#stardusteddameron

you already are that a person, like overgrown lavender in a hand painted pot that keeps on blooming, like incense left to burn until it goes out and the room is filled with a haze of vanilla smoke, like curtains too sheer to keep the sunlight out, like taking binoculars out in the countryside to look at the stars on a moonless night. you are warm and full of life and everything you touch is tinted gold in your wake

I read this and started full-on crying. Thank you friend. 

I can speak only for myself, but that's too big an age gap for me. I have a very arbitrary limit that says 10 years tops, anything above is a no. Okay, MAYBE if a writer did a lot of work, but generally no (power and experience gap just makes it nah)

stardusteddameron:

honestly unless jess was under 30 it'd kind of squick me out (age gap is part of the reason i can't go for jedistormpilot)

leftwinglibrarian:

The age gap is part of why I don't like Rey/Poe. It's just a little TOO big. If they were 57 and 44, not such a big deal, but 19 to 32 is SUCH a huge gap, kwim? Does Jess have to be Poe's age? I've always assumed she was younger, like early 20s?

nekosmuse: 

Creepy. You could make her poes younger adopted sister.

Thanks, guys! It’s unanimous: Emperor-level creepy. I’m glad you all agree, because honestly, I share the ten-year limit. Poe and Finn just barely squeak under, but even then I don’t like to linger on the age gap between them, and I feel like Finn’s life experience would have matured him beyond his actual age. 

And yeah, I usually write Jess as Jessica Henwick’s age (24 now), but in this AU, Jess has to be Poe’s age for Reasons. Rey should be 19, also for Reasons. So I’m going to have to rewrite a tiny section involving the two of them, because I wrote it before actually doing the math...

how does oscar rate to u because hes my Daddy