Toxic Masculinity
Inspired by TODDLER FEELINGS HELPLINE by SARA GIVEN
Hello. You’ve reached the Brat Emergency Helpline. Please Choose from the following options:
* If you unpacked all the jute and hung it in the tallest tree in the garden, please hide for at least 48 hours.
* If you forgot to pack cupcakes into a good hiding place before you hung out the jute, you’re an idiot and this helpline is beyond assisting you.
* If you don’t like the way Sir Domly Pants prepared ...
2024-02-03 04:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostVariation of Toddler Feelings Helpline
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A reader recently asked me to recommend an editor for a NaNoWriMo book. I receive a lot of requests like that, and I only had to try to fulfil their requests once. The editors I know will not take on a project like that, but before we get into that, let’s look at what a developmental edit actually is. Line editing is like being a human version of Grammarly. You’re correcting typos and grammar. That’s it. NaNoWriMo types aren’t looking for human Grammarlies. They’re looking for a dev...
2024-01-27 05:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostBack when I was young and struggling with rape-related PTSD, people used to throw $1 advice at me all day and once more for dessert: “Stop thinking about your rape. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Trauma begets trauma. PTSD is a sign that you're obsessing about this assault. Try dance classes. Try homeopathy. Try hypnosis. Here. Have a hug, and while I'm rescuing you, tell me about that night in minute detail. It'll cure you. I read about it on WebMD”
A lot of that advice sounded w...
2024-01-26 04:18:55 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re not all trying to be creepy.” - A reader
When you see the aftermath of a lion kill, something in the ether isn’t quite right. You see the blood on the grass and gore in the dirt, but the moment feels as serene as any other. Putting necessity and Mother Nature’s inherent violence aside, lions don’t feel the lives they take. They don’t see the blood around them as gore. All it is to them is a dinner they were entitled to. They saw it. They chased it....
2024-01-26 03:59:13 +0000 UTC View PostMy uncle lives in a reserve called Marloth Park, where there are giraffes under your washing line and monkeys on your roof. Herbivores are welcome, but dangerous carnivores are moved to the Kruger Park lest they murder the residents.
Some years back, a crocodile found its way into a Marloth dam. The locals named him Charlie and collectively decided they wanted a carnivore in their backyards. The entire park learned the habit of silence. You did not talk about Charlie on social ...
2024-01-25 03:23:36 +0000 UTC View PostIf I had the time, I would happily make a religion out of penises. I love them hard. I love them soft. I love them cut. I love them even more *un*cut. I have opinions about upward curves and philosophies about lack of curves. Mostly, I just want to put all of them in my mouth. If I was sluttier, I would set up a glory hole right outside my front gate. I’d love it if it was raining cocks (hallelujah).
I appreciate veins and lack of veins. I’ll take any colour and width. Essentially, ...
2024-01-23 04:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostI just had a fun conversation with a man we’ll call Steve. He didn’t kick up any dust. He was a perfectly likable guy, so naturally I clicked into his profile to find out where this cute li’l stranger had come from. All I saw there was me. Me in his activity feed. Me as his sole follow, and me in his reading material. That was more “me” than I was comfortable with. There’s something unsettling about occupying that much space in a stranger’s head. If we’ve never met, I prefer y...
2024-01-22 16:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostI just watched Canine Intervention and learned that dogs are more trainable when they have a dopamine hit. As a totally real, not-even-a-little-bit-fake scientist, I’m deeply committed to spreading scientific knowledge throughout the world. Science has determined, through my TV viewing, that providing treats enhances brat training. Spoiling brats has thus become An Official Domly Activity and will be added to The Dominant Duties Almanac of 1974.
At 9:00 tomorrow morning, all brats wil...
2024-01-21 04:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostSome rape survivors have a masochistic draw to rape play. They want the pain.
I don't.
Some rape survivors use it to release tears that have refused to fall.
I’ve done all the crying my rape required of me already.
I love CNC, but not for the trauma. I'm just willing to risk it. If a scene works out perfectly, I won't be a shaking mess sobbing into the mud afterward. I’ll be grinning at my sadist and telling h...
2024-01-19 04:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostEvery now and then, people send me their writing for feedback. Today's request came from a new writer who's hoping to perfect the ancient art of smut. I hate smut beyond all reason, but I can fake it. I really can pretend I respect the genre. Just watch.
Dear Smut Writer
As you suspected, your piece is all description and very little of anything else, but that's not the real problem. I imagine, judging from your piece, that you haven't made a skeleton for your s...
2024-01-18 14:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostI like vanilla sex. You heard it here first. Just don’t tell all the Super Masochists lest they hang me in the village square. In Vanilla Land, you spice up your sex life with a pair of furry handcuffs, but for me, vanilla sex is a perfectly legitimate seasoning. Sadomasochism compels me, but sometimes, I want gentleness.
I also need a regular reminder that D/s is not the only framework for our relationship, and that equality can exist if I need it to. Call it a personal failing if yo...
2024-01-18 05:50:00 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve spent more hours shopping for bras than I have in nightclubs. The first stop of every early relationship is Woolworths, but I’ve only dated two men who really understood the power of well-selected underwear. Tighty whities are not my idea of well-selected underwear. Have you never seen a Calvin Klein men’s underwear ad? Straight girls want partners with sexy underwear, too, and don't, for a second, tell me it's the muscles that make the man on the left hot. It bloody isn't. The pow...
2024-01-18 05:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn late 2021, an online casino company called Playtika bought a successful design game named Redecor. The new business didn’t care much about its players. It cared about profits, so it immediately began adapting the game to trigger maximum addiction and maximum buys. It captured my curiosity, so I’ve watched it closely ever since. I’ve noticed a few parallels with abusive relationships.
Playtika wanted to earn more for less, so its first step was to reduce players’ winnings dras...
2024-01-18 05:37:41 +0000 UTC View PostI used to think the most romantic possible
was to sit up through the dead of night
a typewriter pounding
drink and ashtray at the side.
I didn't smoke and I
hardly drank. I'd never
make a novelist at that rate,
but— poetry, at least?
Poetry came and poetry went
a novel too
unread, unloved, romance a charred ember
scorched earth ...
South Africa experiences two hours of blackouts on most days, but when our power crisis becomes catastrophic, you can push that up to 14 hours a day. We call this loadshedding. If you’ve never been through it, you probably think of it as candles-and-Scrabble time. You’ve experienced power outages, so you know everything there is to know about the experience, right?
Well, no. You don’t know until you’ve lived it. How does loadshedding affect thee? Let me count the ways:
Writing economy is an important discipline for any writer. It means choosing your words as carefully as you might take products off the shelf during a broke month. When you're shopping with a few bucks in your pocket, you're thinking about how far each product can go and whether it's really necessary. You should be just as broke with your words.
Writing is always better without clutter. Each word should work hard for its place, so economy is not just about using f...
2024-01-14 05:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostConsent activist who knows 67 strategies for violating consent without getting accused of anything.
Thinks that failing to communicate her STI status before unprotected sex doesn’t make her a consent violator.
Kinky but doesn’t do any of that event crap. Wants to choke you any way he likes cuz talking about safety is drama.
Event host who can stealth five vaginas in one night. If you #MeToo him, he will “expose you” and get you banned from every event in the city. Th...
2024-01-14 04:43:19 +0000 UTC View PostPost a photograph of your mouth with something artsy like a paintbrush between your teeth.
Decide that’s not ambitious enough and replace the paintbrush with a Coke Can.
Maybe crushing the can will make it fit.
Maybe you should just use Photoshop.
Reply to all 623 messages you get telling them to stop calling your lips hawt.
You don’t want to have a conversation with them about your vagina either, bloody hell.
Maybe just delete your photo.
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2024-01-12 06:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post