asakiyume: (feathers on the line)
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What if when you journeyed, the road only appeared after you? I guess that's the case for explorers--they create paths behind them. So, snails and slugs are explorers.

... Also, when you see a slug's silvery path, you expect some amazingly lovely creature must have made it.

"And you'd be right," says a self-confident slug, maybe blushing a little that you should reach such a flattering conclusion.

shining trail


almost across the Great Hard Waste




Date: 2015-07-19 09:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
What do slugs make of earthworms, I wonder?

Date: 2015-07-19 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com
I was thinking about those damp days when earthworms go out for constitutionals, and slugs might meet them aboveground. Though I suppose they could seem like emerged chthonic deities then....

Date: 2015-07-19 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Strangers from strange lands, for sure.

Date: 2015-07-19 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
Even the snail
Leaves a stardust trail

:o)

Date: 2015-07-19 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
That's beautiful--thank you for sharing that!

Date: 2015-07-20 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com
I wish I could remember where I got it from, as I have to admit that it isn't mine.

Date: 2015-07-19 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yamamanama.livejournal.com
Sea slugs are very beautiful creatures.

For that matter, I wonder what land slugs make of them.

Date: 2015-07-19 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Sea slugs must be like mermaids or fairies for land slugs.

Date: 2015-07-19 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
just a little farther to the soft, damp green.

Date: 2015-07-19 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xjenavivex.livejournal.com
Thanks for being a traveling companion.

Date: 2015-07-20 09:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
It takes two--thanks for coming along <3

Date: 2015-07-19 11:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
That's a nifty concept, the road after.

Date: 2015-07-19 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
It would be interesting if we left a trail of all the places we'd been to, and people could follow it back into our (geographical) pasts.

Date: 2015-07-19 06:09 pm (UTC)

Date: 2015-07-19 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinkroo.livejournal.com
this made me smile :) thanks!

Date: 2015-07-19 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
My pleasure! Your icon made *me* smile.

Date: 2015-07-19 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] duccio.livejournal.com
One goes this way, another goes some other way; all wanting to get somewhere else, every day, all life long. Just like us. Slugs and humans.

Date: 2015-07-19 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Moving. Going. Yup, us and the slugs--not any different, in that respect.

Date: 2015-07-20 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com
Hurry, slug, hurry! It's dangerous out there! (Which I guess makes them even more venturesome explorers.)

Date: 2015-07-20 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
These guys are the Edmund Hillarys of the slug world, maybe. (hmmm, so who are the Tenzing Norgays, I wonder)

Date: 2015-07-21 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com
The snails are the ones actually carrying something on their backs!

(But that - shame! - is just a smartypants reply; of course Tenzing Norgay was a member of the expedition, not a porter.)

Date: 2015-07-20 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com
One of our neighbours told us a story of how, when she was a little girl, someone (her parents) told her the fairies had left her a present in the garden, at the end of a silver thread. She followed the thread in great excitement, but you can guess what she found at the end...

Date: 2015-07-20 09:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
If the parents had been *really* cruel, they would have told her that good children see a fairy and bad children see a slug. As it is, maybe they were just trying to get her excited about slugs? Maybe not the best method :-P

Date: 2015-07-24 12:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pdlloyd.livejournal.com
Even here in the desert, it's sometimes possible to find a snail or a slug after a heavy rainfall. But, I see them only rarely.

Date: 2015-07-24 09:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
I'd never particularly noticed them before, though I'm sure I've seen them.

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