Comings Of Age

25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

Burn your own CDs, mend your own clothes, rent all of the books and movies you can carry at the library. Feed the birds, don’t mow your lawn, grow your own food. Love openly and honestly, give yourself patience and time, feel the emotions that you want to feel. Let yourself live in the body you have without being told to change it. Be openly and unequivocally yourself, revolt against your government, challenge preconceived notions of what you should be.

When the hyperfixation Kicks in sm that you lat in the bathroom screaming

Oh, also! If any of you intentionally make someone under 18 feel guilty for not doing anything that could somehow affect the election, I WILL PERSONALLY CURSE YOUR ASS SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY

Teens can reblog. They can spread posts. They can talk to their parents and adult friends, can try to change their opinion.

Revolutions are not organised by teens. Rebellion is not organised by teens. They can join, if their situation allows it.

But they have enough on their plate. Fuck off. They’re doing what they can. Not everyone can afford going on a protest - it a risk. Risk of getting caught or beaten up or getting homeless/locked at home. Not everyone can go through it.

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The idea of a Sonic and DC crossover comic is so silly to me. I love it lol

Reminds me of all those old cameos back in 90’s and 2000’s cartoons. Back when Ben Tennyson showing up in Generator Rex blew my mind.

Anyways. It’s fun to get to draw super cartoony and semi realistic at the same time!

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Another quick doodle, just leaving this here don’t mind me

Eddie Munson was bisexual, a theory by me (Or 🎶He's bi, he's bi, my man Eddie is bi, goodbye🎶)

Before y'all come for my throat, hear me out:

He didn't have to lower the collar of his t-shirt to show Chrissy his tattoos, he had some more accessible/visible on his arm. I mean, they were right there, yet he chose to do that because he wanted to impress her. He was clearly flirting.

He also smiled a lot and acted very goofy around Chrissy to cheer her up, like when he threw himself into the ground feigning a heart attack, or when he mimicked her cheering choreography.

Eddie also didn't have to get so close to Steve or call him "big boy" while he was hot-wiring the RV. He did that because he wanted to, same as complimenting Steve on biting the demobat or saying he was jealous of Dustin and Steve's friendship. Again, flirting.

Also, his first contact with Steve was putting a broken beer bottle to his neck (which is pretty standard of enemies to lovers), but he warmed up to Steve pretty quickly after that, and when he threw his vest to Steve, it wasn't for Steve's modesty, it was because Eddie was getting all hot and bothered seeing him shirtless.

In conclusion: Eddie was a bisexual. He had a crush on Chrissy and then on Steve (major crush on Steve). Also, the way to impress him if you're a guy is being as metal as you can, and if you're a girl, just smile at him and do something he wouldn't expect of you.

By the way, that's also how you gain his respect/make friends with him, doing the unexpected and not taking any of his shit. Playing D&D and/or having the same taste in music also helps. I mean, look at Erica: first she was the annoying little sister of one of his friends, she sasses him, and then he welcomes her with a big smile. That's how you roll with Eddie.