Picture a cruise liner or your home—when an invited guest, for whatever reason, becomes uninvited and asked to leave, if they refuse - they then become a trespasser. Removing them in the gentlest manner possible is the evictionist position.
On a boat, be it stowaway, or uninvited guest, that means waiting to the next port. Throwing them overboard right then and there would be the Pro-Choice position. Forcing the property owner to take the stowaway the entire trip (9 months), is the Pro-Life position. The eminently reasonable and common sense position is to remove them at the next port of call.
Clarifying even further.. a cruise liner is on the trip for 9 months before it comes to a berth (pun intended). “Ports of call” are short stops on the way. Stowaway, invited guest now uninvited, whatever.. gentlest means possible.
The Tender (“In some ports the ship has to drop anchor some distance from shore. Tenders are covered boats that carry passengers to shore”) is the medical/technological aspect. They are involved in ferrying the person(/fetus) to safety. The risk involved in whether they make it or not (viable) depends on the technology etc. and obviously thus time.
So 100 years ago, ‘sinking’ happened all the time. 50 years ago the odds were better. Right now, (it’s probably 22weeks+ viable) and it continues to improve on avg. 1 week every 5 years in this statist environment. 100 years time, the “Tender” should make it every time. You evict at any point and the fetus remains viable. Even if you reject this, it’s a continuum problem, it’s a technological medical issue, the principle remains the same.
“the poet says that by starlight / you come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked / and that he has seen on the water, lying in her long veils / white ophelia floating, like a great lily.” — arthur rimbuad
paul delaroche / friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser / constantin meunier / john william waterhouse / ignasi moreal / john everett millais
simple intimate gestures. kissing his forehead when it aches, rubbing my thumb on his hand when we’re holding hands, moving closer to him under the blanket when we’re tired and cold. there is vast safety in intimacy
felt weirdly weepy while drawing this. about the drawing. i guess that’s because that carrot is her baby, and she took care of it, every day, to make sure it grew. she knelt in the dirt and watered it with her hands. and now she’s finally holding it in her arms. maybe the entire baby metaphor doesn’t hold up since she pulled it from the ground. but it doesn’t have to. she really loves carrots. the sweater she wears has carrots embroidered on the collar, and her hat has an orange ribbon, the color of carrots. she’s found what she loves in life and now she has it right in front of her house and she puts down her old creaky knees every morning on the dirt to tend to what she loves. i guess i was just kind of overcome with how good some things are, you know? i think if you can find at least one pocket of happiness to curl yourself up in, that’s good. that’s what makes the sun worth it.
something i crave desperately for some reason is literal sleeping together. it’s the closeness. and the knowing they’re safe when they fall asleep first and you hear their even breathing. and the knowing you’re safe because they’re there when you fall asleep first. and them being the first thing you say when you wake up. and the starting your day together. chef’s kiss.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz / The Handmaiden Park Chan-wook / The God of Vengeance Sholem Asch / Freier Fall Stephan Lacant / Maurice E.M Forster / Indecent Paula Vogel
Showing a soft hand is not to display weakness nor does it diminish “authority” since in an Authentic Engagement, a true D/s relationship, the “authority” is shared equally. Tenderness from a Dominant shows their fullness of character and depth of love.
