Vampires in Devil Town, D/s, and Another Fiction Review

Since I couldn't get into White Power and I can't stay awake through The Communist Manifesto yet, I decided to divert myself with one of my favorite genres of fiction--horror.  I downloaded Vampires in Devil Town as a freebie from Amazon, but only started reading it the other day.  Now that school is getting ready to start back up, I can't get into anything too terribly interesting, plot-wise, as I no longer have the luxury of staying up until the wee morning hours reading.  In fact, I should have STOPPED engaging in this sort of activity back around July 16 or 17, right before I went back to work, but oh well, hind-sight is always 20/20 and all that.

Anyway--this has, thus far, become a riveting little horror read, and yes, there are even some elements of forced D/s.  Case in point--when the main character, Rachel, is kidnapped and thrown into the back of a van by Bones and Rain, Bones makes many references to dominance, smacking her around, and calling her a "little bitch" to "show her her place".  Why is this forced?  No consent on poor Rachel's end.  In fact, Rachel and Rain conspire to get away from Bones, which they do in a shockingly quick manner.  I'm also about to begin the chapter in which Rain will tell Rachel about "the last time" Bones did something to a victim of him, as well as find out why Bones likes to cut women's nipples off, keep them for a while until they start to rot and stink, and maybe even why he wants to "play" with his victims.  Is Bones truly Dominant?  I think not.  He's too lazy to chase them through the woods, and he relies too much on violence and not enough on actually protecting Rain or anyone else other than himself.  This is another vanilla example of what Those People think D/s and BDSM really is.  Pissed off about this?  Yup.  Good and angry about it?  Not quite.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've a bit more reading to do.  ;)

Really Down with D/s? PROVE IT

Gentle Reader,

The Domme.brarian got completely good and pissed off earlier today.  She's not apologizing because she knows she's right, and she'll be the first to admit when she's wrong.  But The Domme.brarian's boy jay has brought up some very good points today, and she concurs wholeheartedly.  She also is sending out a challenge.  The challenge is more directed toward submissive men than women, but if the women would like to participate, they certainly may.

When The Domme.brarian was in college, she started out as a psych major.  One of the courses required of all psych majors was to work an 800 hotline, mostly for suicide prevention and deep states of depression.  I saved a few people, I helped even more, and I heard lots of testimony from. . . rape victims and other assault victims.  The stories were heart-breaking.  One of those victims was a sorority sister.  As someone who had also felt the cruelty of sexual assault, I could definitely relate.

All right, submissive men, here's my challenge to you:  I am requesting that you commit to some volunteer work during the month of May, either for battered women or for rape victims.  If you truly wish to serve--if you truly want to prove your worthiness to women--if you care about females at all--please donate your time and your ears and your hearts to helping heal a victim of sexual, physical, mental, or emotional assault.  Don't throw money at it, don't turn your head and act like it's not there, don't be a silly little boy and think that if you ignore it, it will go away, don't provide lip service on your fucking blogs and twitter feeds and cute n' adorable little chat rooms.  You'll serve your time and help us.  Otherwise, maybe you really don't have anything to say to me.