The Spankmistress and the Supernatural

I have been reading some wonderful books lately, my darlings, and I would like to share them with you. I buy books new, I rent them from an Netflix like service called Bookswim, I shop in the used bookstore and I also get them as gifts, which is always nice. I love to read, as my bookcase lined walls and storage room full of crated books will attest to. I finally got around to the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, a four book set of novels about a girl who falls in love with a mysterious boy at her new small town school, who turns out to be part of a family of vampires. It sounds formula, but I have to say that Meyers has created a smart interesting mythology for her supernatural characters and her strong unabashed belief in the strength of love’s power in life makes the series a delight to read. I’ve also read the Southern Vampires novels by Charlaine Harris, which are the basis for the new series on HBO, True Blood. Harris has a gift for mixing whimsy with her darkness, violence and romance without ever making either gratuitous, and a classic way of making social commentary that is open to interpretation by the reader. Her vampires have “come out”, they are a disenfranchised minority in America, one that spans all sorts of social and economic boundries. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

I think fantasy and sci fi has always offered a way to show the outsider in a sympathetic light. It also can be used to condemn, which is also a familiar theme.  How many of our callers fear what others might say about their personal fantasies? How many sissies don’t go out in public because they are afraid of being seen and scorned, or worse? It can even be dangerous physically, both because they could be recognized as men, or because they are making themselves a target for men who feel entitled to abuse women.  The man who wants so desperately to ask his wife to take charge in the bedroom, who wishes he could whisper his fantasies of seeing her cuckold him with his boss, or share that he’d love to be her complete slave for the weekend. Even that he would just like to have her watch him masturbate once in a while. It doesn’t seem outrageous, but to him, it makes him blush and keeps him miserable, because he’s afraid she will could never understand.  Still, there are places men can bring their fears and fantasies, and there are places even the most oppressed author can escape restraint and recreate society.

Mmm, I could use a good vampire fantasy roleplay right now. Any takers? LOL!!

Hugs,

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