Deviant Duo

Clown fetish is real, it has a founder in the UK, and his name is Barney Muckle. Barney runs Stuck in the Middle, the UK's first dedicated clown fetish event, and this week's Deviant Download is his: what clown play actually is, why nobody agrees on a definition, and how fear and disgust end up wired into desire. He gets into building a community from almost nothing and what it takes to be...

Shayn, international handler and all-round badass, joins Dax and Quincy to talk about what actually separates a handler from an alpha, the work of holding a community together, and building spaces where everyone gets to show up as themselves. Ten episodes in. What a ride. This one runs from headspaces and the pup-to-handler journey to the political climate for queer and trans people in the US, ICE...

⚠️ Trigger warnings: sexual assault & abusive relationships Kemriss scans every event for people who look like they need someone. They also carry DoxyPEP in their bag for whoever asks after. Kemriss (@pupkemriss) is the neon purple professional brat of the UK pup scene, co-runner of the Doggy Style Discord, and a regular at Manchester events from Scritches to K9. This episode covers dark room...

Tosa literally wrote the book on pup play. Spyke is what it looks like off the page. Tosa is alpha of the Mazrim Pack and the author of Puppy-Play , a properly published book on the history, hierarchy, headspace and social side of pup play (there's a French audiobook he narrates himself). Spyke is his beta, born in France, now in Canada, and about as much pure energy as one pup can hold. Betwe...

Tom of London got sober in a scene built around wet spaces, and built a whole philosophy out of it. He talks about what it actually takes to keep a community alive rather than just take from it: the clockwork theory where we’re all cogs keeping it ticking, leather’s European roots through the ECMC, and why the titles he held were never the point. He’s also 14 months sober and relearning his kink f...

What is Pride actually for? Dax and Quincy sit down with Shippo, first Slovak Puppy and a Pride organiser, for a Pride special that doesn’t dodge the hard bits. They get into acceptance, belonging, why kink keeps getting pushed out of Pride, and how the smaller, scrappier Prides are doing it better. Plus the moments that make the whole community worth it. Drop a comment with the year you first rea...

Joker made Bone Battle Cards: a card game built for this community, by someone in it. He talks about what it actually takes to build something for the scene rather than just talk about needing it: the creative process, the community thinking behind the design, and what it means to put something real into people’s hands. He’s also an anxious pup who went and did it anyway, which makes the whole con...

Chipper runs short kink education reels on TikTok and Instagram. He’s also a handler with a lot to say about what consent and agency actually look like inside a power dynamic. This episode gets into the stuff that often gets oversimplified: submission as a choice, power exchange as something both people are actively doing, and what access to kink really means in a community. Chipper’s social media...

By the time this episode dropped, Astrid had just become International Ms Bootblack 2026. She’s a butch trans woman, a Leatherdyke, and a bootblack who knows the history most people skip, military origins, post-war motorcycle culture, the racialised shoeshine trade that nobody wants to talk about. She also gets into what it’s like to move between male-centric, female-centric, and mixed leather spa...

Mr Jay creative visionary involved Darklands. If you know, you know. Creative director, rubber devotee, and the architect behind one of Europe’s biggest kink events, Mr Jay talks about what it takes to build a space where deviants can actually be themselves, the vision, the logistics, and the creative work that holds it together. They also get into rubber as a kink, and correct the record on TPE (...

Every show starts somewhere. This is ours. No guests, no script, no filter. Dax and Quincy introduce themselves, where they came from, what they’re into, and why they decided to make a podcast about a community most shows pretend doesn’t exist. In the Deviant Download, Quincy gets into what kink and fetish actually mean. Bigger question than you’d think. Instagram: instagram.com/deviant.duo.podcas...