I literally ignore whatever age the author assigns anyone. Everyone is my age in my mind 😅
2024-08-16 11:58:48
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a.m.greeley 📚 :
This is why the fmc of the book I’m working on is 27 😅
2024-08-17 20:02:42
718
Arlen 🍉 :
I am BEGGING romantasy authors to let the saviour of the world be old enough to have a fully developed prefrontal cortex
2024-08-19 13:49:06
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2020cdb :
That’s why I love T. Kingfisher! All the characters are tired and fed up adults with back pain 🤣
2024-08-16 18:16:08
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wrathofmacy :
A fully developed prefrontal cortex, I beg
2024-08-26 12:54:52
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julia ❤️🔥 :
i literally always age up in my mind cause i’m sick of it !
2024-08-16 08:02:17
7
Rianna Atkinson :
I’m literally writing one where she’s 25 and he’s a merman;)
2024-08-16 06:17:42
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S_ woods__ :
I simply ignore ages and make up what I want 🙂↔️
2024-09-05 01:57:09
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Chelsey Ruth :
OMG yes 👏
2024-08-17 00:38:07
1
Hilary | plus size fashion :
100%
2024-08-28 00:35:49
1
user2053003774070 :
Saint of steel by T kingfisher
2024-09-06 01:01:23
1
Tiana 🍁 :
Tbh a lot of new authors are probably being pressured into aging down their MCs because late teens/early 20s women are the publishers target audience 🤷♀️
2024-09-29 17:47:30
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rach.againstthemachine 🇵🇸 :
AND NOT VIRGINS @Emily155 @Katriece Hall
2024-09-08 06:20:10
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Aislene :
Oh my god, yes like… make a novel about a 35 year old divorced mother with two kids who is the chosen one. Actually don’t that’s the story I’m writing after this 123 year old lady vampire one.
2024-09-08 11:20:53
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living_wildly_well :
Pleeeease! We are in our 30’s and have book money. We are your audience. Life is interesting past 18.
2024-08-17 14:21:17
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Bella :
It’s always the FMC turned 18 three minutes ago and the MMC is 600 😂😂
2024-08-16 12:33:20
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amandladee :
Especially if the romantic interest is immortal? Like stop if I’m immortal I’m not falling for a literal baby
2024-08-16 21:12:34
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msdispensa422 :
Even if they do want some female characters to be young for some reason there’s no reason you can’t have them be 21 instead of 19 at a minimum
2024-08-16 17:56:06
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whytho521 :
THIS!! Why is everyone a teenager but acting 30? Not ideal
2024-08-16 18:44:18
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Ashley | 📖🦋 :
THIS!! I’m in the middle of Throne of Glass and this series would be diabolical if she was at least 21 for Assassian
2024-08-16 05:20:18
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kate :
i've just decided that all characters get aged up to my age
2024-08-16 06:24:22
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rin :
I think that’s why crescent city is my favorite of the SJM series. My girls had a life before her mans
2024-08-16 16:15:05
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Madisyn Ashleigh ✨ :
Just make them 21 for godsake 😭 at least drinking age pleaseee 🙏🏼
2024-08-16 02:49:24
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Author Maria J. Hart 🍉🐺🩸 :
This is why my MCs are in their 30s 😂
2024-08-16 14:59:17
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HannaH :
I age every single one to at least 29. No way you have been an assassin, in hiding, in jail, training with a fae, and then queen by 19
2024-08-17 00:11:54
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Lightningmcqueef :
When they’re BARELY 18 and described as teeny tiny women… so a child?
2024-08-18 23:03:45
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🥸 :
real why are they all teenagers😭
2024-08-19 02:50:31
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Alma :
Yeah, what’s wrong with 25?? Or 30?? 😭
2024-08-20 16:58:29
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Yllek_melo :
18??? My head makes her 25
2024-08-20 22:37:43
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inkdrinkersanon 📚 :
Omg yes! Please. I beg of you!
2024-08-16 15:37:43
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karisa☀️ :
Cause why are they all 19
2024-08-20 14:48:08
8
simplymonkii :
Even as a teenager I thought it was weird that EVERY book, movie, or show was about teenagers.
2024-08-16 23:19:34
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ohhaykels :
LITERALLY but if they only mention it once or twice everybody’s my age anyways, my brain decides.
2024-08-22 17:37:14
8
Nikki :
Thank you @Carissa Broadbent for making Oraya 26!
2024-08-16 18:10:55
8
🦊🦊✨️ :
I literally have started to refuse to read anything where the FMC is 23 and under in romantasy.
2024-08-18 00:34:31
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LouKatz :
At least mid 20 but late 20’s/30’s hooray!
2024-08-16 23:02:26
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nikki heitzenrater :
any time they're over 18 I'm shocked.
2024-08-18 18:26:23
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Holly Monroe, Author :
🥰🥰 Exactly why I made my FMC 28 😂 if they’re 18 I’m tempted to dnf from the start
2024-08-16 16:07:32
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Br00keM0rgan :
Yes! That’s one of the reasons I love “Emily Wildes Encyclopedia of Fairies” she’s 30
2024-08-16 09:40:59
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Myka 📚🌙 :
i’m rereading Hush Hush and why is she in TENTH GRADE
2024-08-19 06:13:51
5
Shark :
I agree but then they do some dumb shit and I'm like "oh... yeah this frontal lobe DEFINITELY isn't fully formed" 😂
2024-08-16 04:03:21
5
Mimi4me :
Why I love Kate Daniels
2024-08-16 18:53:47
5
procrastinapper :
fr I wanma feel like their peer, not their older sister
2024-08-19 23:05:47
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Dolan :
This but also for literally any anime
2024-08-16 11:40:27
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❄️usetheforcekate❄️ :
try The Women of the Otherworld series, Bitten is the first book and Elena is 30
2024-08-17 02:04:46
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krunkskunks :
Patricia Briggs 🥰 I actually don't know the age of her characters, but shes one of the few authors that doesn't make me roll my eyes when I reread her work 😅
2024-08-16 08:05:42
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am✨ :
I read them older in my head, I make that change myself!!!!
2024-09-14 19:18:52
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krazieginger :
I've started reading series with "midlife" in the title and I don't regret it.
2024-08-16 11:56:14
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I❤️PUH :
BEASTS OF THE BRIAR ARE ALL 25+ AND THE FMC IS CHUBBY 🗣🗣🗣🗣
2024-08-17 00:25:09
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𝕭𝖗𝖊𝖊 | Bookish bits 📚 :
YES F*CK YES. I'm in my 30s. Let me read about a woman who has ✨experienced✨ a bit of life with trauma please so my fantasy has a smidgeon of relatability to it.
2024-08-19 04:21:27
3
Lucy :
@Liv Watkins @Ffion Evans
2024-08-21 20:27:52
3
Milspouse Bestie :
I cringe when they share the age in early character development and they are sub 27. Give me a character with a fully developed frontal lobe please.
2024-08-18 11:54:25
3
adara :
I just ignore them lol the main character is always my age. same it I don't like their description of anyone - just gonna ignore ya
2024-08-18 11:42:09
3
Rossanne_ :
My only gripe with ACOTAR is the age gap
2024-10-02 07:28:32
3
Nicole Catherine :
Yeah can we have a fully developed frontal cortex? 25+??
2024-08-18 09:08:40
3
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