No pictures exist of him. He’s a big skunky fella. The stories revolved around friends making purchases at his magic sex shop.

Not really, or at least, I never get invited if they do. I chat semi-regularly with @vikingzombieboyfriend and @mcbaer though, but we don’t do much collaborative stuff–though we have on rare occasion done chapter exchanges on CYOC and stuff like that.

I’ve created a lot of random little photo TF games over the years, where I plug in a large number of photos and use them to generate story ideas. I rarely post the photos with the stories they inspire, often because the actual story turns out quite a bit different from the pictures themselves. On rare occasion, I’ll have a story which is inspired by someone I know in real life, or written for someone I’ve hooked up with.

I’ve never posted any of them, mostly because they involve other people’s characters. I would have to ask them for permission to post them or share them first. That said, someone requested a commission which ended up using him, so if I get to writing it, he’ll get his public debut then.

It was reading stories like these, that introduced me to them. And yeah, I felt really awful with myself for a very long time about it, and still do on occasion. But being into BDSM doesn’t mean you’re broken, nor does it mean that you’ll never have a fulfilling life if you never find a master/slave/dom/alpha/pup/etc. 

I did have a sequel planned for it. If I recall correctly, my original intent was to have the matchmaker run afoul of either Leo from “Letters From Prison”, or have him cross Pigtown in one way or another. It never got anywhere beyond the fantasy stage, however.

I mean, I kind of want to live like the men in my stories too, so I understand the desire. I think it takes a lot of strength and authenticity to be able to grapple with a personal desire to be a sub. I think this applies to you in particular–keep being you, or I’m gonna be pretty disappointed pig.

Conflict is vital. If there’s anything lacking from most stories in the genre by new author’s it’s that the characters have no real stakes in what’s happening, and there’s no conflict between any of the characters–they’re usually just getting everything they ever wanted, i.e. wish fulfillment, that thing I hate.

Stories need conflict more than pretty much anything else, and that means you need to have characters fighting for conflicting goals, *and* you have to have a level enough playing field so that the stakes aren’t boring. That is, if one character literally possesses all of the power in the story, and is changing everyone else against their will, it still won’t be interesting despite the presence of conflict, because you basically have a god vs. men. *snore*

Some are, and some aren’t. It pretty much always depends on the particular story in question. Certainly the people they were before aren’t going to be happy with the results, of course, but fuck ‘em.

Short answer–no.

Longer answer–I pretty much hate the whole fucking system of the world. I feel fucking alienated from everything, and most of the people I care about are stuck on various precipices of unemployment, loss of health care, deportation, state violence, etc. etc. etc. These stories are essentially me screaming incoherently back into that void. So personally, I find MC/TF empowering. It helps me deal with some of that rage and push it back out in a way that makes some sort of sense to me, as a reaction to the world around me. Of course, that doesn’t do much to touch on the moral qualities of MC and TF itself.

I think mind control is pretty morally dubious in all cases. I don’t know if there’s a reasonable way to understand consent within the context of mind control at all, so pretty much every application of it is, at the very least, indistinguishable from rape.

TF, on the other hand, I think is radical and revolutionary. So much of our current world system depends on the assumption that much of who we are in intrinsic and immutable. I don’t think that’s at all true, but TF stories force us to grapple with that. How do we get to determine who is worthy of happiness, if all individuals are equally mutable, and this, essentially (potentially) identical? TF is a statement of radical equality, which is why my stories tend to rely much more on TF, than they do on MC.