I Wonder How Much Mulder Thinks About All The Weird Mutant People Who He'll Never Meet Because They DON'T

I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

I love when fanfic authors are freakishly unhinged. "Yes, hello, I am here to write a heart wrenching story about relationships and mortality. My medium is Ducktales (2017)"

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This explains a lot

What do you mean this wasn’t already policy

Everybody I know at 25:

“Ohhh so my partner and I got married and ohhh we bought our first home together and ohhh, I started working at this place and ohhh we’re having our first child together and we’re going on holiday here etc etc etc blah blah blah”

Me at 25:

“I’m chronically ill, chronically single, unemployed, depressed and spending all my time watching a tv show that came out over 30 years ago AND MULDER AND SCULLY HAVEN’T EVEN KISSED YET AND I’M DEEPLY UPSET ABOUT IT”

god what I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall in a 1998 cinema watching x files fans process the almost kiss

like did it become a twilight midnight screening in there?

Very specific ramble of mine but if you guys ever happen to go down the digital notetaking rabbit hole let me tell you to that a directory of plain text files and synchthing (or a selhosted server if you can do that) is the way to go.

You arent locked in software, no exporting-converting-importing, no forgotten accounts, if you need something more fancy just go with markdown or org files.