Oh, sorry -- I wasn't intending to say that it was -- I didn't read it that way at all.
It just felt like a "marking territory" thing, which I tend to get a little squicky about. (If I want to tell someone that I am theirs, either in a giving-my-heart way or a B&D way or both, I can absolutely do that under my own power -- but nobody else gets to stake a claim on me without my affirmative consent.)
I understand what you're getting at, and it's a fair metaphor -- I'd just choose "take a stand" vs. putting down stakes or flags, if it were up to me.
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Date: 2012-10-21 07:58 am (UTC)It just felt like a "marking territory" thing, which I tend to get a little squicky about. (If I want to tell someone that I am theirs, either in a giving-my-heart way or a B&D way or both, I can absolutely do that under my own power -- but nobody else gets to stake a claim on me without my affirmative consent.)
I understand what you're getting at, and it's a fair metaphor -- I'd just choose "take a stand" vs. putting down stakes or flags, if it were up to me.
-- A :)