Gonna Crack that HVAC

not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!

Does Hector where a tie every time you two go out on a fancy dinner date? Yes. Why? Normal answer, it’s a formal accessory for a formal setting. Horny answer, he wants you to pull on his tie and make out sloppy style later.

no! traffic light system will kill the patient! they need under-negotiated kink to live!!!

The most important thing you can do in this life is write hyper-specific fanfiction for you and six other people. Don’t believe anything else you read.

big plans to spend the weekend writing some delightfully self-indulgent fic that will appeal to precisely (2) other people

plausible deniability remains highly erotic

let's convince ourselves that this is okay. let's rely on technicalities to exonerate ourselves. let's avoid looking what we're doing in the eye. let's live under its shadow, both aware of what this is but unwilling to say it out loud, since that will shatter the careful illusion we've built

The most real depiction of a writer to ever exist is that lady in ghost trick who stays up all night writing her smut by candlelight, squinting at every other word because it doesn't look right and needs to double check she didn't make it up, muttering to herself about how she'd hate to live in the country of the bdsm prime minister she made up for smut purposes.