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I thought we were supposed to have grown up in university.
They have warned their fellow students that the ground is lava to prevent any injuries I think that is very mature of them
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#WATSON HERE I DID THE THING #I BROUGHT YOU THING #WATSON PLEASE HURRY AND DON’T KILL ME #WATSON #PLEASE #WATSON GET UP #WATSON THERE’S CRIME #TEHRE’S DEAD PEOPLE #WATSON PLS #MURDER #WATSON CRIME #PLS WATSON
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Texts are secrets. They’re little mementos of inclusion and excitement you can read over and over. They’re letters, journal entries, notes passed in class. Because we like to hold onto words that mean something to us. We like re-read and remember and re-live that moment when he said, “I miss you,” or even just “Merry Christmas” because you know they mean the same thing…And when I text my best friend, “He texted me! ” and she replies, “Yay!”, we’re not a generation lost staring at screens. We’re in corsets being handed scrolls sealed with his coat-of-arms. We’re in sundresses waiting for the postman to drop his letter. We’re on swing sets hoping to circle ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ We’re a million starry eyes still staring at the same starry skies with fingers crossed and hopes high.
- DateByNumbers No Texting, No Exceptions on CollegeCandy (via datebynumbers)
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Hmmm…. I’m less about elbows, more about degree of hunched shoulders. But the sentiment remains the same!
YES.
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All the Supernatural fans calling Amanda Tapping ‘The Receptionist Lady’.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG. You were in the presence of a legend - OF PURE AWESOMENESS - and you call her ‘Receptionist Lady’? Oh, Supernatural fandom, you make me laugh.
But not really.
It’s AMANDA TAPPING. Learn the name.
You’ll be screaming it later.
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What A Song of Ice and Fire series has taught me.
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“Potter, this is Oliver Wood…”
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if youre my friend then im probably scared that you actually hate me
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AND I WOULD WALK 500 MILES
AND I WOULD WALK 500 MORE
JUST TO BE THE GIRL THAT WALKED A 1000 MILES
TO SHOVE MY FOOT UP YOUR ASS FOR CONDEMNING A TIRED, BROKEN MAN FOR LIVING A NORMAL LIFE WHEN HE LOST HIS BROTHER WITH NO IDEA WHERE SAID BROTHER WAS OR IF HE WAS EVEN ALIVE
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Being best friends with someone doesn’t mean that you Skype twice a week at a specific time every time. It doesn’t mean that you text each other all the time, or call every Sunday night before you go to sleep. You don’t have to litter their Timelines or their Ask Boxes…
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for how many years do you think would dean hum the ghostbusters theme every time john found a spirit hunt
and sit in the back and whisper “hey. hey, dad. are you afraid of ghosts?”
and john would roll his eyes in the mirror but give in and mutter “i ain’t afraid of no ghosts” and dean would laugh until he woke up sam
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the thought of becoming an adult one day is the scariest thing ever why cant i live the rest of my life blogging about fictional characters and laughing at stupid shit
I am going to let you in on the worst-kept secret in fandom: we’re actually mostly adults around here.
I am thirty-two years old. One of my oldest friends is pushing forty. His older sister is forty-six. We all blog about fictional characters and stupid shit. One of the first people who ever GMed a tabletop RPG for me still goes to cons. He’s at least fifty.
We are all, in theory, grown adults who are holding down jobs and have cars or rent or morgage payments or student loans and/or marriages and/or children. We vote and eat bran-tastic food for our hearts and buy sensible shoes.
Also, the first song I danced to at my first Homecoming dance was recently played on a local oldies station, dear god.
I mean, seriously. Grownups. We made it to the other side, fan-brains intact. So can you.
Becoming an adult is not scary. Becoming an adult is not about stopping with the tumbling and the cat videos. It’s just about doing that shit between work and errands instead of between school and chores. It’s about being able to do different kinds of epic shit — I may not be able to write another 50k fanfic, but I can decorate my entire kitchen in Captain America stuff and re-wire my rice cooker so the light looks like an arc reactor.
If you’re worried about no longer being fannish and not liking ridiculous silly shit (I assume ‘for no good reason’, aka ‘growing out of it’), you’re worried about becoming boring, not old.
So what if people call what we do childish? A: they’re wrong, there’s some serious grown-up badassery going ‘round in fandoms, and B: what’s wrong with being childish? Are children something we should avoid being like? Doesn’t everyone wish they could return to childhood?
We are living a friggin’ eternal youth on the internet. Anyone tells you ‘grownups don’t do this stuff’ is just jealous. Hmph.
Now get off my damn lawn, kid.
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