#respect your elders.

[salaciouscrumbb]

the mean girls musical movie ads are trying to convince me they own “shut up!” but i am old & that phrase belongs to the princess diaries.

[dingdinghq]

the "bully hypno immediately" instinct is still kicking i see

[haneys]

vape toriel walked so joint ralsei could run. know your herstory.

[gumihoe]

new fe players who started with 3h be like "HOW am I supposed to care about characters without 5000+ lines of dialogue about how mentally ill they are and a year by year breakdown of their entire life from birth till the story starts and 38hrs of seeing them age and go through formative experiences this is OUTRAGEOUS" meanwhile fe boomers be like "this is my scrimblo McRedKnight from the japan-exclusive 1998 game Tales of the Honky Tonky War he has three (3) lines one of which you'll only see with his literal last breath and he's my favorite character ever because one time he dodge-tanked 12 enemies in a row on enemy phase and procced a 17% crit chance on the chapter boss and gained str spd and def on level up"

[summerwages]

wild blue elderflower..

[wigglebox]

there's a thing i wish newer fans of spn could have experienced and that is when the show was airing, week to week, and for years and years on this website or on LJ or on twitter or wherever, coming up with speculation and meta posts and trying to follow the clues as to what this show was giving us in terms of material.

i'll admit some folks probably took it too far and didn't understand that just because the show didn't do 100% what they thought it was going to do, that it wasn't baiting or that they didn't know what they were doing — however for the most part, for a lot of us, it was just fun.

and i say this because fans that were brand new fresh once the show ended didn't get to experience that, it was all catch up and a post-show fandom environment for the last 4 years. the winchesters provided a bit of that rush again but it was so short lived that it was hard to get it going.

and why i think that experience is something good to have or at least understand that it's an experience that some people in this fandom have, is because it's gotten a lot of us used to not taking it all 1:1 face value. that is: we're used to things we think are going to happen not happening, we're used to the fact that our speculation and interpretations can be wrong, we're used to the fact that the people creating the stories have their own way of doing things, and while we think we know best, at the end of the day we're playing with the toys they left for us in the sandbox.

i don't think older fans are anything to sneer at or write off because even the ones who may have been the most jumpy during the show's airing have since grounded themselves and will essentially 'wait and see' how any continuation pans out, and also had that same approach with the winchesters and many folks i knew who took that approach were pleasantly surprised with that prequel.

not that we're The Wise Ones TM but that all that time in this fandom and interacting with the show did build this certain skillset for many and it's not that we're dumb, it's not that we're delusional or that we're always wrong about stuff, but that we learned how to have fun with it.

[ghost-bxrd]

Me, reading the idea that Jason thinks he accidentally kills Dick in the dragon au: WAIT no-

Me, imagining Dick surviving somehow - on a wing and a prayer, and him clawing his way back to Gotham with Nightwing because there's no way he's letting this be the last time he sees his family and brother: wait.

Me, imagining that instead of going home, Dick just drags himself to wherever Jason's kingdom is, confronting him there and seeing just how badly Jason spiraled after thinking he killed his older brother: okay this may be onto something here.

Omg!!! Bonus points if Dick only gets so far in his journey because well meaning commoner recognizes the crown prince and realizes that “shit, if the new tyrant/king/whatever went crazy because of this dude, maybe getting him back will do the reverse thing? And stop him feeding people to Red?”

[christadeguchi]

“Hey, they still call you The Kid? Aren’t you old for that?” “Anyone ever tell you to respect your elders?” “Not bad. How about we take it outside though?” “Oh yeah, just tell me when and where.”

the nhl said: no soap operas, only gay porno

also, same vibes:

[beggars-opera]

Navigating the late-stage capitalist hellscape of hundreds of increasingly expensive streaming services riddled with ads and realizing that you don't actually have to put up with their bullshit:

[basuralindo]

Checking on the guest room every other day like,

Sorry for the lazy ass editing but anyway I've been needing to make a visual for this joke

Now I'm not saying that I always picture this man as Yuu, but I have definitely become obsessed with the raw comedic potential of Tommy Shelby being isekai'd into magic college surrounded by people he actually Cannot boss around

[liesmyth]

"MILF" about women in their early 30s... be real

[passionpeachy]

Can you guys do me a solid and wish my lesboyfriend @acornered a happy birthday today? please and thank you

[karaspal]

i know the supergirl movie has a lot of mixed opinions (imo i think it’s a good movie), but one thing that’s for sure is how good of a casting helen slater was.

like, that’s supergirl right there. 10/10 cast.

[ox-imagines]

Guys I love Ed

[bakedbakermom]

i am nearly to the end of season 7 in my rewatch, and i want to tell new fans something that they may not have known about the original run:

we had no idea, until basically the day the finale aired, that there was going to be a season 8. the actors didn't know even while they were filming it.

see, turnaround times for network tv shows used to be MUCH shorter. they would spend usually 8 days shooting, a couple days in editing and post, and then it would air. often they were still editing in the MINUTES before airtime.

gillian anderson did an interview with letterman on the late show (i had to tape it because my mom wouldn't let me stay up to watch!) on like the thursday before Requiem aired saying that she had no idea what was going to happen. they had filmed one ending for if the show would continue, and another if it wouldn't. she said there was "this thing that i say" and if she says it, that would give us our answer. (it was "i'm pregnant" and when i say i DIED... like if i still had my diary from age 13/14 i would scan it for you just so you could see how unhinged i was about this.) (she was completely adorable in this interview and if anyone can find it i would love to watch it again. it was in may 2000.)

fox was in negotiations with the xf team for weeks leading up to the finale. they had no idea if Requiem was going to be a season or SERIES finale. david duchovny didn't want to come back, they didn't know if they could continue without him, they had NO IDEA what the plot for 8 would be if he didn't come back.

(this is why i laugh when fans try to say they planted clues about the ivf arc in s6-7. no they didn't. they did not think that far ahead. i love that you're trying to make this make sense but please don't tie yourselves up in knots about this, because no one else involved did.)

the weeks leading up to the finale were some of the most nail-biting times i have ever experienced in a fandom.

if you're wondering why og x-philes are all insane, this is just one of many reasons.

[thelunadiviner]

don't make me tap the sign