Happy birthday to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[bliumchik]

As of about half an hour ago, I am now eighteen years of age.

I am now officially an Adult.

Legal alcohol! The ability to join comms with an age limit (if only I can remember the name of that one I put aside last year...)! The right to confidentially stare with blanket puzzlement at a small square of paper with ticky-boxes on it which is theoretically responsible for the fate of our democracy!

No longer am I in the category of people LJ has to protect from pornography! No longer can I be accurately referred to as jailbait!

Now I can get into clubs, cheerfully waving my ID at bouncers. I can watch adult movies. I can purchase knives and cigarettes.

Oh, right, and then there's the completely and utterly theoretical sex. Woo.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have two major works, many practice essays and a nervous breakdown to finish up. I'll celebrate my new legal status at a later, less stressful date.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Kinfe-wielding porny drunkenness for you.

(Also, the age of consent for sex here is 16. And, as I recall, it's also the age for buying most pointy objects that aren't swords or axes or something.)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Kinfe? Kinfe?! Kinfe‽

Knife, obviously. Rar.

*stabs typo, apparently with a gorram kinfe*

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a Mystical Object from a fantasy novel.

Frodo, you must retrieve the kinfe from Tashbaan and return it to the High Altar or the Elder Gods will break through from the Dungeon Dimensions!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...I think I'd like to see this ZOMGeverythingever fantasy novel.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Only for having sex with other sixteenyearolds, as far as I know.

And having never bought pointy objects (my dad has plenty) I wouldn't have a clue about that one. I just know you have to show ID.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Not unless zee laws, zey 'ave changed. Some (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Australia_and_Oceania) links (http://www.lawstuff.org.au/Page.asp?PageID=170&Section=Topics&State=nsw), let me show you them.

(When did Lawlink get so... so useless? It saddens me that the best resource I can find is Wikipedia.)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see, so it's just sleeping with teachers that's in question. :P

See, the federal law is what confused me - the first bit says "under sixteen" and second bit says "over eighteen" so for the past two years I've been in a sort of semantic vacuum.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Aww. Hippo birdie, Sista Inexplicable Mallet. Now all those mysterious secrets kept hidden from your innocent eyes can be revealed for your gawkery and corruption.

...Eh. It's kinda lame, actually. It's not all tantric lilypads and bacchanalian debauchery. (Except in college.)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I really should change my name thing.

...what, exactly, dare I ask, is a tantric lilypad?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I really should change my name thing

Aww. I've always liked that name. It captured the chaotic essence of your being and the dichotomous nature of the effects and intents of violence.

...what, exactly, dare I ask, is a tantric lilypad?

As far as I can ascertain, the lilypad is either borne of profound inebriation or catastrophic fatigue, perhaps both: mutual physical gratification on a mostly horizontal plane. It may be more accidental than deliberate, like Denny's: you don't go to Denny's, you end up at Denny's.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Don't talk to sister, the sister is... kinda lame.

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

You know most of us have been joining comms with limited age for years now. :*

And of course you understand I feel obliged to proposition you re: theoretical sex.

...

*propositions you re: theoretical sex*

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Is this like an existential flame war? ...only, you know, with sex.

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

An existential flame war? 0_o

Err, sure. Whatever works for you, sweetie. :P

Hope you have a lovley birthday weekend with your family. *cuddles*

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

efw

[katelikewhoa.livejournal.com]

Ah you're so old now! i remember when you were knee-high to a grasshopper or somesuch. Congratulations on attaining this wondrous age of freedom! Enjoy going out (but be careful ok! not that you won't be, i just feel this inexplicable need to pass on advice. curse you, peer support!), and voting, and other supercool things.

Not to be harshing your 18 vibe or anything (HAPPY BEING OLD NOW), but you could have been having the sex legally at 16.