i have always seen a black hanky described (online) as “heavy sm” but I have no frame of reference for what counts as heavy vs light
AFAIK there is no way to flag “sm of unspecified intensity”?
hrm okay I’m googling and it seems maybe that is also black
the other common ones are so straightforward? fisting, piss, piercing, bondage, anything goes, daddy/boy, oral, fucking, scat i suppose although i can’t say i’ve ever actually seen anyone flag it
bought a ticket to a bdsm party next saturday but my daddy won’t be here so idk what my vision is. will likely: stress myself out a bunch, go be a wallflower, come home and feel stupid for not talking to anyone
feeling a bit … whatever @ this relationship, will bring it up to him in a bit but i feel like for ages i’ve been like: “i would very much like to do higher intensity things than we’ve been doing / to stretch our limits more” and every time i say that he’ll say he wants the same thing but then in practice it never happens. i think i need him to either be like “no ur right, I’m mostly a warm & fuzzy daddy who likes a bit of flogging & bondage now and then” (in which case, i need to more seriously work on finding additional partners, i suppose, to try and experience the things i’d like to experience) OR for him to actually do the thing, but as it stands the inconsistency of it all is starting to grate!
also feeling annoyed at how glued to his phone he is these days. even when we’re hanging out? strikes me as rude tbh!
but we also just haven’t had much time together lately bc he’s been like out of town every weekend + teaching a summer program two days a week + i was in india for a bit etc etc. he is visiting his straight cousin in the north bay Yet Again both this weekend and next but maybe things will sort themselves out after that
i did go and see his students’ showcases yesterday & the day before. weird experiences.
important note is that this theater is out in a fairly ritzy suburb and not in san francisco or oakland
one day was their show (they did Our Town) and the other was a showcase of like little scenes, monologues, etc
still trying to decide what I think about Our Town as a play. i was okay with it during the first act - thought some of the conventions it set up were fun - but by the third felt like it had gotten a bit preachy and gone off the rails (ok girl we get it, u want us to ~appreciate life~). but it got under my skin enough that maybe there’s something useful there? (like, sometimes being annoyed by something is a good thing, in my experience - is this the productive type of annoyance? what is it that i’m bristling at, is the question)
anyway, between that and the scene showcase …
ok so for the younger kids in the showcase (12-13ish) they had them do a little intro exercise where they were like “my hero is XXX, my goals are XXX” etc
the NUMBER of kids who said “my parents/family are my hero”???? what the actual fuck lmfao
for the older kids in the showcase (16-17ish) they did a docutheater exercise where they interviewed people in their lives and stitched their responses into interconnected monologues, questions were very apolitical lol, what do you think happens when we die, who’s someone who has influenced you, what do you want your legacy to be, what does art mean to you
once again. the number of kids who interviewed/performed their parents, and the number of interview subjects who talked about how their parents influenced/inspired them…
all of that combined with our town just felt like such a twilight zone experience?
WHO are all these teenagers who are like “yeah i really get along with and appreciate my parents” lmfao? how is that not anathema to the core teenage experience
oh i guess the our town connection i’m making is the like teenage characters in that play also just being so. completely chill with their parents/families? and so just unbothered by existing within the status quo constraints of their lives. “No I’d rather stay in the middle of fucking nowhere than get out to go to college actually”
like just genuinely felt very surreal
and my daddy re: the students was like. well, it’s wealthy suburbia. but like. that is All The More Reason to hate your life and want to get out and like bristle at the expectations of normalcy placed upon you?????
are there contexts in which this is standard because i truly thought feeling put upon by one’s parents (well i mean: by the actual, exhausting power adults wield over your life as a young person!) and Itching To Get The Fuck Away (if not leaving your hometown geographically, at least age-wise, being hungry to have adult autonomy) was like a cross-class / cross-geographic American Teenage Experience