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

my stomach feels you bro

[deductives]

[Sherlock's more corporeal form forced him to breathe on his tea in attempt to cool it. The method had little effect, but it was habit at this point. He sat in his armchair across from the Shade, crossing his legs and resting his saucer on his leg. Not the finest of etiquette, but Sherlock liked to think the host was exempt from those sorts of rules. Though he thought himself exempt from most rules.]

It's hardly high grade, but it's the best red tea the corner store has to offer at the moment.

[Fortunately, it was easier to get imported tea in the City than it was to get imported lager.]