This is a racy crime drama that I stumbled upon on Google Reader. It is from the St Paul Pioneer Press Magazine on Sunday 22 October 1933. It is hard to read, but if you click on the picture above you are welcome to try.
And if anyone does want to type it out I would be happy to republish Sam E Smyth’s period gem, but don’t strain your eyes.
Last week saw the first of the Christmas posts; you may remember we reported on LSF Christmas story collection (see Bookshop). That is going to be a heavy feature of Spankville for a while no doubt.
We also got to welcome a new blog, Scarlet’s Real Magic, which we wish well and also welcome back the Spanking Spot, which has not only returned from temporary oblivion, but this time has shaken off the Trojan that had been cursing it for the last few weeks.
In terms of content, Acknowledging Imperfection has a story called Detention and the Spank Statement has a great excerpt from the Tattler, which featured an article on spanking and the pitfalls of spanking and being a young and sexual active man in the 1980s.
On a seasonal note the Spanking Romance Reviews has launched a winter competition for bloggers. A Voice in the Corner has accepted an invitation to take part and is offering a prize. There will be more about that next week.
Also seasonal, is Blossom and Thorn’s feature on spanking in the snow, which includes among others the birching picture above.
The other pictures this week are from: Able’s Spanking Blog, Devlin O’Neil, Cherry Red, and Plector.
Every once in a while Sam sends me an interesting picture or two. These, as he says, have that real feel about them. As ever you decide.
I am guess that most people are getting ready for Christmas and have not been blogging so hard. Nevertheless, judging from the pictures above there are a few gems. Certainly Less Than Three are feeling the strain. Elhane even had to be spanked and go for a lie down and a good cry as pictured above.
Before I give you the heads up about the winter link-up promo, Scarlet said some very nice things about me over at her Real Magic blog. I was reading the post and just deciding to note for inclusion in this week’s round-up when I spotted my name. It made me feel “World famous in the north.” Seriously though, this blog is attracting a lot of attention and for a newbie is spot on the money with regular posts.
Back now to the Winter Spanks Cold Hands Warm Bottoms Blog Hop (2-4 January, 2014). This week or so I will be posting a story in association with this gig called a Winter’s Tail. To this end I am offering a prize, namely a digital copy of The Spanking Handbook (see bookshop), which was published last year and includes a contribution from yours truly. That explains the logo on the right. If you want a chance to win one of these prizes all you need to do is comment on one of the participating entries between its appearance and the closing date (4th January). That includes the entry on this blog, for which you may win the afore said Handbook, if your comment is picked as the winning entry.
Elsewhere the Spanking Spot has picked up that (probably) false report of a Trojan again. Hopefully it will shake itself out shortly.
Pictures this week are from: Less Than Three, Scarlet’s Real Magic, Nik Zula, Cutiepie, Chicago Spanking Review and Blossom & Thorn.
I hope everyone has had (is having) a good Christmas. I still haven’t had time to get on top of things but thought to squeeze out one quick round-up.
The big (and sad) news is that Bonnie is retiring and closing My Bottom Smarts. It is a sad loss to the community and we wish her well. Some regular features of hers (like Love Our Lurkers) are being taken over by Hermione.
The Winter Cold Hands Warm Bottoms Hop is on 2nd January to the 4th, A Voice in the Corner’s entry can be found here. I am not sure I can fully engage with this as I cannot embed certain scripts on my pages – so if you feel that this Winter Hop light go to the home page and visit other participants.
Abigail Armani has a new book out and is also offering a free story. So check her out.
There is also a nice post on submission by Ehlane over at Less Than Three blog.
This coming Sunday (5th January) is the first London Alternative Market of the year; a good venue for newbies wanting to meet people or for just buying toys.
Pictures this week are from: Plector, Scarlet’s Real Magic and Spanking Starlets.
This is the first round-up of the year and so a happy New Year to you all.
Now here is a topical question. Are your Christmas decorations still up? I noticed that several pubs in London had theirs down before New Year, which is something of a new trend in my experience. The Church of England says that Christmas is officially over on 5th January, which is Twelfth Night, when some people ritualistically burn the tree and other decorations at an end of season party. But still others contend that the season ends today, it being the 12th Day of Christmas.
We split the difference and leave them up with lights on until midnight (last night) and take them down without ceremony today (if I get time).
But just to confuse everyone the Vatican leaves their decorations up until Candle Mass on the 2nd February. This incidentally is Chinese New Year, which is helpful. Maybe we can then extend the trend to cover Easter…
I am sure there is a story in all this somewhere but since this is all off-topic let’s move on.
A Winter’s Tail has been well received, but as to who won what and how it went off elsewhere we are still waiting to hear. I am referring of course to the Winter Cold Hands, Warm Bottom Bop, just follow your nose and you can check out other entries from here.
Meanwhile here is a sample of the other shorts on offer over at Acknowledging Imperfection.
Bonnie posted her last post last Tuesday and even found time to flag up one last list of new blogs. We can only hope that one day she will be back. But just check out her farewell stats, over 1,800 posts and 20,000 comments, with an average page hit of two million a year.
Hermione has hit the ground running taking over Bonnie’s Spanko Brunch, we wish her well.
This week’s pictures are from: About Spankings, Cutiepie, Scarlet’s Real Magic and Season & Michael.
Following my post on Friday about schadenfreude, I noted two other posts in the same vein. The day before Season and Michael had a light-hearted post about Spankenfreude (another German word?). The picture used above is coincidentally one I went looking for to illustrate my article. And early last week Kia at Acknowledging Imperfection had a more serious article that spoke directly to the issues raised by my Friday article.
Less Than Three also had an article by Ehlane about her spanking fantasies and when and why she got into them. Interestingly she spoke about being a hetro submissive woman and her attitude to being spanked by and spanking other women.
But getting down to stories, LSF blog plugged one of mine last week if you missed it, The Master and the Governess. Rollin is also selling and has a dollar a book offer at the moment.
If you want pictures then Cherry Red has a list of spanking sites and this seasons new spanking models and Chross has a good sporting fake (see above) in honour of the Winter Olympics.
Other pictures are from Wholebean and I, Plector, Cutiepie, and Less Than Three.
It’s frosty and again there seems so much to do. In a hurry, sometimes careless words seem to generate more heat than light. So I will avoid rushed comments this week.
Coming soon (quite when, I am not sure) is the last and final part of Magic. There will probably be a post about this post (before or afterwards) just so that newbies can catch-up while they can.
On the subject of stories, I noticed that Rollin has had a recent run of new publications, while other blogs have been quiet. This is often the way in January.
Kia at Acknowledging Imperfection has a short word to say about the S-word and its power. One of the pictures above has been lifted from this post.
The 1950s picture was carried by Wolfie Toons, although it has been seen elsewhere as are many such pictures. That’s the way it goes and the origins of such things are quickly lost on the Internet. Just by way of an example I noticed a sorority picture I ‘discovered’ on Google reader cropping up elsewhere as someone else’s unique find. Of course I no more created it than the latest person to republish it or the next one, come to that.
Other pictures are from Scarlet’s Real Magic, Chross forum, Au Fils de Jours, Blossom &Thorn, and Wholebean & I, Able.
The weekend was somewhat busy and instead of a casual Sunday afternoon web catch-up, I had to leave it the Round-Up until today. Then guess who got stuck on a train in the bad weather? The picture above was snagged from Able’s Tumblr, but it rather sums up today. So no real round-up today.
On that note I have been very slow elsewhere too. A number of people wrote to me in the ding weeks of last year with offerings, observations and questions. Thank you for taking that time and trouble and thank you for considering me and this blog worthy of seeking advice and offering such fine goodies. However, apart form at most a brief reply of acknowledgment I have not had time to go through off of these and get back to some people with a considered reply. My apologies for that; I am still working on it.
On a happier note, tomorrow as scheduled the final part of Magic will finally appear here. Unfortunately I have lost the prepared graphic which I had been saving and have had to use a last minute replacement. Never mind, onwards and upwards.
I have no idea if this title is an acceptable one, but following a post on the colour red and the effects of spanking a short while back, I had some useful and interesting feedback on spanking among black people (or ‘people of color’ as seems to be the common nomenclature in the US).
There was some question as to whether black girls went red or not and the perception that they don’t may account for there being less black women in spanking movies.
Following this I stumbled across a Tumblr featuring ‘ebony spanking’ and lifted the above pictures to further this debate.
South African Rap music artist Yolandi Visser from the group Die Antwoord likes to shock. As well as sex, certain deviance and nudity, the group’s vidoe work also features spanking as seen from the above picture.
Can’t say much more about them, but the video can be found on YouTube, but blink and you will miss the spanking.
As ever, running to catch-up and I have a lot of proofing review to do (not least Magic) for possible future publications, but enough about me.
Rollin too has a new story out. You can find out more here. Also recently the Spank Statement has returned to form after some infrequent posting. There is TV snippet about a spanking game called Hot Cockles played in 18th Baroque France.
Chross also has a movie snippet with a portion called Sadism. Actually it is rather playful.
The London Alternative Market has recently revamped its website, which serves as a timely reminder that this Sunday is the market for your spanking shopping needs and a chance to meet new people.
On another note, a couple of weeks back I ran a post on red bottoms and colour. It was a small throw away filler frankly, but it did provoke a brief debate about black women in spanking movies. In response on Friday I did another brief post on ebony spanking after finding a tumblr dedicated to such. Since then I see that Dreams of Spanking have made a movie featuring new model Lola Marie about a black student.
Other pictures are from Able, About Spanking, Cutiepie, Plector and the Chicago Spanking Review.
Barabara1956 recently sent me a brief but rather complimentary email describing herself as a ‘crazy put-upon spanking fan since 1975.’ Published with her permission, she asked:
Although your heroines often cry, it is usually from surrender or pain. Mostly women cry when they are spanked from emotional release and the catharsis of a good spanking.
In my youth and now, I always cried after a spanking when I felt good and not bad. This was true even when I had been a bad girl and deserved it. I knew from the age of 19 that it would always be like this. As I got older I often need a reprise of pain and surrender when I was out of line for a true effect, but luckily my husband understood.
Anyway, I love your stories, especially when the women have a good cry and are sent to the corner where they belong, tee-hee.
This put me in mind of a comment culled from (I think) Fetlife, which had been put aside for a future post.
Tricia wrote:
I wasn’t spanked at home, but seem to have courted it one way or another all my adult life. I guess that does make me a spanko, duh (or I wouldn’t be here) but why did it take me 10 years to get it. Go figure.
But what I wanted to say was before I realized that I needed to be spanked I only resented those spankings that didn’t make me cry. It was almost as if sub-consciously (sorry is that a pun?) I was thinking, well if you are going to spank me then do it properly.
I especially dig it when a man takes me there, but until recently I found that most men used to hang back or stopped when I kicked off (which is totally cool and a bummer at the same time), where women usually let me have it. In my twenties I had one crazy sexual-social life.
Serves me right for being a consensual non-consent fetishist I guess.
I love the ‘consensual non-consent fetishist,’ comment. I might use it some time.
No not a new feature, but I just saw this presumably perfectly innocent vanilla news picture on a non-spanking Tumblr. It was no doubt culled from a serious report about the prison system and the use of body scanners.
Then beyond the obvious prominent feature of the shot I noticed the guard was wearing a certain type of glove. And people ask where I get my ideas from.
Been having some Internet outage, plus a bit of real life to contend with, hence no post on Saturday and a rather (at the moment) thin week coming up, which I hope to address.
But not every has been so unproductive. Blossom and Thorn have launched In With the New, with a list of new spanking blogs with acknowledgments to Bonnie. Also Hermione, as promised, has published her own list (now the official Bonnie list) of new spanking blogs. So get reading.
In another feature, the Chicago Spanking Review has launched Romantic Spanking Month for February.
Also Scarlet’s Real Magic is causing another stir. Amongst the other excellent content, she has recently published a series of spanking haikus by the poet Peony. One of which was republished by Dom with Pen, prompting a tribute haiku for him. Do you think A Voice in the Corner will get one now?
Acknowledging Imperfection has also been giving it large with the stories, including a sweet short associated with the picture above.
Another excellent post this week on the Spank Statement following up on the hot cockles game. It seems this spanking sport made it into art along with several other punitive pictures.
Other pictures this week are from: Able, AAA, Plector and Spanking Starlets.
No idea where this came from. It has been on the hard drive since before my PC was replaced two years ago. It is probably a spanking shoot picture, but I love the expression on her face and the ‘reality feel’ of it.
As you might guess, I am still on leave, hence the light post.
Back from the wild and very wet South West and so far I have had no time to catch-up on comments. It looks like I am not the only one to be away and too busy to blog. Not to undermine those who have made posts it seems very quiet in Spankville at the moment. Several blogs have not updated for weeks and in a couple of cases have yet to emerge at all this year.
One of the obvious exceptions to this is Scarlet’s Real Magic, who seems to be in trouble. The OTK of Amelia above was taken from there.
Last week Rollin ran excerpt from Pendragon’s Lash, which is somewhat topical for me.
On another front the London Alternative Market is on Sunday down near Tower Bridge at America One. Yet again I won’t make it, Sunday’s are so awkward, but do drop in for it and the after-market party (tickets sold separately).
Just outside of the previous week, but as it is so quiet, I will point out that LSF Blog did a promo on my story The Uber Brats. This blog is a good reference for their other stories.
Other pictures are from Able’s Tumblr, Cutiepie, Plector and the Spanking Blog.
Sometimes life runs smoothly as a succession of routines and plans. Then in a blink everything you relied upon is thrown out and all bets are off. Unfortunately due to being on leave in the previous week there were no posts ready and no opportunity to write any so apologies for that sudden hiatus.
Never mind we’re back, if not quite home and clear.
Just before I went I launched a new project as an experiment and there will be more about that later this week. Also A Voice in the Corner reached its nine millionth visit over the weekend.
There are some short stories pending and this month should see the return of Ad Astra.
Still catching up so it is mostly pictures this week (well it cuts down the waffle) but Less Than Three Blog has a report on a party if you like real life being more fun.
Pictures are from 1001 Spanking Fantasies, About Spanking, Acknowledging Imperfect, CutiePie, Scarlet’s Real Magic, the Spanking Blog and Spanking Starlets.
Spring has sprung and the storms seem to have abated. It seems that Spankville is gearing up for the change of season, if you pardon the pun. Blossom and Thorn are certainly looking forward. Kia on the other hand is too busy doing lines and contemplating her next spanking.
Keep your eyes open for other changes as we approach Ostre and its Christian companion Easter.
Busy day, busy week so the rest is pictures from About Spanking, All Things Spanking, Beauty and the Birch, Chery Red and the Spanking Blog.
