Okay, so there are plenty of these out there but I just wanted to make one of my own! (That, and I’m high-key desperate for asks about my OCs lol) Just tag your OCs so people can ask you these!
1. What do they smell like?
2. What is their voice like?
3. What is their biggest motivator?
4. What is their most embarrassing memory?
5. How do they deal with/react to pain?
6. What do they like to wear?
7. Which of their relationships have impacted them most positively?
8. What’s the weirdest thing they’ve ever eaten?
9. Describe the way that they sleep.
10. What is their favorite food/kind of food?
11. What do they feel most insecure about?
12. How do they like to dress?
13. How do they react to feelings of guilt?
14. How do they react to/deal with betrayal?
15. What is their greatest achievement?
16. What are they like when they’ve gotten too little sleep?
17. What are they like when they’re drunk?
18. What kind of music do they enjoy?
19. Are they right or left handed?
20. Fears?
21. Favorite kind of weather?
22. Favorite color?
23. Do they collect anything?
24. Do they prefer either hot or cold weather more?
25. What is their eye color?
26. What is their race/ethnicity?
27. Hair color?
28. Are they happy where they are currently?
29. Are they a morning person?
30. Sunrise or sunset?
31. Are they more messy or more organized?
32. Pet peeves?
33. Do they own any objects of significant personal importance?
34. Least favorite food?
35. Least favorite color?
36. Least favorite smell?
37. When was the last time they cried?
38. Were they with anybody the last time they cried?
39. Tell us about one of the times they got injured?
40. Do they have any scars?
41. Do they struggle with any mental health issues?
42. Do they have any bad habits?
43. Why might someone dislike them?
44. Why might someone love them?
45. Do they believe in ghosts?
46. Is there anyone they would trust with their lives?
47. Are they romantically interested in anyone?
48. Are they dating/married to anyone?
49. Do they like surprises?
50. When is their birthday?
51. How do they usually celebrate their birthday?
52. Do they have any family?
53. Are they close to their family?
54. What is their MBTI type?
55. What is their zodiac sign?
56. What Hogwarts House would they be in?
57. What D&D alignment are they?
58. Do they ever have nightmares? If so, what about?
59. What are their views on death?
60. What is something that they’re sure to laugh at?
61. When bored, how do they pass time?
62. Do they enjoy being outside?
63. Do they have an accent?
64. Upon seeing a slice of chocolate cake, what is their first reaction?
65. If they knew they were going to die, what would they do/say?
66. How do they feel about sex?
67. What is their sexuality?
68. Do they become squeamish at the sight of blood?
69. Is there anything that they find really gross?
70. Which TV Trope(s) best describes them?
71. Do they enjoy helping people?
72. Are they allergic to anything?
73. Do they have a pet?
74. Are they quick to anger? What are they like when they loose their temper?
75. How patient are they?
76. Are they good at cooking?
77. Favorite insult? Do they insult people often?
78. How do they act when they’re particularly happy?
79. What do they do when they learn about other people’s fears?
80. Are they trustworthy?
81. Do they try to hide their emotions? Are they good at it?
82. Do they exercise regularly?
83. Are they comfortable with the way they look?
84. What are some physical features that they find attractive on people?
85. What kind of personalities do they find attractive?
86. Do they like sweet foods?
87. What is their age?
88. Are they tall or short or somewhere in between?
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like, i’m not saying that adults don’t have a place in fandom. they can and they do, and many are perfectly great people.
but if you’re an adult, say, in your mid to late 20s or older, especially if you’re in a fandom that’s filled mostly with teenagers, you do need to be careful about how you interact with young people in fandom.
you need to be careful about the content you produce or share, and if you do something that people take issue with, you need to be prepared to address that in an honest and meaningful way, instead of blocking the young people who are telling you you’ve done something wrong and going on a rant about how “it’s just fiction” and “ship and let ship” and “do whatever you want” and “i’m too old for this.”
if you’re an adult in fandom, you need to be able to recognize how the content you produce might affect young people, and honestly, you should be able to show maturity when dealing with it, because you are still an adult talking to many people who are literal children.
many of those young people will, by default, view you as a sort of authority figure based on your age alone, as that’s what they’re used to. be careful of the lessons you teach them.
Hm. Okay. Here’s the thing.
We all know who you’re talking about and which situations you’re talking about. What you really have an issue with isn’t anything to do with anyone’s age, it’s about people producing things that other people find hurtful, then not responding the way the hurt people would like them to when called out on it. That can and does happen anywhere, regardless of the ages of the people involved. It’s a separate issue that should be discussed and dealt with.
And yes, in some of those recent situations, the ages of the offenders or the offended were brought into the discussion, by both sides at different times. The age difference does complicate things, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the main issue.
You may be thinking “why do you care if I focus on age, it was a salient part of the argument for me, you’re trying to defend adults who don’t care how their words hurt children!” But here’s the thing.
You may not realize this, but in other fandoms adults have been doxxed, have been threatened, have been outed because they were creating things that someone, somewhere deemed “dangerous for minors.”
Adults who were creating things that were not meant for minors, that were openly and blatantly tagged as being NSFW, explicit, as containing triggering material. I’ve even seen people who weren’t even creating the offending material being harassed, bullied, and threatened, for daring to stand up for the people who were. Not even just online, but in person. I’ve been a victim of it myself, though not to the extent that I’ve seen many others go through.
All because a segment of the fandom decided that because certain content could be dangerous for minors, it should never, ever be posted anywhere a minor might possibly read it. Adults who do post it are responsible for every bad effect it could possibly have on anyone who reads it and are horrible people for not willingly taking on that responsibility.
I know the situations you’re talking about are different. In many of those situations, adults chose to interact with the minors who were complaining about them, and yeah, when you’re choosing to directly interact with a minor you need to tread carefully.
But once you go down the “adults in fandom are responsible for the minors in fandom” road, if lots of people start clinging to that mindset, that is where it can lead. And that is an extremely serious issue. It can literally destroy careers and ruin lives.
I am not in this or any other fandom to produce content for minors. I have asked many times for minors not to follow me; I don’t block them, but I know quite a few people who block any minor who follows them. I produce enough SFW content that I don’t mind minors being able to, say, reblog it from others on their dash, but I do not want them following me and getting explicit content directly from me, full stop. If it becomes an issue, I will start blocking people.
If you’re a minor, I’m old enough to be your mother. But I’ve got my own kid, and I’m not in fandom to babysit anyone else. When I create or reblog content, I do not and will not take the presence of minors into account when doing so. Because that is not my job.
Now, right now I’m choosing to get involved in this discussion, which will involve people much younger than me, including minors. So yeah, I’m being careful about what I say and how I say it. And I agree that any adult who willingly engages in conversation with minors needs to do the same.
But I simply can’t agree with your last two paragraphs. Those “literal children” already have parents. If their own parents aren’t monitoring what media they consume, aren’t having conversations with them about problematic messages in media, it certainly isn’t my job to do so. Period.
This is an excellent time for teens in fandom (and in general) to stop seeing every adult they come in contact with as an “authority figure” and start viewing us as human beings who are living our own lives with our own motivations, problems, desires, and inclinations that have nothing to do with them. That’s something that will serve them well in life.
How people interact with oppressed groups they aren’t a part of who complain about their representation of those oppressed groups is an entirely separate issue that is not about the age of the people on either side. Age can complicate it, especially in that it can be difficult to communicate across a generation gap when people on either side have such enormously different experiences. I think that that has caused some problems.
But any adult who is not willingly choosing to interact with a minor is not responsible for minors who consume their content, and conflating the two issues is downright dangerous.
@porcupine-girl nailed it 100% but this especially bears repeating:
This is an excellent time for teens in fandom (and in general) to stopseeing every adult they come in contact with as an “authority figure” and start viewing us as human beings who are living our own lives with our own motivations, problems, desires, and inclinations that have nothing to do with them. That’s something that will serve them well in life.
Fandom is a good way for teenagers to learn how to interact with people in different age groups as peers. Because that’s what we are, we are fandom peers posting on the same web sites and obsessing over the same shows and no one in fandom has any authority over anyone else (no matter how much some people might try to claim it). I am not your teacher, your parent, your babysitter, or anyone in any position of authority over you or anyone with a responsibility for taking care of you. Nor am I willing to take on that role. The vast majority of the billions of adults in the world fit that description. Only a very few, ones you know in real life, are responsible for you personally - and soon that number will be none as you become an adult yourself.
I block anyone with an age under 18 listed in their profile if they try to follow me - not with any animosity, I’m just not interested in interacting with kids on a fandom level. This is a completely valid option and I think it’s a wise one.
Plus the original post here is predicated on the assumption that fandom belongs to people in their early 20s and younger and the rest of us are just hangers on. Sorry baby, look at the demographics; you’re the minority. We’re not in your house. I, for one, am happy to interact with anyone I have interests in common with and bond over those interests; I think people of all ages have exciting perspectives and interesting minds. But I don’t want to be treated like a second class citizen by anyone, and as said above, I am interested in interacting AS PEERS ONLY. I ain’t your mommy and I have enough people IRL trying to leech emotional labor off me, I got none for strangers on the internet.
I have watched my friends raise their kids in fandom. Literally. Raise. Their. Kids. I’ve watched young things I met carried in arms toddle, walk, run, be 8, 18, 28, marry, come to a convention carrying young things in their arms.
It was assumed that everyone who knew the parent would keep a vague eye on the child because friends don’t let friends’ little ones run into traffic. But at NO POINT was it ever assumed or expressed that the adult fans had to stop being adult fans talking about adult things. If a minor walked into the “How to write explicit bondage” panel, then someone gently suggested that this was not the place for the kid to be. If the kid found the dick pics in the art show, they were told “go ask Mommy what ‘slash’ means.”
I get that the OP wants to protect children, but while it’s my job to make sure someone too little to take care of themselves doesn’t get hurt, it has NEVER, through three generations of fandom, been my job to be anyone’s actual parent or to stop adulting around adults.
Oh, and the line “I’m not saying adults don’t have a place in fandom; they can and they do” - that line? Child, ADULTS BUILT FANDOM. We created the cons and the fanzines and the webrings and the clubs and the fan sites and the VCR tape swaps and the letter writing campaigns and the podcasts. We maintain the fan sites and the fic repositories and the conventions and the rest. Did you think those things just spontaneously evolved? Fuckin’ A we have a place in the culture that we built!
If you’re old enough to be online unsupervised you’re also old enough to police your own fandom experience. Head the tags and warnings, that’s what they are there for.
Also, to be blunt, I am not responsible for anyone’s children. Full stop.
Yup. Taiyo is actually easily frightened, so any stories of ghosts or urban legends might make her not want to go to the bathroom alone for at least a week.
90. Do they consider themselves attractive?
She thinks she’s okay. She’s great about her appearance, but if someone asked her if she thinks she’s attractive, it’d be more of like a “Sure, a little bit.”
Constantly torn between “I can’t ask for help bc then I’m annoying and everyone will be mad” and “I must ask for help at every possible stage because I might do it wrong and then everyone will be mad” ya feel
Taiyo’s favorite is probably chocolate lava cake :D Any chocolate dessert really, but chocolate lava cake is at the top, with ramen coming in second.
40. Do they have any scars?
Some on the sides of her thighs, but this is mostly from her brothers’ cats trying to get her attention to feed them. Often, one or two of them will get really impatient about food. The scars are pretty tiny and light.
60. What is something that they’re sure to laugh at?
Community’s “Remedial Chaos Theory,” episode. Something about it never gets old to her, and if she finds herself really upset, she just sits down to watch it and relax for a bit.
I think it really sucks when you realise how alone you are because you only really talk to 1 maybe 2 people and when neither of them are available you kind of just lay there in bed hoping your phone will buzz with a text from them or something so you continuously check it and you try to distract yourself and then you get sad about how alone you really are
Friend: What's you biggest dream?
Me: I want to see Sakura and Sasuke having second child. Or twins. Or maybe flock of kids. Just imagine teen Uchihas around the town. Handsome boys with spiky, pink hair. Stunning girls with long legs and seals on their foreheads. Each of them with Uchiha’s symbol on their back. I want to see this so bad. Then I can die peacefully.
