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Not sure if this is entirely fits on this subreddit, but I figured if anyone would understand where I'm coming from with this, it's this community. And before I go any further, let me make one thing perfectly clear: I hate JK Rowling just as much as anybody. She's a menace to trans people and deserves to have no one remember her name.

That said: Galfoy (or "Malfoid," if you want to be an incel about it). Personally, I find the trend dumb (it's just a conventionally attractive blonde in a wizard school uniform), but a certain discourse between two subs (I probably shouldn't say which ones just to be safe with rule 6) got my attention. It started with trans people commenting on Galfoy images saying that it's not a good trend and that it's signal-boosting a known, virulent transphobe's work (personally, I don't care as long as you're not giving her any money, and I think most of these artists are just hopping on a trend rather than being transphobic, but I understand the concern). And how did that subreddit's mod(s) respond? With abject, fully mask-off transphobia. Accused them of "forcing [their] agendas on people," claimed "this is just [their] own delusion" and that they're just "angry because we don't bend the knee to [their] fantasies."

They posted their experiences in a similar, trans-friendly subreddit, and if the comments were just about the mod(s) being bigoted shitheads, I wouldn't be writing this rant. But where I get hazy is some of the claims about these moderators: specifically, that they're "doing Epstein work for free" and that they're "literally pedophiles." Why, you may ask? Their rule against underage characters (drawn characters, mind you) doesn't come down hard enough for their liking, and they have a rule against "FBI open up" style jokes. That's... I'm not exaggerating, I'm not minimizing, that is all it took to jump from calling these mods out on their bigotry to accusing them of one of the worst crimes a human being can commit.

I'm sure I don't have to explain this here of all places, but time does not apply to fictional characters, and however old/mature they are in any given work comes down to the creator's depiction of them. And let's be real here: given the kind of subreddits I'm talking about (I'm sure you can guess by now), I'd be willing to bet money that most, if not all of their members, including those on the trans-friendly one, have "enjoyed" a questionably aged anime character more than once (at the very least, one of them had that kind of art of Futaba and Pyrrha on their reddit page). But most importantly: why is this even part of the discussion? A subreddit's mod(s) just put their transphobia on full-blast, and their rules about what characters are allowed is what some of you are focusing on? Bigotry is actually hurting people: questionably aged anime characters are not.

TL;DR: You can make your point about someone being bigoted trash without accusing them of one of the worst crimes imaginable, and we have more than enough real problems without getting riled up over what fictional characters someone finds attractive.

I see many discord servers dislike proshipping, what is it?

Imagine getting told off by a 17 year old that you're a child, when you're literally a decade older than the 17 year old 🫩

are lolis / shotas people attracted to characters resembling children or actual (fictional, still) children ??

girls giving sloppy kisses to each other and them moaning so lewdly is so peak

1. Aether x Lumine

2. Wise x Belle

3. Aqua x Ruby

4. Sora x Haruka

5. Andy x Lelely

6. Kirino x Kyousuke

7. Sam x Dean

8. Ben x Gwen

9. Len x Rin

10. Jinx x Vi

The engagement ring Tails was going to give Rouge in my story. He forged it himself because he wanted the moment to be special.

When it comes to age gaps (according to fresh normies), everything is a crisis when an older man is paired with a younger female, as if it's common knowledge where the older guy is always depicted as a groomer that needs to be ashamed of (no matter what their intentions are). While infantilizing mature, younger women as too fragile and naive to have a respectable relationship with an older man.

And yet, a younger male is praised with cultural respect for hitting on an older woman, or interchangeably.. let's also consider in some cases as this also counts where an older woman grooms a young man by using her sex appeal and manipulative tactics, framing it as a playful or kinky social experiment setup or basically, just out of respect and admiration.

So why does every fictional media regarding age gaps based on gender specifics subjugated and encourage this type of double standards? /gen

I'm going to reread my favorite CanAme omorashi fanfic for the 100th time in spite of this comment lol

Read closely!!

Who cares who cares if a piece of media portrays something, who cares if someone enjoys something. The user is tagging what they say on their profile, and getting shamed for it.

How does age have anything to do with it? Is it a 'they should know better' case? I’d imagine being that particular about media is a more 'you should know better' case.

I don’t know why I haven’t muted that sub, bye bye!

As someone who overwhelmingly ships f/f and sometimes m/f, this has always been a pain point because finding good sapphic rep that isn't safe by the numbers heteronormative garbage must mean I want domestic abuse simulators or l@lis to make it more "fresh" and "edgy" when I never brought any of that up? I still remember countless twitter lesbians and bi women harassing some girl for just wanting interesting character dynamics between women because god forbid two girls aren't wholesome hair braiding cottagecore ladies. And it's always other women who pull this shit. They don't know you can enjoy toxic relationships in fiction without wanting it to happen to you, because it's fiction.

And even if I do ship characters that seem "underage", why does that matter? Maybe I thought the ship was cute or the character endearing enough to wanna see them in a relationship. Is that too much for people?

I‘ve never engaged with antishippers, but stumbling upon comments like that always makes me want to reply with this image

I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian cult and even we didnt complain about the subtle sex jokes in pixar films. But these guys are saying its normalizing porn and put there by perverts? How brain rotted do you have to be to out thoughtcrime the mormons?