The wanton destruction of fandom space

[navelgazed]

Okay, yes, that's a bit dramatic. But I found out today that pillowfort is going to be taking the road of not allowing any sort of sexy art of anyone that looks like they could be under 18 or would be on the cusp, which in theory is...whatever, but in practice, they even said that due to the stylistic nature of anime, cartoons etc., that would be impossible to enforce without extreme prejudice, especially if they're planning on being the 'replacement' for tumblr, so to speak. And I just... *facepalms* Dreamwidth is looking more and more like an attractive alternative despite being web 1.0. And that's saying something.

I was also thinking about starting a McElroy products community on here to talk about their podcasts and whatnot. Let me know if there would be any interest?

Comments

[princeofdoom]

Definitely the same. I've looked a bit young most of my life and there were times as an adult people have thought I was under 15. I understand that actual people can only change their appearance so much whereas characters can be presented however someone likes, but the idea that character X looks Y age because Z traits just ties into a lot of bs that girls (and guys) that are underage but have certain attributes are somehow more mature or "adult enough" and that's just entire rotten kettle of fish itself.

When you add in stylization.... That's just an entire other mess.