Almost free avatar fixin'

Call it a pet peeve, but I've noticed that the size limit on the avatar pictures causes many Mistresses to appear less than their rightly lovely selves on too many internet forums. So, if any Mistresses out there need a fix, just e-mail me your image and let me know what size it should be (or send me a link to it) and I'll make you a new avatar.

Because no lovely lady should have to be smushed to fit into a small box - of course if that's a fetish of yours, then hey I'm not here to pass judgment on ya.

I know some Mistresses think that no one does anything for free, and hate the idea that there might be some perv out there who thinks that she owes them something. So for those of you who dislike that sensation, there will be a charge. One hug whenever we get to meet up. Or you can e-mail me a sassy picture: Wearing a corset, smoking, dark lipstick, black gloves, high heels, actually just about anything will do. Of course if that happens, then you clearly will have over paid in which case I'll owe you a hug whenever we meet up. :D

She glares, I whine

Twelve hours, in my corset, every week - that's what she ordered. And even though I'd asked her for encouragement, I find myself whining about it, repeatedly. To the point where she's kind of annoyed - that's the last thing I want.

See, I haven't been cross-dressing at all lately. And I definitely haven't been wearing my corset very much. I'm totally out of practice. To top it off, those rare times when I am in a corset, my g/f has always said, "You really need to wear that more often" - and that's been that. The encouragement ended there. There was no direction to put it on, well "no direction" isn't accurate, but it was limited. Perhaps once a month on average I was told to wear something feminine during the day.

In October, I decided to pretend to myself that she had ordered me to spend the month dolled up as much as possible. I kept my legs shaved for the entire month. That's the first time I'd ever shaved them more than 2x consecutively, and damn if it isn't tough to keep the skin from drying out! I wore panties anytime I wasn't going to do some form of exercise and working out (though not to sleep in, since they don't breath and I do sweat like a guy) - and I wore heels around the house a lot. Sadly it seemed that although she didn't mind it, she barely acknowledged it. She seemed downright indifferent really. Not once did she push it up to the next level. The apathy really gets disheartening.

So I grew more frustrated by the lack of any D/s in our relationship. When shed asked what I wanted for my b'day and X-mas (I'm a late Scorpio btw) - I said one thing... for you to be more assertive, more dominant. I have no wants in my life as far as stuff or things. I'm very blessed that way. But for whatever reason - maybe it is my heart or libido or imagination - it never seems to be nearly fulfilled.

And she becomes more assertive, and puts her foot down. And my response is to whine.

I think it's part of the feeling forced thing. Yah, I like to wear girly stuff. It gets me hot. Panties feel so nice and it's naughty to do, and that's just frickin hot. And heels, well if I may say so I've got some good girl gams for a guy. At least they're good enough that my g/f is jealous.

So, while I like to get into drag - but I'm also lazy. And I like to be dominated. And the idea of "put this one because I tell you to" (with the hands on hips glaring at me thing) and well, that's sweaty palms kind of hot. So I think that whining is my way of pretending that I don't want to be thrown into the briar patch. It's kind of role-playing that the whole drag thing is "forced" - but it seems to annoy my g/f. And that bums me out, quite a bit - the last thing I want to do is annoy or discourage her. The second last thing I want to do is feel like I'm topping from the bottom and pressuring her to force me. Ya know what I mean? All of that takes most of the fun out of it.

I don't know how to better deal with it. I hope to be supportive of her when she's Dommy, to do my best to behave, to honor her, to obey, to be diligent - but I'm a greedy selfish bugger. I want the D/s kink in our relationship to be comfortable, and natural, and fun for her. I can definitely see it in reality as more like this Kiera picture as "domme" than the previous pictures - but it's really tough for me to sometimes accept that it isn't how I imagine it. So when she said 12 hrs a week, and I know that it doesn't sound like a lot, but going from 0 to 12 is going to be tough.

If you have a day or two running around in the regular world, then suddenly you have to wear it for 2.5 hrs a day for the other 5. Throw in that it's too hot in FL to wear outside anywhere (because I can't wear layers of clothes and sneak around in a corset in public) like I could when I lived up North. So, I have to limit wearing it to our house. I asked if there was a way to compromise the time - perhaps getting double time if I wear high heels while corsetted - she said nope. What about panties, I could wear them out in public? Nope.

*whine*

Her denial of those options both excites and frustrates me. There is a part of me that loves that, a part of me that feels too rebellious to accept that easily. We had this original talk this past Thurs morning - and Thurs & Friday were hectic. So today I wore my corset for 3 hrs (it's much tighter on me than it was years ago.) But I don't know that I'm going to be able to make it 12 hrs this week, and I don't know what will happen from there. I wonder if there will be a punishment for failing to wear it. I don't want to SAM this, or top it from the bottom. I'd actually rather make it the 12 hrs, but I'm golfing tomorrow & Monday - that's new years & Tues is New Years Day... I don't know if I have the 12 hrs.

Anyways, the whining is a part of it for me. I hope she can find that as something that's fun, and not just totally annoying. Or perhaps she can discipline and punish it out of me. Is this kind of stuff normal in D/s? Am I just a head case? How can I learn to get past this? I'm excited, she's actually taking a bit of charge, and yet I resist it. I fight against it, I whine - I almost feel somehow almost strangely annoyed. Meh... *shrug* ... *sigh*

A dysfunctional relationship

Damn, my mouth is on fire. If you've had the Cape Cod brand chipsflavor: Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper you know what I'm talking about. One bite is all nice and zesty and kind fun, and the second bite it's all "wow she's got a bit of fire in her" - and then the third chip and I'm not sure I want to keep this up, but then I have a 4th chip and regret it anyways, but I don't want to see those chips with anyone else either and then by the time I'm done my mouth is hurting and I'm not at all sure why I kept going at it for so long and I promise myself not to buy another bag of chips like that.

And then, a few months from now, I'll buy one, forgetting why exactly I promised myself that I would stay away from those Cape Cod Chips.

Eddie is a leader for all transvestites

Eddie, Eddie, he's our man! Well maybe not for all transvestites, but most of us at least. Well, at least the straight ones. Fine, maybe the straight ones with a sense of humor! Eddie dresses in drag in most of his performances, and often off stage as well. He doesn't try to pass as a woman (he admits that he's just "too blokey") - but likes to run around in 4" heels and skirts. And frankly he does a damn fine job of it. So from one sometime drag dressing hetero "male lesbian" to another, I would just like to say thanks for being who you are Eddie.

From one review: "John Cleese of Monty Python's Flying Circus has called him the funniest man in England (snip) the best way to describe his act would be the marriage of Robin William's brain, a scholar's knowledge of history, a savvy politician's expertise on the modern social and political landscape an Claudia Schiffer's sense of style and fashion."

Some great bits on YouTube
Christopher Walken
Legos Tribute: Death Star Canteen
Empires & Cake or Death
Scary Movie
Dentists
Star Trek

Some general information kind of links
A fun Q&A: Link
A more formal bio: Link
A review of his show: Link

"The thing about racist people is that they are not as polite as smokers. Smokers say things like 'Do you mind if I smoke?' But racist people don't say 'Do you mind if I say something racist?'" - Eddie Izzard

OT - Two things that I thought were worth sharing

I thought these items were worth important & interesting enough that I would take a break from my usual musings for a day...

Help support a noble cause. George Martin is doing a walk across America to raise money for the people who helped the 9/11 cleanup effort. Many of the volunteers have come down with a myriad of respiratory issues and are unable to afford treatment. www.ajourneyfor911.info



The Nintendo Wiimote = The next step in Virtual Reality?
Johnny Chung Lee, a professor/student/mad scientist/evil genius/pervert(???) at Carnegie Mellon has uncovered some interesting applications for the Wii remote. I found the 3rd video in the group particularly fascinating with it's applications for creating a very realistic 3D environment. Web Link

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When is the CB-6000 episode?

I was surprised to find a link to a Daily Show episode which featured the CB-2000. They of course mock it a bit, as they have to since well it is a comedy show - but I found it interesting that they focused on one remark about how the testicle sack will hang a bit more by wearing a belt, and not about any of the other myriad of kinky and Female Dominant kind of references that were thrown out by the two couples. It was also neat to see the Millers who make and sell the CB-2000 through 6000 models. They both look very much in love and are a nice representation of how "normally adjusted" people can be into alternative sexuality. It was also cute to see the pride they took when they talked about how Frank's been locked up for a year on the day of the interview. And call me a perv, but it was nice to see well manicured ruby red fingernails dance on the CB-2000's cage while the Mrs was demonstrating how the cage works.

Orgasms for Peace

"Any way you scream it, one group hopes you'll be having an orgasm
in the name of world peace this Friday at 6:08 GMT." More info is - here.

However as someone mentioned to me, does this mean that chastized folks are war mongers? I certainly hope not. I would like to encourage the keyholders of the world to enjoy at least two orgasms.

Sheesh, I'd hate to think that chastised = bad, and world peace is about as important as anything... maybe ruined orgasms, or prostate milking for all the locked up folks could count? It's hardly fair to make us the bad guys.

Another photo retouch

I just wanted to give a more subtle sample of what a little attention and a decent knowledge of Photoshop can do. The model is Chrissy Moran, and I guess the people who were selling this image either wanted her to look a bit rough and tumble, or they were just too lazy. I did a very small amount of work on this, smoothed out her eyes and her mouth and that's it. As a smoking fetishist I think this picture serves as a perfect example of how a little attention here, and a little time there can go a long way, baby. :)

Winona Ryder as a Femme Fatale - O.M.G.

I'd have posted this sooner but I fainted when I saw these pictures. Ok, I exaggerate a little, but not a lot. First, I've always had a thing for Winona. We're about the same age and her big doe eyes melted my heart every time I saw them on screen - and I've seen them lots. Plus she's got a great smile, she smokes and doesn't seem ashamed of it, and she has the perfect figure for corsetting and has plenty of practice in one. So as you can see, there are reasons that I'm a fan, a big fan.

And now, to find a poster of her, with jet black page boy hair (yes, another fetish of mine) and an impetuous hand on her hip (la piece de resistance) well... I almost fainted. It was close. If I hadn't been hydrated... anyways... so she's looking all kinds of absurdly hot. And I go to Netflix to pre-add the movie to my queue, and it's not even out for another two months. Gah!

So I start surfing to read up a bit about it, and her character evidently (and I didn't write this movie part, I swear) is - "a femme fatale who targets men guilty of sex crimes against women." Maybe if she smokes and uses a riding crop while wearing a corset in one scene people can start to wonder if I have a split personality that submitted the script. Wow. Either way, there really should be a law against teasing me like that. At the very least they shouldn't be releasing information along those lines. If I were in charge of the world, such information would be kept under lock and key until the appropriate time!

Anyways - here's some information about it, in case I've whetted your appetite: Sex and Death 101, in theaters on 22 February 2008
imdb page & film info page

Salma and corsets - Part II

Ms. Regan Black, (aka. Tangent Queen) made a comment about the Salma corset blog post that inspired me to post more pictures in response. But as I can't post pictures in the comments, another blog entry was of critical importance - if Salma in a corset isn't worth another post, I don't deserve to blog...

So, with that said, Ms.RBTQ said "I think had she laced more tightly in the first place, she would need to be retouched!"

I agree 100% - it isn't like she doesn't know how to wear a corset. Supposedly she laced to 18" for Wild Wild West which was the only redeeming thing about that movie. Well aside from the fact that all the villain girls were also corsetted. Actually when you add all of that up it wasn't really a bad movie after all, even if there was a giant spider robot monster in the old west... hrm... yah maybe it was a pretty weak movie. :P

Heck, she even wore a lovely corset to the premiere for no reason other than I called and asked her to! Which I thought was most kind of her. I'd have preferred black leather to the pink, but hey... a gentleman shouldn't be greedy when asking for favors.

Oooh, fun!

I wanna go play! hotelbdsm.com

Reminds me a lovely weekend my g/f and I spent at La Domaine Esemar in up state New York - ladomaine.com

Everyone can use a little help sometimes.

Some magazines (like Playboy) do it so much retouching that I don't feel like I'm looking at a human anymore. Some fetish type clothes, especially a corset, some sexy makeup (lets not go clownish please) some decent lighting lighting, and maybe a small touch here or there and I'm very happy. When they take it too far and it looses all it's appeal. Then again, even the great goddess Salma can use a little bit more retouching sometimes. With the way that Photoshop makes image editing so much easier, the "airbrushing" has gone from a real expert skill to something that is far more common place. But there is a cut off point. I don't think my retouch here is over board. Any opinions?

A nice gift...

My sister bought one for my g/f and I. When the candle melts it becomes massage oil, so the temp is much lower than regular candles, and it smells great too. Ours has lasted a lot longer than I expected it would. It might make a lovely little gift for someone.

Plus it's one of those happy companies - cruelty free, vegan... ya know... one of those businesses run by the pot smoking hippy types ;)

Locked in a chastity belt

Wearing a chastity belt... it is a bit like having my girlfriend there with me all day. She has a firm and steady hold on my member, looking into my eyes, in a stern and slightly playful tone she says... "this is mine."

That kind of feeling is especially strong if it's not the first day in the belt. And when play time comes, it's amazing how close to subspace I already am. Just a little nudge off the cliff and I'm an emotional puddle. Now if only we can find a device that I can wear for more than a few days... then again there is a part of me that is very happy that we haven't. :)

Some random hotnesses

Sometimes I find pictures that I put together as a collage or just need to pass along to the world. I use both Aarkey's imageshack and
Aarkey's flickr for that. Imageshak has more options but sometimes it just isn't working at all.

So, I figured I'd share a random hotnesses.

British actress Claudia Black looking totally smoking hot in her role as Angela Kostapas in the 1996 TV series City Life. She is also known for roles on the SciFi channel series Farscape and Stargate. As well as the movie Pitchblack.

Where to find me...

I just figured I'd share these five sites I visit most every day. I suspect every kinkster with my interests would enjoy these.

Max Fisch's Hang
Smoking Sides
Staylace.com
Lock n' keep Forums
KinkyGerlinky Forums

(listed in no particular order btw)

The most beautiful corset

Here's a link to the specific post on Arachnoidea's LiveJournal blog with a few Aarkeybabble : Arachnoidea and the most detailed corset evermore pictures of this masterpiece.

Wow... it is just stunning.

I have never seen a corset with that much detailed lacing on it. And the shape, well as my g/f would say... "Oh... My... Goth!!!!"

Either way, it's really great to see that Arachnoidea is still into corsetry too. It'd been over a year since she'd updated her blog and I always admired her corsetted figure. She is just stunning in a corset and has a great personal style. Either way, I just figured it was well worth passing this wow along in to teh interweb.

Who, what, where, when...

This is my first blog post, I must've signed up for this before since well, plain ole "Aarkey" was already taken as a blog name. So, unless there is someone out there who's evul and trying to make me cry I must've started this before and never finished it.

And I can't imagine that I'm important enough for someone to bother and I also can't imagine that someone would have the same name as mine, so maybe my imagination is the problem.

Either way, I'm here. :)