#they were teens

[petricorah]

POV you're being lectured by someone who talks with their hands [id in alt]

+bonus gaang reaction

#sokka #sokka fanart #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender fanart #avatar fanart #avatar #myart #i had way more details. had to restrain myself #sokka talks with his hands ok #I drew sokka as older and then completely forgot and drew the gaang as their younger selves so just imagine that it's been going on since #they were teens #SO done with the colors. they look super washed out on my phone and darker on my computer. i give up #gaang fanart

[penelopwgarcia]

you understand an awful a lot of why and how the whole dynamic of the disaster lineage in the clone wars works the way it did when you know obi wan was 35 while anakin was nineteen and ahsoka was fucking FOURTEEN

#they were TEENS #and obi wan the only full grow up adult #anakin was TWENTY THREE when he became darth vader #its INSANE TO ME #the clone wars #ahsoka tano #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #obi wan x anakin x ahsoka

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

#i originally posted this as just a 'hey remember how fuckin bad middle/highschool was? shit was wild' type post but now #there are a bunch of teens in the notes being like 'oh my god are you serious? it gets better? im not stuck in hell forever??' #and im reminded that the only people who told teenage ella 'it gets better' were speakers at mental health assemblies #aka the least relatable people alive who were seemingly born to lie to you #so. uh. yeah im a certified adult who isnt here to lie or sugarcoat the realities of being a teenager #the only thing more certain than the pain is the transcience

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[panevanbuckley]

#i know there are probably many more but these were the main ones circulating at my school #this can be books or movies #just whichever took over the majority of your childhood and teen years #the maze runner #harry potter #the hunger games #twilight #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #vampire diaries #tvd #the vampire diaries #polls

[soyochii]

Cause all of my enemies started out friends 🏹

#jjk #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #I'm ill they were so in love #Anyway breaking up infront of a kfc to becoming teen dads is a wild pipeline #my art #jujutsu kaisen

[starfiretruther]

teeny boppers

#dick and donna #mine #donna troy #dick grayson #wonder girl #robin #wonder twins #teen titans #they were preppy teens i know it!

[fungi-maestro]

Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

#seal.txt #tdov #that 'sky and mike' image of the two old trans dudes hugging was one that I had saved to my phone as a trans teen #and i would look at it sometimes and just wonder how they had made it #idk its just nice knowing we live that long and its not a requirement to be skinnyin order to be respected and loved and get old #some of the old 'advice' posts i saw were really completely bizarre and a lot of them stick with me to this day in insecurities #this would have been 2016 ish tumblr so i know not that long ago but i would have been around 13 for reference #weird that i remember so many of the things i read back then. i could probably fill a post with things i was misinformed on due to Tumblr #specifically tumblrs run by people that i didnt really have the knowledge or awareness to understand probably didnt have my best interests #like 'trans rights ' blogs i would follow and not notice until much later were quite the opposite #this is the consequence of viewing social media before i knew all the secret codewords and my brain was much less developed than it is now

[hedgehog-moss]

I always underestimate how easy it can be to entertain a teenager. I have this preconception that small kids find everything fun even mundane stuff while teens are jaded and self-conscious and need elaborate or cool activities, but my teen cousins are visiting this week and when they arrived I was in the greenhouse having an issue with the filter in one of the tanks, so I asked them if they could catch all the fish from one tank and move them to the other tank, and they were delighted to be given little dip nets and sit on the edge of the tank to hunt fish for 20min. As I asked them to do it I was thinking, it’s like those duck-fishing fairground games from when they were toddlers, they’ll probably think it’s a bit cringe, and five minutes into it these jaded teenagers were like, hey it’s like duck fishing at the funfair when we were toddlers, I've missed it, it’s fun :D

#it's my mum who has preconceptions about teenagers actually and then her concerns rub off on me #i'm like [teen cousins] are visiting this week and she's all worried like what are you going to do with them so they're not bored? #are there any escape games in your region? #the answer is no. The only escape game around here is the one pampérigouste thinks she was born in #but i made them play go fish with real fish and they were enchanted #tomorrow we will go for a swim in the stream with poldine

[sadibadimadi]

The return of my Teen Merthur Au >:]

#Morgana and Gwen you are SO NEXT #if anyone says anything mean about Arthur’s acne I will start crying #also those two horses were supposed to be normal and I uh got carried away #Merthur #Merlin bbc #teen merthur #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #sbm art

[bizarrelittlemew]

🥺 -> 🥹 -> 😠

#he couldn't help but smile 🥹 #how dare the murder wives disturb #no actually they were hilarious for mocking stede's lovesick teen diary lines BUT STILL #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 2x4 #edward teach

[mimikyuno]

“homura is not in love with madoka she’s unhealthily obsessed” uuuh something tells me you have never been a 14 year old lesbian in a homoerotic, codependent friendship with your bestie and it shows

#raise ur hand if you would have done what homura did when u were a teen 🙋🏻 #madoka magica #madohomu #homura akemi #madoka kaname #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #mahou shoujo madoka magica #mine

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 5

Once more, have a prompt entirely in memes because I'm too lazy to properly write one right now lol.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #De aged dan #de aged ellie #dad danny #mom danny #Fuck it make this a Hazmat Au too with a hint of eldritch Phantom form #Hence why no one realizes Danny Fenton & Phantom Dark are different people #No Danny is not ghost king he's just a little shit #Jazz is in Metropolis & Danny is around depending on where the “field trips” are #Sometimes he's in Gotham because Scarecrow or Ivy offers a lecture #Most of the time they're in Central though because it's safest for the baby villains in the making lol #Danny is taking classes for both medical stuff (thx Frostbite) and engineering #A couple of time travelling villains ADORE him and his kids lol #“So u a monsterfucker?” “What” “I mean I saw that ghost hero & I'm just sayin that's not human y'know-” #Tucker stop laughing at him #Tucker and Sam and Val are also in the same villain school but taking different classes #Save for Tucker also being in an engineering class #Sam is fighting for that Ivy internship #Val is in the specialized Anti-Hero course that focuses on teen heroes who are done with that bs #She got in by telling them (not lying) that she's going to take down a branch of government even if she has to blow the whole thing up #Evil College Au #Danny made a mistake & now everyone thinks that he Val Sam AND Tuck were in a relationship with Phantom at some point #Eveery other student now refers to them as the Petty Exes #memes #meme

[reipx]

Bunhe and shizun’s frist kiss caught in 4K

#svsss #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #y’all know when you were a teen and you would kiss a picture of your celebrity crush #no is that just me #anyway that’s the idea behind this #shizun is binghe celeb crush lol

[evilkaeya]

Teen skk but they casually bonk their head for no reason. Like two cats bumping their heads. You see Chuuya standing and texting and here comes Dazai. He bumps their head together (from front) to peek at the screen.

"Who are you texting?"

"Your mom"

Dazai taking a nap somewhere and here comes Chuuya to full force smash his forehead against Dazai’s only to say

"Let's go to the arcade"

"I'm not a child like you"

"We're both 15 Dazai"

#head bumping as love language #u find them napping and its like those orange and black cat sleeping together tiktoks #they're sooo cat coded #no one gets me #they're literally if an orange cat and a black cat were 15 y/os #teen skk #soukoku

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 110

Lois lane was not expecting her next big story to come literally knocking at her door. In the form of a two teens? Preteens?

Both black hair blue eyes, she’d have to keep them away from Bruce.

The older of the two look like he’d taken A beating, the younger of the two hyper focused on the hallway looking back and forth as if expecting someone to jump out at them.

If she can willingly jump of a roof, she most certainly could get two teens inside. They had too much to discuss.

No. A folder of info just won’t do. Come on in. Tell me everything. Secret government agency? Go on please. Just make yourselves comfortable. Portal to the afterlife?? Please more info. Need anything to eat?

She got her answers, a story, and well if two kept hanging around. That was for her to worry about.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dcxdp #dpxdc #Lois lane is that person who looks at danger and laughs in its face #two random teens? #bet. #come on inside. it’s all good and dandy #info on the story of her life #no a folder won’t do #she tricks them by only offering assistance in between her questioning #the two stood no chance against Lois #Danny and Ellie were bested #dcxdp prompt