oh my gosh and the baby talk is so BAD, it's ALWAYS written by people who have no idea what actual children talk like, like they just randomly drop letters out of words without any thought to what sounds a small child's mouth is likely to have trouble with??
I'm ALWAYS looking for like... I guess honestly what I *really* want isn't even age regression, so much as re-parenting? Where it's not a sex thing but it's also not 'I'm mentally two years old', so much as 'I had a traumatic lack of a healthy childhood and now I am allowed to safely experience the things I didn't have, and the person/people I love understand this need and may help me heal by offering caretaking/affection/play, or at least understand when I'm having the kind of day where I need a juice box and a coloring book', but no one writes that. So, I read age regression for some characters, but sometimes it's just BAD.
(and dammit, if you can't write a realistic two year old, then DO NOT MAKE your character totally mentally regress to the age of two!)
Re: You know what dumb thing bothers me about age reg fic?
I'm ALWAYS looking for like... I guess honestly what I *really* want isn't even age regression, so much as re-parenting? Where it's not a sex thing but it's also not 'I'm mentally two years old', so much as 'I had a traumatic lack of a healthy childhood and now I am allowed to safely experience the things I didn't have, and the person/people I love understand this need and may help me heal by offering caretaking/affection/play, or at least understand when I'm having the kind of day where I need a juice box and a coloring book', but no one writes that. So, I read age regression for some characters, but sometimes it's just BAD.
(and dammit, if you can't write a realistic two year old, then DO NOT MAKE your character totally mentally regress to the age of two!)