Hello, I am known as K-8 (aka "conscious_object"). Here I keep a fetish blog with a (skewed) sense of humor. Contained herein you will find my various random thoughts on my unique fetishes, and interesting finds culled from all over the intarweb, including art by my friends, and sometimes my own art.

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Went to a Halloween play party last night at a hotel. I was walking through the hall toward the event space wearing in regular non-costume clothes, but with my Sexy Boots on over my jeans, when I pass by a mother and her very young daughter dressed up as a fairy, walking in the opposite direction. I politely smile, and as I pass I hear the little girl behind me exclaim excitedly to her mom in a half-whisper, "did you see her boots?!?"

And another future fetishist is born. ;-)

Remember that "Instant Babe" illusion by Jonathan David Bass I posted awhile back? Here's a slightly newer performance, that now has a third section to the sequence.

And yet instead, I'm tempted to buy a CapriSun and lay the discarded pouch behind the back tire of my car...

Who came up with this campaign? Was it one of you? ;-)





Found out about these from masteroftoys after a new RLV curse popped up in SL based on the whoopee cushion (with a twist).

There's also a website with a series of mini-games featuring adorable cartoon versions of the characters from the commercials. There are a few characters who haven't yet had their own commercial, but I'm hoping that's only a temporary thing, because I'm kind of curious to see one for Handlebar Harry. ;-)

After seeing an unfinished chair curse by Vexation in SL, Bastian and I started discussing the idea of werechairs and trying to brainstorm exactly how the curse would be passed on. I don't think we ever came to a definitive conclusion there, but he was inspired to do a few sketches of the idea.

Apparently turning into a chair tickles a little.



And Erica isn't quite sure whether or not a werechair is safe to sit in. I think you can tell from my expression that I'm surely not planning to say anything.

Y'know, spanking and impact play becomes much more interesting when the person being spanked is laying over the top of you like a mattress.

Many of the items sold at the Mech store (landmark) are collaborations between Mech, Rygel/Lustbaby, and Kafcorp. I was originally going to cover all three merchants at once here, but there's just too much stuff for a single entry. So this will be focusing on just the items that are considered primarly Mech products.

Right now, I'm really digging the "Dollystation." You know how I love console transformations. It even has a CD tray that opens up when you press it! Also, clicking the dual analog stick on my head activates "pleasure implants" that sound like a controller vibrating...except it's coming from my head. DualShock indeed.



If you want to be even more interactive, there's a set of colored buttons you can wear that make different sounds when people press them. The only downside is that they're so brightly colored and cover up the nice button design underneath, and the sounds are a little more Atari than Playstation.

There are also many other pieces included that you don't see here. The set includes many different pieces that can be mix and matched to customize your Dollystation a little. Different torso and leg designs, additional prop pieces such as shoulder pads and things. This is on top of whatever hair and skin you decide to pair with it from elsewhere.



(The white plastic skin above is by dreampaint, whose idea it was to add white plastic hair and skin, and glowing eyes to the mix.)

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HybridZ (landmark) is where to go if you enjoy your transformations mixed with the aesthetic of shiny latex. Latex petplay, latex human balloon, latex ponygirl, even a latex Giger alien. But my current favorite is probably the latex mermaid.

(Fish tank sold separately.)



While I'm just modeling the basic tail here, you actually get all sorts of extras and things for your L$800. A long mermaid hair is included in three different colors, starfish and shells to use as "pasties," some decorative ribbons for your arms, a giant display shell to lay in, and even a full latex hood if that's the sort of mermaid you want to be. It also includes a shell necklace that acts as an RLV collar, with features such as "freeze," "gag," "isolate," "block TP," and some sort of breath-related function that I don't entirely understand.

I also discovered accidentally that wearing certain skins while in the mermaid shape can create interesting alternate looks.

A week and a half ago there was a workshop/demo on the topic of latex, hosted by several key latex fetishists in the community, including the wonderful/intimidating Amanda Wildefyre. The description for the event also mentioned there would be a vacuum cube available, "for those who dare to try it." Oh, I dare!

The workshop was fantastic, and I learned all sorts of interesting things. For example, an inflatable armless latex jacket was demonstrated on one of the presenters. When I'd seen photos of these, I always thought the idea was silly..."so they're not able to use their arms, but they can still move them around inside this sort of balloon type thing their torso is encased in? No, it turns out the jacket has two layers of latex, the outer layer, and then an inner layer that says in contact with the person's skin. So when you inflate it, the outer layer expands, but the inner layer also expands a bit, making things all firm and cozy.

Additionally interesting, they demonstrated that if you touch a vibrator to the outside of the jacket, the person inside can feel the vibrations throughout the entire jacket. The presenter inside the jacket noted that, contrary to what you'd think would be the case, the vibrations are actually stronger when the vibrator is touched to an area where there is more air between the inner and outer layers of the jacket, rather than less.

Then she started getting a little distracted, and was having trouble adding much in the way of additional thoughts. ;-) Unfortunately from the angle I was sitting I couldn't see the expression on her face, but it sounded like she was enjoying herself. Amanda Wildefyre continued to talk about the jacket, while holding the vibrator in one of her hands all nonchalant, humorously pretending to ignore the noises the woman was making. Looked like fun, lol.

On an amusing but slightly awkward note: when I went to use the one-person rest room, I encountered an interesting surprise resulting from people using the room to change into latex outfits. I touched the door handle, and it was slippery with lube. Then I sit down on the seat, and it's slippery with lube. Oh my. o_O

Towards the end of the presentation, they decided to demonstrate several things they'd brought at once. On one side of the room was the vac cube, of course. On the other side, one of the other presenters was being transformed into a rubberdoll. The rubberdoll mask was very interesting. This particular one was very rigid, almost like a posture collar and hood in one. I guess when tightened, the feeling of the rubber pressing up against your face everywhere gives the effect that your skin has been melded with the rubber. Which would be pretty hot, feeling that and then looking in the mirror and seeing this (erotically) humiliating doll face looking back at you. I'm kind of bummed so many doll masks look...not as attractive as I'd like. I think the best would be a mask like that but resembles the head of a Barbie doll. That'd be fantastic.

But I know what you really want to hear about is the vac cube.

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There are so many interesting items that have been created in SL. In order to help me personally keep track of who made what and where a particular item came from, I've been thinking about blogging them here. And of course, there's the additional bonus of pointing you to where you can find these things.

Since this robot skin seems to be what I default to lately, I figure I owe the merchant a plug. Thankfully, SL resident Rei Gynoid had the answer to my question of "where is this from?" The answer: Eddie Escher's Gadgets & Skins (landmark).



The base skin comes from here. But the variations I'm usually wearing with the flesh areas added are personalized custom versions created by an SL acquaintance (and I feel guilty that I can't remember which one -- if it was you, feel free to remind me). As such, these ones are not for sale.

However, if you have a favorite flesh skin you'd like to combine with a metal one like this, there is a trick for the more advanced users. You could rip the texture (which I think is okay as long as you're not reselling them), and turn the skin into different bits of clothing. The clothing could then be layered over the robot skin in whatever combination you like. Maybe even an entire suit, if you want to be a robot disguised as a human. (And if you end up in an RLV machine that does the "removes your clothes" thing, you can surprise people when you're suddenly metallic instead.)

Although you don't have to be a metallic robot, either. The shop offers several variations, including white plastic and clear plastic.



I'm not going to lie to you, these three skins are pricey. At least by today's standards...maybe prices used to run higher several years ago, I don't know. But nowadays you can find many equally-fantastic skins out there for less than half the price (see TC Chrome Goddess).



For half the cost, there are also simplified, colored-chrome versions. Those of you who like shiny pink things may even prefer this one.

All I can figure is that maybe because you get two skins in the pack, the price on everything is doubled. Which is a little silly because most people are likely just going to use one and never use the other. And you can't buy them separately. But what can you do? Admittedly, they are very well done skins.

This play party was unique for me, aside from just taking place in a barn, in that it was the first play party where I've actually been played with. I was tied up at a previous party, but there was no play, just chilling out while bound. This time there was play, and it was kinda different having an audience, it was pretty fun.

I arrived in plain clothes, partly because I knew driving in my knew boots would not be very realistic, and also because I wasn't actually sure what I felt like wearing exactly, or if I'd feel like wearing anything fetish at all. I brought a bag with me that had the black outfit, and the ragdoll and silver zentai outfits from awhile back.

The barn contained various rigs to tie people to for scene-ing. The most interesting-looking was a suspension rig hanging from the ceiling. It looked like an oversize trapeze, a large triangle that cuffs could be fixed to, attached to a pulley at the ceiling allowing the height to be adjustable. Several of us tried out swinging on it a little. A friend pointed also out to me a ladder that went to a second level area without walls, that he thinks would be perfect for a puppet scene if some pullies and things were set up over there. Perhaps at another barn party we'll figure out how to make that happen.

After chit-chatting and hanging out for several hours, I was starting to feel a little more comfortable and at ease (social gatherings always make me a little nervous), and decided I'd give the outfit with the new boots a go. When I mentioned I'd brought a corset I was thinking of wearing, two girls I'd been chatting with both offered to help tighten it for me.

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For those who haven't been keeping up with season two of Dollhouse, I should tell you last night's episode involved a subplot where women were kidnapped and turned into forced living mannequins. Naturally, it was played up for extra creepiness in such a way that it didn't really light up the fetish fuel portion of my brain like it might've if, say, it didn't take place in some dark dungeon, and if ( Spoiler ).

But then, if I were playing with some of these concepts in a mainstream story, I'd probably ramp up the creepiness as well just so no one would suspect I might, say, have a fetish that could involve seeing actresses on set standing very still, looking like mannequins, and pretending they're stuck like that. Ya know.

A few lines this episode that amused me:

"He'll be an empty-headed robot walking around Hollywood. He'll be fine."

"We have names, remember that. We're human, we're not his toys."

Doesn't that last line sound like something right out of a story on LTBSA or something?

Anyways, on a totally not at all related note, it appears from the preview shown after the credits that next week we'll be getting a flashback story detailing the whole story of the evil mind control enthusiast who had Sierra turned into a doll. Have we surprised Totally Spies yet, or no?

I'm getting so behind...now I have *two* things I need to write about here: the story behind this pic from two weeks ago, and now getting to try out a vacuum box earlier this evening.

Those are not contact lenses in her eyes. Nor is it a Photoshop trick. Her eyes have actually been "painted" with the same silver liquid that's on her skin. (More here.)

Turns out this particular variety of silver "paint" is actually a powder that you mix with some sort of oil, and apparently if you get it in your eyes it doesn't even agitate them like other substances. The only side effect is that your eyes appear silver until the liquids in your eyes flush it out naturally. It seems you can even see through it, though it does possibly make your vision a little blurry.

But apparently not blurry enough to keep you from being able to play Mario Kart.



(Found by "Utsumi.")

Near the Grotto area at Doll Works, you might notice some new little pedestal displaying a few vials of green liquid. I'd advise you to just ignore it. I grabbed a vial thinking it'd be some sort of *fun* transformation, but instead it just turns you into a zombie, and won't unlock you until you've run in 20 people (have you *ever* seen 20 people on DW at one time? I haven't). A nine on K-8's lameness scale.

If you've got $4,000-6,000 to burn, you can now own the Galatea-style Stewardess robot suit built for Bicentennial Man, currently up for auction.

But if you're wanting to wearing it, be aware that it's built for someone around 5'6 or shorter. A bit small for me, sadly, even if I could afford it.

I ran into one of those Bane creatures last week while walking around Sin Labs. Can you believe it tried to wave at me? The gall.

Last night I transformed myself into the figurehead of a small ship, and gave a ride to a party of five. Unfortunately there wasn't a lot of water around, so eventually I just took to the sky and floated above the rooftops. The ride came to a stop in someone's swimming pool.

I splurged a little. There was a play party coming up, and I wanted to wear the shiny catsuit and corset I've posted here before, but I had not suitable footwear for it. So I splurged a little and bought these buckle-y platform heel boots. (Anything over $40 I tend to call a "splurge," while anything over $100 I call "out of my price range.")

Only thing I was worried about is that the extra height it gave me would leave everyone too intimidated to, y'know, tie me up or anything. Thankfully that wasn't the case (I did get tied up, I'll talk about it more later), and actually I was really surprised by how much attention I got from my outfit. A lot more comments and compliments than I was expecting, and people asking to touch it. And exchanges like me announcing to the people I'm chatting with that I'm going to grab something from the snack table across the room quickly, and hearing in return "okay, we're just going to watch from here." I felt very objectified (in a good way). ;-)

Here's a pic of the boots with the outfit. I'll try to get a better angle of it later, but the barn the party was in makes for an interesting contrast in the background I think.

If I wanted to get my avatar a new haircut, like say something longer and curlier, where would be the best place to go?