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hi! i hope this is an excellent time to ask for your opinion abt this tweet i saw. honestly, i got taken aback by how the op worded everything :(( so i was hoping you could share your thoughts abt it

thank you so much in advance and keep slaying ily <3

I see this take A LOT as someone who was also a part of the 20+ Heartstoppertwt crowd, and here's the thing: if you're sexualizing children, then I would agree with OP that it's gross and unacceptable, but that's really not the case for the vast majority of the fandom. Often times, queer people experience a certain delay in experiencing a lot of the romantic firsts that we tend to see straight people experience in their teenage years, mostly because we have this added pressure of figuring ourselves out and fearing who will or won't accept us. The stakes of our love lives seem higher and we can't just put ourselves out there in the same ways because danger to our personal safety and alienation are real things that queer people experience when coming out or making a move toward a potential love interest when we're not certain how they feel. While the acceptance towards queer people has definitely gotten better in recent years, it doesn't mean that these fears and these stakes no longer exist. Being able to see other queer people represented on screen in a way that feels authentic is so important and healing to so many people, but it is especially important for older viewers who did not have access to that safety or comfort around their sexuality to see queer teens going through similar struggles and being accepted and loved, because a lot of us weren't. A lot of us believed that we might have to settle for good enough, be alone, not have the support of our friends and family, or never experience the type of love we were supposed to feel at that age. When the majority of popular shows are geared toward a teenage audience or set in high school, it's kind of hard not watch and get invested in stories about that age demographic, but I think that especially in queer television, there are so many fewer shows that depict coming to terms with queerness as an adult, which of course is a missed market, but as queer people, we have to show up to support the (good) representation that we get in order for it to be considered marketable to produce more media with a queer focus. I think one of the reasons though that we as queer people get so invested in the love stories of young queer people is because so many of us at that age didn't believe that love like that existed for us. We didn't know that we would ever have that, and so to watch these stories in which queer people recognize and accept themselves and fall in love in a way is an avenue to healing that part of our childhood and teenage selves that felt unable to be loved or not deserving of the love that we do, in fact, deserve. And while I focused mostly on queer people in this post, I don't think there's anything wrong with feeling seen by teenagers on screen and wishing for them to have the stories you didn't at their age, as long as you're not out here being a creep and sexualizing them when it's not age appropriate.

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Don't rb// Yuck heartstoppertwt is filled with antis now I guess it's because 90% of active accounts are still teens but wow

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