[ SECRET POST #3327 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3327 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.
[Leonard Snart/Ray Palmer, DC's Legends of Tomorrow]


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________





























05. [SPOILERS for Downton Abbey]





__________________________________________________



06.[WARNING for suicide]



[Mare Internum]


__________________________________________________



07. [WARNING for sexual assault]



[Love Live - sorry anon who wanted it Saturday, trying to keep the warning ones on Friday]


__________________________________________________



08. [WARNING for rape, abuse, etc]





__________________________________________________



09. [WARNING for rape/dub-con, child abuse]





__________________________________________________



10. [WARNING for rape]





__________________________________________________



11. [WARNING for underage sex]






__________________________________________________



12. [WARNING for sexual abuse, child abuse]




























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #475.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/o88xSMS.png

[(Anonymous)]

Oof, I agree OP, that is a bit odd. Oh well... it's good that you're a sport about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I think you're taking it way too seriously. Little kids have "romance" play fantasies all the time, and it's okay because they literally don't have any concept of sexuality or what romance is. I absolutely agree that there are boundaries and I think they need to be upheld, and modeling what is appropriate behavior for a toddler and an adult to have... but seriously, if the kid is having fun, I don't think it's a big deal.

[philstar22]

If it is the kid doing it, I agree. But the parent pushing the kid forward and talking about shipping? The parent absolutely knows what sexuality is. And that's a bit creepy that they'd be thinking of their kid in that context just because they're dressed in a costume.

[(Anonymous)]

I follow this mom's account, and by no means does it seem like she is pushing the shipping on the child. Yes the mom enthusiastically shares her love of fandom and making costumes, but I wouldn't say she is playing out shipping fantasies with her daughter. If you want to see more of her stuff her instagram account is Ferdalump.

[(Anonymous)]

in this video though, the kid ran up to the Anakin actor, the parents weren't forcing her to do anything. I thought it was just, "oh the little girl has a crush on Anakin and he's playing along, it's a sweet, innocent thing." Not, "the parents are trying to force their kid to act out their shipping fantasy."

[hwc]

I think that was OP's point? If the kids interact with the face characters it's adorable, but parents acting on their shipping fantasies by using their cosplaying kids is creepy.

I don't think OP meant for the background pic to be an example of the latter. I'm sure there are some pictures floating about the net where the kids look unhappy posing with a face character, if that had been OP's intent.

[(Anonymous)]

I assumed this wasn't an actual pic of OP and terefore not necessarilly a real example of this.

[(Anonymous)]

Parents doing that? V. creepy.
It's like when a baby boy smiles at a woman, "Ooh, he's such a flirt! Such a ladykiller!" Wow, stop, please. Just... stop.

[(Anonymous)]

Please get that stick out of your ass. No-one who says that is "sexualising children". It's just a cute remark, like "hey, you gotta football player in there" of kicky baby bumps.

[(Anonymous)]

Stop making strangers feel uncomfortable by making weird sexual comments about them and your child.

[dinogrrl]

I agree, OP. Especially when the kid doesn't want it. I have ethical questions about forcing kids to interact with people they don't like or are afraid of, particularly in the context of their parents' projected images of sexuality.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, yeah, I'm with you on this one. I didn't realize that was a thing that some parents did, but that's incredibly creepy and weird.

[nightscale]

Yeah I'd find it really weird if the parents were being particularly insistent about their kid posing with a park actor because of their OTP or whatever. The kid wanting to go up and like hold their hand on their own accord is fine though.

[cactuspaws]

You're definitely not the weird one.

[(Anonymous)]

You're right, that's messed up.

[rivulet027]

Yeah that's creepy. It's one thing for me to buy my niece a costume because she wants it, or get her a sig from an actor that plays her fav char, but if she doesn't want to wear the costume or say hi to someone then we don't. She once insisted on following a woman in an Aquawoman costume at a con around for a moment, but was too shy to want a pic so I didn't push. When she got on the phone with me and told me she needed a Jayden costume for her birthday I found the costume. She's four now, but it's her fandom experience and my likes may be different than hers, but when we're at a con together she and the things she wants to get into come first.

[(Anonymous)]

See, that sounds like good parenting. You're not going "You want to be Robin? Tough. I ship catwoman and batman so you're dressing as catwoman and I'm going to take pictures of people dressed as batman holding you because that's my OTP"

[rivulet027]

That would be creepy. Fandom is about fun. If my niece/nephew isn't having fun then what's the point of taking them to a con?