In which I have the mind-blowing experience to end all mind-blowing experiences, at least until the next one comes along, preceded by a truly terrible dining experience.
Saturday!
What I meant to do: get up early enough to attend classes.
What I actually did: slept in til just before lunch time
Sigh. So apologies (again) to hypno-sandwich and also to daja-the-hypnokitten and hypnosisenthusiast, all of whom had classes that I missed. (Just keep repeating “it’s an UNCON”)
But man do I enjoy sleeping in. It’s one of my favorite things! So the next actual scheduled thing we (myself, Carneggy, and Kat) attended was the catered lunch, which was excellent. There were food and speeches, introductions and awards, and getting to know people. If you were at the table with us and read this please remind me who you are! Because, sigh, it is again all a blur. Part of that is I was still getting to know Kat and spent an awful lot of time focusing on her. Part of that is mind-entropy from not taking notes nightly. (No, that wasn’t a joke, I really did intend at one point to take notes every night.) So please let me know :)
After lunch I had intended to attend krullfelix2002 ‘s story telling class. Yeah, that didn’t happen either. Instead, we went back up to the room and…well you don’t really have to know, right? I’m sure you can guess that there was more getting comfortable happening. Right up until it was time to hit the one class I did attend in full, Carneggy’s Potato/Potatoe discussion. Which was fascinating. I am fairly pathological about being understood, and always try to use exactly the word that means precisely what I want to say, and have MANY MANY times ran into terminology issues where what I was saying and what other people were hearing differed. So very topical and appropriate to my interests.
Which is why I feel fairly bad about admitting that my favorite part of that class was before it even started, when hypno-sandwich grabbed my hair, and theleeallure grabbed my throat, and zanythoughts grabbed my hand, and between the three of them reduced me to a dazed and shaking semblance of a human being, who then had to spend most of the following discussion trying not to obviously shake while pressing my legs together and doing my best to just (fucking focus already!) pay attention to what Carneggy was saying.
I don’t think he minded.
And then it was time for the great meal debacle of MEEHU2 (part 1) – the trip to the Mexican restaurant. Which was chosen because it was close, and therefore faster and more time-efficient.
When the universe makes jokes, it really goes all out.
I waited tables for 14 years, I know of what I speak.
THINGS THE RESTAURANT DID WRONG
1. no splitting checks.
2. food taking almost an hour to arrive
3. food being less than room temperature but more than stone cold when it did finally arrive
4. NEVER bringing the check.
5. Making us late for Hysterical Literature
THINGS THE RESTAURANT DID RIGHT
1. the pineapple margaritas
Just in case you didn’t catch it, I was late to Hysterical Literature. We arrived a little bit into the first reading, zanythoughts performing hypno-sandwich ‘s story “ClickBate”, which I recognized right away since it was part of our first story challenge. What I didn’t realize was that much like in the original videos upon which this presentation was based, zany had a little help under the table. She got through the entire story, which was a real act of willpower! And not coincidentally hotter than hot.
But wait, do you, gentle reader, even know what Hysterical Literature is? Here, go check this out – but be warned, Stoya is definitely NSFW!
Hot, right? Well, in our version, each of us who read got hypnotic coaching beforehand to achieve the same result as Stoya’s hidden vibrator.
Here, as best I can remember, is the lineup that night. (In no particular order. Because reasons. Because I don’t recall who went when until the last of us.)
Well, except obviously…
1 = zanythoughts
We also had: HotPleasure reading from MindPlay
Solarianne reading from the MindPlay Study Guide (which weirdly seems to only be available in the UK right now)
ashcatred reading one of her own (unfuckingbelievably hot) works
RoseSpells and Doomsux reading from an absolutely hilarious radio play (the name of which I do not know, although it sounded very familiar) about trying to remember the title of a movie
hypnokittencalico reading chapter 9 of The Fellowship of the Ring (hobbitsssss!)
dreamdropdazing – who was soooooo funny and soooooo good and sooooo inspired me to go out and get the book from which he was reading- John Hodgman’s “The Areas of My Expertise”
hypnosubdude reading from, I kid you not, a choose your own adventure book called “You Are A Shark”
me, reading chapter one of Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality, aka the best fanfic of all fanfics ever written and everyone should go out and read it right now, it’s free for crying out loud
and hypno-sandwich, reading from the recent and historic Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, which was hands-down the most moving reading of the night. (And I didn’t link to the whole thing, just the article, you can find the whole thing for yourself if you want.)
IT WAS AMAZING. As you can probably imagine, most of us who participated have a certain flair for the dramatic even without the aid of hypnotically induced orgasms. I would go so far as to say that some of us who participated have probably been brought to near orgasm just through performing on some other occasion. (And please let me know if you have!)
After that I got to play a little bit of hypno egg with both Kat and orchid-girl, and found out that the writer of Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality was interested in having me post a file of my reading online for him. Because his housemates were at MEEHU.
I fucking love this world I live in now.
And then Carneggy, Kat, and I meandered past the con suite and up to the room, and you know, got more comfortable with each other.
#shut up Brin nobody cares #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #nsfw #I still don’t have a rationalist tag #I tried to insert a readmore but I couldn’t get it to work right #oh well at least it’s tagged #in that case I should also tag it #long post