"Hmmm? Appreciating the hair?"
"Appreciating the pain, actually."
"Are you enjoying your pain?"
"Yes. And that's a good thing, because if I didn't, I'd have to be cranky. It hurts rather a lot. ... I'm not a masochist. Really."
"You just play one on TV."

"Normally when they say you play your woman like a musical instrument, they don't mean the drum."

"Nobody keeps keas as pets. They don't know what they're missing!"
"Burrowing war parrots."
"Burrowing war parrots!"

Went to the Summer Flea with arawen and whispercricket today. My second public outing in a state of formal collarage (the first being dinner last night).

Puttered about for the shopping. Looked at things. Poked at things. Was hit with a few things. Successfully managed to meet maymay and Eileen for a couple of wave-bys. Found flogger that is functional for the ( Read more... )

I saw my first meteor tonight, the first time I've been completely confident that the streak of light across the curved belly of the lady of the heavens was a piece of falling sky ( Read more... )

Spent most the day in a state of vague mopiness, largely associated with entertaining bits of existential reality contemplation and aggravated by not being able to usefully talk about it with relevant party ( Read more... )

... I'm working through one of the boxes of books that Dad gave me this winterseason, and the handful I just pulled out contained ....

... Tarnsman of Gor.

Well, I suppose I should read at least one of them.

(Update: teinedreugan, upon coming home, informs me that that's something he got and put in the box so it'd get catalogued. Not quite so weirded out ( Read more... )

Whitney unidles, laughs and laughs and laughs.
Otto [blacktarrant] ?
Brooks [brooksmoses] peers quizzically. Share?
Otto says, "Or are you laughing at the 'g2g, my mom's cancer is on fire'?"
Otto says, "I sporfled when I saw that someone had used 'BRB Tornado'."
Whitney says, "So [teinedreugan] came downstairs and petulantly explained that he was *not* going to sleep in the wet spot ( Read more... )

I need to thrash at this concept until I get it into an essay, I think, but I'm making a note of the seeds of it so I don't lose it entire.

oneironaut and I were talking about power exchange relationships and related stuff, and responses to the possession of power, power and ma'at. Or what arawen sometimes refers to as "If I don't take good care of my toys, I ( Read more... )

Short public review of Raven Kaldera's Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path:

Wow, that was so much more useful than Carnal Alchemy.

( Longer public review )

So I've been having some disjointed conversations:

Kiya: You know, I was going to say that the two conversations I'm having at the moment on IRC are sort of surreal in juxtaposition, but I'm suspecting that Sox fandom is having one of its strongly-resembles-a-BDSM-relationship periods lately.
kviri: