i was so fixated on killing myself I never knew when I turned 20, 21, 22, 23
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you know i mentioned last night that i realized only *after* i started rereading david copperfield that since i recently became an aunt, i was gonna see the story from a whole new angle and start relating more to betsey trotwood. i didn't even think about how at salem house i was gonna be poor mr. mell...
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If there's one thing about me its that I'm shit at math but y'all do realize that if regulus was born in December then he'd either have had to be born in 1960 or he would've been two years younger than Sirius and therefore two years below them in school right
No matter what google or wiki or anything else says, he has to have been born sometime between January 1st and August 31st 1961
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its crazy that im turning 19 considering ive felt 15 since i almost offed myself when i was
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Wait what does elder in the LDS church mean? What do people think it means? I am so ignorant of it all but I feel like it's important to know since they're so influential in certain places
I think the line I was referring to was "He’d also been an elder in the LDS church but was excommunicated"
To someone unfamiliar, "He'd also been an elder" might sound like he was 'high ranking', but it really just means he spent two years of his life away from home preaching the gospel that would never love him back.
Elder is the honorific you use for a boy who is serving a mission! These are generally teenage boys (18 and 19 and 20ish. The mission lasts for two years and is pretty damn culturally mandatory for boys) So it's a term of respect, but also doesn't imply age or wisdom. Like, for serious, I was taught to look up to the missionaries my whole childhood, but from this end of time I'm like 'oh god they're babies why are we sending them out to represent us they've never even done their own laundry' whoops
Everyday members refer to each other as Brother and Sister Lastname. Men get called by different titles based on the roles they're serving, like Elder for missionaries, Bishop for Bishops, and President for a variety of things from the president of the local group of congregations (a stake) to the actual Prophet and First Presidency of the church.
Women never really get any titles other than Sister, even the ones who are active missionaries. Something something sexism something something a woman's highest honor isn't priesthood it's MOTHERHOOD (unless you're gay in which case you don't need a family it's fine suck it up......)
The role and title associated with age and wisdom that Elder might seem to imply- to someone doesn't know it generally applies to teenagers- is Patriarch.
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throwback to when i was one of the taller kids in my class all of highschool. now im the same height as these fucking school age bitches
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ahh here’s another blurb hehe hope y’all enjoy this one
young y/n x harry
y/nlovesdogs is the private account HAHA i couldn’t think of interesting name LOL
fc: Lexi Jayde y’all should listen to her music!!
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hsupdates harry recently seen out with a new girl??
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harryfan7 did he not spot the camera this time…
harryfan8 stop we need to give him privacy
harryfan11 my man looks good but why is he hanging out with my girlfriend…
harryfan1 @/harryfan11 wait who is she
harryfan11 @/harryfan1 her name is y/n she’s a singer and her music is so beautiful
harryfan33 HELLO Y/N?????
harryfan73 new girl??? she could be his friend
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dailymail Singer Harry Styles has been recently spotted various times with upcoming 21 year old artist Y/N Y/L. An insider has revealed to us that they have been seeing each other for about a year. What are your thoughts?👀
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harryfan98 wait she’s 21…
harryfan9 she so beautiful but like what
user284 i’m sorry what- why is she with someone older than her she’s was practically just a teenager
user917 they are literal adults those are my thoughts…
harryfan31 that means they have been seeing each other since she was like 20… and he was like 28
harryfan74 A YEAR HELLO?? there’s no way they have not been spotted until now
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y/nupdates harry attended my gf’s birthday party umm… anyways they look cute together
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harryfan11 okay but i need to know what song they were singing together
y/nfan7 i feel like this relationship is going to be interesting
y/nfan19 STOPPP WHATTT WHERE DID U GET THIS FROM
y/nupdates @/y/nfan19 her bff posted the picture but took it down after 4 minutes 😭😭😭
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yourinstagram I’m officially 21 I remember thinking this was so far away BUT HELLO!!! anyways thank you so much for all the birthday wishes :))) I love y’all guys. And because y’all weren’t at my birthday party here’s a cupcake 🧁 and a little surprise I’m having a birthday show tomorrow hope to see y’all’s beautiful faces!!
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yourbff MY BEST FRIEND IS OFFICIALLY 21 i love you so much now we can actually drink together
yourinstagram @/yourbff 😭😭 you have been waiting you just had to wait 4 more months
y/nfan9 stop i’ve been listening to your music since you were 19 and i remember that story you posted saying 21 felt so faraway akskkd
yourinstagram @/y/nfan9 omg stopp thank you so much for sticking around 🥹🤍
lizzymcalpine happy birthday!!!!
yourinstagram @/lizzymcalpine THANK YOU <33
y/nfan19 thank you for the cupcake 😜
harryfan11 okay harry liking this post
y/nfan37 IM GOING TO GO BROKE BUT IDC
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hsupdates omgg harry seen at y/n birthday show UMM HELLOOO
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harryfan11 MY PARENTS I REPEAT I SHIP SO MUCH I LOVE
y/nfan9 I WAS IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE WAS RECORDING LIKE THE WHOLE SHOW😭😭😭😭😭
harryfan9 @/y/nfan9 wait really stopp
y/nfan9 @/harryfan9 YES basically I was looking for my friend because we were supposed to meet up and i turned around and i saw him just smiling with his phone out 😭😭
harryfan81 she looked so beautiful
y/nfan10 the way there’s a video of harry joining the crowd singing happy birthday to y/n
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y/nhq the first birthday show of many!! hope y’all all had a wonderful time!!
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y/nfan9 i’m glad i spent my recent paycheck to buy birthday show tickets
y/nfan11 i’ve never had more fun than I did last night!!!
harryfan19 the first concert of y/n that i went to and i can gladly say i would definitely go again and again
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y/nlovesdogs i never thought Lani would love my bf more than me
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yourbff that is literally disrespectful Lani has known me longer and she has never liked me but she meets hArry ONCE AND LIKES HIM
harryprivate @/yourbff sorry not sorry i’m just better 😁😁
yourbff @/harryprivate yeah whatever still I’ve known Lani longer
gemmastyles omg Lani!! she’s so cute
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y/nupdates Y/N CHANGED THE SETLIST HELP also she looked so distracted the whole show
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y/nfan93 i agree she looked so sad and not her self tonight hope she’s okay
y/nfan64 you guys also harry hasn’t been seen at her shows as often
y/nfan86 @/y/nfan64 yk he also has a life and not all the time he will be attending her shows
y/nfan64 @/y/nfan64 ik that but he has been spotted at most of her Europe leg tour and the last 2 shows he wasn’t seen
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hsupdates harry in tokyo recently
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harryfan11 HELP HE WAS JUST IN LONDON WHAT
harryfan9 is this why he wasn’t a y/n show
harryfan85 he is so random like why…😭😭
harryfan75 okay but that pictures looks so funny 😭
harryfan9 he just loves Japan
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harryfan11 NO HARRY WHAT HELP WHATT
y/nfan7 umm.. not to say I didn’t say anything
y/nfan91 you guys maybe this is why he wasn’t at her shows
harryfan9 WTF WTF
harryfan8 i don’t think they broke up because he was seen at her shows 3 days before him being spotted in Tokyo…
harryfan11 @/harryfan8 i’m going to ignore what i’m thinking rn…
harryfan84 HELP THIS BETTER BE A LIE
harryfan93 HELP WHAT WHERE IS Y/N NO HARRY
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yourinstagram fuck you for wasting my love , I’m better off without you
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y/nfan9 ARE THOSE LYRICS
y/nfan63 OH-
yourbff please y/n put it out alr
yourinstagram @/yourbff shhh it will be out soon you need to patient
harryfan11 are these lyrics about harry because UMMM WHATT
harryfan52 WOAHHH NEW MUSIC also she’s so beautiful like my crush
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y/nfan9 YOU GUYS I JUST MET Y/N SHES THE SWEETEST HUMAN BEING EVER IM CRYINF WHILE TYPING THIS
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harryfan11 how does it feel to hug my gf 🥲🥲
y/nfan96 HELP WHERE
y/nfan9 @/y/nfan96 mmm a surprise listening party…
y/fan18 she’s out here just surprising me daily
y/nfan14 how does it feel to live my dream
y/nfan13 okay the name in the back??? sijs
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yourinstagram I’m happy to announce my third albulm!! closer to closure will be out tonight and because I love y’all so much here’s the track list!! Hope y’all love this album as much as I do
1. newbury park
2. you don’t deserve these tears
3. homesick
4. drunk text me
5. august 5, 2022
6. cruel intentions
7. hate to be you
8. self sabotage
9. gentle
10. someday
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yourbff FINALLY I CAN STREAM THESE SONGS
y/nfan9 AHHHH THANK YOU FOR MORE MUSIC
harryfan11 I JUST KNOW THESE ARE GOING TO BE GOOD
harryfan84 I CANNOT WAIT TO LISTEN!!!
y/nfan19 OMG OMG OMG
y/nfan62 this will be the only thing I will be listening thank you
y/nfan this is the best news to wake up to AHH
omg this was long and once again did not proofread this so grammar mistakes will be found I might do a part 2 to this i’m not sure if i like this i wanted to post something because next week will be so stressful i need to work on my paper🥲🥲 and for requests i’m working on them hopefully will be posted by the end of next week. like and reblog and thank you for the likes on my first instagram blurb!!
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i had the most unbelievably frustrating conversation the other day over the complete failure of modern criticism to recognize the most basic forms of misogyny, especially in mainstream media, and how the inability to recognize these things was leading to a death in entertainment for young women that wasn’t regressive or insulting to their capabilities. the attempt to rehabilitate “twilight”, a novel in which the protagonist (who i am told has no personality or interests, outside of getting attention to boys, on purpose in order to act as a proxy for the reader) must choose between her family, her future, her dreams, her wants, and her desires or what her boyfriend wants, is an example.
“lore olympus” has drifted significantly from its original central contrived plot revolving around persephone maintaining her virginity (?!) so she can keep her college scholarship, but the original concept appeared to offer the female readership a choice: either stay in school or become the 19 year old object of sexual obsession of a man nearly 3x your age, which is good, because he will take care of you. the protagonist is a waifish, weak, emotional, perpetual victim of the world around her who needs men to com rescue her from even the mildest of situations.
inexplicable cult classic “jupiter ascending” revolves entirely around who she should marry. she does absolutely nothing in the entire movie except get shuffled from set piece to set piece as she must choose whether to marry the heterosexual buff dog man or the effeminate villain. tbh all of these properties are very similar to me in my head; they fail basic sniff tests but are gobbled up by masses who, i had thought, were more capable of discerning these concepts.
the inability to escape properties with these elements contributed significantly to my downward spiral as i became a teen/adult. there was a dawning horror that the number of avenues for success on my own were being deliberately made unavailable to me in order to keep an entire half of the population indebted to the other. that the expectation was not that i would get a job out of school, take care of myself, maybe meet someone along the way, maybe have a kid if it works out. i was supposed to get a degree, as a joke i guess or just to waste my time since i wasn’t REALLY supposed to get a real job, and then immediately i would be used as childcare/a live in maid because my interests were secondary to those of the man i was expected to marry (im also bi so that added another fun twist to it lol). my 20s and 30s were supposed to be used on children and taking care of my husband. this realization made it feel like i was trapped in a box that shrunk and shrunk and threatened to crush me under the pressure from all sides to be something i couldnt even comprehend people wanted to be.
pointing out the existence and proliferation of what, to me, are extremely basic concepts to reject as a feminist, causes people to launch into a type of defense that feels like it comes from another planet. accusations of puritanism, censorship, being the actual misogynist, etc. i dont know how to explain to people that pointing these things out, LIKE I AM DOING IN THIS POST LIKE THIS LEVEL OF DISCUSSION, is not a call for it to be banned or removed or changed or whatever. the purpose of bad art is to discuss it and learn from it. we’re supposed to dissect it and why it came into existence, not stomp out anything that isn’t flawlessly progressive.
if i didnt have anything to complain about i’d get bored lol. how is a critic supposed to criticize without criticism, you know.
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Hey. Serious post. Trigger warning for sexualization of minors.
Yes. This is about Scepterno. Of course it's about Scepterno. I am not going to censor his name, because everyone should know what is going on with him.
He has responded to my post about him, where I said he was actively talking about Alenoah nsfw. I am going to respond to that.
Let's talk!
"i have seen the Posts and im laughing very hard HAHAH not only is Noah a fictional character, he is canonically 19 in the show. and is around my age. even if he werent.... i dont care. cuz he's fake. i can do whatever i want to him because hes not real. yall need to go outside and find some real problems to talk about. this is just plain sad !!!"
This is a serious issue. You want to know why? Because it has been proven multiple times that fiction DOES in fact affect reality. This is a very serious issue. The Total Drama Fandom has a lot of kids in it. Total Drama is a show for children. Children can find your very public blog, see you talking on public about alenoah nsfw, and they will normalize it. You wanna know how I know this? Because I've experienced this myself! Children stumble upon things that they're not supposed to see! You are coming into a space that is filled with minors, because this is a TV show for CHILDREN, and you are talking about these minors characters in a way that is messed up. I am scared for the minors that will see your post.
"PLEASE. guys. please. grow up. im begging you to stop worrying about the imaginary rights of FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. genuinely. for you own mental health. please find real issues to worry about in life. have fun. stop torturing yourself with drama that doesnt matter. at all. youre going to make fandom an absolutely miserable place if all you do is scream and tantrum over what other people do with what are essentially TOYS"
I am worried about the the fucking children. About the VERY REAL children. And you know what? "Stop torturing yourself with drama that doesnt matter." Then why even address it in the first place? If it doesn't matter, why make a long angry post about it? Fandom is supposed to be a fun place. Fandom is supposed to be where you go and talk about your favorite show and post little things that you think about the media. Me "screaming" and throwing a "tantrum" is because you are coming into this space and making it a nasty place to be. Minors are not safe with you in the space.
"you do not care about morality you care about getting attention and feeling more powerful by bringing others down."
Here's my take. People have immoral thoughts about things. That's part of being human. But when you act on said thoughts, and post about it on the internet on your very public blog where everyone can see when they look you up, and you don't even have it tagged or anywhere stated on your blog that you don't want minors following, that's the part that I am shaming. There is something wrong with you for you to post something like that, and not even try to hide it from minor's eyes. I care about the people in this fandom. I am trying to keep people safe from people like you.
And now, the tags.
"I draw [noah] short because size difference is sexy and noah has short king energy."
Height headcanons are fine. But the fact that you are brining size difference into this? A kink? Yes, you are an adult, I'm a fucking adult. We have things that we are into, but you bringing it into this space where children are, that's where the problem is. You are not tagging it, you are posting it on your very popular and public account, where I do not doubt for a second that minors follow you.
"I want you to really self reflect on why your so quick to see a gay man and call him a predator"
I DIDNT EVEN FUCKING KNOW YOU WERE GAY.
I am gay myself. I am not calling your a predator for you being gay. I NEVER FUCKING SAID THAT. I am calling you a creep for fucking talking about alenoah nsfw! I am calling you a creep for drawing nsfw of minors! I am calling you a creep for drawing incest art! Using this "It's because I'm gay" defense, it doesn't fucking make sense! No where have I ever said you're weird because you're gay. You are a fucking creep for talking about alenoah like that.
I am begging everyone to unfollow, block, and get this person off the platform. They are not welcomed here.
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Im the CSA victim from UniformedArtists blog and I agree with you 1000% dropping everything Vivziepop.
Like I only watch Helluva even after the shit she's done to see how far it would sink but jesus christ.
You know her just saying the counselor is 18-19 isn't fucking good enough because the show says a different thing.
Like before people bring up the argument counselors can be adults... Most TV shows in media actually have minor counselors and we know Vivziepop doesn't research shit about hell or actual royalty so why the fuck am I supposed to believe Adam or her researched counselor age ranges.
Also nobody should have a twitter to figure out if you did or didn't make a grooming subplot.
You know in Curse of Strahd there's a controversial character Gertruda who 50 (500) year old Strahd is implied to planning take as another bride because of where you find her and in the book it states she's recently a teenager. However as much as I hate this plot line due to trauma I understand why it was added because WOTC portrays Strahd as a piece of shit. Like his goal is to chase down the reincarnation of his brother's fiance throughout time until he catches her, makes her a vampire and possibly brainwash/assault her to make her love him. Strahd is meant to be a gross creep. I as a DM and many other age Gertruda up to 18 because we don't want a pedo plot line and it keeps the predatory nature of Strahd intact.
Barbie seems to be portrayed in a significantly more positive light and her grooming behavior is never called out as a bad thing. Like Moxxie should say something at god damn least since he has morals.
There are so many things wrong with the EP. What gets me is writing has multiple stages, first the person needs to come up with the EP pitch, get the directer or network's approval, finish the first draft, then revisit it for grammar mistakes and continuity, then revise it a few more times for a stronger script, and send it to the directer or network again to approve of filming the finish script and that's not even counting how long animation takes too. So during the process of writing to animating, did no one at SpindleHorse see how weird and problematic the script was? The camp for pre-teens is called, "IWannaKumMore"(Their logo being a cum splat), Millie and Moxxie's human backstories of being siblings then making out at the end was unnecessary because they could have just been good friends whose mothers sent them to the same camp, Moxxie this grown ass adult who pretending to be a pre-teen is acting sexual and wants the kids attention, Millie who everyone else thinks is a young boy is getting sent nudes from kids and adults, and Barbie saying how easy teenagers are to manipulate then flash her ass to a boy is implying she grooms kids.
To be clear, I don't have a problem when a dark comedy make these types of jokes as all as they portray the topics and groomers as bad and show they understand that. SpindleHorse did not, like you mentioned they portrayed Barbie in the positive light and Moxxie never calls out her behavior despite being the voice of reason. In fact the tone of the Barbie's scene was supposed to funny but not in a dark ironic way. I don't understand why the camp couldn't be for college students and the consolers are stated and look like actual adults. Everything about the canon camp is childish and filled with teenagers, it's very uncomfortable to see them in sexual situations. In America the youngest a camp counselor can be is 15 y/o but that changes from states to states so no body has a clue, also with the camp counselor having a pitch voice, Barbie referring to him as kid and teenager and him, not once trying to correct her about his actual age, I'm convinced he was kid but Viv had to age him up for damage control.
I'm sorry if this response is all over the place because I'm having trouble describing my thoughts but the writers are in their 30s, and they saw nothing wrong? The writing for HB has been going down for a while now and it was fun to see how the writing could get worse but never in my years of watching awful shows did the writing get so bad, the writers had to resort to terrible jokes about sexualizing teenagers, making an incest joke, and a minor getting groomed unironically. I can't support a person or company that are fine making content like that.
"Unhappy Teenagers" was the first time, I have watched a show and felt a sinking feeling in my gut so much so it still lingers even a day later. I never felt so sick from watching a show and I'm sorry writers and companies think making this type of content and jokes of your trauma and abused experience is okay to do.
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The discourse around the 19 year old being an innocent kid or a grown ass adult is fascinating, there's such a gap in how we percieve that age. While some people say that your brain hasn't developed until 25, to the majority of people who aren't so privileged that is so much older than the age they had to start being mature at.
Regardless of what your opinion is, it's interesting how not only your age but your culture and backgroung affect it. Im 16 and it hit me hard because i don't think im mature at all but im expected to act grown up. Im drowning under the responsibility, so i get whiplash seing comments that 19 year olds are supposed to trust their parents unconditionaly and be reckless.
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Honestly im just genuinely wanting to know where it states that the first cast being adults since my understanding was them still being young. Since they were the class after tth and we only ever keep getting the statement of a "few months" and being a prequel to tth.
If its 6.5 stating multiple years after disappearance I find it a bit harder purely since we get Rei's design change which I feel is supposed to imply a large jump of time between 6 and 6.5. (and with it she doesnt change from 6.5 to sdra2 when linuj is good about making characters change to show passage of time)
I would genuinely love to hear though since I care a lot about understanding canon ages and intended writing.
Tsurugi mentions in his FTE that Kouhei died 3 years ago, and Tsurugi was 14 when he died. Which means he's 17. Except no, since at that point they've still lost the memories of their school year.
Now, the THH cast get locked in at the end of their second year (and the GD cast's third year), which means the DRA cast were finishing their first year, which makes sense for them to be 17 then.
Then, there's two years between the THH cast being locked in the shelter and the killing game beginning.
While you could say that the Test Killing Game happened immediately after Class 78 was locked away, Junko and co. had a lot on their plate at the time and Class 79's killing game was specifically a test run of the more important killing game aimed at Class 78 (the THH one) and kind of a lower-priority project.
Lining up with LINUJ's statement that they're all adults, then, it makes perfect sense; the test killing game takes place 12-20 months after the end of DR3 Despair and the THH cast being locked in the shelter.
Therefore: the DRA cast are all 18 to 19.
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I'm not saying adults insisting they only need to read YA books and watch children's cartoons is leading to this culture wide phobia of sex which in turn is becoming a useful vector for the increasing spread of fascism except that is exactly what I'm saying.
Im not that anon but want to expand on their thought, if they're saying what I think they are.
I thought of this more when seeing an old post of someone saying their English teacher should have let them write a report on Divergent instead making them read 1984. Someone commented supporting the OP, saying that they never read Divergent, but 1984 is problematic. Iirc, the commenter referred to Winston (I think that's the protag in 1984; sorry I haven't reread it in years) as a creep. I can't remember is this specific commenter called Winston a misogynist, but that's a common complaint I hear when people say they don't like 1984.
The screenshot of that post also had other screenshots, including the twt posts of YA authors saying that the classics were problematic. It's a sentiment I keep seeing around book twt before I deactivated my account but still on booktube as well, and it's always booktubers who also read and rant about Colleen Hoover, because they know her name gets clicks. Or booktubers that do those videos titled "I read [old/popular/controversial] series so you don't have to".
Sorry, sliding off topic a bit. Going back to what anon said, YA books tend to be more sanitized. They're supposed to be written for a 15-19 audience, so sex and gore aren't supposed to be explicit. There are YA books with sex scenes. 2 I read recently have sex scenes, but they aren't explicit. One uses mostly poetic language and infers to what's happening, and the other essentially fades to black after they get into bed, as they're touching and then picks up the next morning. (One of these YA books had a big controversy on booktube a few years ago for being problematic, though. Gee, wonder why /s)
But for the most part, often for people who enjoy urban fantasy or romances but not steamy scenes, they may go for YA, since it's usually more "PG". Unfortunately, some people get it in their head that this makes YA inherently "better", that adult books that are being more explicit are only doing it to get more sales, when YA tbh has a tighter hold on it marketing-wise.
Okay, I'm not published (yet), but I've been studying it when I need to take a break from writing to see what course is best for me and what I want to write. YA is becoming oversaturated in the market, so it's not as big a "money making genre" for debut authors as it might have been once (and I'd argue that even in the past when YA was smaller, you still had to be lucky, known, or connected to get that 6-figure check for a debut YA novel). YA is more likely to get scrutinized, considering its supposed to he for a younger audience, so a YA author wanting to push boundaries is going to receive more push-back than an adult lit author.
Now pushback happens in adult lit, too, like Ava Reid saying her editor or publisher (I forget who) told her that Juniper&Thorn might be too dark. (I've read it. Yes, it's dark, but bad reviews I saw for the book blew it way out of proportion. If you (gen) like lyrical/poetic narration and gothic horror, I highly suggest it).
But it feels like there's more of a push to keep YA books "clean". You can find some outliers, but like the YA I mentioned above, those outliers in YA that push boundaries can get wrapped in controversy and called problematic.
And for whatever reason, some people on booktube say this is a good thing and say "think of the children!"
They will say censorship is bad but then advocate for sanitized YA to be read instead of classics, because the classics are "bad" and "teach bad things" and "should be left in the past". They advocate for censorship without realizing they are advocating for censorship. It's exhausting, and as someone who wants to be published and does enjoy a lot of YA, it makes me feel discouraged. I don't think I'm "pushing boundaries" at all in my writing or saying anything new, but I'm very sure it's not sanitized enough for most publishers, especially if I wanted to try for one of the beg houses in the US.
Tl;dr One of the major problems in this anti-intellectualism is capitalism.
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Hey btw not only is it very normal and perfectly fine to not have romantic experience at 19 but it could honestly be beneficial. I got in my first relationship at like 14 and proceeded to be stuck in it for 5 years with a guy who never rly thought of me as anything more than a sex object (insane cause we were the same age wtf), and it rly sucked!! Thankfully it was long distance for most of it. But I digress - you will probably appreciate the chance later to grow emotionally and enter into something when you’re ready! Plus you get all the teenage drama out of the way tbh sure not every adult acts like an adult but it’s a lot better to date as an adult imo 😂 You’re doing just fine and there’s no need to feel rushed into it!
i suppose mostly my worry is that i tend to assume the guys i like have more experience and i dont want to seem immature in comparison i guess. i’ve been babied and infantilized a lot of my life and i get worried that i’ll be continued to be treated that way 😭 i did have a short relationship with a dear friend of mine that only really happened because we were such close platonic friends that it felt like we.. should? but it was too awkward to do anything the whole time and ended well but its very much like. i feel kinda behind in a lot of things socially but i also dont want to be treated like im some innocent baby either, yknow?
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So what are we supposed to do not age them up and just write smut your them as minors? Because that doesn’t make sense because some of the characters that are minors have s3x or thing about it in the show so it doesn’t make sense that someone who is that same age as them can’t write smut about them.
what your supposed to do is not write smut in the first place. like you said they are MINORS. aged up or not. my moot @kiitoru said when she rebooted one of my posts about this was “if i tell a guy im 19 when im 16 because he’d 19 does not mean i magically aged 3 years because i said i was 19” same thing applies to aging a character. just because you said they are aged they are still a fucking MINOR. also in my eyes i jsut believe jo one should write smut for minors. even if your a minor yourself or an adult. of course i believe that writing smut for a minor as an adult is WAY WORSE you should simply not write that shit about them either way. wether it shows them doing it in the show or not. and that’s just how i see it if you simply don’t see it that way then fine. “age them up” right smut for them. sexualize a character YOUR AGE. just imagine if that was a real person? wouldn’t you be fucking weirded out? minor or not? because aging them up then CLEARLY dosent do shit. and the fact the minors have sex or whatever irl is not a good argument.
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2/19/24
Dear friend,
theres too much time left. i cant do this. its over 10 months until im 18 and over 16 months til I graduate. then i'd have to figure out how to leave, where to go, what to do. i wasnt supposed to exisit. i cant do this. its too long to keep living like this. my mom told my family that im a druggie and a dealer and that im abusive? i dont, im not, i promise. i babysit for free over 15 hours a week so she can get a break. i dont raise my voice and with the i was raised fuck knows i dont raise a hand. none of my relatives will help me when im an adult. i'm not really allowed or able to have friends. i cant do this. i cant do this. im sorry if i leave.
love always,
m.
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