#midlifecrisis

• may bahay na

• may bagong car/motor

• may bagong phone

• kakapasa lang sa be

• nasa ibang bansa na

• may anak na pinapalaki kaya happy

me:

• may babayaran sa spaylater at tiktokpaylater next month

New fic posting today, on day 3 of the SKAM Big Bang 2022! Find them all (and coming fics) on the SKAM Big Bang 2022 collection on ao3! 🥳

Do not mock the middle-aged man

who buys the red-hot sports car,

simplifying his plight as a mid-life crisis,

as if there were anything commonplace

or comical about the word ‘crisis’

reserving pity only for those historically

disenfranchised or downtrodden, as if

men in sports cars deserve to be stoned,

as if the very fact that he can afford

such luxury sanctions your disdain

first, work your entire adult life

from the moment you graduated until

the current minute, still on the phone

with a client or calculating hours or

payments or insurance or bills

then give away half of everything

you own to an ex-wife who despises you

because you turned out to be ordinary,

and spend it on kids who tolerate you

only because you provide security

dash to the ground every private dream

you ever had and light them on fire, as

you haven’t had time to play guitar in

thirty years, or bike, or write a novel, and

watch people smirk when you reminisce

wake up every morning without any

purpose, or inspiration, or support, yet

burdened by the expectations of all those

who hate you for no reason other than

the fact that you simply followed the plan

the one that your parents had taught you,

that society sanctioned, that your boss

demanded, that your family expected,

and not one person ever bothered to ask

what you really wanted or cared about

then see if that Corvette doesn’t hum

loud enough to drown out

Joshua: What’s really going on, Reena?

Sabrina: I don’t know, maybe I’m feeling dissatisfied since the Watcher changed our defaults. What do you think of them, Bree?

Aubrey: Don’t ask me questions until I’ve had my coffee, you won’t like the answers.

Joshua: *chuckles*

Sabrina: *sighs* Really, these wrinkles are just too much for me! I’m thinking of getting a face overlay.