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⌈ Secret Post #6598 ⌋

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Comments

Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Let that steam out

underage that the author didn't tag for

[(Anonymous)]

So this fic I'm reading starts when one character is 14 and they meet the person they will eventually be paired with. That's fine, the other character is immortal and I figure this would be a "meet then part, then meet again in the future setup" because nowhere in the tags did it say anything about underage. But I am halfway through this 40k fic and they are definitely pining and hinting with longing glances and almost kissing etc and I am so annoyed. I do not want to read about an 100 year old immortal-ish adult pining and lusting after a 14 year old. Why would the author not tag for this??? I'm also annoyed that they wrote the 14yo as basically the same canon personality (canon he is a full grown adult) so I don't even really understand why he has to be 14 at all? Just the author's weird pedo fantasies? Which whatever write your fap fanfiction, but tag for it dammit.

/vent

Re: underage that the author didn't tag for

[(Anonymous)]

ew

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Very succinct. Exactly my feelings.

Re: underage that the author didn't tag for

[(Anonymous)]

If it's AO3 they only have to tag for underaged sex, but honestly I find this kind of thing annoying, because the people who don't want to read it are blindsided and the people who do want to read it can't find it.

Re: underage that the author didn't tag for

[(Anonymous)]

Well I didn't see any sex when I skimmed ahead but I did run into a scene whwre they slept in the same bed in just their underthings and woke up and the 14yo wanted to kiss the adult and the adult replied along the lines "You're a child, I shouldn't want that. But I do." And then they kissed and I officially gave up on the fic.

Re: underage that the author didn't tag for

[(Anonymous)]

They don’t have to tag for underaged sex. There is no requirement whatsoever for tagging on AO3.

Re: underage that the author didn't tag for

[(Anonymous)]

... why would they tag it for "underage" if the characters don't actually get together?

Re: Vent thread

[philstar22]

Most of today was spent at USCIS. I had plans, things I had to get done. But a client told us this morning his interview had been scheduled for today. A little annoyed about that.

But mostly just angry at the world right now. Fuck this country. Fuck anyone who voted for Trump. Fuck anyone who is okay with schools, doctor's offices, everywhere being raided. With kids being detained. With anyone being detained just for not having any legal status.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Just tired of being fired up to work on fanworks during the day when I have to work, only to have that drive disappear the moment I'm actually able to get on my computer after work. I know that's so common it's practically a meme but it still sucks.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

It's so so frustrating. :/

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I really can't tell what my therapist's politics are, and considering that's affecting my mental health, I'm not sure what to do. She already knows how I feel, but it would be a lot easier to get into it if I knew she wasn't a Trumpian.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Could you just say that and ask? Has she said "I refuse to say"?

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Oh that is a tricky one and I definitely get why it is bothering you.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

Well, on the other hand, if she is one, she gets to see up close and personal the effects that the orange dickwad has on people's mental health.

There are a fair amount of wealthy doctors who are Trumpy, but therapists not as much. (The doctors who are not are PISSED about the Medicare stuff today, fyi. And the WHO decision.)

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

It would probably be better for your mental health to reconcile yourself to the fact that people who voted for Trump exist in the world with you, and they aren't going to suddenly vanish. You have to come to grips with the fact that it's out of your control.

Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

...I just need to get this off my chest.

The other day I googled a former classmate, it has been over a decade since seeing this person and in looking for them, I found an obituary site for alums of my old high school. I had never seen this site so I clicked and there were a couple hundred entries of people who graduated from the 1930s up until the present. Among the random obits, the name of a woman who was one of the biggest bullies at school when I was there; she died in 2021. Only 4 people had signed her condolence page and when I read those names 3 of them were the equally shitty bullies that were her high school clique. All of them said essentially the same "so sorry to hear this" message.

It was weird.

I felt and still feel some kind of way about it, especially after reading the short paragraph about her life, where she basically never left the state, much less the little town she lived in, and she worked at the store down the street from where we both grew up. It was so...I don't know, but I actually felt...kinda sorry for her? She was a shit in high school, maybe she changed. I don't know. Anyway I still feel weird about it. 🤷‍♀️

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

It is weird to hear about former classmates, especially bullies. I never had FB/Xitter so I never kept up with anyone from school (not that I had any friends), though I was surprised to hear about a random middle school classmate via work (let's just say they came up in a conversation I probably wasn't supposed to hear, but in my defense, I was hungry and didn't tell the party to have the conversation in the breakroom). Nothing bad, just "huh, okay."

Weirdly, I heard of stuff that happened to folks outside my grade, including a person who got murdered on their front lawn (suspected robbery), and someone who ended up on one of those music competition shows for a time. I don't think either were bullies though.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

My bully landed herself in jail for three months for stealing after high school and all I could think of was the catharsis factor rather than feel sad for her.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

Whatever ways you feel, they're valid.

Someone who bullied my little brother died from suicide when they were 20 and I felt a lot of feelings. I still feel both sad and not that sad about that person.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I was able to feel that sort of empathy. Unfortunately, I do not, lol.

heard v depp (oh no!)

[(Anonymous)]

I can NOT believe people are still defending heard when she is on tape being abusive to him. I'm not saying Depp is a good person, but I heard the tapes. Heard SUUUUUCKS. You can't be telling people they have five minutes to come back so you can keep yelling at them and then claim YOU'RE the victim. Literally she's on tape caling Depp a coward and telling him to have sex with his bodyguard because said bodyguard broke up a fight between them before it got physical, like what?

Re: heard v depp (oh no!)

[(Anonymous)]

I think anyone who didn't conclude from that whole shitshow that they're both toxic people is fooling themselves.

Re: heard v depp (oh no!)

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't heard the tapes and haven't kept up with much with the case.

Having been in an abusive relationship, I can honestly say sometimes you say and do things you aren't proud of (though you may be in the moment) because you're fed up with the abuser's treatment of you, and so far you haven't been allowed to express your anger safely or react in any way that any normal person would have in response to abuse. Does it excuse what you did? No. Does it make you a bad person? Based on that alone, no, it doesn't.

And honestly, if the defense of Depp is that "well, she was just as bad as HE was" then I don't think that's a very good defense of him.

It's kind of like when a bully says something horribly nasty to you in school where nobody can hear, and deliberately walks away before you can respond. And you chase after the bully yelling at them, maybe calling them names because they called you a name. But what does the public see? You being a bastard to the poor bully. Hell, the tactic is so common, you might have seen it play out in a cartoon.

Like I said, I haven't been following the case. This is just a perspective to consider.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

I am doing visuals for a project I am morally opposed to. I am reading interviews right now and cringe and want this people bodily harm at the same time. I really need my job though and it's not a client I can fire. Fuck