My Favorite Things about Tickling
Heey so I’ve been wanting to make one of these posts for a WHILE now, so here it is! I might refine this list later on as I make more posts, but we’ll see🧎♂️✨OH! This list is all SFW by the way!!!
•That little ⚡️jolt⚡️of anticipation , giddiness, and fear that you get when you realize there is no escape riiiight before someone tickles you
•How friend groups band together in little teams to subject each other to playful attacks and how no one ever stays on the same team or plays fair
•people’s fascination with watching another person cruuumble, even if they’re not directly involved in the tickling. Just from observation, even if someone has no involvement or particular inclination for tickling,
•the LAUGHTER. Oh my GOD, TRULY sounds like the sun-shiniest parts of someone’s soul spilling out of them. I love the titters, the little yells, the squeaks, the hysterical witch cackling, the belly laughs, the audible gasps or swallowed giggles, I could go ON.
•I love when people are more ticklish than they think they are, and they seem genuinely taken aback by their own reactions. Like you thought you outgrew this?!? Bb c’mere and 👹laugh👹
•How people get themselves so damn worked up with sheer anticipation that it works against them
~and any (playful!!) movement in their direction results in a giggle and an automatic covering of their torso/other ticklish spot, even if they aren’t touched
•Speaking of which, when someone GIVES AWAY their own worst spots by instinctively covering them
•The words/sentences that turn into giggles. A classic but an absolute essential. Bonus points if said words/sentences is the person in the middle of saying some variation of “I’m not ticklish”
•Someone that was just a tickle victim letting out the most ruthless, smug tickle monster
• Being ganged up on by multiple people bc you were a little shit one too many times
•Poking people before they have the chance to get you back or vice versa, thus creating a ✨war✨
•When the laughter pitches up or otherwise gets noticeably more frantic and hysterical as their more ticklish spots are discovered
•Just the trope of someone crumbling the longer they’re ticked/teased
•Someone’s resolve gradually fraying the longer they’re tickled, and the goofier and more unabashedly giggly they become
•Someone getting a shoulder rub or a back massage and being too twitchy to handle it, and the person giving the massage cATCHING ONTO THIS AND NOT STOPPING
•Resting your hand on someone’s side or pulling their foot towards you and they start to giggle maniacally before you’ve even done anything (ADORABLE)
•The fun and silliness of it all!!! People laughing and letting their composure go is so, so endearing.
