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[raziraphale]

Tag your age if you wanna bc I was just thinking about how I have used floppy disks before (I'm 25 and used them in elementary computer lab) but my 22 y.o. brother hasn't which is so weird to me like 3 years isn't a long time at all to me

[justplaggin]

them.

[thresholdbb]

The present, the past, they're both in the future! The future is in the past!

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

[musashi]

i also heard my co worker say 'i dont read dead dove' the other day like what the FUCK does gen z think it means??? are they just, like, changing the meaning??? what do you mean you dont read dead dove. you don't read ANYTHING? cause dead dove is not a genre or a trope it's a tagging system fdghdfh like???

[soapyakships]

into the mirror room we go....

[lexavillanelle]

[marzipanandminutiae]

as a woman who grew up with an emotionally abusive mother constantly telling me I needed to wear more makeup/more revealing clothing/date (boys) more/go out to "normal" parties more, I despise "she should be at the club"

god forbid some people- especially young women, who already have to deal with a thousand different behavioral standards from a thousand different directions -not have the same dreams and desires for their lives as you do for yours

fucking hell. the correct response to "women should stay at home and have kids and be submissive wives" prescriptivism was not MORE PRESCRIPTIVISM

(I also just saw a poll asking if people partied as teenagers, and OP responded that the answers were "killing them" because No was winning. like? why is everyone so personally invested in other people having a very specific kind of fun?)

[all-made-of-stardust]

I want to imagine that after all of this happened, and suddenly all Sending and Scrying and other divination magic isn't working, - somewhere out there in Exandria, Percival de Rolo just rolled up his sleeves and began to invent the fucking telephone.

[vole-mon-amour]

Here's something to think about when it comes to age discourse in Baldur's Gate 3. All character in our party are adults, and have you seen their voice actors?

Neil Newborn, who plays Astarion, is 45 years old.

Jason Isaacs, who plays Lord Gortash (!!), is 60 years old.

I'd guess that Dave Jones, who plays Halsin, is also around in his 50s? I couldn't really find much info, but he's a perfect guy for the role. Even his personal description of his voice states: "naturally confident, friendly voice with warm, earthy tones". The description alone even SOUNDS like Halsin.

Devora Wilde, who plays Lae'zel, is 33 years old.

Jennifer English, who plays Shadowheart, is 28 years old, which I think is very fitting since you can see how Shadowheart is supposed to be younger than all of them. Jennifer's voice is soft and genuinely suits Shadowheart. (UPD: I stand corrected. Shadowheart is supposed to be around 35-40 years since she's half-elf, which makes Lae'zel the youngest of them.)

My point is: there are no children in the party & the actors are chosen accordingly. It's wild to me that people keep talking about characters looking 'too old' when it's a natural 'being alive and growing up' experience, and not some kind of a problem.

[egophiliac]

at this point I'm not going to finish this, but I need everyone to know that I don't CARE that it was Kamejim, this scene has been replaying itself in my brain for the past week --

[devildomwriter]

“Well, as long as you’re single, what do you think of Lord Diavolo, hm? I can guarantee you he’s quite the catch! And if you act now, you can have his very talented steward Barbatos, too! As a special bonus!”

— Little D. No. 2 to MC (Chapter 25-11)

[bepstol-besul]

Out of context Lesson 25 spoilers

[thresholdbb]

what's the threshold theory

There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.

If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.

[ascorian]

say something nice to the birthday girl!!!!!!

[pettson]

i could make a comment on how tess being overlooked in the tlou fandom is because of the misogynistic views on older women we have in this society where any woman over 35 is not considered sexy anymore and therefore loses her worth, but do i want to