Emblem proposition for our community

[Cynthia_Massol]

Hi all 🙂

That's the first time i post a thread on this section
(i usualy post on "VidClips Corner" or "The Splits").

In fact, the reason for this present thread is very special :
i wish to propose an emblem for our tickling community
(and in general an emblem for 4 fetishes that are :
Lesbian Lusts, Female Feet Fetish, Tickling Torture, BDSM & Bondage).
Of course, the first interrest for the most of us is tickling.

Why an emblem ? Well, i have heard that it exists already an emblem
for BDSM ("BDSM rights", exactly) called "triskelion"
(maybe some of you have ever seen it...? ).
In the same goal, an emblem could be very useful for us
in order to create a "tickling community", not only virtual (on this forum)
but in real life by showing this emblem and recognize it by us.
Of course, the emblem isn't immediatly relative to tickling (by discretion)
but an emblem that all of us in this forum could know
(by having watching it) and then recognize it in real life
on those who show this emblem 🙂

So, here's a proposition for this emblem, where the 4 triangles mean :
- Magenta : Lesbian Lusts (or why not including gays extension, too)
- Orange : Female Feet Fetish (or Foot Fetish in general)
- Green : Tickling Torture (and tickling in general)
- Blue : BDSM & Bondage (mostly soft BDSM)

If you have better ideas for an emblem, let's post them in this post,
so, we will all choose the best of them 🙂

 

[LonelyKimiko]

I'm sorry for being a bit stoopid, but I'm not sure I really understand properly what you mean 🙁 . Could you elaborate a little please? 🙂 Thankies!

 

[Kalamos]

Mmm... we already had a couple of threads about community emblems.

I think the tickling community is a bit too diverse and complex to allow for something *that* orderly and schematic.

First of all, I don't like to borrow runes, pyramids and other esoteric symbols.
The triskelion for instance looks a bit too much like a three pronged swastika to me.

The pyramid looks a bit more innocent, but first of all those colour really *clash*, and it reminds me of a religious or sect symbol - Illuminati anybody?

...

I'd like to be more helpful: I used to draw a symbol myself, a red feather-like slash over a wavy background, inside a circle, but I wasn't happy with the final rendition, so I hid it. 😉

But I'd really go for something *less* angular.

 

[BigNorm]

what about a color for the mentally unstable over here, like me and kalamos. :tounge:

 

[Luckycat1]

A Feather should be the defacto base for any Tickling emblem,
as it is common to all body parts and interests. And already has
come to symbolize tickling in many photos and drawings.

My two cents.

 

[BigNorm]

A Feather should be the defacto base for any Tickling emblem,
as it is common to all body parts and interests. And already has
come to symbolize tickling in many photos and drawings.

My two cents.

that's a great idea, like 2 feathers crisscrossing behind the actual emblem, that would look sweet.

 

[Snail Shell]

I'm not sure an emblem for the tickling community can be accurately made. Tickling means different things to everyone here. Some people like bondage. Some people use it as a commonality to meet 'n greet new people. Others think it's just plain fun. I think if there's going to be an emblem for the tickling community, it should be someone being tickled and not a symbol of different representative colours that everyone may or may not understand or support.

I guess what I'm getting at is, the symbol above is what tickling means to Cynthia_Massol and it's going to be different for everybody.

What's your emblem?

Snail Shell

 

[Solesbrusher]

Hi all 🙂

So, here's a proposition for this emblem, where the 4 triangles mean :
- Magenta : Lesbian Lusts (or why not including gays extension, too)
- Orange : Female Feet Fetish (or Foot Fetish in general)
- Green : Tickling Torture (and tickling in general)
- Blue : BDSM & Bondage (mostly soft BDSM)

If you have better ideas for an emblem, let's post them in this post,
so, we will all choose the best of them 🙂

Salut, Cynthia!
Hi Cynthia!

J'aime bien la forme de cet emblème, ses couleurs et l'idée de réunir sous un même emblème les quatre "appétits" que tu nous proposes.
I like this emblem, its shape, its colours so as the idea of putting these four lusts together.

Pourquoi pas un signe de reconnaissance? J'approuve pleinement. pourquoi pas non plus inclure les gays?
Why not creating a symbol of recognition? I do agree. Why not a "gay extension" too?

Le Français que je suis profite de cette occasion pour te féliciter pour l'ensemble de ton oeuvre de chatouilleuse, même si je n'arrive toujours pas à faire démarrer ton jeu sur ma vieille bécane.
As a Frenchman, I take this opportunity to congratulate you for all your tickling action, though still unable to play your game with my old old computer.

 

[Hungarian21]

what about a color for the mentally unstable over here, like me and kalamos. :tounge:

HEY! What about me? 😀

 

[Kalamos]

I'm not mentally unstable. I just dislike people.

 

[Rgevskiy1]

I don't like this emblem. It's not beautiful.
I think, the emblem should be beautiful and is not obliged to have any latent sense...
For an example, the informal emblem of the Russian tickling community:

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

Salut, Cynthia!
Hi Cynthia!

J'aime bien la forme de cet emblème, ses couleurs et l'idée de réunir sous un même emblème les quatre "appétits" que tu nous proposes.
I like this emblem, its shape, its colours so as the idea of putting these four lusts together.

Pourquoi pas un signe de reconnaissance? J'approuve pleinement. pourquoi pas non plus inclure les gays?
Why not creating a symbol of recognition? I do agree. Why not a "gay extension" too?

Le Français que je suis profite de cette occasion pour te féliciter pour l'ensemble de ton oeuvre de chatouilleuse, même si je n'arrive toujours pas à faire démarrer ton jeu sur ma vieille bécane.
As a Frenchman, I take this opportunity to congratulate you for all your tickling action, though still unable to play your game with my old old computer.

Mon emblême personal quadricolore représente en fait un tetrahèdre régulier (pyramide à 4 faces triangulaires identiques) déplié, dont chaque sommet représente l'une des 4 composantes, les arêtes relient 2 composantes, les faces rassemblent 3 composantes, et le volume de la pyramide elle-même inclu les 4 réunies. Mais je reconnais que ces 4 composantes, bien que générales, sont relativement associées à mes goûts personnels.
Pour ce qui est d'un symbole plus explicite (avec des plumes ou avec une personne chatouillée), je pense au contraire que ce serait encore plus "discriminatif" (réservé à ceux qui aiment chatouiller avec une plume, ce qui représente qu'une partie d'entre nous). De plus, un symbole de reconnaissance avec des plumes, ou pire avec une personne chatouillée, ferait directement penser aux chatouilles, alors que mon but, c'est de garder un côté énigmatique pour les non fétichistes, afin que seuls les fétichistes portant cet emblême puissent se reconnaître mutuellement. Il est vrai que cette démarche ressemble étroitement à une démarche sectaire, mais je pense que, inconsciemment ou non, nous formons déjà une "secte" aveugle, pas une secte au sens religieux, mais une secte dans le sens ou nous formons une communauté dont les idées (sur les chatouilles en particulier) ne correspondent pas aux idées de la majorité de l'humanité. L'aspect sectaire s'arrête là, car notre but n'est pas d'influencer des non-fétichistes à le devenir pour un but religieux ou lucratif, mais seulement à nous distinguer, nous, la minorité, parmi la masse de la population, sans révéler de manière directe notre lien aux chatouilles, qui pourrait provoquer une gène, autant pour nous que pour les autres. D'un point de vue pratique, si je porte cet emblême et si tu portes cet emblême et si nous sommes les seuls à en connaître la signification, si on se croise dans la rue, on saura immédiatement que l'on partage, non pas les même gouts en tout point, mais une certaine attirance pour les chatouilles et le fétichisme en général. Après, je reconnais que mon emblême n'est peut-être pas discret, et ressemble plus à une couverture de manuel de mathématiques de collège qu'à un quelconque rapport avec notre fétichisme, et je n'y voit aucun inconvénient à trouver un emblême plus "discret", à condition qu'il reste symbolique et général, sans représenter un exemple particulier de nos fétichismes respectifs.
Pour ce qui est de l'inclusion des gays dans l'emblême, je dirai que c'est à moitié fait, vu que dans mon idée première, le triangle magenta représente les plaisirs lesbiens, qu'on peut sans problème étendre à l'homosexualité en général, vu que mon emblême en lui-même reste très général.
En ce qui concerne mon "jeu", il faudrait que tu m'en parles plus en détail par mail ([email protected]) car je ne vois pas trop à quoi tu fais référence, étant donné que j'ai eu plusieurs tentatives de faire un "jeu", mais actuellement, ça s'oriente plutôt vers un scénario.

J'ai rédigé tout ça en français, et je m'apperçois que ça commence à faire beaucoup, et ça ne répond pas seulement à ta question mais aux différentes questions que j'ai vu dans cette discussion.
Je te remercie pour tout, en tout cas, j'espère avoir l'occasion de résumer tout ça en anglais pour la majorité d'entre nous.

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

I don't like this emblem. It's not beautiful.
I think, the emblem should be beautiful and is not obliged to have any latent sense...
For an example, the informal emblem of the Russian tickling community:

Yes, very cool emblem and very artistic 🙂
I'm not against the beauty of the emblem, i love it better, but in your emblem, where is represented the bondage aspect (for those who like bondage), the foot fetish aspect (for those into this)...?
I know that community is essentialy oriented about tickling, and my goal isn't to extend it to evry aspects of sexual perversions, but for those, for example, who are mostly into female foot than tickling itself ?
By the way, your emblem is good for one thing, it's not too explicit, and the two feathers aren't immediatly close to tickling, i think that's discret 🙂
After all, your emblem isn't so bad ? Why not ?
I'm totally agree with you for one thing about my emblem :
it's not really esthetic, lol. But if you see the "Peace and Love" emblem,
it's not more esthetic, and where appears the peace and the love in ?
It appears surely in his historical signification, but what i feel good about it
is the symbolic and universal aspect, and easy to draw in 5 seconds.

 

[Rgevskiy1]

Yes, very cool emblem and very artistic 🙂
Thanks 🙂 .
But, I do not offer my emblem for all community (because it is based on the Russian State Emblem). I give an example how this emblem needs to be made...🙂

Ok, I have understood the basic criteria for an emblem: simplicity of drawing, must include all interests of community and must be beautiful.
In this case I use heraldic science:

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

Yes, very cool emblem and very artistic 🙂
Thanks 🙂 .
But, I do not offer my emblem for all community (because it is based on the Russian State Emblem). I give an example how this emblem needs to be made...🙂

Ok, I have understood the basic criteria for an emblem: simplicity of drawing, must include all interests of community and must be beautiful.
In this case I use heraldic science:

Oh yes ! Those are very cool ; more beautiful and close to a true emblem 🙂
I love especialy those of the first line (more than the third with the "Y").
Very good 🙂

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

I have done more emblems, that this time show completly the 4 elements...

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

And this time, not an emblem, but an artwork about the 4 elements...

 

[Kalamos]

I'm not sure I'm getting it: why "lesbian", for instance?
I don't see tickling fetish as a sum of four different elements, rather a blend of many different tastes.

A good share of ticklephiles might object about the foot fetish.
I'm not sure I'd like to be recognised as "lusty about lesbians".
And the bondage part does turn off some of us as well.

I'm not criticising the sake of it, just wondering what community you are referring to.

 

[Rgevskiy1]

I actually too think, that lesbian, foot fetish and BDSM superfluous in an emblem of ticklephiles.
Besides, gays and lesbians already have a flag. I think you know it. http://nikanov.in.vstu.edu.ru/images/DCPsw0348.jpg
And I agree with Kalamos. Not all ticklephiles is foot fetishists. For example I not the foot fetishist. I do not worship feet in any form.
And tickle-torture almost always includes bondage and sadism.

Excuse me, I again give as an example Russia 🙂 .
In Russia now we have many communists but if to consider their interests at drawing up of the State Emblem it will look funny: http://sovet.geraldika.ru/images/Herb004.gif 🙂

I hope you understand my point of view...

 

[Cynthia_Massol]

I actually too think, that lesbian, foot fetish and BDSM superfluous in an emblem of ticklephiles.
Besides, gays and lesbians already have a flag. I think you know it. http://nikanov.in.vstu.edu.ru/images/DCPsw0348.jpg
And I agree with Kalamos. Not all ticklephiles is foot fetishists. For example I not the foot fetishist. I do not worship feet in any form.
And tickle-torture almost always includes bondage and sadism.

Excuse me, I again give as an example Russia 🙂 .
In Russia now we have many communists but if to consider their interests at drawing up of the State Emblem it will look funny: http://sovet.geraldika.ru/images/Herb004.gif 🙂

I hope you understand my point of view...

Yes, you and Kalamos are right, tickling itself is necessary without the 3 others elements for our community. In my idea, my emblem doesn't representing a part of our tickling community, but at contrary, the community that it represents includes our tickling community as a part of it.
Out tickling community figures on one of the 4 vertex of my tetrahedre, that's the reunion between the 4 elements which fills the tetrahedre itself.

Else, you are right, my idea is surely above the goal of this community, but you surely have ever seen F/F tickling clips, feet tickling clips and tickling w/ bondage clips in this community, so, i think that my idea isn't too far ;-)

 

[Kalamos]

So, you're speaking of a different, larger community.

You mentioned the triskelion, as the main symbol of BDSM community.
It represent the cycle of life, death and rebirth, and it is related to the sun, the changing of seasons and the elements.

It doesn't directly represent BDSM practices as such.
They didn't go for a riding crop and cuffs, for instance.

I'd say we could strike a balance between overly descriptive emblembs, and deeply esoteric ones.

...

Sure, most of us have, as members of the TTC or the TMF, seen a clip with bondage or F/F tickling.
But I'd rather stress the fun, mellow side of tickling - not the dominant sadistic torture, or the voyeuristic streak, in a community symbol.

Of course, if you feel part of a different community, I'm not going to tell you what you should wear as your own emblem.
But if you wanted to know how some of the users feel about it, you might want to dig up the older threads, and resume from where we last left off.

 

[Rgevskiy1]

Yes. I looked clips with bondage and F/F much and I like foot tickling, but... First, participants of f/f clips not always lesbians. Second, lesbians and bondage it not a ultimate goal at creation of clips and etc.. Main goal it's tickling.

Kalamos
But I'd rather stress the fun, mellow side of tickling - not the dominant sadistic torture, or the voyeuristic streak, in a community symbol.
This emblem may be interesting to you :

 

[Kalamos]

I did something myself, about april 2004.

 

[nessonite1]

isn't the idea to be subtle? something that the general populace wouldn't pick up on? Ive not seen anything here (except maybe K's) yet that wouldnt make people say "omg wtf are YOU into??"