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A trend that confuses me
Apr. 3rd, 2019 12:38 pmAs a dyed-in-the-wool Batman/Robin shipper, albeit a lapsed one, I find the people who ship Tony Stark with Tom Holland's Peter Parker--but only when Peter is like over 20 or something--completely baffling.
Y'all, if you're going there with respect to the age gap and the sweet boyish face and all the relevant mess, the age of consent in New York State is 17. If you then have agita about whether to tag it underage on the AO3 or not, welcome to the club! That hesitation is traditional and that's what Choose Not To Warn is for. My experience with breathless 18th birthday stories for Robins tells me surely someone has written "Gee, Mr. Stark, it's my birthday" fic. Whether or not it's the relevant birthday is a different question--18th birthdays aren't relevant for most states.
I'm going to leave aside "Since when do these characters care about what's legal?" to some extent because the older person isn't exactly sending the younger one into danger in MCU-land, and I don't need another ride on that merry-go-round. If anyone wants to litigate the rights of fictional minors to go through their fictional lives unsullied, cool, do it in your own journal.
Y'all, if you're going there with respect to the age gap and the sweet boyish face and all the relevant mess, the age of consent in New York State is 17. If you then have agita about whether to tag it underage on the AO3 or not, welcome to the club! That hesitation is traditional and that's what Choose Not To Warn is for. My experience with breathless 18th birthday stories for Robins tells me surely someone has written "Gee, Mr. Stark, it's my birthday" fic. Whether or not it's the relevant birthday is a different question--18th birthdays aren't relevant for most states.
I'm going to leave aside "Since when do these characters care about what's legal?" to some extent because the older person isn't exactly sending the younger one into danger in MCU-land, and I don't need another ride on that merry-go-round. If anyone wants to litigate the rights of fictional minors to go through their fictional lives unsullied, cool, do it in your own journal.
