Sadie and Sakari took some time to chat about the CSPC’s upcoming ageplay party, Virtual Sandbox, with newsletter reporter 7.
7: To start off, tell me something about yourselves.
Sakari: Well, I am Sakari, she/her pronouns, and I am the collared submissive of this lady here, Miss Sadira. And we're putting on a littles’ party with her boyfriend, Babybear. We've been together now for 9 years coming up, right?
Sadie: 9 years as of the 27th.
Sakari: Yeah. Wow.
Sadie: (stage whispering) I’m planning a secret anniversary surprise, but don't tell her that.
7: (stage whispers back) I will keep it secret. It's a good thing that we have this “cone of silence” thing.
Sadie: Yes, yes it is. (laughs)
Sakari: And, well, I serve her 24/7. We kind of just live our D/s lives together.
7: Awesome!
Sadie: I’m Sadie. I go by Miss Sadira in formal situations. I have been formally involved in kink since 2003, and hosting events for the last eight years, mostly with Sakari here, but also with my other submissive, Babybear, who unfortunately couldn't be here today. We've been putting on FemDom events and littles’ events and general kink events for a long time, both out of our house, the Dom(me)cile, and out of the CSPC.
7: I love that your house has its own name, by the way. Can you give me a bit of background on where that came from?
Sadie: When we moved in here we decided that we needed a... not a leather house name because we're not exactly leather, although I pull that way a little bit. It’s my own version of leather. We decided that our household needed a name. And we liked the punny-ness of the Dom(me)icile, which has an extra “me” in parentheses. It’s the femme domicile.
7: That’s clever! Let’s talk about the Virtual Sandbox.
Sadie: The Sandbox is for ageplayers of all kinds: littles, diaper lovers, middles, or however the caretaker or ageplayer identifies. We're setting up virtual rooms for different activities, so that hopefully there will be something for everyone. It will be a free and open party where attendees can bounce from place to place, check out some show and tell, some arts, some virtual gaming. They can check out the general discussion group or the X-rated discussion group. Our goal is to provide a little bit of a lot of things to bring our ageplay community together.
We miss both the CSPC F*cking Precious party, and the Dom(me)icile used to have a littles’ party, and we just wanted our community to have this.
7: Yeah, F*cking Precious was a favorite party when we were doing things in person. The Virtual Sandbox sounds very active for an online event.
Sadie: We really wanted to give it a sense of things people can do, activities. Speaking of which, we're still recruiting leaders. Anyone who's volunteer-certified for the CSPC, if you have an idea for an activity, that's great, contact us. There's going to be a virtual singalong, probably interspersed with some karaoke. We hope to have some art projects, as well as free time for arts & crafts. There's going to be storytelling and some group storytelling, kind of a D&D-like experience without all the pesky rules. Because a lot of littles don't like rules so much.
We want to have a sampling of things for everyone, so we're going to provide a room or two where R-rated/X-rated talk is allowed. But we also want to provide places for littles who don't access that when they are their little self, so we're going to have G-rated rooms as well. In this one we're not allowing nipples and genitals to show, but you can certainly show off your finery, your onesies, your diapers, or whatever it is that you enjoy showing off. Come as you are and be who you are.
Sakari: Yeah, ageplay lends itself to doing stuff like story time, coloring, and other activities. A lot of the Virtual Sandbox is action oriented. We felt it was important to have stuff to do in addition to discussing things. There's obviously room for that in the community.
Sadie: And in the party.
Sakari: Yeah, we’ll have discussion space in this party as well. But it was important that we have more than that.
Sadie: At any given time we hope to have four to eight different activities going on in different rooms. We're planning to put a schedule out about a week before the event, so that that will all be laid out. Almost like a convention. If I don't like this activity or this class I'm going to, I can move over to this one over here.
Sakari: You'll be able to pick and choose where you want to go.
7: I've totally done that at a conference before. If in the first five minutes of a room I decided it wasn't for me, I’d have my second choice ready so I could head over to that.
Sadie: Yes. And hopefully people will find a couple of choices each half hour. My intention is for half-hour to hour-and-a-half length activities that people can drop in on as they please.
7: Cool. It’s a three-hour event, correct?
Sadie: Yes
7: So that could mean up to six different things to do. That's a very full day!
Sadie: Absolutely.
7: I'm hoping that we’ll have a naptime area for those who get tired.
Sadie: Yes, a little ASMR, whispers in the microphone, soothing sleep time.
7: Great! What is your vision for this in the future? Do you hope to have more Virtual Sandboxes?
Sadie: Yes, and as we move back to in-person events we're probably starting F*cking Precious again.
Sakari: Yeah, I like that format.
Sadie: One of the leaders of F*cking Precious right here (gestures to Sakari) has been talking about bringing that back when the time is right. But until we can host those in-person parties, we're probably going to start doing Virtual Sandbox at an every other month cadence, and work up to monthly.
Sakari: It depends on what kind of response we get from the first one.
7: Makes sense. Is there anything else you'd like to say before we wrap up?
Sakari: If anyone is interested in ageplay stuff in the community around here, please check us out. It's a good way to get back into the swing of it, finding out what is going on with this community right now, and taking a couple of tentative steps toward when things open back up. You'll have a little bit of a social network for when we jump back into activities.
Sadie: It's been a long year, and for many of us a very hard one. I feel like we have lost a lot of that connection and community. And there's definitely a lot of places out there that are creating that. West Coast Jungle Gym is doing a lot of work on creating community. There's an ISO Story Time from people on the East Coast, who are working on creating connection within the ageplay community. And this is just one more way for us to come together and not have to hide who we are.
7: That’s wonderful. And it's not only a chance for people to connect to each other, but it's also a bit like a virtual ageplay tasting party.
Sadie: I like that way of saying it.
Join Sadie, Sakari, Babybear, and our other activity leaders at the Virtual Sandbox on Saturday, April 24th.