Hi,
I have two parts to this "ask".
Part 1: Happy birthday!!!!
I saw your "stream of conscientious " birthday posting after scrolling through your more recent postings. So i just wanted to acknowledge this special day ... as an "ask" to what you asked (😁🙄).
From what I read, you had a nice quiet celebration with a lot of friendly support. Nice! I happy to hear this.
I really loved your "stream of consciousness" writing. It felt so spontaneous, insightful, honest, etc.
I'm so happy to hear you have a partner. 💕🧡💜 I hope this will be a long lasting joyful experience for both of you. Finding someone who can accept and support our kink is so precious ...I'm jealous (sorry).
I also hear your concerns about the indefinite future concerning many important things in your life. It does bring uncertainty, doesn't it.
Of course, this uncertainty is an important part of our "adulting" life. It provides challenge...opportunities to learn from mistakes, finding grattitude, etc. Of course, our ABDL "parachute" can bring temporary safety from life's monsters. But could you imagine being diapered and confined to a crib indefinitely? (rhetorical...slipped into stream of conscientious 😁)
Again, Happy Birthday Little One! 🤗💕🎂🍼
(no need to reply to this part)
Part 2:
Yesterday you posted several photos you took, and asked me to put questions I had into an "ask".
I used to be in photography (long ago), so I'm not interested in the technical side. I just wanted to know a little about the structures & places in the pictures. I've never been to Europe, so I'm curious.
I'm interested in the names and places. The archecture is AMAZING! Thanks.🤗
Sorry for the loooong "ask".
Sorry that I asked you to put it into an "Ask". The reason that I did this, is because tumblr does not have extensive functionalities to respond to messages. E.g. it doesn't have the ability to add pictures to a reply, even though it'd be beneficial to add context and more nuance! Also, I feel that others could also be interested in 'reading along', via a bona fide blog message. So I'm thankful that you went out of your way to formulate your thoughts into an Ask ^^
I prefer quiet celebrations, when it's about my own birthday. I kinda flip/flop between not considering myself worthy to hold a celebration over, and just a general anhedonia regarding myself. I've alluded to it a couple of times before in previous messages, and I'm working on myself to get answers and a solution to my self-worth and self-image. I kinda wish that I could flip a switch and I'd be normal, but in reality this takes a little bit longer and there's a lot of switches to flip. I'm safe, and moving in the right direction.
Well my writing feels spontaneous/insightful/honest cus it is 😂. I'm a real person with real thoughts and real emotions. I don't generate or edit my blog messages with LLMs, hence the frequent language and grammar errors especially in languages that aren't native to me, i.e. English/German/French. Also, as English is mostly a working-language for me, as in a language I use at work, I think that I formulate a lot of stuff unnaturally and perhaps too professionally. There's been a few times where people told me that I speak English as if I'm a book xD. What they mean by that, probably, is that I let written English be an overly represented aspect of my spoken English.
Regarding the partner... Well. Even if they didn't accept my littlespace, I think that I'd be super happy. It'd definitely be awkward if they didn't accept it, cus I'd still do it by myself, but this is a theoretical pov cus they do accept it. I'm just saying this to not make it seem like the littlespace acceptance is the only reason why I like them.
Well I understand that uncertainties are an inherent aspect of adult life (and life in general, although parents assure certainty for their children in most situations). But I think my underlying concern isn't per se about those uncertainties, it's about the fact that my risk-mitigation strategies are faltering. Most people have backups upon backups when it comes to most of their life domains, even to unethical standards as in how some people have a "next partner" lined up for when their relationship isn't working out. ABDL doesn't bring me any feelings of safety from my actual concerns in life (continuity of my housing, job, health, satisfaction in life, projects and personal ambitions). But I guess that's not what you were talking about. I don't use ABDL as a coping strategy. ABDL, to me, is for fun and for my relaxation, although I couldn't abandon it for good and can't withhold myself from it for too long without feeling bad and starting to dream about it at night. Then again, for me littlespace is much more than diapers, and I don't think that I've slept without plushies or cute PJs for more than a handful of days in the past decade lol. Whether you and others truly consider those attributes as core elements of littlespace is another discussion ^^
As for your Question whether I can imagine being in a crib indefinitely.. Definitely not. No way.
You asked me to label some of the architecture that I showed in a previous post... Sure ^^
This is a side-entrance to the Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, a catholic church in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. I don't think that I've actually been inside of this church before, though I'll have plenty of opportunities to do so in the future ^^.
This is the interior of the Rådhus (townhall) of Oslo. I kinda wished I had taken a doll with me xD, but I still had a keychain with me to put on the National Assembly stage.
This is the entrance hall of the Palais de justice de Bruxelles, the palace of Justice in Brussels. That part is currently closed for renovations, but the 2 times I had access to it, it was some of the most beautifully preserved interior architecture I had ever seen.
This is the Grote Markt (Grand Place / Market) in Antwerp. Also very very photogenic with the right framing and editing...
These are some of the views from inside the central train station of Antwerp, by far my most favorite train station and one of the most beautiful train stations in the world. I should visit there again in Spring to take more photos.
This is one of the (exterior) walkways of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. None of the people in these pictures know that I'm coucherequin 😂.
As for the 'technical' aspects of these photos, well, I don't think it really matters, as you said. The only thing that matters is the end-result. Though, cus you mentioned that you're into photography, or used to be into photography, I can still briefly mention some stuff. A lot of my best pictures are taken with a simple 50mm f/1.8 lens, and careful framing. I also have a 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kitlens but I generally find it too soft and with too low contrast to be useful. It's an easy beginners lens but it's not very satisfying in the end. I've borrowed my friend's Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens a few times and I really enjoyed using it and the pictures that it can give. I've borrowed a friend's 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 lens once and although you cannot take bad pictures with this lens, it is extremely difficult to take photos with cus of how zoomed in 200mm is. But the point of this lens is of course not to take landscape and architecture photos; it's a telephoto lens more geared towards journalists, (wild) animal photography, and sports. Aside from how zoomed in it is, you can only really use it outdoors in Spring/Summer cus of how dark f/5.6 is in combination with the 1/1000th sec exposure needed to avoid motion blur. It was a LOT of fun at the zoo, but my arms are too weak (xD) for its weight. I recently bought the Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 zoomlens and I've been really happy with it. It's another one of those lenses where it's impossible to take a bad picture. 70mm is unfortunately too zoomed in to take baby pictures of myself in my current home. For coucherequin I'll continue to use a 50.
Thank you for the Ask. I hope that you have a good day.❤️