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The Changing Shape of Desire

Editor’s note:  This conversation isn’t going to get as explicit as it could, but it is going to get frank and detailed. If you’re not invested in the internal perceptions a trans woman has during sex, skip the post. There’s literally nothing else here.

When you start transition, no one sits you down to have a sex talk. No one warns you about the way that your body’s perceptions change, no one talks about how to access the physical sensations that you crave or how the way your fading dysphoria...

Recovery is Rough

As we enter another foul April and the autism awareness trolls come out of the woodwork to try to convince people like me that we would be better off infantilized or dead, it’s easy to slip into a sense of hopelessness. What’s saving me this April is the fact that I am finally starting to see some improvement in my health and my ability to deliver work consistently. I’m still having days where I go down, but increasingly I am still able to accomplish some small tasks and to keep everything fr...

Kink Talk: Compelling a Sub Through Glamour

OK, so it’s been a while since I was able to post, and I’m feeling really behind because of it. Fibro sucks, what more can I say? The good news is, the submissive I was writing about in the last part of this series wound up really hitting it off with me, and she is currently in her slave training collar. For the purpose of this blog and of our Patreon, let’s call her Mitten. (Incidentally, if you want to see more of myself, meaning Monday and Athena, as well as some naughty bits from Lynn and...

Code School: Landing on an Idea Worth Writing

One of the problems my students most often bring to me when I assign new work is their feelings of inadequacy around being asked to choose a topic. For some, it’s that they think they will not pick something important enough. Others worry their top choices will not be researchable, or else that they will step on the teacher’s toes with their choice of topic. Landing on an idea is difficult, and reaching reflexively for old standbys leads to the creation of essays that contribute no original t...

Review for Time Traveling Blues in the City of the Watcher (Book 2)

The second book in the Weird Luck series shows us more or less the same events as the first, but from the point of view of the older version of the protagonist, operating on the other side of the time loop. Unlike many Weird novels, it manages to keep both its reality-splitting chains of causality and its clarity of message to the audience while maintaining the breakneck pace and manic emotional atmosphere that thriller readers will love.

This exploration of both the Cannibal King’s nature an...

New Policies on Patreon! (Charity Donation Drive!)

Hi there! If you’ve been liking the new blog, we’re glad. We know things have been rough around here, but we’re setting up the network on crip time, and unfortunately we used up all the fast crip time on AutPress, so we’ve been tired a good portion of the time. Luckily, we’ve also been doing what we need to do to keep the ball rolling, which means things are coming together nicely. You might notice a few banner ads here and there, and there will be more of them to come, and more consistently...

Weird Luck, City of the Watcher Book 1 (Review)

Andrew Reichart’s first novel is a bewildering, dazzling mix of familiar entities and tropes and a completely unfamiliar, unsettling world. In that respect, it’s just what urban fantasy should be. It comes on strong with a protagonist (Aleck) whose mysterious transportation to Kaios provides us with a neat and easy to identify quest–the voyage home.

From there, the book becomes increasingly less predictable and more interesting, as Aleck’s involvement with characters from this world begins to...

Kink Talk: When Does the Scene Start?

So I’ve recently started seeing a new prospective sub, and we have really been hitting it off like nothing else. Granted, I took a couple of weeks and really talked things out over email to make sure we were looking for the same things so that I knew we were going to be expecting many of the same things and working together in scene to achieve them. And, like any good slut, top or bottom, I took care to meet first in public, so that we could get a feel for each other before taking any chances...

Kink Talk With Athena Monday

So what happens when you take a group of writers with a devotion to the BDSM lifestyle and a 24/7 dynamic that organizes their collective hierarchy and you give them a platform? Well, to be honest, the first thing they do is worry about their employers and parents figuring out what’s going on. Whether that’s a concern they really need to worry about or not, it does stand out. That’s why we’re going to be using Athena Monday whenever one of us wants to write about our exploits, talk about tech...

It’s Time for Code School

Writing is a complex skill, but like any skill, it is eminently teachable and there are known ways to go about it. You wouldn’t know that from reading the media about education–critics of both the public education system and higher education prattle on about students not being able to write despite objective evidence getting in their way again and again. There are some fairly understandable reasons for this, as explained in an article published at the Chronicle for Higher Education this week....