Horniness Is Not Intrinsically Less Pure Than Any Other Human Motivation

Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

Talking to people about your characters really is a game changer. You'll start saying things about them you didn't even know you knew.

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

Long, negative rant under the cut. Can't get it out of my head and not sure what else to do with it so...

Keep seeing gatekeeping style posts because of a singular person I follow. And yeah I could just... unfollow but then all the reasons I followed in the first place (gif sets btw) go with them. And I'm not in disagreement with what's being said but for the love of all that is deep fried and cheesy does it give me anxiety and fill my brain cage with shit I don't wanna think about.

Basically its pedo gatekeeping in fandom which yeah 100% that is gross and ick and all that. Even the examples they point to as being the basis of their case are cringe af and I want no association with those things.

But that's just part of fandom now isn't it?

Yeah a lot of the argument is that its grown adults making weird pregnancy fics/shorts about underage characters (canonically 14) and that's wrong on so many levels. But they only bring up the bad examples...

What about those of us with 20k+ think pieces exploring the hormonal aspect of being a teenager in highschool dealing with setting up the rest of your life, navigating relationships of all kinds, and trying to figure out what suddenly clicked in the back of your mind to make Becky from Spanish class so bloody attractive? Those of us who are putting thought and effort before the smutty parts? The ones writing cautionary tales of rushing intimacy, getting lowkey addicted to that rush, and coming to regret it once you realize that person just isn't right for you?

Are we also the bad guys for writing teenagers like teenagers? Are we going to the stake for making realistic when we discuss and acknowledge how bad it is for an adult to be romantically involved with a minor? Yes, we still get horny over these taboo subjects and relationships but what if we're actively acknowledging it in the fic as we write?

Why gatekeep when the people you want to shame are never going to shame? All that kind of gatekeeping does is scare those with a conscious off from writing their favorite characters (underage or not) in these situations. The whole point of fiction as a genre is to explore every aspect of the human condition and that includes the taboos, the ick.