the non-sexual intimacy meme

[meme]

Reach out and touch someone.

1. In Bed
- Sleeping and only sleeping? You can hear your partner's heartbeat and listen to their breathing. Are they stubborn and need to be put to bed? Do they have a nightmare to be woken from, or do they sleep peacefully in your arms?

2. Cleaning Up
- This can be anything from bathing, shaving, to hair care! Or even dressing, getting out of your costume after a long day of superhero-ing.

3. Living Together
- Domesticity requires a certain level of weakness. Maybe you're seeing someone without their 'adaptive equipment' on, or their defenses lowered. A shared space comes with shares items: clothes or jewelry, or anything in between. Who keeps the place clean? Who decorates or cooks?

4. Emotional Support
- Someone who you can share your secrets with. Have you lost someone important? Are you risking your life to save theirs?

5. Physical Support
- Holding hands is the simplest show of support, like being held in someone's arms, or carried when you might fall.

6. Chaste Kisses
- A kiss on the hand may be quite continental! Or perhaps the cheek or forehead, or maybe even feet? Nothing's wrong with a little worship.

7. Wild Card
- There are as many ways to be intimate with someone as there are stars in the sky. What's the unique way that you connect?

Comments

[deductives]

[(Anonymous)]

make a pot of tea for shade

[promised_victory]

[(Anonymous)]

be knightly and kiss the hand of any fair maidens you prefer
'maidens' can be men too

[klutziness]

[(Anonymous)]

pick out some clothes for harley

[god_damned]

[(Anonymous)]

kirei tying rin's twintails for her.

[ecphrasis]

[fronttowardenemy]

[shipper]

[DEATH AFFECTION FROM ABOVE

sorry Frank but the anons don't want the quiet life for you. enjoy Nepeta leaping at you for a tacklehug with more force than a girl her size should really be packing]

[psychomancy]

[culver]

[symmachy]

[SPARRING CAN BE INTIMATE RIGHT]

[promised_victory]

[It can be. So can a kiss to the hand. That's how one greets a lady, after all!]

[waiting]

[(Anonymous)]

Bradbury arranging human!Danger's dreads

[heartlessglitch]

i d k where this goes

[waiting]

[ bradbury doesn't really mind danger's hair being the way it is (he can't imagine her with it any other way, at this point, so it all works out) but it's usually manageable enough despite its wild appearance. maybe it's from spending too much time as a human lately (he doesn't count the hours, but he's noticed) that it's finally started to tangle together in a way that's going to be uncomfortable soon, enough that he can tell.

even if she doesn't express any discomfort he's noticing it, so eventually, at some point, he clears his throat and makes an awkward gesture at his head, then her hair. ]

Maybe you should-- Uh. Get that tied up or something.

[wild_roar]

[wisecracked]

[notadartboard]

[topslug]

[xxii_thefool]

[(Anonymous)]

Have a hair-styling date with Rin.

[shipper]

[(Anonymous)]

Give the Punisher a purrfectly platonic tacklehug because god knows that's the only way he'll take affection.

[viced]

[(Anonymous)]

carry Rick out of danger if your ass allows it, Mitch

[motherflocker]

[glassbox]

[ropedin]

[(Anonymous)]

throw an injured sherlock over your shoulder and carry him off to safety

[demonspawn]

[liverletdie]

[foreshadower]

WIN AND JILL SANDWICH VICTORY

[deductives]

[It's been a while since Sherlock has done more than throw together a quick breakfast or lunchtime brew for he and John while they work on a case. In fact, it's been a long time since he's been this courteous towards company, period. However, even Sherlock knows the Shade requires a certain element of refinement to his visits. He respected his fellow shadow walker enough to provide that, though without outwardly acknowledging it.

The pot the tea steeps in is the one John insists is never used in experiments, a faded china with floral patterns he'd acquired cheaply at a Brooklyn rummage sale. The cups don't match, taken from different pawn shops, but the tea inside them is consistent as Sherlock carries the tray out to the living room, setting it on the coffee table.

There's also a sugar bowl and a milk jug, both of which Sherlock has already mixed into his tea. He's sure the Shade will have some sort of specifications-- ones that he can certainly fulfill better than mindless shadow underlings.]

[gandere]

[god_damned]

[ Surely a proper guardian has to be occupying the same residence as his charge at some point, yes?

That means he finds her in less poised situations: like wearing simpler clothing she wears when lounging, or with her hair unfinished after she washes it.

The ties are on the dresser, along with the brush, and he takes them into his hands, ready for when she emerges from the bathroom. ]

Rin. [ Ever courteous, he pulls out the chair for her. ] Sit.