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i mean lbr my deciding that poe is just OPENLY NEVER CHILL ABOUT ANYTHING ALL THE TIME DISAGREEING WITH POE IS LIKE ARGUING WITH THE SUN is absolutely projection on my part, too, lol. although i am not 30 for another two weeks. so i may mellow. i doubt it. but it’s possible. but i doubt it.
Hee, happy birthday in advance. In my experience one’s thirties don’t mellow one, but they do often equip one with the perspective to be cannier in approaching one’s battles, so that one is more frequently set up to either win them decisively or avoid them altogether. Not to understate that, overall, it does make for a better user experience; I bring it up in part because you had been fretting about aging, earlier, and I thought that as a Certified Agéd Crone I could point out the upsides to the inevitable process that no one thinks to mention alongside the formidable downsides, which are mostly physical decay and loss of cultural prestige if female. Yes, it sucks that your body betrays you, but you know, my body’s actually holding up pretty well; you gotta take care of yourself and pace yourself a bit but some stuff actually improves as you get older. [TMI tradeoff: worse menstrual cramps, with the ability to be effortlessly multiorgasmic. enh! i’ll take it.]
I have not mellowed as I have aged, if you take ‘mellow’ to mean ‘become less’; no, I have intensified, but that’s really what aging does to liquor, too- files off the harsh notes a bit but makes the entire thing much more idiosyncratic and complex. I don’t think I’m any easier to swallow, and I don’t know that I win more arguments, but fewer attempt them, so I think my win ratio is way up.
But- to get back to blatantly projecting onto characters, I am a huge fan of fandom in particular, for the way in which authors get to project themselves and their loved ones into subtle variations of a character, in endless little individual-flavored iterations, a whole mosaic of the uniqueness of human experiences.
Mainstream media sources tend to prioritize the self-inserts of an extremely narrow demographic, and it has none of the same kind of charm.
i mean lbr my deciding that poe is just OPENLY NEVER CHILL ABOUT ANYTHING ALL THE TIME DISAGREEING WITH POE IS LIKE ARGUING WITH THE SUN is absolutely projection on my part, too, lol. although i am not 30 for another two weeks. so i may mellow. i doubt it. but it’s possible. but i doubt it.
Hee, happy birthday in advance. In my experience one’s thirties don’t mellow one, but they do often equip one with the perspective to be cannier in approaching one’s battles, so that one is more frequently set up to either win them decisively or avoid them altogether. Not to understate that, overall, it does make for a better user experience; I bring it up in part because you had been fretting about aging, earlier, and I thought that as a Certified Agéd Crone I could point out the upsides to the inevitable process that no one thinks to mention alongside the formidable downsides, which are mostly physical decay and loss of cultural prestige if female. Yes, it sucks that your body betrays you, but you know, my body’s actually holding up pretty well; you gotta take care of yourself and pace yourself a bit but some stuff actually improves as you get older. [TMI tradeoff: worse menstrual cramps, with the ability to be effortlessly multiorgasmic. enh! i’ll take it.]
I have not mellowed as I have aged, if you take ‘mellow’ to mean ‘become less’; no, I have intensified, but that’s really what aging does to liquor, too- files off the harsh notes a bit but makes the entire thing much more idiosyncratic and complex. I don’t think I’m any easier to swallow, and I don’t know that I win more arguments, but fewer attempt them, so I think my win ratio is way up.
But- to get back to blatantly projecting onto characters, I am a huge fan of fandom in particular, for the way in which authors get to project themselves and their loved ones into subtle variations of a character, in endless little individual-flavored iterations, a whole mosaic of the uniqueness of human experiences.
Mainstream media sources tend to prioritize the self-inserts of an extremely narrow demographic, and it has none of the same kind of charm.