#anyone age appropriate

[anna-scribbles]

and if i could give you the moon,

#this one’s been in my drafts for like. ages. #feels narratively appropriate to release it now #moon song is sooooooo relevant to emilie agreste. or the version of her that exists in my head. #(all that anyone has of her is the version of her that exists in their head) #i thought about cleaning this up and then i didn’t👍 #anyway happy friday. happy march. soon #ml #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #emilie agreste #nathalie sancoeur #adrien agreste #my art

[br1ghtestlight]

bob's burgers is like the opposite of those cartoon network or disney shows that are explictly written for kids but have a few darker scenes so everyone is like "omg there's no way this was meant for kids!!!1!!1" in that its an Adult animated sitcom on a network for adults and airs alongside adult tv shows like the simpsons and family guy but people keep trying to say it's a family-friendly show and totally made for kids bcuz it doesn't have excessive shock humor or swearing or gore. u can tell the intended audience isn't children bcuz they exclusively make pop culture references to middle aged dad movies from the 80s and 90s

#I do think it's mostly fine for anyone over the age of like nine or ten to watch. maybe even younger #depends on the episode #but calling it a kid-friendly show feels like a bit of a stretch lmao #and being somewhat appropriate for kids viewing doesn't mean its accessible for them on a humor or storyline level #(kinda. it's a complicated situation bcuz of how it is written now) #bob's burgers #txt

[mustangs-flames]

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#took my anxiety meds and did my cbt exercises and am doing a bit better now #turns out i had forgotten to take them today #and a bunch of random stuff triggered a bit of a spiral #one of those being about horror story creation and how anyone who writes/makes horror content is- #inherently an evil person and shouldn't be making it. so yeah. uh. seeing that during an anxiety episode didn't help out at all lmao #i got scared thinking i had hurt everyone in the world by writing a horror series #despite. you know. tagging all my stories age-appropriately. tagging content. and even providing content warnings on each chapter #like. i think i do a lot more than some creators do when being responsible about horror or handling certain topics in my writing #especially because of the religious trauma #and the bad childhoods and parents. and the fear of god and how it can negatively impact one's queerness and identity #and i mean. i've always been clear that if i ever forget to tag something that all you have to do is let me know and i will fix it asap #idk. not saying i'm like a beacon if perfection but i try to rationalise to my anxiety that i am doing the most i can #if that makes sense? #anyway. sorry about my break earlier #tw: vent

[falled-over]

i am actually un diagnosing as autistic due to my proficiency at eye contact. i in fact have to remind myself to look away thats how good i am at it. i would get an A+ in eye contact

#for anyone outside of the know i will explain the joke because my sarcasm doesnt always read as such; #autistic people often struggle with disliking eye-contact and many have practiced rituals for the normal amount of eye contact which are so #distracting to perform correctly that they can lose focus on what the conversation is about #i personally was reprimanded for gazing off into space quite young so i have zero issue looking people in the eye when they talk #but i dont know what the appropriate amount is. so i do too much. #i seriously just stare at them intently for the entire time the both of us are speaking and have to manually look away when i speak (normal #way to act based on observation) and occasionally glance off around me #so the joke is i still struggle with eye contact. but most people wouldnt realise that because they think autism is the same for erryone #my overcompensation due to my natural awkwardness makes me struggle in the opposite way #its also a joke about how because people think all autism is the same many people dont get diagnosed. never been an issue for me personally #because i realised at an age at which support is no longer really offered so all it would get me is banned from entry into some countries #(autistic people are barred from becoming citizens in some countries due to perceived higher support needs) #also i once said to my dad i thought i had adhd and he said 'you dont have adhd. you know that'. and my mum regularly talks about autistic #people as a third party to me. and about how she works with them #to be fair to both of them my dad is 100% autistic and knows it (accepted this fact at51) and my mum is probably autistic but i dont want to #talk to her about it so shes just going to be weird forever #oversharing online is important because what if someone wanted to know that

[caffeinatedopossum]

Thinking about that time when I was pressured into giving my testimony by not only my peers but also one of the religious leaders at my church even though I kept stating I didn't want to and was uncomfortable.

And then when I finally did, the testimony I told was about how I'd learned that not all Christians were good people and about how people had used god, Christianity, and their authority to hurt me and people I loved and how I was having to seperate the way they acted from the beliefs I held and then everyone looked at me like this:

#im not even a Christian anymore and im STILL having to work on this #i want to make sure im being the appropriate amount of a dickhead to people #christian that thinks abusing and harrassing people is okay? hello im hear to be a dickhead to you #but Christian who is simply respectfully and peacefully practicing their religion? i really should not be a dickhead to that person #basically deconstructing and trying ti heal from my trauma so thaf i dont continue the cycle or hive birth to a new one #id like the abuse to end with me #i thought this instance was hilarious though #also for anyone who doesnt know what a testimony is: #im not sure the exact definition but basically you talk about how you found god or something #usually the more grueling and horrible your life was before you converted and the better it was after the more encouraged youd be by others #a very common example was people who had struggled with addiction or alcoholism and then recovering because of their new faith #but i was very uncomfortable because everyone else in the group i was in was born and raised Christian and i knew this #we were also between the ages of like 12 and 16 so not exactly rife with devastating additions or tales of loss and grief #i think the most convincing one and the one that was the least dramatized or confusing was just this one kid #this one kid who talked a out how being born prematurely had affected his life and i think his parents also got divorced #or he had an absent dad or something #anyway moral of the story: dont pressure people to tell you things. its disrespectful and you may find you dont like the story you get

[scribblecrumbs]

do we ever find out nie huisang’s birth name?? bc huisang has to be his courtesy name right? lowkey wish that fics would at least make one up sometimes

#mdzs #like i get that mxtx never had a reason for some characters to be called by their birth names #but cmon fanfics #feels weird when huisang is close enough to another character in a fic that birth names would be appropriate #but everyones still callin him huisang #or if its little kid huisang #poor 7 year old got no birth name i guess #jin ling has the opposite issue #fanfics always forget that his courtesy name is jin rulan #like cmon it you’ve aged up the juniors in ur fic enough that jin ling is over 15 #then you have GOTTA start using rulan in there #its so wildly inappropriate for everyone and anyone to be calling him jin ling once he’s that age and ALSO a sect leader

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

modern productions of cats stop age-ing down the characters challenge. let jelly be older let jenny be older let skimble be older. and not even casting wise because that is another discussion entireely i think. just how the characters get played they most seem to be so much younger. even munkustrap skews SO young lately and hes not even an old character

One of my IRL friends once said that Munkustrap is a 40 year old man and I have never been able to read him as anything else, and tbh that tracks. Hard agree. Munkustrap being anything but in his thirties or more does not compute to me. Late twenties if I am being *really* generous. The vocal maturity alone is already in this...really weird young tenor high spot that I don’t like - what I’m going to call the “theatre kid” belt voice fresh outta school and it stayed that way - the 2016 Revival, if you will. 

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me. 

I will say I don’t think we can fully separate the conversation of the casting age of the performers from this overall point - 20 year-olds really shouldn’t be playing individuals who are meant to be 50 plus when the performance world already has so few roles for them/fucks them over by casting younger people in age makeup when they do. Like, no, Old Deuteronomy shouldn’t be 26 in 2022. Doesn’t matter how good they are - they’ll still be good in fifteen years. Neither should Gus. Neither should Grizabella. That should be the baseline standard on its own. With the other cats that are perhaps meant to be on the older side (though again, this is more up to interpretation in, say, Skimble’s case but tbh it has no reason to be), you can get moreso away from stricter limitation and “act” a bit older and cast more vocally mature individuals, but like...30+ year old performers exist. Their abilities don’t suddenly disappear after they turn 40. They don’t stop existing after 50. If they’re worried about them keeping up or their ability to perform in something demanding like CATS up to 9-10 times a week, cast multiples - Korean and Japanese theatre does this all the time (what was that? more money? that sounds like a production company problem to me).

But that’s just my opinion. 

#jellicles ask because jellicles dare #anonymous #this felt appropriate for oldies week #I feel like especially lately in the performance world the scale of age diversity is like #...kid - teenager(!!) - YOUNG ADULT - parent adult(??)...elderly so probably dying #anything in between is a specialty role #kade skews younger too - maybe it's just a US tour thing - idk what people are talking about saying his voice is more mature #it's not #just slightly less nasally theatre kid #and the idea i guess is they want to appeal to fresh new audiences to continue ticket sales but like my dude #my broski - this show is 40 years old #they are cat people on stage #if the youngins aren't flocking to your theatre it's not because of the age of your perfoemers (and if it is yikes on them) #(yikes on anyone who thinks that) #it's a concept of consumability and i will not elaborate further

[muzzlemouths]

wanting to remind everyone that I am an Adult and while it is rare, I will reblog the occasional (and appropriately tagged) suggestive art. If you're under the age of like, 16 minimum, this blog probably ain't for you

#muzz mumbles #I hate to be making this post because I'm very grateful for anyone who follows or reblogs from me #but I got a couple new followers recently and they were like 13/14 #and that's. like this blog is not meant for someone that age #I know you think you're mature for your age. I get it. I was thirteen too #HOWEVER #i'm just not sure how comfortable I am with someone half my age following me #if nothing else at least block the appropriate tags. i am begging

[outofmymindbebacklater]

ffs as if some of y’all are seriously expecting a TWELVE year old to wear contacts for an entire show production ?? when they can dry up ur eyes, mess up ur vision, and in general ppl should avoid putting things in their eyes if they can avoid it? shame on you.

same with bleaching her hair/dyeing walker’s hair. hair dye damages hair. tom felton’s hair was damaged from being malfoy. even if we had a blonde actress, kids rarely stay blonde through puberty, so it would likely not last long and then we’d have the same issue. walker doesn’t have black hair. suck it up. yall really are putting the visual appearance of book characters (who were described maybe twice in the books) over the comfort of real human children.

#the actors looking different in the show doesn't mean the characters are changed for good #you can still imagine them however you want #it doesn't erase 15 years of fanfiction and imagining the characters #now we just have one more way to imagine them #these actors are the best people for the jobs and wouldn't yall want accurate portrayals rather than looking right? #they're demigods and hardly anyone irl have the physical features described in the books #blonde and grey eyes? black hair green eyes? #hardly anyone looks like that irl #and finding an age-appropriate ACTOR who is fit for the role would be next to impossible #some ppl are being ridiculous #don't forget these are real human kids you're projecting ur character visions on #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo adaptation #my sister has -8 vision and she would rather lug glasses around than wear contacts #you can't wear contacts when ur sweaty or it's raining #it's crazy to expect a kid to wear it for a whole 5-season show #yelling into the void

[bookwyrminspiration]

Hey do you remember that weird Alicorn s3x scene in book 4? What even was that bro

I do remember it Nonsie. Page 460 of Neverseen (at least in the paperback edition). For anyone who doesn't remember, please allow me to refresh your memory:

More memories flooded Sophie's head of Silveny's life at the Sanctuary--everything clean and comfortable and cared for. Plenty of food. Plenty to do. Flying with Greyfell. Chasing Greyfell. Playing with Greyfell. Wait--that wasn't playing…. "Gah!" Sophie said, shoving the last image out of her mind. TMI, SIlveny. Too. Much. Information! She knew it was supposed to be a natural, beautiful thing. But ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Can't believe sex is canon in the kotlcverse. And the next day when she broke the news to her friends and grumbled about how "She showed me..." they all knew what she was talking about and the phrase alicorn baby-making was mentioned. It is canon that the kotlcrew know about sex.

Which is like...you know what? You're right! Kids that age generally do know about sex and babymaking. I know I did. I know my sister does. That's also probably how all conversations about sex went outside of educational classes where some would be more professional, so Shannon really got the mood of the conversation right.

It's just also very...surprising? You don't expect that kind of thing to be brought up in a series about a human-raised elf girl trying to defeat an arson-loving evil rebel organization. Especially with the age range. My guess here is that it's mentioned vaguely enough that she can get away with it for the amusement of older readers who have the same reaction or those that understand while it flies over the youngest readers' heads. And also it's tame enough that it doesn't cause publishing problems. I mean all it really says is "that's not playing" and "it's natural and beautiful but also eww" and "babymaking."

It does also seem to be a little bit of a trend that everything surrounding babies and having them is more mentioned. We know about Emma Foster's fertility issues and her miscarriages, we know about Trolls giving birth at a really early stage and how they're put in hives, we know elves' belly buttons turn pink and pop out when they get pregnant and that they feel no pain at birth, and we've got all the alicorn pregnancy things that even has a whole birth scene. It just seems to be a part of the worldbuilding that Shannon doesn't skip over where other authors might! Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I think it's just off-putting for all of us who are so used to those kinds of things being skipped over and danced around.

Because Sophie was right! Sex is natural and can be beautiful and it is how you make babies. And kids the kotlcrew's age know that--I don't know about you, but it was around age 9 that my schools really started teaching sex ed, so I'm betting even a lot of the youngest audiences for kotlc have some knowledge on the subject. Not true for everyone, but true for some. It's not taboo and it shouldn't be demonized because sex ed and the normalization is a good thing!

However it can still be off-putting or uncomfortable, and that's okay. No one is required to be comfortable with the topic. Some people are going to be weirder out and skip over that conversation because as natural as sex is, not everyone likes talking about it.

I suppose my conclusion from all of this is, you're right it is kinda weird! The very clearly implied references to sex is unusual in a series like this and off-putting to a lot of people. But it's also a normal topic that people are aware of and sex isn't this inherently evil thing, so I don't think it's bad and needs to be removed. It's different than what we've all grown to expect, but it's also brief enough that discomfort is quickly moved past while still making the topic normal, you know?

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #quil's queries #nonsie #tw sex #tw sex mention #this was longer than I meant to make it #i originally started out like 'haha yeah weird' but then started actually thinking about and went ' well actually you know what' #also to be clear this is not to say that you or anyone else is wrong for thinking it's weird or being off-put or anything! #like anyone can feel anyway they want about the situation #this is just /my/ conclusion #which is that sex is a thing and kids know about it #and that the humor it's used for here is kid appropriate and tailors to that age range's general knowledge and perspective #at least in the us. which is where shannon is from and likely basing a lot on #so it's unexpected but harmless. that's my general thought process! #long post

[hella1975]

i got a bonus + raise and ive only been working like 3 months im soso excited sorry i just wanted to tell someone

AH THAT'S SO EXCITING! im so happy for you bestie <3

#WHEN IS IT MY TURN! #did i tell you guys that there's a waitress at work who not only is younger than me BUT has only been there like 2 months #and me and one of the OG waitresses (she's been there even longer than i have and there's a real solidarity amongst the OG crowd now) #were talking to this waitress and she goes 'oh yeah i get paid £10.18 an hour lol. DONT tell anyone' #and to contextualise this england has minimum wages that differ based on age brackets #where it's like £5 for under 18s. £7.49 for 18-20 (my bracket) and then it jumps to £10.18 when you turn 21 #so this 19 YEAR OLD NEW WAITRESS was getting paid the wrong minimum wage bracket that baso saw her earning £3 extra an HOUR #than us. which is an insane amount to build up over a long time like ik it doesn't sound like much but TRUST ME it is #and i felt a bit bad for her bc she's new to waitressing and generally quite naive and it SHOWS #like if they put ME on the wrong pay bracket id take that shit to my grave i would NOT risk that being taken from me #but she was just joking with us clearly expecting a PLATONIC social interaction and not a WORKPLACE interaction #like at the end of the day im friends with the people i work with and i not only like this girl but hold nothing against her #BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR IT TO AFFECT MY LITERAL WAGES!!!! I NEED THAT MONEY!!!!! #so yeah me and the other waitress fully snitched and i kinda hoped management might give us some sort of hush bonus #but all they did was lower the girl to the appropriate wage which. fair and again i feel bad for her but WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT #so yeah thats MY luck with wages anonstie lmao ur thriving in comparison <3 #ask

[huntedvideo]

like this to plot a romantic ship with fin.

#im feelin lovey rn #open to anyone who is interested + has an age appropriate muse!

[sanstropfremir]

So I’ve seen styling criticism of New Jeans floating around Stan twitter of late, and was curious what your thoughts are since I don’t particularly trust twitter 😅

Essentially, the internet seems to not love their outfits from Kcon japan and from I believe the fact music awards? Whatever recent awards show they went to.

To be fair, the outfits are a statement, and aren’t in line with what anyone else is currently wearing so I can see why people have feelings on them. But personally, while I wouldn’t wear them myself, I kind of love them? I think young people today who didn’t live through the so called Y2K era don’t realize just how insane and unflattering so much of the fashion was. It was like kitsch threw up everywhere sometimes, and bigger and more obvious was always better. So honestly, I kind of think that, among kpop styling, these outfits are truer to the early 00s than most of the other popular stuff. But I recognize that the trend these days is to be “aesthetic”, probably since everything ends up online for immediate and widespread consumption in a way that wasn’t possible 20 years ago, so real 00s stuff is never gonna fit that aesthetic mold.

That’s my theory at least, but I’m curious what your thoughts are!

..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................why are people mad at these. this is literally just what teenagers wore in 2005. well i know why people are mad at these and that's because they're all young adults who have never known a world where things were imperfect and weird because we weren't living under the panopticon of social media watching our every move. i was literally just talking to someone about how i used to cut thumbholes in all of my sweater sleeves in middle school and for like probably three or four years i wore like ten non-matching necklaces at all times. the real y2k was ugly as hell and we should be going back to that! everything now is so aestheticized and optimized for being the most attractive and it all has to be packaged perfectly for getting the most likes on these apps bc that's how young kids are getting their validation. things can't be ugly in their world because the parameters of what 'beautiful' is have closed in around them without them even knowing any different, so they won't accept anything even a little bit ''''experimental'''' from people they see as the pinnacles of that perfect manicured aesthetic because they don't know how to.

#newjeans w #stan twt overreacts over literally fucking NOTHING i thought i was gonna see something actually weird #but it was literally just oversized sports jerseys. y'all are pathetic (derogatory) #this is literally nothing compared to anything anyone wore on a music show in the years before 2015 #kpoppies are just weak #i think we should just nuke the twitter servers tbh #oh so y'all liked it when they had borderline inappropriate styling #but hate it now that they're wearing things actual teenagers wore in the years they have as their concept? #i wish stan twitter a very die :) #oh is it making you uncomfortable how young they are now that they actually look it??? is it????? #they should put them in increasingly more lisa frank jojo siwa ass styling i wanna see stan twt cry #none of y'all would have actually survived the 2000s shut UP #also im sorry but their kcon outfits are literally just what every second bg is wearing rn #INCLUDING the crop top #and they are cute outfits! like i would have died to be friends with those girls in 2008 #i cannot believe people are outraged about age appropriate stylings........smh #text #answers #no one in the history of ever has been ready for the conversation of unpacking why 'ugly' is used as an insult #and why ugliness is directly associated with being 'of lesser value' #anyways im gonna go watch every dawn mv like 12 times just to make up for this bullshit

[night-dark-woods]

oooooh i want to read SOMETHING but i dont know what

#i have a glynda/cinder fic open thats pretty good but neither of them have enough Gender goin on for what my brain wants rn #i could reread the kigo fic. again. #or the stone butch geralt fic... i try to stagger my rereads on that to savor them appropriately though #so maybe i will see if griddlehark has anything to offer me #OR. i could start a gay thief books reread. good old 80s-90s fantasy books. #or i could finish my baru cormorant reread im like a quarter of the way thru monster on a reread #but i think i mostly just want to read something with butches OR a classic 'girl dresses up as a boy to do x y z' book which. #may mean its time for an alanna reread of the first book at least since that has aged the least poorly #anyway. if anyone has recs for fics or books with butch characters. please. im dying here.

[muu-kun]

muu, why did you turn out this way.

#and by that I mean muus really unhealthy habit of finding the person who dislikes him the most in a social group #or he finds to be the one who holds him at the greatest distance #and makes them his social project to prove to them that time with him can be as valuable as it is with anyone else #this has been an ongoing thing since he was sixteen so really I have to wonder tho like what fragment of his character #is the one most responsible for that level of behavior #the only thing I do know is that it IS a mother wound hence why those same men he will plead to get good attention from are #strangely categorized in his mind at time as mother or sought motherly connection from as I have Examples #and I should also say that muu has only successfully established a close friendship with 1 one of these chosen few #and that was royce because he refused to accept the narrative that the only thing that man was ever going to was hit him lmao and he won #but everyone else was very much so a loss so really his numbers are like 1 in whatever at this point #which is really why at this point in time I have to kind of nudge to people that if he appears obsessive about your character #or abnormally needy in a way yet moody in an almost less than age appropriate manner than one would expect from a 26 year old #it is because is That person that makes him feel bad about himself and he won't Just Tell them That