Last weekend was CAPEX, but I’m going to start two weekends
back w/ Atlanta Dominion. That Friday,
Kitten, Cuddles and I drove down to Poet’s in SC where my Owner cooked a
delicious steak dinner and we watched Restoration
– this pretty good period drama w/ an outstanding cast: Robert Downey Jr, David
Thewlis, Sam Neill, Ian McDermott, Meg Ryan, High Grant, Ian Mekellen...
The pug and I spent Saturday w/ Sir and my pack. We called it a pretty early bedtime, right
after dinner – but not before we put Cuddles on the Venus Milking Machine, a
$1000, high-end, hand-free masturbation toy that can be used for edging or
milking scenes.
Sunday, we brought the Venus w/ us to Dominion, Atlanta’s
all-male dungeon party. Naturally, a lot
of guys wanted to try it out. Because of
that, Sir didn’t get an opportunity to beat the fuck out of me, but I did have
fun puping-out in the mosh w/ Cuddles, Rex, Jimmy, and Tetsuo. Hunter joined us and he and I enjoyed doing a
69 on the puppy mats. *wags* (Can't do that at CAPEX!)
It’s going to be strange: I don’t know how often Sir will
make it back to Atlanta for
Dominion from now on. He took a job in
DC and moved up there last weekend.
We’re going to miss him a lot. It
might end up being a little easier on me than the Atlanta
puppies. From me, he’s just moving 6.5
hours away instead of 4.5 hours, so he’s still a weekend trip… and the
Treehouse is now the halfway point for gathering the pack, so hopefully we’ll
have some good pup gatherings at the Treehouse/Charlotte in 2015. Since it was a natural stop-over, he
(traveling w/ the pack) stayed in Charlotte last Saturday and joined us (Poet,
Shdwkitten, me, and Cuddles) at CAPEX.
Before I get to that, let me back-up. Friday night, the four of us went to “Beers
and Gears” as the Charlotte Discovery Place. They do an after-5 adult only event where all
the local breweries come out to share samples, and this one had a steampunk
theme. So the Kitten, Poet and I got on
some of out steampunk-ish garb and enjoyed an evening tasting beers and playing
w/ the science toys.
Saturday, we joined-up w/ my packmates at CAPEX. The presentation was good – some cool rope
stuff for people who aren’t big on rope.
During the intermission, we sprung a little surprise on my Owner: her
official pack vest! She’s been a part of
Loki’s family as long as I have, so we decided that we needed to make her an
official second-Handler in the pack.
Since, Ma’am identifies as a white tiger, we had the most amazing vest
made for her w/ a leather white tiger carved and sewn into the back below our
pup-pride flag. Ma’am almost cried. :)
Sir turned-in early after dinner, but I stayed at the party
for a bit and did some puppy play w/ the omegas. The bad news is that, during the mosh, I
re-bruised my fucking tailbone.
*whimper* This happened once
before, years ago, and it continued to hurt for over a year. I’m really, really, hoping it doesn’t take
that long to heal this time – but for the time being, it hurts really bad any
time I put any weight on my tailbone. :(
At CAPEX, I got asked two excellent puppy play questions. One was the basic: “I’m curious about this;
where can I go to learn more?” My usual
answer to that is to point people towards the NoSafeWord podcast. It’s a great show, and about a third of their
episodes are related to puppy play. The
most recent one is about “the other end of the leash”: Handlers and Handler
headspace… and the polyamours aspect of a pack of puppies (I wouldn’t know
anything about that). Love that
show. NoSafeWord.com
I was also asked an excellent question about: is it cool to
approach a group of pups who are playing and (w/o being invited) interact w/
them, pet them, play fetch, etc. or does that violate their scene space? Great question! My answer was this: If there is a Handler present, ask him or her
if it’s okay to interact w/ the puppies – just like you would w/ real dogs:
“Can I pet your dog?” If there isn’t a
Handler present, then I think, generally speaking, most pups like to interact w/
people and like people interacting w/ them as puppies, so I think most pups
won’t mind if an outsider comes up and, w/ good intent, starts playing w/ them
and petting them. For the most part, we
enjoy that… a lot! And if the pups
aren’t okay w/ that person entering their scene, then they will probably signal
it by just ignoring them or turning away… hopefully no growling. But, if you see some puppies at an event,
feel free to pet them and interact respectfully – the whole idea is that we
want to be treated like pets! (Key word:
respectfully. If you act like an ass and
treat them badly, you may get bitten.)
A good couple of weekends... with ups (congratulations, Ma'am) and downs (we miss our Alpha already). I'll take the bad w/ the good. Woof! Woof!
