yes, a diaper, i said it

All this week, I've been in a good mood. Like, wear lipstick and color coordinate my clothes good mood. There's even been hair fixing and whatnot. I could say it was all due to Trek (and most of it was, seriously; Trek was first fandom and my earliest sci-fi memories. Oh my God, Abrams, I love you), but by yesterday, it was also because I honestly like screwing with my coworkers and they were getting really disturbed at the entire seems to care about personal appearance thing. A few would drop by, I'd smile, and they would scurry away. P kept checking me surreptitiously for Vulcan ears. I'd totally wear them if I had them, too.

In other words, my life was perfect.

However, I am being punished for rediscovering lip liner and floral prints; I cannot sleep tonight for some reason, even though I am exhausted. What I did do was spend an hour replotting the end of the damned Spock fic and then imaging out a complex story where Kirk goes to jail and Spock bails him out, because that's the kind of thing I find hilarious.

So then I said, well, okay, screw it, let's find something to read.

It's not that I didn't know the kink meme was around. I did! But so far, I've been reading using the careful and scientific study of how many people have tagged something in delicious. Well, I ran out of that and said, what the hell, be crazy.

Wow, was that a mistake.

Mostly because if I'd done that earlier, I could have discovered five million new horrifying things, or at least like, three, and all of them involve bodily functions, how they are named, and what they are used for. And what they should never be used for. I will say this: blood. And also, to the author, what were you thinking? Blood is sticky.

Also, I fell on top of a fic with Rodney McKay in an adult diaper and frankly, I may never sleep again. Yes, I am sharing that with you. Go enjoy your day with that image and try not to walk off the side of a building; I work on the ground floor, but I can totally get to the roof if I need to.

I'm still in a good mood. But it's more edging toward what one might call 'manic'. I don't see how this can end well.

Comments

[ratcreature]

While it isn't really my kink, I'm not squicked by infantilism or age play as such, unless it's combined with played incest with mock baby rape or something. After a decade in fandom a character merely getting off on wearing a diaper and being taken care of is fairly low on my lists of squicky and disturbing scenarios.

[patk.livejournal.com]

*g* Well, I don't feel as much disturbed as I have a hard time supressing a fit of helpless giggling caused by this particular mental image. I can't help but picture Rodney wearing a giant white diaper, sitting on the bed and holding an enourmous toy rattle while John innocently enters the room and is ambushed by this sight. Somehow the reaction I picture coming from John doesn't have much to do with feeling incredibly turned on by that sight. *snicker* Sorry, can't help it.

[ratcreature]

I think the underlying kink is actually not uncommon in fanfic, i.e. making one character totally dependent on the other for everything upt o and including bodily functions, putting one in the role of the caretaker while incapacitating the other etc., the problem is that rather than making the story create that scenario, like it does in extreme h/c, the characters themselves have that fantasy and play it. Which is then kink once-removed so to speak, and not only less intense but also harder to pull of without looking totally OOC and ridiculous. The same is true for kinks like slavefic and such, I think.

[patk.livejournal.com]

>>making one character totally dependent on the other for everything upt o and including bodily functions, putting one in the role of the caretaker while incapacitating the other etc.,<<

Sure. To various degrees this motif is a pretty widespread favorite of all three parts of fandom (gen, slash, het) but, as you said, in its manifestation as one character's kinky fantasy/play it comes across as very OOC - guess that's why I can't help but snicker about it. They say a good author can "sell" you anything but I seriously doubt I could buy that scenario when it comes to John and Rodney, no matter who wrote it.

>>The same is true for kinks like slavefic and such, I think.

Yes, I think you're right here. Everytime I stumble over a D/s or heavy bondage-fic with John as the submissive one/tied up one I have a hard time seeing and believing it because I can't help but think that John was probably already captured, subjugated and/or tied up too often in his life to find it particularly erotic. Somehow I think he would have more the "your game reminds me too much of my day job"-approach on it. *g*

Same goes for Rodney and pain. His aversion against pain is canonically so strong that I can't help but mentally hear him *complain* whenever I happen to stumble over a S/M fic that has him as the one with the masochistic tendencies. It's just very hard to buy for me, albeit not as impossible as the diaper-scenario. :-)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

ladycat77 for infantilism. I cannot believe I am typing this, but--she sold me in a snippet. It was--wow. I think it worked because it wan't written kink as kink, per se, but something a darker, with more implications than flat out visuals.

[patk.livejournal.com]

Well, seems even ladycat77 won't be able to sell me on it. *g* Because LJ tells me her username is currently not registered. But since you've made me curious now, do you have a copy of said snippet or is it available elsewhere?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Wrong name, gah. But it was posted as part of a kink fest for SGA. I don't remember where it was.

[patk.livejournal.com]

Ah, 'course, a missing "7", I see. Thanks for the eye-opener. :-)