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[kaberett]

from The Golden Mole (Katherine Rundell), in re seahorse mating:

like a more intimate version of using a post box

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[lokifan]

lolllll

[hairyears]

This invites the use of inappropriate metaphors for differing mating strategies: wind pollination being the equivalent of junk mail, ologolectic bees being private couriers, duck penises being a special delivery service that jams a chainsaw in the letterbox, and the conceptual analogues of parcel post best left unexamined.