15th (ish) Year Anniversary

I just realized that this blog has reached it’s 15 year anniversary. In fact it reached it back in September and I totally missed it. Happy belated anniversary to me and it.

Looking back to a post I made for the 10 year milestone, I’m amused to note that I was hoping to be retired by now and have freed up time for more personal projects. Unfortunately, shortly after writing that post, I did pretty much the opposite of retiring and joined an early stage tech startup. Not a move I’d recommend for anyone looking to wind down their work life. That has really killed my free time for the last few years and definitely impacted my blogging. Hopefully, between now and the 20 year version of this post, I can actually retire and reclaim some time for kink, writing and travel. Future me – don’t fuck this up.

An anniversary is typically celebrated with cake and candles. I don’t have any cake to share, but here’s some candles. Luckily for the gentleman concerned, not 15 of them.

Sadly I don’t have the original source for this image. Image search tells me it’s pretty old – at least 9 years. There is a Marina B. photographer online, but her work seems far more family oriented than this. If anyone has an attribution then please let me know via a comment.

Happy Thanksgiving

It’s the end of November, which means only one thing in the US – Thanksgiving. That means blogs like this one are obliged to make stuffing related posts. I think that’s actually one of the amendments to the constitution. So here we go, with a young farmhand putting one of those hands to good use.

For those based in the US that celebrate the holiday, I hope you have a good one. For everyone, at least it’s almost the weekend.

Glass Slipper

Not exactly my usual material, but it made me laugh and it does seem appropriate subject matter. I’m not sure if glass slippers would be great for a foot fetishist (all that collected sweat) or terrible (too impersonal and impervious).

This is by Tommy Siegel shared as a collection of cartoons via reddit. He’s done a couple of books using this format and I think they’re great. Worth checking out if you’re looking for Christmas gifts.

Floristry and Bondage

This image by Mistress Estelle Leon is a lovely combination of textures and colors. There’s the soft white bandages, the hard shiny gag and the colorful organic spray of branches. They’re apparently Eucalyptus, so there’s even scent in the mix for our lucky subject.

This isn’t the kind of scene you’ll ever see as a tick box on a session request form. But I’m sure by the end of it the submissive felt lucky and privileged to have been part of it. There’s something very satisfying about being decorated by a domme.

You can see another shot of the same scene via this Bluesky post. Mistress Estelle Leon is a Melbourne based pro-domme whose professional site can be found here.

Deep Throat

I’m continuing the theme of pegging in unusual positions with this image. As I mentioned in the last post, I’m a fan of face to face strap-on play. Not sure I’ve ever tried crotch to face, but I’m definitely up for giving it a shot.

I couldn’t track down an original source for this. I suspect it might be more fan art, but reverse image searching didn’t give me much.

Spuffy

This originally caught my eye just because I thought it was a cute – and hot – pegging scene. I’m always a fan of being face to face rather than the more common doggy style.

However, on researching it, I realized it’s also fan art of Spike and Buffy of vampire slaying fame. Which makes me love it even more, given I’m a huge fan of the characters and the show. Buffy was totally the top in that relationship, whatever Spike might have thought.

The artist is Auia AKA awabubbles. Sadly, they’ve not posted for years and most of what they have posted is M/m. Still I’ll take a little spuffy loving when I can find it.

Reducing Anxiety

The NY Post has an article suggesting spanking can reduce anxiety and interrupt fretful thought loops. It’s probably just an excuse to feature a sexy pic or two, but I’ll take a mainstream article with a positive spin on kink. Particularly one that’s gender neutral and doesn’t take male dominance as the default.

I always used to find thwacky impact play soothing, but in the last year or so it has been more of a mixed bag. I think my skin has got more sensitive as I’ve got older and sometimes blows will trigger itching and an unpleasant heat. Maybe I just need to moisturize more. Certainly when I can get into the right zone, a good spanking is a lovely way to destress.

I’m not sure of the source of this photograph. I have a suspicion it’s really old. Not 100% sure but it reminds me of a spanking series that was floating around on usenet 20+ years ago.

Grief Encounter

This site gave me  bit of a scare this week. First I couldn’t update or create new posts. Then I couldn’t log in at all. Fortunately, the hosting company has efficient technical support and got it all sorted out. Normal service has been resumed.

I was actually a little surprised at how concerned I was. I’ve been blogging for a longtime now. When I started I had daily posts. Now it’s more like 3 or so a week. I occasionally wonder if/when I’ll stop. Based on my reaction to the technical gremlins, it probably will not be soon. Felt very weird not being able to log in and post.

Anyway, back to the Femdom salt mines, digging up imagery and links of interest. Here’s a nice case in point. The image is from a short film caused ‘Grief Encounter’.  It features a woman picking up people at funerals to take advantage of their ‘overwhelmed’ state.

The film was directed by Ellen Pearson and produced by Erika Lust. If the actress looks familiar, that’s because it is domme Eva Oh, who I’ve featured here before.