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a moment for me to complain about the cultural background radiation of 'adults being attracted to teenage girls is normal and ok'
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like listen we all know I am an age gap liker who consumes lolisho unironically but when it's like 'this isn't fetish shit there's nothing noteworthy here' I go to space. unfortunately this means I hate many things on at least a slight level due to the fact that it's fucking everywhere, not even just in fictional contexts
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somehow it was NOT furuba that inspired this plurk but I do undeniably get tired of looking at Shigure's face while he talks about highschool girls.
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it is just way way worse to me when it's easy to gloss over
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a sidenote that this does also happen with non-girls but with teenage girls it is just so fucking ubiquitous
eyjaberry 🐑(🦁)
agree. in addendum to this i would like to kill every instance of 'dad character envisions marrying his teenage daughter' joke from the annals of history
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聖騎士
God.............. pls no what dad characters are invisioning marrying their daughters DX
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usually it's presented as like an overprotective thing rather than 'man my daughter is so hot' or anything but it's still mmmMMMMmmMMMMMMmmmmm mmm.
God of Brats
it's because they fucking treat them like objects
God of Brats
like fuck objects
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God of Brats
but they're fuck objects that belong to THEM and no man is allowed to fuck their fuck objects unless they give them PERMISSION
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on that note I really usually don't mind fate/ loli stuff cuz it's not at all on a level of 'normies will just breeze past this as ignorable' but also the way they progressively introduce younger versions of like every character is .
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I stare into the middle distance
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on a petty level also I'm just a bitter old woman fucker and I wish anything catered to ME that hard. but if it were just fgo then I'd honestly just be like 'haha oh fgo you're so fucking weird on man. I appreciate that for you.' but as a part of a greater whole it comes off like it's NOT EVEN WEIRD
God of Brats
realtalk whenever people get excited about older men in any video game but fgo is the one i think about the most i'm like
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i love old men but every time it happens there's a deep bitterness
a girl in love
yeah.
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I understand WHY it happens because there are more people attracted to men who want to fuck older men than there are people attracted to women who want to fuck older women. especially if you prioritize catering to the cis male audience, which everything does. this does not make me less bitter
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perhaps even... the opposite
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but it is understandable that product creators wish for money.
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it doesn't make me less bitter, but it sure does remind me that a lot of cis straight men are creepy
vast energies
honestly yeah a lot of games and anime and manga and just general whatever like
vast energies
girl characters range from 10 to 21
vast energies
guy characters range from 25 to 45
vast energies
there is no justice for people who like cute little lads OR cool older ladies
Ash!!1
i think the thing is, loli/shota/age gap stuff is clearly like, fetish, fan/fantasy bullshit so i never get mad about it. But grown ass character actively creeping on in universe underaged characters/child characters hits a little too close to real life
Ash!!1
so i never fucking laugh. why and how is this a long running anime gag. i hate it sob.
Ash!!1
it was one of the reasons i just could Not finish KLK
Ash!!1
stop treating the dad peeping on her as a charming chuckle!!
God of Brats
give me the cute lil lads
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I complained about Shigure furuba who is a 'lol wacky joke' handling but I would like to also stare out a window at the rain about the ova coming out about Tohru's parents bc on one hand I'm going to hate the anti discourse about it
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on the other hand their moment of touching emotional connection was Katsuya telling her to her face that he approached her to talk to her because she checks all the boxes for being the most at risk demographic for predators
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not like as a warning. like he was screening for the same traits predators screen for.
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AND THEN WHEN HE DIED SHE HAD NO SUPPORT NETWORK BECAUSE HE BROUGHT HER INTO HIS TERRIBLE FAMILY THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE EITHER AND WHO HATED HER AND SHE GOT DISOWNED BY HER FAMILY AND GANG AND NEVER MADE OTHER FRIENDS SO SHE JUST HINGED HER ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE ON HIM
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ROMANTIC.
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TAKAYA LOOKED ME STRAIGHT IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME TO TAKE THIS AS A SUPPORTIVE AND HEALTHY LOVING RELATIONSHIP WHILE HANDING ME A MOUNTAINOUS PILE OF UNADDRESSED RED FLAGS.
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'people were bad to them because they thought it was suspicious that they started dating when he was a teacher and she was a middle schooler' YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY
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it sure is a bleakly realistic take on how the underage party also gets branded and tossed out in that kind of situation irl.
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isn't it fun how I actually made this plurk originally because of the dbd dating sim including Spirit as the second girl option instead of literally anyone the fuck else but you would never know it from the fact I just spent the whole plurk screaming about a million other things instead.
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I have so many options in life.
God of Brats
vast energies
backstories that make you go 'wait-'
spring peeper
i didnt even know this could possibly be about spirit bc i dont perceive dbd characters as having real people ages im so sorry but
spring peeper
puts my hands on your shoulders. I Understand
聖騎士
YEAH LIKE..... Tohru's parent's relationship is real ^^;
聖騎士
I love her mom but her mom went through some real shit, and just never had support. It's no wonder she sort of lost it after he died
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spring peeper
: unfortunately most of what I know about dbd is specifically the lore which means I know that Spirit is a schoolgirl.
Ash!!1
Quinn's creepy substitute teacher
i wish ppl in universe would react like this all the time
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A BUDDING WOMANCHILD
spring peeper
see i knew spirit has a seifuku COSTUME i didnt realize she was an actual teenager. ok
spring peeper
genuinely dont know why they picked spirit over, like, plague
spring peeper
is vommy mommy not good enough for them
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SHE'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
God of Brats
im so fucking sad i can't date plague
grassmaxxing
reading furuba as an adult is like, this is a surprisingly emotionally dead to rights story about how magical realism only highlights the unhealthy things people look for out of various relationships, and actually a lot of normal ass people simply have some very fucked up shit going on and are happy with it anyway
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but that doesn't exclude like... any of the relationships that get highlighted
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even the ones that make the principals happy and are a positive evolution for their lives are really fucked up, I'd argue
grassmaxxing
I think Takaya's awareness that that was the story she was writing vvvvaried
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PART OF ME KIND OF LIKES THAT TOHRU'S PARENTS WERE PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT BECAUSE THE FACT THAT THEY DID MAKE EACH OTHER HAPPY AND THE FACT IT WAS FUCKED UP AND SHE COLLAPSED AFTER AND THE PART WHERE IT WAS REASONABLE TO BE SKEEVED OUT BUT ALSO CRUEL TO PERSECUTE HER ABOUT IT WERE ALL PRESENTED TO BE REVIEWED AND LIKE THAT'S ALL REAL AS HELL TBH
grassmaxxing
THERE ARE SURE RL RELATIONSHIPS LIKE THAT! LOTS OF THEM! WHERE ALL THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE!
grassmaxxing
but also hhhhhh
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mutters in a context where the skeeving wasn't so fucking normalized I'd sure feel better about a lot of things
a girl in love
yeah.
vast energies
yeah it's like well that's an interesting reflection of real life! [adult man creeping on teen girls] and that's a funny joke
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UPDATE: Spirit was actually in college so she's probably at least 18
spring peeper
okay that makes more sense i am not a dbd lore person bc i only care about pig but i was like, almost positive the only actual children were legion maybe