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Oct. 31st, 2016 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethWhyyyyy do people keep youthing older characters in fic?
Why do I have to read yet another conversation on ‘he couldn’t be over forty’ when - clues available, canon and actor - he really sincerely is.
They’re going silver! Their laugh lines do happy crinkly things around their eyes pretty much all the time! They’re still well fit, goodness knows, but it’s not the plastic shrink wrapped kind no more, thankfully.
Why do people who presumably started liking that very version of them just casually scrub a decade or more off their age?
Half the time they’d end up making no sense with a timeline that compressed.
And really, sincerely, could writers just stop making everyone be younger than me?
There’s an ever shrinking list of older than me in the first place, please to not be shrinking it any faster.
Why do I have to read yet another conversation on ‘he couldn’t be over forty’ when - clues available, canon and actor - he really sincerely is.
They’re going silver! Their laugh lines do happy crinkly things around their eyes pretty much all the time! They’re still well fit, goodness knows, but it’s not the plastic shrink wrapped kind no more, thankfully.
Why do people who presumably started liking that very version of them just casually scrub a decade or more off their age?
Half the time they’d end up making no sense with a timeline that compressed.
And really, sincerely, could writers just stop making everyone be younger than me?
There’s an ever shrinking list of older than me in the first place, please to not be shrinking it any faster.
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Date: 2016-11-01 08:50 pm (UTC)I tend to blame the public school system in the US, which is strictly segregated by age to such an extent that most kids have no contact with other students more than 18 months different from their own age. They categories all people into three categories: peers, which are right around their own age; other-kids, who are mysterious total strangers outside of their interest range; adults, who are authority figures who have nothing at all to do with kids socially. There's no concept of friendships or even mentorships that break the age barrier - so of course, all characters they're interested in reading about have to be matched to their own age, or a few years older at most.
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Date: 2016-11-02 12:48 pm (UTC)just, does that have to translate to youthing the already older, instead of just staying with the numerous characters they've already got?
*sigh*