[ SECRET POST #6224 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6224 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You know what they say about why babies cry all the time? Because being slightly hungry or slightly uncomfortable is literally the worst thing they've ever felt in their lives, because they're simply not old enough to have ever felt anything else?

Maturity is the opposite of that. It's having the life experience to realize that what some anon said about your fanfic or what some villain in your TV show did to your blorbo is not, in fact, omigoddddd the worst thing in the world. Lots of adults get frustrated and bored with teens because they seem constantly overdramatic and overinvested in stuff that the adult who has watched 9000 of these shows and run into 900000 rando internet anons has already seen happen or already knows does not matter at all, but to the teen it may literally be the worst or best thing they have ever experienced simply because they have not experienced much and this is their very first fandom ever.

Now imagine that only with literally everything about life in every big age gap ship featuring a teen with a 30+ year old. Is it surprising that most adults would find that awful and unappealing?

If there's truly nothing different about you vs. the teens you run into... welp, at least that's a real confession here for once, intended or not.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Idgaf what people ship for the record, but it's completely understandable why that dynamic is boring and unappealing to so many.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

If there's truly nothing different about you vs. the teens you run into... welp, at least that's a real confession here for once, intended or not

Well said, but that^ bit in particular made me laugh.

[(Anonymous)]

+100

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, I feel like tying maturity to surviving in horrible situations gets used to call teens and kids "old souls" when they survive shit many adults will never face or don't often face until they're adults.

I didn't experience the full gamut of awful shit some children do, but the legit traumatic stuff kid me dealt with didn't make me more mature, it just fucked me up. And it didn't give me much if any perspective about the relative unimportance of fiction and fictional characters compared to rl hardship.

I probably would have cared less about my fictional faves and what happened to them if I wasn't using fiction as a lifeline to cope.

I get where you're coming from when it comes to online drama having less impact and importance the more often you see the same arguments and infighting happen over and over, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody said the experience had to be bad experience. This is a common assumption people, including you, make but as in explicitly stated "worst or best" in the comment it applies to both ends of the spectrum.

Fans scaring extremely about some fandom news they like and obsessing over it as though it's the best thing in their lives is common in fandoms full of teens; the screaming and/or obsessive teen fan is a common thing for a reason and considered normal for that age bracket and not for 30+ for a reason; it has nothing to do with trauma because it's about people with no trauma, too.

[(Anonymous)]

da

I get what you mean, for sure. But I went through some pretty messed up stuff as a kid and I still agree with AYRT. I agree with you as well, in that it didn't give me much of a mature perspective to go through that stuff. My perspective does however change a lot with age and time. My "experience" as a kid was very bewildering and it took until I was a lot older to make sense of it and learn from it.

[(Anonymous)]

Except all of what you said doesn't apply to age gap ships at all, because most teen characters in age gap ships are far more mature canonically than any real teen could ever be. Characters aren't bound by real life truths about age, and often unintentionally so when a child or teen is written by an adult.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yeah, sure, tell me more about your 1000 year old vampire in the body of an 8 year old. It's fine because characters aren't bound by real truths about age, right?

I jest, but hopefully you get the point. People being uninterested by age gap ships who are already repulsed or uninterested by the idea of teenagers aren't going to read the story and find out how this teenager isn't really a teenager but a 35 year old stuck in the body of a 16 year old. They're gonna be like oof this character is 16, no thanks.

And that's fine, they don't have to like that.

Also, half the secret was about a significantly older OP, IRL, being the same as teens on Tumblr, IRL...