[ SECRET POST #3888 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3888 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Another old lady here who has a ship that started out adult/teen and teacher/student. It's rarely depicted that way anymore because the canon moved on, and the fanworks followed. I've only written them as adults myself, but there's still that 20 year age gap.

Do I feel guilt? Hell, no. In fact, I miss the heyday of my OTP. Am I attracted to RL teenagers? The fuck I am. I wasn't attracted to teenagers when I was a teenager, and my opinion of them certainly hasn't improved since.

The dynamics between the adult character and the teenager in fanfic ran the gamut from disturbing to naughty to romantic to tragic. I loved it all (always assuming it was well-written, of course). They were dysfunctional, and they broke all the rules, and I gloried in the hostility between them.

But I never thought of either character as a real person. They're not people to me. They're representations of strong emotion or a narrative trope or redemption arc or idealization of first love. Sure, they have fictional personalities, and I'm incredibly attached to them. But I'm really, really clear on the fact that they're not real, they don't have bodies, they don't have inner lives. And doing weird or creepy or stupid or heartbreaking or nonconnish or implausible things to them will never make them real.