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[fox_confessor]

Last night at yoga there a was a woman next to me who was there for the first time. She was young (probably 18ish), very thin, and incredibly flexible, which generally is a combination that makes me feel really sorry for myself (being not young, not thin, and while vastly more flexible than I was a year ago, I still can't bend in half or "thread your left arm through your right arm then reach around and grasp your left foot now breath and smile"). This is why I keep my eyes closed during class--not to experience my inner peace but to keep from comparing myself to people made of rubber--I never come out on top. Anyway, the lovely woman next to me kept bending in ways that were quite impossible for most humans (I peek. I'm weak, particularly when they're quite attractive.) but I noticed to my delight that while I couldn't bend backwards flat on the ground whilst sitting on my heels, my arms don't shake (like hers did) at the end of class no matter how many down dogs we do or how long we hold them. I don't have to have my hands on the floor during lunges to keep my balance but can lift them up to the sky without feeling like I'll topple (in fact, next to happy baby, it's my favorite thing to do). I have strength rather than great flexibility--I want both but I'm pretty happy to be strong. I also have good balance and can hold tree pose for ages, though I tend to think that's my low center of gravity at work (i.e., short and fat).

I'm wearing one of my new dresses today. I noticed as I was trying to decide which pair of sandals to wear that my legs look rather lovely. My ankles are quite slender, which made me laugh because on occasion I read books where the heroines are quite vain about their ankles, and now I've joined their number.

The other day I was handwriting the next chapter of a Suits fic during my lunch and discovered much to my horror that I was could be writing an alpha/omega fic. Don't take that as judgement for those who like a/o fics, because I read them and sometimes enjoy (and sometimes boggle--definitely depends on the writer and how far they stretch their knowledge of human anatomy--I know the point is that a/o are different but *hands* I was a biology major! I have hang-ups!) and besides your kink may not be my kink and that's perfectly all right (though I'm pretty easy going with my kinks so likely we share more than a few). I just never considered writing one, particularly not in Suits, which is flooded with a/o stories (where are they all in Remus/Sirius? You would think that would lend itself to it, you know? Are they on ff.net?). Moreover, I don't want to write one (though now that the thought has planted itself, I can't help but to wonder at the challenge I see in it) so I had to dial it back and decide how to tweak my plot.

Okay, I have no point to this post except a) I'm strong! b) I have lovely ankles! c) why can't I just write fic all day long! and finally d) I'm procrastinating because I don't want to work. I want to sit outside in the sunshine in my pretty dress and finish reading my book.

Comments

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

I have the flexibility, but not the core strength. Not a great combo I tell you since everything just goes out of whack from being flexible and there's no strength to hold things back from being *over* stretched if you know what I mean. I've been forbidden by my chiro from doing yoga "Don't want you to get any *more* flexible," he said, not that I was doing any yoga. "Do pilate instead." Yeah... not doing ANYTHING right now....

[kiltsandlollies.livejournal.com]

This is a good post and I love everything about it. :D (says she of shaky arms but LOTS OF FLEXIBILITY OKAY) :D

[desecrets.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, kudos on the strength thing. I don't want to think about what would happen if I tried to do yoga.

I get the feeling that the vast influx of a/o fics right now is a sliiightly recent thing? And HP fandom has kind of died down in the past few years... (Though it could just be that I've somehow managed to avoid that particular kink until recently.)

I have definitely seen fic with subservient Padfoot, but I'm sorta glad that most of the R/S around doesn't take it further than that, tbh.

[msilverstar]

I'm usually a bit squicked by a/o in general, but a good writer can sell me completely.

Just that most of them are writing Torrid Romance of Destiny (Male Flavor). IMNSHO, a/o gets a ton of fic that just puts the omega in the girl role (mpreg too), and never goes beyond the most trite cliches. But the same goes for most stuff, 90% of everything is crap...