Tabenings - Burglar Edition

CORE #14 Parte the First is out! If you haven't obtained it, you can now do so over at Uzobono's DeviantArt page. And of course I encourage you to do so!

So this post is a good spot for any CORE feedback you'd like to leave, although of course you can also leave feedback over there, I'm only checking it every fifteen seconds or so.

After posting here I'm gonna go answer some email. It was my habit for a really long time to answer every email I received, and I only fell off of that habit this year. I've gotten a number (like, ten) really nice emails this summer and haven't answered any of them. This of course is a self-reinforcing problem, because then I feel bad about not replying and so I don't go look at my email. But let's see if we can't get to some now.

Also, lots of hot ideas in response to my previous post. (Not a surprise of course given that some of my favorite fellow authors are represented there!) Some of them would work quite well in combination, too. I appreciate everyone's feedback and certainly enjoyed the mental imagery conjured.

Although may of my in-brain sex fantasies are still revolving around my Joja scenario, I would also like to get back to "Modding", it's like half done already. The trick is I need to write some vignettes and have been having trouble with them. If I can do it I'll try and leverage the Secret Files here and maybe hammer out one a week until I have the four or so that I need. Let's see if I can re-stack my life a bit to get at least two hours of smut writing time a week.

Okay, to the email before I run out of steam. Go read CORE #14.1! And let us know what you think.

P.S. The fact that Half Shim is slowing down blog posting just as I am ramping back up is NOT EVIDENCE that we are the same person, or share one brain between us, or anything like that. Not in the slightest.

The Craftswoman

I had an interesting story thought recently.

In a lot of mind control stories, women who are brainwashed into becoming highly sexualized often get boob jobs. My particular ne plus ultra is the Mind Control Comics story Bearing Gifts, in particular issue #14 (which is #9 in the Found Objects storyline), in which the protagonist actually magic-brainwashes an actual cosmetic surgeon so that he will have an "on staff" person to give his ever-growing harem all the boob jobs he wants. But it's also in their titles Audiophilia and others, although in Bearing Rubies it's nano-magic-technology rather than silicone.

I recognize that Mind Control Comics are paywalled, I have had a subscription there off and on over the years. Apologies for referencing them and not sharing.

Anyhow, we take the cosmetic surgeon protagonist - female, of course - but we put her in the vicinity of a Wicked Mind Controller and turn on a slow burn. Let's say she works in the Valley (the San Fernando valley, a part of Los Angeles known for being home to a large amount of pornography production companies and their staff) so she does boob jobs and butt implants and lip implants etc etc and has no qualms about doing them.

First she notices that the most recent Pretty Young Things who've come in to have work done have the same address - an apartment complex, say. And they seem a bit spacey and use the exact same phrases. Then things get a little weirder - maybe a reference to "Mistress" (or "Master" if you prefer, frankly if we keep the W.M.C. offscreen it doesn't really matter their gender so pick what pleases you) and perhaps they bring in the same "this is what I want done" photos and so on.

Of course, in a Tabico story, all of this is simultaneously making the protagonist nervous and extremely horny. Should she be worried? Why are these young sex-drones-in-the-making all coming to her? Will the W.M.C. ultimately come to brainwash her (and does she secretly want that?)

Soon enough the W.M.C. would engage in overt communication. "I appreciate your work", "Here's a nice bonus", "Such artistry", etc.

And then things could get more dubious - maybe one of the drones comes in and requests to have something implanted. Won't say what it is. Iris dying. Tattoos with special ink. (Kind of shading into my Joja story, here).

So that's the idea. I haven't really settled on a conclusion - what do you think? How would one satisfactorily wrap that up? Simply having the protagonist ultimately get collected would be appropriate and desirable but would totally lack punch. I think a second plotline is necessary, something to weave in that could rise up at the end for a good solid climax.

Oh, yes, I appear to be back. I won't make promises but hopefully this will be regular again. (There are many many blog pages boldly proclaiming "I am back!" which are the last update ever seen, so I shan't tempt fate). Lots of stuff has come out during the summer and I aim to point out a bunch of it. Also, Uzobono and I are almost finished with CORE #14, we should see a release before Halloween, God willing and the creek don't rise.