#Song of Adolescence

[palehorsemen]

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Blood of Youth (2022)

ENGSUB 【HIGHLIGHT】 萧瑟抚琴，叶若依雷无桀一同舞剑！#TheBloodofYouth #少年歌行 #Shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8mnu51NuPQs

[caiuxraven]

Shaonian Ge Xing Season 3 (Great Journey of Teenagers) Announcement

One of Youku’s most successful and popular donghua Shaonian Ge Xing Season 2 concluded a few days ago and we are all excited since left us all with huge surprises before it bid farewell and one of them is the fact that Shaonian Ge Xing Season 3 had been officially announced. 

The entirety of Shaonian Ge Xing Season 2 which had been divided into 2 cour had been one of the most-watched and recommended series on the Chinese platform Youku where it was played with a volume of over 1 billion. 

The 3rd season of the donghua will continue where the story left us off upon the finale of the 2nd season and promises to deliver more action and excitement through the youthful journey filled with adventure and quest for glory. 

What’s amazing is that while we don’t have the specifics yet for the Great Journey of Teenagers Season 3 donghua such as its release date, it’s great to learn that animation studio CG Year is returning as its production team. Furthermore, we’ve been treated to a major feast for Shaonian Ge Xing Season 3 through its official key visual which had been revealed right after the 2nd season’s 2nd cour has ended.

Source: https://www.yualexius.com/2022/05/shaonian-ge-xing-season-3.html

[himemeiya]

My other girlfriend is my

Joyride [x]

[i-eat-mold]

The boys a slag

[desultory-novice]

Apologies AU - Good Ending Drop

Hey, everyone. It was my goal to finish Apologies in tandem with the Tournament, but for health reasons, I won't be able to as I planned. Because I tied the story to the tournament and don't feel like untangling it again and making everyone wait more, I'm going to give you all the ending spoilers, as I promised I would if I became unable to finish the story.

What I'm about to describe is THE Good Ending. The True Ending I had planned out almost from the beginning!

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In the main-verse...

Susie, who sees too much of herself in Adeleine, decides to take matters into her own hands to bring the girl's older brother back.

She takes the vial of Dark Matter Swordsman DNA that was harvested from King Dedede. Meta Knight catches up with her and argues against it. It's foolish, dangerous, and liable to be nothing but painful to all parties involved. But Susie anticipated interference and asked Zan to bodyguard her. When Zan arrives (late) to the lab, the argument has caused the vial to begin to react to all the negativity in the room. Zan recognizes its contents as Dark Matter and insists on calling Lord Hyness, who in his own quirky way, analyzes their problem and suggests that while the contents are too weak to survive on their own, a resurrection could be possible, using Void's powers to mimic a hive queen, supplying whatever creature emerges the power to survive on Popstar without burning up into ash...

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In the tourney-verse...

White-Haired Noir is at peace with his life and has come to accept the death of his precious little sister many years ago, but...a part of him still wishes to make Adeleine happy.

Using his fairy-born dimension sight, he discovers an Alternate Noir who is 98% percent compatible with main-verse Noir. This is the Purgatory!Noir from the Re_Birthday post. And he drags this unstable, utterly clueless Noir out of this peaceful void without his permission and secretly "volunteers"  the massively confused, un-alive but un-dead teen boy for the Kirby OC Tournament.

It is White-Haired Noir that is the "good" voice on phone and in Noir's head, encouraging rationality. His goal? Get Noir some friends. Get him to face up to/open up to people about his past. And get him caring about his life enough that he wants to live...! 

White-Haired Noir has seen what the main-verse Star Allies are attempting and knows that the odds of them actually bringing "Noir" back instead of just an emotionless monster are low without a compatible "Noir Soul" (haha) to inhabit the new vessel.

Over the course of many in-tourney events, including Noir learning to have faith in the sibling bonds he built with Gooey despite being Dark Matter at the time, learning to separate himself and Adeleine as individuals instead of clinging to her to his own neglect, privately opening up to King Dedede, who put the pieces together post-possession, about some awful stuff Noir put up with for years in secret from Raquelle's father (who privately loathed Neichel AND her kids and took it out on Noir) to "pay" for Adeleine's good life...

And lastly, using the power of wishes to interrogate if THIS Noir's true wish is to die and be free, to have never been born, to have had a normal "perfect" life, or if he simply wishes for a second chance to be with those he cares about... White-Haired Noir determines that Tourney!Noir is ready and reveals his plan to him. Noir confesses to him that he really does want to live and be with his family again and offers up his stronger soul for Susie and the gang's vessel.

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Back in the main-verse...

The experiment is a success! They have brought, well, something back. It is not quite like Dark Matter Swordsman in form, nor is it exactly a human boy. It looks a little bit like a spiky haired-Gooey.

After some tense questioning of the emotionless, memoryless, unresponsive goo, it...suddenly seems to awaken. With the voice of a deeply shaken and scared young boy, the violet-eyed blob questions the mad scientist, cultists, and masked man surrounding him... Where the hell is he? And where are his little brother and sister?

Meta Knight welcomes Noir back to the world of the living.

Later, after Noir has time to dress himself in an appropriate scarf, Adeleine and Gooey are brought in and it is a happy and tear-filled reunion all around as Noir confirms that, while this form is strange, it's not dangerous and he's not in pain. He is then re-introduced to King Dedede, whereupon it's revealed that even though Noir likes him, he's still a snarky teen punk at heart, as he sasses the king horribly. (Dedede has gained another kid, but at what cost? XD)

...And that's it.

That's the ending to Apologies I've held onto for nearly a year.

For reading through all that, here is a short comic I drew a while back of the reunited family having a snowball fight in White Wafers.

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(Not to unnecessarily over-explain the story but because the comic is a little vague, I have to tell you that no, Noir does not ever return to human after his revival. I meant it when I wrote in several places that their parting on Shiver Star was the last time they'd see each other "...in this form." This is merely meant to depict a moment in which Adeleine, seeing her brother alive and smiling and laughing and having real fun for the first time in so long, is able to imagine his old self smiling and is at peace that her brother is finally free from the hurt and misery he bore up with for so long.)

(...And yes, he has a long, silly tongue just like Gooey. Which is why he hides all but his eyes behind the scarf. Gotta keep up that cool older brother look even as a little goo creature! While Noir can't become human - frankly, he doesn't miss having a human body, given the stuff in his adolescence and being over-stressed, underfed, under-slept and just overall sick all the time in his later teens - he does eventually acquire the ability to shift into his old "Swordsman" form for short bursts of time.)

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(Lastly, you might wonder how I could have had this exact ending in mind from almost the beginning when so much of it is tied up in recent posts like the tourney? ...Well, originally what was going to happen to allow Noir to be properly resurrected into the Dark Matter Goo body is that the Dream Rod from Star Allies was going to appear in response to a grieving Adeleine's wishes to see her brother again, bringing Noir-as-Swordsman back. At least for a LITTLE while, as it would be revealed that with Zero dead, Noir, who was entirely composed of Dark Matter at this point, couldn't survive on Popstar. Every moment he was there, his body was burning.)

(Still, he lasts long enough to have one final talk with Adeleine that helps heal him from the torturous events of DL 3 - in which we learn a highly disappointed Zero drove Noir to the absolute breaking point, shattering his mind and his newly regained soul. Adeleine also tells Noir she has finally realized everything he did for her during their childhood and apologizes to him for not seeing it before. With dawn on the horizon, Noir asks to look over Adeleine's sketchbooks with her before the end... He dies one last time, peacefully, while Adeleine finally gets to properly mourn him.)

(Then, all the "main-verse" sections proceed to happen as stated above!)

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(...Okay, okay. One last thing. There was also an alternate ending planned where Magolor, taking advantage of the fact that Merry Magoland was built on a nexus point, finds a way to reunite Adeleine and White-Haired Noir - still a teen in this version - using his theme park as a union point, as special birthday gift for Adeleine.)

(I was kinda fond of this one for reuniting the timelines, but it opened up a lot of questions such as, if Magolor made it so that Noir and Adeleine from two different dimensions can see each other as long as they're both in Magoland, could others from the WH Noir-verse see the main-verse this way? It invited too many questions, so that's why I scrapped that one and just let White-Haired Noir grow up instead.)

[andreainlove]

alex turner's songwriting is such a turn on.

[runningwithfangs]

A crossover truly no one asked for. But I recently re-watched The Adolescence of Utena and I couldn’t get this idea out of my head. So now I’m making it your problem too.

It’s how I’m coping.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

Nostalgia Playlist Tag Game

Share 5 songs you'd put on a playlist for when you want to take a wander down memory lane, or that make you think of when you were younger, and tag 1-5 friends!

1) Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla

2) Stay (I Missed You) by Lisa Loeb

3) Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega

4) Lullaby by Shawn Mullins

5) Ironic by Alanis Morisette

Going to tag:

@cobrilee @bengiyo @reversetimelord @befuddledcinnamonroll @halinski @baby-droll @alittlebitofrainbyyourside @amarantoo @rhysiana @clotpolesonly and you, if you see this! (I know this is more than 5, oops)

(bonus tag for @hotasfahrenheit who I know will see this anyway but I can't not tag her)

[cakemadeofbacon]

This might get hate but Utena and Anthy are better than Achilles and Patroclus like I’m sorry it’s just correct 😭 imo

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

P.O.D. - Youth Of The Nation

[palehorsemen]

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Blood of Youth (2022)

The Blood of Youth #少年歌行 (Li Hongyi, Liu Xueyi, Ao Ruipeng)

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iVDx5I4OLLo

[esoteric-aesthetic-lyrics]

History Maker - Dean Fujioka

[harlltree]

No no you don't get it. Too Much To Ask - Arctic Monkeys is MY song. It's beautiful, I'm always humming it. It's like a lullaby. It's relatable. It's my essence. It's my being. Ever since I've discovered it, it's been in my head and it lives there. I am that song.

🎵

The smiles as she walked in the room 😊

Have all turned into frowns ☹️

Am I too quick to assume that the love ❤️

Is no longer in bloom 🌺

The tantrums 😖

And the tears 🥲

Play a very different tune 🎵

To what they did before 🥹

Her heads red raw 🤬

And the ending doesn't sound 🔇

Like the happiest around ❌😁

When you sobbed before 😭

It felt much more like the product of a squabble 👊

Now there's reason for it to be something more 🤌

And it would be 🐝

Oh it's uncertain whether the curtain has shut for good 🎪

She said, "See it's still raining 🌧️ I'm not dressed for it 👗"

And

"If you loved me-" 🫶

And I interrupted received a scowl 🤨

And stare 👁️

But still decided to stop her there 🛑

Would it be outrageous to say ❓

We're either shouting 🗣️

Or we're shagging 🫦

Docked in tempestuous bays 🏖️

Or at least thats how it felt yesterday 🌠

The eyes are getting heavier 🏋️

And whether you're asleep or awake 💤

Is a mystery 🕵️‍♀️

Would a kiss be too much to ask? 💋

When you fit me 🤲

As Sunday's frozen pitch fits the thermos flask ❄️

It's a pity 😔

It just hit me we can't go back 🚫

To the chest touching on the back 🧎‍➡️🧎

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Spoilers, violence, slight sexual imagery

Title: Rose-Colored Love

Editor: keiichiface

Song: Heaven, Iowa

Artist: Fall Out Boy

Anime: Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence of Utena (film)

Category: Romance/Drama