Ooc, pardon my soapbox moment guys but this makes me so angry.
Ok, no, I do not understand. It has amazed me since I was twelve how fast adults forget being kids, but I always thought it happened around thirty or so. I had no idea it happened the second you fuckers turned 18.
Here’s my policy: I don’t ask, I don’t want to know, don’t tell me, I won’t tell you. I think everyone not knowing and not caring is safer and far more inclusive than the absolute “I will not because I’m a shithead who forgot what it was fucking like to RP at 17.” No, I will not word that more politely, I MEAN for that to be insulting and sting, because it’s the truth.
I don’t think you guys realize how hypocritical and damaging it is to say “I don’t want to RP with anyone under 18” or “Roleplaying Pet Peeves; Underage smut RPers.” You guys have fucking friends that are 15, 16, 17, maybe even a little younger. Do you remember being that age? I can bet most of you were RPing at that age, I bet most of you RP’d smut at that age. Don’t fucking lie and say you didn’t do it, you did. You read the smutty RPs and fanfic, you wrote and RP’d it, and suddenly, that magical digit changes to 8 and you’re way fucking above paying the same respects to people in that position than you were when you were that age.
There is no set law in the area of RP, at least not that I’m aware of and I actively work to know these things. You’re not in person, you’re not sending pictures to each other, you’re not fucking each other, you are WRITING about the interaction of two CHARACTERS. But all of sudden you’re a ball of fear going all “oh I don’t want to risk it!” which brings me to my next Bullshit Detector moment.
Talk about fucking hypocritical. You guys definitely break copyright laws left and right, you watch shit illegally online, don’t deny it, all of us have broken at least a couple laws simply by living the culture of the internet. All of that shit has way worse consequences than RPing with someone you didn’t know was underage. So what’s the big deal? It makes you squeamish? You want to weed out the immature? Or the people who don’t quite had the skill down? Wow, do you smell that? IT’S YOUR BULLSHIT. You sucked at writing smut once upon a midnight fuck, and it was people taking pity on you and wanting to RP with you that made you better.
Not to mention the shame and hurt you put on “younger” people because of your hypocritical, condescending attitude. Do you remember first RPing and wandering into the world of smut? I bet you were pretty awkward about sex, weren’t you? I bet you weren’t quite comfortable with it yet, and you didn’t know how it worked because you sex ed from middle school didn’t teach you shit, and some kind soul comes down and says “here, let me help you, this’ll be awesome!” and it was, wasn’t it? Not only did it make you and me and everyone more comfortable with sex and it’s implications, it helped make us more comfortable with ourselves, our own sexuality, and our kinks. I bet I’m not the only fucking person that learned through RPing that sex was ok, that it was ok for me to want it, and that yeah, it’s kinda fun to be tied up now and then. And it wasn’t sex between me and the other RPer, it was exploring sex in a safe and healthy and conducive way with someone else responsible guiding you through character interactions.
But here you are, you’ve forgotten all that. You’ve forgotten, like fucking magical amnesia, what it was like to be there, and you have condemned an entire community of awesome RPers with great writing skills discovering this great world we’ve created to struggling their way through sex and RPing in an EXTREMELY sexualized space. You welcome into the dildo museum and then say “You’re not old enough to know what a dildo is.” Do you realize you’ve taken on the same fear of sex as an entire nation? The same fear and skittishness that condemns thousands of kids daily to unsafe experiences of sex? I hope you’re proud.
I remember what it was like to be 16 and have no idea what the hell sex was all about, what RPing and fandoms and smut was all about. I’d already had unsafe sex and I felt almost nothing but gross and confused about it and several kind-hearted people taught be better, and now that I’m in the position to be that person, I will be, because I don’t want someone to be uninformed and afraid and shut out as I was at that age if I can fucking help it.
So yeah, be douchey, forget what it was like to be that age, and prove to an entire community of writers and mature young adults that you are, in fact, a skittish, hypocritical, self-interested, immature, ungrateful cunt who doesn’t deserve the love and respect of our community by every one of its members because you refuse to return it to Every. Single. One. Of. Its. Members.
You shame me with your forgetfulness and your inconsideration of an entire sect of talented young people who just want to be your equal, and I serve you back all the hatred and distaste you deserve for putting all of them down for your hypocritical values.
Bring on the hate, motherfuckers, you and I can smut our characters any time of day no matter who the fuck you are, you are welcome on this fucking blog.
