bakerstreet | may to december

or edward cullen or those vampire diaries or ashton and demi just no daleface okay

MAY/DECEMBER ROMANCE

A May-December romance is any where there is a larger than average age difference between the partners involved. Sometimes this is met with disapproval, sometimes it is arranged, sometimes it is abuse of power, and other times it just happens and it's no one's fault or doing. This meme focuses on those relationships.

- Post with your character, preferences, and note their ages (or an estimate if no canon age is given).
- Please don't forget to note how much of an age gap you're comfortable with!
- Look around, tag. Have fun! Make up a scenario or make use of the prompts below.

beginning
1. confession - you've just confessed your love. How is it received?
2. coerced - they have more power than you and you have no choice but to go along.
3. arranged - this was an arranged union and may not have had anything to do with your choosing at all.
4. secret - it would be forbidden or frowned upon, but you can't resist...

middle
1. difference - does the age difference make things difficult?
2. domesticity - just a day in the life...
3. experience - one of you has more experience than the other, but at least they're eager to teach.
4. argument - you're fighting for one reason or another.

end
1. breakup - things aren't working.
2. discovered - your forbidden secret has been found out and judged.
3. another - one of you has fallen in love with another.
4. happily ever after - against all odds, you've made it work.

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(ooc | M/F, canon and crosscanon both okay. Younger party, good with any option. )

[She's 18+. Preference for setting this in her college years or immediately after, or else AUing her elsewhere.]

[ she has a mild-to-moderate tendency to be drawn toward older partners for assorted reasons. that said, she's roughly 31 (depending on if taking her post-TLJ or post-canon) so she could be the older for someone 19-22ish. for her being the younger partner, open to going from the latter part of her Jedi years (20ish) up through post-canon. also with her being younger, not interested in coercion or abuse of power.

alternatively, game for doing Smuggler AU for this (or whatever would be similar in the case of cross canon), in which case 18-22 yr old her would definitely make bad decisions and flirt/get attracted to someone too old for her.

as far as age gap, pretty flexible depending on character and canon point, or if timeline fuckery might be at play. very open to canon, cross canon, AUs, OCs, timeline shenanigans. no gender preference. ]

[ ooc; permissions & info. canon point flexible, let me know if you have a preference. canon, cross canon/medium, and original characters adored. okay with assumed cr. happy to crossover, jam jar, au's, etc., whatever you want to do, we'll make it work. mobile-friendly navigation. okay with nwh and hawkeye spoilers, but please put a warning for others.

i will continue to post to this meme as long as people keep calling me out with that gif. wanda's 30-ish, so can be the older or younger partner, can play her younger age of ultron age range as well. ]

Edited 2022-01-15 18:53 (UTC)

[ooc: would you be comfortable with a college-age Peter? Or immediately post-college. The line can kinda be blurred there since Tom's actually mid-20s.]

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[older party, but i'm down for AUing/playing with timeline so he's the younger one instead. please 18+ only. NWH spoilers inevitable (if I did my math correctly he's ~40 now).]

Edited 2022-01-15 20:44 (UTC)

( younger, can play anywhere between 18-22 )

( m/f or f/f, gwen is 29 and has a history of older and much older partners, lovers, hook-ups. info in journal! )

ooc: m/f for this meme

ooc: younger, though can play with timelines (literally)

( younger, can play 16/17 or later in canon ~21/22. )

ooc: more than likely younger, but open to other fantasy style fandoms or historical dramas.

( m/f. wanda is in her early 30s so probably the younger ~~no teenage boys kthx~~. yes, another one because i guess this meme brings all the wandas to the yard. shipping prefs, not really interested in the coerced prompt but open to everything else. very here for aus and crosscanon!! )