One, because, with a bare handful of exceptions, adults are the ones *creating* YA content in the first place, which makes it patently absurd to argue that they can’t likewise enjoy reading it, as though we need an age cutoff for relating to our younger selves; and -
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(Please, I beg you: let us not have yet another rehashing of the difference between fictional people and real ones when it comes to sexual anything. Wanting to fuck MCU Loki no more makes someone a genocide apologist than adults writing Sterek is pedophilia.)
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Is there still room for discussion about wider social trends re: youth and culture and sexuality (among other things) in reference to particular works or authors? Yeah, always! But the relevance of those convos does not distill to Adults Liking Teen Things Bad, Always.
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Just… please. I am so tired. Please do not invite rebranded anti discourse to jump from fandom wank into mainstream YA/SFF spaces. Nothing good will come of it. I have seen where those arguments lead, even the well-intentioned ones, and it’s nowhere good.
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That shouldn't be such a difficult concept? To go to an extreme - I could be a collector of Little Golden Books, which would be fine, but joining a kindergarten-age reading group at the library would be a bit weird... Still, I can love those little books, appreciate the art, etc.
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