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What's the thing you find most annoying about the fetish/BDSM scenes?
Bloody pushy submissives! In my personal experience they have been exclusively male, tho' I can readily imagine that there are females of the pushy sub species out there. To be fair, the great majority of male subs accept refusal in good part. Actually, the folk I'm talking of aren't proper subs or they wouldn't be pushy; what they are is desperate bottoms.
If you're not very fetishy, it might be a bit difficult to understand the concept of a pushy submissive, or to get what the problem is. Here's an anecdote to fill you in:
One time I was up the Torture Garden with Lurid, and I met this guy. He was into getting me to come and play with him. I wasn't in the mood and I didn't much care for his manners, so I politely turned him down. A couple of weeks later I was in a pub in Camden, getting beered up for the Electric Ballroom as you do, when Pushy Sub hoved into view. He said hi, and I was freindly enough to him. I did notice that all the time he was in the pub he did that thing of Ignoring The Boyfriend, which set off a few alarm bells. However, I assumed that since we were outside of the fetish scene he'd behave himself (Duhhhhrrr).
So I get into the Lecky Ballroom. Lurid has wandered off to chat to someone, and Pushy is on my heels again. I'm heading out onto the Goth floor to dance, and Pushy follows.
Next thing I know, this prat is on his hands and knees in the middle of the sodding dancefloor, with his lips stuck to my boots like an especially tenacious variety of limpet. Everyone's staring. And I'm like "What the fuck are you doing?" and trying to pry him up with my free toe, which just makes him snog harder. Eventually I manage to disentangle myself, and scurry off, blushing, to find my mates. I avoid Pushy for the rest of the evening.
Yeah, if me and Pushy had been in a fetish club I might well have agreed to do a scene like that. But there's a time and a place, y'know? If a guy carries on like that in a non-fetish environment, it's not sexy or fun, it's annoying, embarrassing-- not just for me, but for all the nonfetish people that might witness what's going down and be confused or offended by it. There's an assumption amongst men like Pushy that if you're dressed like their fantasy Domme, you should be eternally available for them to (quote) submit (unquote) to. In other words "If you're dressed like that, you're asking for it." Sound familiar?
What's the last electronics project you've completed?
A Wein bridge oscillator that had to produce a certain frequency but you were only allowed to use capacitors from a specific range of values and there were some other restrictions which made the whole thing quite complicated and very few of you speak Nerd so I'll just be shutting up now.
Does a successful electronics design/completed project give you the same buzz as a completed short story?
No. Buzztastic as the leccy buzz may be, it's not even close to the writey buzz. And it never will be, which is why I'm trying to build a career in writing.
Mordant- this much-vaunted goth revival. Is there anything in it, or does the quality of music just get progressively worse each time? Is there any connection at all anymore between (say) Wumpscut and (say) Bauhaus?
Mmm, yummy instant Can'o'Worms. Look, this whole "Gothic Revival" thing rears its ugglesome head every five years or so. And every time it's a load of bollocks, because to get attention from the kind of misty-eyed nostalgiods that write this stuff up you mostly have to sound like a watered-down version of the Sisters or Bauhaus or Rose of Avalanche or whatever-- usually lame early 90's Sisters. Ther is non-bobbins Goth around, but you have to dig for it. I can't say that Wumpscut have impressed me much so far. Maybe I haven't given them enough of a chance.
Mordant: Why are you moving to Ireland?
Because Lurid Archive is moving there and I live with Lurid. And it looks like a laugh.
What was your electronic degrees so hideous?
Well, it started to suck in the first year when we found out that our department was closing down and taking all the electroncs and engineering courses with it. Then it got worse.
There was a kind of pall over the whole department; people were leaving to find new jobs, or taking early retirement or whatever. Some of the key lecturers were only in one day a week, which meant that missing class could put you behind very quickly-- which, given my heath problems, was bad news.
The biggest problem for me was that the lab techs were too busy watching the footie or chatting up women or getting stoned to give any time to the students. The lecturer who oversaw our practical lab-based work was getting on in years and had become too long-sighted to read componant values; he used to used to strip down perfectly functional circuits that had taken three hours to construct, only to discover that the circuit had been fine all along and the reason we'd been getting crappy readings was because the lab techs hadn't replaced the fuses in the multimeters. All this meant that lab work (always the most time-consuming part of the course) took much longer that it needed to.
Then when we started our final year and discovered that they'd neglected to teach us more than a year's worth of vital and very scary maths. Extra tuition was arranged, but it was too little, too late. I was doing quite well with my fina-year project (the laser harp), but there again I ran into an unexpected snag. We had to order the componants we'd need through the lab technicians. Despite my repeatedly putting in my order quite a way ahead of time I either got the wrong componants back or no componants at all because the guy doing the ordering was an inveterate stoner.
Eventually I just got completely fucked off with it all and quit before they could flunk me. Open University, here I come.
What do you think of the Magick forum?
It rocks. The Magick is most definately the best forum of its kind on the net, and I'm glad to be a part of it. However, it could do with being less... I dunno... insular? Also I'd like to see the Magick become more open to concepts which are not seen as part of accepted magickal tradition, such as feminism (which seems to meet with a rather surprising amount of hostility from some quatrers, given the lberal flavour of Barbelith as a whole).
and What were you doing to Google to find the hideous ugly monkey toys in that previous thread?
I found Orange Monkey on B3ta. I dread to imagine what they were doing to Google.
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