@cstross This is the best thing you've ever written. I haven't read any of your books, but how do you possibly top this?

@cstross Mech diapers.

@cstross if people in costumes made of fur are furries, those in metal suits would be steelies, or perhaps tities or something

@cstross this is basically the whole plot of Gravity’s Rainbow (if you add nazis)

@cstross People already take up too much space at BDSM clubs with their gear.

@cstross Additionally, for the forced-orgasm kink crowd, there is quite a lot of space where to attach vibrators and other fun.

@cstross This is the hottest take on Have Spacesuit, Will Travel I have ever read.

@cstross A spacesuit is really the ultimate chastity belt (*), if that's your thing.

And there's surely some significance in the fact that you can't get out of a spacesuit by yourself (**), so there's some mutual dependency stuff going on.

(*) Alternatively, it's the ultimate 'adult diaper', if THAT is your thing.

(**) Unless you're Barbarella, who pioneered the whole 'spacesuit striptease' fetish.

@cstross http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php might be interesting in this context.

@cstross for years, I found the idea of wearing a spacesuit offputting because I was worried about what would happen when my nose itched (I read somewhere that there's a small piece of velcro stuck to the inside of the visor for this very reason, but I've never seen anything to confirm that)

@cstross in the hot, pollen filled summer, I would like a spacesuit to cater to my kink of not being miserable.

@cstross what is it like if you fart inside a spacesuit?

@cstross did you ever see that "The Universe" episode about the 2Suit, the space suit designed for sex in zero g?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2suit

"The documentary described the 2Suit as "one small step for humankind colonizing the universe." The garment was presented as a utilitarian garment with multiple applications that serves the need for human intimacy and procreation by stabilizing physical proximity in microgravity environments."

@cstross There's a Russian tradition dating back to Gagarin where cosmonauts pee on the wheel of the bus that took them to the launchpad. The old suit designs meant they could get their junk out and do it easily (even Valentina Tereshkova managed!). The new style means they have to carry a vial of their own piss with them to tip on the wheel.

@cstross Just earlier this week I was lamenting that mastodon doesn't have the weird meandering threads that twitter does that go into humours or strange replies, building and building.

That was fucking monkey's paw thought.

@cstross https://againstmars.substack.com/p/michel-foucault-goes-to-mars

@cstross I really can’t think of Felix that way. Guess it’s time for a re-read of Armor.

@cstross a whole new kind of in-CELSS.

@cstross Combine that with the sentient spacesuits from the Culture universe and...

@cstross This is the content Mastodon has been missing, yaaassss

@cstross I'm having flashbacks to some page-and-a-half overly detailed boobs-boobily description of donning a MCP suit from some "classic" SF.

@cstross In space no one can hear you scream ... your safe word.