Death of Smug, the NeoPagan Edition

While I was doodling, after finding out about Marion Zimmer Bradley as the Neopagan Mommy Dearest, this little cartoon came out: I call it The Death of Smug.  For those unfamiliar with the symbolism, it’s Eshu’s whoopin’ stick poking a Neopagan in the cheek, which is usually the site of the distinct dimple that unconsciously…

Growing up in the Belly of the Beast

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), often abbreviated to MZB, was an American fantasy fiction author. She was also an abuser of children and an enabler of her husband Walter Breen’s abuse of children. Breen had been convicted of molestation in 1954 and abused children at speculative fiction conventions from 1962 onwards. Source: Marion Zimmer Bradley’s child…

Marion Zimmer Bradley: It’s Worse Than I Knew

I’m still the girl who quakes within And tries to rip off all her skin I’m scared of water, scared of the dark My mother’s vicious, brutal mark. In self-admiring tones she told Of self restraint in a story old. For twice near death she’d beaten me, And now she wants my sympathy. I’ve gone…

The Pegging Circle Jerk on Reddit

Floggers and Rope

[caption id="attachment_942" align="alignleft" width="204"] A little reminder who you’re calling a prude.[/caption] Well, I noticed that my pegging article was receiving a lot of traffic, and decided to see where it was coming from.  Mostly, it’s from Reddit.  It inspired a circle jerk of very confused illiterates who can’t tell the difference between someone being…

Two Tribes

Pro Israel Protesters

Outside my door tonight, there is a crowd of people protesting each other.  One one side, supporters of Israel, and on the other of the Palestinians. A few years ago, close by enough to smell burning bodies and plastic,  a terrorist blew up a bus with children on their way home from school in it.…