Today I wore my cool Tabi, traditional Japanese toe socks that my Japanese family got me as a present.
What a great gift! They're comfy and awesome!
On Twitter this morning, I saw a discussion between several friends that gave me a great idea.
Now I'm pretty full up on creative work just now. (Let's be honest, I'm postively choking on it.) So I wanted to write the idea down to share it, so that I could either pick it up later, or someone else could, or maybe we could all discuss it and really refine it.
The Problem: Knowing how your friends are feeling when they're remote, or you're at a busy place, like a kink event.
My idea: A sort of mood status board for people at an event, or specific friends you follow. I call it MOODBOARD.
Think of one of those flappy-updating displays you see at train stations and airports.
Like this one
Moodboard would be sort of like that:
FRIEND MOOD
Cargo Happy (Wet diaper)
Shokolada Looking to be bagged
Tasha Looking to cuddle
Mako Looking to be cuddled
Flare Wants to give spanking
Vee Needs a spanking
That's like a super crude mockup. But it's the basic idea. That way you can let people know how you're feeling, what you're looking for, what you're open to. It'd be tied to your Twitter name so you could use it to find and follow and cross-follow one another without needing yet another account.
I could see using it temporarily, having a moodboard just for folks you meet at a Con, or to broadcast your mood "publicly" to a Con. I could also see using it on an ongoing basis with friends.
What do you all think?
Missy joked to me this morning that she's on the safety patrol.
That's because she put on my "Hey cars, please don't hit me" yellow safety harness I wear when I go running in the dark.
She put it on so she can try out walking to work today, in the early morning dark and chill, and do so safely.
The walking to work is her idea. The safety harness was mine. I think she looks both adorable and kinda badass in it. Badassadorable?
The whole thing is my gratitude today because I love it when Missy tries something new, heads towards it full tilt boogie, with a sense of adventure... and without being hit by a car, either.
So I've gushed before about how very much I love the cartoon Steven Universe.
It's amazing. It's charming, funny, adorable, weirdly appeals to all sorts of age playing sensibilities of mine. Plus, in a socially progressive and almost transgressive way, it's really, really queer. It tackles issues related to gender, orientation, race, social dynamics, and all sorts of serious, heavy things.
Just this morning I was watching the latest episode, Back to the Barn. As I watched it, it struck me all at once, that this brilliant, adorable episode was tackling the very thorny issue of social privilege.
Yesterday I went running at the gym before work. Haven't done that in a while!
And here's that picture I saw:
Forward!