The Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[chy_girl]

Whoever invented Pilates should be drug out, shot, ran over and then beat with 2x4.

Pilates - the exercise world's answer to S&M.

If this is the try one, try two ought to be interesting.
::face/pillow::

(Is it bad that after 45 minutes of painful sweating my first happy thought of the day is 'Oh, there's a cookie in the kitchen! I want a cookie!'?)

 

[ShyVixen]

Pretentious, aloof people bother me.

 

[Keroin]

It’s been a long time since I’ve visited the café in the still of night. I love this place when it's deserted.

*Pokes around in the cupboards, looking for chocolate, and smiles at the discovery of a dish of m&m’s. Obviously Gracie has been here.*

Funny how the same scene can change depending on any number of factors. Take an ordinary street, in mid summer, trees green, heat waves rising from the pavement, shouts of children echoing. The feeling is fertility, exuberance, life bursting through every crack.

*Searches for the kettle, to make some tea. Happy to see Lit’s many tea drinkers have left a good selection on the counter. Wonders how Shank is doing these days.*

Now take that same street and move it to a winter night. All sounds, what few there are, now muffled by a thick covering of snow, a sliver of a moon turning the landscape to dark diamonds, the air so crisp and taut it could splinter into a million pieces. The feeling is stillness, other-worldliness, fragility.

We are like that. People.

*Lets tea steep while she makes a slow navigation of the café. Tripping over some knitting left on the floor, probably Etoile’s.*

I couldn’t help thinking, as I was eavesdropping on some Lit discussions tonight, how many people begin their statements with, “I am…” Present company included.

We are. Yes. But we are also ever changing, depending on the conditions surrounding us. Do we cling to “I am” to ground ourselves, to clutch hold of a firmness we know, instinctively, our reality lacks?

I am forty years old. This is a fact. And yet, on some days I radiate the innocence of a six year old. Other days, I shuffle through the hours like a ninety year old. Many days, I bounce off the walls like a fifteen year old, cocky and indestructible. I am forty but I am many ages inside of that, depending on the light, the temperature, the time of day…

*Picks ZRT’s latest Mad Lib off the table and makes mental note to add a gerund*

There’s beauty in uncertainty, magic in chaos, wonder in confusion. Is there any word more laced with delicious tension than “unexpected”?

*Pours tea and smiles at the photos of WD’s cats on the fridge*

I don’t know who or what or when I am. My thoughts reach out like tendrils into the void. It’s all a game. It’s all so very…

*Takes a sip of tea. Mmm, chocolate roiboos*

Unexpected.

 

[Cattypuss]

Broad daylight, mid/late-morning here..... are the non- North Americans consigned to a different kitchen?

 

[chy_girl]

*Watches Keroin in absolute awe*


*Then promptly bursts out laughing at Cattypuss*

 

[ShyVixen]

I'm feeling in a very service oriented mood and no one to service until next weekend. Grrrr.

 

[ultramarineblue]

So I ended up seeing the gallery owners that were giving me mixed messages. The last time I saw them they were very enthusiastic about seeing me and more of my art. This time they were polite but at the same time seemed to not care if I was there or not.

It kinda seems pointless to keep creating art sometimes when no one seems to want it.

The only thing is that I'm really really really really wanting to paint.

 

[rida]

*snip*
The only thing is that I'm really really really really wanting to paint.

Then do it for you.

 

[BiBunny]

Then do it for you.

And sell it yourself! (If you're wanting to profit from it, that is.)

 

[chy_girl]

*snip*
It kinda seems pointless to keep creating art sometimes when no one seems to want it.

The only thing is that I'm really really really really wanting to paint.

You'll find the right place at the right time. Until then, follow your heart on the matter. And just because a gallery isn't picking it up, it doesn't mean that no one wants it. Perhaps start entering them in local art events - our city library always has some kind of display up with local art (and price tags).

Then do it for you.

What she^ said.

 

[ultramarineblue]

Then do it for you.

And sell it yourself! (If you're wanting to profit from it, that is.)

You'll find the right place at the right time. Until then, follow your heart on the matter. And just because a gallery isn't picking it up, it doesn't mean that no one wants it. Perhaps start entering them in local art events - our city library always has some kind of display up with local art (and price tags).


What she^ said.

Thanks y'all. I'm trying to do all of those things. I need to start looking beyond local juried shows. Also, the only profit I need is enough to cover supplies for more paintings. It started stacking up the more prolific I was with painting.

I guess too the cool thing is that even the gallery owners said that the other artists were really interested in what I was doing when I had work there. The bad thing is that artists are usually broke and can't always afford to buy others work.

Tonight will be spent working on my new painting goal. I think I even have enough time before I have to be anywhere to start on it again now.

 

[WriterDom]

If a woman makes eye contact then looks away for a brief moment then returns to eye contact does that me she is attracted to me?

 

[chy_girl]

If a woman makes eye contact then looks away for a brief moment then returns to eye contact does that me she is attracted to me?

Either that or she's trying to figure out if you're the crazy guy that's been banned from her place of work.

 

[chy_girl]

Thanks y'all. I'm trying to do all of those things. I need to start looking beyond local juried shows. Also, the only profit I need is enough to cover supplies for more paintings. It started stacking up the more prolific I was with painting.
*snip*

Have you thought about putting a few up on eBay and see if they sell?

 

[WriterDom]

Thanks y'all. I'm trying to do all of those things. I need to start looking beyond local juried shows. Also, the only profit I need is enough to cover supplies for more paintings. It started stacking up the more prolific I was with painting.

I guess too the cool thing is that even the gallery owners said that the other artists were really interested in what I was doing when I had work there. The bad thing is that artists are usually broke and can't always afford to buy others work.

Tonight will be spent working on my new painting goal. I think I even have enough time before I have to be anywhere to start on it again now.

You can try things like art fairs or just regular street fairs where they allow venders to sell things. We have a store here just for local art. It's a cool little store too. I love the lady who runs it. Not in a sexual way, she is just a class act.

 

[CutieMouse]

I swear to god I am no longer properly equipped for this motherhood shit.

 

[ultramarineblue]

Have you thought about putting a few up on eBay and see if they sell?

I've thought about trying Etsy. I'm going to start looking for competitions to enter this week.

You can try things like art fairs or just regular street fairs where they allow venders to sell things. We have a store here just for local art. It's a cool little store too. I love the lady who runs it. Not in a sexual way, she is just a class act.

I've done a few fairs before. It's just hard to keep trying those when I get such little response. At least if I get the art into a juried show, I can put that on my resume.

I have a feeling that with a few of the next paintings I'm wanting to do, I'll get a better response from the gallery.

 

[chy_girl]

I've thought about trying Etsy. I'm going to start looking for competitions to enter this week.

There might also be some of the smaller antique/mercantile/odds and ends consignment shops that will put them up for sale for a percentage of the sale. We have one of those where I live that ppl put all kinds of artistic and craft stuff in.

 

[CutieMouse]

I've thought about trying Etsy. I'm going to start looking for competitions to enter this week.



I've done a few fairs before. It's just hard to keep trying those when I get such little response. At least if I get the art into a juried show, I can put that on my resume.

I have a feeling that with a few of the next paintings I'm wanting to do, I'll get a better response from the gallery.

I'd try Etsy before eBay - the community is more arts supportive, and the buyers there tend to appreciate/specifically search out one of a kind work.

As for shows - IMO stick with the jurried ones, exactly for the resume reason you just stated.

 

[chy_girl]

Just as an observation...

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to put a voice synthesizer on the Nintendo DSi and then give it to a pre-adolescent child should be drug out and beat.

Then bound and made to listen to the menagerie of sounds coming from my living room. And I do mean menagerie - it sounds like a fricking zoo.

 

[naxalite0906]

That football game last night was ridiculous.... Talk about a shootout, but over 90 points??? WOW!

 

[chy_girl]

It is, perhaps, time to start drafting a letter to Mr. IRL.

I figure if he's been out of commission for some reason, he can take what I have to say with a grain of salt because it'll still be relevant. If he's not been out of commission then there needs to be some serious boundaries established - IF we both choose to continue this.

After all, he's the one that said just because you're a submissive, it doesn't mean that your a door mat. Now let's see if he can put his money where his mouth is.

 

[neci]

i'm getting sick. my body is crashing on me. my ear hurts, and i'm tired. i feel blah.

 

[kairotic]

Ear hurting = potential infection. Start pushing aspirin and fluids, sweetie.

<not that you asked...>

 

[neci]

my little one is getting over an ear infection, i'm just glad that i didn't crash like this over the weekend when tons of stuff was going on. thank you for the concern. i'm trying to drink lots of hot tea with honey and lemon. it is going to be an early night.