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Saw a tag for a story today for "age difference". One character is 41 and the other is a 36.

The unrelenting stupidity of book Twitter, especially YA Twitter.

Book Twitter fascinates me because there's always some kind of drama. I try not to delve in it too deeply though because the last time I did, I found out one of my favorite authors is an asshole and I can't read any of her books anymore without remembering that.

People gatekeeping anime. Saw somebody make a post about how people who only ever watched the 4Kids YGO dub couldn't call themselves real fans because it wasn't Kazuki Takahashi's vision. It just bugged me, especially 'cause the post was made the same day that it was announced that Takahashi had passed away.

Anytime an antisocial character is tagged as autistic.

People gatekeeping fanarts' colors are never getting old. They recently cancelled a fanartist for making a brown (fantasy ethnicity) character "too white". Turns out it was just the "golden/brown and purple/blue dress effect" as someone proved by colorpicking and showing that some of their official art had their skin in a lighter tone.

This reminds me of that one Steven Universe picture people were complaining about, the one where Garnet had bright light shining around her face which made her skin lighter, and people starting yelling about "White-washing."

I guess we need to cancel light sources now?

It won't stop. Crazy fans have a comeback to "It's the light source" and that's "Interesting that you chose to draw the brown character in that light source, hmmm? ;)"

So... We're supposed to draw only white people in the light now? Everyone else must be relegated to the shadows? Uh... Yeah okay.

You're right, they're crazy.

I also love when they "fix" those fanarts by basically painting them such a dark and incorrect shade of brown that it basically looks like blackface lol.

Someone suggesting racism as a reason why people didn't like a character who was behaving in a very sexist manner. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of room for debate on why the character was behaving badly or what he meant (something lost in translation? Translator is a fan of certain movies? Maybe translator intended character as sexist? idk), but in 10+ years, I haven't seen any indication that people don't like that character due to his skin color. It always comes down to that... rather graceless line he has.

Of course, the person who suggested racism is also a younger fan so maybe they'll figure out after a few years that sometimes a character is disliked just for being an asshole, and not because they're not as light skinned as the rest of the cast.

This is getting more and more insane. But also as someone with friends with a lot of age difference (oldest was old enough to be my grandma, youngest is young enough to be my soon if I had been a teen mom) I just honestly worry for the day someone will shame me or accuse me of something inappropriate.

Lmao

My general eyeroll is always unrealistic jobs/living situations, but nothing crazy has shown up. I guess I always roll my eyes whenever the age difference is someone fresh out of HS/college and a grown ass person. But I think it's more because I'm getting older and so I want the younger party to still be my age lol. But I agree, that 36 and 41 is ridiculous. I'd get it if one character is early thirties and the other is pushing fifty, but 6 years? Yeah some differences, but that tag to me always indicated at least a 10 year difference. But that could just be me.

I'd get it if one character is early thirties and the other is pushing fifty

See, that wouldn't even be weird to me because once you get out of school and into the working world, age really stops being such a big thing. I'm in my 30s and I have friends ranging all the way from their 20s into their 60s. Some of them I met at work, some of them I met through hobbies, some I met through local channels, but in every case we've got enough in common in our lives that we have no problems relating to each other despite the age differences.

DA - I'm old, and I wouldn't even notice that sort of thing in fiction but in real life it's definitely weird. Not 'red flag' weird, just regular weird.I do know one couple who made it work long-term, but know a lot more who thought they were going to be in it for the long haul only to realize that there was just too big a gap in where they were in their lives and what they needed in a relationship.

once you get out of school and into the working world, age really stops being such a big thing

Maybe for you, but that doesn't necessarily apply to everyone. Even if they're all in "the working world" people who are decades apart in age are (usually) going to be in different stages of their lives and won't necessarily have much in common/be able to relate to each other easily.

AYRT

Kinda echoing the anons above me, I think it can vary from person to person. I work with people my parents' age, I work with people a generation older and younger. And I'm cool, maybe even friends with all of them. And we certainly have shared interests etc. But I know very well if I was to find myself in relationship with someone...almost twenty years older than me, there may very well be generational and cultural differences between us that maybe I can bridge, on account of exposure to my older cousins/aunt's & uncles or parents. It's still an age difference, in the same way someone who was 20 told me we were basically the same age when I was 28. I had to disagree with them lol. I barely remember 20, but I can tell you I was different and my perceptions and stage of life was different than what it was at 28. It's different stages and people experience and mature in different stages ( you can be 49 and still have the emotional maturity of a 15 year old and you can very well be 23 and have experienced all kinds of things in such a short period that forced you to grow up quickly).

The way some fans just can't wait to piddle all over anything that does not cater to their preferences or their worldview.

The bitching at fanartists for Pride Month art because the artist drew a character having an identity that other people disagreed with, or because the character has a "canon" identity that they got wrong and are erasing. When the "canon" identity means "someone who knows someone on the writing staff said this character is X" or "The voice actor said he thought of the character as gay when he was voicing him" even though he's been attracted to women on the show.

Ugh, I hate that stuff. There's a bit of drama in one of my fandoms where some people are insisting that certain characters are X when it's never actually been confirmed in canon either way and can be interpreted in several different ways.

Currently a segment of my main fandom is pissed off at one of the main actors for being a straight man even though he's never said he was straight, has actually specifically avoided saying he was straight on several different occasions when the topic came up, and has even implied that he's not straight.

People are just...dumb and annoying.

I got a comment on a very old Ace Attorney fic the other day that... I hope is someone's idea of a joke and I just didn't get it because...

The story was a kink meme prompt that asked for Miles Edgeworth to attempt suicide by shooting himself in the head, but survive. So that's what I wrote, and someone commented on it that Miles wouldn't commit suicide with a gun, he'd use pills because he's "fem coded".

I stared at that for awhile and then just cracked up.

(Note: There are actual good reasons Edgeworth wouldn't use a gun, but that's not one of them.)

someone commented on it that Miles wouldn't commit suicide with a gun, he'd use pills because he's "fem coded".

WTF? So many questions here.

Lmao What the hell is that comment?

I want to know what it’s like to be so warped you not only believe something like this but also feel confident enough to say to other people. That is shitpost material.

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