All these trends saying 2014/15 indie sleeze and tumblr aesthetic is back and I feel like I’m going insane because they mean 2010/11 right?? either way, I’m here for the 2011 revival. I bought stripey tights the other day, I wore a messy quiff to a party. Pic of me in 2011 below.
Ultimate hipster millennial derpcore faux-reality MTV show. I honestly had to google it to see if it existed or if it was an amalgamation of the 2010 vibe that turned out to be my own fever dream. It came out when I was a freshman in high school. this was pre-smartphone and i spent a lot of time watching MTV in the morning before school. My husband is a couple years older than me and was also a MTV kid, but he’d never heard of this show. I made him watch the clip of the titular Liz covering “The Funeral” by Band of Horses and he couldn’t stop laughing. It is just SO 2010, if you weren’t there, this will put you there. For today’s kids, it sounds like that one clip on instagram live of that child singing that british tiktok song (M to the B?) in cursive and the other girl on the live is smiling with tears in her eyes from trying not to laugh. This is the environment where that voice started lol I am genuinely curious if anyone else remembers this show or if I was the only one that watched it and somehow didn’t realize it was entirely scripted.
I’m on the wrong side of 33 and i can tell you with utmost certainty that your 20s is the most chaotic time of your life and it’s amazing that anyone actually gets anything done during them. If you’re a type a planning type personality however I would recommend: - if you’re the sort of person who cares about diet and fitness, establish those routines in your 20s
- live where you wanna live. Don’t live somewhere you hate because you think you’ll have more fun later cos you won’t
- get a job that makes reliable money that you can tolerate and go back to if your dreams fall through. It doesn’t have to be a dream job it just has to pay the rent and not make you sad
- don't smoke cigarettes - use sunscreen - be as cringe as you want. People expect it from you anyway. They won’t have as much patience in your 30s.
Walking into a formal celebration and taking in everyone looking and smelling good. The smell always stays with me the most—cologne, soap, hair product, cigarettes, leather, shoe polish. Everyone so clean and proud and a little bit shy. So special.
