I swear to dog, if I see one more tweet about the moral perils of hypersexualising fake fictional not-real teenage characters who, I cannot stress this enough, ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE AND DON’T ACTUALLY EXIST, I am going to McFreaking LOSE IT. When did anti discourse port over to YA?
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[touches earpiece] I’m hearing that all adults were once teens themselves, that processing teen experiences doesn’t magically stop at 20 and may indeed continue throughout one’s life, and that adults can enjoy stories about teenagers for a variety of reasons, actually!
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You know how you reach your early twenties, look back on high school and think, “man, I’d never want to do that again, but imagine how different things would’ve been if I knew then what I know now?” Well [gestures broadly at large swathes of adult YA writers/readers] It’s A Thing
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Gonna go stare into the abyss while contemplating the idea that real human people think reserving sexual content for adult books only will stop precious teens from ever encountering it. [war flashbacks to the tumble discourse about how libraries should age-censor all books]
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If I have to live through a new twist on the old Voltron shipping discourse from when none of the characters had a canonically stated age but people still insisted certain ships were paedophilic Because Reasons but on actual SFF twitter, I am going to lose my WHOLE MIND.
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MUST THE SHADES OF PEMBERLEY BE THUS POLLUTED?
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