#TEENAGERS

[prettilysarcastic]

Does my absence feel like a void you can't fill,like yours does to me? I hope it does.

[thisdreamsalive]

I was lucky enough that concert tickets and transport was still reasonably affordable when I was a teenager so I could save my pocket money up for a few weeks to see my favourite bands and come home with new merch. With how expensive everything has gotten, I can't help but wonder are the kids okay?

Even if I had managed to save a few hundred up, my parents still wouldn't have let me buy concert tickets with today's prices. Not just MCR, pretty much anyone who isn't super underground (and the underground bands usually play bars so kids can't even go). There were a good few times I was willing to tank my lifelong savings back then for other things (which was less than what 2 MCR tickets currently cost) and they still said no on the principal of whatever it was being ridiculously priced.

So if it's hard for adults with jobs and no kids to go to shows now, how tf do the kids who don't have rich parents go?

I'm really sad thinking about that. My teenage years were rough, but the memories I cherish most are queuing all day for barrier and the day flying by because I made friends in the queue. Seeing your favourite bands as a teenager is a sacred experience.

The kids still deserve to experience that. I hate thinking they can't.

[mathidovrestipropriosvegliare]

If I can’t have you baby no one else in this world can

[bruisedaughter]

[inhales-agressively]

Reg: *complaining because his finger stings*

Reg: *collapses of blood loss*

Sirius: *notices his brother lying in a pool of blood* oH MY GOD YOU'RE DYING

Reg: yeah i accidentally used hand sanitizer

Sirius: NOT WHAT I'M REFERRING TO

James: *not paying attention* what's hand sanitizer

Something tells me that Regulus would be so chill getting stabbed but the second he gets a paper cut it’s the end of the world

[permdaydreamer]

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

[elhopper1sm]

Unpopular opinion but the reason being a teenager sucks is less to do with hormones and social cliques and more to do with the fact adults fucking hate teenagers. The fact that adults expect teenagers to be able to take on adult responsibilities yet don't deserve rights of an adult. They don't see teenagers as human beings and they aren't prepared to see kids with their own formed identities and humanity. Teenagers are so sexualized and seen as needing to take on more and more adult responsibilities. Yet when they want rights and humanity they are denied. The years your brain spends wanting nothing more than to form an identity are being taken away from you. Teenagers are essentially being kicked out of social spaces unless they have an extra 40 dollars lying around anytime they want to go out. Teenagers being kicked out of the mall just for existing or groomed into the school to prison pipeline. And now creating legislation to keep them off the Internet. Our society hates teenagers. And does everything we can to hurt them. The fact that anyone makes it out of their teenage years without trauma is a fucking miracle frankly.

[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.

[bambiali]

Palo Alto 2013

[inlanasroom]

After that my life went downhill

[incognitopolls]

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[angoragoats]

Stay still I’m plucking your hairy ears

[prettilysarcastic]

You know it's crazy for hoping someone to miss you just enough for it to be for than enough.

Miss me,my love. Engulf your mind in my thoughts,be nostalgic enough to send a text,be derived of my touch enough to crave it again,look for me in other people just to feel my presence again and when you can't,call me and tell me that for you it's always been me. Meet me and forget that we ever separated. So miss me.

[smeagles]

shake it, shake it!

[iero]

TEENAGERS —MTV's Europe Music Awards (2007)