Context is Everything

I asked my dear friend NE to come up with five questions she would like to know about me. NE has known me for a long time and knows me better then…well, better then anyone else, and I was curious as to what she would ask. She sent me her questions the next day. I was not dissapointed. Here are the first two.

1. Why is it that you are uninterested in reading books like Sleeping Beauty or watching films like 9 1/2 Weeks?

Honestly? They just aren’t entertaining enough for me. In the case of 9 1/2 weeks, I’ve seen most of the movie in bits and pieces. Some very nice scenes, but it’s the pieces that are intriguing, not the whole. The Sleeping Beauty books? I’ve read passages, and again, some very interesting scenes. But the story doesn’t encourage me to keep reading.

In general, they just don’t excite me. People excite me. Human, real, naive, smutty, sinning, people. Acts, alone, just don’t cut it. I need to connect to the person, even if it is just an illusion I am connecting to. The people populating Sleeping Beauty and 9 1/2 weeks are there just to enact elaborate scenes of kink. Remember, I haven’t actually read or watched the entirety of either, so it is very probable that I have not given them a chance to come to life. But the glimpses I have seen have not managed to sink their hooks into me.

Let me offer those books and movies that are in the same vein but also manage to engage me.

Dangerous Liaisons: a movie whose erotic moments are character-driven. Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont’s manipulation of those around him is reprehensible, Machevellian, and utterly captivating.

Kushiel’s Dart: this book and the Sleepy Beauty books share a similar setting – a fantastical land wherein there is a culture that indulges in kink. The difference is in the characters; Phedre is a heroine. Sleeping Beauty…is not.

It’s also why I no longer read Anita Blake books. I love a well-written sex scene. But reading about sex between uninteresting people is like watching generic porn: good for just one thing.

Which doesn’t mean I won’t eventually read/watch them. I just need a bit of momentum before I tackle them (or I’ll stop half-way through).

2. How have your tastes changed in women (submissives) over the last few years from when you started? What would you really look for in one?

My tastes haven’t changed all that much in the last few years.

Subspace_1The largest difference is that as my relationship with my first submissive has grown, I have a better understanding of what I can expect from a serious long-term D/s relationship. In short, I’ve been spoiled. Overall, the things I want haven’t changed. I still want a creative, intelligent, challenging individual. She must have some confidence in herself. Being submissive does not mean being a push over. On the other hand, while a bit of stubbornness is, dare I say, almost endearing in that bratty-sort-of-way, rigid unreasoned thinking is not attractive to me. I expect my submissive to be willing to try new things – she must allow herself to be guided (nudged, pushed, driven, as I please) into areas she would not explore on her own. Above all, she must be dynamic; life changes, and we have to be willing to adapt.

What appeals to me in less serious relationships is both easier, and more difficult, to define. My craving to unravel the threads of people has often led me to explore niches and hidden places I would not otherwise have considered. Everyone is unique, and I love peeling away the layers to find the core of a person. The process differs with each person and there is immense enjoyment in testing the limits of each, finding what it takes to find the center.

Nothing In Life is Free (including this post)

Happiness, to me, is found in freedom. In being unburdened. In letting go.

At least, I wish it were that simple. I don’t want to let go of all attachments. My job pays for my house which keeps me relatively dry on most days and provides a home for my cats (I just stay here at their discretion). My friends keep me sane. My books and music keep me entertained.

So what I really mean to say, is happiness is freedom from concern.

With a submissive, this is a joy I grant them. I gently and roughly remove the weight of everything but me. I empty them of everything but their sense of self and fill those spaces with the echoes of my presence and words. I make them free, for those moments they are with me.

How does this dominant find this freedom? The easy, mundane, answer is this: I let go. One particularly effective mediatitve technique for relaxing the body is to imagine each muscle, tense it slightly to *know* where it is, and then relax it. Start at the bottom and work your way up to your head. Every muscle. Every place of tension.

Now apply this to your meeting next week. That bill you haven’t yet paid. Your friend who is sick. Find that feeling, experience it – and then let it go.

That is how I free myself.

Close Your Eyes

What do you see when you close your eyes, and you are alone in the dark?

When all else flees, but the quiet and the hunger. When you press aside everything that does not have to do with your need. When you remove the binds that hold you to everyday life and embrace the promise of the extraordinary. When you discard rules and lines, erase boundaries and constraints. When you strip off the faces you wear for everyone else and expose the naked truth of self underneath.

What do you see when you close your eyes?

When I close my eyes…

…I see you.

***

On your knees. Your head lowered, sensing but not seeing me – knowing I am standing in front of you, close enough to slide my fingers through your hair and grip you. You feel a sharp tug as fingers tense and draw your head back until you’re forced to look up into dark eyes.

But only for a moment. Because my fingers tighten further and your eyes close to absorb the shock of my sharp unyielding grip even as I use my free hand to draw a delicate line down the length of your bared throat.

I can see total release in the tension of your neck, your shoulders lowered just a bit in anticipation. I can feel the moment you let go and let yourself be caught in the building tide, swept hard against the walls I’ve placed to guide you exactly where I want you to go. I can feel you give in as I lift you and place you in a chair, blindfolding and binding you in place.

All is dark. Your hands are bound along the back side of the chair. And I have placed a female friend, a very beautiful, accomdating friend, on a chair facing away from you. She is close enough that you can feel her hair brush the back of your neck as she breathes.

You don’t struggle. Much.

Are those my hands pushing the skirt up your legs? Are those your thighs being parted?

Is that your leg resting over my shoulder?

Can you hear me do the same to her? The sharp intake of breath when my lips leave a trail of small wet kisses along the inside of her thigh until they reach the center?

Does it make you shiver to know she’s so close? To know what is being done to her? So close you can feel her shudder, feel the growing heat of her skin?

Is it hard to sit still, tied as you are, and hear the steady rustle of clothing, the surprised gasp?

To be continued…

“And how do you know when you’ve reached the edge…”

Another long post; I debated breaking this up into two parts to make it easier to read – but have come to the conclusion that I much prefer having you all suffer through reading it all at once.

I’ve kept these logs because they hold power for me. They are moments of enjoyment that I read every once in a while as a reminder. Like looking at old photographs – only better. Sentiment, fear, desire, envy. I can almost taste the sensations that slip between letters and fill the moments between action and response. I do hope some of this comes across to you as well.

A couple of notes: All conversations are at least two years old. All names are changed to protect the guilty. And the logs are editted, mostly to correct grammar/spelling mistakes and to condense the content to make them easier to read.

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D’jaevle slowly draws his fingers up along your cheek, tilting your head back, his lips brushing across your skin. He parts his lips against your ear, teeth grazing, tugging lightly. Hands slip lower again, drawing you closer still. He leaves a trail of small kisses down your neck, moist and warm against your skin.

Elena leans back against him, her head turning to the side. She shivers, hands moving back to rub his sides. She tilts her head back, invitingly… mmms and her hands move to meet his at her waist, lacing with his fingers. She guides his hands upward, finally resting against her breasts. She slips her fingers from his and rests her hands on top, leaving them there and pressing down slightly.

D’jaevle curls his fingers along your breasts, pressing in slowly, palm rubbing upward as he draws you back against him. His breathing brushes along the back of your neck. He leaves one hand presses against your breast, his other dropping down to the edge of your gown, finding the warm flesh underneath. His fingers slide slowly up your thighs, pressing inward. He draws your nightgown up slowly, over your head, letting your bare skin rest against his. Enjoying the feel of you against him. Taking advantage of your body so close to his own, he slowly traces small moist kisses down across your shoulder, biting lightly. “Might I ask how you are attired this eve?”

Elena exhales deeply, her body tensing in excitement. Her hands drop limply to her sides, head heavy against his shoulder as she presses back against him. She closes her eyes again briefly, her breathing ragged. She pulls from him, turning herself around to face him, then presses her body fully against him again. She brings her hands up, draping one over his shoulder, the other moving up to trace a finger along the side of his face, admiringly. She leans against him, head tilting back again to rest against his shoulder. She lets out a soft moan of approval, nodding… “Just my nightgown, ready for bed. And what are you wearing?”

D’jaevle leans in against you, his hands around your waist, one knee pressed lightly against your thighs. His eyes slowly slip down over your body, tracing the naked curves. “Currently…black short jeans…black t-shirt…””

Elena grins, a mischievous look in her eyes. She slides her hands down roughly, over his shoulders, down his arms, then sides, finally resting them at his waist. Her fingers grip the fabric of his shirt, moving it out of the way to slide her hands underneath… pressing her palms against his bare chest and moving them upward, slowly.

D’jaevle smiles, watching your eyes, his skin warm against your touch. His own hands slide down your lower back, taking his time to trace the small of your back, along the curve of your ass. He presses you back, his chest close, enjoying the friction as his left hand slips just under your thigh, drawing it up slowly along his own leg, parting your legs. “Still think of that edge, the thrill of pushing lines?” His fingers slipping slowly down the edge of your ass, tracing the line to press lightly, feeling heat at the tip of his fingers.

Elena keeps her eyes fixed on his, hands moving down again help pull the shirt over his head. Her hands return to his sides, pressing her breasts against his chest, enjoying the warmth and shutting her eyes. A soft sigh of contentment. She nods. “At times… ” Her hands slide around to the front of his waist, fingers fumbling with the fastens. Her eyes open again to meet his, smiling gently. She works quickly, finally unfastening his jeans and pushing them off his hips, down until they fall to his feet. She draws him tightly against her, arms wrapping around him. She rests her head against his shoulder, moaning softly at the feeling of him against her skin.

D’jaevle steps out of the jeans. His fingers slide slowly deeper, pressing upward, lightly along the crevices where your legs meet your hips. His voice is soft near your ear, “I do like to push lines, just along the edge.” He curls his fingers tighter, gripping your ass just enough to draw you up against his knee as it slips between your thighs, his eyes on yours, “There always has to be an edge, a place to cut yourself.”

Elena shifts against him slightly, her breathing is ragged as she lightly brushes her fingertips up and down his back. She grins slyly and pulls her head up, leaning in slightly as her eyes lock on his, head tilted. She gasps at the feel of his knee, moving her hips against it. Her eyes narrow a bit, curiously… “And how do you know when you’ve reached the edge…”

D’jaevle draws his knee very slowly along the apex of your thighs, then deeper, rubbing a bit deeper, his teeth biting lightly on your shoulder, tasting the skin, “…when the temptation to go over will make you do almost anything.”

Elena groans softly, hands running up his neck and through his hair, caressing. Her head tips back and she shuts her eyes again, forcing her hips forward even more. “What if the temptation takes over… what if you want it to…”

D’jaevle hungrily tastes your neck, his tongue and teeth moving down your neck with a deliberate pace. Fingers press deeper, tips slick as his knee rocks up against you, pressed hard against you, “Then reluctance is overcome, the need to go over, to give in burns.”

Elena furrows her brow, breathing beginning to speed up. She growls wantonly, hands frantically moving over his back, pressing herself in time with his knee. Her words are separated by short gasps… “Have you… ever… been taken over by the temptation?” She wraps her arms around his neck, leaning in to keep her balance, knees beginning to shake as she trembles from the pleasure. She groans deeply, hips still moving with his knee…

D’jaevle matches your growl with his on low groan against your neck, breathing harsh against the skin. Hands draw you up, lifting you against his knee as he slides it, now slick, against you, faster, deeper, finding the heat, “…once…or twice…when the need for the edge, a touch, a voice, a taste…” He lowers you to the ground, keeping his knee against you, but slowly moving down your neck, your shoulder, small moist kisses across your chest, finding the curve, along the top of your breasts – a lick, a slow movement of tongue down over your nipples, eyes flickering to yours, “Have you?”

Elena rolls her eyes back with pleasure as he moves against her, briefly glancing back to meet his eyes… “Same… once or twice…” She growls again, one leg draping over him, hands reaching out to caress his hair. Her head drops back to the floor again limply, pushing her hips upward.

D’jaevle meets your eyes, “And…what caused you …to give in those times?” His fingers slide down lower, bending your knee and parting your thighs further, his knee pressed squarely between.” He smiles against your skin, his teeth drawing down on the edges of your nipple, tugging lightly, then just a bit harder. His fingers urge your back to arch, allowing deeper access as his legs entwine with yours.

Elena breathes heavily, head tilting back farther, back arching slightly… “Need… desire… when the temptation took over, there was no turning back.” She lets out a soft gasp, the tugging pleasurable. Her body shifts invitingly, legs rubbing against his.. her hands caressing his hair, gently pressing him against her breast.

D’jaevle suckles slowly, his tongue slipping lower, down along your skin. His fingers continue to draw up your knee, eyes flickering to yours, and then down, kissing the top of your knee, fingers tickling the inside of your thigh, slowly, like a slow brush across sensitive skin. He takes his time, nibbling lightly, fingers curved to brush the inside of your knee; his eyes move to yours, catching your gaze – and then the slow pressure of lips down your thighs, each kiss light – moist and burning into the skin.

Elena mmms, squirming at his touch against her thighs, giving her goosebumps. She lifts her head to watch him, parting her legs more, muscles tensing with anticipation. She shivers with each kiss Her neck begins to get weak from the intensity, her head falling back to the ground again with a low moan.

Imperfect Angels

The girl who made angels grew up. One day, when she was older and an initiate to the world of adult cynicism and failure, one of her angel’s returned to her in the hopes that she would complete him.

***

    “But I could never make them perfect. There was always some flaw, some imperfection.”

    “Perhaps…perhaps that was the trouble.” Reaching into the box, he drew out the angel doll that had once sat upon her bed. Running his fingers over the porcelain face, his fingertips traced a small crack just above the angel’s left midnight-blue eye. “Nothing is perfect in our eyes.”

    “Is not god perfect?”

    “And are humans not of god’s image? And humans are imperfect. You look in the wrong place for perfection, because even god is flawed viewed through the eyes of humanity. God is science, and nature, and everything in between. If there is perfection in god, it is not in our conception of him. Perfection is found in in simply existing as we are.

    “Then humans…”

    “Are perfect at being human.”

    “And I am perfect…”

    “At being you.”

    Her eyes turned to meet those of the incomplete angel, “But what will it mean to be perfect at being an angel?”

    His hand, soft as a shadow, brushed across her cheek, “What does it mean to be perfect at being you?”

    “I don’t know. I just am who I am each day. Some days I am happy, some days I am sad. Some days I fear death, and others I am too busy loving life to care what happens. In general I try to make those around me happy. I try to make myself happy.”

    “Then try with me. Do not worry about making me perfect – worry about making me what I should be, nothing more, nothing less.”

    And so she did. She shaped him, or at least she tried, and when she was done, she stood back and looked at him.

    “Are you done?” He asked.

    “I am not sure. I do not think I ever will be.” Fear edged her voice.

    But he only smiled and turned to the window. His wings trembled as they spread, faltered, and then steadied. How far he flew, and where he went, she never knew.

Crimson in Silk

Words have power. They can make a believer out of you. They can tear you up and tear you down.

Words are an extension of my will and hunger. With words, I can place you under my hands. I can tempt. I can take. I can make you wet – and more, I can make you need it. Read the words below in one breath. Let them unravel in your mind like a crimson ribbon of sex and secrets.

Is there a particular moment where the strength of words has touched you in a way you can never forget? A conversation that lingers with you, and makes you shiver when recalled? A voice on the phone that made you do things naughty and wicked?

***

Too far, too little, too much too fast to realign when the signs all say go. With sensations sweet and surpassed only when your momentum slip slides glides free under your feet and casts you free.

Words like fingers wrap around the throat and pull you in until you can’t breath through the heat and the desperate hunger. Reaching inward for safety, but driven there by need until you release all else and give in, give in completely to the desire for more – to not stop with just one touch, one kiss, or one bite. Addiction in moments, using the edge as a reminder of life, flushed skin a heated sign of how tight those fingers can be.

Breath. Breath. Breath.

Now stop.

Pulse of the wrist, pulse of the neck, places of supplication and surrender. Pulsating, perseverance through pressure, protracted pleasure in the way you writhe. Writhe? Right now. Rhythm of reckonings made of rigid lines, wracking your body with risks too sudden and too soon to be questioned. You are here, now, in this desperation and too deeply in debt to a devil you only too willingly sold your soul to despair when all else is said you are simply a morsel too delectable to be passed over.

You are naked. Bare. Stripped. Exposed, exploited, explained and x-rated. You are an empty canvas, melody without words, poetry in heat. You are lust, sinfully languid, lingering in limbs made of little but caresses carved from cradled hopes and lasting dreams.

“Are you sure that is what you want?”

Cultivating need. What will it harvest?

***

“Are you sure that is what you want?” My fingers tightened around her neck, cradling her throat in a grip that held her in place.

“yes…yes…yes.” Each word a gasped whisper, a silent plea. I finally took mercy on her and slid my grip along her neck to the back of her head, burying fingers in hair. Tugging her head back, her gaze was forced upwards. I leaned over, lips finding her own, the feather kiss of a wish that moves from lips to chin, to neck like a trail of tears across naked skin.

Leaning over her kneeling body, my teeth find the heat of her pulse and I am forced to stop, to taste this spot, teeth grazing across sensitive skin. Its more instinct then knowledge now, fingers tight against the back of her hair and teeth biting in, leaving marks that won’t soon fade, and a gasp of pain and pleasure that rings in my ears like burning need.

Reading is Good for the Soul

Bliatz has tagged me for a small questionnaire on books. Books are a weakness of mine. I’ve been reading since I was 14 – and by reading, I mean 2-3 books a week. Consistently.

Of course, the books I read are…well, I won’t call them crap, because some of them are very very good. But they’re Fantasy/Sci-Fi, which is candy for the mind. Entertainment. They can carry some very intelligent ideas – but as a rule, they’re read for enjoyment. Only recently (last year or so) have I forced myself to read weighter material.

1) Total number of books I’ve owned.
Approximately 4 to 5 thousand books. I currently own maybe four or five hundred. The rest have been lost, boxed and stored in a shed at my parent’s house, or traded in for credit to get more books.

2) The last book I bought.
Dead Beat, by Jim Butcher. Think Anita Blake before the porn over-ran her books.

3) The last book I read.
Lord Foul’s Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1) by Stephen Donaldson. Classic book. Hated it. Forced myself to finish since so many said it was good. Not to my tastes.

4) 5 books that mean something to me.
Let me preface this answer by saying that I have read almost *too* many books. The question asks for those books that mean something to me – and the term ‘mean’ can go in many directions. The books I am listing are there because I am attached to them either for reasons of pure enjoyment or because of the affect they’ve had on my life.

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Assasssin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Elements of Style by Strunk/White
Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

5) Tag 5 people and request they fill this out on their journals

Five? Hrmm. I’ll go with four:

Vicky
Amy
Raging Heart
Queen of Pink

I Am

I preach the need for change. For embracing it. For not fearing it. Yet strive as I might to be a disciple of this teaching, I find myself reluctant to step off my current path and reach for something extraordinary. Why is the opportunity here now, when I have only just broken-in my current lifestyle? Life is a tricky business.

But if there is one thing I have little respect for, it is hypocrisy. So my decision will not be made out of fear, either for losing what I have or losing what might have been.

Today, I am here. I am in this word, and in this. Today, I am the light behind your eyes.

I’m that hungry feeling you get when you see something you want. This hunger isn’t in your mind, or heart, but somewhere darker and deeper.

I’m what’s on the other side of that moment of indecision.

I’m the one who knows what you’re *really* thinking when you look away and say you’re not sure. I’m the trail of heat along your throat when lips find skin and whisper promises against your pulse. I’m the hand on your neck, the bite when you expect a kiss, the kiss when you expect a fight. I’m the guilt that feels better then it should. I’m the seduction that knows what you want before you want it. I’m the wry smile that knows you’re already getting wet.

I’m the hands that still you, the voice that invades, the binds that give you the freedom to be alive for those moments you’re with me.

The Weight of a Hand, Part II

So precious are the moments we hold. Fleeting, too, these moments of understanding and joy. It takes work and hunger to sustain. Why are some glass angels more fragile then others?

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The second parts are the feelings. How intensified everything feels after I am under: my own long hair down my back or falling across my breasts…or the desire to dig my nails into the palm of my hand while he is rubbing my nipple with one hand and holding my neck with the other (I am blushing intensely thinking of it). Waiting for it, when I let go, so that I start to shutter and shake with need. Everything turns a different color and a different speed. It is so luscious.

This is one set of feelings. The other kind of feeling is hard. I am released from everything to become free. I want to do whatever he wants, so I respond to everything that we do. Everything turns me on and I become a woman in the most primal sense of the word. A sexual being. It’s all I want to please him and be pleased by him. The word that comes to mind is “slut”, but what does that really mean? It means that I want to spread my legs for him and show him how wet he makes me…not a woman who just goes through the actions of doing it to turn someone else on, but being highly aroused by those actions. Not only being aroused by doing each thing, but watching his reaction, knowing that I am fucking pleasing him, hearing it in his voice if I am lucky enough to get praise.

What I find strange about the entire thing is that I never know what will trigger me to go all of the way down now. I would before know, OK, when he puts his hand on my neck, I am done. It’s different now. When will it start fully when we are playing? He decides. I know that and I fucking love it.

Not to share too much, but I was with him the other night. We were fooling around. He knew that I wanted to be under him, but he wouldn’t fully put me there…he had his reasons for letting it progress slowly. I know this, so I don’t fight the little things anymore; I do what he says whether I am 100% out of the driver’s seat or not. He had me down laying on my back, with him overtop of me talking next to my ear. I was not under all the way, but I wanted to be there so fucking badly, I was going to go mad. (Just to make it clear, most of the time, I do not make a choice to go down or not consciously.) He moved away from me after my answering a question, and I was sure that he was going to stop. I was terrified that he would leave me on the cusp of being right there. I began begging and begging for him not to stop. I didn’t care how loud or desperate I was, and in fact, that thought didn’t even cross my mind. I couldn’t stop begging and breathing and panting. I don’t remember everything after that, and as you can guess, I was gone. I spent the end of the evening curled up in his lap while he caressed and played with me. It was heaven…my own personal definition of a very devilish heaven.

NE