So, those of you reading rose's blog closely might remember that I'm presently engaged in the process of teaching her to drive. This has been an interesting experience, but in general it's been very fun watching her develop in both skill and confidence as a driver, just like it's been wonderful watching her grow into the wonderful slave that she is.
So last night, we're taking a spin into the city, which we've started doing recently. Things are going very well, which for Melbourne on a saturday night is pretty rare, until we hit clarendon street. On the bridge coming up to crown casino, a hotted up black sports ute, adorned with racist stickers pulls up behind us. For the next ten minutes, it's tailgating us, and despite the almost gridlock traffic, constantly and aggressively honking its horn for no discernable reason.
Obviously, for an inexperienced driver (or even a lot of experienced ones) this is a pretty upsetting experience. I'd like to add that Rose was driving faultlessly in heavy traffic, much better than most of the people around her. This seems to have been an attack that's come purely out of spite.]
But I've never been prouder of the way my slave handled the situation. She didn't freak out. She didn't stop or try to escape or become reckless. She was scared and upset, but she stayed in control of herself and the car until she was able to find a safe spot and pull over. Then, after a few minutes and some cuddles to calm her nerve, she drove us safely and skillfully back home. She faced the problem calmly and cleverly, looked for help when she needed it, and overcame it. Words can't really express how proud I am of my brave little slavedoll.
I think there's something in this for all of us, Dom or sub. Problems will always come, whether you cause them or not. Stay calm and hang tough until you've navigated your way out of them. Never be afraid to lean on those who you trust, and who care for you, because they'll always be there when you need them. Then, when you're ready, get back on the horse and take control of the situation again. It's a good way to go about things.
(P.S. Dear other driver,
Please die in a fire. Failing this, please seek professional help for whatever trauma it is that has turned you into a hateful dickhead. If nothing else, look into penis-enhancing proceedures to try and make your self-loathing a little easier to contain.
Yours,
WyldWyl.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Is there anything that you enjoy, that you would have never thought you would like prior to starting your journey into kink?
Honestly, though I wanted to try it, I never thought I'd enjoy being a master as much as I do. While I knew that I loved topping, I honestly thought that I'd never really be any good at, let alone happy in a 24/7 relationship. Now I can't imagine life without it. I have a wonderful slave, who makes it incredibly fulfilling
But, now I re-read the question, it actually asks about what I thought before I got into kink. Hmm. I never thought I'd enjoy some of the harder pain play I enjoy now, the caning, strapping, tawsing. The humiliation play as well, particularly the name calling. They're all things I've had to get over some issues with from pre-kink guilt, but that I now love.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Hello Wyl Sir. How do you know how far to push a submissive's limits? Are there any limits you do not push? Thankyou
This is a tricky one. Knowing a subs limits is difficult at first, it really comes from knowing them for a long time, starting slow and building up trust and intensity over time. The first thing should be to ask them, very early on, what they think their limits are. Get them to write you a list, broken down into things they know they like, things they know they don't like, things they're willing to try, and things they never want to do. This'll give you a good starting point.
After the first few scenes, and once the relationship has built up and some mutual trust been established, have them re-evaluate their list, see where things have changed and if they're now willing to do/try more things. You'll usually find that as the sub gets more comfortable with you and gets to know you better, they'll start to be more comfortable with whatever activites you have an urge for.
In scene, never be afraid to ask your sub where they are. I find the traffic lights system to be really useful (green= I'm fine, and happy to go harder. Yellow= I'm fine, but please no harder/faster/more intense yet. Red= I need to stop right now), because it lets the sub give a good idea of their present state without giving them a feeling of being unduly in control.
As long as the sub was comfortable with it, and I had the necessary skills, there aren't really limits I wouldn't push. It does pay to be careful, though- while rose, for example, has very few limits now, she had several when we started, and I was always careful not to push them until she was absolutely ready. There are several I wouldn't rush to pushing with a new sub, and there are some areas of play that don't interest me which I'd be unlikely to explore.
The final component is to remember it's ok for doms to set limits of their own. If you don't feel completely comfortable with an activity and completely confident with your skills, then you shouldn't do it, and don't let yourself feel pressured into feeling you have to do it.
Friday, September 10, 2010
What's your favourite thing about being a Master?
Not to be flippant, pet, but you are. Seeing you happy, watching you grow, nurturing you, just being around you is the most fulfilling thing in my life, both as a man and as a Master.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Sex, play and being a grown-up
It's not really any secret that we of kinky persuasions are a frequent figure of fun. Whether it's a gentle spoofing or more serious and damaging representations, tv, movies, books and music all have their moments where they use kinky people or activities for humour. Some of us get ourselves twisted into knots about it, and sometimes that's justified. There are some representations of us that are misleading, dangerous or downright nasty.
Still, for a lot of them, I can see where they're coming from. Let's face it, my kinky compadres, that to most outsiders, a lot of what we do would seem silly or even ridiculous. I remember, once when I was new to the kink world, there was an article in my university's student newspaper that featured the phrase "S&M is a barbaric and philistine practice, socially retarded people 'torturing' each other with pretend whips". I was so angry about that article that nearly three years later I still recall it word-for-word. I even wrote a furious letter to the editor (those of you who are regular readers will know what my letters to the editor can be like), although it never got published. Now, with a more mature and reasonable outlook, I recognise that statement as being what it is, misinformed, misleading, irritating, but hardly something to get worked up over. I had commited what I think is the key mistake we make as a community; I took myself and my kinks too seriously.
I want you to think about it. Next time you're at a play party, watching someone scene. Next time you're watching a decent quality kink video. Next time you're reading a kinky book, put down your experienced, insider eyes and look at it from the outside. On the surface, without an understanding of what's really going on, it'll probably look just a little silly to you. It's important to clarify here, just in case anyone has the wrong end of the stick, that I'm not saying BDSM IS silly. Just that to an observer who doesn't understand what is going on, we can appear that way.
Even as an experienced, practicing kinkster, there's probably a fetish or activity that makes you giggle. For me it's pony play; I respect that other people respond to it, but to me it just is adorable and slightly humorous. It brings out the laughter in me, just as surely as caning brings out the hard-on.
There's a reason for it.
As a society, we have some weird notions. Sex is dirty and shameful. Punishing drug users is the right way to stop drugs damaging our society. Kanye West is a talented artist, that sort of thing. One of the weirdest though, is this idea that play and fantasy are not things that are suitable for adults; that these things are undignified pursuits that should be left for children. Accordingly, as sex is not something for children, it must be a serious and dignified business to be approached with the same seriousness as death and taxes. This is why we look silly to the outsider; because we understand that sex, espeically the way we like to do it, is just playtime for grown-ups. (As an aside, I think this is why geeky people like myself are disproportionately attracted to kink; as what is called a geek is often just a grownup who has held onto the value of fantasy and play)
A good case study in this is ageplay, something my pet and I enjoy from time to time. Just like the fantasy and role-playing of children expresses their imagination and also their own needs and desires, and make their first steps at understanding the grown up world through imitation (go on and examine your own childhood games if you don't believe me. It's ok. I'll wait.), so sexual roleplay enables us to get to grips with different parts of our sexuality and fulfil different needs. Looked at with your serious face on, two grown-ups playing Daddy and daughter, the one acting out a masculine stereotype, the other colouring and playing with dolls, looks very strange. Perhaps even strange enough to make the observer uncomfortable, and we all know that discomfort is the basis of a lot of humour. Similarly, the way we play dress-up in our leathers, our latex, even
our titles and interactions, to an outside observer may seem uncomfortably childish. The sexualisation of what we're doing, on top of that, may be doubly disquieting.
Roleplay. Ageplay. Sensation Play. Electrical Play. Wax play. Ponyplay. It's right there in the names we give our kinks and our turn ons. Play. When I'm outside of my domspace, do I feel like I'm an infallible, unstoppable, virile sexual god, worthy only of worship and the adulation of my slave? No. Frankly, some of the things I've done and said when I'm being Master Wyl make me cringe a little when I'm being grown-up, well adjusted William. But that doesn't make what we do in play any less special or meaningful.
I guess what I'm trying to get at here is don't be afraid of that side of things. Even if you're completely vanilla, sex is a whole lot more fun if you don't take it or yourself too seriously. So have some play, people, and make it fun for yourselves- life and sex are both a lot more enjoyable if you know how to laugh at yourselves.
Still, for a lot of them, I can see where they're coming from. Let's face it, my kinky compadres, that to most outsiders, a lot of what we do would seem silly or even ridiculous. I remember, once when I was new to the kink world, there was an article in my university's student newspaper that featured the phrase "S&M is a barbaric and philistine practice, socially retarded people 'torturing' each other with pretend whips". I was so angry about that article that nearly three years later I still recall it word-for-word. I even wrote a furious letter to the editor (those of you who are regular readers will know what my letters to the editor can be like), although it never got published. Now, with a more mature and reasonable outlook, I recognise that statement as being what it is, misinformed, misleading, irritating, but hardly something to get worked up over. I had commited what I think is the key mistake we make as a community; I took myself and my kinks too seriously.
I want you to think about it. Next time you're at a play party, watching someone scene. Next time you're watching a decent quality kink video. Next time you're reading a kinky book, put down your experienced, insider eyes and look at it from the outside. On the surface, without an understanding of what's really going on, it'll probably look just a little silly to you. It's important to clarify here, just in case anyone has the wrong end of the stick, that I'm not saying BDSM IS silly. Just that to an observer who doesn't understand what is going on, we can appear that way.
Even as an experienced, practicing kinkster, there's probably a fetish or activity that makes you giggle. For me it's pony play; I respect that other people respond to it, but to me it just is adorable and slightly humorous. It brings out the laughter in me, just as surely as caning brings out the hard-on.
There's a reason for it.
As a society, we have some weird notions. Sex is dirty and shameful. Punishing drug users is the right way to stop drugs damaging our society. Kanye West is a talented artist, that sort of thing. One of the weirdest though, is this idea that play and fantasy are not things that are suitable for adults; that these things are undignified pursuits that should be left for children. Accordingly, as sex is not something for children, it must be a serious and dignified business to be approached with the same seriousness as death and taxes. This is why we look silly to the outsider; because we understand that sex, espeically the way we like to do it, is just playtime for grown-ups. (As an aside, I think this is why geeky people like myself are disproportionately attracted to kink; as what is called a geek is often just a grownup who has held onto the value of fantasy and play)
A good case study in this is ageplay, something my pet and I enjoy from time to time. Just like the fantasy and role-playing of children expresses their imagination and also their own needs and desires, and make their first steps at understanding the grown up world through imitation (go on and examine your own childhood games if you don't believe me. It's ok. I'll wait.), so sexual roleplay enables us to get to grips with different parts of our sexuality and fulfil different needs. Looked at with your serious face on, two grown-ups playing Daddy and daughter, the one acting out a masculine stereotype, the other colouring and playing with dolls, looks very strange. Perhaps even strange enough to make the observer uncomfortable, and we all know that discomfort is the basis of a lot of humour. Similarly, the way we play dress-up in our leathers, our latex, even
our titles and interactions, to an outside observer may seem uncomfortably childish. The sexualisation of what we're doing, on top of that, may be doubly disquieting.
Roleplay. Ageplay. Sensation Play. Electrical Play. Wax play. Ponyplay. It's right there in the names we give our kinks and our turn ons. Play. When I'm outside of my domspace, do I feel like I'm an infallible, unstoppable, virile sexual god, worthy only of worship and the adulation of my slave? No. Frankly, some of the things I've done and said when I'm being Master Wyl make me cringe a little when I'm being grown-up, well adjusted William. But that doesn't make what we do in play any less special or meaningful.
I guess what I'm trying to get at here is don't be afraid of that side of things. Even if you're completely vanilla, sex is a whole lot more fun if you don't take it or yourself too seriously. So have some play, people, and make it fun for yourselves- life and sex are both a lot more enjoyable if you know how to laugh at yourselves.
Friday, June 25, 2010
archaeological findings
I found this going through my long-since abandoned livejournal- I thought it might raise a few giggles.
"Just a random thought that occurred to me.
Wouldn't it be great if all the dialogue in porn movies was done in very proper, formal English, complete with upper-class British accents and mannerisms to top it off?
"Oh dear, I should so love it were you to ejaculate on my face at this point, my dear"
"By our lady! Penetrate my anus with greater gusto, virile copulatory companion!"
"I say, do you enjoy being treated in such a manner, harlot? I can see your excitement visibly increase each time my hand roughly strikes your posterior."
"Oh my, I note that your phallus has become increasingly engorged, and the girth of said implement appears to be both titillating and somewhat intimidating to me."
"Just a random thought that occurred to me.
Wouldn't it be great if all the dialogue in porn movies was done in very proper, formal English, complete with upper-class British accents and mannerisms to top it off?
"Oh dear, I should so love it were you to ejaculate on my face at this point, my dear"
"By our lady! Penetrate my anus with greater gusto, virile copulatory companion!"
"I say, do you enjoy being treated in such a manner, harlot? I can see your excitement visibly increase each time my hand roughly strikes your posterior."
"Oh my, I note that your phallus has become increasingly engorged, and the girth of said implement appears to be both titillating and somewhat intimidating to me."
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
100 things
In answer to my pet's list of 100 things about herself, here is mine.
1.I am pretty hairy, in head, body and facial terms.
2.I've had a beard of varying descriptions for the last four years. I kept clean shaven for a few months while I was dating someone who didn't like beards, but apart from that I grew a goatee when I graduated from highschool and it's stayed with me, just expanded.
3.I don't like tea or coffee.
4.But I love soup and like hot chocolate. Go figure.
5.I generally prefer savoury things to sweet things.
6.I used to play rugby union.
7.I was born in England, but moved to Australia when I was 4.
8.My earliest memory is eating an icicle on my 4th birthday.
9.I don't generally wear any kind of scent, cologne or deoderant. No aftershave, because I don't really shave.
10.My first job was selling electricity and gas contracts door-to-door. It was hideous, but I was quite good at it.
11.I very much enjoy science-fiction.
12.My favourite video game of all time is Baldur's Gate 2, but I don't care overmuch for Throne of Bhaal.
13.I'm not especially close to my family, but we do get along.
14.My best non-Rose friend and I have known each other since we were 5.
15.My favourite beer is a two-way tie between Old Speckled Hen and Prickly Moses Otway Stout.
16.I never used to like spicy foods, but now I do.
17.I have, at various times, played Warhammer, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering- the full nerd trinity.
18.I am not in any way ashamed of 17.
19.I'm training to be a librarian, and am really looking forward to becoming one.
20.Despite this, my personal book collection is very disorganised and haphazard.
21.I have a perverse love for cold, wet weather.
22.I deny the existence of all pokemon with numbers higher than 151.
23.I am an agnostic, but a pagan sympathiser.
24.My preferred referencing system is the Oxford system.
25.I have a degree in Classics and Archaeology.
26.I originally went to uni to study psychology, but I'm just not sciency enough. I am intensely proud of Rose for her ability to stick out the sciencey bits.
27.My curiosities about BDSM were first aroused by an on-line girlfriend I had when I was 16.
28.It took me until I was 18 to really get into it.
29.I didn't have my first real life kink experience until I was 19, though.
30.If you haven't guessed by now, I'm a genuine, high-functioning geek.
31.I've been to England, Australia, America, New Zealand, Malaysia, Italy and Singapore.
32.Some people say I have an irrational dislike for all things French.
33.I say it's entirely rational.
34.There's a distinct possibility that I'm an illegitimate descendant of Karl Marx- it's not proven, but there is evidence to suggest it.
35.I honestly can't think of an absolute favourite book, movie, tv show or album because I like too many things.
36.My list of fetishes is vast.
37.But my favourite toys are my canes- I love the elegance of a good rattan, and the effect it has.
38.My sex partners have varied in age from 17 to 54, but I did once do a scene with a 62 y.o. Sub. He was very sweet, but it really didn't turn me on at all.
39.I love ageplay now as a Daddy, but my first experience of it was as a little.
40.Actually, most of my initial BDSM experience was as a bottom.
41.My favourite webcomic is Questionable Content, but I also enjoy Penny Arcade, Two Lumps, XKCD, Comics for Sad Children, Dinosaur Comics, The Adventures of Chifley and Wasted Talent.
42.In order of my preference for them, my favourite ancient civilisations are the Greeks, the Akkadians, the Romans, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Israelites, the Macedonians and the Egyptians.
43.My handwriting is terrible, but I'm a very good speller.
44.My favourite philosopher is Soren Kierkegaarde, followed very closely by Hegel and Nietzsche.
45.My least favourite philosopher is Michel Foucault, followed by Kant and Pseudo-Apollodrus.
46. I love poetry.
47.But not a glass of scotch. I have taste aversion from too much of the cheap stuff as a younger man. It's a shame.
48.I do love bourbon, though.
49.I prefer my sandwiches toasted.
50.I'm only half way through this list, and already I'm running out of ideas.
51.I'm very sentimental.
52.I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was 12- long before they were cool again.
53.Some of my favourite writers include (in no particular order): Phillip K. Dick, Tamora Pierce, Alison Bechdel, Dan Abnett, George Orwell, Alan Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Catullus, Aeschylus (the Oresteia only), Seutonius, Sappho, Phillip Marlowe, JRR Tolkein, Ryu Murakami, Patrick Califia, Petronius, Ian Fleming, Poppy Z. Brite, Tennessee Williams, Berthold Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Keats, H.P. Lovecraft, Elaine Cunningham, Hunter S. Thompson and Robert Frost.
54.Some popular writers who I dislike include: Steig Larsson, Tom Clancy, Stephanie Meyer, Jack Kerouack, James Joyce, Isabel Allende and Jean-Paul Sartre.
55.I can't walk down stairs without watching my feet.
56.I like shouting at the tv, newspaper, radio and computer.
57.It's very rare that I can stop thinking entirely.
58.Before I go to sleep, I make up stories in my head. These never really go anywhere, it's just a habit that helps me fall asleep.
59.I used to feel self-conscious about this when I was sharing a bed with someone, as though they could hear my thoughts.
60.I'm really bad at talking on the phone, I never can think of things to say.
61.My memory for names and faces is awful.
62.I have an oddly ambivalent relationship to the Harry Potter series. Whilst I will admit to enjoying the books, I also happily admit to the fact that they aren't really that good, and that I am vaguely ashamed of liking them as much as I do.
63.I was really terrified of getting old before I met Rose. Now as long as it happens with her there at my side, it doesn't bother me.
64.I can quote the Simpsons with far too much ease to be healthy. I very much enjoy my quote battles with Rose.
65.I find it very difficult to get into comics or graphic novels, for some reason.
66.The exception to this seems to be anything by Alison Bechdel. Not sure what that says about me.
67.I have a deviantart. Oh, yes. And I've had it since I was an angsty 15y.o. pseudo-goth poet. I also once had a deadjournal, which my school found and gave a copy to one of the counsellors, with whom I had compulsory sessions for the next year. I was messed up.
68.If fart jokes, poo jokes, dick jokes and childish name calling were good enough for Aristophanes, they're good enough for me.
69.I like grapes.
70.But not wine, mostly.
71.I enjoy country music more than I'm usually willing to admit to.
72.I'm not usually a wimp when it comes to pain- except when this pain is being inflicted by a goddamn dentist. I hate the dentist.
73.Checking word counts when typing for extended periods has become such an ingrained response in me that I've done it about ten times while writing this. Stupid academia.
74.My favourite R.E.M song is Orange Crush.
75.Rose is the first person ever to make me cum from oral sex.
76.I'm proud to say the reverse is also true.
77.My hair is naturally curly, and thus makes me goofy-looking. I spent about 10 years shaving it.
78.I don't take very much care over my appearance, so I'm very lucky to have a girl who thinks I look wonderful even when in reality, I'm a slob.
79.If I'm in a shop alone, I will talk to myself. Even if there are other people in the shop, if I'm not actually with someone I know, I will discuss the shopping experience aloud at great length. I only really became conscious of this a couple of years ago, so I sometimes wonder how long I did it for before then.
80.I actually know how many roads a man must walk down, but I'm not going to tell you.
81.Whilst modern rap and hip-hop displease me greatly, I have an odd fondness for early 90's west coast rap. I blame this on having played too much GTA: San Andreas as a teenager.
82.My eyesight is truly appalling.
83.My left shoulder often aches and cramps up due to an old rugby injury.
84.I also once nearly drowned in mud during a rugby match. That was not fun.
85.For these reasons Rose would offer serious objections to me ever taking it up again.
86.I'm excited to be getting close to the end. It's getting harder and harder to come up with interesting facts without resorting to meta crap like this one.
87.I once had pretty serious anger issues. People who didn't know me then, but do now often find this surprising.
88.My favourite Weird Al Yankovic song is 'Your Horoscope for Today'. It always makes me laugh.
89.Ich spreche Deutsche sehr gut. Ich habe es im schule gelernt.
90.At various points, I've also studied Italian, French, Ancient Greek and Latin. I've also managed to pick up a reasonable amount of Spanish and smaller amounts of Japanese and Portugese.
91.I've been to Tasmania. I'd do it again, too.
92.Though if I didn't have family there, I'd be happy never to go back to New South Wales. A whole state of you're doing it wrong.
93.I've been known to scream and hyperventilate while reading the opinion pages in the newspaper.
94.I also screamed at customers while answering the phones for a local telecommunications company. Customer service is not really my ideal job, at least not while the customer continues to be the most dim-witted form of life on the planet.
95.I also once screamed at one of my managers. He was very nice about it, afterwards. It made me feel very sheepish. I hated that job with a passion.
96.I am proud that I stuck it out for as long as I did, though.
97.Some of my favourite words to say include: haberdasher, solipsism, elision, callapygian, deleterious, grandiloquent, somnolent, syzygy, mercurial, saprophyte, circumflex and verily.
98.I enjoy a good crossword. Quite the cruciverbalist am I.
99.Palindromes usually make me smile. Rats live on no evil star. Glenelg. Madam, I'm adam. Dr. Awkward. Etc.
100.I am glad to be done with this list. But it was fun while it lasted. Thank you for reading.
1.I am pretty hairy, in head, body and facial terms.
2.I've had a beard of varying descriptions for the last four years. I kept clean shaven for a few months while I was dating someone who didn't like beards, but apart from that I grew a goatee when I graduated from highschool and it's stayed with me, just expanded.
3.I don't like tea or coffee.
4.But I love soup and like hot chocolate. Go figure.
5.I generally prefer savoury things to sweet things.
6.I used to play rugby union.
7.I was born in England, but moved to Australia when I was 4.
8.My earliest memory is eating an icicle on my 4th birthday.
9.I don't generally wear any kind of scent, cologne or deoderant. No aftershave, because I don't really shave.
10.My first job was selling electricity and gas contracts door-to-door. It was hideous, but I was quite good at it.
11.I very much enjoy science-fiction.
12.My favourite video game of all time is Baldur's Gate 2, but I don't care overmuch for Throne of Bhaal.
13.I'm not especially close to my family, but we do get along.
14.My best non-Rose friend and I have known each other since we were 5.
15.My favourite beer is a two-way tie between Old Speckled Hen and Prickly Moses Otway Stout.
16.I never used to like spicy foods, but now I do.
17.I have, at various times, played Warhammer, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering- the full nerd trinity.
18.I am not in any way ashamed of 17.
19.I'm training to be a librarian, and am really looking forward to becoming one.
20.Despite this, my personal book collection is very disorganised and haphazard.
21.I have a perverse love for cold, wet weather.
22.I deny the existence of all pokemon with numbers higher than 151.
23.I am an agnostic, but a pagan sympathiser.
24.My preferred referencing system is the Oxford system.
25.I have a degree in Classics and Archaeology.
26.I originally went to uni to study psychology, but I'm just not sciency enough. I am intensely proud of Rose for her ability to stick out the sciencey bits.
27.My curiosities about BDSM were first aroused by an on-line girlfriend I had when I was 16.
28.It took me until I was 18 to really get into it.
29.I didn't have my first real life kink experience until I was 19, though.
30.If you haven't guessed by now, I'm a genuine, high-functioning geek.
31.I've been to England, Australia, America, New Zealand, Malaysia, Italy and Singapore.
32.Some people say I have an irrational dislike for all things French.
33.I say it's entirely rational.
34.There's a distinct possibility that I'm an illegitimate descendant of Karl Marx- it's not proven, but there is evidence to suggest it.
35.I honestly can't think of an absolute favourite book, movie, tv show or album because I like too many things.
36.My list of fetishes is vast.
37.But my favourite toys are my canes- I love the elegance of a good rattan, and the effect it has.
38.My sex partners have varied in age from 17 to 54, but I did once do a scene with a 62 y.o. Sub. He was very sweet, but it really didn't turn me on at all.
39.I love ageplay now as a Daddy, but my first experience of it was as a little.
40.Actually, most of my initial BDSM experience was as a bottom.
41.My favourite webcomic is Questionable Content, but I also enjoy Penny Arcade, Two Lumps, XKCD, Comics for Sad Children, Dinosaur Comics, The Adventures of Chifley and Wasted Talent.
42.In order of my preference for them, my favourite ancient civilisations are the Greeks, the Akkadians, the Romans, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Israelites, the Macedonians and the Egyptians.
43.My handwriting is terrible, but I'm a very good speller.
44.My favourite philosopher is Soren Kierkegaarde, followed very closely by Hegel and Nietzsche.
45.My least favourite philosopher is Michel Foucault, followed by Kant and Pseudo-Apollodrus.
46. I love poetry.
47.But not a glass of scotch. I have taste aversion from too much of the cheap stuff as a younger man. It's a shame.
48.I do love bourbon, though.
49.I prefer my sandwiches toasted.
50.I'm only half way through this list, and already I'm running out of ideas.
51.I'm very sentimental.
52.I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was 12- long before they were cool again.
53.Some of my favourite writers include (in no particular order): Phillip K. Dick, Tamora Pierce, Alison Bechdel, Dan Abnett, George Orwell, Alan Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Catullus, Aeschylus (the Oresteia only), Seutonius, Sappho, Phillip Marlowe, JRR Tolkein, Ryu Murakami, Patrick Califia, Petronius, Ian Fleming, Poppy Z. Brite, Tennessee Williams, Berthold Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Keats, H.P. Lovecraft, Elaine Cunningham, Hunter S. Thompson and Robert Frost.
54.Some popular writers who I dislike include: Steig Larsson, Tom Clancy, Stephanie Meyer, Jack Kerouack, James Joyce, Isabel Allende and Jean-Paul Sartre.
55.I can't walk down stairs without watching my feet.
56.I like shouting at the tv, newspaper, radio and computer.
57.It's very rare that I can stop thinking entirely.
58.Before I go to sleep, I make up stories in my head. These never really go anywhere, it's just a habit that helps me fall asleep.
59.I used to feel self-conscious about this when I was sharing a bed with someone, as though they could hear my thoughts.
60.I'm really bad at talking on the phone, I never can think of things to say.
61.My memory for names and faces is awful.
62.I have an oddly ambivalent relationship to the Harry Potter series. Whilst I will admit to enjoying the books, I also happily admit to the fact that they aren't really that good, and that I am vaguely ashamed of liking them as much as I do.
63.I was really terrified of getting old before I met Rose. Now as long as it happens with her there at my side, it doesn't bother me.
64.I can quote the Simpsons with far too much ease to be healthy. I very much enjoy my quote battles with Rose.
65.I find it very difficult to get into comics or graphic novels, for some reason.
66.The exception to this seems to be anything by Alison Bechdel. Not sure what that says about me.
67.I have a deviantart. Oh, yes. And I've had it since I was an angsty 15y.o. pseudo-goth poet. I also once had a deadjournal, which my school found and gave a copy to one of the counsellors, with whom I had compulsory sessions for the next year. I was messed up.
68.If fart jokes, poo jokes, dick jokes and childish name calling were good enough for Aristophanes, they're good enough for me.
69.I like grapes.
70.But not wine, mostly.
71.I enjoy country music more than I'm usually willing to admit to.
72.I'm not usually a wimp when it comes to pain- except when this pain is being inflicted by a goddamn dentist. I hate the dentist.
73.Checking word counts when typing for extended periods has become such an ingrained response in me that I've done it about ten times while writing this. Stupid academia.
74.My favourite R.E.M song is Orange Crush.
75.Rose is the first person ever to make me cum from oral sex.
76.I'm proud to say the reverse is also true.
77.My hair is naturally curly, and thus makes me goofy-looking. I spent about 10 years shaving it.
78.I don't take very much care over my appearance, so I'm very lucky to have a girl who thinks I look wonderful even when in reality, I'm a slob.
79.If I'm in a shop alone, I will talk to myself. Even if there are other people in the shop, if I'm not actually with someone I know, I will discuss the shopping experience aloud at great length. I only really became conscious of this a couple of years ago, so I sometimes wonder how long I did it for before then.
80.I actually know how many roads a man must walk down, but I'm not going to tell you.
81.Whilst modern rap and hip-hop displease me greatly, I have an odd fondness for early 90's west coast rap. I blame this on having played too much GTA: San Andreas as a teenager.
82.My eyesight is truly appalling.
83.My left shoulder often aches and cramps up due to an old rugby injury.
84.I also once nearly drowned in mud during a rugby match. That was not fun.
85.For these reasons Rose would offer serious objections to me ever taking it up again.
86.I'm excited to be getting close to the end. It's getting harder and harder to come up with interesting facts without resorting to meta crap like this one.
87.I once had pretty serious anger issues. People who didn't know me then, but do now often find this surprising.
88.My favourite Weird Al Yankovic song is 'Your Horoscope for Today'. It always makes me laugh.
89.Ich spreche Deutsche sehr gut. Ich habe es im schule gelernt.
90.At various points, I've also studied Italian, French, Ancient Greek and Latin. I've also managed to pick up a reasonable amount of Spanish and smaller amounts of Japanese and Portugese.
91.I've been to Tasmania. I'd do it again, too.
92.Though if I didn't have family there, I'd be happy never to go back to New South Wales. A whole state of you're doing it wrong.
93.I've been known to scream and hyperventilate while reading the opinion pages in the newspaper.
94.I also screamed at customers while answering the phones for a local telecommunications company. Customer service is not really my ideal job, at least not while the customer continues to be the most dim-witted form of life on the planet.
95.I also once screamed at one of my managers. He was very nice about it, afterwards. It made me feel very sheepish. I hated that job with a passion.
96.I am proud that I stuck it out for as long as I did, though.
97.Some of my favourite words to say include: haberdasher, solipsism, elision, callapygian, deleterious, grandiloquent, somnolent, syzygy, mercurial, saprophyte, circumflex and verily.
98.I enjoy a good crossword. Quite the cruciverbalist am I.
99.Palindromes usually make me smile. Rats live on no evil star. Glenelg. Madam, I'm adam. Dr. Awkward. Etc.
100.I am glad to be done with this list. But it was fun while it lasted. Thank you for reading.
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