The disrobing section of the dictionary
Aug. 20th, 2020 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantYou can probably identify how old a fanfic writer is by what the default verb is for removing a pair of pants.
I remember a lot of "slip" or "slide." These days I'm seeing a lot of "peel."
Didn't Trek writers used to have a verb that implied that the clothes separated at the seams? Or am I imagining that?
I remember a lot of "slip" or "slide." These days I'm seeing a lot of "peel."
Didn't Trek writers used to have a verb that implied that the clothes separated at the seams? Or am I imagining that?
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Date: 8/20/20 11:32 pm (UTC)I'm giggling over that, but only because I just saw a makeout scene involving trying to pull off skinny jeans. Peel is definitely the right verb for that movement.
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Date: 8/20/20 11:36 pm (UTC)*grin, duck, run*
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Date: 8/20/20 11:56 pm (UTC)Slip sliding away
you know the nearer your jeans are
the more you're slip sliding them away
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Date: 8/21/20 12:06 am (UTC)He came from my home town.
He wore his trousers so skinny he couldn't pull them down.
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Date: 8/21/20 12:59 am (UTC)I read a fic a few days ago in which one character wanted to peel the other one out of his clothes like a lotus seed. It worked prettily in context!
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Date: 8/22/20 01:58 pm (UTC)It's fine; Lan Zhan's into that.
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Date: 8/22/20 10:31 pm (UTC)Hee!
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Date: 8/22/20 12:38 am (UTC)Assuming every species has fingerprints, that is.
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Date: 8/22/20 01:53 am (UTC)All in an effort to make some kind of alternative space velcro because they don't like the noise.
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Date: 8/22/20 01:27 pm (UTC)