Outside the Lines

23 APRIL 2021

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT!!! 

Come on, where are you, April???

sometimes it physically pains me to hold back my sarcastic comments 

I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines of “how to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!” It had this smug “aha, gotcha” vibe oozing out of it, and it…just sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me think…

Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.

They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it. 

Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.

Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.

I’m not sure if they literally don’t understand that presenting a millennial with something they haven’t encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldn’t do the equivalent, or if it’s a combination of the above.

Queen of Nothing opening scene

LOL someone send this to Holly Black

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫. “𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐞,” 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐮𝐠.

“𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏.”

You just know Clarke snapped in there for that Bellarke “shut up Murphy” in unison 

“Money won’t make you happy”

Yeah, financial stability is just horrible

Someone: So how was the ending of GoT?

Me: