(tw for mentions of rape, sexualization of minors, nsfw and smut)
i'm sick and tired. when i was 12, i was sexualized for the first time. it hurt me so much that that's the only thing i'll ever be seen as - an object for sexual pleasure that has to appeal to those who want me.
i didn't understand why people would say that. and i don't understand why people say this now.
for years, we've failed kids - mostly girls - that grew up in stardom or rose to fame at a young age. from marilyn monroe, to britney spears and emma watson, and now millie bobby brown - and it doesn't stop at girls. so many young actors have been treated like shit - sexualized privately when they were minors, and then the moment it strikes midnight on their eighteenth people are out here saying the most awful things because "it's legal now".
how, i ask you, can you be a fan of byler and continue to fail these child stars? how can you praise noah and finn for their abilities and then turn around and do the exact thing that has hurt them and other minors for eons? how can you claim you hate people who do such awful things to these actors and then do the same thing? how can you watch as these poor children who were once excited to start acting get torn down by the industry - to the point where millie and finn need therapy for their anxiety, and noah's getting threatened with rape at university, where he's supposed to be safe - and believe you're hearing minors' pleas for help and change?
you hide behind this mask of "liking darker fiction". fine, then. read lolita - which deals with the horror of pedophilia in the eyes of a pedophile. that's darker fiction. or if you want smut so badly, read a YA sexual novel or watch riverdale - at least the minors in that are played by adults.
you create this façade of wanting to explore things, of projecting your personal experiences in "harmless" ways. fine, do that. if you want to see byler - two FOURTEEN year old boys - getting it on, go create original charcters!! create characters that are carbon copies of byler, or whatever - making them 18+ so you can write your mlm smut with characters that are old enough!! or just go watch some other mlm fiction story where the characters are old enough!! red white and royal blue, young royals, heartstopper - all mlm pieces of fiction with similar dynamics and characters that are over 18 and have sex. go read that.
but you won't - because you people have an obsession with minors having sex. you claim it's realistic - it might be, sure, but it isn't YOUR business to claim a minor's intimate life justifies your creepiness. admit it - you don't want to watch or read adults having sex. adults aren't "innocent". adults can make mature decisions, adults age into "ugliness", adults aren't "pure" and "youthful" like teenagers are. age them up, sure, but you're still writing about characters that are canonically minors - characters that have the developing body of a minor. characters that have a developing mindset of a minor. unless the character is yours, no one but the writer knows how a minor character would develop and grow - and so assuming how, again, as a way to justify sexualizing teenagers, is so, so wrong. you change the age, but you don't change the character, or the dynamic, or the mindset, or anything.
finn wolfhard was 14 years old when he had to tell people to stop calling him daddy.
noah schnapp was 17 years old when people were making inappropriate comments on his body and were making plans to drug and sexually assault him.
millie bobby brown was 13 AND 16 when she was groomed. by men who were supposed to make her feel safe, and no doubt saw the awful comments about her and took that as motivation.
and the list goes on. the list has been going on for centuries now and people still fail to see the flaws in their way.
millions of minors have been saying it for years - that you, as a grown-ass adult, shouldn't be thinking about us this way. shouldn't be writing about us this way, and using censorship as an excuse. this isn't about proshipping, or darker fiction, or puritans, or any other discourse - this is about basic human morals. this is about what children have been screaming and crying about since the dawn of time, and you still won't listen to us.
sincerely, a girl who was told at age 12, that i had "big tits" when i complemented a man on his stranger things t-shirt.
sincerely, a girl who has been sexualized her entire life - who has watched her friends be sexualized their entire lives - and is now watching people use the world's shared love for fiction as their excuse for sexualizing more and more underaged characters.
sincerely, a girl who is tired of it.
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jason institutes a no weird questions after dark rule after one too many times of tim going "In a parallel universe where I was a villain would you still want to be with me" when jason is trying to sleep
he is NOT dealing with questions like this in the middle of the night,
if tim needs an answer then he can write the question down and jason can answer it in the morning when he can give a well-thought-out response,
but he's too fucking done with being half asleep and having to negotiate a situation where an answer can send tim into an existential crisis in the middle of the night
meanwhile tim's all like it's not the same 2 am brain needs answers but 8 am brain has gotten over it
and poor jason's just like "Look do you want the honest answer or the comforting one? Because I've given you both and you had a meltdown for each!"
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