No, no, writing about it is totally fine! That you were clear about it is what got me thinking more of it. I'm definitely of the mind that we should be allowed to write what we want and share it, so long as we tag/warn for it appropriately. I love reading complex relationships like you wrote in here, because there is that element of "Roy is fucked up but also" kinda deal.
I think nitpicking on the type of paedophilia is like trying to say some types are worse than others. But because of that kind of thing, people brush off when it happens to kids during or after puberty.
If I recall correctly, paedophilia is the umbrella term, and there's three terms under it. Something like 0-6, 6-puberty, puberty-adult. Maybe there's five terms?
Anyway, there's absolutely nothing wrong w writing it, even in a positive light like this, since you tagged it appropriately.
At some point i plan on writing a fic where from 8-10 or so, Ed did sex work to get enough money for he and Al to survive. And ofc that would quite viciously confront paedophilia.
Anyway.
Nah, I haven't actually coped with it yet, and it's on my list of things to work on w my therapist xD
I've read all the Riza/Al fics on ao3 xD once I get through more of my current fma ao3 tabs (i'm at 40, atm), I plan to head over to ffnet to check those out. But i need to get through more tabs first.
I'm surprised you were so old when you wrote it. I definitely got the feeling you had been 15-18 at the time.
Something lit up in my brain while I was thinking about this, which isn't self-evident, and which I think might help clarify it a little: I am an absolute HO for unreliable narrators.
Al isn't right. I, as a person, have never a day in my (FMA-writing, at least) life thought that Al was right. But Al thinks that Al's right, and part of the fantasy of this cracked-out universe is that he gets a chance to try to prove it in the first place. Part of the fantasy is that this is an alternate universe where he could ever conceivably be right, and part of the fantasy is that Ed and Alfons don't just lock him in the closet until he's like eighteen and a half. I probably had a pretty simplistic perspective on consent laws when I was the age you mentioned, but by 25 I never would have endorsed Al's POV in a real way for a second; it was just part of the reality of a fic built from jokey fanart and a lot of "HAHA OKAY BUT WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF" in Skype chats. So in 2014 I wrote that in the same way that I wrote cigarettes being Romantic™, which… In retrospect, warning for that nuance probably would have been a good idea, but I felt so liberated by the knowledge that like five people would ever read this that it never even occurred to me. :'|
I guess this gets to be a VERY sticky gray area, because sometimes – often – I'm putting my actual opinions directly into a character's mouth; but sometimes I'm personally very opposed to their point of view, but I almost never spell out which one is which. I guess that's some very chewy food for thought for me today, pff.
tl;dr I regret to report that I am definitely not a prodigy. Anything I wrote before 18 should be burned, and then the ashes should be hurled into the sea, and everything from 18 - 20 is on thin ice. Luckily for my dignity, the scraps that made it to the internet at all are relatively difficult to find.
Ah yeah, I see what you mean. And that's exactly the problem for me, I never want to trivialize that experience, and I never want to impose on someone else's feelings about it. It matters, and the language that people choose matters. Unfortunately I tend to get a little defensive because on the other side of a very thin wall (with AO3's TOS written on it) are a whole shit-lot of people telling me that I should be in jail for even thinking about sexualizing a 2-dimensional and entirely imaginary 16-year-old with extremely lovingly-drawn abs. Like. b r o. Fiction. Argh.
I'm really glad that there are still rational adults on the internet that I can have conversations like this with, though ♥ The idea that fiction is fundamentally divorced from reality, and the entire purpose of it is for us to explore and confront taboo topics in a safe environment where no real people get hurt by things that constantly hurt real people in real life… I can't get my head around why that's controversial for so many people these days. Yours sounds like a fic that will be very intense and extraordinarily meaningful to a lot of people.
Getting it on the list is a pretty considerable feat in its own right, I think. Here's hoping ♥
THAT RAREPAIR STRUGGLE. ;A; As a lifelong tab hoarder, I admire your ability to get through them tbh. I want to rec you the Scimitar Smile archive if FFN runs dry (Scimitar Smile cross-posted a lot of really old FMA fic from LJ and also hosted a lot of old stuff that didn't exist anywhere else), but it went down recently, and nobody's really sure if it's coming back. ;__; Wayback Machine might be able to rescue a lot of it, but I haven't the slightest idea how good searching would be. :(
Ohhh okay. Yeah, def not self-evident xD which it honestly doesn't have to be. But it's good to know xD
The whole Thing about how writing about taboo topics is Bad is the main reason I started reading fic by patrexes, despite her not being in any of the fandoms I am. She writes so much fucked up shit, and it's fun to read and experience new dynamics and potentialities like that.
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