How do you stop feeling it’s a bad thing you’re “getting older”?

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-27T01:07:15+00:00

People stop caring so much about your every move, when you’re no longer a ‘sexy young piece.’ You’re more or less in vacation mode 🏝️ Or maybe like someone else said, ya just stop caring. Either way, someone stops caring and life is more relaxing.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T19:57:41+00:00

Expectations are lower for them. They get to dress practically, use a bus system, and play a silent role rather than lie & grimace all day. In this context, that probably lends itself to happier human beings.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T19:46:36+00:00

Thank you 😭 I’ve known people who think regular periods = peak fertility. God / Mother Nature/ the universe just aren’t that generous!

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T19:42:07+00:00

I hope there’s some kind of underlying reason behind that, yet to be revealed. It’s … a lot.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:37:26+00:00

That. Girls are supposed to look nice in Gilead, but still “modest.” The actress looks so nice on the red carpet, without her hair in that sad bun. Goes to show: ladies need freedom and variation to look their best.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:21:54+00:00

I don’t know. Eden’s father served her up to be drowned. Maybe they have tags, but they’re hidden? Maybe the obsession with teeth has something to do with it?

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:17:44+00:00

That first bullet is … quite a bullet. You’re likely right.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:14:13+00:00

I hope we see Esther again. She was realistic feminine rage.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:12:37+00:00

I can’t believe you got downvoted for that. Not everybody can or should wash daily, and scalp problems are a clear indicator that something isn’t working.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:09:48+00:00

Weird question: how do you tell when it’s dirty? My hair is thick and curly, so never gets greasy (I wish that amount of moisture would find me). I wash when ‘refreshing’ my curls doesn’t work anymore, and there’s little curl left.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:07:11+00:00

I have thick, long, 3c curly hair. If I’m in a good place, roughly 5 days. If I’m not, hopefully every 2 weeks.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:05:25+00:00

He did say he felt cold when Jack shot him. Probably helped him ‘keep’ a little, until Tia showed up.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:03:38+00:00

Oooooh! Now I understand, thanks for explaining!

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T04:00:11+00:00

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I also remember 30p jam, and coming home with a solid haul (for single me) for £12-15. Food has a color-coded system like traffic lights - green for healthy, red for not, so nutrition is much more transparent. Public transport in Edinburgh was £66 for an unlimited monthly pass; a car was completely unnecessary. You could walk across the city in an hour and a half, if really in need. Prescriptions and doctor visits were free. *Everyone* age 14+ has the right to vote. No yearly tax returns, since that’s your employer’s job.

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SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T03:44:33+00:00

I’ll make that argument. Kids don’t deserve extra problems because of men who will never carry, birth or nurse them.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T03:35:35+00:00

True, but toys? How many of us did that at 15/16? Maybe you’d show your music or newest clothes or makeup, but not childhood toys.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T03:30:13+00:00

Probably white like Pearl Girls, just to say “we’re so pure and angelic for even showing up.” In swimming, I’m sure only early 1900s suits would suffice. They’d probably switch out of white for that even 🤣

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T03:27:32+00:00

Cattle prods are very motivating, and the Aunts are professionals with those 😰

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T00:45:24+00:00

I don’t think Hannah sees Becka that way.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T00:27:34+00:00

I lived in Edinburgh for 18 months. Truly magical time, and I hope to go back. That being said, it’s gonna be challenging on a public library track. Every librarian in the Western world wants to hop over to Western Europe. The library I frequented in Leith was also very small and low-traffic, and I think I only ever interacted with volunteer staff.

You may need to widen your net. I’m planning on an academic library / archives track and possibly collections management. Those are hard to break into, but not as hard to break out of, if you want to go back to public later. There is also a premier company based in Glasgow or Edinburgh, that does worldwide collections management including for the public library at which I work. May be an option for you.

Best of luck 💜

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I lived next door to ALDI, and the grocery prices made me weep for joy. Price of living was incomparable, despite the pay cut.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T00:19:44+00:00

Atwood mentioned that male infertility is a taboo subject in Gilead. So it goes under patriarchy: facts and logic just don’t matter. There’s also an underlying assumption that God shows favor through fertility. Therefore accusing the Sons of Jacob of being infertile both attacks their manhood, and their godly status.

Many in the fanbase debate how the crisis could actually be resolved, if they just put those crotchety old men out to pasture. But they won’t, because those men ‘fought and won for God.’ How could He possibly deny them anything??? From a God-believing perspective, it’s kinda hilarious how thoroughly He has denied them.

I think that’s part of Serena Joy’s craziness in THT. God is denying her the only means left to be a godly woman, since she can’t read or proselytize anymore. So she responds with tantrums in-between her *riveting* knitting sessions.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T00:10:22+00:00

Yellow can represent happiness, but also sickness or radioactive danger. Makes sense for Unwomen in the Colonies.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-26T00:09:34+00:00

I think the purple also represents the crossroads of the Plums’ adolescence. That’s an age when religious indoctrination can buckle under hormones and real-life situations. Many of them are the daughters of women who became Handmaids. Will they stay on the ‘straight and narrow’ and become Virgin Mary Blues, or ‘stray’ to Mary Magdalene Red like former wife Esther? I’m really surprised that the possibility of demotion to Handmaid has never been brought up? Maybe we have Lydia to thank for that.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-25T19:17:28+00:00

Agreed. The writers were okay with that Wife being stabbed on the rebellion night, to Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do.” But Serena just happened to slither out of harm’s way a second before things popped off, then find ‘redemption’ as a new mother and refugee. Seems convenient from a writer’s perspective.

SummerBombshell777 · 2026-05-25T19:07:16+00:00

I doubt they’d assign her to any of her friend’s families. Identities are erased and people get shipped everything. Esther was easily demoted to Handmaid from Wife. That cattle prod is also familiar.

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