[ SECRET POST #4460 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4460 ⌋

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

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[Ready Player One]


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[Umbrella Academy, Sir Reginald Hargreeves/Mom]


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[Umbrella Academy, Five]


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06. [SPOILERS for Isn't It Romantic]
[WARNING for discussion of rape]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of domestic violence]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"considering Roy still has power over him both mentally and in terms of status, never mind the grooming aspect"

At some point, buddy, kids grow up. They eventually reach a point where they are responsible for their own choices.

I totally get the squick when Ed's a teenager, but when he's reached adulthood? The urge to take away his agency and decision-making capability makes me mildly queasy.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

...do you not know what grooming is? How on earth do you not find it creepy for a grown ass man to know and hold power over a teenager and then lust after said teenager when they're legal? Hell, most RoyEd didn't even involve aging Ed up, it was just straight up Roy fucking a 15 year old Ed. And lmao don't talk about Ed as though he's a sentient human being, he's a fictional character and these are fujoshi getting their rocks off at the idea of a kid being groomed by an adult. Also, way to take all responsibility and culpability away from the adult half in the pairing.

[(Anonymous)]

Did I ever read RoyEd? No.

But I'm aware Roy was never in a parental or quasi-parental relationship to Ed in canon, Ed had plenty of other older people he looked up to and who looked out for him and gave him advicd, he's, you know, been making serious life and death decisions for a hell of a long time now and -

Oh yeah - I wrote, "I totally get the squick when Ed's a teenager, but when he's reached adulthood?"

Notice that word "adult"?

Generally considered as, "capable of making life decisions".

Relationships do change as people get older, nonny. They should change. From mentor-student to fellow peers, from superior-subordinate to colleagues, from child-I'm-looking-out-for to friend-I-can-depend-on-in-a-crisis.

So, while I'm not keen on Mustang banging a teenager either, unless the writer is actually putting grooming behaviour into the background of their fic, I don't have any problems with adult!Ed getting his groove on.

And thanks for the name-calling, nonny. Really raised the tone of the discussion.

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody name-called you, anon. Although they should, considering your skin crawling stance on adults getting with someone they knew as a child. Who gives a shit what the younger party wants, the adult half of the pair should realize that this situation is gross, that they very well could have groomed that former kid into liking them. And you keep overlooking the ROY half of the ship. He knew Ed as a teen, he had a position of power over him as a teen, and it's incredibly inappropriate and creepy for him to suddenly lust after this kid the second he turns 18. Please tell me you're just a misguided teenager trying to rationalize and not a grown ass adult arguing this.

[(Anonymous)]

Loling at this won't somebody think of the children anon. Your rant is so ridiculous. One of the most loving couples I know have known each other since one of them was a kid (they have an age gap, the other one was an adult back then) and they have the sweetest most amazing relationship you could imagine. They are my relationship goal couple, I wish I could find someone who loved me as much as these guys love each other. So yes, an adult can get with someone they knew as a child and have an amazing and healthy relationship. Take your prejudice somewhere else, dude.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, you can fuck off. Your anecdotal story does not make up for the numerous cases of young teens being in relationships with adults and later being traumatized from the experience. I was very nearly taken advantage of by a 35 year old man (who later went on to prey on my friend, who was also 16 at the time, whom he eventually raped while she was drunk) when I was 16. At the time, I didn't think anything was weird about an adult man hanging out with me, I actually thought it was cool. But looking back on it now as an adult? I'm horrified and so thankful I never let anything happen. And I'm far from being the only person who had that experience.

So you can take your flowery, woefully naive bullshit somewhere else, "dude". Realize the real damage you do when you spout your "oh, this couple I know involving an adult man with a teenager is so romantic, their love is real, there's nothing wrong with adults hooking up with teenagers because of this one anecdote" shit.

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DA

You're still ignoring anon's point about the adult half knowing better, but okay. Keep deflecting.

[(Anonymous)]

da.

thank you for being an example of why i absolutely side-eye adults who ship teenage/adult ships, honest to god the number of you that straight-up approve of adults being predatory over teens irl is disgusting.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like either a kid who is romantically involved with someone decades older than you or you come from parents who had a similar situation.

Either way, yikes.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

You sound like a thirteen-year-old who thinks playing therapist to anons on the internet is a great way to make a meaningful change in the world, the likes of which you don't know the workings of.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like I hit the nail on the head.