impure_tale: (oddly tender)
impure_tale ([personal profile] impure_tale) wrote2011-09-07 11:17 pm

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I find myself in better spirits of late. Renate does not tire me so easily on her walks any longer, though they are still rather trying. I do not go into the enclosure without my cane because I will find myself leaning upon it sooner or later. The pain returns like clockwork, but not so intensely. Often in other ways, as though the small ruptures in bone are not the problem so much as every organ, nerve, and sliver of muscle around them are working especially hard not to come into contact with them. It's a feeling of strain, most certainly.

Not the manner of agony I would use to inspire me, I'm afraid. I would thank Monsieur Sexby again but I fear at present all he shall do is stare at me blankly, like a cow at an oncoming coach. I cannot trouble myself with such things as memory loss, for I am feeling nostalgic.

I remember when I first came to the barge I found myself rather smitten with an innocent young Warden who had come aboard, by name of Giselle. It is so very, very rare that I feel the impulse to slip away from my familiar and comfortable perversions, the amusement that comes of shocking the more conservative, of discourse with persons given to a greater plane of understanding when it comes to my playful eccentricities. On occasion yes, even I find myself desirous of the preservation of more...innocent inclinations. Giselle was one such individual, perhaps because her innocence was so very genuine. This might come of the fact that she seemed to have existed in a world free of the evils that scarred the cratered, bloodsopped landscape that was my first life. I deigned to offer my arm as a gentleman would. I spoke sweet odes, wooed her as I would the gentle ladies and courtesans of my youth, tried ever-so-hard not to permit my body its characteristic stirrings when she would throw my arms about my neck and embrace me, trusting always my intentions and never knowing the struggles that come of traitorous bloodflow. It was some months before I no longer suffered such instinctual responses, and our relationship had changed considerably, understandably.

She and my Paviche, perhaps my two great loves aboard this ship, and of two very different breeds. My mind is too often set upon my work and little else. I rather think I would relish my next glorious pursuit, and so long as my dear Prefect is content to continue playing hard to get, I suppose I shall have to choose another, oui?

L'amour, my barge. We should all benefit from a little more of it in our lives.

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
But if no one likes to be damp and the other person is damp, then the other person doesn't like it, and if the other person doesn't like it then that's even more awkward, because then you just know that it's just terrible for everyone and you want to stop but you don't want them to feel rejected!

Or what if they really like being damp and you just think it's terrible?

No, Comrade. It's no good. None of it is any good at all.
truth_is_cold: (rhade - skeptical)

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[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2011-09-08 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
If you don't like it you stop. Because to keep going is worse than making them feel rejected. But if you love them, usually it's not so bad if they make you damp. Someone you love can take something that makes you uncomfortable and make it not matter.
truth_is_cold: (rhade - vague shock)

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[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2011-09-08 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[DAWN OF INEBRIATED REALIZATION!!!]
truth_is_cold: (rhade - orly?)

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[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2011-09-08 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
I know how to fix it.

Not you.

Me.

Thank you! I would kiss you, but I can't because it would make you damp.

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[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
No one who loved me would ever do such a thing to me.

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[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
I mean: You're welcome Comrade.

Don't kiss me.
truth_is_cold: (rhade - smirky)

[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2011-09-08 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
I won't. Don't worry. [Completely innocently.]

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, Comrade.

[YOU SEEM TRUSTWORTHY RHADE]
truth_is_cold: (rhade - where's my leather?)

[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2011-09-08 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ALL THE TRUSTWORTHY! But he won't kiss you because you're like a kitty and being damp makes you sad.]

...

Are hugs bad too?

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
...

They are no ideal, but they are occasionally acceptable in exemplary circumstances.
truth_is_cold: (rhade - i suppose so)

[personal profile] truth_is_cold 2011-09-08 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [So disappointed! Hugs are hard to come by. Not many of his friends here want to give them!]

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
A comradely slap on the arm is acceptable. [KIRK GAVE HIM SO MANY HE JUST ACCEPTS THOSE NOW]