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{{Quotation|[sertetlen]: Oh middle aged WOMEN in particular are just… not allowed to have fun, I think? We’re supposed to be past it, pathetic and devote the remaining dregs of our time, energy & attention to caring for others, and studiously avoiding anything that someone might find worthy of mockery. Then we die (or become invisible). (I mean, maybe we’re allowed to have fun if it’s APPROPRIATE fun. Like, a small sherry after an age-allowed exercise class? A couple of hours of watching BBC2? Not fandom. Never fandom!)

{{Quotation|[sertetlen]: Oh middle aged WOMEN in particular are just… not allowed to have fun, I think? We’re supposed to be past it, pathetic and devote the remaining dregs of our time, energy & attention to caring for others, and studiously avoiding anything that someone might find worthy of mockery. Then we die (or become invisible). (I mean, maybe we’re allowed to have fun if it’s APPROPRIATE fun. Like, a small sherry after an age-allowed exercise class? A couple of hours of watching BBC2? Not fandom. Never fandom!)

This post has reminded me I still need to do my tax return. But that’ll take an afternoon, not my whole 40s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://sertetlen.tumblr.com/post/105696683279/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = sertetlen.tumblr }}</ref>}}

This post has reminded me I still need to do my tax return. But that’ll take an afternoon, not my whole 40s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://sertetlen.tumblr.com/post/105696683279/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = sertetlen.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20170419223909/http://sertetlen.tumblr.com/post/105696683279/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2017-04-19 }}</ref>}}

{{Quotation2|[labelleizzy]: Also middle-aged (because I don’t figure on living much past 90) and here reblogging and yelling at stupid people on Tumblr, sharing beautiful art and writing. I wanted this when I was a teen and I’m SURE gonna enjoy the hell out of it now! <ref>{{cite web | url = http://labelleizzy.tumblr.com/post/130626760957/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = labelleizzy.tumblr }}</ref>}}

{{Quotation2|[labelleizzy]: Also middle-aged (because I don’t figure on living much past 90) and here reblogging and yelling at stupid people on Tumblr, sharing beautiful art and writing. I wanted this when I was a teen and I’m SURE gonna enjoy the hell out of it now! <ref>{{cite web | url = http://labelleizzy.tumblr.com/post/130626760957/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = labelleizzy.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20161010181851/http://labelleizzy.tumblr.com/post/130626760957/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2016-10-10 }}</ref>}}

{{Quotation| [labelleizzy]: Wow, I am middle-aged now? Who knew?

{{Quotation| [labelleizzy]: Wow, I am middle-aged now? Who knew?

Yeah, I have a Tumblr, too. I do Tumblr when I am not casting spells, watching Marvel movies, or talking to my Beast Herd.  

Yeah, I have a Tumblr, too. I do Tumblr when I am not casting spells, watching Marvel movies, or talking to my Beast Herd.  

Seriously! <ref>{{cite web | url = http://labelleizzy.tumblr.com/post/135016063087/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = labelleizzy.tumblr }}</ref>}}

Seriously! <ref>{{cite web | url = http://labelleizzy.tumblr.com/post/135016063087/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = labelleizzy.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20161010181851/http://labelleizzy.tumblr.com/post/130626760957/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2016-10-10 }}</ref>}}

{{Quotation2|[spitandvinegar]:  

{{Quotation2|[spitandvinegar]:  

You can lay back, darling. You can let yourself be carried. You can sink to the deep with the anchor round your neck.

You can lay back, darling. You can let yourself be carried. You can sink to the deep with the anchor round your neck.

Or you can decide that you don’t give an everloving fuck and reblog a bunch of GIFs if you damn well feel like it, because one of the benefits of not being a puerile youth is that you’re not hysterically concerned with what other people may or may not think about your hobbies.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://spitandvinegar.tumblr.com/post/135019867348/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = spitandvinegar.tumblr }}</ref>}}

Or you can decide that you don’t give an everloving fuck and reblog a bunch of GIFs if you damn well feel like it, because one of the benefits of not being a puerile youth is that you’re not hysterically concerned with what other people may or may not think about your hobbies.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://spitandvinegar.tumblr.com/post/135019867348/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = spitandvinegar.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20160415202953/http://spitandvinegar.tumblr.com/post/135019867348/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2016-04-15 }}</ref>}}

{{Quotation|[elfwreck]: I grow old, and I stand with the power of decades in my blood and the legacy of centuries of women behind me, and I can look at the delightful shifting passions of youth and think, glad someone has the energy for all that, and also, when you have a moment to rest, sit beside me, and I will tell you of your foremothers and their passions… how they paid for the right of two women to kiss in public with blood and pain; how they built entire technologies to show their friends the thoughts that burned in their hearts when they saw the tv shows where the only true trust and love was between men; how they shared stories and songs and art with each other when all these things were hard and took irreplaceable resources–not just the fic and filk and pics, but the sharing itself.

{{Quotation|[elfwreck]: I grow old, and I stand with the power of decades in my blood and the legacy of centuries of women behind me, and I can look at the delightful shifting passions of youth and think, glad someone has the energy for all that, and also, when you have a moment to rest, sit beside me, and I will tell you of your foremothers and their passions… how they paid for the right of two women to kiss in public with blood and pain; how they built entire technologies to show their friends the thoughts that burned in their hearts when they saw the tv shows where the only true trust and love was between men; how they shared stories and songs and art with each other when all these things were hard and took irreplaceable resources–not just the fic and filk and pics, but the sharing itself.

But you’re going to miss a lot of the good stuff if you waste your energy–which is limited, I assure you, and you’ll figure that out soon enough–telling other people we don’t belong in this fannish location, or should not have that fannish hobby, or must not create some particular kind of fanworks.

But you’re going to miss a lot of the good stuff if you waste your energy–which is limited, I assure you, and you’ll figure that out soon enough–telling other people we don’t belong in this fannish location, or should not have that fannish hobby, or must not create some particular kind of fanworks.

We may not have speed and agility anymore, but wow do we have stamina. And patience. And time is on our side… we can wait you out, but that doesn’t work the other way around. If you wait, you’ll eventually join us.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://elfwreck.tumblr.com/post/135031544529/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = elfwreck.tumblr }}</ref>}}

We may not have speed and agility anymore, but wow do we have stamina. And patience. And time is on our side… we can wait you out, but that doesn’t work the other way around. If you wait, you’ll eventually join us.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://elfwreck.tumblr.com/post/135031544529/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = elfwreck.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20161010200431/http://elfwreck.tumblr.com/post/135031544529/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2016-10-10 }}</ref>}}

{{Quotation2|[eeyore9990]: Lol, I read them all through the power of notes, heh. And the thing is, it’ll go MONTHS with no likes or reblogs and then suddenly get a thousand new, wonderful stories in a single day. I love the way a little bit of fandom history gets added with each iteration.

{{Quotation2|[eeyore9990]: Lol, I read them all through the power of notes, heh. And the thing is, it’ll go MONTHS with no likes or reblogs and then suddenly get a thousand new, wonderful stories in a single day. I love the way a little bit of fandom history gets added with each iteration.

We will sit in our rocking chairs, eating our jello, and shriek at each other – because hearing aids only do so much – about what a nice, round ass that boy on the television has. Or what gorgeous lips that girl has. Or maybe we’ll just discuss the fanfics of old. We’ll reminisce about fandon wank we survived. We’ll hang our favorite, framed fan art. We’ll watch holographic fanvids of the newest iteration of Sherlock or the Harry Potter reboot or WHATEVER.

We will sit in our rocking chairs, eating our jello, and shriek at each other – because hearing aids only do so much – about what a nice, round ass that boy on the television has. Or what gorgeous lips that girl has. Or maybe we’ll just discuss the fanfics of old. We’ll reminisce about fandon wank we survived. We’ll hang our favorite, framed fan art. We’ll watch holographic fanvids of the newest iteration of Sherlock or the Harry Potter reboot or WHATEVER.

But this is my dream. To live and die on the Fannish Road.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eeyore9990.tumblr.com/post/135576193858/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = eeyore9990.tumblr }}</ref>}}

But this is my dream. To live and die on the Fannish Road.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eeyore9990.tumblr.com/post/135576193858/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = eeyore9990.tumblr |archiveurl=http://archive.fo/3Kcmh|archivedate=2019-02-21}}</ref>}}

{{Quotation| [animatedamerican] quotes a [[filk]] ]:  

{{Quotation| [animatedamerican] quotes a [[filk]] ]:  

:Till the Con Suite runs out of Ensure.  

:Till the Con Suite runs out of Ensure.  

:- Tom Smith, “ConValescence” <ref>{{cite web | url = http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = animatedamerican.tumblr }}</ref>}}

:- Tom Smith, “ConValescence” <ref>{{cite web | url = http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = animatedamerican.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20181204021929/http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2018-12-04 }}</ref>}}

==Youth Perspectives==

==Youth Perspectives==