daydream

[dragonlady7]

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bomberqueen17 https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/642791558181224448/daydream:

I did have a lovely enough evening, we got a fancy pizza and then went and got takeout ice cream sundaes from the fancy ice cream and candy place down the street. (I also bought $100 of fancy artisanal valentine’s candies for my mom and sisters and me shh.)

but I was pondering what i really want in life, and what i really want, is to sit in a hot tub somewhere– and like, not a hot tub in like a rec center or something, no. i want like. a hot tub on a deck. on the deck of like. a cabin in the woods, with a breathtaking view of the snowy woods and such. like, a nice big hot tub. yeah.

and i want to sit topless in this nice hot tub with this great view, and drink champagne.

and then– well ok over the weekend MM’s kids were playing Minecraft and one of the items in Boychild’s inventory was just called Bucket of Salmon and like

hell yeah i want a bucket of salmon and some champagne and to sit in a hot tub in the snowy woods with my tits out.

(this led to a discussion of where i could source sushi in the remote woods and the suggestion that i just catch a salmon myself, and someone had pointed out that my initial description of the fantasy sounded really like the selkie lifestyle, so i supposed that if i were really a selkie i would have little difficulty in managing a fish straight out of a stream, so now this idle fantasy has taken a hard left into being an A/U where I’m a selkie, but like, that’d be cool and I’d have badass teeth and be way more buff than I am, so I guess that’s where I’m mentally going, on a Wednesday night in February 11 months into a global pandemic that has prevented me from having any kind of travel or vacation or indeed very much fun of any kind in my life, so.)

• exrayspex https://exrayspex.tumblr.com/ said:

  the thing about hot tubs on the decks of cabins in the woods with great views is that they run the risk of a bear approaching and trying to pry open the metal cage around your cabin’s trash can while you’re having a soak. happened at my cousin’s bachelorette party lol. though i suppose that wouldn’t be as concerning for a selkie, maybe? unless it comes for your bucket-o-fish

oh in this daydream I guess we’d better assume I am ready, willing, and able to fight a bear. If I were a selkie probably I would not hesitate. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[rmc28]

I have intermittently wanted to be a selkie since I read Seaward by Susan Cooper at a formative childhood age. Which is to say, your fantasy is excellent and I approve and also now I have a craving for salmon.

[dragonlady7]

You know, I'm actually kind of afraid of the sea, so maybe I'm going to change my fantasy slightly to instead be a were-bear-woman somehow? Like if there were selkies but bears instead of seals? So you can be the selkie and I'll just live in the woods and eat trash as a side dish to my salmon, actually.

[rmc28]

Were-bears are a whole (apparently very popular) subgenre of romance, and also would have no problem catching salmon, so this sounds great.

[dragonlady7]

Shit, that's the genre I need to be writing I guess.
I don't want a dude who's a bear though. My dude can come along and just be himself, that's fine. *I* want to be the bear.
(As it is we were walking in a dark neighborhood one night and sort of jokingly I was like 'what would you do if a mugger attacked us' and he was like 'i would run' and i was like 'oh that's nice' and he's like 'no i would run so they couldn't make me testify at the murder trial when you were done with him' and i was like 'i'm not that scary!' and he was like 'mmm yes you are.')

[rmc28]

"My dude can come along and just be himself, that's fine. I want to be the bear."

A+ would read, top-notch romance novel concept.

(And you know how the thing is to have a whole series so you'd have like a family of women were-bear sisters or cousins or whatever, and the human dudes (and women!) who come along and romance them. Absolute gold.)

[szzzt]

I WOULD ALSO READ

[dragonlady7]

i mentioned this in a discord server i'm in and people seemed to think there aren't many versions of this where the giant muscle bear is the woman?? Hmph! this can't be right.