society is considered a bad ending.

As much as you want to change society, you best be careful to not fall in the same trappings that would make you the villain that you so desperately fought against. Despite your good judgment before, you should not be the arbiter of right and wrong. You should be there to liberate people, not control them.

The games development in itself is interesting in that not only did it take a long time, but it's based on a lot of real-life events that led to the writing team to develop the game in this direction.

The original plan for the game was supposed to be a road trip with the characters possibly even going international. I speculate that it may be a story that would have supposedly tackled globalization and its effects on the individual which is also an equally poignant thing that Gen Z has experienced. This all changed, however, when Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 which launched the country into a national crisis. The team became more aware about their country's situation and the people within Japan that it made them change the focus back into Japanese-society.

This refocus seemed to have spurred the writing into a more rebellious direction than the previous concepts possibly owed to the rise of social awareness within the country. News stories had never been more front and center than they have with not only the rise of the internet but it's domination in daily life. In fact, Japanese players had pointed out that the first arc of the game, the lustful PE teacher Suguru Kamoshida, may be based on a real life case of Masato Uchishiba, an Olympic medalist judoka that was accused of sexual harassment and rape by the women's team that he coached which broke out into the news the same year this sudden shift of direction happened.

With news after news of this caliber, it's not surprising that the game had such a frustration with how society works and the failings of authority to protect and to serve the people.

With all of these in mind, as much as the series in itself is flawed, it's such a fascinating reflection of the times. Each of these games are, to a degree, timeless in the fact that they tackle constant pervasive issues that affects not only Japanese society but the grander global culture. Though besides this, the context of the time period and the setting gives such a raw view of what the issues most prevalent were at the time and the struggles of the generation that these games were released for.

I know that there is absolutely no indication that Atlus would be releasing Persona 6 in the near future, but I am assured of one thing. Persona 6 is going to be a reflection of the generation that will grow up with the main characters. It would be a criticism and an earnest look at society's ills that are important to the next generation. The series will continue to build up on previous themes and discussions of the previous games as each generation continues to build up on the discourse of the last. This is the intriguing relationship of the Persona series and the generational experience.

[luvkirby4ever]

Sorry about the Garfield spam on main. I don't think I've ever mentioned it here but as children my siblings and I loved Garfield & Friends. My sister used to collect the books and I used to borrow them and spend afternoons reading them on the living room couch. It's something I have a soft spot for.

...That said, I'm so fucking sick of Ch*is Pr*tt being everywhere. Dude's an asshole and a prime example of why casting celebrities instead proper voice actors sucks. Voice acting is a talent that is completely different from regular acting! Hire people who are vocally talented to voice characters!! Not everyone can be Robin Williams or Christopher Lloyd!!!!

Maybe I just sound like a 90's kid boomer but there's something incredibly special and fun about letting talented voice actors flourish. People like Tara Strong (Timmy Turner, Raven, Twilight Sparkle, Bubbles, Omi, Dil Pickles, Terrence [Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends], a million other roles) and Jim Cummings (Pete [Disney], Pooh and Tigger [from the 90's through the 2010's], Darkwing Duck [and Negaduck in the Ducktales Reboot!], Rasputin's singing voice in Anastasia [whose speaking lines were by the aforementioned Cristopher Lloyd]) are legends in their field. Tell me that the absolute talent and range of these actors isn't astounding! Voice actors are fucking dope!!!!

I don't want to have to settle for mediocre voices. Sure, Mario and Garfield in their respective movies were okay. But why settle for "okay"???????? I fucking love Mario stuff! There are so many people out there who could add their own unique flavor to Mario! Why are we settling for basic general white dude with no particularly distinguished style????

Tldr; sorry for Garfield spam. Got sidetracked thinking about how much I hate how celebrities taking away from voice talent.

(*I censored his name because I do not want this showing up under that particular tag)

[uwuowotf2waslife]

What if Medic taught the team sex ed because he found out that someone has an STI and the mercs later either follow his advice or completely ignore it + Medic educating reader on safe sex on practice

The reason I came up with this is that I'm really stupid so I got thrush. I'm so fucking embarrassed, I'm a grown ass woman but I somehow did my hygiene incorrectly and I'm itchy down there and it burns to pee. I'm making an appointment with a gynecologist as I write this so I should be fine

Love your writing, acceptance of horny and your chill. Best wishes to you and sorry for shitty English

Dw frend your english is ✨✨✨✨

Also get well soon <3 it happens to the best of us

Tw: Sex mention/STD mention

In this case: Spy (fuckboy) got trush and Medic had a mild stroke when finding out only 3/9 Mercs understand the concept of STDs

Medic: lecturer in the conference room used in ED. Has a small presentation of whats STIs are and how to avoid them.

“Zo az you zhee, thiz are the common STDs you may encounter during ehm…”

“During third base!” Pips Scout.

Visible confusion by all non english speaking members except Spy

“The boy means sex… speak like an adult sout.” Half muffled by a ciggarete.

“Doubt you can get a hard on, frenchman, just 10 secs ago sawbone said you loose your errectIon once you hit 60” scout goes for a low blow

“Your mother never complains, does she.” Spy snakes back for a lower blow.

“SAY IT AGAIN FUCKFACE AND YOULL HAVE A MUFFCABBAGE FOR A HEAD” scout tries to grab his pistol, forgets that he had to surrender it at the lockers for safety.

“SHUT UP BABYMEN! DOCTOR SAYS ITS IMPORTANT “ a russian roar cuts them both raw and leaves them hanging.

A shill sound cuts them all, now Medic using Archimedes claws to get them all to pay attention

“Danke mein Freund “. “Now I know thiz will be embarrassing but you are all very welcome to use the jar in the medbay, well you wish to… touczh third base” A true genious never lets new opportunities for a learning moment to fall.

“So the condom jar?” “Didnt yall ever used that till Spy got Thursh??!” Scout looks dumbfounded

“You dont really use protection when ya are a gentleman, mongrel!” Sniper visibly annoyed and flustered because in his non medical experience a quickie in a van isnt really prime time for proper sex ed usage.

“Snipes Sheep dont count!” Scout goes for the low hanging fruit.

Sniper roses up and looks anywhere for a weapon but decides his chair is prime

Untill he is stopped by heavy and is basically hogtied by a even taller and burlier man

“Next will be in Locker” simple threat but working.

“Dankeshone Fruende… but yes I expect you all to use them. We cant have a czeafire because you all have different sztrains of StDS reaking havoc.”…

“ Never seen you using one tho Sawbones” Again scout being a dumbass.

Soldier now fed up , stands up and salutes

“MEDIC AS AN AMERICAN I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN MY AMERICAN EDUCATION WHAT SEXUALY TRANSIMETED DISEASES ARE, BUT THIS HERE BASTARDS HAVE MADE THIS LESSON UNACCEPTABLE. PERMISSION TO STRANGLE SCOUT?”

“NO TALK BABYMAN!”

“What if ye just want yer dick sucked by a bird? Do ye also need a condom?” Demo awoken has to ask the most revelant question in the last hour and a half.

“YOU DO VAT TO BIRDS?” Medic officially snapped.

“Ya know, chicks” scout yells amidst being stangled

“Vat?”

“HE MEANS WOMEN YOU IDIOT” hogtied sniper yells

“JA YOU DUMBKOFF!”

Earie silence from Medic finnaly snapping.

“Do we also have to use it with dudes? Like is it any different?”scout is about to pass out.

Medic defeated

Spy horrified his son is bi ( boomer fainting)

“I mean same same but different so prolly yeah” answers him an amused Engie.

“Mhmmm mmh” Pyro says and leaves the building.

True mercenary chaos ensues with Spy accusing Scout from hiding shit from him while all the others have fights about who did what and why they didnt use a wrapper.

Case in point

They are all idiots.

[soupedepates]

Bronya belongs to @noa-de-cajou

TW: Transphobia, mention of overdose

I took Bronya with me today because she was there this morning with me at the hospital when Adelajda called me

She came (I don't know why)

And she can shush the storm in my head

When she talks and talks and talks

She curses a lot

And she should pursue her studies

"But no, you want to be an artist"

"You're not my mother, Zuza. This is what I want. I can do what I want. I am an adult now and this is my life."

"I am just worried about your future"

"I know Zuz, that's why I tolerate your boomer talk."

She gives me a grin

I like this kid

"I am not even a boomer, I'm only 47."

"O-old."

I park my car down a block of council flats

Grey buildings with laundry on some balconies

"So now what?"

"We wait, Bronya, we wait"

But we don't have to wait for long

Something flies out of a window at the 4th story

It's a backpack

"I'll just go fetch it, sit on the bench, ok?"

They shout in Polish

A botched Polish

But only swear words

I know they have a difficult relationship

I retrieve the backpack and go back to Bronya

"She will go down in about a minute or two"

"I have a lot of questions."

"Go on"

"Why has she come here in the first place? She doesn't seem really welcome."

"It's her youngest brother's birthday

He wanted her to come"

"Like she cares about somebody other than her hellspawn of a son?"

She chuckles

"You don't really know her"

"I don't need to."

"You're misjudging her"

"Nah, I like her. Half of the time. She gives good advice. But I think we are the other half of the time."

A jacket flies out of the same window

"Called it. You really have an... interesting taste in women, Zuz."

Two ginger-haired persons

A man and my girlfriend

Are throwing fists on the balcony

A meek woman older than me is looking at them

She didn't try to separate them

She seems to talk

But they can't hear her I suppose

Two younger men step in and push them apart

And now we can hear them for they are shouting

"You two always making things difficult! For fuck's sake Lech, you're almost forty! And you, are you proud of you, Efrem, for ruining Aleksy's birthday?"

"For the last time..."

Oh no

"MY NAME IS IDALIA!"

She throws a plant out of the balcony

Almost killing the poor old man walking his dog nearby

"You think people called the cops?"

"They would be here by now if they did, Bronya"

(From what my girlfriend said to me

The neighbours are accustomed to frequent violent outbursts in the Lupsowiec's place

They once called the police on 13-year-old Idalia and 17-year-old Lech fighting

They just spent the afternoon at the station

What do you want to do when the parents won't raise their difficult child and let the oldest run the house?)

Now she is storming out off the place

You can almost hear the door being slammed

She is now in the street

She sees us

She sees me holding her backpack

"I'm sorry it went so bad"

"You're sorry? You really think I want your pity right now?!"

"I-" "It's YOU who encouraged me to go! I listen to YOU, and that's what happened! What was the plan? You're miserable 'cause your youngest doesn't want to see you so you want me to be miserable too?"

She angrily shouts

(I can't fight back I'm frozen)

But she stops and for a split second she looks horrified by what she is doing

And yet she continues

(I am biting my cheeks not to cry today is already difficult enough

But Idalia doesn't need to know I spent half of the day at the hospital

Since she left for work until she sent me a text about how bad it was going with her family

By the side of my son who almost killed himself at his aunt's

Adelajda was crying and I had to comfort her

She was looking after the kids and she was focused on the younglings

Agatka and Czcibor are almost major so I don't blame her

She told me Agatka came to her in tears because her twin brother was cold and unconscious

I don't hear my girlfriend anymore I just hear the sound of the respirator

"Fuck you Idalia, is Zuza your woman or your punchingball?"

Bronya brings me back to reality

"Fucking hell, she came aaaaall the way from the ER to fetch your shitface and you thank her like that? No wonder your baby mama left you. Damn girl, you can be a fucking great friend but why half of the time you're like, the lowest scum of the Earth? What's next? You're on your wifebeater era? Fuck, and Bazya thinks he can make you change? He is full of shit and you're like everyone's crazy ex."

Then she hits my leg lightly with her cane

"Dump her, Zuz, you def' can't fix her."

The face I love blanches

"I am so sorry Zuza I really didn't mean to I..."

"It's okay

I know you had a rough day"

"C'me on Zuz, you're... Oh fuck, I'll go wait in the car."

And away she goes

"You won't leave me, right?"

"I promise"

And we will talk in bed tonight

Her hand in my hair

And everything will be fine again

"Oh I made you cry I'm so sorry!"

She takes my face between her hands to erase the tears rolling down my cheeks

"I'm tired"

She seems worried

"When we're home I'll draw you a bath. I'll make up for... being an idiot, I suppose."

"A fucking asshole and a huge dick."

Bronya has heard you and she is quick to reply

"All that the kid says."

Bronya goes back in the car again

And she actives the headlights

She's getting impatient

Idalia listens to Bronya more than she does to the others

Perhaps because they're kind of alike

I head back to the car holding my lover's hand

I am so tired

[mysticmellowlove]

a/n; i'm starting to figure more things out now. it's still like im a boomer trying to work a phone though. wild. also take a split scenario, on the house. also i am late once again but it's only because i finished off like three modules yesterday.

warnings; sub male, blowjob, eating out, face sitting, dom reader, male reader, fem reader, mean reader/slightly mean reader

word count; 886

Male Reader

Your lips pursed as you scrolled through your phone, swiping past various pictures of some sort of model. A small hum left your mouth as you began to think deeper into things, the world really was vain...

A pop echoed throughout the room as cold air hit your cock. You lowered your phone and looked down towards the floor. Your boyfriend sat there, a pretty little pout on his face as he looked up at you through his eyelashes.

"Why aren't you paying attention to me." He childishly whined, his bottom lip poking out. He mustn't of noticed it but the slight sheen of precum only made him look more whorish.

"I am, I am..." You droned on, knowing that the more disinterested you looked the more enthusiastically he would suck you off. It wasn't that he did a bad job in the first place, in fact he always seemed to know exactly what you wanted. Sometimes you just like to be.... an asshole. Usually it for your own entertainment as well. Others had called you a bastard over it but you saw no difference in anything you did.

Besides he was still with you, still at your feet looking up at you like some sort of depraved dog.

"You're not, you meanie." In fact you would even go as far as to say that he too had a plot. No one took as much pride in being a brat compared to him after all. A deep sigh left your mouth as you threw your phone over to your shared bed.

"Sorry baby." You crooned, hands going to cup his cheeks. They warmed under your hands as a smirk crossed your features. Slowly your finger swiped at his lips, picking up some of the leftover precum there. He watched with rapture as you lifted it to your own mouth and licked it off. A nearly indetectable shiver ran through his body.

"Promise I'll give you all my attention now though, so why don't you go back to sucking my cock?" He seemed to wait no longer, going to lick wide stripes down the side of your cock. A satisfied groan left your mouth as you tangled your fingers in his already messed up locks, directing his head to where you wanted it.

A sound of surprise left him as you forced his head onto you, sliding into the warmth of his mouth. Your fingers tightened as a round of laughter left you.

"Fuck! Feels good... Is this enough for you huh? Want me to use your mouth baby?" A sharp chuckle left you as you went to move his head back and forth. His hands curled around your legs, fingernails digging into your skin.

"Hah~ I might just keep you down there forever, force you to make me cum over and over. How does that sound baby?" As you expected he didn't have an answer for you.

Female Reader

You batted your eyelashes as you fixed up your hair, making sure it stayed in place as best as it could in this situation. In front of you was the mirror you had hung opposite your bed for moments just like this.

If you glossed over your painted eyelids and tinted lips then you'd be able to see the image of your boyfriend underneath you in the mirror's reflection. His hands were grasping your thighs as he worked his tongue over your folds.

Cheekily you laughed to yourself.

"You look so pathetic right now~" A hum left your mouth as you trailed your fingers through his hair, stopping every so often to tug sharply at it. The groans coming from him worked on your pussy similar to a vibrator, sending shocks right to your core.

"It's almost as if you belong under me. Isn't that sooo strange." He wasn't able to see the nasty grin you had plastered onto your face. Other would call you annoying, too enthusiastic and overzealous but your boyfriend was different. Your ever so lazy boyfriend would let you do whatever you wanted to him.

If he barely had the energy to make daily decisions then why should he be anywhere but underneath you?

"You've stopped. Need air baby?" Your head tilted to the side as your hands left his hair, going to make sure the necklace he brought you for your anniversary wasn't getting tangled. His response to your question was a squeeze of your thighs. Your eyes rolled as a snarl replaced your bored look.

"But I haven't even cum yet~. You really are lazy aren't you." Reluctantly you shifted to the side, getting off of him for a moment. He seemed to blink in the sudden brightness, his eyes bleary and his mouth open as he took in little breaths of air.

"Have anything to say for yourself?" A drawn out hum left you as you looked down at him.

"Sorry..." You rolled your eyes again, he may be lazy but at least he looked remorseful. You had no worries in your mind though, he never broke a promise after all.

And he had promised to make you cum this morning. Now you were just wondering what he had up his sleeve.

[sotwk]

💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome 💌

Thank you my darling Jordie! I'm sorry about your recent love life problems. As someone who had to endure a LOT of that before I landed "The One" (when I was almost twice your current age!), I can tell you that:

The pain really, really sucks.

But that's normal.

It will feel like it will never go away.

But it does. I PROMISE. It might take a while, but it will be a distant memory soon enough.

You will feel the joy of being in love again. I PROMISE.

You are BEAUTIFUL and WONDERFUL, no matter what.

If he didn't see that enough to cherish you as you deserve, then it's better that he's gone.

There WILL be someone who treats you well enough to deserve you.

And finally (not to sound Boomer-ish)... you are still SO YOUNG. So, so, so very young. There is plenty of time to grow and explore and meet more people and learn about relationships. <3

In the meantime, plenty of ice cream and comfort films and all the crying you want! Wallowing is part of the healing.

[nanjokei]

ok heres what ive been thinking of recently

honestly its just raw emotion, i dont really mean to upset anyone or say that they're consuming anything wrong. i'll try to word things as carefully as possible (or ill mince meat as much as possible idk) because i really do not like when people assume ill intent in my words just because i use blunt language at times. (sorry its just how i talk. im not mad at you. im not yelling at you online)

but honestly i have had a long thought about it.

i'm incredibly tired of the lack of curiousity a lot of new vocaloid fans have towards the culture.

statements like "boomers expect me to know songs from 2007" or whatever. i mean, no, no one is Expecting anything from you, that is absolutely a strawman you have invented based on someone merely being surprised (often in jest even), but it's also like. you, who actively identify yourself as a big fan, have never even thought to look back? there are so many playlists and medleys you can consult. it is a few searches away, i don't care. you are not five years old. and if you feel lost you can always ask people there are always so many people just waiting to introduce someone to even one or two old songs they like.

like is it bad that i think you should be a little more passionate if you consider yourself a geek?

what is wrong with me being surprised if you don't know sakura no ame or saihate or whatever. what is wrong with me thinking that it's weird that even with the biggest producers in the world, you have 0 curiousity to look into their old works?

it's not me being old and cranky, i just think it's a little bad and disrespectful that a lot of new fans just see older songs as inherently worse or not worth their time and use them as a strawman to invent some kind of boomer boogeyman who is going after them for not knowing shiningray or celluloid or ikelenka or whatever. even though honestly you should know them. even if you only listen to it once and decide you don't like it, or hell even just know they exist without listening.

like, songs with millions of views on nnd, i want you to at least familiarize yourself, especially if the producers are still active! at the very least!

whats wrong with me wanting people to enjoy amazing music that built up an entire subculture? made by passionate people who didn't even know the scene could last as long as it did? what's wrong with wanting to share my love with another generation?

i'm not denying that there may be outliers who are rude to other fans, but come the fuck on, stop acting coy about it. you should at least be able to recognize one of either the title, sound or thumbnail of the top 100 songs from 2009. not even KNOW them, just recognize, like is that too much to ask?

like, it's something i personally struggle to understand in general when it comes to interests i'm passionate about. i'm not a pushy person by the way, i don't go around heckling people not even as a joke, so i am not even letting anyone put me in the box of "probably acted pushy and didn't realize and is now mad at the other party". like, this is not directed at casual fans. i am just thinking stuff like "why are you hostile towards the idea of learning more about your interest?" and "why are you hostile towards passionate people who want more people to get into what they like?" and "why pigeonhole yourself? learning more means more fun for you."

because what bothers me the most is that eventually it turns into accusations of "gatekeeping" and "elitism" if anyone voiced their opinion about things. i know how im wording it makes it sound like it personally happened to me but it hasn't it is just what i have observed over the years as someone who gets super into stuff and tries to immerse myself and sees other people get into fights whether its the """elitist""" or the """casual""".

why is it like this? i cannot see why wanting to share is elitism or gatekeeping. maybe elitism sure if the other party feels like they're being targeted for no reason (and im not saying it does not happen). but gatekeeping? why is it gatekeeping? wanting to share what you like with others is gatekeeping? isn't that if you told people NOT to get into it and hid it away?

like, im saying it properly so no one misconstrues what i am saying, but i understand not everyone wants or has the energy to become a big fan of something. there are so many things where i am a very casual fan!! but even then i respect the thing i am into by also acknowledging its history at the very least even if i might not ever play/watch/read/etc all of it or at all.

so like... is it bad? is it bad that i think others should have this respect too? i know this is an issue of low empathy or whatever. i have to run around in circles to understand others. i "get" it, but im also like, why cant they be like me? so i want you to know in no uncertain terms that I GET IT. I GET PEOPLE'S POSITIONS HERE. i have been thinking about this general topic my entire life

so in the end it just turned into a general sort of thing. but yeah, i don't understand why people get so defensive and act so persecuted. am i wrong in my point of view? am i just being an elitist after all? like i simply see it as "i want people to enjoy it too."

like, i thought about this stuff after seeing how passionate ado is about vocaloid. like, she is only 21 years old. she is as old as or slightly older than many new fans (though she had liked vocaloid since elementary school). she is the biggest pop star in japan right now and yet her passion has not waned. not to mention so many younger fans that do have that curiousity too. i used to think its not possible, but i see them in the YT comments, going "im 16 but i really like this era of music" and such.

like, please just open your heart. ignore the boogeymen you're hallucinating and just enjoy slowly... it doesn't have to be a study session. naturally you will just discover more songs you like from those eras

[yoiashroom]

Can have a fic or something with Dom x Fem! Solider reader where they fall in love (Dom survives) after maria passes?

DOM SANTIAGO 

Being an outrider for COG had its difficulties, one of those downsides was no one takes you seriously your used as bait to see if grubs were nearby and you have a higher rate of dying during your missions, I'm part of the last situation.  

Right now, I'm hiding behind an old grocery store counter while grubs try and shoot me down, I called for backup almost 15 minutes ago and they should be here by now! But noooo they have other missions to attend then help their dear outrider. 

I reloaded my lancer and peeked out to see almost 10 whole grubs and on boomer if one of the grubs positioned behind a wall the boomer in front 3 grubs were blocking the exit so my master plan of throwing a flash and running out while their blind was short lived maybe if my team didn’t run off and split up like I said not to then we probably- BANG ... 

A shot wizzes past my head and I whip my head back to its hiding spot, I need to stop daydreaming and decide there's some cover to my left a half wall, and to my right was another counter I can alter my earlier plan of throwing the flash and running but instead of running I throw the flash and while their blinded shoot the ones by the door and go hid behind the half wall although that leaves me vulnerable to the grub behind the wall I'll have to melee him and possibly get shot I don’t have any meds on me so I would have to just deal with the pain. 

Though if I go with the counter, I can use my flash then when their blind I'll have just enough cover to crouch my way out to a different exit that hopefully doesn't have too many grubs. 

Seeing as how I have no meds and they have a boomer I'll take the second choice. I ready myself into a running position pull the pin on the flash and close my eyes 1...2...3 I throw the grenade as I see a bright light emit from behind the counter I move as quick as possible while the deformed ugly’s are blinded I run past the cover I was supposed to crouch to, and as a result bullets fly past my adrenalin induced body  I don’t really care anymore in done spending time in this rotten grocery store, I make a swift left and see a glass double door that opens to my path out forget my colleagues I'm leaving I push open the doors and run outside and breath fresh air . 

Slowing down I bend over putting my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath, but SUNDENLY! I hear the sounds of trucks pulling up a scowl coms=es across my face as I look up to see THE COG TRUCKS, I ASKED FOR 20 MINUTES AGO where was this when I needed it HMMM 

“Hey, we're here, what's the big fuss about” Anya looks puzzled she heard you yelling on the intercom while she was on a mission just for it to be empty outside. 

My sour face doesn't change as I explain to her what went down “and then I ran out here and you guys showed up 20 MINUTES LATE” Cole sheepishly scratched the back of his head “yeah were sorry about that commander kept us held up” I look down and shake my head “well search the place and see if we can find your teammates and you can sit in the truck with Dom” now it's my turn with the confused face ”isn't Dom coming with you?” Marcus looks back at the truck and shakes his head “no he hurt his arm on our mission and we haven't been able to patch up, could you fix him up for us?" my puzzled face turns into one of concern as I look back to the truck “of course I can it’s the least I can do since you guys are the only ones that came to my help” Marcus sighs of relief “thanks Y/N “ I say a quick your welcome and walk to the truck where my patient is. 

I open the back door to the truck where I see Dom without his top armor on looks like was going to sterilize his wound but kept wussing out at the first touch “do you need some help?” he looks at me surprised but quickly his expression turned into a pained one I get in the back seat and hold his hurt arm carefully to see the damage a long slash on his left arm starting at his shoulder down to the bottom of his bicep I scrunch up my face thinking how bad that must hurt I grab the cotton ball soaked in disinfectant and give him a look of sympathy “I'm sorry but this is going to hurt a lot” he gives a unsure look and I give him time to prepare for the pain he’ll be in we both take a deep breath and I quickly put the soaked cotton ball to the gash, 

A strangled groan of pain emits from Dom I try to get this over with as quickly as possible to stop his pain once I was done, I grabbed the bandages to my left and wrap his arm up not to tight but tight enough 

huff “thank you” I give him a small smile and mutter a small your welcome Dom slowly leans back trying to not move his freshly wrapped arm an awkward silence falls emits us as I look for a question to fill the void Dom finds one first “when the guys said there taking me somewhere special you were the first thig that came to mind” I playfully roll my eyes as Dom chuckles Dom slightly shifts over to me and gives me a weak smile ”sorry we couldn't get to you sooner commander was holing us up” I smile at him "I know the others told me this fine” I touch his arm softly not trying to hurt him “when we get back to the base I'll be able to patch you up properly but for now this will have to do” he looks down at my head now if you look closely and I mean really close you'll see the smallest red hue on my face as he touches my hand “thanks I really mean it” he pauses for a second and then makes eye contact with me and sighed I could feel my face getting warmer as I return the eye contact “ you know no one has really patched me up like this in forever I really do appreciate it and I was hoping that we could um” he broke the eye contact looking down and taking a deep breath and regaining eye contact Dom leans in close to my face I can feel my face on fire but just as he lean in we hear talking from outside and Dom pulls away leaving me a little sad at the loss of contact  

The door opens to reveal the rest of the crew, but none of my teammates ”where's my team?” I asked Marcus he holds up 5 cog tags as I make an I knew it face the rest of the crew hopped in the truck with me sitting beside Dom I daydream a the truck takes us back to base but before that, I feel a pair of lips on my cheek I whip my head to look at Dom with a newly red face all he does is smirk I start planning of a way to get back at him while Baird drives us back to the base