About Age Gap Fics

about age gap fics

before writing an age gap fic I (@notjoelmiller) am going to legally require you to write a paper (8-10 pages, double spaced, 12 font, Times New Roman) about how your fic isn't just romanticizing predation and fetishizing youth/innocence. If you can't then i will be asking you to rewrite your fic. This especially includes step father and dad's best friends fics.

There should be no fic where your "legal" character has the emotional maturity of a 13 year old. Write an age gap fic- I really don't care. But in doing so you need to be mindful of what you're putting out. It may not seem like it means a lot, but this type of content has been popping up more and more recently, and I fear for the slippery slope that fandoms may be going down.

Making sure that we're protecting minors through 18+ warnings and blocking underage/ageless accounts isn't the only step that we need to take online to protect minors when making sexual content. As writers we should not be publishing materials that fetishize youth. While it's not an immediate way to protect minors online, it is something that is important (at least to me), to ensure that we are making the internet and the greater world safe for the youth.