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ooc, obviously: Well, it’s 21 because when I created my blog, I shamelessly copied the blog warnings of my friends. I think 21 is like a safety net, to discourage people who are, say, 17 and 10 months or whatever. I have since RP’d with plenty of people who are 19 and 20, so I should probably change that to 19. 

It’s 100% due to child pornography laws and the fact that if I write smut with someone who’s not legally an adult, I could be legally prosecuted for it. That’s not something I want to have to defend myself against in court. So that’s for my own protection. It’s just super illegal. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a character who’s 25 or 200 or 910. The law won’t care you were RPing the Tenth Doctor. They will see that an adult exchanged inappropriate messages with a teenager and that’s not okay. 

As the adult in the situation, I cannot participate, encourage, or engage in that kind of thing. I don’t even write smut that often—not a fan of PWP—but given how RP tends to end up in a weird, ambiguous, or smutty areas, it’s all about being on the safe side. 

I know it sucks. Back when I was teen, the internet was pretty new and people weren’t worried about that stuff because it literally didn’t occur to them to be worried about it. Nowadays, all it takes is the wrong thing to end up on your internet history and you can be prosecuted.

What you can do now is RP with other teens, and I know there are a lot of teens in the tumblr RP community.