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[ SECRET POST #2712 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2712 ⌋

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[Hemlock Grove]

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[The Walking Dead Game/Toy Story 3/etc]

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[Long Live the Queen]

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04. [repeat]

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[Rupaul's Drag Race]

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[Dr Who - An Adventure in Space and Time]

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07. http://i.imgur.com/TEcm28n.gif
[moving gif]

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[Conchita Wurst, Daniel Gildenlow]

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[petals on the wind]

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[Until the Full Moon]

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(Homestuck, John/Jade)

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[Homestuck]

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14. [WARNING for rape]

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15. [WARNING for suicide]

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16. [WARNING for abuse?]

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17. [WARNING for suicide]

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Inspired by that YA slate article.

Yes and no. Yes mostly for teenagers because people write them so ~dramatic~ and I think it's all dumb and over the top, and pretty sure I felt the same as a teen, but then I see others being all "so accurate!" about it so...I guess it's just me not relating.

But I think it's more on the writing than a standard "characters who aren't my age" thing.

+1

I've never related to teenage characters, but that's a character-trend problem more than anything. I'm just glad that people stopped expecting me to relate to them when I hit my twenties.

Actually, no. But then I'm not really in touch with people my age in r/l either. And I believe some human experieces are just universal. (Though I do not al<ways enjoy the eternally rehashed highschool setting).

not at all. i don't remember being 5 and i can't possibly know what it's like to be 70, but i can imagine what it'd be like. and good characters have a lot more defining characteristics than their age anyway, so you can relate to some aspects of them but not the others. i can usually find at least one thing i have in common with a character, unless they have skittle-level characterization.

Edited (sorry i am dsylecix) 2014-06-07 01:15 (UTC)

This. I relate to all sorts of characters who aren't like me at all, so I don't see why age would make it any different.

Yes if they're older, no if they're younger. It's always been like this, so the age range of characters I relate to expands as I get older, and it might be that I can relate to any character who's an age I've been before.

I don't think it's always the characters so much as what they're dealing with. I actually feel a lot of fiction for adults is geared towards people in their fifties and sixties - all the characters have grandkids, someone's dying of cancer... those aren't issues currently on my radar. But if it's a book where a character happens to be fifty, but her issues don't seem to be all the things fifty and sixty year olds go through now, I'm fine. Same with YA - if it seems like the character's problems are specifically tied to being sixteen, it's hard for me to relate. If it's just a book about friendship and the friends happen to be young, I can still relate.

.... less, not always. Sorry.

I think that's a good way of putting it. (And I mostly agree.)

There's much more to a character than their age, so if they're going through issues that I relate to on some level or feel like I COULD relate to in a similar situation, than yea, I get them.

This is how it is for me. Books with major plots about having kids? Not so much. Book about someone the same age but the major plot is adventure or friendship or...mostly it's the realistic middle-aged life fiction that I can't relate to.

" I actually feel a lot of fiction for adults is geared towards people in their fifties and sixties - all the characters have grandkids, someone's dying of cancer... those aren't issues currently on my radar."

True. All those Oprah-type books are about a middle-aged woman getting a divorce, or something...

I have a surprising ability to relate with teenagers, but then again I honestly feel like I'm still in the "teenage" stage mentally somewhat. As for older characters (40s +) I can sometimes understand but not really relate.

Nah, I just get tired of them if they're always the same age (teenaged in anime, 30-something in video games).

I can no longer relate to teenagers dealing with normal teenager things, but if they, like, fight vampires or something, then I might find them at least watchable, if not relatable. I don't have problems with any other age groups, whether older or younger.

I don't really "relate" to characters, period. I've almost never run across fictional characters who remind me of myself, because the problems I have to deal with are just boring and aggravating and don't make for entertaining fictional narratives. But I have no problem being interested in characters who aren't my age. In fact currently I'm mostly into canons about teenagers, and I'm nearly 30.

Lol, no. The characters I relate to are neither my age nor my species. They usually aren't even my gender.

Nope.

Yes for teenagers, but of course not all of them. What's interesting is that when I was a kid and a teenager, I didn't like reading about kids or teenagers.

I hated most kid / teenager characters when I was younger. Now that I'm in my 30s, I have a lot more sympathy for them and feel like I "get" them more, whereas I have trouble relating to a lot of characters my age, in "realistic" fiction at least, because their concerns are things that I don't think about a lot, like taking care of children, worrying about whether or not to have children, parental caretaking, and other things that aren't really a part of my life.

I can't relate to teenage characters or most child characters, but that's always been the case for me. It has really nothing to do with my age so much as the way people write teenagers and children.

A good story could have me relating to a chunk of limestone.

Not really. Although anything about an older woman going through hot flashes is probably outside the realm of my imagination right now.

Depends on the material. I turned 30 a month ago. I prefer watching TV shows, movies, and reading about people closer to my age (mid-twenties, thirties) but I've consumed media where the characters were little kids (like pre-teens) or very advanced in age (like seventies) and found the characters relatable. I could feel for them and maybe, in some way, what they were going through reflected feelings and experiences I'd had in my life. But I don't read a lot of, say, YA novels and watch a lot of YA movies because many of the popular ones seem formulaic and sloppy, ott romantic and I can't relate to it and I don't want to waste my time on it. I don't mean to sound like I would never pick up a YA novel or watch a movie about teens. If anyone has a good one they'd like to suggest, I might check it out.

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