Ahh May – a slower month for reading but I read all available in one series (more to come) and a rather large tomb at the end, so I feel good about it all. There was a lot of rain this month and a lot of distracting myself, so I’ve also played a lot of video games (Disney Dreamlight Valley, if you’re curious) while listening to these. All of these were audio except for This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior, though the latter is included in the Audible Plus library, if you’re curious, and I think Gaitskill’s reading of “Secretary” is excellent (though found her difficult as a reader of other stories in the collection).
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My AMA…
Well, to be honest, I didn’t get a lot of questions. Embarrassing.
Someone on Fetlife asked: “What do you do for work, and do you like it? What would you want to do if money was no issue?”
My Answer: I am an Ops Manager for a tech startup. I do like it, because I get to work company wide and use a lot of different skillsets – I manage HR, payroll, benefits, procurement, monthly financial close, onboarding/offboarding, swag, events, exports & shipping…I like that there are a lot of different parts, it suits my personality. I wouldn’t like having to do the same thing over and over. If money was no issue, I’d get a PhD in Literature with a focus on contemporary post-colonial feminist lit, from diaspora to home. Or something like that 🙂
Another Fetlife question: “Favorite song to be spanked to?”
My Answer: I don’t really like music while I play. Honestly, I don’t listen to music much at all – I enjoy music, but I am picky and tend to listen to a single song or a few, and then turn it off. I get easily overstimulated by auditory input. I enjoy a very relaxing playlist when I want to rest/sleep/etc and I bet I’d enjoy being strapped to it probably. A stress relief situation maybe.
Another from Fetlife: “Favorite punishment you have received?”
My Answer: I mean? I wouldn’t really classify a punishment in terms of…favorites?
My favorite…interactions? scenes? discipline? is when I feel fully seen, exposed, vulnerable, and safe in all of that. Seen and held and cared for. It’s happened a few times and those moments are all cherished as favorite memories. To know someone sees you and your insecurity, your need, and can meet you there at that point, and give you the discipline that feels appropriate for it? Heady as fuck. As for details – forthcoming eventually in blogs, but I write about one such moment here and here and here.
And one last Fetlife Q: “Is there an implement you don’t like because it just does nothing for you?”
My Answer: Implements with holes – aesthetically I don’t like them and in paddles they concern me. In leather it just makes me think the strap has been ruined!
Plastic/delrin/lexan – they’re all sting and that doesn’t do it for me. I prefer really domestic and “real” feeling things the most, and these feel the most BDSM-y or gimmicky.
On NGL I got…one, and there was one I missed from a few months ago.
Q: Do you and your partner have a large temperature gap for your bedroom for sleeping purpose? And if so are you the cold room or the warm room sleeper?
A: No! We both like it pretty cool – we set our bedroom AC to 65-68 in the summer and enjoy having the window open in the cooler months. My husband is more tolerant of heat, in general, though.
Q: Thoughts on American cheese (particularly the deli kind). Does it have it’s place, or always bad?
A: I think it has its place – that is, the deli kind. I don’t like the Kraft kind at all. I also prefer white American to yellow, and grew up on it, so often choose it for Sammies – only choosing cheddar otherwise for them. Though I like other cheeses for other purposes.
There ya go – the nitty gritty you never wanted to know 😛 I will try and compile a few other FL AMA questions into other posts, as well.
-M
So you’re new here!
It’s been a long time since I was a “newbie” in the spanking community. Honestly, because of how I entered, I’m not sure I’d ever have classified myself as such, but everyone must start somewhere! I got online and started looking up spanking things, poking around online communities, engaging in forums, etc when I was…12. I got spanked for the first time by another spanko, when I was 16 – he was close in age to me, we met online, and he was able to travel for a few weeks in the US. My mom loved him. I started actively engaging with the goal of community building around the age of 17 (a few months before my birthday), and made a rather aggressive and bold leap when I finally turned 18. By then, I had friends, accounts, etc. No one who knew my age allowed me to engage until I was 18 of course, but after my birthday I had a lot of support. I didn’t so much lie as omit the information. I was in college, so I often didn’t even need to clarify whether or not I was 18. Not many people come out immediately when they’re 18/19, but it does happen. Those folks tend to have a slightly easier time IMO because of the beautiful arrogance of youth. It’s much harder to be confident or at least cocky, when you have some adult life experience under your belt.
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