Trimmed some hair near the temples that used to be the bottom of my hairline and had gotten stranded as islands, I realized I should think of them as above-eyebrow sideburns now

(I freaked out when my hair first started pulling back in the late 20s but only 5% of men never get that, looking like I’m taking after the silver men on my father’s side and not the bald ones on my mothers)

((my paternal grandmother started going white at 19))

but that trim alone immediately made my face unambiguously register as 30s, but in a kinda flattering mastery way

related, I overheard a girl casually call her boyfriend daddy for the first time in a store today and am only partially dead