Passing thoughts

[branchandroot]

Sometimes I trip across an example of that intensely weird "you can only be in fandom until you're 30" thing that some of the kidlets have been taught to parrot these days. And sometimes it annoys me, and sometimes it just makes me shake my head, and then again sometimes it makes me think...

Melville was 57 when he wrote very thinly veiled self-insert expies of himself and Hawthorne falling in love for 18,000 lines of an epic poem about war and politics and religion and sex and identity.

(That was Clarel, if you're wondering, and they also had a bit of a threesome going on with the young title character.)

So you know, A) Rolfe/Vine 4evar and B) you never age out.

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[annotated_em]

Just what do they suppose happens when a person turns thirty, anyway? Or is it that they're so young that thirty sounds like some impossibly distant age?

...actually, do I really care? Nah. Except to say that if they think I should have left fandom when I turned thirty, then they're not allowed to read any of the porn I've written since then. Obviously they don't want it since it was produced by someone past her sell-by date.

[branchandroot]

Honestly, the part that puzzles me most is where they think all the platforms and fic and art and vids come from. Like... do they honestly believe that either a) it's all made by 18 year olds or b) it's all created and maintained by adults who then... don't use it? The lack of thinking, it burns.