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Just swinging through here, because something just struck me as enormously funny.

I admit readily and proudly to being an enormous geek. What I find funny is that this geekiness in no way hinders (and sometimes helps) my identity and interests in BDSM. The cultural crossovers are enormous. Geeks are rennies are kinky are techies are LARPers are geeks, etc. I’ve always felt that these crossivers would make a fantastic thesis topic, were I to ever go back in time and study sociology in school.
Anyway.

When I first entered the scene, I chose a scene name. I used this name only on a few occasions, as an online identity that quickly phased out as I became more ‘out’ in the public scene and spent more time thinking about names in general. I now use my real, fairly common first name in the scene, and have long since abandoned any pretense of a scene name.
The name I was using was “Gravity.” I still like this, by the way. Should I ever need a scene name again, I’ll use it. And I like it all the more because it sounds badass, sort of eclectic, rather artsy, and just a little bit off the beaten track, all things I like to be as a top. It brings up ideas of inevitability, power and being inescapable. But in reality it’s close to my heart because it is entirely geeky.
The Tick, that strange cartoon character from when I was a kid that I watched sometimes and quoted often, has one line I remembered all the way to college: “Gravity is a harsh mistress.” And that, really, that just makes me laugh.

I’m writing this now because one of my favorite authors has inadvertantly provided perhaps the best geek-kink combination quote known to geekdom. I am seriously stunned by how funny I find this to be.

“Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ’safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.”
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