They Would

neru's secret origin is finally out

very weird happenings

there's something really weird going on because..

it's been brought to my attention (not really, i see it on my own) that a lot of smut in this app under the x reader tags are of.. the underage characters.

im not over here finding these btw, i do (anime) x reader and boom i get some smut here and there and lo and behold the under 18 characters are there..?

was literally just scrolling on wind breaker (the anime) x reader stuff and why are the minors included in the nsfw ones??

its crazy, because i dont want to hear someone go "theyre aged up" or "im a minor too"(pertaining to the readers/writers of said smut) and it doesnt make it better.

ive seen a few, a handful of people, talk about this before and it doesnt just exist outside the anime fandom because it happens to the spiderverse fandom too, most especially with miles morales.

i read this somewhere, from someone who brought up the topic like almost a year ago probably, and they mentioned that unless the minor has a canon aged up or older version of them somewhere in the original source, then its good, for example timeskip!haikyuu or like any other anime who has had a timeskip where the minors also have a canon legal age counterpart. and i agree

(p.s. if yk who im talking about or what the post was lmk bc the credit goes to them)

because its weird to age up a minor character for nsfw purposes and it feels like its getting worse because some of them afaik dont even specify or say that the characters are aged up. are we just keeping them young now??

the whole point of this rant isnt to stop writing nsfw, thats a whole ass genre and people enjoy reading or writing that and i wont shame them for it. i will shame people however, if they still do this genre for minor characters that have never grown up in its original source media, or you still use their minor or non-legal age for it.

im not excusing "theyre fictional characters" either. because it starts here. if you're comfortable with minor characters being written in nsfw or just plain inappropriate stories or scenarios then that says a lot about you. (this goes for art as well actually.)

idk if we can excuse aged up characters for like normal x readers like fluff, angst stuff like that but thats a different conversation. we take this thing step by step

thats all, stay safe children, and idk just.. just stop man. its weird

i still prefer my interpretation

"my works aren't suitable for minors" the fic is literally about an aged up 12-15 yo boy.

weaponizing autism to get the loser pretty boy away from your crush

sisters

the way most of the tiktok and tumblr acts like tim is just coffee addict soft boy who just plays video games and crys🤮IMGONNA KMS

I WANT MY CRAZY TIM BACK PLS

I mean, I agree, lol. There is just this huge misunderstanding in the fandom. Jason, sure, is sarcastic, but he has a dry kind of sarcasm. He’s not the playboy, confident in himself and energetic kind. That’s Roy and Dick.

Tim, sure, is nerdy and in canon has different instances where he’s shown playing table/video games. But that’s not all there is to his personality. Some people seem to forget his unhinged side. The same guy that’s hard to break down because he learned to be self sufficient out of necessity, since everyone he loves dies or abandons him. The same guy who is manipulative, judgmental, and headstrong.

Sure, it’s fanfiction, and everyone can represent him as they wish. There’s a difference, though, between representing your headcanons and perpetually carrying on a flawed fanon interpretation. The latter, in my opinion, has killed Tim’s character. He is not your sunshine kawaii bean; he is an absolute mess of a person who doesn’t handle loss well, overthinks for his life and will probably judge you the first time you two meet.

With that aside, I still love him. In my writing, I try to explore multiple sides of the characters, making them 3D rather than flat 2D individuals. They are neither good nor bad. They are flawed individuals because that’s what humans are. I hope that comes across in my writing, and if you have any suggestions, I’m open to them :)

Bonus:

comets

HIIIIIII!!! CAN YOU DROP THE LEAFPOOL AND HAWKFROST DESIGNS FROM YOUR CRIMINAL PMV I LITERALLY OBSESS OVER IT

ofc!! here are the refs i was using!! also my hawkleaf AMV hit 100k views so thank you all for that!!