Thursday Link Dump, et. al.

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
Bai Yu vs. Zhu Yilong leg hair appreciation time
Bai Yu appreciation time. I love that photo so much I wrote a mini-story to go with it.

Not sure why I'm finding less stuff to share lately. Is it my dash or my mood? Not sure.

The car wash outfit story is moving along. I wrote 1,600 words in three hours yesterday (things are not going quite so swimmingly today). I'm inspired and motivated to get some happy porn out there for people in this, our hour of need. I'd like to get it done for posting soon after Ghost Story wraps up.

Which will happen ON THE THIRD of APRIL oh my god. I can't believe only two more chapters! This fic, y'all. Wrote the thing during a break-up, revised it along with my entire life, and posted it during a pandemic. What the fuck, y'all.

Back to the new porn one-shot, though: If you say "within centimeters" of someone that can, theoretically, mean anywhere between one and a hundred centimeters. If you say "within inches" that's a lot more clear. I don't  like using standard measurements when writing fic for Guardian, though. Does "mere centimeters" suffice? or should I go with the not-imo-as-poetic "a few centimeters".

Ask me how thrilled I am that the touchpad on my laptop is flaking out on a regular basis.

This week's dump on cm.net.

Comments

[moodsong]

Mere centemeters reads a very very close to me.

[clevermanka]

Excellent! Thank you!

[wyomingnot]

(seconding mere centimeters)

[clevermanka]

Thank you!

[libitina]

Thirding. I'm picturing 2-5 centimeters, but no more than 10.

[clevermanka]

In the context of your icon this is making me lol

[libitina]

Very close together. XD

[wrote_and_writ]

RPF/real ppl stories aren’t really my thing, but the little fic you wrote for that BY pic was so compelling!

[clevermanka]

Thank you! Let's just say it's a narrative I didn't have to try too hard to think up...

[wrote_and_writ]

The general plot is definitely intriguing!

[trobadora]

Yay for happy porn!

If you say "within centimeters" of someone that can, theoretically, mean anywhere between one and a hundred centimeters.

I've never heard anyone use "within centimeters" for anything other than "very VERY close".

[clevermanka]

This is very reassuring, thank you!

[write_out]

Echoing the 'mere centimeters' too. GO YOU with the writing!

[clevermanka]

Go, me!

[rlyqueer]

I can't handle that leg hair content. The comments on that thread are HILARIOUS—and I hate that I can relate on some level. 😂

Excited for Ghost Story to finish posting...I decided to wait until it was complete because internal yelling. Also congrats on your car wash outfit story progress, that's awesome!!

Re: "within centimeters," I try to avoid specific measurement terms because metric system nonsense. So I go more general with things like "a hair's breadth away" or lean into the prose with things like "so close that he could feel his breath ghost across his skin" or for feet, an easy "one step away", etc.

#Rip your touchpad, I hope it gets its shit together for you!

[clevermanka]

I decided to wait until it was complete because internal yelling
I'm a wait-til-complete reader, too, so I get it!

ughhhhhhhhhhhh your distance descriptions are so poetic and I am so impatient with my writing /o\

It would be about right for my beloved laptop to finally fail now. Just one more thing 2020 could add onto the pile.

[rlyqueer]

I am so impatient with my writing
You can always use a placeholder and update it when you go into the editing process! That way your quick flow isn't interrupted and you know what to go back to when you're refining? 👀

I will fight your laptop. Technology, why! Fingers crossed it super duper doesn't do that to ya, cuz that'd super duper suck.

[tinny]

Being a person who has always thought in metric units, "within centimeters" to me means "no more than ten". Probably even no more than five. (Because the next unit is decimeters, and that's 10cm. Even though nobody uses that in speech.)

Yay car wash porn!

[clevermanka]

That's very helping and assuring, thank you! (omg your icon)