This is a bit of an old post of yours but I saw @/thisismisogynoir reblog it and i just wanted to say: your post about ppl being way too comfortable associating underaged characters with sexual stuff put what i've been thinking for the longest time into words. That stuff genuinely makes me SO uncomfortable yet almost no one around me understands. Its so disgusting how often underage characters are sexualized in fandom spaces and the worst part is, it starts with grown ass pedo adults doing it then it SPREADS to most of the KIDS in the fandom who then see that behavior as normal!!

It's particularly sickening for me since i come from a culture where "childhood" lasts alot longer, like 21 year olds are still considered kids and still at the age to be pampered and cared for by their parents so you can imagine my horror when I got into fandom spaces and saw people justifying making NSFW content of 16 YEAR OLDS. I once literally got called SENSITIVE in an Instagram comments section by other PJO fans for saying that it's creepy to make sex jokes about Percy and Annabeth, and they said I was overreacting bc "they're almost adults anyway, real teens have sex at this age"...... Like just because irl teens do doesnt mean you should be encouraging that and normalizing it!!

Hi Nina!!!Thanks for the ask,i agree so much and you've given me the perfect opportunity to tqlk about a similar phenomenon re the sexualization of characters who're minors

So in current canon Pjo,Percy and Annabeth are not 'almost adults',they just ARE adults as their latest apperance in the timeline has them at 18 with confirmation from Rick.Yet fans choose to make these jokes about them as minors even though that book has been out for 4 years.Much like this,Spiderman fans do sm*t of Mcu Peter and Spiderverse Gwen even though in the comics which have way more material they are adults.This also applies to Naruto,Bleach,Toh,Httyd,Atla and other media that have the protagonists start out as kids but grow up either as the story goes along or in an epilogue

If you have the option between sexualizing an adult version of character and an underaged version of the character that're both presented as equally canon and you choose the latter,you are a pedophile.Full point blank.That's the definition of pedophillia.You saw a grown up and a kid and found the kid more attractive.There's no excuse for that.There's no reason for an adult to want to see a child in sexual situations over another adult in sexual situations.You've made a disgusting choice so people have a right to call the pedo a pedo

(Also:You are NOT sensitive.You just have a backbone and care about minors being safe and the fact that they pulled that over a CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES is insane.A Pjo fan once told me 'legit thought you were 12' in an argument because i said Percy is an anarchist and instigator and activist punk and not a skater boy at all and actually transfem,as if Percy dosen't start out at 12 because that's starting age the series is for.Pjo fans gain self-awareness and also employement challenge)

Society if people realized feminizing butch/gnc women is not the silly uwu feminist womensupportwomen #slay take they think it is

😭 exactly

Nico is unfortunately sexualized the most as a gay teenager, ESP one who's traumatized bc straight girls love getting off to gay trauma :/ He's still so adultified in pjo fics which is why i rarely read any Nico fics bc NO ONE gets his characterization right. Def agree with Annabeth aswell.

I guess I don't mind NSFW humor or jokes regarding him since he's technically a legal adult however actual sexual situations still feel very icky to me, but that's probably just me since someone is considered an adult once they are 18 in America so there's nothing really wrong with it ig. Godshipping or weird age gaps are and always will be creepy asf though ❤️

Yeaaaaaah people love acting like Nico's grown and it is um.Very weird,i do not understand it and with Annabeth she suffers from the girlgenius assigned no fun nag by fanon and compared to a mother for it(As if Percy isn't transfem-coded and a Team Parent????But gender essentialism gonna gender essentialism)

And that's completely fair!!Here in Dominican Republic you're considered an adult at 18 like in the US and treated and raised as such and that's how it was for me so that's why i don't get squicked out by it.I used to seek out Pjo nsfw when i was a horomonal teenager and i stumble upon it a lot nowadays and it's like,guys why're you making the 18 year old anarchist fuck old authority figures who watched her grow up yet getting mad at Perachel because you think it's abusive.You've never known the touch of a man,have you.Maybe invest in a dating app

Tysm for answering!! Also, I forgot to mention when I got called that for asking ppl to not sexualize Percy and Annabeth, this was a few years ago like during Trials of Apollo time, so at that time they were both 17 i believe :/ i completely agree with everything else you said aswell, it's genuinely concerning how normalized sexualization of minor characters is in children's media ESPECIALLY, bc sadly i tend to see this WAY more in children's media than actual media for adults.

(Side note, something also VERY deeply disturbing is that even if there WERE actual adult characters in the PJO fandom, like even if Percy and Annabeth WERE full grown adults, unfortunately u know majority of ppl would still focus on sexualizing minor characters especially those who have gone through trauma like Nico. I won't even talk abt that much bc it makes me genuinely sick to my stomach, but the amount of people I've had to block bc they made or reblogged posts making sexual references and jokes and sometimes outright NSFW about a 15 YEAR OLD (WHOS SUPPOSED TO BE 14 ANYWAY IF RIORDAN DIDN'T MESS UP HIS OWN TIMELINE) is HORRIFIC

FUCKKKKKKKK I KNEW IT(to the Toa part)AND YEAH FR😭😭😭😭Like why does NICO get sexualized most?I know it's because he's gay and people are homophobic turds but LIKE.HE LOOKS AND ACTS SO 14/15 Y'ALL PLEASE IT'S DISGUSTING HOW THE HELL DOES HE TURN YOU ON...........

And for Percy and Annaneth.I don't seek out Annabeth content too often because nobody knows how to fucking get her right but Percy's my fave and jfc the shit i've seen of him??????Idm nsfw humor regarding him since he's a young adult like me but he's EIGHTEEN,the way people do him is so fucking innapropriate??????Sorry not sorry but as a 23 year old i cannot imagine dating someone my dad's age(talking about godsshipping)and enjoying it so why would PERCY WHO'S EVEN YOUNGER????Put your pants back on pls,can this nigga get some legos and blue sweets and an Animal Crossing copy as actual coping mechanisms(the excuse that's always used)????There's been enough Pjo sexualization,let's get some agere up in here

Agree with everything u said, when I was a kid I also used to seek out NSFW of alot of the fandoms I was in, which were mostly full of minor characters, and it's only later on when I grew up that i realized how predatory it is that whole ass adults were writing this shit about kids.

Also omg just to clarify my previous ask, rereading it i just realized when i said "I guess I don't mind NSFW humor or jokes regarding him since he's technically a legal adult" I was talking about Percy!! I think i mightve deleted some words in the process and it made it sound like i was saying that about Nico ew 😭😭

(Side note, what are your opinions on Perachel?? I honestly think it's a really cute ship, except saying that back in the good old days of the active PJO fandom would get you crucified 💀)

Yeah dw i got that!!!As for Perachel it's A+ and hoes can stay mad Percy is autistic4autistic.I'm not a Perachel shipper but i believe in their beliefs /lh.I did a short tiktok shitpost making fun of Perachel antis and this one person said 'Did we read the same books?' and 'Oh trust me i've read the books.I really wonder what you're on though' when i gave quoted a canon line of Perce talking about Rach as proof he loved her back and they said i kid you not 'Alright girlie whatever helps you sleep at night' like genuinely Perachel antis are wilddddddd and just dumb as hell.Also sidenote but since i mentioned transfem Percy i wanna say that i do hc her as bisexual but the evidence for tgirl Percy easily solos cis/binary mlm Percy and like with Perachel hate the fandom screams and cries and throws up when you point it out even though Percy's canonically a whole ass misandrist cause they hate women LMFAOOOOO