Welcome Rainbow! Originally coming from a place with an at-the-time very small rope scene, this is so relatable. Luckily for me, I was never the resident "expert", but Astrid was – and she went on to open her own dedicated rope space and has also written for our blog!https://shibaristudy.com/blog/post/advice-for-future-rope-educators-in-far-flung-places

Welcome! Happy to have you here. I really loved the answer you gave on another post about how you approach learning intentionally – have no doubt the community will be learning from you too.

Adore the co-tying performance. It was such a pleasure to watch.

Welcome!

I adore the Fisherman too! Underrated MVP as far as I'm concerned.

This is such a great and honestly immense question. If I look back, even as a kid reading books like Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys (giving my age away here), I was always really interested when the heroes were somehow tied up or trapped. As an adult, I realised I could play with that same state of fear and excitement by actually being in ropes, and that kicked off some early kink explorations. I've always grappled with anxiety, so there's something very intriguing – liberating even – and somehow subversive to me about welcoming the surrender and the struggle of rope. But it took meeting my first properly rope-obsessed person in what was then a very tiny kink community to really start my own obsession, and I haven't looked back since!

I’m also a big fan the self tie Butterfly. Anna teaches it so well and clearly too.