>>The song is a sort of pratfall; it's very differrent from this and that kind of unfortunate outcome would be very jarring in this situation.<<
Agreed.
>>The pleasure-pain aspects of the process remind me a lot of a backrub, actually and in some ways I suppose this is the equivalent for an entity like Tim.<<
I did draw on my background in massage for this poem. There are systems in the human body that really benefit from it. I figured that in some alien species that might be even more of a factor. A hydrostatic skeleton seemed like something that would require a different kind of maintenance than an bony skeleton, more like the vascular and lymphatic systems. But it's a weight-bearing system in this case, so I figured that the fluid might tend to thicken up over time, the way oil can in a car engine, or certain kinds of hydraulic fluid in other equipment.
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dancing_serpent
Yes...
Date: 2012-10-25 04:38 am (UTC)Agreed.
>>The pleasure-pain aspects of the process remind me a lot of a backrub, actually and in some ways I suppose this is the equivalent for an entity like Tim.<<
I did draw on my background in massage for this poem. There are systems in the human body that really benefit from it. I figured that in some alien species that might be even more of a factor. A hydrostatic skeleton seemed like something that would require a different kind of maintenance than an bony skeleton, more like the vascular and lymphatic systems. But it's a weight-bearing system in this case, so I figured that the fluid might tend to thicken up over time, the way oil can in a car engine, or certain kinds of hydraulic fluid in other equipment.