With permission from the first (!) comarade patron (y merci!), I am publicly posting their letter here to give all of you an idea of what you can expect from becoming my patron on Patreon. Mon comarade requested a letter from Doña Ana Lucía, and at the end of their one-paragraph prompt, asked a single question:
How would you seduce me?
Queridos [ ]:
Firstly, thank you for writing. It is always a delight to hear from admirers.
Secondly, let me be clear: I do not seduce. I romance, and only with the consent and blessing of all involved. To do otherwise invites la vergüenza.
It is unbecoming of a lady and a scholar, but indulge me in answering your question with my own: How would you serve a dinner or dig a site? How would you hollow an asteroid into a terrarium, and make it a home? How would you seed a biodome to see it thrive? I think you see where I lead. Each meal, each site, each rock, each dome, are unique and subject to their own strict factors and airy whims. Lovers are just the same, him in his place, her in her spot, they in theirs.
Each seduction must be an adventure, or it is no romance at all.
In your prompt letter, you spoke of your love of knitting, animation, and heists. This is all I have to go on of you, queridos [ ], but I have some training in the social sciences to aid me. I think the way of roses and chocolates is not for you, except perhaps as a fine gesture while the real romance is on. I think instead I would bring some of my mother’s old things, priceless vintage, and tell you stories of where each bit of cloth has been and you tell me stories of what each piece you are working on is becoming.
I am not very adept with proper cooking, as much as I discern it at table, but I am fair-handed as a camp cook. With your consent, I would make something new of the things around your kitchen. Consent, because the kitchen of a proud cook is a very intimate place.
And you would sit and sip your drink and tell me of the animations you love. My specialty in historical pop culture are the telenovelas of South America of the early 21st century, it will not take you long to find the canonical animation that makes you strike your face I have never seen it. After dinner, we could watch it together. And, with your consent every step of the way, perhaps more.
And as for heists, I could tell you some of the things I’ve seen and done and retrieved…but I think perhaps this is too public a forum for such tales.
Would you like to hear those tales somewhere more private, perhaps?
Besos,
Doña Doctora Ana Lucía Serrano y Veracruz
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