vanja | New Pillowfort TOS (Reply)

It was nice while it lasted

As of this statement, Pillowfort will not allow explicit visual art of characters that appear to be underage. Now, due to the inherently subjective nature of trying to determine the age of a fictional character in a stylized medium, the “gray area” cases will be up to the discretion of the moderator reviewing the content. Broadly, if your characters are close to 18 and could plausibly or arguably be of age based on appearance, that will be allowed. We are not going to comb through the wiki of a particular fandom to try and find the canonical age of a fictional character and then try to figure out if the character in the art piece is supposed to be represented at their canonical age or not. Similarly, many works of art contain sexual activity as a theme of adolescence and coming-of-age– I’m sure you yourself can think of many movies, shows, etc. you’ve seen that featured underage characters in a sexual relationship, some even explicitly– and even if you wanted to argue that art that explored adolescent sexuality was fine and it’s ‘just pornography’ that should be censured, we aren’t going to be the arbiters of what is art vs. ‘merely’ pornography. Therefore, sexual depictions of characters in later stages of adolescence may broadly be considered ‘safe.’
However, any explicit or sexual art of a character that appears to be physically pre-pubescent or barely pubescent (i.e. not plausibly or arguably of age, or even close to it) will be prohibited. We realize this decision may anger some people, but we have devoted a considerable amount of thought to this decision and we feel this is the best approach for our community.

A few issues with this

appear to be underage (what does that mean?)
“gray area” cases will be up to the discretion of the moderator reviewing the content (so everyone will have a different opinion? great)
if your characters are close to 18 and could plausibly or arguably be of age based on appearance, that will be allowed (so if my characters are actually 10-year olds with giant C-cup breasts, that’s fine - and arguably if my characters are intersex with delayed puberty and no sexual characteristics at 18 then I’m fucked)
we aren’t going to be the arbiters of what is art vs. ‘merely’ pornography (geez, you think maybe actual photographs and films of real children in sexual situations would be pornography and idk art of fictional characters regardless of their age is fiction and not pornography?)
physically pre-pubescent or barely pubescent (i.e. not plausibly or arguably of age, or even close to it) will be prohibited (hope your fictional character isn’t an alien with different maturing rate than a human being, or underdeveloped, or intersex, or anyone not following the norm of pre-pubescent versus post-pubescent physical development)

For some context

Bye bye to Goblet of Fire fan art then, where both Harry and Draco are 14.

Most of your anime characters that are in their early teens? Bye to that too

Your original characters that have no distinguishable sexual characteristics and could be construed as underage for this reason

Stiles is 15 at the beginning of Teen Wolf so bye to that too

Bye to Wren and all the Act Your Age fan art bc 30-year old Sam in a 13-year olds body is now against TOS

just woW