Moral quandry!
So, I agreed to pinch hit for an exchange. I could use the mental exercise, and I'm frustrated with my lack of fic, lately.
The problem is, I don't know if I can fulfill the prompt.
The request is for professor/student romance, where the student is fourteen. Specifically requested to be about love before lust.
I would feel really bad backing out of the pinch hit right now; the exchange seems to need people pretty desperately. ...But I just don't think I can do that.
I used to ship Snarry. But that was when I was in high school, and fourteen, fifteen year old kids falling in love seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Now hindsight has made me wiser and squicked me, thoroughly.
If I write it, it's going to be an eighteen year old student. Maybe seventeen if I push it. But there's no way I can write younger than that and not have it be dirtysickwrong and not romantic.
Should I try to fulfill the spirit of the prompt--professor/student romance--but not the letter (the age?) Or do I need to back out? grrrrrr.
The problem is, I don't know if I can fulfill the prompt.
The request is for professor/student romance, where the student is fourteen. Specifically requested to be about love before lust.
I would feel really bad backing out of the pinch hit right now; the exchange seems to need people pretty desperately. ...But I just don't think I can do that.
I used to ship Snarry. But that was when I was in high school, and fourteen, fifteen year old kids falling in love seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Now hindsight has made me wiser and squicked me, thoroughly.
If I write it, it's going to be an eighteen year old student. Maybe seventeen if I push it. But there's no way I can write younger than that and not have it be dirtysickwrong and not romantic.
Should I try to fulfill the spirit of the prompt--professor/student romance--but not the letter (the age?) Or do I need to back out? grrrrrr.