#Teenager

[tangerinedreaming]

No kisses. No embraces. No warm tangles on cold nights. No sudden burns sweeping across skin and awakening unknown, untethered, unbecoming things.

Gentle conversation slurring into quiet laughter, filtering through moonlit nights like water through fingertips. Tentative hands brushing in the darkness, twisting slowly into lips slipping across soft skin. Words and minds and finally bodies laying bare in the night as the last restraints are softly unshackled.

A blurring flood of memories like watercolour; all the edges softened and the colours darkened.

To take that face and inject it into blood, to burn every word and breath and touch into skin even if everyone could see it. To take shame and turn it into something transcendant.

Just a day, just an hour, just a heartbeat longer.

Excuses for moments like these. Forbidden ones filled with heavy misting breaths and tangled skin.

Guilt that cuts deep and pulls like waves on consciences, never quite drawing back into the sea. Minds drifting helplessly away into that hidden span of time. Kept buried deep and dark, making sure it doesn't stay too long.

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[zieeeej]

I turned 30. Here's me trying to impress my teenage self.

#comic #comicart #30 #turning30 #birthday #birthdaycomic #bday #comix #stripszijncool #aging #maturing #cute #teenager

[dollevve]

yeah, i'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby

[ashinafantasy]

I'm Jewish. I'm also a freshman in high school. I have World History first period, and at the beginning of every class, my teacher asks if we have any current events or news to share.

Today when he asked the question, I bought up how it was the anniversary of the October 7th attacks. He said I was right, explained to the class what I was talking about, and mentioned that about four hundred people were killed.

When I corrected him that it was over a thousand (I couldn't think of the exact number off the top of my head), he replied, "Well, we don't know for sure."

Not wanting to make a scene in front of my classmates, I shut my mouth, but couldn't help but fathom over the fact that a social studies teacher knows less about the October 7th attacks than your average Jewish teenager. I saw no one post about October 7th today other than Jews. No one brought up October 7th in any of my classes other than me. I had to explain to my friends what it was when I tried to talk to them about it. I watched the PBS News special about October 7th with my dad tonight, and it angered me that no one gives a shit about what they went through. No one is marching on college campuses for the Nova Festival victims, no one is in the streets fighting for the return of the hostages. But please, scream at me how I'm a Nazi for agreeing with the idea of a Jewish nation state. No one will fight for the Jews other than ourselves.

[sweetbunnytears]

[flymetosnarryland]

Bullying.

teenager Severus at muggle school

[a-timely-problem]

Lillia: "What's everyone's type?"

Alice: "A bit arrogant"

Jen: "Hero complex"

Teen: "a simp"

Rio: "slightly evil"

Agatha: "Weirdos..."

Lillia: "Weirdos?"

Agatha, pointing at Rio who's randomly doing gymnastics: "Weirdos"

[catchymemes]

[retropopcult]

Actress Joan Leslie in a posed photograph, April 1941. Original photograph by Gene Lester, colorized by Reddit user Ectheow

[navybluekoala]

When I wake up from a dream I feel the whole world laughing at me, because for a second I thought that perfect life was my reality.

[blondebrainpowered]

Dorothy Counts made national news in September 1957, when at the age of 15, she became one of the first and, at the time, the only black student to enroll in the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School in Charlotte (North Carolina).

This came nearly three years after the Supreme Court ruled public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.

Counts was dropped off on her first day of school by her father, along with their family friend Edwin Thompkins.

As their car was blocked from going closer to the front entrance, Edwin offered to escort Counts to the front of the school while her father parked the car.

As she got out of the car to head down the hill, her father told her, “Hold your head high. You are inferior to no one.”

Source and more photos: Dorothy Counts: The teenager who challenged segregation, 1957

[average-emo-enigma]

[vintage-every-day]

1950s