#adolescent sexuality

[starsarefire824]

Hey!!💚

Just wanted to say that I’m really REALLY liking your book starting femme Will. It’s such an underrated, unexplored part of the fandom and it’s refreshing to see people finally exploring it, plus femme Will(especially in your book) is sooo cute<33

I’m totally Mike rn btw(minus the romantic attraction) because femme will deserves all the adoration and acceptance<3

Awww, Jeez man. I'm so happy and thankful. Thanks so much for sending this little love note for femme Will and Heatwaves. It's something I've wanted to explore for his character for a long while, but sort of never found the inspiration for it that I could set in canon Stranger Things. Because I'd want it to be a getting together fic for byler, and starting this story now felt so natural. rather than trying to force something because i personally wanted to write femme will. haha.

but i'm excited for the teenagery confusion and exploration in this fic. the innocence of it and then how that effects mike and will's relationship. i'm excited for mike realizing his wants and desires and his sexuality, and will accepting the things that he likes and his sexuality.

i'm currently writing the newest chapter, and i'm just so stoked! i'm so happy you are too! you've always been one of my biggest supporters, both vocally, and just on A03. and so you're who i'm writing for. <3333

[commonsensecommentary]

“There is nothing heroic about convincing unhappy children and adolescents who are confused about the changes in their bodies—and desperate for trustworthy adult guidance—that the solution to all their problems are cross dressing, breast binding, puberty blockers, or surgical alteration of their genitals.”

(From my blog archive)

[veliseraptor]

Thoughts on chengxian as a romantic ship? I ship it and was wondering on your opinion.

I am not personally a chengxian shipper inasmuch as I don't tend to read fic where they are plainly, explicitly, romantically or sexually into each other.

however I think I would say I am a chengxian shipper in the sense that it's an incredibly intense relationship for both of them, highly charged, complicated and messy and extremely important in how they relate to each other and (in at least some ways) to the rest of the world. jiang cheng doesn't make sense as a character if he doesn't care about wei wuxian in an incredibly deep and intense way. wei wuxian doesn't make sense as a character if he doesn't - or at the very least didn't - care about jiang cheng in the same intense, almost consuming way. it's a massively significant relationship in both their lives and it's one I find very interesting and compelling to explore.

so like. I guess I'm a chengxian shipper in the same way that I was ever a thorki shipper, in that I wasn't, but also I kind of was, because for me at a certain threshold of relationship intensity the sex or romance or lack thereof starts to become almost incidental. for instance the point where you undergo experimental surgery to have a piece of yourself removed and placed in another person?

so like. while I guess I would say in the strictest sense that my feelings on chengxian as a romantic ship are sort of "eh, not my personal bag, at least not in the traditional sense" but that really doesn't feel like the most accurate answer to the question.

[sob-dylan]

mr. rain

[angelofdykeness]

"i wish the blue archive girls were over 18" is a take i keep forgetting is entirely valid if you don't play the game and only know it from being inundated with horny art of the girls, which is everywhere. because once you actually start reading the story you understand how important them being minors is to the setting

the real issue is that we shouldn't be sexualizing teens in these stories, not that the girls being sexualized should be of age so you can feel more comfortable being horny for them. if that makes sense

[kritischetheologie]

brocedes + karting days something something torn up hotel rooms (+ it's not gay if we keep our clothes on?)

@baku2017 asked for #69. This has been sitting in my inbox for over two years while I attempted to gather the necessary strength to ask anon if they know how old Lewis and Nico were during the karting years.

[eggcats]

gotta be honest, it's honestly super annoying to constantly see "you can't ship this bc this character is _ in canon!" and I feel like I can tell it's all younger people in fandoms doing this bc, like, never ONCE have I shipped ANYTHING based off a canon relationship or sexuality

I can ship whatever the hell I want, however the hell I want, and it doesn't take away from canon because that's how this shit works

learn what the fucking "fan" in fandom means and have one (1) single critical thought I'm Begging you

[commonsensecommentary]

“Woefully misguided government efforts to circumvent parental authority in order to indoctrinate a generation of obedient little Wokesters have instead produced frightening rates of childhood and adolescent despair and escalating societal discord.”

[isfjmel-phleg]

Ever open a book of literary criticism of something you love, get partway through, and realize that you, certified ordinary person, could do a--well, maybe if not better, then at least more interesting job of it?

[the-best-bagel]

back on my utena bullshit and getting annoyed by ppl reducing her to just a herbo jock like. please remove your horny hat for a sec and think more about the themes of the show outside of lesbianism

[joescarry]

I embark today on a re-read of Flannery O'Connor's story, "A Temple of the Holy Ghost." It seems like an appropriate discourse to lift up at a moment when the country is confronting anti-trans and anti-drag hysteria.

(The first thing I noticed in my notes was a reference to Baby Ruth (TM) candy bars. Nothing is ever accidental in an FO story. The image above is from a '50s display ad in Colliers. What do you suppose she was driving at?)

[firedragon1321]

I found an old cringe post from the blog’s younger days where I just joined the Hunter x Hunter fandom and the welcome wagon was a creepy no context post involving a screencap of Gon, Killua, and Hisoka. It wasn’t even the worst Hisoka screenshot (we all know that’s the schwing). But it still felt like a slap in the face because of Hisoka’s...reputation.

Now I’m afraid to say I like Gon and Killua as individual characters because all people know how to do with them is ship and give Hisoka a run for his pervy money. I’m not really in the fandom anymore. It’s kind of sad- the manga is very well-written and clever. But if the fandom can drive me off, I probably wasn’t meant to be there.

Now Kingdom Hearts, on the other hand...

[archiveofidentityconstellations]

Thirteen years old, plaid skirt on. Not too short, because you don’t need it. Your hips are already full, your legs are already long. There are two groups of girls in school. The ones who stay children, and are good with that. And the girls who want to be women, overlining their eyes. You’re somehow between them and not either one, because you already look like a woman, and everyone treats you like one. You don’t bother with makeup.

You leave school and your brother’s friends, sixteen, seventeen, sit at the table with you, ask you questions. It’s funny, and it’s cute. They want the same thing the men do, but they’re not men yet. You feel older than them. You look older too.

You wonder if you’d be better off being a woman. You still can’t understand long division.

No one bothered to teach you. They just yell when you don’t know it, or the women scoff, pleased smirk curving over their lips. “Beauty is no exchange for smarts,” they say, to your young-old face. Your thirteen year old, makeup-free face.

This is what I look like, you don’t say. It’s only when you’re older, twenty-three, that you get your own meaning. As it is, you’re tenuous, vague. On the edge of something.

It’s easier to grow up, after that. ‘If that’s how they treat me, that’s what I am,’ and so you Become. Thirteen is different from sixteen, but you don’t know that yet. By the time you’re sixteen, you’ll be twenty-two. Gazes that should be decades off will linger, and you put your makeup on.

‘That’s how they treat me,’ decided, almost wondrously. ‘So that’s what I am.’

“They’re going to look,” you say, and turn. They watch you walk away.

Thirteen years old, plaid skirt in the drawer. Makeup on.

[professionaljester]

i also have a lot of thoughts abt the barbie movie and eventually i'll be able to get them out into words lmao

[lettersiarrange]

Not sure if I feel better or worse about my own virgin status knowing half the people on this hellsite are right there with me