If ever I despair of my abilities as a writer…

[onehitwanda]

Her: Don’t open your mouth.
Him: Even if i don’t everyone’s taking pictures.
Her: No, I mean LITERALLY don’t open your mouth NOW!

Him:

https://i0.wp.com/www.flixist.com/wp-content/uploads/ul/207286-135891.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1

I think I just might have wet myself...

 

[TheRedChamber]

Although speaking of Dogging I always now just think of Car Share

That needs to be linked...

 

[cuppatea]

I’m surprised the eye candy in D*rries imaginings isn’t a blond haired buffoon, who’s probably a genius scientist in denial of his own brilliance …

I remember those protests all too well!

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I’m surprised the eye candy in D*rries imaginings isn’t a blond haired buffoon, who’s probably a genius scientist in denial of his own brilliance …

I remember those protests all too well!

That was the second time they tried to create thoughtcrime, sorry, 'ban extreme violent pornography'. The first time round the consultation explicitly said that if legal violent images were extracted from films and collated, and then wanked over, then the images would become illegal. Similarly tattooing was OK because it produced art, but using a tattoo machine without ink to create sensations for someone to get off from, would technically be illegal.

I will insist in court if necessary that a BDSM scene is an artwork of sight, sound and touch...

 

[gunhilltrain]

All I'll say about my adopted homeland is that one of our national pastimes is dogging, and that we had actual protests against a law banning face sitting.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/12/12/1418391943584/4c24ccb9-4604-4c9c-9e7d-8dc37926f48a-2060x1236.jpeg?width=620&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none
This is a picture from an actual protest in front of Westminster.

Rule Britannica!

 

[gunhilltrain]

It could be worse, it could be the Right Honourable Nadine Dorries MP:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1490602362880376837

If that was a Lit story, it deserves a 2.5.

 

[gunhilltrain]

BTW in smut, I once said here I aspired to be the Steinbeck of Smut. Still do .

Em

Aim higher than that. Aspire to be the Tolstoy of smut. Well, he did write Anna Karenina, and most of the action in that was "off-stage." But action there was, nevertheless.

 

[gunhilltrain]

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5d01a7902500004e12e0a8bb.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_400_noupscale

This is why the British lost their empire.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Aim higher than that. Aspire to be the Tolstoy of smut. Well, he did write Anna Karenina, and most of the action in that was "off-stage." But action there was, nevertheless.

Steinbeck is good for me. I don’t have delusions of grandeur. Well not that much.

Em

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I've tried to put mental logic to Netflix's cancelation choices many times and always come up empty.

Did the show not make money because it was too expensive to film, was it unpopular, was a key actor not available anymore, or what...

The only rule I can find is: If I like the show and it seems popular among the corners of the Internet I slip into, it's doomed. If the show seems to be really flawed, it's getting renewed. But that's absurdly anecdotal based on my frustration of the moment.

Netflix loses a lot of money, I don't think they've been profitable for some time. On the one hand that 'kinda shows' with their weird choices of what to renew, on the other hand it helps understand why so many things get cancelled or greenlit for one season - the notion of seeking something that will make money.

I read an article a few months back where the writer was saying their real problem is they don't understand why people subscribe to them... so they keep doing the wrong thing. The author had their own ideas on this - but I don't recall what the point they went for was.

Having watched some Netflix exclusives ahem Ozarks cough it's probably best some of the shows gets canceled, and it's probably good for our health, that they do- we just don't know any better, sometimes.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

The funny part is that I am being critical towards an exceptional series like Dark and towards a mediocre - "could have been much better" show like 1899, because that is where my bar is set by movies and TV shows from previous decades. Almost everything else is so far below the bar that I don't want to waste my breath on it. These are really, really sad times for cinematography.
Maybe we could shift our focus towards Hollywood and start working on scripts?
Would be fun to see a "Literotica Production" movie or TV show... one without tentacles hopefully

Go to a porn shop and grab any dvd from the $5 shelf. Filmed on a early 00s Sony Handicam, made with Windows Movie Maker and music scored on Windows Music Player on a old surplus IBM running WinXP.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

So i think TV suffers from too much same shit.

Spy, cop, crime, spy, cop, crime, blah blah blah.

It kills creativity.

The best show I saw all last year was Severence. It was not spy, it was not cop, it was not crime.

The best shows, like the best films at the minute, tend to explore the human condition and that’s where the good stuff is.

And boobs, that’s why I replied to this comment.

Left off rescue/hospital...

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Left off rescue/hospital...

And house-building, crafting competitions, minor celeb in interesting vehicle goes travelling somewhere, and panel shows.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Left off rescue/hospital...

Indeed, yes.

I think that’s why, for me anyway, the shows and films that have pulled me are in THE GOOD PLACE, SEVERANCE, FREE GUY and of course EEAAO (7 Oscars). These are projects that ask questions about life, what it means, what we’re doing with it, what can we make of it, how can we improve it, what are the dark corners of it and is there any escape.

In many ways these all remind me of the cult 60’s show THE PRISONER which arguably may have been the first series to really ask these vital questions.

Reminds me of what Q said in “All Good Things” “*That* is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence”.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

What's the difference between porn and erotica? Just wondering.


Or it's maturity. The younger me liked sex, sex, sex. The older me likes the intimacy, the emotions of sex with someone you're connected to.

What's here; for the most part, asstr, and especially anywhere you find fanfiction, is porn. If his dick is massive, cums in rounds faster, than you can unload a Winchester lever action rifle, like an unmanned fire hose, and and makes a Clydesdale cross it's legs in shame- its porn. If you can buy it at Walgreens, or Walmart, and it has Nora Roberts, or Sistah Soldier, Lauren Ashen, Danielle Steele on the cover, it's erotica.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Go to a porn shop and grab any dvd from the $5 shelf. Filmed on a early 00s Sony Handicam, made with Windows Movie Maker and music scored on Windows Music Player on a old surplus IBM running WinXP.

They still had better script than some of the mainstream movies of today. Fancy tech and production can only go so far

 

[JaxRhapsody]

They still had better script than some of the mainstream movies of today. Fancy tech and production can only go so far

Oh yeah, the one with Bridget Powers where she comes from space with her twin, and fuck the guys in "Mission Control", is chefs kiss. You can't even tell she plays both parts, like in those Freaky Friday movies.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

They still had better script than some of the mainstream movies of today. Fancy tech and production can only go so far

Indeed. Some of the classic porn movies were ace, had plot, had acting, also had some hot sex in there, specifically the films of Brigitte Lahaie and Cathy Menard.

But then you think of the strides towards respectability PRIVATE made during the nineties also with some of their productions and also Marc Dorcel’s production company.

Some of these films had great character work and plots and this is the ONLY REASON I ever watched and you can’t prove otherwise:

 

[gunhilltrain]

What's here; for the most part, asstr, and especially anywhere you find fanfiction, is porn. If his dick is massive, cums in rounds faster, than you can unload a Winchester lever action rifle, like an unmanned fire hose, and and makes a Clydesdale cross it's legs in shame- its porn. If you can buy it at Walgreens, or Walmart, and it has Nora Roberts, or Sistah Soldier, Lauren Ashen, Danielle Steele on the cover, it's erotica.

I don't read most of what's on Lit, so I wouldn't know. Nor do I know anything about Danielle Steele. True erotica may be hard to find. Anaïs Nin I found disappointing; there was only one hot scene in Little Birds before I gave up.

Some "mainstream" authors have worthwhile erotic scenes. Updike, of all people, did some good ones. Erica Jong and Philip Roth could be very funny when they got it right. Norman Mailer wrote some truly terrible "erotica" in his career. Fifty Shades of Grey is a story in itself; I'm considering a parody of that although actually it might be more realistic.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Steinbeck is good for me. I don’t have delusions of grandeur. Well not that much.

Em

Look up to Erica Jong (don't emulate her?), although her best work may have been her early success. Steinbeck seems a bit weak when away from The Grapes of Wrath.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Look up to Erica Jong (don't emulate her?), although her best work may have been her early success. Steinbeck seems a bit weak when away from Grapes of Wrath.

I like his entire corpus, most of which I have read. I’m actually fond of British writers (or adopted British ones), from Conrad to Le Carre. But Steinbeck is my favorite domestic author. De gustibus non disputandum est.

Em

 

[gunhilltrain]

That was the second time they tried to create thoughtcrime, sorry, 'ban extreme violent pornography'. The first time round the consultation explicitly said that if legal violent images were extracted from films and collated, and then wanked over, then the images would become illegal. Similarly tattooing was OK because it produced art, but using a tattoo machine without ink to create sensations for someone to get off from, would technically be illegal.

I will insist in court if necessary that a BDSM scene is an artwork of sight, sound and touch...

I've heard a little about what's happened in Britain recently, but I haven't followed it too closely. I've heard that BDSM was one of the main targets, I think. So far there doesn't seem to be anything comparable in the United States.

 

[NoTalentHack]

I've heard a little about what's happened in Britain recently, but I haven't followed it too closely. I've heard that BDSM was one of the main targets, I think. So far there doesn't seem to be anything comparable in the United States.

Here in the states, it's "protect the children." They're going through the LGTBQ (especially the T there) as the point of attack, banning drag shows, "Don't Say Gay" laws, etc. Look at what Florida and Texas are doing for how they're handling things on this side of the pond.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Here in the states, it's "protect the children." They're going through the LGTBQ (especially the T there) as the point of attack, banning drag shows, "Don't Say Gay" laws, etc. Look at what Florida and Texas are doing for how they're handling things on this side of the pond.

In general the World seems to be going through a “crazies are in charge, doing crazy things” period.

Em

 

[gunhilltrain]

Here in the states, it's "protect the children." They're going through the LGTBQ (especially the T there) as the point of attack, banning drag shows, "Don't Say Gay" laws, etc. Look at what Florida and Texas are doing for how they're handling things on this side of the pond.

The United States is different from Britain, as far as I know, because the states have power of their own. Thus potentially you could have fifty different laws about the same issue. What actually happens is that groups or blocs of states wind up with similar laws depending on what region they are in.