My owner and I were invited to attended Subversion on Friday 7th June along with Scamp & Mark, Scamp’s Owner – Rexpup and Sam. We’d never been before, so after rearranging some plans, we agreed that we would go along. As we got closer to the event, however, we had to change plans again as we had an early start at work on the Saturday morning which meant we’d now have to leave early.
The evening started off with me meeting my owner at Victoria Station so we could get some food (Subversion starts at 10pm) and then walk to Scamp’s hotel. After the food, as we walked towards Vauxhall, a group of people walking the other way said to me “My dog’s walked all over your t-shirt” as I’d had my dog collar and paw print t-shirt on.
We changed at Scamp’s hotel, met up with the others, and started wandering to the venue. We called in at a shop to get buttons on the way, and then carried on to the venue.
After changing in the venue, we checked our bags in and had a wander round… Dance floor and dungeon area seemed to be the only bits we saw, preferring the dungeon area as you can actually hear in there and the bar was quieter!
After a short while after my first drink, I dropped down to all-4’s to be a pup, and there I stayed, just soaking up the atmosphere and being a good docile well behaved puppy. Broken only by the various head scritches and pats on the back.
At one point I got chatting to a group of people from the L.A.M., who told us that there next demo is on animal play, (pups / ponies etc) but I get a niggling feeling I’ll be working during the day of the L.A.M. in July 🙁 … but I’ll see what I can do, as it’s be great to attend 🙂 *wags*
As the night went on we moved round the dungeon area a bit as one of our group was being tormented on the cross.
Earlier in the night we watched Sam being suspended in rope bondage, and I decided I would like to try it out, so later on I asked the person if I could… He said yes, so I was duly tied up and hung by some ropes 🙂 I was very well behaved though *wags*. I’ve done suspension bondage before, but using the leather mitts or ankle cuffs, which is fun and experiences of this can be found elsewhere on the blog. The rope suspension was somewhat different though – due to the nature that you can spread the weight out across various locations of the body means you’d not limited to ‘one hanging position’. In the rope I was suspended face down with my arms behind my back. I felt totally calm and relaxed as I knew I was in safe hands. This is definitely an experience that I’d like to try again 🙂 After a short while – I started to feel the weight on my chest, and so it was time to come back to ground level.
Shortly after the suspension, it was time to go – I had hoped to leave the venue in full pup gear, but because I didn’t have any of it on for the suspension as it would have been in the way, I ended up leaving in just Zentai and harness … A night bus and then the Oxford Tube back to where I’d parked the car earlier and we finally got home and into bed at 4am and set the alarms for 7.30am, to try to be awake for work!
All in all a good night out, and would go back again. Now that we know what’s there, I guess I’d know better what to bring and what is the ‘norm’ for things that go on there.