…subtle is as subtle does

I have a question…

on October 9, 2011

…was it my bad for not telling him specifically not to put the collar(s) on and leaving him to his own devices?

(see the previous post if you’re confused)

See, I think this is possibly where the cause of quite a few of our disconnects lays… I have a tendency to think that he will submit in the same sort of way that I did.

In my mind, I have a few basic sets of behaviours that I think are pretty ‘standard’ for a slave. These basic sets contain things such as not putting on/ taking off collars by oneself, being nice to your owner a.k.a making coffee, giving back rubs/foots rubs/ plague cramp rubs, saying please and thank you etc., asking your owner’s wants before making assumptions and so on and so forth. Basic stuff that, to me at least, comes with the territory of being someone’s property.

As I mentioned before, I don’t want a doormat. I don’t want someone who needs to be told/asked every single thing. As far as household duties are concerned, I rather he see what needs to be done and do it. I don’t want to have to make a list of ‘tasks’ and then find out that he didn’t do something that needed to be done because ‘it wasn’t on the list’.

If truth be told, I’m not really into the asking permission for every single thing deal either. I have no interest in whether he needs to empty his bowels or not. I’d rather he quickly go and do whatever bodily functions he needs to and then return, ready in case I need him to do something.

I like the idea of my property acting autonomously with a focus on obeying and pleasing me. At this stage in my current life, with my shitty job, family dramas and whatnot, I don’t need the pressure of yet another thing to worry about. I would gain much more pleasure and satisfaction from him trying to be the best he possibly can be due to his own volition and not because he was doing only what I told him to do. I would like to think that he was constantly asking himself, “What can I do to make my Mistress happy?” and then doing what was necessary to make that a reality.

And the reality of what would make me happy is quite simple: I’d like the house & garden reasonably tidy, the toilets being able to be flushed, him looking after his health and eating/exercising appropriately, him doing some further career training or something to make him look superficially more employable (he doesn’t need worthless pieces of paper as he is infinitely qualified,  but they show that you are actively doing something about your career), spending time together and having play sessions when I’m in the mood and/or when he has deserved them.

It sounds a bit like I want the best possible slave, with the least amount of input from me, doesn’t it? Lol. Typical slack-ass domly one….

And therein is where the problem lays. He’s not an A++++ over achiever. He doesn’t do things for self-satisfaction. He is very used to doing whatever he wants and only whatever he wants. For all his thinking, “I’m a slave” I don’t think he’s quite there yet, and honestly, I don’t think he even cares whether I think he is in that ‘slave space’ or not. If he thinks he is a slave, he is. That’s M’s bottom line.

I’d like to have his self-assurance and I-don’t-give-a-fuck-about-what-anyone-thinks style. It must be very freeing not to be self-conscious and to have his take-me-as-I-am-or-leave-me attitude. Unfortunately, that works very well for someone who doesn’t want to be property.

But if you want to be property – you’re essentially signing yourself up to being something that someone else wants. It’s not about you, your ego or your wants and needs.It’s about your owner and what they choose to give you. As a slave you have to accept whatever you are given and be focussed on your owner’s pleasure (of course, owners do have a certain responsibility to their property as well, but that’s a topic for another time…)

I’m not sure he thought about these things when he chose the collar. I think, naively like me, he simply thought that he would be kept as he kept me – that nothing would change except who was the one wearing the collar. He doesn’t care for ritual or ‘airy fairy’ stuff. He doesn’t give a toss who touches the collar as long as the appropriate person is wearing it.

But I do.

I don’t like him messing with his collar. I also don’t like him touching my toys. I’m into poses and ‘thinking time’, ‘high protocol’ periods and restraints for a reason (nothing annoys me more than an un-held leash or bondage just for the sake of it – you gonna tie someone up? Cool, well tie them up so they can’t move.)

I’m not exactly the same kind of owner that M was and he’s not the same kind of slave that I was. There are years of  M/s ‘baggage’ that we have to navigate around and I’m not the best pilot..yet.

I think it’s time I look seriously at those driving lessons.

 


25 Responses to “I have a question…”

  1. Anonymous says:

    Sorry that this is off post, but I have to ask.

    So, let me get this straight. You had no problem with what was said. You had no problem with anything any anonymous poster has done. Your problem is basically you don’t like people you don’t know? and your resolution to this was to vote down, attack and otherwise provoke “one person or several”… and in the event that the returning poster is the one that apologized for a mistake I fail to see how that is a problem if the poster is (again) non-aggressive?

    Now before the flesh golem leaps to your defense by voting me down or a scathing attack made up from the usual script of previous things you’ve said, I’m actually not trying to cause a fight, I’m just trying to understand if it’s really that childish, and if it is, if your big enough to apologize for your behavior and obvious over reaction.

    Now, I’ve gone back 3 posts, neither you or carina have profiles, no links, nothing attached to your comments, the only people who have actually got anything linked to their accounts are sephani and conina, which makes you a hypocrite and little better than the anonymous posters you have so much contempt for.

    Now please, stop going on about knowing her in real life, I couldn’t care less and I doubt anyone else does either, the posts are public, anonymous comments are enabled and if your opinion is the only one that matters she can always make the blog private, or disable anonymous posters, or chat to you in person, or one of a hundred things that doesn’t involve you trying to dom the comments and trying to crush all who oppose what you have to say.

    So wheres your blog and profile blair? I want to see if there is any difference in character and style, I even promise not to post, just read.

  2. MsBlairWitchPerth says:

    Ok, so I’m just going to do this last post and then leave you all to it…in my original comment on this post I just said that I knew them and that I wasn’t an anonymous poster, I wasn’t referring to other anonymous posters at that time….I realise you say you don’t care about that and that’s fine.

    I don’t recall saying you don’t have a blog I just mean’t that it would make things clearer for people if posters have a profile name attached to their posts as on some occasions, there have been several anonymous posters which has resulted in a lot of confusion.

    If you want to see my profile you can search for me on fet – I am easy to find on there. You refer to your initial comment was meant to be humourous….Humour is a very personal emotion….what some see as humour, others can see as sarcasm and vice versa…Life’s like that.

    Anyway, will leave it at that…As I said you can check me out on fet. If you still have issues on this topic I suggest you contact me via my profile there and rather than continue it on here. I haven’t used the thumbs up/thumbs down thing as far as I can recall…but I am sure if there is a way to find out who’s done what – someone will certainly jump in and tell us the statistics…either way I didn’t post my original comments for anyone’s benefit except to try and give guidance to Ms K. Best wishes to all of you.

    Enjoy!
    :-)

    Ms B

  3. Anonymous says:

    I took exception to the non existent quote and the reference to something that was done and dusted.

    I never said you did, I mentioned that you never had any profile or other information linked to your previous posts (a link to your fetlife profile?), I asked about the blog at the end of the post, I was curious if you had one and if so, if you would provide a link.

    I never referred to my initial anything, I mentioned the posts that you over reacted to. Claiming that humor is deeply personal? Why didn’t you just say that you took offense anon didn’t take the time to read it instead of escalating it into a flame-war? and claiming a continuation of a joke (that was actually voted up and agreed with) was the cause of the problem?

    I think you need to rethink your position attempting to mentor another until your temper is less quick, you stop deflecting responsibility onto others while preaching your own values and aggressively apposing other ideas. Subtle is finding her feet, she will apply herself differently and discover in her own time if this is the life for her.

    But I will agree with you that this corpse has been flogged enough, all of my questions have been answered, either with answers or silence, either way I have picked up everything I wanted to know.

    My greetings to the blog owner who has stayed strangely absent from the discussion, I for one look forward to your next post Subtle and i hope that you take something useful from both sides.

  4. carina says:

    hmmm interesting anon uses carine and not carina…

    there are only a few who know about carine and i now have probably worked out who anon is..

    ooops thats an opinion i made all on my own, no mouthpiece here, just a vomit bag seeing i make you want to vomit.

    go crawl back in you hole where you belong.

  5. Anonymous says:

    *sigh* One steps down, the other steps in.

    This is why you (carina) get called a mouth piece, sock puppet and now flesh golem. You (carina) don’t seem to have any personality of your (carina) own, your (carina) like a trained animal with little IQ and a basic set of commands.

    “Master (blair) trapped down the well! Woof! Grrr! SQUIRREL! BARK BARK BARK!”

    So, is the reason your (carina) so far behind the events (that finished a while ago) because it’s taken this long to figure it all out? Or this long for blair (blair) to update you (carina) on your (carina) new thoughts and opinions (brain dead), although thats being a little generous, since you (carina) seem only capable of small snippets of coherence i think its far more likely it took this long for you (carina) to figure out how to copy and paste from the email (blair sent).

    So… don’t keep me in suspense, who am I?

    Everything in brackets is for carina’s (carina) benefit as she doesn’t seem to be able to follow events.

    (I was bored of this long ago, so is everyone else, now go get your dog biscuit and leave the subject in peace.)

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