#random kinking

[dommesticpet]

Temporary Insanity

Who’s ready for some Saturday morning fun??

I’ve been mildly obsessed with collectible pins lately. I’ve amassed a few over the years from gift, work, samples from people, and goodness knows where else.   There’s a very on-topic reason for this.  (Maybe you know what it is.)   Since Dommestic and I had gone to a couple of kinky class things in dungeons, we sometimes get a look at people’s kink apparel from a slight distance - maybe it’s an AGOL patch (not to be confused with the binary star Algol), or a pin of some sort, or a button indicating one’s orientation. People at some kinky organizations wear these black leather vests with things on them that tell you something about the person.  It’s kind of like a letter on a jacket, or NASCAR.  Specific ones aren’t really easy to find online, even ones I’ve seen offered for sale.  It’s like a secret society, and that’s an inspiring thing to see in this era of everything being online.

But we’re not going to talk about that.  We’re going to talk about the pins you can buy.  Not the secret ones made by secret people in secret.

If you’ve been to a fan or comic convention, or a record or comic shop, or Etsy, you’ve no doubt been treated to a display of pins or buttons.  Many of these are licensed collectibles, but even more are not.  Fan-made items are a tradition dating back thousands of years, like slash, and often include things owners of the characters don’t want to see - like slash.  The runs are often quite low, and if you see it once that might be the final time you have a chance to buy it.

I was fairly familiar with a number of offerings from old TV and movies, but I didn’t take much time to look in modern interpretations of this time-honored tradition.  Until now.  And I saw some interesting if not entirely unexpected things.

The Magic Wand needs little to no introduction.  It is, of course, a back massager and you can get this to tell the world you have a bad back and like Harry Potter. There’s nothing else to see here.  It’s for your back. Right?

I guess you use this to cast out the pleasure from your body.   Mash-ups and fan-art are a big part of this world.  This is sold on Geeky and Kinky, which has a number of cartoon-related items.  But only 90s kids will get...

Mistress Daria.  (Ask your grandparents.)   It doesn’t reflect her specific appearance on the show - although hypnosis did come up once and I remember this sort of thing because of course I would remember this kind of thing - and this is a common motif on a lot of these fan pins.  It’s fan art you can wear, but you probably won’t, because the dress code at school or work probably isn’t into that.  Daria was a great show and was one of the times MTV played Buffalo Daughter.  Have you ever heard Buffalo Daughter?  Man, I love Buffalo Daughter.

Master Rick - well, you have to be hip to the animations of today.  I have not yet seen Rick and Morty, but from what I’ve read, this could potentially be something actually on the show.

Danger-Prone Daphne probably could be as well.  She is from the same company, but you’ll see numerous kinky Daphnes, and Velmas, and the rest around the web.   The Scooby Doo family of cartoons was basically a kink factory, with Fred’s fascinations with traps and ropes being on the forefront of the very good Mystery Inc. series.  Which also has great redesigns of the cast.  And guinea pigs.  And Harlan Ellison.  And Jeffrey Combs.  Velma is played by Natalie from The Facts of Life. Watch it.

Another seller, Kinky Dink, has a Daphne Bound to Please pin for sale in the UK.  It’s one of many, but to date there appears to be no Ghost Clown Daphne pin.  The same seller also had a number of items featuring characters from this show, and Frozen, and other stuff.  I wonder if Iwao Takamoto saw this coming when he designed the characters.   This is a link you might want to look at when nobody else can see your screen, as there’s another Daphne, and another Velma, and a lot of others.

BUNCEandBEAN has a Ghost Clown.  From the images, it looks like it glows in the dark.   

This BDSM Love pin is pretty straightforward.  It’s hard to find a lot of pins that are kink-specific so far, but they’re out there.   I saw some interesting ones on Etsy, some of which are very kinky and some of which could be for someone who just wanted to wear a rainbow kitty cat paw with toe beans.

I Heart Shibari was an interesting Etsy find - it also has a crop, because who doesn’t want to be on top? That’s why we’re moving to Montana soon.   To be a Shibari Pin tycoon.  (Yes I am.)

As I’m not sure if the person wants me to name drop her, someone in a chat thing pointed me out to this Kickstarter for Enamel Pins from Cunning Linguist Co., now over but you can pre-order them.  The stretch goals were also of interest.   These are also now on Etsy.

These are too, from someone named WoodRocket.

They’ve got everything on Etsy these days.

See? Everything.  That’s the Rainbow LGBT Feline Furry Pride Pin - and there are other versions too.

And I do mean everything.  (Shoot, that is pretty cool.)

I used to get old auction catalogs in the mail.  They’d have old buttons and pins for I Like Ike, or Playboy, or Planet of the Apes.  It was fun to see - this kind of thing isn’t really new, but the Internet has done wonders to make things of this nature visible and available to you.   I’m always itching to know what’s hidden - like is there some field guide to BDSM/Leather pins and buttons?  What were the kinky pins in the 1970s like?  Why is DommesticPet bringing up pins?

I’m working on it.   But you have a nice Saturday.

[dommesticpet]

The Briar And The Rose

As I write this the new year has only just arrived.   I’m hearing less in the way of improvised explosions this year, as I generally look out my front door and am greeted by people with large metal cans spewing forth sparks.  I assume this is done to rub canned sparks in the faces of previous generations who had to ration sparks for the war effort.

Echo was up and awake longer than ever before - she usually crashes long before the ball drops, or the chip is dipped, or the hounds are released, or whatever the tradition was that year.   We celebrated by watching an episode of Reading Rainbow where LeVar Burton showed off the sets if Star Trek: The Next Generation because it was on the season 2 collection through which we are currently suffering.   Earlier in the night, it was “The Outrageous Okana” (an episode best described as self-insert fan fiction at its worst, with Joe Piscopo, but I repeat myself), and “Loud as a Whisper,” where any commentary I would make would pale to what these guys did.

But, that’s not why you’re here.  No, you’re here to read about cookies, or failing that the sinful activities of the boudoir.  I ate all the cookies, and I was wrapped up in plastic pallet wrap, strapped in the Nova Pro, dropped, and then visited by the Magic Wand (with router speed control attachment, sold separately) until I was a moaning, screaming mess.  The setting on the Nova Pro 100 was a new one to me, with tons of lights and barely any sounds.   Usually these things go the other way - I don’t really register the lights, but the audio is present and very difficult to remember.  In this case there were low sounds but they were difficult to make out.  The light pattern was similarly difficult to recall, but there were a few points where it felt like more than one color was blinking in rapid succession, disorienting me while Echo said... something.  I don’t remember what.  The results were enjoyable and I was more than a little wobbly afterward.  She had to drive us to dinner, and I need to find a good way to make this kind of activity up to her.  I don’t think any level of confection would constitute an equivalent, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try.

I’m not saying bondage is necessary for a good time with hypnosis, but if you’re going to bind someone, it’s certainly worthwhile to go all the way.

[dommesticpet]

Too Much Paranoias

On Monday night, an opportunity presented itself to try out a bit of weirdness at a dungeon jam-packed of demos of things you have to order online or plunder a Home Depot to obtain yourself.  

Strange metal pipe locks.   You can encase a lady’s feet in styrofoam blocks.

Wrapping a man’s arm together in a cast and bolting it to the wall.  By comparison, a demo with zipties isn’t too kinky at all.

Encasing a young woman in pantyhose, from her toes to her head.  And, of course, a shop vac and two sheets of plastic make for a decent vac bed.

The overall demo seemed to be of the evil head of science - points to those who catch the reference and/or care - because you saw things like seeing someone’s feet and legs encased in a block of expanding foam, from which a saw was required to escape.   What I found to be the most interesting - and obviously, the thing that was the most popular - was a vac bed made of pegboard and sheets of plastic.  I got in and it tried sucking my arm - in a long-sleeve shirt - through one of the holes.  There’s a small mark.   It looks considerably less sexy than the latex models, but it’s arguably more durable and cheaper to fix when the ripping inevitably happens.

Also, it’s very cold.   It doesn’t take much for me to complain about it being cold.  If it’s not hot, it’s cold - that’s how cold works.

Absolutely no hypnosis.  Sorry.