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Ok this is an important post. It’s about the issue of ‘aging up’ characters.

When I read a fic or smau containing teenage characters and crack-

It’s weird.

“They’re ages up so it’s fine”

…Your technically still writing abt teens having sex-

Mostly, it’s just suggestive themes. It usually isn’t said aloud but still. I’ve seen fics of teenage anime boys fucking y/n. They’re all ‘aged up’ but you can’t deny that it’s strange.

Just because these people are fictional doesn’t mean it’s ok. Just because you change a character’s age doesn’t change that the character is a minor.

If fics of teenage characters are made, they should be limited to (2nd) second base. Overall, writing about teens shouldn’t be like writing smut.

“But it’s what irl teens do-“

No. Some do have sex. But others don’t. All teens shouldn’t. The consensual age is usually 16-19 but ethically it should be 21.

Idk

At first, I thought it was “ehhhhh” but then I saw a post explaining it. And huh. Thinking about it, it is weird. Veryyyyy weird. I can’t find the post anymore so I just wrote my own.