Feeling Cranky

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Post Cunnilingual

For a brief moment Alexa wondered if she was coming on too strong. Then she thought, "Naaah."

TThis is Alexa and Kayla from kink.com shoot 4356. I'm not sure which is who.
 

Taylor Swift Ready For Some Nude Bondage Sex

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Halfway Victory Achieved Over Kling AI Censorship, Sort Of!

Kling did not want this video made... but I made it anyway... with Kling AI... and CapCut... and Flashback Express! (You can buy "Sword and Submission," the book this promotes, right here!)

I based the video on the promo artwork I did yesterday, hence the remarkable similarity between it and the video, whch are more or less the same  except for the motion. I submitted the artwork to Kling, sans type, along with a prompt saying "a beautiful woman dances in a tavern." I expected a motion video. I got Kling's ever-so-unhelpful message saying "Upload Failed. Please upload a different image." A quick trip to Google-land interpreted this bland message as, "This is NSFW PORN, you PERVERT! Put clothes on the people in your image and stop making them have evil, degenerate sex!"

Which was weird, because there was no nudity in the image or the prompt, just a woman dressed in a bikini dancing for a bunch of guys wearing loincloths. If this is porn, so is every last beach movie ever made, going right back to those 1960s films starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands or whomever. Way to go, Kling AI!

So I figured the Kling's automated censor might be gender-confused: there were lots of huge, naked breasts on the male tavern customers, and there was a beautiful woman, so the censor somehow got beautiful woman with huge, naked breasts. If only. So I tested the theory. I uploaded the two images separately. It was easy because the woman was on a different layer in GIMP than the tavern in the background. The woman is  the usual SL avatar run through Leonardo AI (to escape Leonardo's stupid censorship) to get a lifelike naked woman. See this post about my promo video for a full explanation.

Weirdly enough, it worked. Well, not as much as I'd hoped. I tried uploading the naked image of dancing slave Zindra, hoping it would slide past. It did not, dammit. So I uploaded clothed slave Zindra to Kling AI and no problem.

Slave Zindra, dancing by herself, poor thing.

The tavern and its brawny bare-chested occupants were the product of a prompt from Leonardo (did not ask for nudity or sex) and after I ran a couple of iterations, I had an image that worked. I uploded it to Kling all by its lonesome with no problem.

Just a bunch of guys drinking without any dancing slavegirls to fuck them.

Somehow I had to get those two videos together, and by "somehow" I mean with the aid of a video editing program called Capcut. It's a free program, well a nerfed version is free. With the nerfed version you can still stack several videos atop one another. Full program rents for $30 a month. The paid version has a pushbutton background eliminator that's sweet but I make do with the nerfed version because $$. It can eliminate backgrounds, too, but it's more of a PITA than the pushbutton version. So I took pains and overlapped the two vids, and exported them and got the video at the top of the post. Was it worth it? No idea, but it was interesting and fun, and I got a short but good video out of it.

New Promo Image for Sword and Submission

Came up with a new promo for Sword and Submission. Looking for that image that will reach into the subconscious of my readers and drag them to my books. I think this one might be effective. Her nakedness and vulnerability in the midst of the shirtless, muscular barbarian guys will hopefully press a few buttons in a few ids. We shall see! Here's a link to the book just in case: Sword and Submission.
 

Due to Facebook's stupid censorship regimen I had to come up with a version that hides the goodies because Oh, no! Sigh. Not nearly as effective if you ask me. (Not that any of the tech bros ever does.) You can see for yourself and make up your own mind. 

Bondage Life Hacks #1

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It's a Clitsumani!

 
She was such a prolific squirter that all her dom could do was stand by with a bucket!

From kink.com shoot 3441 featuring Christina Carter.

A Long Night of Barbaric Love

A new promo image I created for "Sword and Submission." It's pretty much a scene from the novel. I used a Second Life avatar that I ran through Leonardo AI and a prompt for some barbaric warriors standing in a tavern. Add a cutline and Instant Promo.

Silence Is Slippery

"Silence the slavegirl's lips!" bellowed the king and his minions sprang into action. 

The king inspected their work. "It's not what I had in mind, but I'll allow it," the king said.

From kink.com shoot 40172. That's Roxanne Rae being silenced, not Rachel Ray. Whole different genre!

Another Winner From Kling AI With A Different Model From Second Life Via Leonardo AI

Decided to create a new promo vid for Sex and Submission with a different model. As usual we start with a Second Life avatar. This one is nicely done, some very good skin tones but the strap bikini she wears is clumsily done with some fairly jagged edges on what should be smooth curved lines. Also, a bit of nipple visible on her right breast and something that could be considered pubic hair inside the lower buckle on her bikini bottom straps.(Smashwords doesn't even want Attempted Pubic Hair!)

Ran it through Leonardo and got a much improved face and the bikini straps are much improved. Everything is much improved! She looks a little Asian, but that's OK. Plus bye-bye to Attempted Pubic Hair worries. Pasted it in front of background art from Deposit Photos.

I ran it through Leonardo Motion just to see what I'd get. The result would speak for itself, if it had a mouth. But it would probably just scream.

Ran the same image through Kling AI with a prompt of "A beautiful woman dances alone on a stage." Did not want to get too explicit with the prompt! Still got a very nice result, except, for just a moment there she had no face. I hate when that happens to women when they're dancing.

Ran a slightly different image through Kling AI and success at last! Ok, for a moment there her neck gets a little rubbery, but c'mon, rubbernecking is a thing! Off to promote my book!

Drug Tests, Slavegirl Style

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Dirty Dancing Sword and Submission Style

I tried an alternative prompt on my "Sword and Submission" cover art and got a damn fine result right out of the gate. Enjoy!

A Savage Contest Indeed!

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Motion Video Success With Kling

Ta-da! Practically my first motion video using Kling's Image to Video program. Notice the lack of bulbous hands as in Leonardo AI! Notice the lack of bulbous bodies (also an unfortunate Leonardo AI feature, see my post about it here.} The very nice exception being Zindra's very bulbous breasts bouncing boobily along. And notice that the Zindra figure looks EVEN BETTER than the original Zindra art!

Of course there had to be a surprise for me courtesy of Kling AI as I attempted to make videos promoting my new novel Sword and Submission, and the more observant among you will have noticed it: the bearded lady smirking in the background when Zindra drops. There were no bearded ladies in the original image. Thanks, Kling. I wound up generating several videos to get what I wanted, and some of the ones I didn't use were usable. And most generated cover art. Here's the image I chose: 

This was the image I made from one of the videos, I'm not sure exactly which one. Doesn' matter. The main reason I picked the image is that Kling had Zindra's eye tracking King Horth instead of staring at the viewer as in my original art. A far cry from the original Second Life avatar though the Leonardo AI image was pretty damn good. I also ran the final image through Deposit Photo's free Upscaler program as it was a little short on pixels for ebook cover art. Upscaler got me all the pixels I needed and kept the image crisp and sharp. So many tools, working so well. It's a new day for video. 

I did get one video that was even better than I could have hoped. You of course can never ask for sex acts in a prompt on a commercial AI. But you can sometimes get some very suggestive results. Like this one:

I'm calling it. This is a straight-up R-rated blowjob scene. Woo-hoo! I just asked for a woman kneeling as in all the other video prompts. I got this. Nice!

I'll probably see if I can get away with using it. But for starters I have another video that came out pretty damn good. This one:

This one is stronger than the others in that the motion is completed instead of stopping in mid-motion. Also, stops on a great pose for Zindra, her face highlighted beautifully, and look how good those prayerful hands look. This will be my starter video. I'll be using Leonardo for still images because Kling AI doesn't give you a lot of videos for your eight bucks a month.

It's Always Good To Have A Hole Card

She wound up behind bars a lot, but fortunately her mouth was her "get out of jail free" card.

 Carmen Caliente from Kink..com shoot 43730.

"Sword and Submission" Cover Art: Attempted Explanation

 Designing the cover art for "Sword and Submission" was much easier than creating the promo video for "Susan: Pet Shop Sex Slave 3." For one thing I didn't have to make a video. So of course I made a video ANYWAY and it turned out to be not nearly as much trouble and it wound up  improving things greatly. But I digress.

I started out with the idea of wanting a picture of Princess Zindra submitting to King Horth's warriors after a bloody battle in her father's throne room. First thing I needed was an image of Princess Zindra looking submissive. For that I went to my Second Life avatars which had all kinds of submissive poses. Turns out I had a  ready-made image. This one:

An image of a frightened naked ballgagged blonde woman in an urban night landscape. All it had going for it was that the woman was beautiful and  she had her hands up in surrender. But that was enough, it turns out.

I then ran the SL avatar through Leonardo AI's Image to Image program, which did me a huge solid.  I got this:

I did not ask Leonardo AI to get rid of the ballgag. Leonardo has a problem with gags. Generally it just renders them very badly. Substituting those beautiful lips for a gag worked fine for me. With AI you take what you can get.

 I now had a beautiful image, but it was unfortunately naked. Naked cover art does not pass muster on Smashwords. So I used my GIMP skills to draw on pasties and filmy tranlucent panties, very simple crude art, and got this:

OK, not perfect but not naked! Still I wanted more, so I ran my revised Leonardo art back through Leonardo again, including running it through the Upscaler program. And I got this: (Yeah, the third finger on the right hand was off, but whatchagonnado?) And why is the image flipped? I honestly don't know. It came in "handy" that it was flipped, but that was much later in the process.

I don't know why Leonardo AI decided that Upscaling art included drawing on a  filmy bra to match the panties, but it worked for me. It drew on nipple bumps as well (Smashwords does not approve of nipple bumps) but it was but the work of a moment to smooth those babies out in GIMP. So I had my sexy slave Zindra image for the cover! Even if the fingers on her right hand were suspicious.

Now that I had sexy mostly naked Zindra  down, I had to do the background. The proved much easier because no naked people, or people having sex was called for. As I've noted before, your average graphic AI will fight you tooth and nail before it will create a naked or nearly naked woman. (They also favor images of unhappy Asians in work uniforms, especially for crowd shots.)

But in this image I didn't get unhappy Asians in work uniforms and since there were no naked women requested, after a few false starts, I had my background scene. To wit:

OK, so it had a couple of flaws. The bodies on the floor are all kind of problematical if you look at them at all closely, so don't do that! 

The body in the foreground was the worst. But being a super genius cover designer, I had an ace in the hole in my sleeve. I realized the best way to place Zindra was to put her behind the looming figure in the foreground and in front of all those bodies. And I knew I could do that easily. I just copied the figure in the foreground and place it in a new layer. And I cropped it in tight and got this, my cover art:

I moved the warrior layer and the Zindra layer to a new location and closed in on the two of them. That got rid of all the bodies in the background and Zindra's butt covered the wonky parts of the body in the foreground and the warrior's body blocks Zindra's wonky hand. Because her image was flipped! Win win win!

The more obeservant among you may note that the image in the cover is not exactly the same as the image above. Very similar but the woman's posture isn't the same as the one in the image above.There's a reason for that, having to do with my further experimentation with motion videos. Which I will save for another post.

You Know You're Gonna Have A Long Day...

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"Sword and Submission" Is Now On Sale at Smashwords!

 

"I, state your name..." Princess Zindra submits to King Horth. Click on the cover to be whisked to Smashwords where you can buy the book!

Here's the blurb!

 When King Mardag of Canoris rode out to conquer the neighboring kingdom of Zandor and give the upstart mountain barbarian King Horth a much-needed beheading, a quick victory was anticipated by all.

Instead, the result was a disastrous defeat resulting in the death of King Mardag and many of his warriors, and the capture of all the rest. In no time King Horth had conquered Mardag’s castle and very nearly captured Queen Lissandra. Horth did capture Mardag’s daughter, Princess Zindra, in the midst of a pitched battle in the throne room.

Horth and his wife and slave Queen Simora (it’s complicated) wasted no time in stripping, binding and collaring Zindra and seeing that she was enslaved and publicly raped, which in those days was the humanitarian thing to do to a captured princess.

Zindra failed to see any humanitarian motive in all this, but one good thing happened. When Zindra had been stripped they had removed the chastity belt she’d been locked in since puberty, and she was pretty darned sick of it since it had been ten very long, very horny, very unsatisfied years without so much as a single orgasm. Hence, Zindra discovered the joy of sex all at once and very intensely and repeatedly. It was the only part of the whole being overthrown situation that worked for her, frankly.

When Zindra realized she was a slave now and that she would be owned by someone or other for the rest of her life, she was certain that all her chances at a happy life were over. But then Zindra met the mighty warrior Faswik and something passed between them and it wasn’t just the usual gooey stuff. Neither of them knew what it was. But it changed both their lives forever.

Read this 41,000 word novel and find out how it all happened. You’ll be glad you did.

My Latest Novel "Sword and Submission" Coming Soon!

 

Promo art for "Sword and Submission."

I’ve been thinking about exploring a new niche, something I could do well that had a pretty good fan base. So I asked myself, what is the most successful BDSM erotica to date? The answer, obviously, was “Fifty Shades of Gray.” 70 million copies worldwide in one year, it dwarfs even MY sales! By about 70 million copies! I mean, everything I’ve sold on Smashwords would be a tiny rounding error compared with 70 million copies.

There are also John Norman’s Gor novels to consider. (Norman is still with us as of this writing, he’ll be 94 this year. Way to go, guy!)

The Gor novels are not nearly as successful as “Fifty Shades of Gray” all 38 of them having sold only 6 to 12 million copies over the 58 years they have been on sale. And that’s quite a range, 6 to 12 million copies. Still, even if you go with the low end of the range, 6 million copies, in comparison all of my sales at Smashwords are, once again, rounding errors, just slightly larger rounding errors, not enough to matter, still.

So obviously, if I were to come up with a way to combine the success of “Fifty Shades of Gray” and the Gor novels, sales of such a book might be a lot rounder than my other books, at the very least!

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you my latest novel, “Sword and Submission!”

It’s not on sale yet, but it will be on Friday. And yes, it is a combination of “Fifty Shades of Gray” and a Gor novel. Not any Gor novel in particular. I suppose the closest analogue would be the stories about Talena, daughter of the ruler of Ar and hence a Gorean princess. She, too gets captured and enslaved, though not nearly as explicitly as Princess Zindra in “Sword and Submission” does.

(Norman has his flaws as a writer but he is excellent at letting readers know just exactly what sexual things are going on without any explicit scenes or language whatsoever. It’s called writing “fantasy fuel” and Norman does it about as well as anyone. One of his best is a scene in “Dancer of Gor” where the titular slavegirl character’s virginity is auctioned off to 17 lucky winners at a tavern one night, and she winds up hooded, naked and chained in an alcove, unable to see the 17 men who “take her virginity.” He never explicitly describes any of the sex, but makes it very clear she gets her brains fucked out good and proper, all while hooded and chained in various ways.)

I am well qualified to attempt this project. I have read “Fifty Shades of Gray” and I have read 30 books in the Gor series. (OK, most of the later books I skimmed over the parts where he goes off on a rant about “antibiological sex” and other such stuff, because those rants last for page after page and are both tiresome and the same every time, occurring several times in each novel, generally in conjunction with one of his fantasy fuel sex scenes which I did NOT skim over.)

I know my material very well.

In my story everything is more explicit. But also much more romantic than anything in “Fifty Shades” or any “Gor” novel. The romance is not just emotional, it’s sexual. The sexual attraction between Princess Zindra and Faswik, one of King Horth’s warriors, is intertwined with the emotional attachment between them. It’s a real romance, a sexual romance and a BDSM romance. It’s a very different BDSM romance because it’s playing out in a time when chattel slavery was full integrated into society and the BDSM aspects of it were not recognized or understood.

I did a fair amount of thinking about that aspect of my story. I had three levels of slave sex to deal with: the BDSM understanding of it that a modern reader and I would have, the primeval chattel slavery that existed in Zindra’s Canoris and the slightly more advanced slavery that existed in Horth’s Zandor.

It was easy to work with the difference between Zandorian slavery and Canorian slavery. I just let the characters note the difference between how Zandorian slaves were treated and how Canorian slaves were treated. For dealing with our modern understanding of BDSM slavery, I had a hole card: the ancients recognized love slavery, or something like it.

So there  was a special class of slavery called “love slavery” that was recognized by both Zandorians and Canorians as a special kind of slavery that involved emotional as well as sexual relations between Master and slave. Which of course happens between Zindra and Faswik (but only after Zindra got raped a lot so she could experience regular slave sex).

Zindra didn’t recognize the nonconsenxual slave sex as rape and neither did the Masters who raped her so much. They would have said it was not rape because Zindra was a slave so she could not be raped, only used. Zindra would only recognize the indignity of the rape as part of the catastrophe of going from princess to slave, if she felt it as an indignity at all. As you will know if you read the book, there will be many distractions for Zindra.

I tried to give Zindra and all the characters a primitive understanding of the world, calmly accepting things that would alarm and even horrify modern readers. Even relatively advanced Zandorians accepted slavery and fucking slaves whether they liked it or not as perfectly normal and OK activities for everyone but the slaves, whose opinions on that or any topic didn’t matter unless the free chose to care about them.

As a princess, Zindra had never stopped to think if there were any positive aspects to slavery because it didn’t matter. It someone had pressed her on the topic she would have just said they got pleasure from serving others, especially noble others like herself. The usual self-serving, facile bullshit that the ruling classes have engaged in throughout history.

So she gets totally blindsided by her experience of slavery, especially with Faswik.

I won’t go any farther along those or any lines, lest I give too much away. I wrote the book about Zindra and Faswik's experiences. You should read it!

The Real World Isn't What It's Cracked Up To Be...

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Sing Along With Rain DeGray: "Someday My Prince Will Come!"

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Only in the Far West

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The Phantasmagorical Lovecraftian Horror of Creating Videos With Leonardo AI

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Failure of Rationality

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"Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You..."

 
Claire was so into Adriana that she needed a snorkel!

Adriana (in binds) and Claire (in Adriana) from Kink.com video 5215.

Her Forehead Says One Thing, Her Neck and Chest Say Another

 

Hmm, I suppose she might have some daddy issues, but look at that deep red flush on her chest and neck. She's totally sexually aroused here. Loves to be the center of attention, even if she is collared and chained. Image is Kennedy Adams from Kink.com video 33363.

Some Erotic Images Make You Wonder "How Did They Manage To Put That There?"

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Rope Suspensions Can Be So Relaxing

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Badly Planned Bondage

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The Original Ms Pacman!

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Slavegirls Love To Give Blowjobs...

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