Its Tumbler. That shouldn't surprise any one. Any one who dares draw aged up characters are commonly attacked and called a pedo due to the immature members of a fandom not liking the ship or them simply not liking mature art of certain characters.
They do the same to any one who RP's an aged up character or has a pairing in which one character is significantly older then the other.
If you turn a male character fem you will get attacked.
If you have a character be gay\bi\pansexual\straight and the immature tweens of the fandom don't agree with that they will attack you.
Oh damn, I've been following this drama nonsense all over Tumblr recently. :x
I can see where they're coming from but as per usual, there's the super angry loud group that takes things further than necessary. I get not wanting to see actual pedo ships, I really do, but taking that mindset and then insisting two consenting (fictional) adults together is pedophilia is making the whole thing look like a farce.
And in all cases I've seen so far where it goes this far it's never about pedophilia or the survivors of CSA, it's about these angry dickbags not liking a ship or a character involved in it, or the person doing the shipping.
This has been around for years. I remember when Tangled came out, and the head admin of TV Tropes said writing porn of Rapunzel and Flynn made you a pedophile because they were characters in a movie for children. They're adults who are married!
Its nothing new but its irritating as all hell. Look at two super popular fandoms right now, UT and SU, the fandom is so toxic that its lost a lot of fans. And a lot of the immature fans claim any one who ships two characters they don't lie is a pedo and the like
I often get shit on since my human OC, Vincent, turns down any one who hits on him or tries to get into his pants, especially after he mentions he already is seeing someone. The really flip their shit when they find out his partner is not only older then he is, his partner is a non human.
A lot of your posts here regarding Vincent and Bonnie involve someone wanting to "fix" them with a Magical Healing Cock/Vagina and throwing a tantrum when you say no. Is it always the same assholes, or are they multiplying?
Granted, it could be creepy depending on the characters. (I'm not saying a 20-something-year age gap is automatically creepy between adults, just that the potential is there.) There could be power imbalance and control issues and gender-related inequality exacerbated by the ages and what have you. It's dishonest to pretend those issues don't occur in real life, even if they're not a problem in every relationship with a bigger age gap. Also, if the younger character was under 20, I would personally question shipping it because someone who's 50 (or 40, or 30, or hell 25) would have an incredibly easy time manipulating someone who's only, say, 18. But those are issues with their relative life experience and you're right that it's not pedophilia if they only met at that age. If we were talking about some creepy Twilight-esque imprinting bullshit when an adult "chooses" a literal kid before the kid even knows what relationships are, then I would say a pedo element is there even if the characters are aged up later
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True but it these are fictional characters, not real life people. One is a human in his early 20's and the other is a non human in his late 40's, early 50's. There's no power imbalance or control issues with them and sex really isn't' an interest for either of them. It has nothing to do with age or anything, they just are not really interested in it.
My human OC has had a lot of casual no strings attached sex with his friend during and shortly after high school but that stopped after he moved and broke away from the hectic 'party life' and the drugs that were eating him alive.
I would call their relationship more like very close good friends then anything. They basically saved each others lives.
But that doesn't stop some people from calling my older character a pedo.
If we were talking about some creepy Twilight-esque imprinting bullshit when an adult "chooses" a literal kid before the kid even knows what relationships are, then I would say a pedo element is there even if the characters are aged up later.I can't stand that
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Since they're both adults who met as adults, I don't see how them having sex would be a problem anyway? Barring some sort of species incompatibility as you said one is a non-human, but I assume sentient in the same way humans are from what you're describing.
But yeah, 20 and up isn't even close to being underage. If those people are trying to point out any of the potential problems I mentioned earlier, they are failing badly at doing that.
Your guess is as good as mine. It appears to basically range from Vincent turning the other players female characters down and me not being interested in M\M\F smut and people not liking the ship.
Even if he was 16 it still wouldn't make my other character a pedo, creepy maybe, but not a pedo and it would cause some major power imbalance or control issues. It would be something I'd RP with a good friend who understood such things but not any Joe Blow off Tumbler.
To be fair, I've only ever heard 'robbing the cradle' used in the sense of a relationship between two consenting adults in which one is older than the other by at least enough to be the younger one's parent. I've literally never heard it used to refer to pedophilia in any way, shape, or form before this post. Granted, I've only ever heard it used a few times at most, and it was my mother who told me what it means, so a grain of salt may be warranted here.
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They do the same to any one who RP's an aged up character or has a pairing in which one character is significantly older then the other.
If you turn a male character fem you will get attacked.
If you have a character be gay\bi\pansexual\straight and the immature tweens of the fandom don't agree with that they will attack you.
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I can see where they're coming from but as per usual, there's the super angry loud group that takes things further than necessary. I get not wanting to see actual pedo ships, I really do, but taking that mindset and then insisting two consenting (fictional) adults together is pedophilia is making the whole thing look like a farce.
And in all cases I've seen so far where it goes this far it's never about pedophilia or the survivors of CSA, it's about these angry dickbags not liking a ship or a character involved in it, or the person doing the shipping.
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I often get shit on since my human OC, Vincent, turns down any one who hits on him or tries to get into his pants, especially after he mentions he already is seeing someone. The really flip their shit when they find out his partner is not only older then he is, his partner is a non human.
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My human OC has had a lot of casual no strings attached sex with his friend during and shortly after high school but that stopped after he moved and broke away from the hectic 'party life' and the drugs that were eating him alive.
I would call their relationship more like very close good friends then anything. They basically saved each others lives.
But that doesn't stop some people from calling my older character a pedo.
If we were talking about some creepy Twilight-esque imprinting bullshit when an adult "chooses" a literal kid before the kid even knows what relationships are, then I would say a pedo element is there even if the characters are aged up later.I can't stand that ( ... )
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But yeah, 20 and up isn't even close to being underage. If those people are trying to point out any of the potential problems I mentioned earlier, they are failing badly at doing that.
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Even if he was 16 it still wouldn't make my other character a pedo, creepy maybe, but not a pedo and it would cause some major power imbalance or control issues. It would be something I'd RP with a good friend who understood such things but not any Joe Blow off Tumbler.
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