Hey Y’All.  You may have noticed that I haven’t been producing much in the way of fiction this summer.  If you haven’t noticed, then my writing must suck and nobody misses it.  And that would be freaking sad, so please pretend like you’re all pissed at me for not writing.  K?  K!  

Any-who, I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff in the physical world.  I know.  That sounds like an excuse.  Well…. sorry.  Not sorry.  Real life comes first, after all.

One of my real-life projects has been a pretty major redesign of my “playroom.”  I’m actually trying to do some huge upgrades to turn this into a nearly fully remote, full-service, self-bondage/remote bondage, long-term, damsel dungeon and training center.  And the cool thing is…I’ve already got some of the new additions up and running!!

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OK, first of all, here’s a diagram of the old playroom.  As you can see, I’ve got a big o’ ranch style basement.  

We did 9-foot ceilings, thinking I’d finish the space one day, but I just don’t need it finished.  And I used it for storage and work back when I had the furniture business.  So, keeping it unfinished just made sense.  

I doctored up the blueprint and I think it’s pretty easy to follow.  But I’ll walk you around the space anyway.  Up at about 1 o’clock, there is that shaded block labeled “Fill/Not Basement.”  That’s actually space under a raised deck up on the first floor.  There are French doors in the middle of that “square” that open up into the main area just above the “m” in the word “Playroom.”  The doors open up to the outside, but because it’s under the deck and because I have some super effective curtains on the doors and on all of the windows, I can get the basement pretty pitch black.

Next to that area is my workshop.  There’s a double basin stationary tub big enough to about take a bath in if you’re tiny.  I didn’t use one of those newer fiberglass jobs from Home Depot.  I had the builder go find me a big old cast iron heavy duty one like the ones I grew up with.  I just wanted really solid equipment where I was going to be working.  There are also two long work benches.  One only spans half the wall to make room for the miter saw.  My tools are all over the peg boards and one shelves and in bins underneath the counters.  I’ve also got lots of plywood, miscellaneous lumber, blah blah blah, you get the picture…

Moving around to 3 o’clock, that’s the “bathroom.”  I have a sink, toilet and a bare showerhead over a drain.  It’s all builder’s grade.  The room isn’t framed or anything.  I set up some moveable room partitions to provide some privacy for when I have company down there for movies and, in the case of Sarah and/or Lou, when we’re working on bondage sessions.  It’s all totally functional, if a little weird being so “open” when you’re taking care of nature.  

Down around 5 o’clock you might notice the word “Door.”  The blueprint got cut off/cropped.  There’s actually another room just beneath that foundation wall.  It’s the space under the front porch.  The ceiling in there is only 7 feet.  The walls are a lot rough/not finished smooth like the basement is.  The door is HEAVY and seriously secured.  The space inside is where I store my “extra” firearms and my emergency ammo.  I’m cheap.  Ammo is NEVER on sale.  But if you look, you can find private sellers wanting to unload (see what I did there) as few boxes or crates of miscellaneous ammo for below market.  And I always snatch it up.  I mostly hand onto it, but sometimes I sell off parcels to churn my hobby funds.  At any given point in time, I probably have between 60K-80K rounds down there.  That includes pistol, rifle and shotgun, so…you know…it’s not really ALL that much.   Lol.

At 6 o’clock you have my roughed in kitchenette and main TV area.  Again, no walls.  I just threw down some rugs and moved in some furniture.  My recliner is down there.  I LOVE that recliner.  It’s my after, after-care space.  That means, once I’ve finished a hard bondage session, I go to my immediate after-care space to recuperate.  Once I can stand up again, I stagger over to the recliner with my alpaca fur blankie and crash out there.  It’s fucking amazing Y’all.  

At 7 o’clock you have the stairs up to the main floor of the house.  Then from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock is all unfinished space.  Not pictured around 10 o’clock are the water heaters and the HVAC.  

Lastly, at 12 o’clock is the air mat rig.  You’ll notice a bunch of solid black dots in straight lines.  Those are foundation posts holding up the beams that hold the main floor up.  I’ve got a few anchor points for bondage tether lines secured to those.  There are also several O-rings anchored into the concrete in the floor and the foundation walls at different places where needed.  The two “X’s” are where I have chin-up bars installed in the rafters.  And there’s also another TV on a pivot mount that pulls out from the wall and tilts up and down or to either side.  I was SOOO proud of that TV mount.  I installed it myself.  But I don’t know if I’ve ever needed to tilt the TV.  Total waste!  Lol.  

Anyway, that’s the playroom, as it’s been for like the last 5 years.  I’ve got good wifi and can log onto the internet on the TV screens.  I also have a really adaptable tablet mount for when I can’t set up my bondage facing a TV.  And then the remote-control power adapters that work the air mat and my toys connect via a separate hotspot.

 I do that not only for privacy but also for redundancy.  Something could go wrong with the house Wi-Fi, but as long as the cell phone towers are up, the hot spot is going to be good.

The changes I’m making are going to make the air mat kind of obsolete.  I’ll explain that in the next little bit…

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I’ve talked about the air mat self-bondage rig a ton in a bunch of different stories and articles, so I’ll just explain it in super general terms.  I typically use the mat in one of three ways.  It’s either a “winch” to pull and tighten different ropes that are part of my bondage, I deflate it out from under me and have my ropes tethered to the ceiling so that my body weight cinches the ropes, or I get myself into a hogtie or some other restrictive bondage that I need to get up onto my knees to escape from, and then I inflate the mat with tethers from my bondage to the sides so that when it inflates and goes rigid, I’m stakes down in place and can’t get back up to my knees to escape.  

That last technique is a relatively newer thing for me and it’s freaking awesome.  I can get into some crazy tight back arching hogties like that.  So much fun!

Anyway, all of those uses for the air mat involve me in leather cuffs or harnesses with rope tethers attached to them, or traditional rope ropes around my arms or wrists or whatever with additional ropes as tethers AND cinches that attach to the mat.  

There are usually a lot of moving parts, so to speak.  For the system to be effective, I’ve learned to become extremely precise.  The mat has to be lines up perfectly with the anchors above and around me.  Tether lines have to be measured out exactly and account for changes that will take place including my elevation level as a mat either inflates and lifts me off the floor or deflates and lowers me.  Two inches difference can be the critical different between my elbows being pulled together holding my in impossible to escape ecstasy or them having plenty of slack allowing me to wiggle out without much effort.

Or worse, mistakes in measurements can make a rigging job uncomfortable or possibly even dangerous.  And that’s why I have tested and tested and tested each and every position probably 10 times starting as highly escapable and then increasing tightness slowly until I get it just right.  I’m super careful Y’all.

But my new bondage rigging is going to lean heavily on powerful magnets.  These are the wall-mounted magnets that are used to lock doors.  It took some searching, but I found a product that is suitable for my needs.  First, it plugs into a standard power outlet and doesn’t have to be hardwired into the house electrical.  I COULD have done the hard wiring, but I want to be able to move the magnets around to different structures (bondage devices).  Also, my remote controls rely on power outlets.  I had some ideas to make them work with hardwiring, but this is much simply.  

Secondly, the magnets have a holding strength of 600 pounds.  In pretty much any giving bondage position, I’m going to have at least two of these magnets locking me up, and there is no part of my collective body strength that can move 1,200 pounds.  So,you can color me helpless.  

And lastly, the “plate” that you would mount to the door that would be attracted to the magnet, hence, “locking” the door, is a nice, slender rectangle of metal about 12-inches long, just the right length for my forearms and my ankles/calves.

I’m sure you’ve seen the magnetic door locks I’m talking about.  And I’m sure it makes sense that if you mount the magnet to an immoveable wall and the plate to a moveable door, by turning on the magnet, the plate (and the door its attached to) is lock against the immoveable wall making the door also immoveable.  Simple.  For my purposes, mounting the magnet to some kind of bondage structure is about the same thing as mounting it to a door frame or a wall.  But what about the second part?  How do I mount a metal plate to a damsel (me)?

I tried a few different things that worked by didn’t work great.  But then I finally went back to my cheerleading roots and came up with the perfect fix!

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I needed to ditch the cuffs Y’all.  They’re the wrong shape.  And you can’t attach the long plates with the surface area that I’m looking for to them securely.  In fact, trying to winds up destroying the cuffs.  They don’t work.  So long my old friends.  You gotta go.

Instead, I am now using athletic tape to wrap my wrists/forearms and my ankles/calves.  This solution solves ALL of the problems.  The underlayer of foam “pre-wrap” conforms perfectly to my body, provides a moisture seeping barrier and gives a little cushion.  I can also layer it thicker where I need to in order to turn curved body parts into more of flatter surfaces.

 Then I go over that with a “protective” layer of tougher tape which creates something of a soft “cast.”

 I wrap it up between my thumb and fingers and down my wrist and forearm halfway to my elbow.  For my legs, I wrap it around my foot and up around my ankles right up to the base of my calf.  All of this coverage displaces the tightness of the bondage over a ton of surface area so even though I’m held in firm pressure ALL around my ankles and wrists, none of it is biting or cutting.  It is perfectly customized for my body.  

With the “casts” applies, I then attach the metal plates and wrap them securing in three places, so they are firmly mounted and not going anywhere.  It’s OK that the tape covers up parts of the plates, the magnets still attract the heavy pieces of metal.  

And that’s pretty much it, Y’all.  I position the plates up against the mounted magnets, the power comes on, and that’s all she wrote.  There’s 600 pounds of resistance for each leg and each arm.  There’s almost a roll of tape on each point of bondage.  I can only wiggle as much as the thick layers of tape will give.  And that’s nearly no give at all.  Yeah.  However I’m positioned when the magnets turn on, that’s exactly how I’m going to stay.

It’s pretty fucking awesome!!

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So here is the sketch and notes I started with for “bondage device numero uno!”  Yeah, it’s a declined St. Andrew’s cross.  

It’s a flat layer of plywood with a 4X4 frame around the perimeter and also in the middle where my weight is going to be, to give it stability and weight.  That bad boy is heavy!  I anchored another 4X4 in the floor so I could lean it against the wall and not have it slide anywhere.  I can also reach it with my toes once I’m locked in place so my weight isn’t being held by the tape wrappings.  I cut out openings for the magnets to be mounted underneath so that I’d be laying flush on the surface.  But I also used furniture foam cushioning and fabric to make a thick “Tina-outline” for me to sink into.  I want to be able to remain on this thing potentially for a long time, so comfort is key, people!  And I also have leather straps positioned in key places to hold me nice and secure.  I don’t really need the straps.  Once the magnets turn on, I can’t get my hand or ankles off of them.  But the straps give me more of the classic St. Andrews experience.  They also disperse MORE of my weight in case I get tired of standing in the recline.  I can go partially limp and the straps pick up the slack.

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And this is only the beginning, Y’all.  I got big plans for more devices.  One super simple use for the magnets is to lock up keys to my cuffs or for padlocks.  I just place the key(s) on the magnet and then it’s impossible for me to pick them up and use them to release myself.  I could use a long chain and have pretty free reign of the dungeon (not playroom anymore!) but not be able to escape so long as the magnet is turned on.  

And I also want to be able to be coerced into compliance by a remote “user.”  I want them to have the ability to release me from one station, allow me to use the bathroom or the kitchen or take a shower, and then compel me to get locked up on another station.  And I have an answer for that.  It’s called a shock collar.  I figure I can have the “fence” plugged into an outlet.  The whole basement will be “outside” of the fence.  So if my “user” wants me to lock myself into a new bondage device, they can just turn on the power to the fence to encourage compliance.  

There are some kinks to work out, but I totally see the potential.

Of course, I’ll be super careful and I’ll have my body guards Sarah and Lou making sure I’m OK for any of these extensive sessions of captivity.  For now, I’m just having fun challenging myself and getting all creative again.

Maybe I’ll even feel like writing again soon.  😊