I keep getting surprised by my own writing (with gratuitous bondage)

Heidi all grown up and all tied up.
So, what was the strange thing that happened when I wrote “The Visitor from Incel World”? My initial thought had been that this would heighten the contrast with Collar World, and make Collar World's nature more vivid to readers. And some of that definitely happened, in ways that surprised me, and I'm the writer, dammit! I keep being surprised by my own writing. My subconscious is clearly actively involved in writing my stories.

In this case, I wrote a line, “It's like living in a summer camp that thinks it's a city” which is the Visitor's reaction to the way people on Collar World conduct themselves. They're much more mellow and relaxed and open than Earth people, because their sexual needs are fully met, and they have every reason to believe that their needs will be met in the future. There's none of the sex anxiety (the equivalent of “food anxiety”) that we have on Earth, because they live in a sex positive society.

I had never thought out that people in a sex positive society might conduct themselves in a more relaxed and open way, and that this might be the first thing that a visitor from our world would notice, after they got over the public nudity and the public sex, of course.

But that's not the weird thing that happened.

The weird thing that happened was that the real focus of “The Visitor from Incel World” was on how the people of Collar World reacted to what Ariana Hufflepuff, the visitor from Incel World, said about Earth, and what her behavior and attitudes implied about Earth. She's a women's studies grad student at a New England women's college, so she's a bit of an unreliable narrator in certain respects, which is how Earth gets the name “Incel World” on Collar World. (By the way, what do the occupants of Collar World call their planet? Earth, of course.)
And the response of the Collar World residents to what they discover about Earth is what turns out to drive the story and leads directly to the creation of a sequel, not Ariana's response to what she sees on Collar World. I had not expected that.

"Incel World" explained, with random bondage image

Patty cake as played on Collar World.


“Road to Aquibonya” is finished and will be working on editing it today. This may seem amazing to you, but I proofread my stories three times before I publish them. Yes, and still mistakes get through. Sigh. But not nearly as many as used to get through.

Once I get through with editing “Road to Aquibonya" in a day or two, it will be time to return to writing “Conquest of Incel World,” the non-awaited sequel to “Visitor from Incel World.” “Conquest of Incel World,” is non-awaited because I haven't published “Visitor” yet, so how could people be waiting for the sequel when they haven't read the original?

I'm eager to get cranking on “Conquest” though, but more about that later. I should probably explain what “Incel World” is. “Incel World” is what the inhabitants of Collar World call Earth … us, in short. They call Earth “Incel World” because their only contact with Earth has been through a feminist graduate student from a New England women's college, and so their understanding of Earth is filtered through her biases and perceptions.

You see, the Collar World books were the product of a thought experiment, which was initiated after some online discussions in the Sex Positive discussion group on Reddit, where I observed that real sex positivism was hard to even conceive of, because being raised in our current sex-negative culture, we all feel that strain of sex-negativism even when we strive to be sex-positive. It's like a constant cold wind blowing in from offshore, that you constantly have to lean against whenever you go outside. You get used to it, maybe you don't really feel it, but it's there, always.

So I thought about what it might be like to live in a world where everyone was kinky and sex-positive, and thus was born Collar World. I've got four stories published set in Collar World, an alternate world where everyone is kinky and sex positive and having a very good time, thankyewverymuch.

But after writing four stories set in Collar World, all of them erotica with strong science fiction themes, it occurred to me that much of the effect of Collar World was being lost because everyone took all the very strange goings-on for granted. If I wanted to get the contrast between Collar World and Earth as we know it to the max, I needed to bring in a character who could see Collar World through Earth eyes.

And thus was born “The Visitor from Incel World.” But when I wrote the story, something strange happened. I'll save that for tomorrow, though. Enough blathering for today.

The New Battle Line On Human Sexuality

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The Language Of Opprobrium

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I'm Pretty Sure These Damsels Are Not At All Distressed!

Smiling in  the stocks, probably because she's got a comfy rock to sit on. Source: TrainingofO.com.
What better way to start a weekend than with a whole trove of happy people engaging in sexual bondage? My flying monkeys brought in a clue, in the form of this post on Fleshbot, entitled "Bondage is Joy" showing a couple of naked, bound women laughing their asses off, and why should they not? Check it out!

LShe's definitely looking forward to something! 
Image ource: SexAndSubmisson.com.
I did a little more research and found the mother lode, however, the Happy BDSM Archive. It's a tumblr full of images of bondage models and amateurs engaging in bondage and so forth, mostly bondage, grinning like fools while they're at it. It's mostly women in bondage, but there are some men in bondage, so if that squicks you, be sure and take a good look at the thumbnail before you click on it. Basically however, this is the biggest trove of silly-ass grinning bondage fans I know of.

None of the photos in this post are from the Happy BDSM tumblr archive, they're from the good folks at Kink.com. Lot of grinning people there, too. Source: This one is from TheTrainingOfO.com.
So enjoy the happy bondagers, and have a great holiday weekend!