truffle wrote:

 Lately I've been craving variety. My wife has a few really predictable crying patterns, all of which I love and enjoy, but I do get a little desensitized to that every now and then. I crave seeing new friends or acquaintances cry. 

Intriguing. I've occasionally found in the past something surprising or captivating about witnessing someone cry who I haven't seen before. I remember the girl I dated in senior year of college, her cry sounded unlike what I was expecting. It was fascinating and beautiful. 

What patterns do you notice with your wife? I've been in a craving mood lately. I think I need to write out a really long and in depth fic soon. To put those desires down somewhere.

You might remember the Nintendo 64 game console from the mid 90s. There was a game released on it called "Forsaken." The cover art was what caught my eye as an adolescent. It was a close up of a woman crying a single tear against a black and white background of a desert with an ominous sky. The cover, incidentally, has nothing to do with the game. But I still think it's beautiful.

http://www.junctioneight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cover-Forsaken-64-front-480x335_c.jpg

Mmm, got some more details on that dream?

Truffle's observation thread, which included observations of crying female athletes, brought back this memory for me.

It was a few summers ago, when I was hanging out in Lake Placid before the Iron Man Triathlon. One of the warm up events, I guess you could call it, is a series of canoe races along Mirror Lake, both individual kayaks and crew boats. It's not a summer camp event, people come from all over to compete and they go at it hard.

After one individual heat, I watched a solo competitor, female from Canada, break down in her kayak. She finished second out of eight lanes, I think. Myself and a few dozen other spectators were clustered on a floating dock to watch the races when she drifted by.

It struck many of us as interesting. She was shuddering from exhaustion, wide-eyed, her mouth hanging open in a blank rictus, and plainly sobbing. But it was as if her sobbing was simply the only way that she could breathe at that point. Her shoulders heaved and her belly hitched in and out, but there was no sound from her, nor tears coming down her face, though she had an expression of crying.

I and a couple other people on the dock tried to talk to her, asking if she was okay, did she need a hand, etc, but she gasped out a weak "i'm fine..." without looking at us or changing her expression. She slowly navigated to the southeast shore where the other competitors were beaching, crying silent, tearless, convulsive sobs the whole way.

This thread is a corollary to my thread in the General Discussion section, figured I'd actually show some videos here. People crying and moaning and squirming in pain from tattoos and piercings. 

I'll be dividing it by sex. Can't really comment much on the male videos so much because male crying does nothing for me. I'll leave it viewers to decide.  

Female videos:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5rdy3Ws2Vg This girl moans and cries fairly hard throughout the 6 minute ordeal. Love the sound of her sobs and gasps, especially around 3:45-4:00 where they get really high pitched and desperate. There are hints of lip curl, but her face is sometimes covered when she's crying hardest.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNvbvg49TLU shorter video, has a good crying face and pained sobs, but not the highest picture quality. Love the way her ribcage and belly twitches.

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr4xQEmJO4c One of my favorites. This is a tattoo removal, and the procedure proper begins around 5:00. She's got a strong lip curl going, lots of moaning wails and a few sobs and gasps that leak out. Her belly muscles writhe in the sexiest way, trying to squeeze out sobs but she's trying her best to stay composed. 

Male:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhOtlvXf6vc This guy is clearly in a lot of pain and makes some interesting faces and noises.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8aXeqq1Jc This guy is having a belly piercing, and gets some good lip curl going on, right around 2:20. 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mIGKLqsA_M Man crying from a hand tattoo, and his buddy comforts him briefly.