omg lesson#45: a little fun with bubble wrap (pop! pop! pop! in the dungeon)

it all started when i saw a giant roll of bubble wrap...you know, the kind with the big bubbles and not the little bubbles? i love popping those things. i have, ever since i was a child and we got something in the mail with that lovely stuff wrapped inside. i remember my siblings and i getting all excited about the wrap (and not so much the actual, ahem..contents of the package) and my mother would dutifully dole out the scraps 'equally' so we could pop with wild abandon. and i remember her keeping a scrap for herself :)

now being the impact player, that i am, i got to thinking about what toys might result in popping those bubbles if say, a person was wrapped in bubble wrap...what would it take? how hard could i hit? would the body cushion the bubbles too much and there would be no satisfying popping sounds? would the sounds of bubbles popping be just as satisfying with a little s&m thrown in? 

thus, the idea of a scene was born. 

not one of my typical intense scenes. i discussed it with a sub friend who's a heavy maso. we'd never actually played together before but we'd flirted with the idea. and we got to talking and we started just spitballing ideas and laughing and thinking what a great scene it could make. fun and more performance for a public scene even, then a typical scene we'd seen at local play parties. but it was just a wacky idea, really. and that was all it was. 

fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. i had been jonesing for play for a couple of months. it had been awhile but with a back injury, i'd been taking it easy. so i didn't want anything intense or crazy for my kinky return. not play like i normally like to play. i wanted something light hearted and fun. 

and what could be more fun than bubble wrap?

so i asked my sub friend and she immediately agreed to bottom for it. we checked out the practicalities b/c we needed to see whether this would even work (it totally did) and b/c aesthetics are important to me - how were we going to affix all the bubble wrap? where was it safe to hit? what implements worked best? it was not so much about sensation play b/c my bottom wouldn't get the full impact and i wasn't going to be swinging super hard...but we did use a foam bat which i definitely had to wind up for...that was fun :)

of course, we had some theories going in...surface to impact ratio and whether that would reduce bubble popping and so on. b/c *science*. none of our theories going in, held any water, b/c neither of us are scientists. or mathematicians. or physicists. or any of that scienc-y stuff that could actually figure out the right calculations anyway. our scientific method was simply pick up a toy and whack. did it pop a bubble? nope? next....that was fun, too. 

the actual scene included lots of humour, theatrics. a wee bit of audience participation (which we'd negotiated as a possibility beforehand), a few scary looking toys - think meat tenderizer, homemade saps, a rubber mallet,  a paddle or two, a cane, and of course, the foam bat for comedic effect:) but a sadist like me couldn't leave it at that, could she? and a masochist like her was open to some rough body play, a bit of breast punching, and overall manhandling. oddly enough, it was one of the rare scenes i did *without* any bondage. i mean, she started out with a blindfold but we discussed my wanting to pull it off at some point, potentially. but that's it. rare, indeed, for me. 

i hope there are bruises. and i hope she posts them if there are. i am a person who likes to see their work, after all...

thanks to @caiden (on fetlife) for acting as photographer for our scene. and hugs to @bunnyfoofoo42 (on fetlife) who was game throughout the entire process: scene development, negotiation and play and was just an awesome bottom to play with. i need to do more scenes with bubble wrap is all i gotta say...

oh, and did you know? punching bubble wrap with a fist doesn't make it pop....and i'm told, i don't punch like a girl...

and i've invested in more bubble wrap. and other plastic bondage products at my friendly neighbourhood warehousing store. did you know that industrial plastic wrap comes in colours other than clear? like black and purple?!?! cuz they do :)

Mar 3, 2019