Fashion victim

I’m back in freezing Seattle after my jaunt down the coast to California. From a food and friends perspective the trip was a storming success. If you’re in LA and looking for great restaurants I’d strongly recommend Scratch Bar, Ink and hinoki & the bird. They were the three standouts of all those I tried.

From a kinky perspective it wasn’t quite as successful. The original person I planned to see had a scheduling conflict and we never could quite align our calendars. Then my alternative choice turned out to be sick and unable to play. At that point, rather than ringing around for a last minute beating, I decided it simply wasn’t meant to be. Instead I went clothes shopping in Beverly Hills. That’s an entirely different level of masochism. The sales assistants might not dress in leather, but they can certainly inflict punishment. I got a figurative screwing that was more expensive than a literal one. Although at least I ended up taking more home than a sore bottom.

The topic of clothes and fashion does give me an excuse to feature some fashion based femdom. This is for voodoo hosiery and taken from their 2010 ad campaign.

Voodoo Hosiery

Talking over a bear

This rather intriguing artwork is by the artist Waldemar-Kazak. It’s called ‘Talking over a bear’ and you can see the original full size version over on his Deviant Art page. I’m not exactly sure what the story is behind it. There’s a very 50’s feel to it, an edge of melancholy created by his expression and a weird sexy vibe (at least in my strange brain). It looks like it should be an illustration for a twisted short story in something like the New Yorker.

Talking Over A Bear

I originally came across this in the Femdomarts tumblr.

Get a grip

Apologies for the short post. I’m having fun at a friend’s 40th’s birthday party. Drinking, eating, and stories of the ‘oh my God you didn’t!’ variety are on the menu. Time for blogging is limited. Time for sober blogging is almost non-existent. The best I can offer is images that catch my eye. I’ll therefore leave you with something that isn’t overtly femdom,  but has a strong femdom vibe to it. She looks like someone with a firm handle on the situation.

Good Grip

I found this image via the In A Humbler tumblr.

Airline femdom

After this post Servitor quite rightly took me to task for having no good examples of airline femdom. He cited the NOFX track S&M airlines (great band, but not their best track), the artwork of the brilliant Sardax and his own particular riffs on the theme.

All these are fine examples, but I think he’s missing one of the best, albeit most subtle ones. That would be the Delta safety video featuring the stewardess who is definitely not a fan of smoking. I’m sure that many a submissive flyer felt a delightful inner quiver when she did her finger wag (around 1:50 in the video).

I’d always assumed she was an actress hired to film the video, but it turns out she’s a Delta flight attendant who has continued to work as one. That’s particularly impressive given how many delta flyers must have asked her for a personal reprise of her starring role.

Deltina

Shout-out to ‘control. gone bad’

One tumblr I particularly want to highlight from my image page update is ‘Control gone bad‘. It’s unusual in that it’s the tumblr source for all its post, and all the posts are animated gifs. It’s not exactly originally content, given everything is taken from movies published elsewhere, but it definitely adds more value than tumblrs that only consist of reblogged jpgs from other tumblrs.

I’m a fan on animated gifs, despite the fact I don’t feature them here. That’s purely down to page load times and bandwidth costs rather than an aesthetic judgement. I actually think that a short focused animated gif can be more interesting than the original movie it’s from. It’s a distillation process that can capture an idea while providing enough wiggle room for the viewer to project his or her fantasy into it. The owner of the bad controls tumblr certainly does a good job of picking the right moments from otherwise average movies.

It’s kind of tough to feature an appropriate image here, given the aforementioned load time and bandwidth issues. So checkout the tumblr itself or click on the still below for a post I particularly enjoyed.

Laughing Domme

Life lessons

I learned an important lesson today – never fly close to a holiday weekend if you can possibly avoid it. Based on the number of infants on the plane I was on, Monday is obviously a popular day for families to return home after Thanksgiving. I counted 6 toddlers and babies just in the few rows of seats around me. I might be a masochist, but being stuck at 30,000 feet with a gaggle of screaming kids is a level of torment too far. Beat me. Burn me. Bind Me. Fuck me. Just don’t make me sit in coach with unhappy children. I tried to safeword out, but the stewardess obviously didn’t understand me when I kept shouting ‘Red! Red!’

Anyway, as that introduction may have suggested, I’m on vacation again. This time down in Los Angeles hoping to catch some warm weather, good food and kinky fun. So far this place has delivered on the amazing food, and hopefully it’s just a matter of time for the other two. As usual while I’m on vacation, blogging may be a touch erratic, so apologies in advance for that.

I’m not aware of any airline based femdom, so instead I’ll go with the food theme. I found this image (or a version of it) via another of the new blogs from yesterday – Domination on My terms.

Cooking

Updates to femdom image page

As you might guess from the title, I’ve done some housecleaning and additions to the femdom image page. Any sites that were dead, dormant or drifting off topic have been removed. I’ve been a little more brutal about that than in the past in an effort to try and keep the list length reasonable. I’ve added the following sites:

Hopefully there is a little something in there for everyone. The image below comes via the equally deep in your eyes tumblr. I’m afraid I don’t have an original attribution, so please leave a comment if you know the original source.

Bound and Teased

Two smiles (probably)

Here’s an image to complete a trio of posts featuring smiles. Admittedly in this case I can only see her smile. His expression is a more than a little obscured. However, I’m going to guess he might be smiling. I certainly would be if presented with that particular view of Lady Natalie Black.

Lady Natalie Black with hooded slave

This rather well color coordinated image features the aforementioned Lady Natalie Black and was shot for the Kinky Mistresses site. I found it on the Mask tumblr.

Spanking smiles

This is a little less explicit than yesterdays image, but broad smiles are a continuing theme. Personally I always find spanking a very playful activity, so smiles are definitely a part of my spanking scenes. I’m not really sure why that is. After all, it is an activity that has a close cultural association with punishment and childhood misbehavior. Those aren’t typical things that suggests lighthearted giggles. Perhaps it’s that contrast between a childhood activity being done by full grown adults that makes me smile.

Spanking Smiles

This is originally from the Mean Dungeon site. I found it via A Showcase of Male Submissives tumblr.

Stuffing

It is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. As an Englishman I didn’t grow up with it, so I don’t have the emotional connection with it that a lot of my American friends do. However, I’m always happy to adopt a holiday that involves time off work, hanging out with friends and eating lots of food. You can keep any traditions that involve penance, sacrifice or fasting, but consider me an honorary whatever if you’ve got something to celebrate that involves silverware and decanters.

As far as Thanksgiving goes, stuffing seems to be a big component. First the turkey gets stuffed. Then everyone stuffs themselves with turkey. There’s lots of things being shoved into other things. So with that in mind, here’s my thanksgiving image. It’s not exactly what the pilgrims got up to (although they possibly had a kinky side), but it definitely captures the spirit of stuffing things. The two expressions on display are great. His is pretty much what I’d expect for someone in that position, but hers does not look like that of someone wrist deep in a rectum. Possibly she lost a ring last time she tried this, and has just located it again?

Fisting

The image is originally from the Strapon Slaves site.