I've seen a couple artists in their 20s get SO ANGRY that folks were aging those boys up and using a separate tag so children googling wouldn't run into it specifically (doing everything right and responsibly tbh)
/facepalm It ain't hurting anyone and the art's cute so, STFU puriteens and pearl-clutchers/antis/whatevers?? there's kids dying out there of hunger and other things, use ya energy for THAT not drawings of fictional characters
Partially worried for these kids 'cause I feel like fandom nonsense provided a safe outlet for my sexuality as a teen, and like. I know most of y'all gotta be horny, so what are you up to?
OH they are absolutely internalizing some bad shit, because anti rhetoric has convinced most of the younger fandom generation that if you so much as CONSIDER certain things, you're a predator of some variety
like, literally anti rhetoric rests on the idea that if you, a child in fandom, produce fan works that feature characters in your age group (or younger), then you are a pedophile (even if nothing sexual is happening in the fan work) ???????????? instead of safely exploring LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU WANT in a fictional environment
so yeah, the discourse of "you can't age up a character because that's still sexualizing underage characters" basically sounds like "YOU CAN'T BE ATTRACTED TO PEOPLE BC THEY WERE BABIES ONCE" like that's the fucking logic there
or "women under 5' are minor coded even if they're adults" I'm just-- WHAT (I dated a girl coupe years younger than me who was 4'10 AT BEST, she gets so annoyed at that take)
I see these kids online and then there my students asking if Ive seen the internet's take on Lady D from RE8...I get one end of the spectrum or the other.
Me, why I do not ever mention my Ao3 account because uh. I got paid cashmonies to write some ML stuff and a lot of it is aged-up and my Guilt complex kicked in and I tend to never speak of it in mixed company
me coming back in here because this person started in on another artist for drawing a ship of a 16 yo and a maybe 19 yo (Idk Ercole, based solely on the fact he was charged with saying he was sixteen two years in a row is maybe 17-19). Called them a pedo and said that the age difference was weird and immoral
1. Ercole's age is never confirmed im the movie. He definitely fills a "bullying teen" roll and, imho is more likely 17, maybe 18. 2. A 3 year age difference among kids that are likely to attend school together is not unheard of, nor is it morally reprehensible. Romeo/Juliet laws exist for this reason--to protect both parties.
my mom and dad are almost three years apart. like...no. I've dated people both three years older and younger than me. it's...pretty dang normal friend.
and on the other hand, I've seen some cute art on tumblr with no issue so
it did make tumblr infinitely more tolerable on the lack-of-discourse front
It ain't hurting anyone and the art's cute so, STFU puriteens and pearl-clutchers/antis/whatevers?? there's kids dying out there of hunger and other things, use ya energy for THAT not drawings of fictional characters
^p much me rn
(I dated a girl coupe years younger than me who was 4'10 AT BEST, she gets so annoyed at that take)
2. A 3 year age difference among kids that are likely to attend school together is not unheard of, nor is it morally reprehensible. Romeo/Juliet laws exist for this reason--to protect both parties.
This person you are bullying and calling a pedo is also 16??? like come the fuck on bro.
they care about clout, policing others, and making sure THEY are the exception to their own rules