[ SECRET POST #4995 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4995 ⌋

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Re: This might be submitted as it's own secret tbh

[(Anonymous)]

lol definitely an awkwardness to it.
I think back in the day when I was really young and getting into CLAMP, I loved the idea of how 'love is love' no matter what in a time when I didn't have much choice on queer media and getting to see characters who could identify/be coded as queer being part of the story line instead of just a one-off or just faded into the background (unfortunately most of those kind of characters in CLAMP die or sidelined with the exception of a precious few, like Touya and Yuki in CCS).
Which was great for that - but obviously not so much for the age difference; which I use to let slide because I had really believed at the time that 'you can't help who you love/age is just a number/some people are mature enough' because I was young and at the time when I was about 14-16 at school I would often hear other girls in my class talk about dating 20-something year olds like it was a normal thing (and I can't tell you how many times I look back now in horror at memories like that now).

Now I'm older and hopefully a lot wiser than teen-me, while being happy about the fact that there's better information for younger people now than there was back than.
That went a bit off topic and obviously I can't speak for everyone who is into clamp - but that was my experience of it then. Now I'm older I have a lot of sentiments to the characters and stories - but I've learnt to be a lot more critical and know that the problematic things that happen in fiction would absolutely not be ok in real-life.

I think one of the reasons don't bring it up is because there's a lot of people on spaces like Tumblr who don't do any critical thinking on it and just believe things like 'You read about murder = you think murder is a good thing to do because you read it.' so whenever the age difference comes up it's seldom an actual discussion - it's more like a split between people who thinks reading/watching anything problematic is being supportive of it, and people who get tired of explain about liking something and still being critical of it.

Ultimate people who are into it are probably tired of the same circular drama that's going to predictably come up whenever it gets mentioned. It's a shame that it doesn't get discussed, but that's thanks people who are more interested in kicking up drama rather than having a conversation.