whotever… im donot have to listen to anybody
Isabella Blow, then Broughton, in London, September 1987
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Omg. Yes, please!
There’s such a massive difference between people who write dark fics or just explore dark themes in fiction Vs people who think it’s romantic and hot for a 45 year old to have a teenage romantic partner.
When someone writes pedophilia into dark fiction it’s to horrify the reader. It’s to force them to confront an evil and feel the revulsion and let them learn about this morbid and dark side to humanity in the safe prism of fiction. Morbid curiosity to masochism to therapy, there are a lot of reasons why healthy people include horrifying topics in their writing.
When someone writes a love story between a kid and someone decades older they’re not exploring the dark side of humanity, they are romanticising and sexualising children. It’s not a dark fic, it’s not there to horrify or worry the reader but to tantalise. And the only adult people who enjoy being tantalised with the idea of immature, under developed children having romantic and sexual relationships with fully grown adults are pedophiles.
If you’re well into your twenties going “EEE!!! So cute!!” to a story where a teenager has sex with a forty year old man block me
I now see why I struggled with showing my interests to my parents when I was a kid.
I’m listening to my cousin going on about Fortnite. The kid adores the game and is talking about the battle pass and he how hopes to get it later on today.
My mum just flatly says she doesn’t know what that means and has told him to hurry up as they go through the door, not giving my cousin any wiggle room to explain what it means. Fortnite is special to him, he wants to talk about it, he wants to engage but how can he when at that moment, the adult he’s talking to shuts him down?
Why can’t some people just take a damn minute to listen, REALLY listen to what kids are saying? He’ll now sit in the car in complete silence because his aunt isn’t interested in what he likes.
I’m not saying everyone has to be a fountain of knowledge for things like that. Hell, you don’t have to like what another person’s into but for the love of god, at least TRY and give it a go in understanding why it’s so important to that person.
“Oooh, that sounds neat! Tell me about it?” Is one of the best things you can say to a kid. (Or an author.) It matters less that you understand it than it does that they are allowed- are *encouraged*- to explain it
And also, if you’re truly lost:
“I’m not sure what that is, can you explain it to me?”
Kids LOVE getting to tell an adult something the adult doesn’t know. It makes them feel important because hey, we’re grownups! We know everything! Wait, we don’t? Wow! Let me tell you!
also if you’re like me you’ve had your family just up and say everything you like is stupid and that’s like. the worst possible thing please just fuckin listen to kids
