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DrBorderline

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  1. Word on the metaphorical street is that they are attempting to become a publicly traded company and having adult content of ANY sort would either prevent or negatively impact their Initial Public Offering, meaning they wouldn't be able to make as much money. This was just the first round of attempts to make them appear more presentable and desirable. It's tragically ironic that so many companies are undermining their own customer, user, and advertiser bases in an attempt to appeal to a hypothetical / platonic ideal of consumer / advertiser that doesn't exist... especially considering one of the oldest tenets of advertising and marketing is "Sex Sells."
  2. There's a lot of potential for overlap with different kinks, and there are logical associations between ABDL with other power dynamic roleplay arrangements, medical play, assorted costumes, bondage, and various material clothing kinks like rubber or latex or plastic. The mind can make all sorts of other connections of course, those are just the ones that come immediately to mind. I have a niche kink for locking clothing that overlaps neatly with diapers, for example, and there's some obvious practicality for mixing them together, but very few people share that niche with me.
  3. Could also add an omo twist to an old classic: Battleship. Each hit marker on a ship is a drink of soda, coffee, tea, or something else with notable diuretic properties. When one of your ships gets hit, you take a drink - when a whole ship is lost, you drink even more on top of that. Lose control of your bladder before your fleet is sunk and it's game over, but if both players can hold it until one fleet is lost, the victor gets a potty break and the loser does not. Play until one side makes a puddle; probably no more than three of four games for even the strongest bladder to give out.
  4. It looks like a lot of Patreon refugees have set up on a platform called SubscribeStar. Too soon to tell if this will be a permanent arrangement or just a stopgap while other platforms are found / tested / built up.
  5. Wrought iron sounds about right, especially after the pandemic. But only because there were no grades of steel to choose from. 😛
  6. In all bondage and self bondage scenarios, always ask yourself "what is the worst that could happen?" and let your imagination run wild. That's a good general purpose rule for this kind of game. And when you're first starting out, stay away from anything tying up the extremities like arms and legs. It's too dangerous in case you lose circulation and can't get loose. And that goes TRIPLE for anything around your neck. That's a big no-no. (Yes, even collars. They're great for roleplaying but don't let them become potential nooses.) As for specifics, this is exactly the kind of situation where you want to just lock the clothing on, as many others have suggested. A rope or chain through the belt loops of jeans or shorts can keep you stuck for a while with no risk to your health. Freezing a padlock key in an ice cube is an old standby - a single ice cube shouldn't last more than an hour or two at room temperature if you leave it out on a bowl or plate, though of course weather and seasons can speed it up or slow it down. Alternatively, instead of applying the lock to yourself, you can use one of those child safety commode locks so your toilet lid is stuck closed until the key is available. (In a legit emergency you can still go in the tub or shower, or even a bucket. Always leave yourself an exit strategy, even if it's not as exciting.) It's worth noting that cheap locks are easier to bypass if you actually lose the key completely, rather than just keeping it temporarily out of the way, and you can also break them easier if it comes to that, and of course it's no huge investment to replace them. But cheap locks are also more likely to break and get stuck even with the key. Be sure to test them regularly and if they don't operate smoothly, don't use them for anything important.
  7. Also happened to Babystar, artist of the Shine comic, and PieceOfSoap, who was working on the game Perpetual Change. The fallout might take a while to settle.
  8. Perhaps not - language is fluid it's a coin toss if a new phenomena gets its own terminology or becomes associated / affiliated with an older established practice. But the parallels with the buying up of rental properties are interesting from an economics point of view, I think.
  9. If memory serves, this is called domain name squatting, although a more accurate terminology might be domain name speculation; the squatting term comes from how the owner isn't using it as an actual website for any of the purposes one might build a website, but the practice more resembles the leveraging of real estate and income properties being resold at a markup called flipping.
  10. Glad to hear that you were able to preserve that friendship you had with your former partner. Good friends are worth their weight in gold, silver, or frankly any precious metal really. And they are even more important when we grow up with families that can't or won't support us when we need them the most. It sounds like yours didn't. Hope this place can provide you with a sense of community, personal insight, or practical knowledge, whatever it is you are most looking for.
  11. I have seen a staggering amount of niche erotica on Smashwords, so there is that option. I've put some half baked prepper fiction on there and made a few bucks; the only real downside is that the platform has no real hype / promotion system, it's just distribution. Marketing is all on the author.
  12. I think it was something on the old Textfiles.com website but I'm not 100% certain - I know they had a lot of wetting / peeing stuff, and one of those included a transcribed magazine article about a woman who wore diapers, but that doesn't necessarily count as fiction.
  13. And here, specifically TNG and TOS. DS9 and Voyager not so much. Enterprise not at all. Have not kept up with the more recent developments like Picard or Discovery.
  14. Yeah, and there is a lot of that going around because the pandemic upended both ends of most supply chains and a lot of companies scrambled to keep up. The toilet paper shortage was like the opening act and a whole bunch of products just straight up disappeared as either the people on one end making it got sick or the people in the other end buying it just didn't go shopping unless they had to and then only for the most basic necessities. (My favorite canned coffee brand apparently dropped off the face of the earth, for example. No word on if or when the company will bring it back.) There's also other corner cutting stuff going on with food safety regulations - turns out a lot of companies got around restrictive labeling and mandated cleanups of their facilities in the event of sesame contamination because of food allergies by literally adding sesame flour to everything as a main ingredient so it no longer qualifies as a contaminant. Because it was cheaper to do it that way. Who knows what the people making that powdered drink mix cut it with?
  15. I don't have the detailed chemistry / nutrition facts in front of me, but I know that energy drinks tend to include various combinations of the following ingredients: 1. Straight stimulants like caffeine or ingredients that are high in caffeine that help push back against the feeling of fatigue. 2. Easily metabolized sugars that provide a literal sugar rush of alertness and activity. The previously mentioned caffeine is intended to moderate the impact of the following sugar crash. 3. Various vitamins, typically B-vitamins like B-12, B-3, or Niacin (B-6) that are both associated with increased nervous system health and more importantly water soluble so you can't overdose on them; anything more than the body needs just gets dumped on the kidneys, which is arguably (and literally) a waste but better than a buildup of fat soluble vitamins that can kill a person, like Vitamin A. 4. Various amino acids associated with increased metabolic performance or cellular repair. It's possible, based on the events as you describe them, that the new stuff you're trying has a different formula in the sense that they get around limitations on straight caffeine by including ingredients that incorporate caffeine as a sort of a carrier. Depending on specific bylaws and regulations for nutrition labeling it is possible for companies to pull a fast one to either avoid having to display certain warning labels or to avoid having their product classified differently from what they are wanting their target market to be. So it says it has less caffeine for legal reasons but the actual chemical content is much higher than the label indicates. It is also possible for one part of the human body to become more tolerant of a specific ingredient while another part of the body is more sensitized to it. Caffeine is no exception and so you might have developed a more pronounced reaction to a smaller amount. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, I'm not actually a medical doctor despite my screen name.
  16. I would agree that there is a strong social component to this, so these different categories are actually more broad than the wording and phrasing might imply and there is some overlap in the edge cases. Just Made It: Reached and used a bathroom either without leaking at all or with only minor leaks that show up on undergarments but not outerwear. Almost Made It: Reached and physically entered bathroom or got within a few seconds of entering it, but did not reach and use the actual facilities inside before crossing a specific threshold of lost urine. This threshold is defined by A. visible wet patch on clothing or B. saturation of protection so that it has to be discarded or replaced. The latter case applies even if the protection prevented any stains or leaks from being visible to the outside observer. Didn't Make It: Full on wet patch or soaking before reaching restroom or restroom facilities. In this case it is the severity of the wetting that sets it apart from an Almost Made It scenario. To summarize the edge cases and overlaps: If nobody can tell you leaked but you, you Just Made It. If somebody perceptive could notice that you leaked before you got to the toilet, then you Almost Made It. If there is no way of hiding what happened at all without changing your clothes, you Didn't Make It.
  17. Let us know how it shakes out - the USPS Postmaster General has a record that puts every other law enforcement agency in the United States, Federal or State level, to shame.
  18. If they're harassing you as you move your packages into the house, that's one thing. If you have found them going through your actual mailbox, and you're in the United States, that's another. Contact the Postmaster General's office and file a complaint: They really don't like people interfering with mail delivery.
  19. Step One: Purchase protective undergarments of the appropriate shape and size for the new hardware. These will most likely consist of tabbed diapers, elastic pull-ups, and goodnites, but see the entry titled HARD MODE at the end of the list. Step Two: Purchase a large amount of soda, coffee, tea, or gatorade. (Not at the same store; presumably if I've undergone a complete gender inversion I will be practically unrecognizable, but that's no reason to be careless.) Step Three: If outer wear permits it in the form of belt loops or other fasteners, wrap a chain or steel cable around my waist, secure it with a padlock, and freeze the key in an ice cube tray. Otherwise, lock the door to the bathroom and freeze the key in an ice cube tray. (This will preclude the "Easy out" solution of standing in the shower when the dam bursts.) Step Four: Start drinking slowly but regularly and consistently. Take notes on the differences in sensations and feelings for later. Step Five: When I reach the point where I think "right now is when I would definitely need to use the bathroom if that was an option" remove the frozen key from the freezer and let it thaw out at room temperature. Try to hold on until the key thaws out and I can unlock the barriers between me and the toilet. Step Six: Do laundry and mop up puddles as needed and appropriate. Bonus points if the key is still frozen and I am soaked but unable to change, and can feel the urge increasing again, as the resulting Gotta Go / Potty Dance movements will likely interfere with me actually cleaning anything up. Extra bonus points if I end up losing control and making another puddle while still cleaning up the first one. Step Seven: Get everything unlocked, wash up, and take the new hardware for a test drive if you know what I mean. Step Eight: Put protection on the mattress and myself before sleeping that night in case I wet the bed due to being extremely hydrated and having overexerted my bladder for a good part of the previous day. Wear protection the next few days as a precautionary measure even if I wake up dry. Bonus points if I have to use it, day or night, because I can't reach the bathroom in time despite the lack of obstacles. Extra bonus points if I reach the bathroom dry / with just a small leak or spurt, but have a big leak or completely lose control before I can actually use the toilet properly. HARD MODE: Limit the protection I purchase only to items like liners, pads, and guards that fit into normal underwear, rather than full replacements like diapers, pull-ups, and goodnites. This will vastly increase the chances of leaks, wet spots, and puddles.
  20. I have a recurring cyclic fascination with space travel, specifically prospective designs for spacecraft. Every few months I'll spent like a solid week reading or re-reading the Atomic Rockets website, or books like False Steps: The Space Race As It Might Have Been by Paul Drye. Other interests include steampunk and retropunk fiction and speculative tech design, paranormal studies, and unconventional or "fringe" scientific theories and research; I have accumulated a very large number of digital copies of the Journal of Borderlands Research and many of the books they mention in their articles. Strangely enough, I don't think my knowledge of survivalism and disaster prepper strategies qualifies as a special interest, it's something I got into as a coping strategy during a real bad time of my life. (I get the feeling that most survivalists are also like that, but they are in deep denial about it.)
  21. Couldn't pin it down to an exact age or time span, but I do know that it was in grade school, well before the onset of adolescence and the associated hormonal / physiological / neurological changes. That's why for the longest time I assumed it was something wrong with my brain, in the sense that it was trying to connect with something that didn't exist yet. When it finally did show up and the connections were completed, it made those years... well, more awkward than they normally would have been, which was quite a feat. It wasn't until I saw the sheer amount of material online, and communities dedicated to it (well before I found this one) that I realized it wasn't a one-off fluke of neurology or psychology. That's always a huge moment, both in the sense that people realize that there are others out there with the same kinks / sexual orientation / lack of sexual interest / perspectives on gender and gender roles / what have you, and also in the sense that such discoveries involve learning that these things all have names. And, in a way not that different from a lot of mythology and folklore, learning the name of something gives you power over it.
  22. Sounds like classical conditioning, AKA the Latchkey Effect / Last Mile Effect.
  23. This sounds context specific to the environment, because the availability of bathrooms and the ability to access them as needed plays a significant part in whether any given desperation scenario ends in "just made it" or "didn't make it" outcomes. Two people with the same bladder capacity and holding strength could be defined as either accident prone or not depending on if they live and work in an area with accessible bathrooms. Making choices that obviate bathroom accessibility is its own distinct issue, but if it's a personal habit or personality attribute to the point where people won't change even if they recognize the issue, I think that qualifies. It's just on a level other than pure physiology and anatomy and medicine.
  24. It's probably not what you had in mind but I immediately started thinking about otherwise ordinary but suspiciously out of context code phrases like those that might be used in elaborate spycraft contact and vetting systems. Stuff like "The Eagle has landed." but with an obvious water / rain / aquatic mammal element. One that I saw in a text to speech video about reddit AMAs that stuck with me was "Splash Mountain is now open" though that was intended for a rather different context.
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