Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."
Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.
These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!
Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!
Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.
So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.
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the other day, I saw a Sebastian plushie and thought 'wouw! Choccy-Milky is so popular, there's even plushies of her stuff!'..... and then I remembered Sebastian's an official character and not just Clora's boyfriend
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS SO FUNNY yes, good...my plan is working....
hogwarts legacy? what's that? are you feeling okay, anon? don't you mean Clora's Boyfriend™
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THEY WILL BE MINE. MINEEEEEEEEEEE
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Thinking about chu tian and shen yuhua, oh they’re going to break my heart in this series aren’t they? They feel so father and daughter, do not seperate they are family please…
Looking at the most recent art velinxi posted of them makes me feel so excited to see more of them in the comic, they don’t feel quite as close yet as those little moments she captures of them outside of the comics right now, but one day ohooo one day it’ll happen and I’ll be here waiting oh so patiently for it.
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