If you’re catching yourself thinking “that piece of media can’t possibly be old enough to [X]”, remember the 5/10/20 rule:
- If it’s five years old, it’s old enough to have been a formative influence for up-and-coming artists; this is when all the people who had their brains fucked by it as teenagers start hitting their 20s
- If it’s ten years old, it’s old enough to have crossed the irony threshold; if it’s the sort of media that’s amenable to deconstructions (or “deconstructions”), expect them here
- If it’s twenty years old, it’s old enough for the first wave of nostalgic revivals, often as a delayed reaction against the above-cited deconstructions; otherwise known as the “retro” event horizon
Yes, this does mean that, for example, Gamecube launch titles are retro now. That is how time works.
learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally
it feels fake but your friends miss you sometimes
the reason you’ve been hanging out with your closest friends fairly regularly for the past 12+ years is because you have fun together
people who don’t like you that much will not stay in your life for over a decade asking to hang out and inviting you to things and texting you
This is one of my favorite things Jack Skellington says in The Nightmare Before Christmas because the only people present that he can be referring to as “friends” are Sally and Santa Claus. Santa Claus who was kidnapped from his home by child hitmen and then presented to somebody’s corpse which told him it was stealing his job and surprised that he isn’t a lobster. Then the corpse stole his hat and let the orphan child mobsters take him to a torture dungeon to be executed and eaten by a bag. Then the corpse bursts in and murders the bag screaming how he can’t believe the bag would mistreat you, his friend