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[(Anonymous)]

my so rps on omegle a lot and just got invited to a rp discord for the fandom we're in. they pulled me in too because i play someone who also was wanted there. but we told the person inviting us that we're both nearly 30 when they asked, and then we got in and they're all like... 13. we explained this wasn't appropriate and left, but now i'm terrified those kids are gonna still be out there being unsafe :(

so i guess my question for anons is: how old are you, and how young a person are you willing to rp with?

[(Anonymous)]

i'm 26 and probably 21+

[(Anonymous)]

30, and it depends. Definitely wouldn't do smut with anyone under 18, but I don't have a problem doing gen rp with younger teens? As long as they're decent writers I don't see an issue with gen rp with them any more than I see an issue in being in like, a bowling team with younger people.

Again, this is assuming no smut with anyone Young, but normal stuff is like...

IDK, if you're not being creepy and are just socializing and doing a hobby together with no nsfw stuff what's the issue?

[(Anonymous)]

in my late 20s and agreeing with this. the idea that 'adults interacting in a social capacity with teens/youngsters' being 'wrong,' even when nothing taboo is involved, feels to me like something which really only got big in recent years. at the risk of dating myself, in the days of ljrp and early dwrp, the age of the person you were threading with was a non-issue unless you were doing a smut thread or were playing in a smut game (anna, who lied about her age, is one example who comes to mind).

roughly a decade down the road, most of us who were teenagers when we started rping are in our 20s and 30s. one mod at a former game of mine said she started rping at 12. nobody was bothered back then and her age wasn't information she gave out freely. does rping with the decreasing amount of new blood from platforms which skew younger, like twitter and tumblr, make us 'pedos' in modern jargon? i don't think so.

but those who actively seek out youngsters in this social hobby of ours with the specific intention of preying on them, though, can go faceplant themselves in a bed of rusty nails.

[(Anonymous)]

idk, to be honest i consider the people i rp with to be my peers in a way and kids/teens just aren't my peers. the way i interact socially with someone under 18 is vastly different than how i interact with older people (plus the way i behave with a group of adults vs a group of adults and kids), and i prefer to keep those worlds separate.

and i don't think it makes anyone a pedo necessarily to rp gen stuff with someone under 18, obviously, but there's enough of a potential for someone to get taken advantage of that i'm hesitant to blanket encourage/normalize adults and teens/kids rping together, particularly in any game where smut or romance is present outright, even if it's not happening between adults and kids. i wish them the best but i think generally speaking it's probably better err on the side of caution and encourage under-18s to rp with each other.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't feel "wrong" interacting with them so much as i don't know what to talk with them about

their interests and concerns and things they're doing in life are not relatable to me at all

+1

[(Anonymous)]

if anything, mature and sensible adults interacting with younger folks can be a good thing by setting a good example. tbh i think this whole purity culture may have stemmed from kids coming up with radical, idiotic rules on their own and then trying to impose it on the rest of fandom spaces. maybe that wouldn't have happened if they were taught the equivalent of "don't like, don't read."

[(Anonymous)]

29

18 is okay if we aren't talking ooc at all, but i prefer someone to be at least 24 if we're going to chat ooc among rp/fandom stuff

[(Anonymous)]

if it was like one younger person who seemed mature in a group that was otherwise adults i might be okay with it (obviously only for gen rp stuff), but in general i don't really wanna spend my free time hanging out with a bunch of kids. it's nothing personal, we're just at very different points of life and our values and senses of humor and all that probably don't line up anyway.

besides, i don't really want to be censoring myself and watching what i say and talk about during my fun time. i don't wanna be a bad influence on any kids, but i also wanna be able to curse or make dirty jokes or whatever while just hanging out talking with my friends. i wouldn't outright ban kids but i'd prefer not to play with anyone under 18 if i could avoid it.

[(Anonymous)]

honestly ill roleplay with anyone. not interested in shipping and stuff so no worries of boundaries being broken or pushed.

my rule of thumb is unless were friends, i keep contact to a min and dont invite anything besides friendship and h/c.

[(Anonymous)]

Early 20s, and I'm fine RPing gen with under-18s.

With the caveat that there's a diff between RPing with kids in spaces where there's a big mix of ages because it's an open community (like in a game or a forum or non-structured tumblr RP), and RPing with kids in a place that they seem to curate on an invite-only/semi-private basis where most of the members skew young (like that discord group). I definitely would not stay in the latter case and I do think adults who do would be pushing boundaries.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, a private group with mostly kids i'd say no to, but it's weird to me to mind them being in our larger mixed age rp spaces.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

it's like the difference between hanging out in a library vs hanging out in a private book club hosted at someone's house. of course it's be weird to take issue with kids being in the library, it's a shared public space and most responsible adults are gonna be considerate of that fact and not loudly discuss the erotica their reading this week. but it's perfectly understandable if someone would rather not be the weird adult going to someone's house to hang out with a bunch of kids, or to not want kids joining your private club at your house where you're hanging out with other adult friends and making cocktails while talking about whatever spicy shit you've been reading.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who was in their 30s back in the LJ days when a lot of you guys were 16-18, I don't really care. If I was bothered by RPing with teens then I would have had few people to RP with. To me what matters more is having common ground with someone and how they behave in general.

I'm 40 now, I don't really play smut so that isn't a factor. I'm willing to RP with anyone who can act reasonably mature and understands the IC/OOC divide.

[(Anonymous)]

28 y/o rpers i know act 13 anyway at least then they'd have an excuse

[(Anonymous)]

40 (almost) and while i would rp with someone 16 for gen fluffy stuff, i so rarely play gen fluffy stuff, it's likely that the content in most of my psls/games/tags are 18+ material. this isn't dating. the only thing i need to feel comfortable about is that they're of the age for whatever content we're rping (though i don't think i could feasibly play against anyone younger than 16, if only because of writing styles).

my big one and only no is someone lying to me about their age and saying they're 18+ when they're not and playing anything smutty with me. i wince a bit about some of the more graphic violent content i can play being played with a minor, but it's the smut that would really fuck me up.

dating, the age gap would be a lot smaller. even just 'being friends with', i'd prefer them to be within a decade of me, but just to rp with? if i can read a shitty book written by a 17 year old, i can rp with one.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm in my early 30s and i'll rp with anyone, i don't care

but i also would definitely nope.png out of the situation you described; i feel like there is a difference between rping and socially interacting

cw: gross

[(Anonymous)]

this 40 year old mom who i had added on my lj wrote smut with me when i was like 17 or something and i was like 'whatever' then but now i'm like

yike

[(Anonymous)]

33. i once attempted to rp with someone through deviantart pms who was the other half of an extremely rare pairing. at the time i was not sure how old they were, i knew they were young. they were very mature and pleasant. i gave it a go anyway. the difference in writing skill became immediately apparent which made it hard in one breath, and then in another they were clearly trying to lead into smut. i ghosted on them before it got to that point. i later found out they were 17.

that in of itself is not terrible--lord knows i was being weird and perverted as hell all over the internet at that age but again, the age difference also directly tied into the writing quality. the language they used came across very strongly like they were self-inserting or writing for the sake of wish-fulfillment. i did not feel comfortable with that at all, nor did i feel like expending so much energy to help "mentor" them into a better writer or something. rarepair wasn't worth that that time and energy, i might as well have been writing fic by myself at that point.

interacting with someone from an entirely different generation i don't think is an inherently a bad thing or something that should be discouraged. working with kids in an after school program many years ago, i came to really appreciate the differences in that gap--kids are smarter than anyone gives credit for and they have a fresh perspective on life a lot of adults lack. their creativity and imagination is boundless. but it's also impossible to deny that those generational differences are there, and kids are incredibly easily influenced--for better or worse. i'm not sure i want to feel responsible for that any of that influence just by existing as an older peer in their space, especially a fandom space so open to interpretation and with such little moderation.

so i guess to answer more clearly, my hard no is 18 and under, though in actual practice i will probably prefer to play with someone who's early-mid 20s or older for the sake of having more similar levels of writing/experience. you get experience through trial and error and that only comes with time. i think teens, especially young teens, have not developed the emotional maturity or ability to completely separate ic/ooc yet, or not overreact to shit adults are already very jaded to. not that adult titty babies don't do that here already, but i digress, teens are going to do it more reliably by virtue of their age.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 28. I'd rp smut with anyone 21+, probably, but it'd depend on the person. No minors at all, though.

I'd roleplay gen with teenagers, I'd have casual conversation with them, but I don't think I'd really befriend any. Not in the way I do with people my age, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol next time anons are insisting that playing smut is totally not about getting off or sexual feelings at all, I’m linking to all the people who need their partners to be three years minimum over the age of 18.

[(Anonymous)]

are you serious right now

people just don't want to have minors and sex involved in the same conversation, it can be rp or anything else

most people wouldn't buy a porn magazine for a minor either

[(Anonymous)]

believe it or not what makes sexual interactions with someone underage wrong and illegal is not, in fact, whether you get off on it

[(Anonymous)]

i'm 29 and i'd rp gen with anyone as long as they have decent writing skills. smut, i'd prefer them to be 21+.

as far as i see it as a person who has recently returned to education, i'm around 19-25 years olds in class all the time and i can have normal conversations and hang out with them, so whats the harm in writing that sort of stuff?

[(Anonymous)]

i think i'd only want to rp with someone who's 18 minimum, even if it's gen.

maybe 20 minimum for smut so i don't feel like a creeper?