insist on your cup of stars

Really one of my most strongly held beliefs is that it’s deeply unhealthy and soul-stunting for children to only consume media the world’s most coddling and judgemental adults determined was ‘age-appropriate’, and watching stuff that would horrify your parents behind their back should be encouraged and rewarded.

Okay so this going super viral and getting a bunch of notes again over the last couple weeks (for…some reason? It’s a year old ffs) is mostly horrible for missing notifications but also all the random anecdotes in the notes are fun. But also I swear some of the examples people are giving make me feel like the most insufferable edgy tryhard when I remember what I actually watched/read as a kid/teenager

Okay but I’m loving the diversity of what people are calling their formative fucked up material. The X-Files. The Shining. Call Me By Your Name. Isis beheading videos. The Simpsons movie. Anne Rice erotica. The Hunger Games and other series written for the exact age boasting about their age inappropriateness. Someone said this is why ATLA was great. We’re all out here living different realities.

Like! Those are real places! That’s just…a place. You could stand on that ridge, on that rusting rock, if you had a enough protection, and you could watch that with your own two eyes. How am I supposed to be chill that I can’t do that?