snoozlebee:j4ckwynand:kindlejim:It is now three years since this post was made. slytherin-star
snoozlebee: j4ckwynand: kindlejim: It is now three years since this post was made. slytherin-starkid-of-tardis changed their URL and their old one appears to be a spambot now. Reblog so this can work its way back to them. I went through my embarrassed period, sure, but a few years after that I came back around and started seeing 14 year old me with fondness and compassion, and I stopped worrying about liking the “wrong” things “too much” or being too fond of my OCs or writing Mary Sues, or whatever else I spent my late teens mocking 14 year olds for. And life got a lot better. Being ~ so mature ~ was a lot of work, especially considering how much I was trying to choke down on my enjoyment of things for fear of being “embarrassing.” “Work harder at having less fun” is…not the best philosophy. Honestly why waste your time feeling humiliated over a normal developmental stage? My only real lasting shame is any bigoted views I used to espouse, because they were harmful to others. But being kind of annoying about liking things? I have better things to do than beat myself up over that. Anyway, sorry for getting all serious on a flippant post. It feels SUPER WEIRD that the internet is so preoccupied w/ the embarrassing antics of literal children these days. teenagers have enough problems w/out you trying to remind them that they’re Bad For Having Interests let kids be kids and quit shaming them for it lmao -- source link