krystal

THE MATCHING TRACK SUITS. THE SHOULDER PADS. THE BAGS. THE SCARFS. THE HUGE SQUARE SUN GLASSES. THE PURPLE AND BLUE EYESHADOW. THE THIN BROWS. AND THOSE SHORT HAIR CUTS

Did the red peony bloom? No! …Maybe?

when she leaves it at Tyler's, she's being marched away by her mom. she's terrified and lonely and she can't even LOOK at her friends bc she doesn't think she deserves to after letting them take the blame for her actions, and her leaving it there means she is letting herself lose her individuality and her personhood bc she is CONVINCED that's the only way her mom will love her and be proud of her .

- those friendship bracelets made of colorful yarn (do you younglings still have those? I’ve had at least one on 24/7 for several years)

- filming yourself and your friends while doing stupid stuff and thinking it’s the most hilarious thing in the world (and not posting it anywhere)

- and making elaborate choreographies/singing numbers

- boysbands… (for me it was 1D… can’t escape it)

- everyone in the gang having their boy from the band (and calling them your husbands)

- the fact that teen girls can and will run a succesfull buisness if they want to (universal to all generations)

- and that no teacher ever will find out (we had a whole underground pokemon cards trading system)

- PERIODS

- Lots of plastic jewelry, headbands, hair clips and big colorful earings

- Questionable and a little cringe fashion with lots of colorful makeup and accessories (not universal sadly - can we go back to that plz? Allow teens to be teens and to discover new ways of dressing up and being a little too mismatched and cringe but not caring and not asking them to look like adults and to be attractive. Plz let teens be teens and stop sexualizing them. I don’t want to see 13 years old dressed like 19 years old anymore)

- the vampire/werewolf phase (I was team Jacob)

- freaking tamagotchis (although it was more popular with the generation before me)

- not just for girls but having braces (do not miss those)

- that one cd Miriam copied for Mei - with the drawings made with a sharpie and everything (absolutely not legally made I can assure you - my dad was always making me copies of movies on blank cds like that; simpler times)

- having crushes. Talking about crushes. Comparing crushes. Having a new crush every week or so. Judging other people’s crush. Crushes.

- and drawing/writting cringy/horny/romantic things in notebooks (yes it’s true)

- mothers being cringe in public (at least from your point of view) (universal but to different degrees; tho I hope no mom ever goes to the extent Ming went)

- so. Many. Emotions. All the time. (And every little mishap feeling like the end of the world)

- your friends becoming the center of your world because talking to your parents feels like a reboot of the tower of babel

Tyler isn't a villain who had to learn how to be good, he's a child who needed someone to show genuine positive affection to him, even after finding out he's into girl stuff. The fact that they all just understood what was going on the second they saw him at the concert and immediately took him in and he immediately thrived and stopped being a dick is one of the best things about the movie.