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TopicWhich is more cringe? 18+ YA fanfiction written by 13 year olds or 31 year olds?
Unbridled9
07/27/21 4:46:30 PM
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Revelation34 posted...
A 13 year old doesn't know what they are doing. A 31 year old fanfiction writer clearly doesn't know what they are doing since they are writing fanfiction.

Well, the fact is that, if you're looking at a fanfic a 31 YO wrote to be part of their personal pleasure collection; you shouldn't be shocked when you see Spock, Kirk, and McCoy suddenly start disrobing or when Lara Croft finds a relic that unleashes tentacles or whatever. While it may be bad writing odds are it was written with the express purpose of being part of a personal pleasure collection and was never marketed or intended to be anything else. Note: I am excluding the latter group I mentioned from this (as they're a different matter entirely).

But the 13 YO crowd legit believes what they're writing is 'good' writing. Even ignoring the issue with experience/skill their 13 YO unoriginal character who is an edgelord with either a childish view of good and evil or doing horrific things thinking they're 'right/good' or whatever else is something they believe to be legitimately GOOD. So when they make a character that expunges X group of people that they disagree with they honestly think it's a good deed. They honestly believe that having something like a demon blade compelling them to do evil (often times which they engage in without hesitation) makes them a 'tortured soul' instead of a psychopath who was just waiting for an excuse.

I'm not saying you need to write perfectly from the get-go (especially as a 13 YO; barely a teen) but if I had to choose between some horny housewife writing a Fox/Falco piece that was never intended to be more than a wet fantasy dream and someone who makes the most generic BA tortured soul character who legitimately doesn't understand why exterminating gays/homophobes/whatever group they despise is a BAD thing (not to mention that the group is almost exclusively mega stereotypes), I'd choose the horny housewife. Especially if Wolf joined in at the last second.

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