Welcome back true believers!

I’m preparing another post to update you on Pleasure Professionals (short version: its coming along nicely), but right now I have a brand new animation to share! Today’s addition to the gallery is called Positive Protocol and I do hope you go enjoy it before you read on for my director’s commentary!

This little gem comes to us by way of bdsmlr. I loved the source image the instant I stumbled across it. The sensuous quality of the photo, the lighting and the profound suitability for twisting into one of my manipulations put this picture somewhere in the top-ten-photo-finds of my manipping career. I live to come across jewels like this one.

The manipulation was very straightforward all things considered. Just a touch of photoshop to get the seated woman facing the screen, instead of the camera. And, again, to get her cuffed to her chair rather than simply holding on. Then, it was down to creating some content to fill this enormous window that would soon become an insidious mind control screen.

When I sat down to write the story, the only idea I had going in was that the caption would start and end with the same line of dialog and that it would, somehow, be very ironic as a result. A few paragraphs in, I had the idea that this very complimentary approach The Director was taking with her subject was just another level of mind fuck. One that she’d repeat with the woman in the chamber down the hall in the closing line. It was a fun idea and it, like the image, really come together quite quickly. At least by my current standards šŸ˜‰

I think, there’s an undercurrent of gaslighting and love bombing that runs through a lot of erotic mind control fiction and I was certainly zeroing in on those vibes. There’s a very creepy quality to someone showing that sort of affection and encouragement within the context of this traumatic ordeal they’re subjecting someone to. I don’t think I’ve explored that area very much in my work so it was a nice departure in that regard.

And, that’s it. I do hope you enjoyed and, as always, your comments, questions and suggestions are welcome!

See you next time.

Positive Protocol

Miss Jenson's brainwashing is coming along very nicely. The Director says so...

Greetings all,

Itā€™s another week of reading and writing. LOTS of writing, but weā€™ll get to that in a minute.

First up, thereā€™s new stuff you should be reading if you havenā€™t already. connie k posted the first part of a new story with the update two weekends ago. The synopsis for The Spiral Girl goes a little something like this:

An unscrupulous hypnotist recounts his fateful meeting with a new subject, and how his plans spiral out of control.

The promise of where the first part leaves off is really tasty. Iā€™m so eager to see where connie takes us in part two. Which, happily enough, connie has informed me will be going up to The Archive this weekend! It will be listed as a separate story called The Spiral Boy, similar to her Four Women / Five Women story.

Be on the lookout for it this Saturday evening!

If youā€™re a patron of Uzobonoā€™s then youā€™ve already heard the news: good and bad. The bad news is that CORE 14 isnā€™t going to make it into our hands until late October instead of late September as Uzo had originally hoped.

The good news, is that Uzo has released a mini comic this weekend to tide us over! Its available to her patrons as well visitors to her Deviant Art page. Its not related to the CORE/Division canon butā€¦ well I wonā€™t spoil it. Its loads of fun particularly if youā€™re a gamer whoā€™s familiar with a certain big-budget sci-fi series from a few years back.

Its terrific fun and a great consolation prize for the unfortunate news that our next taste of CORE is still about six weeks away.

*sigh*

What about the writing? Well, thereā€™s loads of it happening. LOADS.

How much is that exactly? Well, Iā€™m not exaggerating in the least when I tell you that Iā€™ve had a little trouble with some repetitive stress pain in my right thumb. Before you perverts go making jokes, let me explain!

As Iā€™ve mentioned prior, my free time is in short supply right now. Between my full time gig and sideline freelance stuff Iā€™m clocking 60+ hours a week minimum these days. So, Iā€™ve been writing whenever and wherever I can spare the time.

Since thatā€™s not always in front of a computer, Iā€™ve been writing on my phone. Iā€™ve got the mobile version of Scrivener (a fantastic research-organization-writing tool btw) which cloud-syncs to my laptop. So, Iā€™ve been writing away on that during my stints of free time.

Which worked out great until I sat outside to enjoy the weather on a Friday night a couple weeks ago and wrote nearly four thousand words in one sitting. The next day, my right thumb felt like it was being held on with tape.

So, I repeated the process this past weekend except I used voice-dictation to do the writing and saved my recovering thumb for corrections only. The pain is gone now, thankfully, and the lesson has been learned.

And the good news is I also put another 3,500 words into Pleasure Professionals!

At this point, Iā€™ve got a solid first draft of Act I thatā€™s clocking in at around seven thousand words. I knew the story was going to be big, but even Iā€™m surprised. This one is really living in my imagination now. Every time I sit down to work on it, the floodgates seems to open and I mostly just try to keep up.

Iā€™m already laying down a few ideas for Act II and Iā€™m hoping to make some big headway there later this week after my freelance work (hopefully) cools off a bit.

Thatā€™s it for now. I know its been a few weeks since I had anything new to show you but, believe me when I tell you big things are in the works.

See you next time!

Welcome back true believers!

Itā€™s a hectic time for me. Vanilla freelance work is keeping me very busy right now. However, while I havenā€™t had unlimited amounts of time to dedicate to smut, I have gotten really diligent about making the most of the odd hour I can set aside here and there.

And mostly Iā€™ve been using that to read and write.

On the reading front, Iā€™ve been enjoying this amazing new story, that has just wrapped up this past weekend, called Kat and Mouse. The author is SoVeryFascinated and this story is his fourth on the archive. It is a successor to an earlier story called The Glass Wall, which features the same lead characters, Kat and Marisa.

Iā€™ll tell you here what Iā€™ve told everyone privately to sell them on reading this tale: if youā€™d like to know what Alfred Hitchcock wouldā€™ve done with the erotic mind control genre, this is the story for you. The suspense, the tension and the growing sense of anxiety as this tale unfolds is spectacular.

If you follow this blog, thereā€™s a decent chance you know me and my tastes in EMC fiction. I havenā€™t loved anything on The Archive like I love Kat & Mouse in a while. SoVeryFascinated has already joined connie k, GigglingGoblin and a short list of other active authors whose work is an instant must read.

If you like what I like, youā€™ll like this story. Please let me know if you check it out, Iā€™d love to hear your thoughts! And, please let SoVeryFascinated know as well! I’d love to see more work from him and I’m sure some encouragement from happy readers couldn’t hurt.

Moving over to writing, Iā€™ve circled back around to the project currently known as Pleasure Professionals. I say ā€œcurrentlyā€ because it will almost certainly not bear that title in its final form.

The past two weeks have been both productive and frustrating with respect to this project. As Iā€™ve talked about previously, Iā€™ve started and restarted this story multiple times, and each pass has been wildly different from the others.

Iā€™ve recently come to realize what the fundamental problem has been in this process. In my initial story concept, Iā€™d imagined a secretly submissive business executive who hired a professional pleasure service to find her a discreet dominatrix, who then goes on to mind control the business exec.

Seems straightforward enough. But maybe that was the issue? As I sat down to plot things out I just couldnā€™t find the drama. If the business exec is already submissive and already submitting to the domme who later brainwashes her… has the character really been changed all that much by the mind control?

Perhaps a better author than I am could have a field day with it but as I wrote draft after draft I had to stop and admit that my concept was not working. I gave myself permission to abandon my original idea and go wherever I needed to with the story.

I spoke with some author friends and did a bit of brainstorming. I wrote a new outline that had the drama Iā€™d been missing. I wrote a treatment and started to get excited. Then, I made the mistake of digging through my pics folder and realized I had no photo assets, whatsoever, to support this new version.

Back to the drawing board.

I stared at a blank page (phone screen) for three days straight (in between massive amounts of the freelance work I mentioned at the top) trying to have an idea that would work for the photos Iā€™d already collected and satisfy the drama quota Iā€™d set for myself.

And then, I had an idea. Just a little spark of inspiration about the relationship between the two main characters. But that character dynamic immediately suggested a plot point. And that idea would require a certain kind of set up early in the story to pay off later. Suddenly, the flood gates opened and the ideas began pouring through.

I took an hour long break from freelance stuff and wrote a nearly three thousand word outline containing every idea Iā€™d had in this brainstorming session. The next day, during another hour long break, I rewrote the outline. This time with an eye on structure and pacing.

Then I wrote it one more time, as a sort of question and answer exercise to map out the various plot points I would set up and pay off. Along the way, the characters have solidified in my imagination and the themes have risen out of the ideas on the page.

Last night I sat down and wrote a thousand words or so. Itā€™s a first draft and it definitely needs refinement but Iā€™m very pleased with it. I finally feel like Iā€™m on a path that will lead to this project getting finished.

As for the photo work, I donā€™t quite know how Iā€™m going to pull it off. But, I feel confident enough in my abilities that I can create what needs to be seen. It might not be as straightforward as Iā€™d prefer but if Iā€™m challenging myself with the writing, why not challenge myself with the manip work as well?

The one thing Iā€™m not going to do is give up on this one. In fact, now Iā€™ve really got a fire beneath me to see it finished. I think Iā€™ll go work on it now!

See you next time.

Welcome back friends! Last time I know I teased something about having a new manip in the works. I believe I said something about having a seed of an idea and that I was gonna take another crack at writing it. Well I did that. And then I did a LOT more of it. I woke a sleeping giant trying to write this latest piece. It became one of THOSE projects. Those projects that aren’t done until they decide to be.

Anyway, it decided that its done! Read on for my (lengthy) director’s commentary but first, please go check out The Good Doctor, I do hope you like it!

So, right off the bat lets talk names. Last time, I mentioned that the seed of inspiration I was going to take into my third pass at writing was that the manip called to mind golden age Hollywood cinema. There’s a number of memorable hypnosis scenes from that classic, black & white era and, appropriately, a number of memorable hypnotists to go with them.

All of the names that appear in the manip were derived from three wonderful actors and the characters they portrayed:

  • Gloria Holden playing the Countess Marya Zaleska in Draculaā€™s Daughter (1936). The tag line for the film is (I kid you not) “She gives you that WEIRD FEELING!” When I saw the movie as a younger man, with its very memorable woman-on-woman hypnosis scene, it definitely gave me that. šŸ˜‰
  • Gale Sondergaard as Catherine Vail in the Hope & Crosby romp Road to Rio (1947). In this flick, Sondergaard plays an evil aunt who is using her hypnotic powers to condition her niece into signing some papers so she can marry the young woman off in some way that will benefit only herself.
  • Lenore Aubert as Dr Sandra Mornay in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). While the devious Dr Mornay isn’t exactly a hypnodomme, the plot does hinge on her seductive manipulation of Abbott’s character. There’s a fair amount of hypnosis that goes on too, courtesy of Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula. The scene that especially stayed with me over the years was when Dr Mornay became a bit uncooperative and Dracula entranced her and bent her to his will. It tickles my “broken domme” button just enough to still seem hot.

The names aren’t the only thing that these formative films contributed. I was also trying to bring in a period sensibility to the characters and dialog. In my mind’s eye the “acting” is very obvious and the dialog just a bit conspicuous… as was the norm in that era.

I don’t know if that comes across as intended but that’s what I was going for. Thinking about these films and the characters in them ended up being a very big part of the inspiration for the writing. Though, it was certainly an odyssey getting there.

These past couple of weeks, working on this manip has been an interesting journey. I’d really hoped to have had three new updates in three weeks. That would’ve felt like a nice achievement. So, I picked out an image that I’d come across and manipulated months ago. I figured the “hard” work was already done, all I needed to do was write a little caption to go with it.

So, monumentally naive of me.

The Good Doctor

Lenore checks on her good friend Gloria to find out if Doctor Sondergaardā€™s treatments have cured her mysterious ailment.

Hi all! As we’re rolling into the weekend, I thought I’d update you on stuff and things.

Its been a very busy week for me in freelance land. I’ve got deadlines for three different clients all hitting today and keeping on top of things has been, to put it mildly, a challenge. Fortunately, barring anything catastrophic, I seem to be finished on-time with all my outstanding projects!

Which means, I now have a little time to turn my attention to smut. Work continues on Pleasure Professionals. I’ve not written on it since last weekend but I’ve read my current draft a couple of times since and the next segment is beginning to come into focus. That’s the good news. The bad news is that I’ve had to backtrack a bit and re-write two chapters.

Things just weren’t coming together like I’d hoped. While I like the scenes as they were written, they ultimately were slowing everything else in the narrative down too much. So, I trashed them and had a think about how to tackle them again, this time keeping in mind the overall pacing of the story.

So, I’ve lost a bit of ground there but I’m just gonna have to accept that I’m going to stumble over these problems as I get more and more experience writing longer bits of fiction. Its just part of the learning process.

In other areas, I’ve been a bit more productive. As you may have noticed, I’ve posted two updates to the Gallery in the past two weeks. Now, that might not seem like much to you but its been literally years since I’ve had two updates that close together. Will there be a third this weekend (I hear you asking yourself)?

Maybe. Possibly. We’ll see (I reply).

As it turns out, I have a little animation that’s been finished for some time. The characters call to mind classic black & white films of the late 30s to early 50s. I have taken two stabs at writing it so far but neither effort yielded anything worthwhile. I’ve been thinking about the apparent setting and trying to figure out what the story is going to be.

I’ve toyed with the idea of making it a period piece. If I do that, it might be neat to adapt some of the style and sensibility of the mind control scenes of that era (Dracula’s Daughter,Ā especially, is on my mind). So far, that’s all the ideas I’ve had for it. I’m going to take a third swing at it this weekend and see what happens.

So, no promises it will be ready by next week but I do have another morsel of mind control fun in the works. Hopefully, the next time we see each other here, I’ll have it ready to show you.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Twice in as many weeks! Have you ever seen the like?

So, yes, I’m back with another little goody for you all. My Director’s Commentary will follow but first, I do hope you enjoy Rescue!

I recently stumbled across this *lovely* source image on bdsmlr and I just HAD to put a little erotic mind control spin on it. I think one of the first stories I read that turned me on to the mind control possibilities of sodden panties was a JL themed story by Jo over on the Garden. It was certainly on my mind when I set to work crafting the animation and some words to go with it.

I did three drafts of this story and each one is markedly different. The first was, if I’m honest, just sort of going through the motions and not too great.

The second veered in a markedly different direction. I’d already written an anecdote referencing Invasion Of The Bee Girls (which is lovely btw, go check it out if you haven’t seen it). But I just kept coming back to this idea of Melissa hallucinating that there was this swarm of little bee women with strap-on stingers luring her into their hive with their sticky-sweet nectar, then injecting her with addictive girl-venom…

I really dug some of the imagery but it felt too convoluted and too disconnected from the source photo to really work. Whereas theĀ Bee Girls anecdote was more about demonstrating the character’s predisposition towards sexualizing fearful & taboo subject matter. Anyway I’ve got it filed away for a rainy day. If I ever come across some source image that is really begging for mind control bee girls… I’m all set.

So, draft three is what ended up getting posted and I do hope you enjoyed that little bit of prose and, hopefully, you found this little bit of prose informative as well!

Thank you for reading and, as always, your comments questions, and suggestions are welcome!

Rescue

Chained to the floor of a strange room, Melissa discovers 'rescue' can take many forms.

Remember, last time, when I said I really wanted to get out some short little bits of manip fun in between these big releases I’ve been teasing? Turns out I wasn’t kidding. Its as much a surprise to me as anyone.

As I’ve mentioned before, I have a huge collection of smexy photos and GIFs I’ve turned up while browsing bdsmlr and, back when they weren’t lame, tumblr. For a while now, I’ve had a vague idea about collecting a bunch of them into a loose series of tales. Today, I’m releasing the first one!

I’ve always loved fiction that utilizes a voyeuristic device in its narrative. Reading emails back and forth between characters, chat logs, and the like, I find it adds a really neat quality to a story. I didn’t really plan that for this manip but as I started typing that’s just where my fingers steered me.

As much as I love doing big, involved projects with a lot of image work or a lot of writing its wonderful to take a break from that sometimes. I didn’t realize how much I missed just doing some animation work then writing a story to go with it: all in a single sitting.

Lots of fun to create. Lots of fun (I hope) to consume.

Here’s Just Joking!

Just Joking

Cathy confronts the woman she thinks is responsible for her roommate's disturbing behavior

Hello friends I’m back to give you a quick status update on what’s going on with the site right now. I’ve been putting some solid effort into several things over the past several weeks so I thought I’d fill you in on the details of my progress.

First up: Space Ranger. this manip is turning into a massive endeavor. What I’m planning at the moment will be a mixed-media story consisting of images, video, and music. Without getting into specifics of the story I can say that this manip is going to be a celebration of several eras of science fiction and space opera… along with the yummy mind control that so often accompanied those great works.

The story and characters draw their inspiration across a broad range of influences. From the Flash Gordan serials of the 1930s, to the sexy 70s revival of Buck Rogers, all the way up to FemShep cosplay of the 21st century. I’ve done an enormous amount of Photoshop work establishing the characters and locations that set up the story. Next up is to begin the work of enslaving some of the sexy cast members of this upcoming piece. I’ll keep you posted on this one. I’m currently planning to have it out sometime late this year.

Next up, I’m happy to report that bdsmlr has all but completely removed my heartache over the death of tumblr and the treasure trove of potential manip images I’d gathered there. I’ve found a host of blogs, new and old, and my “Manip Art” folder is filling once more with epic smut.

I’ve got a short list of photos & GIFs that I’m thinking about turning into a quick little piece of mind control erotica. Something similar in scope to Private Security. I’ve done some image work on several things and I’m just waiting to see where inspiration strikes. I know the wait between these long-form stories can be quite a dry spell and I don’t like it anymore than you fine folks. I’d like to put one or two of these smaller vignettes out to help tide us all over for the next big release…

Speaking of which, lets finish up by talking about Pleasure Professionals! This is one of the first upcoming projects I teased after the site relaunch and its also proven to be one of the more challenging. To have had such a clear idea of what I wanted to accomplish, I had a terrible go of things when I actually sat down to do the writing.

I trashed that draft and began another. Then trashed that one and began again… and again!

Fortunately, I kept plodding away and on my fourth draft, I finally hit upon both the tone and angle that had been eluding me. Armed with this new inspiration, I’ve been regularly working on this new draft which is currently just over three thousand words. Its feeling to me like I’ve got another two or three thousand to go before I’ll be able to circle back and start polishing things up.

I don’t have an ETA for you yet. All I can say is that I’m eagerly writing away every chance I get and I’m very excited to get this one finished and posted for you all to enjoy. I’ve also collected a few other photos and may be able to craft a small series of images to help tell this growing story.

That’s all for now. I’ll keep you updated as the work progresses!

I say “story” instead of “manip” or “animation” because, for quite possibly the first time, I didn’t touch the source material with this piece. Not that I didn’t have ideas or that it might not have spiced things up a bit. However, at the time, I was just in the mood to quickly write something punchy and hot. Words that would complement the -amazing- animated GIF I had stumbled across while test driving ShareSome.com

Last time, I talked about trying out some of the alternatives that have risen in the wake of Tumblr’s demise (sexy Tumblr I mean, regular boring Tumblr is still a thing). My first day banging around on ShareSome I came across this animation and decided I’d see how easy it was to re-post it with some naughty mind control words attached.

So, I spent a few minutes writing a few paragraphs and posted away. It was really quite fun. It reminded me of a period in my work when I wasn’t quite as plodding and methodical as I’ve been in recent years. Which is another way of saying I’m slow as hell these days and I wanted to feel light-of-foot again. Kind of like a mid-life crisis but I’m, technically, still too young for that. Unless my cholesterol is worse than I think it is.

In which case… I might need to go shopping for a sports car I can’t afford or something.

Anyway. The point, finally, is that my only contribution here is a fun little vignette of a story inspired by one of the most AMAZING physiques I’ve ever seen on a human being. The fact that she’s also gorgeous and fucking herself silly is just icing on the cake.

Speaking of cake, I’m gonna go get my cholesterol checked. Let me know if you enjoy… Private Security!

‘Till next time!

 

Private Security

A bodyguard is targeted by her powerful client's enemies.

Welcome back true believers.

When Tumblr decided to begin purging their service of adult content, a little part of me quietly panicked. In just a couple years, the site had become an indispensable asset in discovering excellent photos, videos, and GIFs that parked themselves in my ā€œmanip ideasā€ folder. It was also a terrific place to bump into like-minded smut enthusiasts.

I, and many others, miss that brief, golden age. But, thereā€™s no rewinding time and so weā€™re, all of us, moving on and moving forward. But to where? As Madam Kistulot and I discussed in the last episode of The Black Room podcast, there are a handful of really viable places for Tumblr expats to hang their harnesses.

A terrific option I mentioned on the show is Sharesome.com They are an adult-content-focused (as opposed to adult-content-friendly) site that, for my money, has the best user interface of any social media service Iā€™ve used to date. They also have some features designed to help content creators connect with fans, get paid, and maintain credit for their work. All excellent, and much needed, developments in my opinion.

Their service, Iā€™ve read recently, isnā€™t just a website but rather something called a progressive web app. I donā€™t fully understand the implications of that but, among other things, it allows the site to run on mobile devices in a manner similar to native apps. If youā€™re in the iOS sphere, thatā€™s a big deal as there is likely never going to be an app that makes it to Appleā€™s store that promotes itself as a hub for adult content.

Itā€™s fast too. Sharesome, running in a dedicated browser on my phone feels damn close to the speed and responsiveness of the Tumblr app. It also has a terrific ā€˜Topicsā€™ function where you can quickly create or subscribe to a tag. Rather than searching for blogs that feature content youā€™re hot for, letā€™s say erotic mind control as an example, you can simply search for that topic and add it to your feed. When folks post to their blogs and tag their posts to the erotic mind control topic, everyone whoā€™s subscribed will see their post, even if they donā€™t follow that personā€™s individual blog.

Itā€™s a slick feature and the thing that made me fall in love with the service.

Sharesome would be absolutely phenomenalā€¦ if it werenā€™t sitting empty like one of those shiny, new Chinese cities waiting on people to inhabit it. Thereā€™s plenty of mainstream and niche-mainstream content to be found but very slim pickings for the kinds of blogs I avidly followed on Tumblr. Where did all those folks go?

bdsmlr.com, it turns out.

The little Tumblr-clone-that-could stepped in almost immediately after it was announced that adult content would soon be purged from Tumblrā€™s service. I checked it out at the time and wasnā€™t too impressed. Their interface felt like a cheap, less responsive, knock-off of Tumblr that was grasping beyond its reach to duplicate the features Tumblr users had become accustomed to.

It still feels that way to me. However, the devs behind the site have been plodding forward, adding requested features and fixing bugs. The service is growing noticeably better each day. And moreover, the community there is thriving. Iā€™ve found dozens of Tumblr refugees who have moved their content there, and several totally new blogs as well.

I donā€™t find myself missing Tumblr as much as I was just a few weeks ago. The people who made that adult community such a fun place to be are doing it all over again.

Sure, I wish everyone had collectively migrated to Sharesome. I love using their mobile site and I think almost everyone would be as impressed as I am with their innovative and forward-looking feature set. Rather than just settling for cloning Tumblrā€™s look and functionality which, letā€™s face it, couldā€™ve withstood some improvement.

But if bdsmlr continues to innovate at the rate theyā€™ve been going; If they can gain enough financial stability to keep delivering new features and refining their serviceā€¦ who knows where they might be this time next year? Content is king. The community on bdsmlr already has a checkmark in that column as far as Iā€™m concerned. bdsmlr also has a dev team that is actively engaged with their community right now and working hard to make them happy and draw in new users.

If that continues like it has, I can imagine some great things ahead for this site and itā€™s users. Iā€™m very happy to count myself among them. So, if youā€™re in the neighborhood, stop by my blogs:

Callidus.bdsmlr.com is where I repost smexy pics & gifs
CallidusCreates.bdsmlr.com is where I post my own creations

And, if youā€™d like, you can check out my Sharesome page here.

See you next time!