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Quick Question

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Would anyone be upset if I posted some of my shibari photography here? I mainly use this account for writing because well, I'm mainly a writer to begin with, but tying people up (with consent) to make fun and beautiful designs has become a hobby of mine as well and the site redesign is not friendly to writers anymore. It's a fun way to spend time with someone I love and indulge in my artistic side. As of now, the photos just sit on mine and all my partners' google drives. Here's an example of the kind of photography I do with these photoshoots.


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Let me know. I'd like to share but if you guys are uninterested or don't want it, I see no need to bother you, but I'd love to share.


Nic

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Coronavirus Creativity

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Hey guys, it's been a while. I never stopped lurking around here, but I did stop posting. I kept writing and creating but a lot of my creative energies have gone to projects that either don't work well here (the past two years I've spent learning music theory, guitar, and rapping/singing quite intensely). Any other energy I wasn't spending on my album I had was spent on work, learning programming because I want to switch to that career field, my fiancee and our wedding, and writing bitlets. Guys, I have over 600 bitlets. What do I do with all of these micropoems? Granted, a lot of them have gone on to be full-fledged works of literature.

But anyways, I currently work two jobs: during the lunch shift I run delivery for a locally owned restaurant that is a national chain. It's a great gig as far as part time jobs go, I frequently walk out with loaded pockets with minimal hours put in, even despite the current situation with coronavirus. I assure you, I am one of the most thorough when it comes to disinfecting and I'm doing everything in my power to not be a harbinger for this virus. After lunch, I work second shift at a local factory making and refurbishing respirators and other medical devices, so suffice to say there's been no threat of that shutting down.

But at the onset of this pandemic, I've never been happier. I grew up under such constant pressure and anxiety to succeed that one of my attributes as an adult has been a reflexive ability to thrive under pressure. It centers me. Pressure clarifies objectives and deadlines and focuses me. Because of this my creativity has been through the roof lately and I've returned to writing long form poetry and not just micropoems. I hope to share one soon, but it's not quite ready to be published here, it needs more polish, but I think the types of people that follow me will enjoy its content and insight, so keep an eye out for that.

Stay safe and be kind guys. Here's what I'm listening to lately. What music are you listening to?




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Hullo World

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What's up guys, it's Nic. I've been busy, lotsa life changes, including becoming a lurker on deviantART, something I never would have expected of myself. My life is changing, for the last year or so I have been working two part-time jobs to make ends meet, and with the help of my family I have kicked debt's butt and am starting school for programming.

I'm excited to develop my knowledge with code, and with the savings I have, I am about to cut down my hours at one job in favor of starting a website of some kind and building it up into something I can make money from as I go to school. I'm a bit paralyzed as to what the website should be about, as I have many hobbies, but I've narrowed it down to these three: writing, songwriting, relationships/sexuality. And honestly? I think I may have it center around relationships and sexuality with emphasis on awareness and navigating of BDSM and polyamory. It's a broad set of genres I'm passionate to share what I know and learn more about. The goal is to learn how to manage my own website/content/business and continue it as a side hustle throughout my life, because it will allow for flexibility with my family life later on.

How is the dA fam doing here? What projects are you doing in your life at the moment?

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Weddingmania

9 min read
Hullo, dA, long time, no talk. I never really stopped keeping tabs on this place, but I reduced myself to mostly lurking for the last year or so. I've been writing, wedding planning, and otherwise keeping busy.

If anybody followed me before my stream of updates ended, you might have read I ran a pizza chain. I have moved on from that now and started working with special needs kids at the suggestion of a former coworker to supplement my income while I looked for a new job with my skillset. I still haven't found anything, but I'm being very picky. My last job absorbed my life with very little benefit, and now that I've stepped away from that, I can see it. So life goes.

Surprisingly, working with special needs kids doesn't feel like a job. I frequently tell WeirdAndLovely that working with my kids makes me happy, and it genuinely does. She calls it "dad practice." :roll: But she ain't wrong.

In lieu of everything else, I've been busy planning a wedding with Molly. We decided to change both of our names because neither of us wanted the other's name but wanted to present 'us' as a united front name-wise, and we settled on Emerson. The family is not so enthused about it, but we know it's right for us and what our relationship brings to the table. Unfortunately, the family probably will never know the other half of why we're changing our name. We're polyamorous, meaning we date multiple partners, something misunderstood in our society. Re-establishing our namesake gives us an origin point of acceptance to create a new open culture.

Since we've opened our relationship, we've uncovered other family member's open relationship lives. Her family has a streak of flirts and her brother has openly acknowledged his marriage ended in part due to the fact his partner wanted to close the relationship off. My own mother revealed to me she started swinging and then dated openly with her partners when she was raising me and my teenage brother, getting away without anyone suspecting a thing by calling every partner "boyfriend."

Note to self: a poem dealing with establishing a namesake sounds like a great idea to flesh out.

Me and Molly have a venue picked out finally. About the only thing we knew upon getting engaged was the date. After weeks of debating colors in the very beginning of this process, we stumbled upon the color scheme below and have been infatuated with it ever since.

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Yup, peacock. We're having fun with it. Also uplighting looks great in those colors. :eyes:  But besides wedding planning, to stay sane I've been working diligently on several projects:

  • Rewriting proposal poem for wedding
  • Losing a hundred pounds for the wedding
  • Decided to cross "writing a music album" off my bucket list and have produced two instrumentals so far, lyrics forthcoming
  • Writing bitlets like always, after a hiatus
  • There's always a larger poem that's not a bitlet I'm working on
  • Designing and coordinating wedding invitations, decorations, and creative aspects
  • Writing a "realistic and educational" erotic novel because there aren't enough good examples in porn and erotica
  • Building mine and Molly's future dreamhouse in Minecraft
  • Improving my current townhome with various house improvement projects
  • Creating my own puzzle game within the Halo 5 game forge engine

So whenever I get bored of one project, I hop around and keep things entertaining, though writing and wedding projects are constant. Also, podcasts and cuddles fuel my creativity and keep me going. I'll be back in journal form soon with updates (I want to do a better job with appearances on dA, y'all mean so much), but I have to stop my car from dying in the current polar vortex that's choking out Chicago for now.

Take care, y'all. Stay safe and seek out happy.
Nic


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She said yes!

12 min read
Guys, I have some news. In 2014, I met a Ms. WeirdAndLovely. Friday May 4th, 2018, I proposed to her. What began as another dA acquaintance has become a journey with the best partner I could have ever wished for. I love her so much and as a poet, I'm sure she's more immortalized in my writing than I will ever be. :lol: I love you, fiancee! :love:

Me and her being, well, us (on a different day from the proposal).
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The engagement ring!
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Her swooning while on the phone sharing the news shortly after saying yes!
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Her falling asleep the day after the proposal with her hand in mine.
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While the proposal itself was not what I had envisioned and certainly not plan a, b, or c, how it came together fits us and who we are in our relationship and I'm happy with it. It'll be a story to pass down.









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