Part three
A common theme in your stories is betrayal. In the context of mc erotica, what makes betrayal so molten-hot?
You know, actually, I don’t think I am that big on betrayal. That’s trilby’s hot button, not mine. Or are you thinking of my common “abandoned lover” scenarios? If so, see my earlier response on that theme. As for betrayal, to me, that hurts much more than it arouses. There have been a couple of cases where my Muse pretty much demanded I do it anyway (And after all, She is the boss; I’m merely Her puppet ;-)); but I would never say I actually get off on it. It just seems…required…sometimes.
Something else we see again and again in your work is a character who is both lover and savior to another. This is often expressed through an individual trying to save a friend/lover from mind-control nastiness (though sometimes its just the wrong person’s control ala Mirrored in Your Eyes). Aside from being very spicy, what keeps you revisiting this scenario in your work?
I guess that’s just my romantic side coming out. Wow, imagine that. 😉 I always hated romantic fiction when I thought I was straight, but now I finally see the attraction.
Your stories tend to feature quite elaborate details on -how- a person is controlled. What makes the methods and process of enslavement so important to you?
Well, I’ve been dreaming up different ways to brainwash people since about age nine, so you can see I’ve put a lot of thought into it. It’s just fascinating to me, the process by which you turn a free-willed individual into a brain-bound drone who can only think by command. Maybe I’m a scientist at heart.
More like mad-scientist! Webbing and sockets, behind-the-ear-data-jacks, in-home and doll-box brainwashing machines: how much time do you, in fact, sit around dreaming up new mind control apparatuses to unleash on your “poor” heroines?
Heh, see above. 😉 Actually, I have to admit that I don’t spend too much time dreaming up *new* processes these days. I’ve come up with enough already to last me for several more years. 😉
Speaking of unleashing things, a good number of your stories feature some squickiness. How did your interest in that develop what makes bug/tentacle sex hot?
It’s a great demonstration of just how deeply controlled someone is if she is able to revel in something that should send her screaming.
Is it scary putting those stories out into the world, even anonymously?
Actually, it’s a great sense of release – and relief. I’ve talked before on my blog about feeling like a superhero with a secret identity and how much I wish I could open up completely. Let me take that one step further.
Remember the scene on the train in Spiderman 2 where Peter has lost his mask (for completely ridiculous reasons, but I digress) and finds himself on the floor of a train car, surrounded by people marveling at seeing who he really is? And then they give him back his mask and even try to protect him against Doctor Octopus. That, to me, is one of the most touching, beautiful, personal scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie. It’s what I secretly wish for myself. Well, aside from the being-beaten-to-a-pulp part. 😉
We’re both big fans of Hajime Sorayama, what do you think the odds are he’s down with the mind-contol-fetish?
All those paintings of mysterious lasers being beamed into women’s heads while they orgasm? Oh, I’d say there’s no question he’s into it! In fact, what I wonder is if there’s any fetish he’s not into.
Who is the celebrity or historical figure you would most like to discover shares your fetish for brainwashing and enslavement?
Oh gosh, you’re going to hate this because it’s such an obvious answer. But really, it’s the only possible one: Angelina Jolie. Daaaamn. 😉
You have a terrific blog and one of my favorite features is your posts where you show off an assortment of pictures and talk about what you like about them. Often you discuss some mind control aspect you see in the picture, sometimes even a complete mc scenario around an image. This of course begs the question: have you ever thought about doing mc photo-manips?
Hah! Well, of course I have. In fact, I’ve done more than just think about them. But I’ve never seriously considered posting any of them because they’re not that much different than what people like you and Tabico put out, and they don’t have mini-stories attached. But since you’re interested, I’ll share one with you. I got the original image from trilby else several years ago and thought she looked a bit like Cherie from Raggedy Anne, so I played with that a little.
Another thing you’ve spoken about in your blog is your latex fetish. Where does your love for the black & shiny come from?
I guess it’s just because it’s so alien to me, coming from where I come from and being the kind of person I am. It represents an entirely different way of being…or perhaps of not-being. After all, smooth, shiny blackness is about as far as you can get from human skin. It’s depersonalization at its sexiest.
So what’s next? Looking forward what would you like to be doing with your blog and your writing? What lies ahead for you and your work?
My main goal for the blog is to cultivate and grow my readership. My Stat Counter program shows me that more than half of my visitors are regulars (some daily), though the number of hits varies hugely and with no apparent pattern. I’d like to keep those regulars coming back and, hopefully, draw in more. It gives me great pleasure to be able to share my thoughts and feelings with so many people at once.
As for my writing, I’m almost finished with the rough draft of “Ethna Redux,” a retelling of an ancient Irish fairy tale with a significant (and, for me, unusual) mdom element. After that will come my first dip in the cyan pool with a square-jawed, ladykilling superspy in the James Bond mold learning the pleasures of submission…to another man. Then there’s an intriguing offer of collaboration that I and another well-known F/f writer received recently. We’re still in the batting-ideas-around stages on that one, but I think the finished product will be very exciting.
Thanks so much for your time thrall and I know I speak for everyone when I say we can’t wait to see where your work takes us next.
And thank you! I really can’t say how much it means to me, to finally have an outlet for these fantasies I’ve been hoarding all these years – and not only an outlet, but an appreciative audience. You have all made my world a much bigger, warmer place.