[ SECRET POST #2109 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2109 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well yeah, it's called fandom for a reason.

Ugh, it annoys me so much when people pull up that whole "pedophile" argument to bash a ship -_-#

[(Anonymous)]

...That's a completely, 100% valid reason for not liking a ship. Pedophilia. Yeah. That's like saying "Oh, I know he raped her, but you can't ~judge~ our ship!". It's fucking gross and wrong, morally and legally.

That said, I don't give a shit what people ship with what, unless it starts infecting most of the fandom. Keep it to yourself, and I just don't care.

If someone genuinely thinks that aging up a character is a good idea to get them within legal range of shipping, I think that's also disturbed. Why would you try to imagine this child character and this adult character together in the first place? You must first think they must work when one is a kid to make the effort of aging one into an adult. But, I digress.

[(Anonymous)]

You must first think they must work when one is a kid to make the effort of aging one into an adult.

Not necessarily, no. If the two characters are on the same page/in the same scene for a great deal of the canon timeline, they'll have to interact and build a non-romantic relationship of some kind, and some people like to expand on that and imagine what-if, and sexual relationships can and will form as a result of the kinds of dramatic and traumatic situations that canon characters tend to find themselves in. It doesn't necessarily mean that the fan authors find Adult/Kid hot like the sun.

[citrinesunset]

In terms of aging characters up, personally, it depends on the fandom for me. With Harry Potter, it's not like the characters were 11 for the duration of the series. Not only where they young adults at the end, but we saw a glimpse of them when they were older. It's not hard for me to imagine an adult Harry, and I can think of many reasons to write about the Harry Potter characters as older adults that go beyond "But if I just age them up a few years, then it won't be illegal for them to have sex with Snape!"

Aging characters up feels weirder to me when it's for a fandom where the characters are children the whole time, or never age.

[(Anonymous)]

As some one who frequently enjoys former student/teacher ships, I'm never interested in aging them up in the sense of "Yesterday was your birthday, now you're eighteen and we can totally fuck." I'm way more interested in aging up to the point (to use the examples here) where Snape is say 50 and Harry/Draco/Hermione is now 30.

I like the story dynamic of how people learn to redefine a relationship. The two characters can no longer relate as student and teacher because they are both fully fledged adults, so how do they end up relating instead? Other than the fact that this is fandom and everything seems to turn romantic, their new way of dealing with each other wouldn't have to lead in a romantic direction. After all, McGonagall and Snape would have had to go through this period of redefining after he got the job at Hogwarts.

[(Anonymous)]

If I remembered right, most Snarry fics now are written post Harry/Ginny breakup, which makes Harry at least 30.

[visp]

No, that's a really good reason to bash a ship. Probably one of the best reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

I almost had to delete my LJ because I bashed all chan ships. I had no idea I was doing something "wrong!" So even though I agree it's one of the best reasons, it doesn't hold up because it goes against what's "cool" in fandom. Seriously, fandom is like high school.