Sunday, July 29, 2012

Weekend Random Links

Writing Journal: Still hacking on The Adjusters #34. Nothing special to report. It looks like Book III will be about six installments.



Interesting article by Miss Maggie Mayhem, complete with an intriguing approach to understanding role play (including violent role play) in porn, and I will venture, smut of the kind that I write. (Via ErosBlog)

Not recent, but still fascinating to me: a map to fetishes.

Also not particularly recent, but a nice article about what we mean by rape culture, in the context of the Hitman Absolution video game trailer.

Two new English scanlations from The Groovy Age of Horror of Italian fumetti: Dimensione Zero (Dimension Zero) and Il Campione Nero (The Black Champion). Sick, sick, sick, the way we love them!

Not a fumetti, but might as well—two pages from a story where nazis behave the way we expect them to.

I'm a huge fan of the webcomics Oglaf. This one made me spill my drink (pun almost intended).

The story I'll leave you with today is in the same vein as the one from last Wednesday, so much so that I tend to conflate them in my head—which makes it hard to find them when I look for them. The story is Jack and Jake, by Rhett Dreams: “Jack and Jake are twin teenage brothers that are as horny as hell. This story starts when they catch their sister doing something that could really get her in trouble and blackmail her into having sex with them. The story doesn't stop there, they end up bringing friends and family into their sexual adventures.” A fun happy story with lots of excellent scenes, and the sex is exactly the way I like it when the mood is right: hot, with just the right twist of kink and domination.


Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A Random Happy Story

Writing Journal: Started The Adjusters #34. Book III still feels a bit disconnected. It'll be interesting to see how it comes out.



I'm late about this, but my thoughts go out to the victims of last Friday's Aurora shooting and their friends and families. A sad, sad event.

Thus, I'll leave you with comparatively happy smut, an old unfinished story by an unknown author (at least, I do not know of the author), with a title that's equally unknown but might just be the somewhat unhelpful Heating Ventilation AC Inc. No official description, but it's the adventures of the Hughes family—Jack Hughes, dominant and sexually demanding, his wife Susan, accommodating and with a libido to rival his, and their children, beautiful daughter Tessa and young son Jimmy. Lots of sex, lots of hot sex, with some pretty incredible scenes that don't push the envelope but still grab you by the throat and shake you up good. Warning: not only is there incest, but there's some playfulness with the age of the folks involved—so keep that in mind. On the other hand, it's written so that everything is fun and happy and enjoyable. So there.

It's in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Two Dark Submission Stories

Writing Journal: Plowing through slowly on The Adjusters #33, fighting off my tendency to head deep into the dark forest of Expositoria. I'm also starting an editing pass at the whole of Book II for submission to the EMCSA. For that, I'm thinking of cutting up the installments into smaller chunks. I'm not terribly sure how that's going to go.



Sorry for the silence, folks. Life has quieted down somewhat since the end of June, but a consequence of going a hundred and fifty percent for a few months is that when the pressure lets up, my energy and my spirit both tank. The usual anticlimax reaction.

Which is reflected in the smut I've been reading. I've been hanging out on BDSM Library, reading dark submission fantasies. Here's a sample of what caught my eyes, in case you find yourself in a similar mood.

First, C.U.F.F.S. by DJ: “A story about a young couple's journey intending on pushing their sexual excitement to the limits they thought each other wanted but an unexpected detour took them down an ever deepening fall into humiliation, depravation, pain and finally total forced slavery.” I was looking for a long story, and found it in this one. The writing is somewhat sprawling, and it suffers from the unfortunately typical BDSM-library typographical mishaps (apostrophes and quotes coming out as unrecognized characters, etc), but the scenes of deep dark submissions are quite hot. Basically, it's about a couple that gets in way over their head with a dominant master. And there's a secondary character that turns to blackmail as well, so it's a double-whammy if you're into that sort of thing.

Second, Taxing Times by Ededas: “Elaine Salvage is a 27 year old graduate tax officer. She is beautiful, highly intelligent and destined for the top. Until she makes the mistake of angering Keith Fields, a multi-millionare business man with a sex and vice empire and some sadistic ideas on having fun.” Dark, forced submission, with some amount of physical torture. You know, the works. The characters are interesting in this one—not the two in the description, but the two in charge of training poor Elaine.

Monday, July 2, 2012

New Story: The Adjusters #30

After a small flu-induced delay, here is July's installment of The Adjusters, “Aftermath”, wherein the consequences of the events at the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity house are examined.

As usual, comments welcome.

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


The Adjusters #30 - Aftermath

"This morning, North Alexandria Interim Police Chief Flaherty gave a press conference detailing the results of their investigation of the explosion and fire that destroyed the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity house on Fraternity Row."

Daniel looked up towards the television hanging high on the ceiling of the university dining hall, the same hall where he and Jenn and Serena and Radhu had shared many a meal, a lifetime ago. Was it masochism, or a return to a safe environment? He wanted to feel the presence of people around him, but at the same time was repelled by the thought of interacting with anyone. He sat alone at his table, a sandwich half eaten in front of him. The lunch crowd had thinned noticeably.

Jenn. Serena. Radhu. Gone, all of them. The Three Musketeers they were no longer. Serena had been caught in the fire at the frat house. Radhu had been found dead in his apartment--Daniel still could not believe it--heart attack, he had been told, and no evidence of foul play. And then Cindy. Her body had been identified in the burnt-out husk of his apartment, one more victim of the several fires that had ravaged the city.


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Three Stories with Female/Female Domination

Writing Journal: I've been stuck for the past two weeks on the scene break between scene 2 and scene 3 in The Adjusters #33—the second chapter of Book III. I'm not entirely sure why. Usually, that suggests that I'm not sure where the story is going, but I thought I knew exactly where the story was going. Maybe my subconscious is not-so-gently trying to tell me something...



Looks like real life is slowing down a bit, just as the temperature is sky-rocketing up. I guess that's a reasonable trade-off.

That does mean I should be able to schedule a bit more smut reading. In particular, there are some “contemporary” MC authors that hang out on MC Forum that I should read more carefully. I might just make that my summer smut project.

Actually, let me ask you folks the question: is there anything recent that I should read that I haven't read yet—or at least that I haven't talked about here?

In the meantime, here is a sampling of stories that have make it to my bookmarks, with a general female/female domination theme.

Let's start with a mind-control story by Couture, The Smell of Sex: “Laura's mind is programmed by roommate with a vendetta.” A decent female/female long tale with a heavy dose of humiliation.

Second, here's With Strings Attached, by Maxout09: “Alice is tricked into a relationship with a dominant girl.” Not mind control, but good old domination. Another decent longish tale. Played more realistic than Couture's story.

Finally, an oldie that I did not discover until recently, with strong F/F themes as well—Jillian's Tale, by Dr. P: “Jillian reveals her deepest, darkest secrets to the hypnotist who is helping her quite smoking. Her therapist, in the employ of one of Jillian's rivals, ‘helps’ her reveal her deepest, darkest fantasies through hypnosis.” Some good stuff in there, and a good mix of mind control and domination playing well together.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Stories with a Domination Theme

Writing Journal: My apologies for the infrequency of these posts. To bring you all up to date, The Adjusters #29 seems to have been well received. Meanwhile, I finished the first draft of The Adjusters #32 last week. Not bad. It will need some work, but I think it sets the tone for Book III. Writing's been painful these last few weeks—I'm only able to push out about 200–300 words a day, which is ridiculous, and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's just because what I've been reading lately has been quite good, which makes me despair of ever writing well: when everything you write feels like crap, it's difficult to feel the love. But still we plow on ahead.



Here are a few random stories that I have bookmarked recently, leaning towards the domination genre.

First off, Ceight's Man and Wife: “A man realizes his wife is submissive and in rushing to take advantage of it finds how dominating he really is.” Sweetly twisted.

Second, a good mind-control story with a rather nasty protagonist, Toymaker, by HandsInTheDark: “The fringe benefits of parapsychology.” Basically the story of a guy who gains mind-control powers following an experiment, and takes advantage of it to satisfy his basest urges. A story with an actual ending, though no real Aristotelian structure. Hot sex, though.

Third, a story that I bookmarked a while back by Bryan Devlin, Cyndi Gets Hers: “A deceitful wife has to pay for the lies she's told.” A revenge story. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this story. I like it less than I should, based on the theme and the scenario, but beats me if i can pin down what's bugging me about it. Still, the lot of you may enjoy it, so here it is.

Let's end with a dark twisted revenge story, by Darinost, Frank's New Pet: “When Julie left Frank, he was a nobody. But when a chance encounter brings them together years later, he decides to show her how much he's changed.” The title should give a hint, here. Some exquisite touches in there, and while the author lays it on quite thick, it reads well.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

New Story: The Adjusters #29

Here is June's installment of The Adjusters, “The Fall of the House of Cusker”, wherein everything comes to a head.

As usual, comments welcome.

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


The Adjusters #29 - The Fall of the House of Cusker

When Daniel came to, three things immediately jumped at him. First,
his body felt like one massive bruise, just like that time as he kid
when he had jammed a fork into an electrical socket. Second, he was
sitting in a chair with his wrists tied behind him and a gag in his
mouth. Third, he was not alone.

"Hey man, he's coming to..."

Daniel focused his gaze on the voice with some difficulty. In front of
him stood the man with the Green Arrow costume--what was it that
Jackson had called him, Brad?--and he looked nervous. Jackson. Daniel
turned his head and glanced to his right, wincing as he did so, and he
saw that Jackson was sitting in a chair next to his, bound and gagged
as well. There was blood matting the hair on the back of his head. And
he was awake.

Beyond Jackson, completing a rough semicircle with their own chairs,
were Kevin Cusker, as well as the blond man with the pale blue eyes
that Daniel had seen with Serena earlier standing over an
incapacitated Jackson. Both were tied up and gagged like he and
Jackson were. What's going on here? Daniel wondered. The blond man had
an angry-looking shiner on his eye and his lower lip was bloody. Kevin
looked dazed, but otherwise unharmed.

Daniel was trying to catch Jackson's eye to reassure himself that the
young man was okay when Biff circled around his chair. He had ditched
most of his Jabba costume, retaining only the lizard-skin tights. Jenn
was hanging on to his arm, caressing it with her hand, her oiled body
still exposed by her blue bra and her short metallic blue skirt that
fit her ass like a glove. She had also taken off her Bobba Fett
helmet, and her long dark hair were cascading down her back.


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Next month: “Aftermath”.