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pet peeve here, because this is really putting a bee in my bonnet. the tom holland spiderman movies are good, they’re wholesome and fun and they tick all the boxes you want a superhero movie to tick and he plays the character well and that’s good, it really is, but as someone who occasionally reads and interacts with spidypool content there is a probem
and that’s that tom holland looks like a fresh young baby, no matter what is real age, and he is playing a literal minor. and so shipping him with grown man ryan reynolds deadpool is just- red flags, not comfortable, no thank you please
and that would be fine, im not going to police what content people create or what stories they want to tell but oh my god please tag the fic as being part of the homecoming adaptation if you’re explicitly headcanoning holland as spiderman. please tag it. please please tag it. and not just as “spiderman” but as specifically “homecoming/holland spiderman” bc man there have been too many times where I’ve been reading a story being like “ah yes, my grown man spiderman, basically university aged, having here romance” and then seen them say in the authors notes or somewhere they based it on tom holland and have to nope out of there so hard. and this is after having explicitly chosen to specifically exclude the homecoming fandom tag
like. i am doing my level best as an individual to curate my own content and avoid the stuff that I personally find uncomfortable, staying in my own lane as it were, and yet it’s still there. there is literally nothing more I as an individual can do to to avoid it than what I am currently doing
im not saying you can’t write it. im not saying it’s wrong. but please this should be tagged on the same level of ticking “underage” because I don’t know how old tom holland is and whether hes a minor or not and I don’t care, because he plays and looks enough like a minor when playing his character that its something disconcerting to see unwarned in a romantic or explicit context with a much older partner, especially when you went in thinking it was a story between two consenting adults
like guys c'mon individual adaptation fandom tags exist for a reason. for this reason. please use them. just please tag it