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⌈ Secret Post #3863 ⌋

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[Alex James from Blur]

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[Night Court]

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[Top: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Chris Pratt
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[Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer]

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[Anna Faris and Chris Pratt in Mom, S04E11 "Good Karma and the Big Weird"]

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I don't like anything more than puppy love if either character is under 15/16. I don't like too much hand-wringing about it being morally wrong in-universe. And I don't like anything at all non-con. Oh, and I find obsessions about waiting for birthdays for sex creepy. (It reminds of of the creepy website 'countdown clocks' for the second the Olsen Twins would turn 18)

I really do like the older character worrying they're not good enough for the younger. I like when one character is really inexperienced and the other isn't, both if the experienced one is the younger or the older.

Other than that, as long as both characters are written as being really into it and enjoying it I don't have a lot of hard squicks. I mean one of my favorite pairings for a while was a 300 year old teenage boy and a few thousand year old anthro rabbit.

I agree with everything you said and now I'm really curious about pairing you mentioned.

Rise of the Guardians Jack Frost and Bunny (the Easter Bunny) Jack's voiced by Chris Pine and Bunny is Hugh Jackman and they have a pretty compelling rivals to friends arc in the movie.

Replying to myself with more thoughts. I like age-gaps because they're kind of a built in sort of character conflict, but also in fic what you read is what you get. It doesn't matter beyond suspension of disbelief how realistic it is.

I read a thing one time that said Wash and Zoe's relationship in Firefly was inherently non-consensual because in the real world due to the power dynamics inherent in both society's misogyny and society's racism it was impossible to have a consensual relationship between a white man and a black woman. And ok, even if you believe that to be 100% true, IT'S STILL FICTIONAL. Therefore if the fiction says they're in a healthy and consensual relationship then you can't really pull "Well, in OUR universe..." into it.

And it's ok if you can't suspend your disbelief. With CSI and Grissom/Sara I just couldn't see any chemistry between them and he narrative attempts to convince me they were super duper in love just confused me.

But if I found a fic that was something like... Qui-Gon survives Darth Maul's attack, but Obi-Wan still trains Anakin and as an adult Anakin falls in love with Qui-Gon? Heck, I'd give it a shot, and if the fic did a good job of presenting it all as consensual and healthy and something that both characters are happy with I'd go with it. Same as if a fic painted Linda and Bob Belcher's relationship as deeply unhappy and abusive I'd accept it in the fic (I mean, I still wouldn't see it that way in canon! But I'd be cool with the idea that in this fanfic they have an unhealthy relationship.) And truthfully I tend to like fics that start out with a much less plausible scenario because it feels like the author is going to work harder to convince the reader.

So yeah. It's a plot device I like. As long as the characters are at least old enough to pilot a Gundam in canon I can suspend disbelief and be cool with them happily dating, including dating characters older than them in canon. But I'm cool with people not being able to suspend disbelief and/or being squicked by it as long as they don't go around screaming the P word at everyone over it.

I love that I could tell what pairing you meant before seeing the answer.

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