Certain ships, explained

[resonant]

"And what in the universe is hotter than having enthusiastic sex with someone who’s completely out of reach, uninvested, beyond reproach, and untouchable? Seeing someone like that get turned on and show a pulse at all is like touching the hand of God! For the first, let me just guess, seven months? The sex alone is a like a plane swerving to write I LOVE YOU across a gorgeous blue sky, right before it falls to the Earth in a flaming fireball. Hell, even a fond casual glance here or a 'Let’s consider our ecofriendliest septic-tank options!' there feels like a passionate love poem, written in the finest calligraphy and sent through the mail in an actual paper envelope, sealed with a wax stamp! Mmm, waxy stamped mail delivered by hand! What could be more erotic?

"Everyone I know — every living being — is attracted to the shadow this way."

-- Ask Polly at thecut

Comments

[lunabee34]

Ha! I love it.

[exceptinsects]

LOL it’s like a K/S Canadian Shack challenge and also wow that’s a pretty amazing piece of advice writing.
I definitely understand that urge to just BURN IT ALL DOWN and do something new and super interesting and difficult, even though really I’m very lazy and comfortable in my life.

[resonant]

Her advice columns are talking to the other side of the thinking/feeling divide but I read them because I think they're good for me.

One of the things I love about fanfic is that it allows me to satisfy the desire to do things that are only really fun to read about.

[schnikeys]

I just read that linked advice column three times in a row. What a surprisingly poignant piece of prose poetry!

Also I can think of several ships of mine that this quote is VERY relevant to, lmao

[resonant]

Oh, mine too! And Ask Polly is always beautiful and often deep.