Perversions and Transgressions

Writing Journal: Earlier this week, it came to me in a flash of daydreaming: the perfect way to end The Adjusters #50, and it had been staring me in the face the whole time! So I've been busily rewriting the last scene. Not much that needs changing, happily. And the approach has the advantage of solving one of my plot problems for #51, tentatively called “The Craven-Wilford Institute, Revisited”.

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I don't remember who it was that suggested I check out the movie American Mary, but I finally did, and it was excellent (for the style and budget). The fact that Katherine Isabelle is simply adorable doesn't hurt at all. So thanks for the recommendation.

(While I was at it, I checked out Nurse 3D as well, and that one didn't quite grab my attention as much, even though it was much more openly sexually in-your-face. Paz de la Huerta is entirely creepy in it—great for the movie, not so great for my libido—but Katrina Bowden makes up for it in sheer innocent sexiness. The acting is abysmal, though. I can't in good faith recommend it unless you want a good laugh.)

I am not one to judge people's sexual fantasies. Live and let live, and all that. Not to mention how hypocritical that'd be of me, I mean—come on! But once in a while, I am surprised. I guess I should know better. I've read a lot of wife-sharing stories, where the sharing is consensual or non-consensual on either part of the couple, but I've only recently realized that there's a sub-community where the wife-sharing occurs when the wife (or girlfriend, or whatever) is unconscious.

Tonight's story is about that, and it delves into the fetish in a pretty gripping way. It's Perversions and Transgressions, by Over Stimulated: “He watches his girlfriend taken in her sleep.” Nicely written, and with some pretty amazingly hot sex, considering one member of the fornicating couple is knocked out.

(You know, it's only now that I've written this down that my brain figures it's the right time to remind me that the Jenn/Gutierrez “encounter” in The Adjusters #42 happens while Jenn is unconscious, at least from Gutierrez's perspective. Sigh... Sometimes, it's blinders all the way down.)

A Story by Thadsgood

Writing Journal: I find myself without a good sex scene for The Adjusters #51, the epilogue of Book IV. I hate when that happens.

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Not much to report. Work and writing keeping me busy.

Ran across an interesting story on Literotica, one that shows where my mind's been lately. It's Erin's World, by Thadsgood: “How I got to be a hotwife.” The description says it all. Some hot and particularly kinky sex. And I love the inevitable foreshadowing.

(Also: the comments in the Loving Wives section of Literotica are hilarious. It's like some folks take the stories so seriously it hurts.)

Story Ideas from a Classic

Writing Journal: I'm rewriting the sex scene in The Adjusters #50. It was lacking... something. And I have the sinking feeling there's a better way to manage the switch from #50 to #51. Damn. This is going to require some thinking...

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I was re-reading Robert Graves' I, Claudius the other day, and I noticed two passages that beg, simply beg to be expanded out into full-fledged smut.

I said straight out, in Greek: “My mother Antonia does not pamper me, but she has let me learn Greek from someone who learned it directly from Apollo.” All I meant was that I understood what they were saying. The person who had taught me Greek was a woman who had been a priestess of Apollo on one of the Greek islands but had been captured by pirates and sold to a brothel-keeper in Tyre. She had managed to escape, but was not permitted to be priestess again because she had been a prostitute. My mother Antonia, recognizing her gifts, took her into the family as a governess. This woman used to tell me that she had learned directly from Apollo, and I was merely quoting her: but as Apollo was the God of learning and poetry my remark sounded far wittier than I intended. (Chapter 5)

I love the touch that the poor girl can not longer be a priestess because she was a prostitute, even though it was not of her own choice.

Now Julia deserves far greater sympathy than she has popularly won. She was, I believe, naturally a decent, goodhearted woman, though fond of pleasures and excitements, and the only one of my female relations who had a kindly word for me. I also believed that there were no grounds for the charges made against her many years later, of infidelity to Agrippa while she was married to him. Certainly all her three boys resembled him closely. The true story is as follows. In her widowhood, as I have related, she fell in love with Tiberius and persuaded Augustus to let her marry him. Tiberius, enraged at having to divorce his own wife for her sake, treated her very coldly. She was then imprudent enough to approach Livia, whom she feared but trusted, and ask her advice. Livia gave her a love-philtre, which she was to drink, saying that within a year it would make her irresistible to her husband, but that she must take it once a month, at full moon, and make certain prayers to Venus, saying nothing about it to a living soul, or the drug would lose its virtue and do her a great deal of harm. What Livia very cruelly gave her was a distillation of the crushed bodies of certain little green flies, from Spain, which so stimulated her sexual appetite that she became like a demented woman. (I will explain later how I came to learn all this.) For a while indeed she fired Tiberius' appetite by the abandoned wantonness to which the drug drove her, against her natural modesty; but soon she wearied him and he refused to have any further marital commerce with her. She was forced by the action of the drug, which I suppose became a habit with her, to satisfy her sexual cravings by adulterous intercourse with whatever young courtiers she could trust to behave with discretion. She did this in Rome, I mean: in Germany and France she seduced private soldiers of Tiberius' bodyguard and even German slaves, threatening, if they hesitated, to accuse them of offering her familiarities and to have them flogged to death. As she was still a fine-looking woman, they apparently did not hesitate long. (Chapter 6)

Now tell me that this does not belong on the EMCSA? Note that the Julia they are referring to is the daughter of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, just to add some weight to the situation.

Maybe one day I'll write up those stories, though it'll be tough with the delightful prose of Robert Graves laughing at me from the sidelines.

Here are some Rome-inspired stories to keep you entertained. I've enjoyed the first two—they're pretty straightforward sex tales—and the third one I've read the first few chapters but haven't finished it yet.

Caesar's Wife, by Sulpicia: “Ancient Rome: Antony takes Caesar's wife.”

Laelia, by Digital_bath: “Being a slave girl in ancient rome is... perilous.”

Educating Caesar, by Needful Things: “Young Caesar seeks the assistance of a wealthy prostitute.”

Mulling Over Possible Futures

Writing Journal: It's been a while I haven't updated you all about the state of the writing. I'm about to finish The Adjusters #50, which is pretty straightforward except for a bit of a plot point that I need to figure out because it's key to something in Book V (as far as I can tell). And then on to #51, which is still fuzzier in my head than I would really like.

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In the past few months, I've been getting story ideas that for the first time in a long time, I haven't been tempted to push into The Adjusters's storyline. Which is great because it shows that at some subconscious level, I have a much better sense of where I want the story to go before it winds down to its conclusions.

But that does beg the question: what to do with the extra ideas that are bouncing around in my head? I mentioned some of them before, and at some point I will want to let them out. And I've been meaning to try my hand at self-publishing, like every other smut author out there, so maybe that's one outlet for those extra stories—a good forcing function. I don't know yet. I'm still mulling it over. Would you folks want to know about those if I ever end up publishing them?

Don't worry, though, because whatever happens, The Adjusters will remain free, and will continue coming out in monthly installments. At least, until it's done.

Your reading recommendation for this post is a sweet little mind-control story from ElSol, Your Guardian Angel : “A teenage boy. A lamp. A genie.” Exactly what you expect, yet different. Nice story, great sex, clever development.

New Story: The Adjusters #49

Here is March's installment of The Adjusters, “Cassandra's Plan”, wherein Jenn and Sanderson regroup following their discovery and find an ally.

As usual, comments welcome.

I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)


The Adjusters #49 - Cassandra's Plan

Richard Sanderson, despite having experienced it once before, still could not get used to the alienating feeling. He was back at work, two days after Gutierrez’s party, and just like after the first party he had attended, everyone was acting completely normal, as if nothing had happened at all.

But something had happened.

Sanderson had gone to the party, and had caught up with Gutierrez. Even though he was there to help Jennie escape, Sanderson had tried to act as normally as possible. Gutierrez had been happy to see him, and had reminded him of Sanderson’s promise to get Jennie back under sedation in exchange for having a free pass at the redhead patient Allison.

Sanderson was in fact not interested in Allison at all, but that had been his cover story for the party, and so he had said and done what Gutierrez expected of him. Gutierrez even offered him a blow job from Allison when she was done with her male friends, as he called them, a blow job that did arouse a primitive part of Sanderson—Allison, as Sanderson knew first hand, had an astonishingly skilled mouth—but that he did manage to get out of because Gutierrez had been distracted for most of the night.

When Sanderson had gone to find Jennie where they had arranged to meet, she was there but with disturbing news. Gutierrez, whom Sanderson thought wanted to sell Jennie, was in fact scheming to sell Mouse to some people she had pissed off during her previous job as a district attorney, or so Jennie claimed to have overheard Gutierrez discuss with a man.

Continue reading...

Next month: “Awry”.

Update on The Adjusters #49

ETA for The Adjusters #49 is Wednesday night. Thanks for your patience.

In the meantime, have a gander at Rd75000's A Daring Reporter: “Newscaster decides it’s time to make some changes.” Fun little story with lots of exhibitionism.