#Teen-Age Romances

[gameraboy2]

"Reckless Love almost ruined by Reputation" Teen-Age Romances #10 (1950) Art by Matt Baker

[silviacrossdresser]

Recaptioned image by Jenny North for www.tgfa.org, from the cover of “Teen-Age Romances” #19 (December 1951). Original art by Matt Baker (1921-1959).

[browsethestacks]

Remember When... Love Was Problematic?

[transistoradio]

Four issues of Teen-Age Romances with cover art by Matt Baker (1921-1959).

[mudwerks]

(via Teen-age Romances #31 - Matt Baker cover - Pencil Ink)

[ash-and-starlight]

things i’m going crazay about today: the illustrations in the he who drowned the world illumicrate cover

(artist is glassbearer on ig)

[cloudtinn]

"The immense sea and the sky above, our uniforms, our clumsy adolescent enthusiasm...If I had to choose a colour for all of these past things, I'd choose a deep blue."

Blue (2002), dir. Hiroshi Ando.

[claireclaymore]

People had to see a real 12 kid boy and 14 teenager girl to understand how weird is they date with that age

[20s-turtle-posting]

As an aromantic person, tmnt 2003 speaks so deeply to me. I don't "get" romance. It doesn't interest me at all 99% of the time. Instead what I like to see in media are the types of bonds I have or seek to have: family, friends, people you'd go to hell and back for (or with), and the many, many delicate threads that link people together all across the world

And tmnt 2003 focuses solely on these. Romance is more or less the C plot, if it's there at all (and when it does happen it is refreshingly slow and natural (and between adults!! 2003 Capril best couple <3)), and I adore that so much

[gameraboy2]

Teen-Age Romances #14 (1951), cover by Matt Baker

[universe-of-peoples]

Maybe it’s the aspec in me but I think it should be normalized to not be super into dating and romance in high school, while still being allowed to be allo and/or straight? Like just because you’re not prioritizing dating people doesn’t mean that you’re automatically gay and/or aspec (as many people like to assume). Like this applies to both real people and fictional characters.

Like I get that you mean well, but why is it that if a specific character doesn’t want to be forced to marry by the time she’s 18, the only possible explanation is that she’s gay? (She’s pan but that’s NOT THE POINT.) Let teens be teens, and that includes not being head over heels into romance 100% of the time if that’s not their thing.

Really, I think normalizing not being too into romance no matter what your sexuality / sexual orientation is will help all of us, whether you’re allo or aspec. Everyone’s brain is different, everyone’s experience with romance and sexuality is different, some people are ready for things at certain ages while others take longer to be ready, and some will never end up wanting it at all. PLEASE normalize humans being humans instead of being stereotypes of humans!!

[nvmxlonely]

"Welcome to the future. It's just like the present, but more fucked up." - Davina

I Believe in Unicorns - 2014

[saym0-0]

this post on pinterest has somehow made me start thinking about a comedy human au,, all the bots are siblings, ages are fucked, all the walters live in one big house,, the bots r all teenagers (imagine having six teenagers jc). their parents are iris and peter i. they have two adult siblings, ii and iii. mark, wanda and iv are their nephews and niece. peter i has an oc sibling that isn't around anymore but is V's parent, and VI is his son (the bot's cousin).

i dont think the original inspiration post fits in at all but its funny so im not removing it amen

anyways. ages i think would be like,,

II & III in their early thirties

V in his early thirties but younger than the rest of em.

rabbit and spine are 18 and twins

hmm my zer0 headcanon is that he was built first but powered on later so maybe hes like 19 but adopted/a half sibling that moved in slightly later? idk hes 17 or 19

next i think is hatchworth he is 15 and draws on a moustache every morning and tells everyone its real (jon is convinced)

jon is um uh 12 little boy 🫵

upgrade is 9

mark is 11

wanda is 9 (woah two 9 year old girls. yhey tell everyone they're twins)

realising that i cant keep the age difference the same as canon because iv would be -1. oops. hes a little baby

vi is also a little baby.

sorry i lied they're not all teenagers lawl. also realised zer0 couldn't be a half sibling because they have two way older siblings too oops

yeah this au makes no sense but i do think its funny. sitcom au. highschool au.

they all go by their canon robot names, its unclear whether they were named that or if they're nicknames or a mix of both. five is older than four because of a mistake on his birth certificate, he should have been four but they all just kinda went with it and named the next one four

i think rabbit would come out to her [younger] siblings at 13 and come out/start transitioning at 14, partially in reference to the year she transitioned in canon and partially because i was that old when i came out teehee. i think maybe she always knew and expressed it though, she just didnt know trans people existed and didn't have the terminology for it

do they have all-through schools in the us? like elementary all the way to high school? we do in the uk but idk about over there. if they do then that could be funny i think

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread    

The Art of Prophecy

Wuxia inspired epic fantasy

about a spoiled prophesied chosen one who’s never been in a real battle

the greatest war artist of her generation takes things into her own hands and decides to train him, but things go wrong and they both have to go on the run

martial arts, bounty hunters & assassins, some steampunk vibes, mentor relationships

no romance!

this is so fun and funny I loved it.  the MCs three awesome baddass women and one pathetic teen boy and i love them all

[tskva-happens]

seems like so far the #1 enemy of the bg3 modding community has been... *checks note* age. just like... any signs of age whatsoever.

[thisdreamsalive]

I wish I wasn't 14 when Danger Days came out because now that I have adult money, I can't find any of the merch baby me wanted