Platypus Erotica

I was just looking at my blog stats and I noticed that apparently someone found this blog on Saturday by searching for "platypus erotica". Now, I’ve definitely heard of stranger search terms that have led to a blog, but this is the first for me so I felt compelled to comment on it. If the person (so far as I can tell it was only one) who found me by searching for platypus erotica is still reading, I would love to know what made you decide to type those two words together into a search engine. I’m truly curious. Were you looking for anthropomorphic artwork? Short stories about anthro platypi goin at it? Or perhaps descriptions of the mating rituals of real life platypi? Whatever it was, welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy your stay.

Warm Welcome

I think I’ve figured out the names for my two new platypi and hopefully after this post we won’t be hearing from Prime for a while.

Anyway, please welcome Kystka, whose posts will focus on arts and crafts things. I think mostly it’s going to be art or craft projects I’m working on, but this could also apply to things I see when I’m out somewhere that are handcrafted and I think they’re very cool. Or if I’m searching the web and find how-to pages I may link to them from here. I have a feeling that many of these posts will involve pictures.

Also please welcome Crytia, whose posts will focus on geeky/nerdy/pop culturey things. The most likely topics to come up are probably tabletop role playing games, books, TV shows, movies, video games, comics, cartoons, Renaissance festivals… all that sort of things. Crytia will also probably be the first of the two new platypi to post because I’m not currently working on any craft projects (though I should be starting one soon), however I have been playing a lot of Borderlands recently.

New Platypi

I have come to the conclusion that I was wrong, I am going to need more platypi than I had initially thought. The idea was to have most of the posting be done as the more specified platypi rather than Prime, but more and more I’m finding that I’m thinking of topics to write about that don’t fit into the five other platypi’s descriptions. I’ve held off on even writing any of those entries because I didn’t want to have big string of Prime posts. That won’t do at all though, I need to post on a regular basis and if I don’t have anything written I can’t post. So, as soon as I can come up with names for the new platypi I will either add them to the Introductions post or just put up a little blurb introducing them.

And if anyone has any ideas for names feel free to post them in the comments. I’m currently trying to come up with names for a platypi whose focus is arts and crafts, as was mentioned in the last post I believe, and a platypi whose focus is geeky/pop culture things such as video games, tabletop role playing games like D&D, movies, music, etc.

Gifts and Crafts

The gift giving part of the holiday season has passed and this year it was worse than normal. I don’t mean that I got bad gifts. I actually only got one that I doubt I’ll really get any use out of, or at least not the intended use. No, the problem with gifts this year was not the receiving but the giving.

See, every year I end up deciding that someone is going to get something handmade. Usually I end up deciding that multiple someones are going to get something handmade. This wouldn’t really be a problem, but I’m usually overly ambitious about what I can do in the time I’ve given myself. Last year I decided to hand paint Celtic knot work onto four baskets to be filled with homemade holiday goodies and given to a friend of mine and various family members of The Keeper. I decided this in November, and having never designed Celtic knot work before in my life. So call it about six weeks to learn how to design the knot work, design it, transfer it to the baskets and paint all the baskets. Oh and then cook/bake a bunch of stuff to fill these baskets with right before they’re going to be given out to people. Yeeaaaa…. I got it all done last year, but it came down to the wire. And that’s not even counting the scarf I made for The Keeper’s sister, though I decided to do that far enough in advance that it wasn’t really a problem.

Well, this year I decided that my Dad and Granny were going to get handmade gifts. I decided this earlier than I had with the baskets (I think), but I procrastinated on actually starting the work on them. And then there were some unforeseen occurrences that took my focus away from my gift projects and then it was Christmas and only one of the items was finished. I downscaled my ambition this year, having remembered the hell that was rushing to get everything done last year, and I had failed.

Well, I have come up with a plan to keep this from happening again. I’ve decided to work on any handmade gifts I intend to give people throughout the coming year instead of during the last month or so before the holiday. I’ll probably start working on the gifts sometime next week. Since I do not intend to give anyone in my family the link to this blog and since I doubt most of them are likely to find me on their own, I intend to post pictures of my progress and explanations of what I’m doing. It really should have occurred to me before, but perhaps I need a crafty platypus for those posts… and there may or may not be other platypi that will need to be birthed for other reasons…

Ch-ch-ch-Changes!

Hey, just wanted to warn the one person so far that I know of who reads this thing- I’m going to be fiddling with themes and stuff, so the colors and background may change multiple times over the next few days.

Introductions

Welcome to Impassioned Platypi. As the subtitle summarizes (I hope), this blog is a compilation of sorts. I want to write but I don’t want to write about just one topic. Sometimes I want to write about sex, sometimes philosophy and sometimes parenting. Sometimes I want to share an observation I make about a person, a group of people or various other things that one can observe. Sometimes I want to give advice based on my personal beliefs and experiences. And sometimes I want to write fictional stories.

Also, I am an odd duck. The reason I say this is because of the sort of theme I have come up with for my blog. Originally I intended to do a normal blog with a title and a subtitle that would get across the basic gist of what the blog was about in a few words. Thing is, I did not want my blog to focus on just one thing. I read a blog called The Over-Educated Nympho which was initially started as a sex blog but has evolved into something more. That’s definitely not a bad thing, but I have seen comments there from people who have been pulled in (like I was) by the posts about sex but then feel as though they were lied to because the whole thing isn’t about sex all the time. I love OEN. I don’t mind the non-sex posts, mostly, in fact I like a lot of them. However, I did not want anyone to feel as though my blog’s name and title were lying to them after they read through a couple of my posts. This presented quite a challenge. I just couldn’t seem to come up with something that would encompass all the things I’m likely to talk about here while also representing me in a way I liked and while being somewhat unique and original.

I brainstormed a long list of ideas for names and none of them were quite right. However, somehow I came up with the perfect subtitle fairly easily. The funny thing is that I pulled my inspiration for the subtitle from the subject of many of my aborted name ideas- the platypus. Just as the majestic platypus is an amalgamation of nature, I am an amalgamation of knowledge and interests. Most people probably are, but for some reason I am particularly drawn to the platypus whereas most others aren’t. Perhaps it is my power animal, I don’t know. Point is, I had my subtitle but I couldn’t seem to come up with a name to go along with it.

Then, one day I was vocalizing my frustration about this to my boyfriend and he came up with what I thought was a truly unique and brilliant idea, though I’m not quite sure what triggered this brilliant idea because I was bitching about the name not about the absense of a "concept"- he suggested I write the blog using different "characters", sort of, for different topics. This appealed to me. Where calling the blog something like Eclectic Platypus might have been OK, something about the plural of the word platypus just resonated with me. Shortly thereafter I came up with the proper adjective to accompany my noun and here we are. It has the potential to be confusing, but I’m hoping that even if it’s confusing it’s at least also interesting.

In an effort to keep this little idea of mine from being too confusing though, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the cast. I may add more later, but for now here they are:

Platypus Prime– Prime is my catch-all. If it isn’t something that fits into one of the topics assigned to one of the other characters then it will be posted by Prime.
Rupini– As might have been obvious from my mention of The Over-Educated Nympho, I like sex. A lot. I like reading about it and I like writing about it. Posts about sex and relationships will be made by Rupini.
Edesia– I also like food and drink (alcoholic or otherwise) quite a bit. And where there’s food and drink, usually there’s people and socializing and fun. So food, drink and revelry posts will be made by Edesia.
Yemanja– My maternal instincts will all be channeled through Yemanja. She will be posting about parenting and children.
Brehon– I am generally not a very politically active person, but if I ever feel the need to post about laws or politics those entries will be made by Brehon.
Aspasia– I think part of the reason I’m not political is because I’m more internally focused. I am very interested in philosophy, spirituality and understanding my own mind. Any entries about such things will be posted by Aspasia.

There will be one more Platypus, but I don’t have a name for her yet. She will be responsible for posts of a more fictional, less opinionated nature. Probably mostly erotica at least at first, possibly more later. *EDIT- I have since figured out that different pages don’t seem to be linked with specific “authors” on WordPress, so that last sentence about a Platypus for fiction is totally a lie… at least for now, since in reality I haven’t played with the pages all that much and I may end up sort of signing stories with a different Platypus name. We’ll see when I actually get around to posting fiction I suppose.*

And finally, I don’t know how often you’ll hear from him or what he’ll be saying but I am giving my boyfriend access to post here. He will be known as The Keeper.

Aside from having a "cast" but only one actual author, I imagine this blog will be much like other blogs. I’ll make an attempt to post regularly, but I make no promises. At least at first. I may eventually try to keep some sort of posting schedule, but I feel that at the moment all a schedule will do is make me feel bad when I don’t keep up with whatever the schedule is. So yea, sticking with "no promises".

*EDIT- For those who like to read a blog from the beginning forward, this is the first post. It’s probably pretty obvious, but I want to make sure there’s no confusion if you found this post by clicking the “Explaining The Platypi” link I’ve added to the sidebar.