Teenager Thoughts
I’m not asking why per se, I’d just like to point out that teenagers are actually quite ugly. Like, that’s part of what we sign up for. Adolescence is this crazy phenomena where you’re not who you’re supposed to be yet, and you’re not who you were yet either, so you’re trapped in between being nothing as you try to find yourself. The point is that you’re not your final form yet. We have dumb glasses and say stupid things and cry and worry and break rules and live by them sometimes too, and have crazy hair and a ton of pimples and weirdly sized bodies as things catch up, and watch your mental health go off the deep and and find it again, and we have no idea about anything but we think we know everything. Which isn’t as fun, I know. But my point is that no teenager is a radiant sex symbol. No teenager has everything figured out or looks any way that anybody on the outside would think “wow what a Casanova”. It’s the chrysalis of life. I sometimes wish we could let it be that in fandom, too.
