#NEST 2024

[toadallytickles]

NEST 2024 + Gatherings Going Forward (again)

Attended my 4th NEST this year! This is just a quick point-form summary as I’m still dropping and wanted a write-up before I fly out this weekend to see my moms!

Perhaps I wore my “tickle me I’m cute!” shirt on Friday- and perhaps it got me pinned and gang tickled by 4 friends UGH- I haven’t been gang tickled since last June which is WILD honestly. Kinda hoping wishing this June it happens again 👀

Learning that it’s okay to let people touch me. 🙄😒 From my past writing “AUNT 2024 + Gatherings Going Forward,” I shared that I’ve denied myself from playing with friends until everything felt perfect, but recognized that I set the bar way too high and that maybe I just fear that “awkward first session” because I’m really awkward with touching and this fetish. At NEST this year I’ve allowed friends I’ve met and connected with at previous gatherings to tickle me in the con-spaces to break that touch barrier in a fun, familiar way for everyone. I also let myself engage in pick-up sessions with friends to get that “awkward first session” out of the way! I had to reassure myself throughout the weekend that it was okay that they were touching me, and they were touching me because they wanted to~.

My nesting partner is choosy about the gatherings he attends as he wants to focus on those he has connected with already, and can find gatherings overwhelming at times. This NEST made me feel similar- I want to continue attending gatherings, and I love meeting new people, though going forward I’m going to focus on regular attendees and friends I know from previous gatherings. There are a lot of regulars and mutuals I would love to get to know better and potentially play with- I’m just really awkward and don’t know how to approach people, and in turn I feel I accidentally give off a closed-off vibe. I would like to be part of my friends’ friend group, I just don’t know how to integrate! NEST going forward, I would love to volunteer and help out more to continue making the gathering the best it can be!

Oh, I had my first Wawa experience! I tried their Caramel Cookies and Cream Frozen Cappuccino, IT WAS SO GOOD, Starbucks Frapps could never. definitely kept me up way past my bedtime! 😋 Also the mascot is a (Canada) Goose because Wawa was originally a dairy farm in Wawa, Pennsylvania, and the Ojibwe word “we’we” means “Snow Goose.” Now I need a Sheets experience~.

I got to try out @ticklingduck's vibrating tickling rods! @mister-ttt and I did record content including them! They are like a small Pursonic (without it stopping after 2 minutes~)! 😏 I also BOUGHT ONE!! 🎉 @ticklingduck's socials: Etsy, Twitter, Tumblr.

Wore my Geurdo Link cosplay on auction night, even though I was not participating in the auction, and I was extremely shy so I just sat in the audience and didn’t really show it off LMAO!! (Still editing the tickle video featuring this cosplay, previews are in the NEST Server and on my OF~).

I’ve had the literal pleasure of forming a play partner dynamic with a local friend, and he has really built up my confidence, self-esteem, and has helped me be more self-sex-positive. It was exciting to carry that sex-positivity into some sessions this weekend, and I learned that I really like being consensually sexually violated by friends.. 🥴💦 don't look at me.

This weekend really validated my growth and boundaries. Finding this gathering somewhat personally hard to navigate because I wasn’t meeting my exact wants (a me-issue, not NEST's), that helped me recognize that I’m not the same person I was at my first NEST and other 2019 gatherings, and that I’m truly growing. I wasn’t able to navigate NEST like I did in 2019, so now I know I’m on the right path and know what I’m exactly looking for.

And finally on the last day of the gathering, I’m sitting in the lobby in my lazy travel fit, not showered, sporty wind-breaker, capris, my glasses, pink paw print socks + sandals of course, and a guy I’m pretty sure was not part of the NEST group asked me if I was “Kyle-“ and there were other men around. I say no, and guy just wanders back to where he came from. Assigned Kyle at NEST. I have not felt gender euphoria in a long time. 🥹

anyway, the end. looking forward to the next gatherings~

[feralchompyenergy]

Hey Guys

I just came back from NEST (tickle con) and I bring very important information:

Did you know that your scalp can be ticklish?

Did you know those wire head massagers? The ones you usually use on oiled sides and tummies? Did you know those can also tickle your scalp??

Did you know that if you tickle my scalp with a wire head massager, I make a sound that's something between a dying howl and the moaning of the filthiest whore you've ever heard in your life?

Did you know that if you stick a vibrating tickle wand into my armpits at the same time I instantly have a seizure? Such fun we have and definitely don't suffer at all!

[exampurnaukariadda]

NEST 2024 Registration Window Opens Today; Eligibility Criteria And Other Details

The National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, and Mumbai University – Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS), will begin the applications for the NEST (National Entrance Screening Test) 2024 today, March 20, 2024. Interested and eligible candidates can submit their registration cum application forms for the NEST 2024 Exam…

[patrick-zweigs]

Zendaya for ‘Challengers’ press — Spring 2024

“She has the ability to engage with people in a way that is very strange compared to other celebrities. She becomes part of something larger—it’s not just fashion, it’s popular culture. She uses clothing as a kind of instrument.” — Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Loewe and ‘Challengers’ costume designer

[uwmspeccoll]

GOOSE WATCH 2024

It's been a busy day in the goosey world of our green roof! This morning, mama goose (aka Mildred) was off the nest hanging out with papa goose (aka Horace) near the solar panels. I assume she was getting a little snack and gathering energy to keep sitting on those eggs!

Later, in the early afternoon, SPL Graduate Intern Jenna got this video of Mildred checking on her eggs and then settling back down on her nest to keep them warm. There are at least seven eggs, which is one more than we initially thought! If I'm correct, we're on week four of egg incubation so we're expecting baby geese pretty soon! We can't wait to see those little goslings toddling around the roof! Exclamation point!

Stay tuned for more breaking goose news and read our first post about this year's geese here.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[layaart]

a little drawing of shesheshen & blueberry from someone you can build a nest in

[petit-papillion]

Charles during his Day 1 AM session | Pre-season Testing | Bahrain | 21 February 2024

📸 Scuderia Ferrari

[lil-shiro]

AUSTRALIAN GP'24 - march 22, 2024 (📸 Zak Mauger)

[punkedsolar]

Funguary Week 2!

We had massive power, communications, transport and train blackouts this week. I lost a lot of food in freezers and so on. But I'm still going. Things are a bit chaotic, but we are still going strong.

Funguary Feb 8 - Satan's Bolete Behemoth - Rubroboletus satanas Funguary Feb 9 - Silver Leaf Fungus Ipos - Chondrostereum purpureum Funguary Feb 10 - Destroying Angel - Amanita virosa Funguary Feb 11 - Bird's Nest Fungus - Nidulariaceae Funguary Feb 12 - Demonic Dead Man's Fingers - Xylaria Polymorpha Funguary Feb 13 - Demonic Lilac Bonnet - Mycena pura Funguary Feb 14 - Demonic Bleeding Tooth Fungus - Hydnellum peckii

[thatskyvenya]

also traditional pics with the season guide. hated the season, loved the vibe ❤️

[drachedraws]

Feefals Funguary day 11: birds nest fungus

[miyrumiyru]

She built an awesome sturdy nest for her precious blue eggs!!!🪺

best mirthful bird mommy (Ó⌔Ó)

(F) Vinous-throated parrotbill (Suthora webbiana)

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by Premee Mohamed.

Up next! I've enjoyed other books by this author (NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US and THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS), AND one of my other fave authors (Hiron Ennes!) blurbs this one, AND it's Tor (beloved)!! It seems like a good transition out of SOMEONE TO BUILD A NEST IN, too, and I love daisy-chaining what I'm reading for Connection and Flow.

[stormanbates]

Rise! Easter eggs! Red for Raph, blue for Leo, purple for Donnie, orange for Mikey, yellow for Jennika, and teal for Venus.

[asofterutena]

(My future, your past.)

[pinkfeathersart]

11th day has been completed! The very funky looking bird's nest fungus was today's prompt. I feel like I matched the weird vibes with this drawing. The painting style turned out a bit funky and experimental lol, I kinda like it though :)