The last YA novel I read was Lucky Wander Boy. The main character was 40 something. Although his call to adventure was more akin to mental illness… 🤔
So a couple more years and I might be the protagonist. I gotta prepare.
You could always be the star of another movie with a 40 year old protagonist. The 40 Year Old Virgin
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As someone over 50, that’s because you didn’t make them good adventures
I’ve ruined so many pairs of shoes 😂
Remember when they were calling everyone NPCs as if that wasn’t shameless main character syndrome?
That always really disgusted me. Implying others aren’t human.
Same
And people act surprised when grown men play computer games.
Usually, it takes a special situation and Truck-kun to answer the call. Might not be ideal though. Gotta be careful what you wish for.
Yes. I do have that specific stone tablet you need to continue your journey.
But if you want me to give it to you, you’re going to have to make a whole lot of grilled cheese sandwiches for me.
Fancy ones.
Shropshire Blue. It’s like a strong cheddar with blue cheese veins. I’ve only seen it at top cheese shops, but it’s worth searching out
Pretty sure you can get it in Morrisons, at the deli counter.
Morrisons,
Not everyone lives in the UK
It wouldn’t be a quest if you could just get it from REWE.
It’s always a fine line between ‘let me have an adventure and check all the shops in my area’ and 'f&&k it, let me give f&&king Bezos more money."
No doubt interred in the main chamber…
Fanciest grilled cheese I’ve ever had: Cheddar, feta, and a skosh of gruyere with a few fresh basil leaves.
Was it any better than a normal grilled cheese?
Sounds pretty good tbh
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Don’t give up hope! Both Bilbo and Frodo were called to adventure by Gandalf at 50, and Bilbo left the shire for more adventure at 111.
More like a proto-agonist
Coming to terms with the fact that I’ll never be a Gundam pilot has been a struggle to be honest.
Have you watched a Gundam show? It’s probably for the best that you’ll never pilot one.
Non-pilots don’t fare so well either.
Yeah only the pilots and politicians have the power to change anything. Everyone else is just along for the ride and have to cross their fingers that they avoid becoming collateral damage
I’m miserable in my tedious no Gundam having life. If I’m going to be miserable either way I’d rather do it flying around in a cool robot.
Time to start building it in your garage.
I can’t afford a garage :(
Same. Always love hearing these from the ground up stories where people become billionaires from nothing (except their garage and 1M+ cash injections)
You could get cryogenically frozen!
Considering when I was a teenager I spent a lot of time reading post-apocalyptic books, that may be a good thing in my case for society as a whole.
Gandalf invited Bilbo Baggins on an “adventure” when he was 50, so not everything is lost yet.
Yes, that’s what I’m planning on. Big adventure at 50, find a magic ring that slows the aging process, hang around home living large on my riches and telling tales of my exploits for another ~60 years, then skip town on my eleventy-first birthday to go chill with some elves until it’s time to sail for Valinor!
The class war never stopped.
I’m 42 and I can tell you from experience that unless someone offered to pay your rent while you were gone, calls to adventure ain’t all they’re cracked up to be…
The harsh reality is that I (and I’m CERTAIN the collective “we”) have received dozens of calls to adventure, and we’ve just rejected them for the relative comforts of the rat race.
If you don’t follow stray cats into alleys, are you really trying to adventure?
But the true adventure begins when you get back, rich with cultural experience and travel! Because that’s when you realise you don’t have any money left, you got evicted from your flat, you have 1000s of dollars in unpaid bills and you’ve got nowhere to go.
What a time to be alive!
The trick is to take out a ton of loans and buy a bunch of adventure stuff on credit cards before you leave then just never come back
You’re gonna come home to all the other Hobbits auctioning off all your shit
Honestly, a call to adventure sounds like a lot of work and I haven’t caught up on some of my shows yet…
I called someone to adventure once and offered to pay his rent for the month we would be gone, sounds like a good deal, right? Well he flaked out on me.
Was that before or after you paid his rent
we never left the planning stages of our adventure. nothing ever happened.
Did you end up finding someone else to harvest organs from?
What? I had to drive across the country twice for a business trip and I didn’t want to go alone and I wanted him to come with me. He decided he didn’t want to go apparently.
nothing wrong with being an unnamed background character.
I always liked at the end of Starship Troopers it was Zim who ended up capturing the brain bug after taking a demotion to fight on the front lines.
The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described “generic Asian man” who is stuck in the “background Oriental male” role while aspiring to be the “kung fu guy”
