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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

Very succinct. Exactly my feelings.

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.

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.

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

True, they could tag "Choose not to warn" but you do have to pick one or the other.

There is, actually, a requirement for tagging warnings, and underage sex is one of them. If there was actual underage sex in the fic (which it seems like there isn't in this one, so this is all moot), the author is obligated to use the warning tag either for Underage Sex or Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings.

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

"they are definitely pining and hinting with longing glances and almost kissing etc"

Start of a slow burn romance with an adult and a 14yo counts as underage imo.

Not according to AO3's actual rules it doesn't.

The warning tag is "underage sex". Anything less than actual sexual content featuring an underage character is perfectly within its right (and, in fact, correct) not to tag it as such.

No, tagging for underage adult/child relationships is pretty standard etiquette.

And whether or not the pining OP described actually counts as a 'relationship' is at the author's discretion. Clearly, this one didn't think it does.

Which is fucked up. If you have an adult pining for and flirting with a child it should be tagged.

"Pining" is not a relationship. There's a character in one of my canons who pined for another character for 20 years but they never actually got together. Not a single person in the fandom considers them to be a ship because they aren't.

Yes, they allowed not to tag. But it would be nice and awesome and not absolutely squicking for OP if they fucking did.

See, I guess I'm coming at it from the opposite angle, which is that I'm sick and tired of people being overzealous in their tagging and tagging for stuff that isn't really in the fic, because nothing annoys me more than looking through a tag to find stuff to read only to find out that a ton of the stuff under that tag doesn't actually contain that particular thing beyond maybe, like, a brief offhand reference or whatever. It's incredibly frustrating.

they can tag for adult/underage relationships not as a main tag. It is something that can prevent people from being triggered and advertise for people who are into this dynamic

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