Update 14th Sep '25

A rough week.

The start of it was tied up with getting the details ready for the next art commission. There's some special stuff in that, so I'm interested in how those will come out and look forward to showing the pieces off when they come in. (The commission was a little... spicier this time. ;) )

Then... politics.

I consider myself an entertainer, and I'm a firm believer that because of the inherently divisive nature of politics and that any entertainer's audience is likely going to contain people with a wide range of beliefs, values, and political affiliations, an entertainer's role is to shut the fuck up and entertain. As a result, I try (not always successfully) to keep my own personal politics out of what I write.

I'm here to write succubus smut. And also a bit of succubus horror.

Mostly, I want the stories to be good and have more fleshed-out characters than you would normally see in erotica. I also like to take what's going on in the world as inspiration for stories. Mainly to give them more depth. There are only so many variations of the classic 'young clueless man walks into strip club/brothel and gets sucked dry by succubus' story you can write. So, there are little bits of politics sprinkled in. I try to play it fair though. My succubi are very equal opportunities. You're all prey to them. My stories have seen succubi take out racists, rapists, murderers, corrupt politicians, corrupt religious clergy, and other assorted assholes. And a lot of naive people. I'm really vicious on the naive. If there is a common recurring theme outside the usual cosmic justice, it's 'don't be fucking naive and put yourself in a dangerous situation'. I think I blogged about that and called it cosmic injustice a few years back.

Ironically, as an aside, once you add strong erotic elements to the horror, people prefer the cosmic injustice stories to the classic cosmic justive tropes. I think they'd probably prefer more people to survive the snu-snu as well, but what can I say, Horror-head is a hungry god and must be fed.

One of the themes I've been playing around with in stories over the past few years is to expand the roster of asshole villain types. In mainstream entertainment that has shrunk over the years to the point that if you see a rich, straight, white man with conservative leanings in a show or movie, they're probably going to be revealed as the villain. Once it shrinks that much, it starts to get predictable and boring. I'll still keep feeding them to Koontz's Big Black Bed, but I did want to add a bit more variety from some more modern tropes, and also balance it with some examples from the other side of the political aisle. Inspired by the frequency of it happening online, I wrote the 'male feminist is actually a threats to women' trope in "AProudMaleFeminist gets Creamed". This trope is pretty easy to write - it's basically the old ' pious religious leader is secretly an evil hedonist' trope updated to modern day.

Then we come to the upcoming collection. The main [SuccubusTablet] story is a riff on the classic dangers-of-vigilantism arc and features a far-left activist zealot using a succubus to assassinate people they don't agree with. Given the horrific events of the past week, that one... is a little more timely than I'd like.

I'll still go on with the release as planned, but the later half of the week was mainly a mess as my IRL socials blew up and kept me distracted. As a result I wasn't able to put out the regular harlot spotlight. That will go up, hopefully, next week. And while I've written more of the Nicole story, I didn't complete the first draft as I was hoping to.

Anyway. That's a lot of waffle. As a reward for putting up with it, here's one of the recent harlot pinup art pieces I've received.

And now, back to writing and hopefully next week the update will just be succubus smut and nothing but succubus smut.

-manyeyedhydra