One Hell of a Steep Learning Curve: kryptaria: provocatrixxx: wintergrey: What age gap, regardless of...
What age gap, regardless of gender/sex of partners is skeevy?
If older partner is 18? 28?
I have strong feelings on this one.
I think it has less to do with age in years than with how both partners are perceived by the world.
Two…
Sometimes I come at this question from a pretty different angle. The axiom that starts the derivation is that need is a powerful and often destructive force. We easily conceive of wanting as the force that draws people into relationships — but what drives want except need?
From this angle, the problem with gaps in age or experience is the increased potential for large divergences in need. Sufficiently large, and they start to become unanswerable, insoluble, even unintelligible. And this explains at least part of why they can be so fraught — need is tricky because people will throw themselves right into the fire to help.
This is where I get one of my most closely-held tenets of what it would mean to really be an adult: it means managing your (naturally and inevitably non-zero) needs well enough that the people around you won’t hurt themselves trying to help.
That may well be the wisest thing ever said on Tumblr. In my hearing, anyway.
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I HAVE WAITED MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR THIS GIFSET TO APPEAR ON MY DASH
THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART OF ALADDIN.
Did you know that most of this scene wasn’t scripted and Robin Williams just did it and the animators had a hard time creating the animation for this? Robin is a motherfucking genius.
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As for his voice, it’s so sepulchrally resonant that it could have been synthesised from the combined timbres of Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Alan Rickman holding an elocution contest down a well.
Blanche Calloway - I Need Lovin’.
This is Cab Calloway’s older sister. You know how awesome and dynamic Cab was? Well he learned it all from her. She was the first woman to lead an all male jazz orchestra. That orchestra, The Joy Boys, included Louis Armstrong. She was a badass motherfucker.
The problem was that she was too badass for the time. She was extremely provocative in her act and her lyrics, so much so that she later had a hard time getting jobs, even as her brother’s career took off. He could get away with what she could not. She should have pulled a Josephine Baker and moved to France, because she was not celebrated like she should have been in the US. She had to disband the Joy Boys by 1940.
Also, cab was good looking, but he had nothing on his big sis:
A beautiful, beautiful woman, with a huge talent.
“You asked me to be your partner.”
“You are my partner.”
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And because I can’t resist, and because you should see quite a different reworking of Black Betty that isn’t just a remake of the Ram Jam version that I dislike, here is Tom Jones.
I do not apologize for loving Tom Jones.
Nor should you.
There are ways to hurt you that do not involve hurting you.
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Sheerness as seen from the Nore (1808), Fishermen at Sea (1801), Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
J.M.W. Turner
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aceofblueheart said: Some Cheery, please?
‘bout time, I feel! Cheery is on her way to becoming a forensic… something. Guhh, it’s late, don’t judge me. I had trouble deciding on her style but then I decided to went with sort of feminine, minus overt frilliness.
