#where to celebrate your birthday

[uncanny-tranny]

I love you smile lines and worry lines and grey and white hair and wrinkles and purple spiderweb veins and the process of aging and living in a body that is standing the test of times. I love you experiences that make you wiser and stories that make you laugh, and every little process that happens to get to the point where you have so many memories because you have the fortune to be here and be so radiant

[souenkun]

Pokémon Masters EX spoilers ahead!

Kabu likes to play TAG with his pokemon... and he's shown to have a much softer side beneath his strictness in pokemas too... he's so grandpa-shaped to me 😭💖

[brutalmasks]

bunny mask having a birthday cake like this once she finds out about the tradition of lighting candles + just getting a cake for the day you were born AT ALL because it's meant to be special is something else that's on my mind today.

[blue-hi]

I Get To Live Another Week

[maybege]

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[saltygilmores]

In Defense of Jess Mariano's Summer Birthday

This is my loose theory on his birthday and there will definitely be big gaping holes in this. Please also bare in mind it's been three years since my last full rewatch (of the first 4 seasons anyway) and I'm currently in the middle of crawling through season 2 again. This post is a disaster so please bear with me lol There seems to be pretty a consistent timeline established within the show (new seasons of the show almost aways begin in September/ late summer within their world, which helps a lot when you're trying to date something that happened). Since it's been 3 years and my brain is swiss cheese, please feel free to chime in with your thoughts and deflate my theory as you may. Jess arrives right as Rory is starting school. September. It is immediately established he's already 17 years old at that point (pokey hole: they retconned a lot of things that were established in his first episode, like how long his parents had been together so who knows, maybe he was actually still 16) His age is rarely mentioned outright, although I do remember one of his season 4 episodes where Luke and Liz are discussing his whereabouts; she says he’s 19 now and wants nothing to do with her.

Season 2=17 Season 3=18 Season 4=19 With that in mind I afforded him the longest possible timeline to have a birthday and decided it would have been right before he arrived in Stars Hollow, in August or September. If he had had a November or December birthday he would have turned 18 quickly early in season 2 and by season 3 he would be 19 already. Rory's birthday is in October. In 6x8 she had just celebrated her 21st. He acknolwedges that it had just passed, so this episode would have taken place in November? My theory was he would have already had to be 21 (the drinking age in the US) to get into the bar where he drank with Logan and Rory so at the very least that would have eliminated most of November or a December birthday. However people like to poke holes in this theory stating that either the bar wasn't carding anyone (since it was a college bar) or he had a fake ID. Jess says to Luke in 3x6 that he's still a minor, but going by my loose observation of either the Gilmore Girls or a real world timeline, over a year had already passed at that point since he arrived in Stars Hollow as a 17 year old. He was already 17 in early September when he arrived in s2 and in this s3 episode (the one where Rory and Lorelai egg his car because they suck and are awful) it appeared to be deeper into fall rather than summer (the episode aired on November 5 2002). It's only 3 episodes ahead of Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving takes place in late November, just for your information if you're not American). So I've decided to poke my own hole in the "I'm underage" comment and chalk it up to Jess being a sassy asshole. A sasshole. Besides this episode being the one where Luke finds out he has a car AND he makes the comment about being a minor, it is also the episode where it's revealed he's been working at Walmart (driving a forklift). I don't know about the laws in 2002, but as of 2023, in the state of Connecticut you have to be 18 to drive a forklift. Maybe this was a shady Walmart that happily violated child labor laws, but seeing as Jess' Walmart manager was one of the only people who ever believed in his potential, I don't think he would exploit him like that. Anyway, those are my thoughts. Feel free to deflate them to death and I will update the post if need be. I do want to add one more thing: Based on her mugshot (lol) we know Rory was born in early October 1984 but graduated high school in 2003. I was born in February 1984 and graduated in 2002. Clearly Rory missed the kindergarten cutoff due to her October birthdate and had to start school a year later than most of her fellow 1984 babies. I support the theory that the same thing could have happened to Jess in order to put him in the same grade as Rory. But school cutoff dates vary so wildly that could really put his birthday anywhere from September-December. Even though this would contradict my own theories, it’s an idea that makes sense for the November/December birthday theory so I can support it.

[robbiedaymonds]

my birthday was so good yesterday! probably the best one i've had in years. 🥰

[cherry-treelane]

no way robbie got pushed to the ground and spat on by fiona and he still went back to her to harass her some more like a desperate puppy.... down horrendous for fiona.. like me too but ??? dude come on

[jeoseungsaja]

And, despite the pain you went through, you still have mellow eyes; you still have helping hands; you still irradiate warmth; you still have a a gentle heart. And, despite it all, you still have the courage to be kind.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATRICK MYUNGDAE GRACE ❤️📖🧩!!! (@clemencetaught)

[sherlockig]

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[hoonclub]

jay posted heeseung bday post 10:15pm local time… just kill me

[jrueships]

sauce celebrating his puppys bday!!!

sag queen LOL

he loves her so much 😭

[kareofbears]

Depressingly realized that I am going to be five or six years older than ryuji this year

[icedteaandoldlace]

Hot take, but Mother's Day is for mothers and mother figures. It's not for single dads, 'cause they already get their own day (the same goes for single mothers on Father's Day). It's not for pet owners, 'cause taking care of a pet isn't the same thing as raising a child. It's not for deadbeat or abusive mothers, because they suck. It's not for women who want to be mothers, but are not yet/have never acted as a mother figure to anyone. And it's not for women who have no desire or plans to become a mother, but want to be recognized because they feel left out. Mother's Day is for women who did the work to fill the role of a mother in someone's life, whether they are their biological mother or not. And a person's inclusion in being celebrated today should be determined by the person/people for whom they acted as a mother, and not by random strangers trying to make sure everyone feels included on a day that isn't for everyone. Not everyone wants to celebrate Mother's Day, and that's okay. They can just not celebrate. You don't have to contort the meaning of the day to make sure everyone gets a reason to participate. If your mother sucks and there's no one else in your life who stepped up and acted as a mom for you, you don't have to wish anyone a happy Mother's Day. You can just order Chinese food.

[magentagalaxies]

listen. i don't want instagram to steal my data for the purposes of showing me ads that are so targeted they know i'll be compelled to buy them. HOWEVER. if you already have so much fucking data on me "meta" and i know you do, WHY do you keep showing me ads for AI chatbots/AI art/selfie apps when i have NEVER said anything positive about them on your platform. or on any platform for that matter. i specifically go out of my way to block the accounts making these sponsored posts bc i am NOT FUCKING SUBSCRIBING TO AN AI CHATBOT APP. no, not even if it "writes the perfect emails." no, not even if it can "show you what you'd look like as a barbie" (i have an imagination for a reason). no, not even if it can "create the perfect romantic partner and send AI generated nsfw pics" (for your information the perfect romantic partner has the ability to lead a life of their own and can disagree with me which this chatgpt-with-boobs never will and also what pics are you training this thing on). no not for any of the other four thousand goddamn reasons you're constantly telling me about. if you're invading my privacy that's already bad but you're so bad at your jobs that your "ad targeting" is getting you NOWHERE. i have seen maybe ONE (1) instagram ad that made me spend money and it was in 2018 and it was NOT related to AI in the slightest. it was for a musical adaptation of the office that was touring at a nearby theatre and i just relentlessly made fun of it on my story until i realized tickets were cheap and i wanted to see it for myself. it was mediocre quality-wise but goddamn it at least THEY had the audacity to actually make a fucking product i was intrigued by rather than repackaging the exact same AI features over and over again. if I wanted an AI chatbot partner I'd just fuck a magic 8 ball, i'm sure the sensual experience would be quite the same.

[enchantingharmonyperfection]

Happy birthday dear Harry Styles