practicality

There's a handful of communities on LJ I'd like to join (almost all DMC, actually - - no other fandom I've been in has been so damned obsessive about hiding their pr0n), but haven't, simply because they require you to be over eighteen, with a year of birth listed in your profile. And I'm not comfortable doing that, even now that I am over eighteen, and it took me a while to figure out why.

I think it's a carry-over from my earlier days in fandom, particularly with X. I was fourteen when I first started getting into the X fandom, which skews a lot more towards early to mid-twenties. And I never told anyone my age unless they outright asked, because I didn't want to be seen as the young kid in the fandom. And I still don't. Yeah, I'm eighteen now, but I still hang with people a lot older than me, and I don't want to be judged by how old I am, I want to be judged by who I am as a person.

Which I guess means no DMC pr0n for me >.>