#legal consent

[hopefully-helpful-daemon]

People need to realize that this 'emotionally repressed' 'bad at communicating' 'doesn't know how to show love so doesn't even try' Bruce that's so popular with fandom, can't exist at the same time as 'best father of the year' 'tried his hardest' 'kind, compassionate grandfather' Alfred that the fandom loves so much !

[lilac-set]

Ya ever think about how when you dont receive medical treatment for something you have to sign an “against medical advice” form saying that you understand if you dont follow medical advice you could experience increased and unforeseen problems including death, but if you do receive medical treatment for anything you also have to sign an informed consent form saying that you understand if you do follow medical advice you could experience increased and unforeseen problems including death

[mhaccunoval]

this for real though

[amphibious-thing]

Pet Peeve: people saying underage when what they mean is under 18. Underage is a legal term which refers to the legal age of consent which differs from country to country and even sometimes state to state. It also differs over time.

So no it wasn't legal in 18th century England to have sex with underage girls it was however legal to have sex with girls who were under the age of 18 (and still is). 18th century England did have age of consent laws it's just that the age of consent was much lower than 18 (10 for girls 14 for boys).

It's important to remember that legality and morality are different things. When we talk about historical legal systems we need to distinguish between what was legal/illegal and what is moral/immoral.

[mirrorofliterature]

I'm not sure why so many pro jedi fans have decided to die on the hill that the jedi couldn't free shmi from slavery for a variety of reasons

do you think it is a good, morally okay or ethical for the jedi to routinely take force sensitive kids from people in impoverished positions whilst doing shitall to help the people suffering, thereby making it much more difficult for the parents/guardians to refuse to give up their children to the jedi because they are desperate to offer them a better life, which the shmi case implies is likely a pattern across jedi recruitment practices?

do you think standing by and letting slavery continue is morally sound? the jedi used to destroy slavers. now they lie in bed with them. query that

people in star wars fandom need to stop treating slavery so flippantly.

... also the child process reminds me of my government's terrible approach to first nations kids, my god

anyway the jedi's apathy towards shmi reflects a general lack of apathy towards ordinary people's suffering in the gffa unless it is Within Mission Parameters set by a (We Know This) Increasingly Corrupt Senate, in this essay I will -

[thedoubteriswise]

I'm not a lawyer or whatever but it's so weird to me that ring doorbells are legal. like the owners of a ring have to agree to amazon's terms of service about how the data that is collected will be used. which they mostly don't read! but legally they have to agree to it. they have a choice. but if I'm a random passerby minding my business in what is often a public location, I didn't agree to any of that shit? like I simply did not agree to have a gigantic corporation collecting data about me in that way.

you might say, but there are security cameras everywhere! the government surveils you all the time! and to that I say yes, that is also pretty fucked up and evil, but there are at least semi-coherent legal arguments for why it's allowed. if it's a random brick and mortar store, the footage from that is usually getting deleted regularly and being seen by no one except a bored rent-a-cop unless someone tries to rob the place, and all I have to do to opt out of that is not go to that store (also, the store is private property, the owners have way more legal say over what happens there). it has limited use and I can technically choose not to participate. if it's government surveillance... I mean. that is being done by people who are at least supposed to be accountable to me and represent my interests. in practice it is definitely still evil, but I recognize that it has a sliver of legal justification.* I'm meant to have the option of arguing with the authorities who do this and stopping them if I and my community are sufficiently committed to making that happen.

but with amazon shit, I apparently have no legal right not to do business with or be tracked by a global company known to harvest a massive amount of data and keep it for reasons most people find at least somewhat objectionable. even if I don't exchange money for their goods and services or consent to interacting with their technology, the way the people who actually buy that technology do. the only way I can get out of it is by never going outside. I can't figure out what legal justification you could possibly make for this

*not one I agree with, to be clear, in the united states at least I think the majority of government surveillance can very reasonably be considered a 4th amendment violation

[pastelsugar6w6]

Little crown prince of Spades Alfred leaving dirty flowers from the gardens and gifts he makes for his future queen because he's too shy to give them to Arthur outright. Arthur being quite a lot older than Alfred just thinks it's cute and his silly little crush will go away once he realizes he doesn't have to actually swear himself to Arthur. It's only a political marriage to appease the kingdoms.

Then Alfred hits 18 and Arthur is like "...oh fuck"

[necronatural]

re: your tags on the difference between legality and morality - (pls feel free to not answer this at all) but i've also been thinking about the "why is incest bad?" argument because some homophobes argue "there may not be nothing wrong with two consenting adults who happen to be the same gender, but i can't help feeling disgusted by it, in the same way someone would be disgusted by two consenting adults who happen to be in the same family" <- but i guess my question is, i can't explicitly identify anything wrong with incest like that. which should mean there should be incest rights..? but i think i'm jumping the gun on that train of thought. what's your perspective on this ???

coersion is not consent

why is your reaction to not finding substance behind your disgust 'well since my disgust is baseless, it's probably ethical and we should give them full support'. This is literally the exact shit I am talking about. Please develop a more rigorous line of interrogation please and thank you

[odessastone]

Thinking about the Vishkar cybernetic “upgrade” happening as soon as a student turns a certain age (thinking something like 16 to give them time to get used to it before graduation/starting work with the company, though it could even be as young as 13). Thinking about Niran having to go through the procedure first since he’s 6 months older, and then Satya trying to swallow her growing fear as the months pass and she watches Niran suffer through the phantom pains and the emotional trauma of having a perfectly healthy part of your body cut off. While Niran wears his feelings loudly, Satya retreats into herself, plugging her ears while Niran cries in the night

[bekolxeram]

Welp, now I have FOMO. I didn’t get hate ask from that anon.🥲

Is it because I blocked too many of them? Because I rarely go to their side to play? Because my posts are too long? Or probably because I’m just not important enough?😩😩😩

[fated-normal-767]

all day I’ve been complaining to people because I looked up the third party the place where I study uses to monitor the WiFi for ‘malicious or dangerous activity’ and it’s just plain creepy. Not as in like “I don’t like my searches being looked at but I have to tolerate it” as in “if you disconnect from the WiFi then reconnect to it it scans anything you did while disconnected at home the next time you connect, builds ‘user profiles’ with everything you look up, checks things you type offline, and can access your personal cloud storage”. And all fucking day I’ve been telling people this and they’ve gone ‘haha well I’ve got nothing to hide it can’t be that bad’ and I felt like I was going crazy. Then I got home and told my father and he just said “that sounds like a huge violation of the data protection act” and I felt so relived I wasn’t going crazy for thinking this was bad.

[crowbird]

I'm so tired of age gap fics please if i can suspend my disbelief about mushroom zombies I can suspend my disbelief about the reader's age not being equivalent to my own, please just give me two 50(+) year old bastards falling in love no more of this 15+ year age gap I swear to god someone is gonna make me start writing last of us fanfiction at this rate.

Anyways, I would like to request some aid from the last of us fandom in terms of fic recs if anyone knows any good reader insert or x reader fics wherein they and joel are around the same age? Pre or post outbreak, au, I don't care I'm starving please if anyone has any let me know.

EDIT: I did not think this was going to get any traction which in hindsight was kinda stupid of me but I really want to clarify something since I originally left it in the tags which I probably shouldn't have. THIS ISNT A HIT PEICE. I've been a fanfic writer for years now even if this blog isn't exactly a great example of my supposed stellar writing consistency. I mean no hate towards the people who like age gap or write it it just isn't my thing personally and I would like to read fics that explore other topics besides that when it comes to this fandom. Yes I understand the easy solution is to write my own and i would be a liar to say I wasn't but I'm new to this fandom and still consuming the actual content and I know my drafts aren't exactly great right now in part because of that. What I wanted to accomplish here wasn't just to complain a little but to reach out and ask if anyone could point me in the direction of non age gap fics in the mean time and they did so thank you very much!! I genuinely appreciate it. Write what you like but understand that I also reserve the right to read what I like and to ask for help in finding it because let's be honest tumblrs search and filter system is non existent and asking for help was my next best bet so uh yeah I'm gonna stop rambling now and refine this maybe when I'm more awake and can word things better probably.

[concretejunglefm]

Is this a safe place to talk about Matty with a piss kink??

CW: piss kink, kinda?

After careful deliberation (with the voices in my head), I’ve come to a conclusion about this thot and it’s bladder control. Just the thought of him denying you to use the bathroom until he decides, watching you struggle and become more embarrassed by the second, or you denying sub!matt. Either way, there’s a whole element of humiliation and a power trip involved, and mean!matty would especially do this. On top of this, include him constantly reminding you to stay hydrated and providing you with water regularly.

[throwaway-settings]

i got a prescription for E btw….. im gonna fill it on friday!!!!

[eights-world]

anyway i forget some people are just genuinely baffled by the thought of sex