#coming of age

[erectomyjunko]

I need a marauders fic that feels like a coming of age movie somebody PLEASE GIVE ME RECS

[heylookitsdaryl]

I haven’t been very good about keeping up promoting my books lately and I should probably get on that if I want people to actually buy and read my books so…

What? Self promotion is hard, okay?

Anyway, check out my books. 😄

[readtilyoudie]

Silver Spoon Vol 9

[lisa-dorina]

Preview of G&G chapter 12 ♥ I finished lots of pages today, now only 8 pages are left to line and colour. I might take a break over Christmas though!

Coming to Patreon in Jan 2025!

[filmbyrue]

Girl hood ••• pupinia

[grady70]

at 346pm

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[alextheanonymous24]

12/19/2024 - A Proper Introduction

Hello, it’s me, Alex.  I doubt you care anyway. Why would anyone care? I don’t even know why I am doing this. I guess I just want to make my mark on the world, and this is my way of doing it. If you think you know who I am, you don’t. Don’t go looking for me, you won’t find me. Everything I tell you may or may not be real, I don’t care if you believe me or not. What I mean by this is that everything I say is factual and this is just a public journal for me, or this is a story with some overarching plot that you will wish you knew all the details of, or anything in between. You can decide.  I will be telling the story (if you can call it that) of my life on wattpad, ao3, and Tumblr. 

I believe that we should have a proper introduction. I am Alex. I am a genderfluid bisexual with mental illnesses. I also like music. That’s all I have to say about myself. There isn’t a lot going on in my life. I have a cool boyfriend, but we fight sometimes and that isn’t cool. For example today I made him mad and then we had a good conversation about how I tend to make everything about myself, which led to us talking about how we should communicate more. But anyways I digress. I am neither Christian nor Conservative, even though a lot of people around me are. I respect everyone and their beliefs, just don’t be an asshole about it. I hate precalc despite loving every other subject of math. I want to leave a mark on the world, but I don’t want to be famous. Don’t go searching for me because I might not even exist. Just follow my web series and see how it pans out. I might drop lore here and there so be on the look out. I’m not too exciting. All that you will have is my poorly articulated and uncensored thoughts. 

If you’ve read it this far congratulations I guess. I would be surprised if anyone cares this much about a potentially fake online persona. Anyways, I will leave you with a proper ending to a not so proper introduction.

andibelievethismaycallforaproperintroductionandwelldontyouseeimthenarratorandthisisjusttheprologue

-Alex A.

[o-the-mts]

Movie Review: Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)

Title: Dìdi (弟弟)  Release Date: July 26, 2024 Director: Sean Wang Production Company:AntiGravity Academy | Spark Features | Unapologetic Projects  |Maiden Voyage Pictures Main Cast: Izaac Wang as Chris Wang Shirley Chen as Vivian Wang Chang Li Hua as Nai Nai Joan Chen as Chungsing Wang Raul Dial as Fahad Mahmood Aaron Chang as Jimmy “Soup” Kim Mahaela Park as Madi Chiron Denk as Donovan Sunil…

[anxiously-obnoxious-poet17]

I’m watching coming age movie comps to lorde songs cause I’m just a boy and tell me why I started sobbing when dead poets society came up :[ I strive to make movies as influential and special as that movie is

[owenisafilmaholic]

Joshua Bassett: The Golden Years | Album Review & Song Ranking!

After four EPs and five soundtracks, Joshua Bassett has finally released his debut studio album. Exploring the wild LA horizon at the age of seventeen and spending his late teens on his breakout show, the criminally underrated ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’, Bassett has been waiting for this very moment for a while now. The aformentioned output of music has been so constant, it’s…

[dogsayswoof]

Fragments of Us: Prologue

Word Count: 1.1k ---- | Next Chapter Masterlist

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"The Beginning of the End"

Pear Point University is a depressing place. It always has and it always will be. But for Abby, Brennan, and Sergio they couldn't imagine a better place to be.

Ever since they were twelve years old, they knew two things: 

The first, they were never going to leave each other. 

The second, they needed to get the fuck out of Connecticut.

They grew up in a small town outside of Fairfield, in a small neighborhood, with small lives. They were quiet. Went to school, got decent enough grades, and did their best not to cause trouble. They had enough trouble at home.

Abby's dad hit her. He would go to work, come home angry, yell at everyone, leave, come home even drunker, and head straight for her room. She figured it was because she reminded him of her mother, but she would never truly know why he did it. The boys would see her come to school with bruises but no one dared to say a word. A black eye here, a bruised neck there, but never without some reminder of what was to come at night. It wasn't until he left that she opened up to them, but never fully. Just simply "he was angry".

Brennan's family was a tragedy. His dad was a war hero, but a dead one. He left for Iraq when he was six. It was supposed to be a simple eighteen month tour, but about seven months into it the soldiers in their fancy dress knocked on his door. They asked for Mrs. Riordan and his mother sobbed for a week straight, never leaving her room. His brothers and him tried to take care of everything keep it all together, but it soon became chaos. A warzone in their own home. When his mother started reappearing, she was different. Dazed, confused, never fully there. A shell of the loving, caring woman she once was. As Brennan grew older he became angrier but did his best to control it, for the second he lost control, he would lose everything.

Sergio was homeless. He doesn't remember how it happened or why, he just was. A street rat in a relatively nice-ish neighborhood was frowned upon, but he made it work. Strangers would invite him for dinner taking pity on the young boy. Inviting him to stay the night, but he would never stay longer than that. The second he got attached he knew it would be stripped away again. Then Brennan happened. The two of them, quiet and alone in school, scoping each other out, eventually became friends. When Brennan realized that Sergio was homeless, he invited him to stay at his house. Permanently. Sergio was reluctant at first but agreed. And for the first time, the two of them finally felt like they had a real brother. A real family.

Abby didn't come into the picture until later. Sergio and Brennan were sitting in the back of the class keeping to themselves when she walked right up to them and sat down. Her eyes burned into the two of them as they shared awkward glances. 'Is there a problem?' she asked and the boys shook their heads furiously as she scared them, 'Good then it's settled, I'll sit here from now on'. And she did.

They never separated. The family of two became the family of three and that's how life was.

They were just three fucked up kids in a fucked up world that didn't fucking care about them.

Elementary school. Middle school. Highschool. All passed in a flash. Sure, they had your normal, typical experiences like your first relationship, your first heartbreak, getting your drivers license, your first job, finding new friends, discovering yourself; but things were never really normal for them. They were always different and they always came back to each other.

Junior year, when they were doing god knows what in a treehouse they built together in middle school, they decided that they were going to college no matter what. Then they wrote up their plans and made a pact. As their pinkies wrapped around each others in silent agreement they had it all figured out and no one breaks a pinkie promise. 

Come senior year the plan went into motion, all focused on their strengths to get as much money as they could. There was no way in hell they were going to NOT get themselves to college.

Abby was an academic, she was extremely book smart and it didn't take much for her to score herself a number of scholarships that allowed her to go on essentially what added up to a full ride.

Brennan was tall, strong, and naturally athletic. He advocated for himself and toured Pear Point asking about their athletic programs. The football coach was intrigued by his enthusiasm and sent a scout to his next game. However, his anger was deemed a liability. The coach offered him a conditional scholarship covering 50% of the tuition. If he was able to perform and kept his attitude in check then he was looking at 100% for the rest of his time there.

While Sergio was athletic and was an incredible soccer player, he didn't have luck getting a scholarship to Pear Point. While he was equally as smart as he was athletic and was able to get some scholarships, he was still a few grand short. So he took a pen to paper and was able to write about his tragic upbringing for some extra cash.

With the money situation secured and an old pickup truck that Brennan's grandfather had left him in his will, they had a plan.

Graduation came and went and they worked all summer. Slaving in the heat mowing lawns, serving at restaurants, walking dogs, tutoring, delivery driving: you name it, they were doing it. Most of the extra cash went into a jar besides a little bit for everyone to spend and by the end of the summer they had saved nearly ten thousand dollars between the three of them.

This was the fund that would get them to Pear Point.

They loaded up Brennan's truck with everything they think they would need, not like there was much anyways, and they hit the road. It was only a five hour drive to New York. They laughed and sang along to the radio. For those five hours it felt like the world had lifted all the burden's they had and let them breathe for once in their lives.

As the large gates of the university came into view and the small blue pickup drove through them, the world came crashing back down again. And it would never be the same....

[drzito]

Esta semana, diez peliculas de la decada pasada.

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)

[zree-io]

Waiting Room

The arrow of time points in one direction

As it moves forward, I remain still

Unlike a pregnant woman experiencing crowning or a caterpillar undergoing transformation

I sit and wait

Nothing is happening, no one is coming

Yet I sit and wait

For something, anything to happen

Unlike rain droplets rolling down a glass window or something once was rusting, a victim of the passage of time

I sit

And wait for permission

To move

To live

To be.

I remain sitting

Waiting

For my name to be called.

[readtilyoudie]

LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT VOLUME 10

[holymakra]

I want to paint again I want to do my makeup I want to know everything I want to have no secrets I want to

[filmbyrue]