Alas, poor Yorick. RIP that guy, Horatio

in like 5-8 years when gen alpha starts really making fun of gen z no one is allowed to complain because like 99% of people do nothing but treat those kids like shit

so much of what gen alpha is made fun of (by literal adults!!!) is stuff they absolutely have no control over and is not their fault. they have no control of whether their parents choose to stick an ipad in front of their face day 1 instead of being parents. little girls becoming obsessed with sephora and skincare should not be a reason to make fun of them but a reason to question the beauty industry and its predatory behavior. “brainrot” is intrinsic to every generation. it’s not their fault that schools are increasingly becoming underfunded and kids are becoming more and more left behind by the system. not only are kids gonna be kids but they’re also so insanely vulnerable and unable to do anything about that fact due to being literal children. and it’s so disheartening to see so many things that should be obvious societal issues and causes for concern brushed away or turned into jokes because it’s only affecting children, like they somehow deserve the horrible hand society has dealt them for the very sin of not yet growing up

#A REAL GEN Z NEVER SPEAKS ILL OF GEN ALPHA#<- meme reference#but for real i will go to bad for any child. leave those kids the fuck ALONE#you WILL listen to gen alpha and treat them as the authorities of their experiences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#on god we are gonna break the cycle of intergenerational division and rise up against ageism

you have GOT to get over god abandoning you when you were 2 like its not even uncommon

its not fair that fictional characters are the ones who get all of the fun and elaborate methods of killing themselves repeatedly. i think that should be something you can do in real life. imagine how cathartic it would be

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

"ingredients you can pronounce" i can pronounce anything

medieval troubadour gets isekaied into early 1970s england but ends up blending in perfectly with the local prog rock scene

I’m gonna fuck your mom until she gets citizenship into scissor city