My schedule has undergone a little upheaval since I have returned to the workforce. I am back to the graveyard shift and learning how to throw the truck (I was previously stocking the Christmas section of a big box store and only had to stock, but now they are short staffed, so I'm also helping throw). ('Throwing the truck' is jargon for unloading and sorting the contents of a semi truck trailer.) Everyone at work seems bravely casual about COVID-19. Some of them are not at all concerned about their distance from one another, which kind of makes sense due to our general proximity to one another, but I am trying to stay on the side of caution by keeping my distance and increasing my intake of vitamins. I treat going to work like I treat flying on a plane, although the option of Not Touching Anything doesn't apply at work. Our break room has a SNES mini, and I used to play that on my lunch breaks, but I'm not going to touch it (even though I think I'm the only one who plays it), so what better way to spend my breaks than by reading the sequel to the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice? Confession: I have had this book for a long time and just never got around to it. I saw it in the clearance bin at Barnes & Noble. I really enjoyed the original trilogy - I'd actually re-read it fairly recently, in the summer of 2018 - and I had no idea that Anne Rice had penned a fourth book. Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy is probably best described as BDSM fantasy that takes place in a fictional European kingdom that specializes in "pleasure slavery". Young princes and princesses are taken to serve as naked, well, pleasure slaves. They have a master or a mistress and they have to generally crawl around on their hands and knees and endure the sexual whims of any number of royal court members. Sometimes crawling around on one's hands and knees, being regularly bathed and oiled, and chasing golden balls across someone's floor was not challenging enough, so the pleasure slaves would "rebel" (not in a political way - this is a fantasy land - but more like an extremely bratty submissive), and be sent to The Village as "punishment" (this is very much depicted as a resort for princes and princesses who are Bored), and they are auctioned off to villagers to do things such as, say, being a magnificent Pony Boy Prince in someone's stables. The punishment of The Village comprises the second book, and the third book is a faux raid that often occurs between the European kingdom and another fictional, vaguely Middle Eastern kingdom, where they kidnap some pleasure slaves and have them be pleasure slaves in a more exotic locale. All of this is a very fun time, in my opinion. There are so many ways this could go horribly, horribly wrong, and it never does, because you're just in this enjoyable BDSM Fantasy Land where everyone is bisexual and no one is getting cut or branded. This fourth installment takes place in the future, where Beauty and her King, Laurent I think, have been asked to replace the old Queen and refresh the concept of Naked Pleasure Slavery for a new generation of...naked pleasure slaves. I'm not really certain of the time lapse between Anne Rice writing these books, but the new one has slightly more details, like the name of the kingdom (which I don't recall being named before, but I could be wrong), and little historical (?) tidbits like people chewing on apples to freshen their breath. I haven't gotten very far, but so far it's a pretty good, fun time. I suppose you could criticize it because everyone is hot and beautiful and they all have perky breasts or splendid organs, but honestly who cares. Have fun. Read some BDSM fantasy. Enjoy ponies. They don't look like that in real life. Trussssssst me daddy. I remember the first time I read the trilogy. I recommended it to one of the ladies who worked at the local bookstore (HOW and WHY the local bookstore had this BDSM fantasy for sale in our tiny Bible Belt town, I am not sure; I blame the guy working there full-time with quadruple Scorpio placements in his birth chart! But I digress...), and her review of it was: "I got bored, there's too much spanking." You can make of that what you will. Before I started working again, I asked people if they wanted a weird postcard that may or may not scandalize their mailperson. I had one taker: His wife reportedly said, "You got a really weird fuckin' postcard."
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