“aged up for comfort of author” is one of those statements which is technically true but also why would you say that
literally every story decision you make is for comfort of author?? that’s what authorship means???
@Lady sometimes people write outside their comfort zone to challenge themselves?
@clayote i mean i’m being intentionally loose on my meaning of the word “comfort” here; it would be more accurate to say every story decision is made for satisfaction of the author (with comfort being one form of satisfaction), but more broadly i think “i wrote it this way because that is what i like” should generally be the default assumption as opposed to something which needs calling out specifically
authors frequently feel a need to justify aging up characters and i just don't think they should have to
“friends to lovers for comfort of author 😭”