dear self it isn't worth it getting into fights with people on the internet to defend fictional age gap ships

BUT OOOOOH DOES IT GET ME MAD

IT DO AN ANGY but nuuu only argue with them if you're doin it for a laugh

.....depends how big the gap is

Even if they're between two consenting adults...?

even then, I don't really have a foot to stand on because /motions at list of ships I've played out that can get me cancelled

if they're both adults then yeah

I've seen semi-popular ships that are like, one character is 16 and other is 40+ iirc

it's a little bit... creepy

--actually I was wrong, it's actually 50+

yeah, these were two adults. 14 year age gap but both adults.

which just makes me even more

yeah that's fine then, maybe a little unusual don't see anything wrong with it

it depends on the time period, too. for a really long time, those kinds of age differences were common

and I def feel you on the fights. it's exhausting and at the end of the day, people are still going to project whatever narrative they want onto fictional characters to support the point they're trying to make

it doesn't stop it from being really frustrating though, especially if it's a point that's out of touch or factually incorrect tho

Yeeeeeah... like heck, if I see something I don't like, I just block/hide and move on. I don't make it a point to go in there and make sure to tell OP "Hey this ship you like is Morally Wrong"

I normally keep my nose out of it and I don't even ship it but they're both adult characters

oh, I get you. it's especially irritating when the morality police start harping on fictional consenting adults. part of it is that there are too many kids with limited experience thinking they know more about relationship dynamics than they actually do, imo

if you're dealing with actual adults then age gaps can get weird sometimes. It's not the same as dealing with teens and such. But...yeah, try telling twitter that pff

yeah, Twitter is up there with Youtube comments, tbh

I mean, my RL partner is 8 years older than me or so and I've known adult couples with greater age gaps than that. and it... doesn't really matter that much once you get to that adult stage of life

and the bottom line is these characters aren't real anyway. they don't have thoughts, feelings, emotions, rights, etc. there's no danger to protect them from because they're figments of imagination which Twitter loses sight of

there is always that. I'm not gonna moral police people that do problematic ships unironically but I may or may not silently judge them instead

Surprisingly, this was Reddit. XD It isn't often I see the Morality Police there but HOOBOY are they present in some fandom subreddits..

oof ;;

Reddit... I'm not as familiar with but I've heard Tales

not as many as the Twitter cesspool but a few

oh yeah, I've definitely seen them on Reddit.

I've seen some in the Cookie Run (duh) subreddit...