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⌈ Secret Post #3471 ⌋

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]

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[1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum]

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[outlander, ontd-sassenach]

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(Voltron: Legendary Defender)

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[Michael Kamen]

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[Captain America (MCU), Daredevil (MCU), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Bleach]

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In fanfic (and some media), how kids act. I can only assume the majority of fic writers have never actually been near a kid.

It has literary roots back in the Victorian age where kids were treated as angelic for thematic reasons.

It isn't even them being super good. It is how they always sound and act way more mature than they should be. Kids can be insightful sometimes but not like how they are portrayed in fanfic.

That's Victorian too. You'd have kids as mouthpieces for the morality of the story because they were considered "pure" in a way that adults weren't.

I really don't think fanfic writers are mirroring Victorian literature so much as they just don't know how kids act. So they just make tiny adults (or teens).

No, I mean that that type of child has permeated literature (and movies and other media) so that it a bit of a trope now. Lots of non-Victorian media calls back to that kind of character so it's not surprising to see it now. It's kind of cultural.

Yeah, I think the thing you're talking about does exist, but I think there's also a lot of fanfic that just writes kids shittily.

I didn't say it was the only reason but I also don't think that you can conclude it's just people not having been around kids. There are other factors.

That, or they sound/act WAY too young.

Or if you go an additional ~100-150 years back, people assumed children weren't really people yet and it was doubtful that they actually had souls!

Same! Eight year olds baby talking, twelve year olds coming away from complicated, adult conversations with full comprehension of what went on, four year olds who've mastered cause and effect, and teenagers who act entirely too old or too young depending on the writer's needs. It's so weird!

Well, we aren't all psych majors!

LOL whut? Since when do you have to be a psych major to know how kids act? You only have to be around kids and bother paying attention to how they act to know how kids act.

And the pathologization of childhood is utterly fucking creepy and disgusting, buddy.

Well, it at least certainly helps when you don't have access to being around a child. Because at least some form of lifespan psychology does tend to be standard in the major and a lot of it focuses on childhood development. Devil's advocate for the "have to be a psych major thing."

But at the same time, if you do have access to being around a child firsthand is better.

this reminded me of the old Odd Couple episode where both Felix and Oscar insist on relating to Felix's 12 year old daughter as if she were about four. Felix actually hired a fucking CLOWN for her party and Oscar tries to talk her into watching Sesame Street!

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