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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


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lagomorphosis
@lagomorphosis
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jaidamack
@jaidamack

Nothing drives me mad like those click-farming bullshit accounts you see on Twitter, Facebook, et al, where they'll post "Like if you grew up in the 90s!" and the house they're showing off looks like it was built to the specification of someone utterly paralytic with drink trying to describe the interior of Pee Wee's Playhouse. No, motherfucker, I lived in the 90s, which meant mostly that the paisley patterning on the carpet had worn pale in some spots, most of our Tupperware would find new life as extras in HBO's Chernobyl (2019), and our white computer was inexplicably that shade of grimy yellow you'd see on the back of a chainsmoking grandma's index finger. What the fuck glorious mall did you grow up in?


sharksonaplane
@sharksonaplane

Phrases like "[insert decade]s kid," "grew up in the [decade]s," "remember the [decade]" all mean different things, not just literally but also to different people, and a lot of it boils down to what your formative years (in terms of personality) were. And while there's a developmental average for this, it's still going to be different for everyone and based on very individual experiences. Also nothing works on strict decades, there is always overlap and styles change gradually over time.

That said, all of the posts above are absolutely right (allowing for things like regionalism, culture, socioeconomic class, etc) and also, rage clickbait should be fired into the sun, and inaccurate rage clickbait should be fired twice.


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in reply to @lagomorphosis's post:

in reply to @VeraLycaon's post:

in reply to @jaidamack's post:

Me, thinking about the hard green plastic texture of the translucent tiles that let the light in around our front door in the 1990s.

California basically looked like that outside of raves.

The general version of this angers me to no end on the Internet, by how many people I see feeling left out by someone asserting that growing up X (where X represents some race, gender, location, age, or hobby) means conforming to this list that's literally just their memories. I feel like every one of those needs a mandatory disclaimer that says "hey, kid, I don't share your identity and experience, but neither does this dolt, so keep living your life..."