165: Travel Is Education and Experience

[thefourthvine]

Yesterday afternoon, I had a nurse demonstrate for me how to take something up the ass. Okay, no. What she was actually demonstrating was how to get your partner to give you a shot in the butt ("Go for the meatiest part!" she said cheerfully. I badly wanted to say, "Have you seen my ass? There's no meat shortage there!"), but she bent over in a

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[astolat]

But, in an attempt to ascend to greater grown-up-ness, I am not going to make the theme of this set "bending over a desk and taking it up the ass."

OMG, that was SO MEAN. I was expecting a whole recs set on this theme! You had built towards it so beautifully! and then NO. ;__;

[thefourthvine]

OMG, that was SO MEAN. I was expecting a whole recs set on this theme! You had built towards it so beautifully! and then NO.

Okay, see, no. You're supposed to say, "TFV, how mature! I am so proud of you for making this responsible and adult choice." See? That's rewarding my good behavior. Whereas the kind of comment you left just makes me want to post a bunch of fucking-on-a-desk recs, and how grown up is that? Not very. Help me help myself! Reward my goodness!

[astolat]

Whereas the kind of comment you left just makes me want to post a bunch of fucking-on-a-desk recs

Yes? What other comments could I make that would lead to this outcome? *hopeful*

Man, it had been years since I read End of the Road. It's still not my own Methos -- mine is much closer to Kat's Methos in Strata -- but it's a *conceivable* Methos, someone you can imagine really being 5000 years old, which so few HL stories actually achieve for me.

(Have you read The Good Student by Sylvia Volk? If not, I bet you would like it.)

[vito_excalibur]

Whereas the kind of comment you left just makes me want to post a bunch of fucking-on-a-desk recs, and how grown up is that?

Oh please. Oh please please please. You want me to draw you something? I'll draw you something.

BTW, I'm not sure if it's grown up, but can't we get away with it by calling it "adult"? {innocent smile}

[thefourthvine]

Oh, TFV. Never, ever change.

*sad sigh*

Frankly, I'm not even sure change is an option for me at this point. If I was going to grow up, I'm pretty sure it would've happened already.

This is ethical, right?

Absolutely. The RCoE encourages this kind of thing. In extreme cases, you may also apply handcuffs and/or blackmail. Do whatever you have to do! Remember: we're not out to make friends; we're out to make people read.

I don't understand how you can live on this earth and not need to read this story.

You can't. Or, put it this way: people who don't want to read this story surely aren't from my planet. And, frankly, if they visited, we'd probably eye them with great suspicion.

Please, like anything involving sports has dignity. Even fencing doesn't have dignity, and that's about as stylized and aristocratic as it gets in sports.See, I didn't know that. I thought, you know, the greatness of sport, the drama, the tragedy, blah blah blah. I take it not so much

[minervacat]

If you're me, you'll start wondering if all college football is, um, quite that hands-on. You take the handsy-ness, you add the emotion - it all starts to seem kind of - well, slashy. But that could just be me.

since i went to a college baseball game last night and spent most of the game complaining that there wasn't nearly enough ass-patting, pretty much it's definitely not you.

[thefourthvine]

since i went to a college baseball game last night and spent most of the game complaining that there wasn't nearly enough ass-patting, pretty much it's definitely not you.

*beams*

This is excellent news. The athletes of today are fully skilled in touching each other's asses! (Except possibly some college basketball backsliders - you should write a letter of complaint to the coaches of the teams you watched last night.) This is the kind of thing that gives me hope for the future.

I'm very happy now.

*beams some more*

[minervacat]

you want slashy athletes, tfv, i can give you slashy athletes. that's my all-time number one most favorite photo in the WHOLE WORLD, because a) that's my team winning a championship, but also b), um, hi, totally inappropriate public boy-touching. i am incapable of being grumpy while looking at that photo.

[darthfox]

Any excuse to read Denver again is good enough for me (she said, opening the link in a new tab). (Side note: wow, it really is something how much easier it is to type when your fingernails are not too long. I don't know why I keep forgetting this.) The football-jersey thing is brilliant, of course, but for me the moment that always gives me goosebumps is when they're at the symphony and John has his hands on the armrests and closes his eyes and Rodney half-expects the concert hall to light up. (See! I have goosebumps now, just referring to it!)

[thefourthvine]

Any excuse to read Denver again is good enough for me

*nods*

This is why I rec. Not so much so that other people will have an excuse, but so that I will. What kind of recommender would I be if I didn't re-read each story prior to linking to it? Not an ethical one, that's for sure.

Side note: wow, it really is something how much easier it is to type when your fingernails are not too long. I don't know why I keep forgetting this.

Perhaps you need a program that will monitor your typing speed and errors and then pop up a window saying, "Cut your fingernails now, Fox." And don't laugh - there's a program that will detect if your cat is typing, so I don't see why there shouldn't be one for this, too.

The football-jersey thing is brilliant, of course, but for me the moment that always gives me goosebumps is when they're at the symphony and John has his hands on the armrests and closes his eyes and Rodney half-expects the concert hall to light up.

Yes yes yes. SO MUCH YES.

Annnnnd now I have to re-read it AGAIN.

[sandyurbahns]

You know I never thought to look on youtube for this play, no matter how often John mentions it to Rodney. Thanks for posting :) It was great seeing what all the hype is about.

[thefourthvine]

I totally cannot take the credit; musesfool found it, and a bunch of other awesome football clips, for me. (Football clips are so neat to watch on YouTube. The football players flock, just like birds, and in long shots it looks kind of like Go: you can see these offensive and defensive patterns forming, except made with people instead of stones!)

And I am so happy she did. Admittedly, I think that play probably is more dramatic if you've seen more long passes than just that one, but even so - I never fail to be impressed by it. (And, actually, I'm not surprised that John took it to another galaxy with him. Talk about your Hail Marys.)