#growing up in nyc

[fiftiesbbydolldress]

teenage girlhood in nyc

[chameleon3]

HYPERFIXATION MENTIONED!!!

[tricoufamily]

a current day nils and a 90s college student nils who's way too intense about his internship walk into a bar

[so-much-for-subtlety]

tomorrow officially starts my 15th year in the “United” States. I’m gonna make a cake. Not to celebrate- I was just gonna make one anyway🥕

[franklyimissparis]

mclennon 70s/80s fix-it fic superiority

[essektheylyss]

Since I have finally defeated the horrors*, I'm starting to catch up on World Beyond Numbers after having fallen behind when school started after arc 1, and I did in fact have to pause to take a walk to get some baklava before getting too far into the Citadel food crawl because it is late afternoon and I was not gonna make it.

[transwalterdecourcey]

i keep seeing gravity falls "stanley what happened to the twin towers" jokes but to be so honest if i went to new york and there was a major landmark missing i don't think i would notice

[neopetting]

i really believe with my whole heart + soul that bob was born and raised in new york. my lil headcanon says that big bob’s diner is there. staten island or something. bob being like “i can’t TAKE this anymore, i have to get OUT” after his blowup at the diner and then….. only moving like an hour away to jersey feels extremely on brand for him

[clowningaroundmars]

listening to rakim and the pharcyde rn and just thinking it's actually kinda weird that more ppl haven't pointed out how much miles' taste in music affects his life and viewpoint in general

and how being raised by his uncle who's into more old school stuff on earth-42 would affect him and his development

i'm imagining 42 actually clowning 1610 for listening to post malone while placing a labcabincalifornia vinyl on his record player while they chill in his room one day lol

42's tastes would probably be more varied and just... like more developed in general bc he has a man who was more than likely a Part Of The Culture helping to raise him. aaron was out on the streets of brooklyn as a kid most likely swapping diy mixtapes and buying local rap cd's with his allowance/summer job money (assuming he was born like around 1978-1980, then he was most likely on the streets in the mid 90's during the Golden Age of Hip Hop).

not to mention that for aaron to even Do What He Does as the prowler, he is still out on the streets til this day, shooting the shit with fellow neighbors and shaking hands with black market merchants. he's dapping up store owners and trying to get on local gang leaders' good sides for intel. he's making connections! he is most def still swapping music recommendations with ppl in the hood and ordering vinyls online if he can't get his hands on them in physical brick-and-mortar stores

and music seems to be a super important thing to a man like aaron. that would definitely influence miles. interesting that i haven't seen more posts mentioning that actually!

[mygaymindpalace]

Genuinely laughing and kinda proud because I can finally relate to the intro to the chorus

"got my rent to pay, but I'm broke" YA GIRL DID IT. I'VE GOT RENT???? The little things that remind me I've really accomplished what I set out to do.

[ravenkings]

i’m not remotely a theater kid, but one thing that would give me theater kid cred is that i saw wicked with the original broadway cast

[vulpixelates]

damn it. i'm about to be so fucking embarrassing whenever i watch the fucking wicked movie lmao

[lwcina]

i feel like im having a lot of delayed realizations on account of being suicidal for the majority of my life and now not being suicidal like. idk thinking about what life is now that im actively choosing to be alive. i used to be like scared of everyone i love dying but its like. death and grief are a part of life... and grief is like hard but also to even have something to grieve is worth something.

[trashcandroid]

this happened to me last night and it was extremely fucked up

actually i just said no and the conversation moved on from there but this is what it felt like

[freebooter4ever]

even though i am sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich i have been made vaguely aware that whoever gets the second wildcard spot will play new york and... yeah.

[compacflt]

wow very cool. as a european i am learning a lot about the us navy and defense and everything from your blog haha! idk if you've answered this before but what made you wanna work in defense?

Russia invading ukraine on my birthday lol. though i was always interested in military history/military fiction even as a kid. that was just the watershed moment for me personally

i don’t want to work IN defense though. I want to write ABOUT defense. still not sure what that looks like exactly for me. move to DC definitely. maybe get a position at one of the twenty trillion trade publications there are around here. Or comms job, govt job, journalism job… not sure. hopefully i will figure it out ! would love to write fiction for a living but im realistic enough to know that’s an oxymoron

(Also, side note, i am very flattered, & i know i say this somewhat often but i feel the need to repeat it every once in a while… please don’t take anything i say on this blog / ESPECIALLY in my writing as fact. i misrepresent stuff and get stuff wrong all the time, sometimes on purpose for story reasons. I try my best but i simply lack experience & worldview and have spent functionally zero time being an Adult or having to deal with Adult topics [still do not know what a 401k is!]. for instance if you even mention the words “security clearance” or “congressional confirmation hearing” in the general vicinity of my fics, the plot, nay, the entire CONCEPT, goes up in flames, as i discuss in this post. i really appreciate this comment don’t get me wrong But there are definitely better/more accurate places to learn about these topics than a 20y.o. A&D intern who is only just beginning their career & is still confused about many of the basics of real life. I have a lot of growing up still left to do & you really don’t have to listen to me)