The Personal Hygiene Shipping Meme

[lumeria]

The Personal Hygiene Shipping Meme


Personal hygiene is just that - personal. By the time we've come to a point in our lives where we notice that the concept exists and we should be prudent about it, we can take care of ourselves. There are also many practical reasons why we don't involve other people in this process. We're not too keen on showing off parts to be cleaned that are private in most contexts, and there's definitely an ingrained aversion to showing so much soft, fleshy skin. Hot water or a sharp razor could spell dangerous with a capital D should they come into the hands of someone with a vendetta against you. No need to be extra vulnerable.

So, if you're involving another person in your cleansing routines, it must be someone you trust. Not only that, but it's most likely someone you're comfortable with and likely at least somewhat open to being intimate with. You may not be dropping all your clothing in front of them, but it's still you opening yourself up to touching and closeness unparalleled in more "usual" moments.

Established and burgeoning couples (or not-so-couples) can bond through this showing of care and good faith. Will you like being pampered and find the attention endearing? Or will things go terribly, terribly wrong?

...you never should have let them near that shaving cream.

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• Smut is not required. Mention if you want/don't want it.
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1. Comfort: You've decided to pitch in a helping hand to get your partner to unwind, and warm water or suds may do the trick.
2. Romantic: The sole purpose of this endeavor is to set a lovey-dovey mood. No shame here!
3. It Started Out Platonic...: What a good pal you are, volunteering to give your friend a good scrub. Of course, you didn't count on the cute way she squirms as you scrub her back or how he blushes when you shampoo his scalp.
4. No Choice: Currently, you're unable to clean yourself up. That means that you need assistance, and it might as well be the person you lov- tolerate the most.
5. Open: You have trust issues. Actually, you have backlogs of trust issues. Still, you want to show the person you love that you're willing and trying to change for them, and what better way than letting down your walls and having the assist in your grooming?
6. Shave: Whether it's your face, your legs, or...your other places you've decided to shave, there's a certain intimacy involved in letting your lover do it for you. Let's hope they won't leave you looking like you got into a battle with a book with the paper cuts to prove it.
7. Reluctant: They want to get you clean. You don't want to show off your body at all. It's injured, it looks weird, what if they don't like it...
8. Forced: You love them, you really do, but you won't kiss them if they continue to look like an unwashed hobo clown. You have to draw the line somewhere, and if they won't take action, you will.
9. Beat Up: You've been trampled in a fight. Your partner isn't about to let you wallow around in your own mud and blood.
10. Hair: Some find that there's nothing quite as soothing as getting their hair washed or brushed. Of course, those with more luxurious locks may find any hair care a burden, so the assistance is appreciated.
11. Make Up: They think you're beautiful already. See how they'll paint you up when they get the chance.
12. Unique: If you're not human, you probably have your own proceeders you have to do to keep all spiffied up. There are wings with stray feathers to pluck, horns on heads to polish, scales to shave down, all sorts of tasks! Introduce your ignorant (and most likely human) boyfriend or girlfriend to your world...and your pain.
13. Accommodations: Those with disabilities or prosthetics may also have their own routines, and anyone who wants to be with them should learn how to pitch in.
14. Sponge Bath: You don't have enough water to do this right or you just want to give them a nice rub and scrub with a gentle sponge or wash cloth.
15. Wound Care: In order for wounds to heal, proper care must be taken. Bandages have to be changed and cuts cleaned out. It's certainly easier when you don't have to do it all by yourself.
16. Together: You're both cleaning up, taking a bath, splish splash, in the same tub because there's no where else to go. This is the most likely smut option, even if, again, it starts off "platonic."
17. Clothing: Don't forget that clean clothes are an important part of personal hygiene. Always make sure your partner has a nice, fresh outfit, even if it's to your taste and not theirs.
18. I've Made a Terrible Mistake: Somehow, everything's now shit. This little experiment went haywire and you may be sporting anything from the worst hairdo of your life to a Columbian necktie.
19. FREE SPACE

Comments

Devil | El Shaddai | ota

[connectionlost]

(no smut. no 6 (unless your character is on the receiving end) or 18.)

combination 8/4 with Enoch on the receiving end? Poke me if you want me to pick another

[warriorscribe]

[So they'd finally gotten somewhere reliable to bathe in, whether it was a natural body of water or a hotel bathroom or something else. Or, Devil had. Enoch spent most of the time sleeping off the remains of the fever from the toxic plants he'd accidentally eaten, either forcing breaks or being carried. Either way, even though he blearily encouraged Devil to wash himself, he seemed content to doze off where he was, his body still weak enough to be constantly demanding sleep.]

No, go on. Clean yourself. I'll be all right, Lucifel, I need a moment...

Inqusitor Rahgol Lavellan | Dragon Age Inquisition | OTA

[inquisitatertot]

[11 & 18 preferable, open to suggestions]

[fresh_to_deaf]

[Now, Djem likes to think that when confronted with a situation like this, he'd be able to physically get involved. Maybe help come between the aggressor and the victim. Usually if it was only two people involved, he would - he was terrible at fighting, but if it means helping someone who needs it, he can take a punch.

This, however, is not a lunch break at school. This is far too many guys against one, and while he has the chance to leave before he's pulled into it, he doesn't.

Judging by the jeering expressions and the make up spilled across the floor, he can take a guess as to what's going on. And it's that assumption that keeps him where he is, dark eyes flitting anxiously between the guys and the individual (? Maybe keep it gender neutral for now?) they're ganging up against.]

Furiosa / Mad Max: Fury Road / Ota

[eumenis]

[Prompt 13 would be loved, but open to any--though trying to force her into doing anything is more likely to turn out violent than fluffy. Platonic or romantic relationships welcome.]

many of the above!

[meanness_to_music]

[Whenever Max comes back from his long stretches out on the road, he heads down to the gray-water pools at the edge of Citadel, the small series of shallow ponds in poured concrete where the farming and washing-water runs down. They pacify the passing ferals, keep them from pushing in to civilization to steal water, but are generally considered unfit for the regular citizens of Citadel to drink- they serve as bathing ponds, instead.

Whenever Max waits out at the edge of the gray-water, someone, some well-meaning Warboy (or more typically, an eager wife) runs to Furiosa, and tells her he's down there again, that Max, mad mad Max is back again and putting his toes in the water.

He never lets on, but he does hope she comes.]

Vanessa Ives | Penny Dreadful

[ms_ives]

Liling 'Lily' Yang | OC | OTA

[splendidphoenix]

Sheyl Nome | Macross Frontier

[shakethegalaxy]

Gaius || Fire Emblem Awakening || m/f

[sugarbaddy]

[ He's basically a walking crumb factory. Dude needs some help. ]

Elizabeth | BioShock: Infinite | OTA

[beunbroken]

Jane Potter | Yer A Wizard (63!) | OTA

[broomswept]

Courfeyrac | Les Mis | OTA

[courfeyhot]

Galinda Upland | Wicked | OTA

[galindafied]

Cassie Ainsworth | Skins

[hazydaze]

Eponine Thenardier | Les Mis | OTA

[jondrette]

[modern au available]

Effie Trinket | Battle Royale With Cheese

[primreaper]

Nancy | Oliver Twist | OTA

[stauncherhearted]

3? & 10 IDEK

[dominus]

It wasn't necessary. It wasn't on the menu of items available for purchase, it prompted a quirk of her pretty brows, a little moue of her naked lips and that tiny shifting of Nancy's weight that gave away her uncertainty. In the end, it came down to the cost of her time, what it would mean to tease another couple hours out of her in the early morning, before they parted ways for another day, another week.

Ezio drew her a bath.

Maybe it's silly, maybe it's odd or sad to some degree, but he finds a kind of sentimental pleasure in the whole ritual. Nancy's hair is still pinned up above her shoulders and the cottony suds, bathed too in the cheerful glow of the morning sun; there's coffee balanced on the tub's wide rim where Ezio is also perched, the sleeves of his white robe turned up while he scrubs her back.

Some song is playing on her phone, resonating quite well in the tiled room, another album he doesn't recognize but must be one of her favorites, judging by the artist. "Who is this?" He asks, pausing in his work to rub out a knot in her shoulder.

DEAN WINCHESTER | SUPERNATURAL | OTA

[baby_no]

Ricki Tarr: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: OTA

[rickitikitarr]

4/6/maybe others who knows

[formerself]

Eggsy's been taught to use a straight razor, because of course he has.

It's not like he wasn't aware that even the most prosaic daily rituals have a Normal People Mode and a Needlessly Complicated, Obsolete Rich People Mode, but over the year of his training and the months following his employment he's become conversant with several of them. More than that, he's actively studied them, because he was acutely aware that he rocked up at Kingsman completely absent of several skills that his fellow proposals have been taught since toddlerdom. How to 'properly' eat, drink, dress, introduce oneself, carry a conversation, light a cigarette, use a napkin and - among many others - shave.

That being said, shaving is one of the ones he actually likes. It's measurably better than the alternative (when he's got the time), and there's something viscerally appealing about undertaking basic day-to-day tasks with an instrument you could also (easily) use to kill someone.

His new career has also brought with it a close and - to the most realistic extent - trusting relationship, with a man who's nursing a badly sprained right wrist owing to either a messy firefight (in actuality) or some really focused masturbation (Eggsy, going for the obvious joke). Time has elapsed such that his tasteful stubble is edging into 'punchable Shoreditch hipster beard' and he likes Ricki too much to let that happen.

"Alright." He's wielding a hot towel and flicking a couple of extra switches. It's dark outside (it's November, the time of day is almost immaterial) and he needs all the light he can get. "This's gone on long enough. Sit down."

cain, STARFIGHTER.

[knack]

Vlad Țepeș ☀ Dracula Untold ☀ OTA

[whatmenfear]

Djem Ahmad | Original

[fresh_to_deaf]

Vaas Montenegro │ Far Cry 3

[thedefinitionof_insanity]

the lady sif » mcu

[shornhaired]

natasha romanova ⧗ mcu

[redhourglass]

nyota uhura | star trek aos.

[polyglot]

Hajime Ichinose | Gatchaman Crowds | ota

[gatcha_diy_man]

[ No 16, 18 or anything that leads to smut.]