Okay but soulmate au where first words appear on your wrist but person A has nothing and is thinking they don’t have soulmate and person B has words but is mute and is panicking because they won’t be able to (vocally) say anything and they’re worried their soulmate won’t believe them
‘you’re lying on the floor of the movie theater crying and i’m the employee who has to tell you another movie starts in five minutes so you have to leave and i’m really sorry but im also confused as to why a documentary on lightbugs affected you so much’ au
‘i found you sleeping on my balcony when i went out to water my plants why are you here and more importantly how did you get here we’re eighteen floors up’ au
‘i’m having a minor breakdown in the middle of bed bath and beyond and you’re a bewildered shopper who wants to buy plates but also to make sure i’m okay bc im wailing a little bit in the kitchenware section’ au
‘i asked a staff member and they said you’ve been coming to the pound every day to play with the dog i’m taking home today and that’s why you’re getting weirdly emotional’ au
'why are you dancing in your underwear to kelly clarkson in a public bathroom while brushing your teeth’ au
also re: teens sitting around with their tablets and smartphones
like, if a kid can access the internet (with some privacy still) while also sitting in the same room as their parents, honestly that’s better and more social than what I did as a teenager, which was hole up in my room at my desktop computer that I couldn’t move anywhere else in the house
mostly what I see from the teens in my family is they will sit and scroll through their phone, but if something interesting starts happening, or a new person enters the room, or they see something cool they want to share, they look up and interact again, because they’re sitting right there with everyone else.
that is waaaay more social than 2002 me, hunched over my desktop for hours and only seeing my mom in passing when I went to microwave a burrito at 1am. way, way more social.
My whole family does this now. We’re all in the same room, but each on a phone, tablet, or laptop. Certain poop heads will shake their heads at how technology is dividing us.
But
Like
What do they think families have done for since ever? Talk constantly while playing educational board games every evening? No.
They’d each be reading, or sewing, or writing letters or some shit, and mostly sat quietly near each other but not bothering each other.
yes this
It reminds me of the whole “omg people on trains used to TALK to each other” argument. No, they didn’t. They read the newspaper or stared straight ahead avoiding eye contact.
Okay but seriously it fucking ticks me off when older people go “oh look at this young person with their nose in their phone again” or “back in my day we actually talked to each other” or just making a snide comment about me being on my phone in general.
What if I’m fucking reading the news? Reading about airstrikes in Syria or googling election results in my county? Looking up recipes so I can cook myself a nice wholesome meal when I get home? Browsing for a mother’s day gift?
Shit son I’m probably being more cultured/educated/thoughtful at the current moment with my “nose in my phone” than you are walking around judging people for things you don’t even have the first clue about. Sorry that the smartphone is my generation’s main connection to the rest of the world and the wealth of knowledge that exists.
