Cuddling with strangers! Stranger boners!
I was considering a tasteless joke comparing cuddle parties with rush hour public transportation, but... stranger boners on a train aren't funny when it's happening to you.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Dec 07, 2010 5:09:53 pm PST #9530 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Zenkitty - Dec 07, 2010 5:10:10 pm PST #9531 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I love pimping my friends' work, but am horrible at doing it for me.
Maybe like-minded authors should get together and pimp each other's work. Like, you pimp Barb, and Barb pimps you. Hypothetically.
This would lead to certain authors realizing they're really good at pimping for other authors, and then they would go into business doing that, and then a whole new layer would appear in the publishing cake.
I think I would actually enjoy a cuddle party.
Someone stole a catfood bowl from my front yard. WTF.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2010 5:11:56 pm PST #9532 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, I will only cuddle with previously vetted people. It's a highly rigourous process, and no cuddle party will ever match it.
shrift - Dec 07, 2010 5:16:48 pm PST #9533 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm with you, ita. I don't think you could get me to a cuddle party to stop an apocalypse.
And now my brain won't stop repeating Stranger Boners on a Train. I'll drown it out by watching Hawaii Five-O.
DavidS - Dec 07, 2010 5:17:24 pm PST #9534 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Maybe like-minded authors should get together and pimp each other's work. Like, you pimp Barb, and Barb pimps you. Hypothetically.
Don't you remember Spy magazine's section "Logrolling In Our Time"?
It paired off marketing quotes from different authors doing just that.
"Stephen King chills me to the bone like no other author." - Peter Straub
"Peter Straub is the scariest motherfucker on planet earth. After Clive Barker." - Stephen King
"I want to flay Stephen King. What? It's a sex thing." - Clive Barker.
sarameg - Dec 07, 2010 5:18:56 pm PST #9535 of 30001
I can't even fathom. But I'm also stingy about my hugs with adults.
-t - Dec 07, 2010 5:20:53 pm PST #9536 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Raccoons'll do that, Zen. Maybe skunks.
Steal catfood dishes, I mean, not cuddle. I'm not encouraging anyone to cuddle wild fauna.
Strix - Dec 07, 2010 5:21:02 pm PST #9537 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I would rather go to a full-blown (heh) orgy with strangers than cuddle with strangers.
EW.
beekaytee - Dec 07, 2010 5:21:43 pm PST #9538 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
One of the first, most promising connections I made on OKCupid emailed back and forth for a bit before asking if I wanted to attend a cuddle party. I had never heard of such a thing and did some research. FULL STOP. Nuh and Uh.
Now, lest I be misunderstood, I lived outside with 1500 people for the better part of a year. We were all about piling masses of people in a tent for comfort and warmth. There was loads of affection and connection.
The idea of doing that with people who paid for the privilege? I just couldn't.
The thing that bothered me the most was the extensive list of rules and the assurance that monitors patrolled the perimeter at all times.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!! Those rules were put into place for a reason. Ick.
Liese S. - Dec 07, 2010 5:22:59 pm PST #9539 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I love cuddling, but I have a, you know, husband to do it with. And if we're talking genuinely non-sexual, Seabiscuit is really a world class snuggler, and comes with bonus soft furry outer layer for winter snuggly warmth.
My pacifist Mennonite buddy who goes and reasons with Columbian druglords and paramilitaries who are trying to shoot farmers just sent me a link to that youtube video of the food court hallelujah chorus flash mob. I am having some serious cognitive dissonance. Not least with the basic concept of my straw hat, blue shirt and suspenders wearing buddy even knowing what a flash mob is.