#I'm approaching this from an adult perspective and i understand sometimes younger readers are more impressionable

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

I can't tell you how much I don't care about age gap discourse. I don't care that he's 700 years old and she's 17! if it's not something you could criticize in real life then I don't care! I. don't. care!

#if immortals dating teenagers makes you uncomfortable then like okay more power to you #i guess don't read/watch shit with those kinds of age gaps #but like to me it's kind of silly ro nitpick fabtastical age gaps #like there are vampires/faeries/insert immortal beings #i simply do not care to hold those kinds of stories to modern dating morality I'm not sorry #(and tbh I'm pretty forgiving of normal life age gaps if they're handled in interesting and nuanced ways #like if one character is 24 and the other is 16 but there is a moral struggle and resistance there then who cares #would i ever condone that irl? absolutely not! but fiction is fiction who fucking cares #if you personally don't want to interact with those stories then don't but imo they're not inherently problematic just by existing) #anyways that's my rant I'm tired of age gap discourse #make the age gaps larger!! a seven thousand year old wizard falling for a nineteen year old go! #(*actually i do have one caveat #I'm approaching this from an adult perspective and i understand sometimes younger readers are more impressionable #and for younger readers i actually think real life age gaps can't be explored well because younger readers often don't pick up on the nuance #and larger than life fantastical age gaps actually serve the purpose much better in YA)