An NFT Collection & Essay
by Sunny Crittenden
Not everyone is fortunate enough to meet the primary loves of their lives at all, let alone as quickly, or fall in love as deeply, as passionately, and as stupidly as Blake and I did and I count it among my blessings, if there is such a deity in this universe that grants such things, that our planets collided and have been happily orbiting each other for the past 20 years. We’ve been through a pregnancy and raised two awesome adults together, and our marriage has endured the effects of sexual trauma, psychosis, a few health crises, including the one 10 years ago where I spent 2 mnths in the hospital, mostly in a medically induced coma with only a 30% chance of survival. Think I’m done? Not even close. Together we have gotten through a mental health crisis that involved domestic violence (initiated by me) and being separated by the courts for almost two months, a suicide attempt, two psychiatric hospitalizations, years long periods of depression, and most recently another health crisis where I was very sick, which resulted in a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. Obviously there was also a lot of joy in between all of those things or we wouldn’t be celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary on July 8th, 2021.
I wanted to celebrate this anniversary by telling the story of how Blake and I met and why I married him, and by creating and sharing this series of 14 vintage webcam photo NFTs of us flirting over cam captions and ICQ with whoever was interested in grabbing a drink and engaging with a little bit of art. Let’s begin. 🙂
The photo above was taken by our friend Nicole in Toledo, Ohio the first night Blake and I met in person. We had been talking a lot on Nicole’s band’s (Scratching Post) message board and admittedly probably flirting a teeny tiny bit even though I had a boyfriend at the time. Nicole’s band was playing in Ohio and since Blake lived in Michigan, he came to the show with his best friend, who also happened to have produced Scratching Post’s most recent album at the time.
Blake and I were attracted to each other like magnets. He was wearing a sleeveless white t-shirt that showed off his lightly muscled, tattooed arms, a shaved head and he had more than one earring. I loved the sound of his voice and to this day I’ve never heard a male voice I’ve loved more.
I was at the show selling merch for the band, and my uniform was wearing a baby t-shirt with Scratching Post’s logo on it, a black or white thong with their logo on it, and knee high, heeled boots. The merch I was wearing was for sale and the idea was that I would try to talk guys into buying it all for their girlfriends, since they thought it looked so hot on me. Plus, they’d buy me drinks, which was super unsafe but it was 2001 and roofies/date rape wasn’t as widely discussed as it is now.
Since I was so scantily clad and there was so little security, plus I was hot as fuck and he was hot as fuck and we loved talking to each other, Blake followed me around and we talked about everything we could think of from whether we believed in aliens or god or why I decided to have a baby on purpose at 19 and what being a single mom was like, as I went around trying to sell merch for the band. He had the same ideas about life I did and for once, I thought I had finally found someone who was on my level and I could see as an equal, or maybe even better than me.
After the show, Blake came back with me and the band to the hotel we were staying at, and on our way to the room, Nicole snapped the pic above of me and Blake walking side-by-side, me in my PJs and him in the Scratching Post thong for the rest of the night, and I’d like to say we’ve been walking side-by-side ever since cuz damn, that’d be romantic…however, I had a boyfriend, so when Blake was too drunk and tired to drive home, we let him stay in mine & Nicole & her boyfriend’s hotel room with two beds but…I made Blake sleep on the floor.
There weren’t many steps between that point and us getting engaged, pregnant, and married within the next 8 months, but let’s just say we had A LOT OF FUN conceiving our 2nd child and luckily what would have probably been NRE (new relationship energy) for most people, turned into an easy choice of making a lifelong commitment to parent two children and maybe grandchildren, grow old in laughter and love, be in love with and take care of each other while we enjoy life together; do our best to support and not hurt one another; help each other be our best selves and best friends, who we call & create family with. We are Team Sunny & Blake, partners in crime.
The following 14 NFTs tell the story of a night where Blake’s friend Rob was throwing a Halloween party on the Militiagan side of the Canada-USA border, which Blake was going to be attending. Since Sunny & Blake are both huge nerds, she was on her computer that night updating her webcam on Portal 9/CamwhoresDotCom on one side of the border, and he was at the party, on Rob’s computer, on the other side of the border, watching her update her webcam as they chatted on ICQ.
As the night went on with half hours between photos and the more alcohol was consumed by the party goers, the more suggestive the photo ideas became. Each of the following 14 photos are from that night, in order, and their link as NFTs on OpenSea will be beneath each one. If you are considering purchasing one, please make sure you read the description of the NFT you are buying to ensure that I’m actually selling you quality art and not just something to jerk off to. (Unless you’d also jerk off to a Mapplethorpe Polaroid, and then hey, the more power to you. These will not be porn priced.)
This photo is the 1st in a series of 14, entitled “Militiagan Halloween Party”. While Sunny was updating her webcam on October 26th, 2001, on the other side of the Canada-US border, her soon-to-be boyfriend and would-be husband, Blake, was at a Halloween party thrown by his friend Rob. People at the party were standing around a computer, watching Sunny’s webcam, while she chatted with Blake on ICQ* the whole time. None of Blake’s Militiagan friends had met her yet, so, she put on a show.
This photo’s caption reads, “Hope the Militiagan partyers are having fun!!!” and Sunny stands defiantly before the camera in sheer, white panties with embroidered daisies, her hands on her hips, daring Blake’s friends to have a problem with her. The photo only shows her pubic region and bare torso. Her bellybutton is pierced and her nails are unpolished.
The night would continue in this manner for 13 more photos.
(*Sunny’s ICQ was #37471540, and if you download the app, you can still see her profile to this day)
This photo’s caption reads, “Hope the Militiagan partyers are having fun!!!” and Sunny stands before the camera in sheer, white panties with embroidered daisies, her hand adjusting the elastic, daring Blake’s friends to have a problem with her. The photo shows just Sunny’s pubic region and her fully-shaven outer labia is visible through the sheer fabric of the white panties.
This photo’s caption reads, “For Drew the perv…..” and is a reference to Blake’s best friend Drew, who was watching Sunny’s cam at the time. In the photo, Sunny is nude from the waist down, with her left hand on her hip and her right hand on her upper thigh like a conquerer. Her outer labia and just the barest peek of inner labia, possibly her clitoris, are visible. The faint hint of one of Sunny’s 1″ scars from her laparoscopy for endometriosis the previous summer is noticeable in the center of her pubic region, with even fainter hints of two more from previous surgeries, if you know where and how to look.
The caption on this photo reads, “I wanna be at the party too dammit.” and it features Sunny’s chest as she hoists up her black tank top to produce mounds of cleavage. She is wearing a brace on her left wrist due to a sprain.
This photo is captioned, “Blake, come over & we’ll fuck k?”, as Sunny gazes into her computer screen, likely looking at herself in Chillcam or Conquercam to compose, snap, and upload the jpeg to Portal 9. Sunny & Blake weren’t even dating yet, let alone having relations, they’d only hung out at a few Scratching Post shows thus far, so this caption was purely a daring type of flirting.
The caption on this photo reads, “For Rob: What I’ll be doing later….off cam ;o)” and in it, Sunny holds up two pink, jelly dildos with a mischievous look on her face. The dildos are both simple and low quality because in 2001, sex toys were still mostly sold as a “novelty” on only a few websites, and there was nowhere near the amount of information we have today in regards to safe materials and the types of toys that work for different bodies & sensations.
Rob was one of Blake’s best friends at the time (and host of the Militiagan Halloween party), who was watching Sunny update her cam. The characters at the end of the caption represent a sideways winking face, called an emoticon, from the days before emojis.
The photo’s caption reads, “Rob, this sexual enough?” and it features Sunny licking one of her pink jelly dildos. The dildo is simple and low quality because in 2001, sex toys were still mostly being sold as “novelties” by only a few websites. Few knew about safe materials and there weren’t a million different types for different bodies & sensations.
Rob was one of Blake’s best friends at the time, the host of the Militiagan Halloween party, and was watching while Sunny updated her cam. He was egging her on via ICQ to do something sexual on cam for him. Sunny had strict rules about “showing pink” and never took requests.
The caption on this photo reads, “I love Militiagan Perverts :o)” and it would be apt for this particular NFT to be in the collection of someone from MI who also happens to be a pervert and gets the joke. In the photo, Sunny is propping her face up with her fist, while her sprained wrist rests in a brace.
This photo’s caption reads, “Blake…wish you were here…”. It features Sunny, nude from her ribs to her thighs, with her left hand (in a brace due to a sprain) on her leg and her right hand covering her vaginal region. Sunny’s bellybutton is pierced with a blue-jewelled hoop ring and she is wearing a bracelet on her right hand, given to her by Blake.
In this photo, you can see two of the 1″ scars from Sunny’s recent laparoscopy. (To the right and middle of Sunny’s pelvis.)
This photo’s caption reads, “Blake…wish you were here…” and Sunny is standing on a chair, touching her labia while thinking about Blake touching her there instead and feeling warmth radiating from her lady parts. Little did either of them know, that Blake would be the last man to touch Sunny there for (hopefully?) the rest of her life.
This photo’s caption reads, “Blake…wish you were here…” and in the photo, Sunny is touching her labia while thinking about Blake touching her there instead, feeling the heat of their long distance, flirty attraction. Little did either of them know, was that Blake would be the last man to ever touch Sunny there for hopefully the rest of her life.
This photo is considered the pinnacle of the “Militiagan Halloween Party” series, as it so clearly shows the special bracelet Sunny is wearing, which Blake gave to her very early on in their courtship. It’s a penny press, stainless steel medallion that Blake had pressed “MU” into, and then told Sunny the story of “MU” and The Sacred Chao from the Principia Discordia on LiveJournal as an anonymous comment, which you can read here.
Sunny considers this bracelet on par with her wedding ring and has worn the bracelet daily ever since. It is one of her most cherished, special items.
This photo’s caption reads, “Blake…wish you were here…” and features Sunny tasting her own juices, from touching herself while thinking about Blake in the previous webcam photos, from her index finger. She virtually stares at Blake by directly making direct eye contact with the camera.
This photo’s caption reads, “Blake…wish you were here…” and features Sunny tasting her own juices, from touching herself while thinking about Blake in the previous webcam photos, from her middle finger. She stares dreamily at her computer screen, fantasizing…
This was the last photo Sunny uploaded the night of the Militiagan Halloween Party and the caption reads, “Who’s Blake? My soon-to-be fucktoy, :o)” The characters following the text represent a sideways face with a nose, called an emoticon, in the days before emojis. Sunny had been ignoring the Portal 9/Camwhores tagboard and just addressing Blake and his friends in her webcam captions, so by the time Sunny was ready to go to bed, half the camgirl loving internet was wondering who the hell Blake was. Sunny was clearly defining her intentions toward Blake, for him, for his friends, and for the internet, that her body was his for the playing the next time they met in person.
In the photo, Sunny is topless but her breasts aren’t visible, and she is smiling slyly at the screen.
Sunny and Blake began being an official couple a few days later and they most certainly fucked like bunnies after the Scratching Post show following this weekend.