#age differences

[phoenixyfriend]

Omegaverse but it's life cycle-y.

Everyone has All The Bits but only one set active at a time. I can't decide what makes the most sense, but...

Neutral in childhood, presenting as alpha, insemination-capable for a short period (several years), and then a transition into being capable of pregnancy and such? And then beta is like. Menopause? Alternately you get like One Rut and then the rest of your life is Pregnancy Mode.

Or present as omega, pregnancy through the Most Fertile years, and then the body shifts to insemination as the fertility goes down? This one has more in common with IRL fertility periods but I find it the most boring.

Or it's cyclical like two or three years in each mode and then back to the beginning.

(Not like Left Hand of Darkness, that's been done.)

The first two would be very Systemic Age Difference, which I think is really interesting. But also imagine if you could only impregnate for like. Up to age 25. And after that… pregnancy.

You get five years to fuck as many older women as will have you, and then you get to be the older woman.

This would lead to some radically different norms for maternity care and child welfare. NGL it's giving Hentai Universe.

Most people probably only ever choose to go through one, MAYBE two pregnancies. If every single person can get pregnant, the reproduction rate for a steady population is 1.05.

(Also, a friend informed me that this is Shrimp Gender.)

I like to think of the social dynamics.

Like. All the young dudes know that most "girls" have had sex before in their alpha period, yeah? So you probably have "omega virginity," and "true virginity."

And it's not THAT highly valued since almost everyone ends up an omega eventually, so Age = Authority means that few cultures prize "true" virginity unless it's a Religion Thing. But "true" virgins are definitely a kink, while the culturally normalized kink is trying to get the oldest omega you can because she DEFINITELY won't be impressed by you and most have their own thing going on

Marriage... may or may not be a thing?

Senpai shifts to omega early so there's a two year overlap where you can get her pregnant so you do it! Thrice! And then you're an omega too and it's time to be happily married for the rest of time I guess.

Beta/Alpha is considered the most cringe, in terms of age difference stuff.

[miriam-heddy]

Ages Differences in 9-1-1

Oliver Stark was born 1991.

Ryan Guzman was born 1987. +4yrs

Lou Ferrigno Jr was born in 1984. +7

Connie Britton was born in 1967. +24yrs

Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in 1979

Kenneth Choi was born in 1971

8 years difference

So why do so many Buddie writers have other characters thinking that Tommy is really old/too old for Buck? Wouldn't that mean Chim is really old/too old for Maddie?

I'm asking because I'm Kenneth's age and weirded out by this.

ETA: Before writing this, I consulted the following:

https://www.tumblr.com/liesoverthec/653172059494547456/i-dont-know-if-youve-paid-any-attention-to-this

https://www.tumblr.com/mintedwitcher/749869041147068416/so-the-bucktommy-age-gap-lets-talk-about-it-we

https://www.tumblr.com/wolfmadefromash/754539936322043904/i-want-to-start-by-saying-that-this-is-not-a

[anthroxlove]

me doing the math on how old pete wentz was while dating peyton on one tree hill…. 26. she was 16. 17 at the most. 🤢 also such a weird sl. they had zero chemistry. wtf was the point of that shit? lmao

[grimalkinmessor]

Very important question - what are your hcs about afofa age difference? Love your works!

Thank you!! 💕

I haven't really thought about nailing down an exact difference. I like the easy math of a five year difference, but tbh I think it's more of a seven or eight year difference if All For One really did raise Yoichi like he claims. Or, well, like he implies when he says that Yoichi is his only family. I wouldn't go any higher than nine, though, just out of personal preference and because I don't think they're actually that far apart. I'm not a fan of anything below four either, because while it's funny for AFO to pull the Eldest Sibling card with that little of a difference, I like to think that he actually did end up raising Yoichi, and for that to be true he'd have to be at an age to at least (mostly) take care of himself. I think six is gonna be the sweet spot for me :3 Six year difference and some change.

[shewhotellsstories]

I like dark humor, so parts of this Desperate Housewives rewatch has been fun for me but I really hate this ongoing theme of, “as a grown assed person it’s totally normal to bang a teenager if you’re feeling down.” I know it was the mid-2000s but Jesus. 

[a-k1tty]

Wait you folks are teens? Cool! I was 15 when I first got on tumblr. From someone in the second half of their 30s: the best is absolutely yet to come.

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[robertbrancatelli]

Already a Mensch

I remember studying the poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman in my high school English class. Housman was one of my favorite poets, and this poem in particular appealed to me because of its message and style, both of which were easy to understand. The message was clear. Glory “withers quicker than the rose,” and so it would be better to die young rather than see your “record cut” and…

[salsa-and-light]

That comparison is actually perfect.

[c-tepx]

soooo to laios chilchuck is roughly the size of his dogs. huh. i am so normal about this.

[wolfspaw]

 Older woman, younger man. A new trend. 

[re-bogwitch]

Marvel women, written by men: 🧍‍♀️I can’t have babies 👶🏻😫😢 I’m a monster 😢😢 yes this is the deepest my backstory can get btw 😉😨 isn’t it harrowing 😱

Marvel women, written by women: I will subject an entire town to my will if it means the chance to see you again. I will drink my grief, knowing I am damned and that I cannot protect you, and will still sing out my heart to crowds of thousands in the hopes they will keep you safe when I’m gone. I crave power so intensely that it has overpowered any sense of loyalty to anyone, and I will betray again and again and again, but I will still be wounded when you betray me because it was you. It was you.

[spandexinspace]

The DA2 crew deserved these team meetings. They would have had even worse arguments. Made fantastic use of all being in the same room to argue each other's ears off at the same time.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[sabertoothwalrus]

"You give up a few things chasing a dream." ✨

[leandra-kinard]

Well, there's the "Half your age + 8" rule of thumb which usually tends to make for a good maximum age difference.

Generally, it's not about numbers but more about life stages, and the older we get, the less drastic these differences are. A 40+60 (by that rule, 60 + 38 would be okay) year old can absolute have a healthy, happy relationship, while a 20+40 year old is certainly a bit problematic.

Note from Anon:

“Please say your opinion in the tags! I’m asking cuz I have two oc ships and I’m afraid that the age differences might be a problem, the first is a 28 year old x a 31 year old the other is a 41 year old x a 46 year old.”

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