New Manip: The Good Doctor

August 10, 2019

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 Dracula’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. 😉
  • 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.

Continue Reading…

The Good Doctor

Lenore checks on her good friend Gloria to find out if Doctor Sondergaard’s treatments have cured her mysterious ailment.

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Catching Up With Callidus – July 26, 2019

July 26, 2019

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, 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!

New Manip: ‘Rescue’

July 22, 2019

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 the 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.

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New Manip: Just Joking

July 13, 2019

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

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Catching Up With Callidus – July 9, 2019

July 9, 2019

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!

New Story: Private Security

April 29, 2019

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.

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Catching Up With Callidus – New Home on Social Media

April 19, 2019

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 “manip ideas” folder. It was also a terrific place to bump into like-minded smut enthusiasts.

I, and many others, miss that brief, golden age. But, there’s no rewinding time and so we’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 I’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, I’ve read recently, isn’t just a website but rather something called a progressive web app. I don’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 you’re in the iOS sphere, that’s a big deal as there is likely never going to be an app that makes it to Apple’s store that promotes itself as a hub for adult content.

It’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 ‘Topics’ function where you can quickly create or subscribe to a tag. Rather than searching for blogs that feature content you’re hot for, let’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 who’s subscribed will see their post, even if they don’t follow that person’s individual blog.

It’s a slick feature and the thing that made me fall in love with the service.

Sharesome would be absolutely phenomenal… if it weren’t sitting empty like one of those shiny, new Chinese cities waiting on people to inhabit it. There’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 Tumblr’s service. I checked it out at the time and wasn’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. I’ve found dozens of Tumblr refugees who have moved their content there, and several totally new blogs as well.

I don’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 Tumblr’s look and functionality which, let’s face it, could’ve withstood some improvement.

But if bdsmlr continues to innovate at the rate they’ve been going; If they can gain enough financial stability to keep delivering new features and refining their service… 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 I’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 it’s users. I’m very happy to count myself among them. So, if you’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 you’d like, you can check out my Sharesome page here.

See you next time!

The Black Room Returns!

April 11, 2019

Greetings true believers!

Although things have been quiet here on the site for a bit… behind the scenes its a -very- different story. I’ve been busy on many new fun & smutty things that I’ll be telling you about and sharing in the near future. Today, though, I’m delighted to bring you a fresh, new episode of The Black Room podcast!

Madam Kisutlot and I are very happy to be back and bringing you our favorite bits of fun from the erotic mind control community. This super-size episode clocks in at just under three hours long and features all manner of fun discussion regarding new EMC fiction on The Archive, Madam Kistulot’s recent experience at the Charmed! hypno convention, the demise of tumblr and the alternatives that have arisen in its wake and, of course, updates from MK and myself on all our recent and upcoming projects.

Do let us know what you think and if there’s something YOU would like to see discussed or highlighted on a future episode of the show!

Please to enjoy.

The Black Room – Episode 020

The Black Room returns! The unintentional hiatus is over and we are back and bringing you our favorite discoveries from the erotic mind control fetish community!

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New Animation: Fun Room

September 23, 2018

Welcome back, dear reader!

After teasing it weeks ago, I’m (finally) pleased to bring you my latest animated manip: Fun Room! Please check it out and then read on for my director’s commentary!

The video work on this piece was a real joy to work on. Challenging in different ways than these things often are. Visually, I was really inspired by an old friend of mine: HypnoTits. He was already creating snazzy video manips on the Hypnopics Collective back when I first started dabbling in animation.

We connected over a mutual love of the other’s work and really hit off over a shared love of punk rock, brainwashing scenes from old tv shows, and…ahem…breasts. Anyhoo, we had even been working on a collaboration just before he disappeared from the scene all those years ago.

If you’re still out there HT, drop me a line some time!

So, the idea of projecting video imagery on the wall behind the women in this video, that’s a big tip of the cap to HypnoTits. That technique was something he used to great effect time and time again.

At the time I wrote that teaser post, the video was done and I’d written about fifteen hundred words of the caption. I felt like I was just one polish-pass away from putting it to bed.

Silly me.

Upon reading a couple more times, I really cringed at almost the entire second half. It needed a major retool. Between being busy with work and just not having any ideas on how to change it, the whole project came to a stand still.

Last week, I decided to follow some of that obvious advice that writers often get: “Keep writing no matter what!” Turns out that works pretty well! I finally found a way through the material that I was happy with and finished up with the wordsmithing over the weekend.

In the end, I think the problem was that I’d started the project hoping to make something a bit simple and I found myself complicating it. So much so that it stopped being the project that I’d enjoyed so much initially. Simplifying the story and just sticking to the core ideas I’d started with ended up being the way through the block.

As Madam Kistulot sagely observed, “Beating your head against the all is sometimes the only way out of the room ” She should make a calendar or something. 😉

As for me, it’s on to the next!

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy and, as always, your comments, questions and suggestions are always welcome.

Fun Room

Christy invites Asa over to show her the unique renovation she's made to her spare room.

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Almost Back!

August 16, 2018

Hey all,

I know I haven’t posted much this summer. I’ve been just completely engulfed in freelance work and other projects. However, I have found some breathing room in the past couple weeks. So, I thought I’d say hello and give you all a little peek at something I’m finishing up.

I’ve had this snippet of video saved for a while that I just -knew- I could do something with. I happened onto the folder I’d saved it in a week or two ago and took another look and it finally clicked with me. I trimmed out the roughly 25 seconds of relevant video and put it in a new project folder titled “Bimbo Room.”

I’m essentially finished with the visual fx work at this point. I’ve also been scribbling some notes that will turn into a modest caption I plan to write. I have just a bit of editing and tweaking left to do on the visuals. Then, I’ll assemble my notes into the story and then…I’ll be sharing it with you all!

So, hopefully, something to look forward to.

Hope your summer has been more fun than mine and I’ll see you again soon!