Bear Conditioning

@aphyr
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Leather, bad puns, thick boys. He/him. Sometimes distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies.

Reddit: "Weirdly obsessed with linked lists".
Peter Watts: "The most innovative fanfic I've ever read".

Bloghttps://aphyr.com
Workhttps://jepsen.io
Bear ConditioningDec 17, 2019
INAUGURAL JOCKSTRAP SELFIE
Bear ConditioningDec 17, 2019
Lewd!
Bear ConditioningDec 16, 2019
This seems bad
Bear ConditioningDec 16, 2019
Re-reading "Leatherfolk", especially the essays on death, loss, and companionship, reminds me of how rare it is that we--perhaps "mythologize" is the right word--the support that leather families and friends can offer one another. We talk sex, love, belonging, yes. But it's not often that we talk about the support a Sir can lend in dying or in grief.
Bear ConditioningDec 15, 2019
What idiot called them "group chat subjects of discussion" instead of "friending topics"
Bear ConditioningDec 15, 2019
Excited to see Scruff introducing a "search by Hogwarts house" filtering option for the millennial market
Bear ConditioningDec 15, 2019
Mike LynchJul 11, 2019

SomeBODY once told me about a bird that's turnin'
And turnin' in a widening gyre
It was lookin' kinda lost cause it couldn't hear its boss
As it soared ever higher and higher

Well, things fall apart and the centre's not holdin',
Anarchy's loose and there's no controllin',
Innocence drowned in a blood-dimmed tide,
The worst get intense while the best just hide

So much to do, so much to see
Images out of Spiritus Mundi
You've gotta move those slow thighs
Open up your pitiless eyes

Hey now
Lion body
With a man's head
Go play

Hey now
You're a rough beast
Get the show on
Get paid

Your hour's come round once more
Slouching towards Bethlehem to be bo-orn

Show threadBear ConditioningDec 15, 2019
This kind of play is well outside my range; I never break skin in my S/M. That said, god DAMN Patrick is a hell of an essayist. This piece is some of the most intense, transgressive writing I've ever read on lesbian desire, spirituality, and sex. It's memoir, queer militant manifesto, how-to manual, prayer. Nuanced, dark, and powerful.
Show threadBear ConditioningDec 15, 2019

"Obviously the person who is being carved has to feel an immense amount trust for the hand that cradles the blade. But the cutter must also trust. You are saying to the person you decorate, "I trust your constancy. I trust that you have told me the truth, and that this is something you really want, not just for your life today, but for the person you will be in ten years, twenty, thirty...

That is a lot to ask of anyone, that much loyalty and foreknowledge."

Show threadBear ConditioningDec 15, 2019
"In the realm of magic, blood is the most powerful product of the human body. It is a potent symbol of both life and death, healing and pain. When people bleed, they let things go, but blood is also a binding substance, a pledge as well as purge. Lady Macbeth was right: Once you get somebody's blood on your hands, you can't wash it off again. The person who holds the blade and cuts someone else is also being marked, perhaps even more deeply and permanently..."