Marina St. Clare is curious about covering all the angles

Beginner's Ball #5 is over at Marina St. Clare's blog today. Nymphs, a satyr, goat porn. What more can you ask for? Well, she's asking what do YOU write about. Head over there and tell us.

Beginner's Ball is a series started by writers Erobintica,Helia Brookes and Marina St. Clare. We hope to address issues of interest to new eroticists and more experienced writers as well. This series travels blog to blog. If you are interested in hosting, please let us know!

Fleshing out fantasy

Yesterday, Donna George Storey blogged about fantasies being fantasies being fantasies...

which made this song pop into my head (damn! embedding disabled - it's Billy Idol's "Flesh For Fantasy" - with the lip thing going really good)...

More work from Randy Lagana

which got me thinking about blurring of lines. I bought Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden way back when it first came out in paperback. It was well-read (used?) by me back-in-the-day. Also got the follow-up books, Forbidden Flowers and Men In Love. I don't recall hearing that the sexual "fantasies" were actually fiction - in other words, not "real" fantasies. But somehow it doesn't surprise me. But WTF??? 

Donna did a great job of twisting that genre all around (go read "Jessica's Fantasies"). But the more I thought about fantasies - which are fiction, right? - but can be based on truth - well, my head started spinning. 

And then my reactions over the course of my lifetime to my own sexual fantasies got me thinking - and well, like I've said before, when I start thinking - watch out! I've had ... um ... sexual fantasies ... or what might be considered sexual fantasies ... for a very long time. Had a love/hate relationship with them. At times in my life (early teens) I wanted to NOT have them because they tended to lead to !!!!!!! oh no! not that! masturbation - shhhh - I never said that!

I remember - I was a freshman in high school and somebody was passing around - in art class of all places - some pamphlet talking about "self-abuse" and how it was a sin and since I was an impressionable, church-going (at the time), full-of-guilt (at the time), extremely horny (duh!) thirteen-year-old, I took it to heart. New Year's Resolutions anyone?

Hahahahahaha. I am so fucking glad I survived that time of my life. Anyhow. Now here I am, many decades later, and I'm taking fantasies, old and new, and fleshing them out in order to turn them into fiction. But ... what of the stories I create that are not based on my own fantasies? Are they fantasies? They are, but they aren't. Sometimes by writing I create a new fantasy. 

Well, I could go on and on, but there's a new Beginner's Ball up - this one is #5 - over at Marina St. Clare's blog - and her topic is !!! "Anything But Underaged Goat Porn!"  Curious? Hehehe.

Fucking Excuses

So, yeah, I haven't posted anything since Saturday because I've been drawing a blank - also because I've been busy and haven't had much time to hang out here. And one post I'd hoped to make was a no-go because the picture I took (with my cell phone which does not make a good camera) didn't turn out and it would have been pointless.

Then yesterday I was reading a post by Donna George Storey and got an idea, but then was interrupted (I think by my cats, but I can't remember) and then forgot it (write it down Robin write it down). Then cerulean gave me an idea for a blog post, which ties in nicely to a couple of things, but I was too tired last night to write it.

So, this morning I'm gonna try to do several quicky posts before I have to get going on everything else.

Alison Tyler feels me up

Oh, I meant Alison Tyler interviews me! You were expecting something else? 

It's over at her Trollop Salon blog. She liked my story "Rewind" from the last contest. So she sent questions. And I answered them to the best of my ability. Her teaser at her main blog is pretty amusing - Trollop with a Laptop. Oh, and if you comment you might win a button!

It's been a long day - I didn't see this till I got home - and my brain is seriously not wanting to work. So here's a picture from a not-so-fancy camping trip.

Metaphorgasm

Well, somebody might get mad at me for posting this - but I think AM would have liked it. She gave me the nickname Erobintica, and I miss her terribly. She was a talented performer, poet, quilt artist and so much more. This was her signature piece and I hope you all enjoy it.

I've got a dirty mind

So, I'm sitting in the dentist's office,

thumbing through some design magazine

and I see this.

Is it just me?

Is my mind that filthy?

It's a "citrus reamer" ...

yeah, right. 

Comes in titanium or zinc.

I think I need to get me one of these - to make lemonade, ya know?

No longer true now that this is not the most recent post, but - still - 

Holy Juxtaposition Batman! The copy for this reamer of citrus fruits reads "Beauty and the Beast" - which is the title of the Randy Lagana work just over there in the right sidebar. Honestly, I didn't plan that at all, had to add this after publishing the post. Hahaha

Pretty Photo Break

Don't have time to put up a new post right now, but I hate to leave old posts sitting there when I want to do a new one. So, here's something lovely to look at. I'm off to the dentist. And if I posted this picture before, so what?