So true, so true. Cowley, Elizabeth, the raccoons, the weather, the butterflies, the ice cream, the pools. THE ENTIRE WORLD WANTS YOU TO BOINK SO YOU BETTER GET TO IT.

I've been musing about my relationship to the Yenta trope--my assumed relation, and what might be my actual relation. I pondered about it in the thread above you a bit. But it'll bear more thinking. Hmmmmm.

There should totally be an Idyll challenge. *ponders*

I for one would read the hellll-o out of that. And someday I want to write one! I mean, I love the trope so much, why not try actually writing-what-I-love, seeing if I can hit my id target?

Was there ever a Desert Island challenge, or am I just imagining it? A desert-island type scenario would fit into the Idyll category, seems to me. Although a purer idyll would make sure the desert island was not lacking food, water, shelter, and other comforts...skew too far toward the 'desert' part, with the strandedness meaning suffering, and it becomes hurt/comfort, after all.

I think that some of the Shacks took a touch of the Idyll in their approach, now that I consider it. Isolation, plus stocked-necessities, plus comfort, plus increasing intimacy. Although no one had the swimming (pool or beach or both), which, while not mandatory, seems to me to be a big feature of the classic, Platonic, ur-idyll story.