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  • ilikepipecleanerswitheyes

    the disturbing thing about the colleen ballinger stuff is that stories of adults being too comfortable with minors is so common on a smaller scale in fandoms online. so many older adults engage in inappropriate sexual conversation with minors in regards to fandom content and justify their behavior by saying they’re discussing fictional content. 

    i remember being 16 or 17 (with my age listed clearly in my bio) and posting about crushing on a character. then an adult user who i only interacted with occasionally DMd me a “surprise” writing me a smut blurb  involving myself and that character. i didn’t ask for this story to be written either. 

    i believe there is no age limit to enjoying fandom content or engaging in a fandom, but when you’re in an online community that happens to have minors in it, you as the adult, must maintain boundaries and be careful of how you interact with others. 

  • ilikepipecleanerswitheyes

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    ok wow so i actually found the message i had sent to the person regarding the situation. it’s very weird that i as a teenager had to be put in the position of sending a message like this to an adult. i had no other incidents with this person, but being in my early 20s now, i couldn’t even fathom writing a piece about a teenager like that.

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  • the disturbing thing about the colleen ballinger stuff is that stories of adults being too comfortable with minors is so common on a smaller scale in fandoms online. so many older adults engage in inappropriate sexual conversation with minors in regards to fandom content and justify their behavior by saying they’re discussing fictional content. 

    i remember being 16 or 17 (with my age listed clearly in my bio) and posting about crushing on a character. then an adult user who i only interacted with occasionally DMd me a “surprise” writing me a smut blurb  involving myself and that character. i didn’t ask for this story to be written either. 

    i believe there is no age limit to enjoying fandom content or engaging in a fandom, but when you’re in an online community that happens to have minors in it, you as the adult, must maintain boundaries and be careful of how you interact with others. 

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  • i hate the “shiv didn’t pick tom because of xyz she actually did it because of abc” arguments as if these characters aren’t multifaceted people with many different motivations. i think it can be true that shiv didn’t vote for kendall out of envy, but also because she was considering the future of her child.

    human beings weigh all their gains and losses when making important decisions, so i personally don’t think her decision is as black and white as people are making it out to be.

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  • it was an interesting detail to me that kendall was confirmed to be sterile in the finale. that was likely such a threat to his personal sense of masculinity that logan probably also shamed him for. meanwhile, tom is able to produce children.

    tom warned logan about the kids’ plan. tom got to spend time with logan in his last moments. tom got the coveted ceo role that kendall so desperately sought for. i realize these connections may be a reach, but i find the implications of kendall being unable to produce a “true heir” to be so interesting.