#teen-age romance

[gameraboy2]

Teen-Age Romance #80 (1960) Cover by Matt Baker and Vince Colletta

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Teen-Age Romance #085

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Vince Colletta

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Sam Rosen

Marvel (Jan1962)

[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

[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

[gameraboy2]

"The next moment we were in each other's arms…"

Teen-Age Romance #82 (1961)

[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

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Age of Adaline (2015, Lee Toland Krieger)

07/04/2024

The Age of Adaline is a 2015 film directed by Lee Toland Krieger starring Blake Lively.

Adaline Marie Bowman was born in 1908. The girl is destined for eternal youth. During her stay in the city of San Francisco in the United States, Adaline, under the name Jennifer Larson, works in a library and lives in the company of a dog.

Ellis wants Adaline to accept her donation so they can take a photo together, but she refuses, as she wants to avoid being recognized by people from her past through photographs of her.

William, although years have passed since he met Adaline, still defines her as a magnificent woman and gives her every credit for having given him the courage to abandon medical school to dedicate himself to her true passion, astronomy.

Filming of the film took place in Coquitlam, Canada. Gabriele Muccino was initially considered to direct the film, with Katherine Heigl and Angela Lansbury in the cast.

Lana Del Rey composed the official soundtrack, titled Life Is Beautiful.

[paris-geller-was-straightwashed]

what's so interesting about the Forehead Touch(tm), is how vastly different people's interpretations of it are.

some people saying it was strictly platonic/familial, given the start of furiosa and jack's relationship and how furiosa has only given and received the forehead touch from others who were her family, like her mother or women from the many mothers. but when I first saw it, I explicitly saw it as romantic.

this is not to say that you have to read their dynamic like that, that's not it. the great thing about them, was that Romance was not directly shoved in there and you could read it however you wanted to, like furiosa and max. to some, the forehead touch was an outright showing of a familial bond, but to me, it was the showings of a romantic love.

maybe it was because when I started reading early reviews of the movie ppl mentioned jack as the romantic interest, so I already had him placed in that column by the time I saw the movie. but honestly, when I first watched the trailer before seeing anything else, when I saw that split second embrace of the two of them - my first thought was 'oh he's going to be a love interest.'

and it was because of the forehead touch!

that moment of connection, even in a millisecond during a trailer, just bled something more to me bc having seen fury road, I knew how important the Forehead Touch was for furiosa. that this had to be someone deeply important, someone she holds dear, and, I dunno, even though that could still be familial, it totally rang romance to me. and I think another part of it, was because she didn't share that with max.

her and max grow close as they fight together, and at the end there's that really kind, tender scene where he's cradling her head as she lays back from her injuries. it showcased a very intimate moment, but not once did it read romantic to me. and, again, furiosa never does the forehead touch with him, something very sacred to her - so when I saw her extending that embrace to a different man in this trailer, I immediately knew Something Was Up.

I don't really have a conclusion - it's just interesting! some people cement their relationship as platonic bc furiosa only did the forehead touch with family members, whereas others see it as romantic bc she gave that gesture over to jack. so many interpretations!

and this is to say, all of them are valid! if you believe they're platonic, great! if you believe it's romantic, yay! their dynamic was, I believe, explicitly non-specific, so the audience could take it as they want, and so we could simply just focus on this sacred bond of trust between two people, and how important it was to furiosa during her story.

just don't shit on other ppl's interpretation 👍

[mediamatinees]

Smackdown Pen vs Reel Chapter Eight: The End of an Era with "Always and Forever, Lara Jean"

I don’t think there’s any need for a content warning on this post. There’s discussions of unsupportive/uninvolved parents, but they’re brief. Otherwise, enjoy! Spoilers for Always and Forever, Lara Jean ahead! Most of us adults can remember that transitional time in our lives when we were leaving the sheltered yet emotionally turbulent life of childhood for the socially exhausting existence of…