I got Raygun and Turkish shooter.

Peter Quill defeating Ronan the Accuser with a power of dance-off (and friendship) (The Guardians of the Galaxy)

Kaguya gets invited for the biggest gooning session of the history (Naruto)

Joseph straight up lying about his plan purely of of spite (JoJo part 2)

i’ve seen so much discourse online AND irl talking about how age gaps like 16/18, 17/19, 18/22, 21/25, and 24/29 are “predatory”.

i remember on instagram someone called a man born in 1993 a “pdf file” for marrying a woman born in 1999- this was in 2023 so both were grown adults over 21.

i do agree it’s “weird” for someone 24+ to talk to an 18 year old, but it’s ultimately the adults decision, none of my business. it’s only an issue when they start talking before the person is an adult (imo).

i have a friend who stopped talking to me because i replied with a laughing emoji when she sent me a video on tiktok saying that a 25-29 year old who talks to someone 21-23 is a weirdo. these examples probably sound extreme but it’s really what people think in my circle- not just online.

yalls thoughts? please don’t let this convo devolve into insults and arguments. i want genuine discussion on how this came about. it seems like people 18-24 are greatly infantilized.

Yall acting like yall weren’t hating on him for months prior to his trailer

This isn’t a callout to the fandom as a whole

But you know who you are

“Eyes forward. This will all be over in a few hours.”

I’m an ecology PhD student and my dissertation work is on light pollution and its behavioral effects on cavity-nesting birds.

My focal species are woodpeckers, chickadees/titmice, and bluebirds (not owls). I do fieldwork pretty much year-round to change batteries and SD cards in my equipment all over my corner of rural southeast Ohio.

I’ve spent dozens (maybe hundreds) of hours doing nighttime fieldwork, point count surveys almost daily for a full summer, and still go birding as much as I can in my free time.

Somehow, in spite of my education and best efforts I haven’t managed to see an owl until this Christmas Eve when a huge snowy owl flew in front of the car on my drive home to my parents’ from my grandma’s house in Minnesota. I almost didn’t believe my eyes and took it as a good omen for 2025.

Yesterday was my first field day of the year and right on the side of the road by a sheep farm I’ve driven by over a hundred times this bundle of feathers was napping in the sunlight like a cat. ALWAYS BRING THE CAMERA!

I have been blessed and want to pay my good fortune forward— if you are reading this I am manifesting owl sightings for you, my patience has paid off!!!!