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Thursday, August 26, 2010

My Bookend: Floating World 2010

My cute and sexy playmate Raven and I returned from Floating World on Monday. The car ride back was 6 hours of road time plus about 2 hours of stops for food and the like. We had wonderful discussions on the way back.

The Ride Out

We talked about her feelings, what happened and compared them to what she was thinking and expecting on the ride out. The ride out was an anxious one for Raven. Her stomach was flipping, she wanted a degree of security in me and she was anxious she wouldn't fit in or something.

I was really proud of her during Floating World. She was making friends at a huge event. She got into more of her kitty side to the point where a Domme came up with huge smiles and asked if they could have kitty in their pony, puppy & kitty show. She had several play dates with an almost magical impact player, she rocked. Overall the glow in her face after crappy months with an unscheduled surgery was priceless to me.

My one regret of the event with Raven is that my dork level hit. I finished a rope scene and then proceeded to walk the perimeter of the event looking for her doing her impact play scene. Floating World is huge so I did various circles. Well it turned out they did the scene like 20 steps from my scene. My power of observation failed me, I was looking past them always.

My 1st Floating World

Floating world is a huge event. The classes cover many subjects touching on spiritualism, rope, knifes, impact, strap-ons, etc.

When I walked into Floating World last year, it was my first event. I was a complete dork but happy some people were wearing blue jeans. I made some mistakes like walking into the vendor's area before it was open and staying at a hotel in the next town over.

My first class last year had some title I don't remember but the real subject was "How not to be a Creepy Male". It was being taught by a rigger and had about 4 women (who were obvious fans), one guy and myself. I learned some things about attending events related to clothing and volunteering. I also learned some good things about shaving. The rest of the class I have known for years so I just smiled.

Between classes, I went to the vendor's area and started looking at leather clothing. I couldn't break down and buy a leather vest. It wasn't me. On the other hand, I was giddy as I went to Purple Passion (bought their stuff before) and bought my first pair of leather pants. Yay!

The rest of my 1st Floating World was a bit of a struggle. I was definitely intimidated and a bit lost ignoring the clothes and things. I walked into the playspace when it opened the first night and was overwhelmed by impact and fire play. The only rope I saw was done to spread eagle people on furniture, crosses or whatnot.

Where was the rope?

Two nights in a row, I left sometime before midnight. It was fun to meet people but I couldn't shake the feeling I was a misfit at this event. It was a harsh thought.

On the last night, I ended up have a bunch of unspent energy and stayed late. I was surprised. The riggers appeared and showed up doing a set of play across a frame designed and built by Shibari Warrior. It was a blast to see four simultaneous rope sessions in the same frame. I was very happy.

My Bookend

Going back the second time to Floating World was an anniversary of sorts. My divorce officially started a month earlier, I had come out to my father with a phone call during the event and I was very comfortable with the world I had dove head first into. There are moments were it seems bittersweet.

Like night and day, in this event I was rigging instead of watching. It was a blast attending classes, buying kitty ears & tails, buying single tail whips, flirting, teasing, playing and meeting people. I had a very good time.

At last years event, I had asked two different people where they had gotten their boots. The second person had told me about "New Rock" boots and a few months later, I purchased and received mine. There were cool and I wear them frequently. It was wonderful at this event to have them boot blacked. They looked good.

This year I stayed at one of the two main hotels. It was so cool to hang outside, go to the hotel bar or go up an elevator with kinky people. It was so easy to talk and be myself.

The only downside is I have some major catch up at work to do before I head down on Friday to the first DC GRUE which will be held at the Crucible.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Wonderful Friday night

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