00.0060 Things you Need to Know
@25.0924-1242.99 Atx
IMPORTANT! ABOUT ALL THE NUMBERS...
(You'll need to grok this. RELAX! It's easy.)
'2016.0111-0625' <--- This is merely a date code! It's a timestamp.
'@25.1207-1456.01' <--- This is too.
You'll see these digits here a lot. They are simply a timestamp indicating a date & time in descending order as yyyy.mmdd-HHMM.ss.
The difference is that the '@' indicates the item is real-world, bibliographic reference WHEREAS the absence of the '@' indicates a fictional timeline date in the story. Timeline is 2016-2020
2017.0312-1624 <--- story date (has 4-digit Year and no '@')
@25.1207-1530.13 <--- bibliographic reference. (2-digit year with '@')
Strange, techno-geek names like 'GPT4All/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B' typically refer to an AI model. You can ignore them.
I spent several years researching before even beginning to write this story. I read many books and got lost in the Web looking at stuff. I took extensive notes. The 'Word Treasury' is a reference to this vast and eclectic collection of research notes and story drafts I've written since 2008. It's enormous and has been indexed and 'embedded' by GPT4All for various text-based AI models to use. I do most of my AI processing on my local machine so that it can access the Word Treasury, which provides essential context. You'll find many references to 'the Word Treasury' throughout the story. It's important to be aware of this!
In this work, the terms “rubber” or “Rubber” generally refer to the entire spectrum of rubber fetish, encompassing psychological, social, cultural, and practical dimensions, as well as the associated garments and gadgetry.
The terms “latex” or “Latex” specifically refer only to the garments and gear.
Note that latex is a type of rubber. Other types include nitrile, neoprene, silicone, etc.
“Heavy rubber” usually refers to wearing very thick rubber garments or engaging in ordeals of heavy BDSM, often found in the Gay, Gimp, and other Rubberist subcultures associated with this. It's a practice
"Deep Rubber" refers to a seemingly archetypal lifelong desire to cover 100% of oneself in latex, 100% of the time, and to live a “rubber-centric life” to the greatest extent possible. It is a quest often accompanied by a solo-sexual orientation and unique elements of masochism specific to rubber fetish.
Note that one is a practice; the other is a goal.
There is often significant overlap between the two.
Safety and consent are always implied in this work. No one in the story is doing anything against their will. (For example, study '17.0300 Internal Slavery' carefully.) The concept of "Total Enclosure" or "100%" coverage always implies some sort of facility for unimpeded breathing, which is both comfortably adequate and undeniably safe. This is seldom mentioned but is always implied.
Safety is ALWAYS #1.