Callidus and I discuss Annihilation

Usually I try to think of a catchy title for each post, but I figured that with this one, the catchiest title is the simple truth. Last week Callidus and I each saw Annihilation in our separate hometowns, and then we got together on Skype to discuss it. He's just posted the podcast (which runs just over one hour), on his website, and you can listen to it here.

Stay tuned for more posts about my writing plans for the future and how you can help me decide where to go from here.

The guy with over 1,000 mind control videos, part 1

This is the first half of a two-part interview with Antjack, also known as TANTRICLEGION, also known as Diana Prince, and probably a few more pseudonyms. I've been enjoying his MC video clips for years, and he's posted comments several times on my blog, so it seemed only natural that I should interview him. After all, if you're into women being hypnotized or enchanted or brainwashed or what-have-you, the best place to start is with Antjack. He posts a lot of videos in a lot of different places, so I'll let him explain what's where.

Give me a ballpark figure of how many videos you currently have online.

Well, I know on my blog I have at least 700 video clips and full movies, and on my YouTube channels I have about 680 small clips.

How did you first discover your EMC fetish, and why are you attracted to it?

I first discovered my MC/possession/corruption fetish after watching three movies as a child: It Came from outer Space, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original one 1956) and Planet of the Vampires (1965). I was fascinated by how aliens took over ordinary people and corrupted them to turn others into beings just like they were (serial conversion/recruitment) After that, I was hooked on any TV show/movie or comic book that had those themes. Starro comes to mind also.

I know you have several sub-fetishes, like superheroines being turned evil. Would you list your sub-fetishes for my readers so they’ll know what sorts of videos you post?

The themes I love the most are corruption, serial recruitment, and serial conversion - by alien objects or evil goo, mind controlling parasites, alien conversion pods, black smoke, glowing eyes after conversions...The list goes on, but those are my most favorite.

Pick one or two of your personal favorite videos related to the above and link us to them.

"Female Possession Scientist Is Taken Over" - This is one video I recently posted that sums up my total fetish in this genre. I love it how a hero/heroine is so strongly against an evil force, and then somehow it successfully takes them completely over and then he/she become what they were fighting against.

Secondly, "Female Possession 23" - This is a video fave of mine from Misfits (season 5, ep. 7). Alex has the powers of removing other powers from people by having sex with them. Throughout the season he's removed the devil, the power of being extremely clumsy, and turning people inside out. Earlier this episode he also the removed the power of hypnotizing tits. He has just taken a pill without knowing that it causes powers in people to reverse, so after having sex with this girl all those powers he's removed suddenly go into this girl.

I know you manage several YouTube channels (and channels in other places) under different nicknames. Do you associate MC different themes with different nicknames, or do you just put a certain number of videos on one channel and then start another one?

I post on YouTube randomly. You see, on YouTube, it's a very restrictive universe.

What are your current channels on YouTube and elsewhere?

Viva Antjack
TRUFADE1
Diana Prince
Craigs List
THEANTJACKPOSSESSION
TANTRICLEGION
theantjack on Vimeo
Jator

A lot of my readers are male subs, and I know they’d like to hear some recommendations from you about clips where men are taken over. Since you’re the MC video expert, what would you suggest they watch?

There is a scene in the 1993 movie "Seedpeople" where the male of the house was taken over by an alien seed pod, and he in turn makes it possible to turn his daughter; and another scene from the 1993 movie "Puppetmasters" where quite a few males were taken over & turned by an alien parasite.

Oh yeah, the book Puppetmasters by Robert Heinlein is a classic in the MC field! Also, the various “Body Snatchers” movies always include men being taken over. If any of my readers have more suggestions, please share them in the comments section. Remember that I’ve set up my blog to allow totally anonymous commenting, and I never delete anything but spam and troll posts.


Here ends the first half of the Antjack interview. Tune in next week for the conclusion, in which he discusses the method to his madness and how you can get in on it.

An interview - by one of you

A few weeks ago I got an email from a semi-regular commenter on my blog, who goes by "K" in these parts. K was taking a writing class which required him to interview a stranger, and he wanted to use me as his subject. After I put the poor guy through the wringer, making him prove he was a real student writing a real paper (as opposed to a random sleazeball trying to make money off my name), I submitted to his very kind, insightful inquisition. As you can see, he produced a fantastic article. So thanks, K, for choosing me as your subject - and for letting me post the results on my blog.

A. Regina Cantatis: A Muse’s Puppet

Imagine for a moment you’ve been put in a chair. People around you are working with various devices you don’t recognize. They surround you and strap you into the chair. A long cord is then inserted into the back of your neck with a slight pinch and a solid click. Then you start feeling parts of your mind being rearranged and altered with the difficulty of reorganizing the files on your computer. Some memories are removed (you never had a dog, so why are they mentioning one?) Memories are altered, some are subtle (of course blue was always your favorite color its why your phone case is blue) or maybe they are less subtle (it is great that people stopped worrying about memory redesign isn’t it?) In the end none of that is a problem as all your memories and personality are stored away in a little file, in case they are ever needed, and all that remains is a drone waiting for instruction. A. Regina Cantatis is an author with a passion for writing stories centering on the concepts of altering the mind and identity. She writes scenes like the above (amongst other things), sometimes they are treated as the unfortunate fate of the villain’s victims; other times the scene is something where there is no victim and the person is a willing subject.  

Because the material she writes is of an erotic bent name A. Regina. Cantatis is a pen name chosen for when she writes erotic work. The pen name is to allow her to alleviate her worry about the response it might garner if her real name were attached to these stories, “I’d never do anything that might hurt or embarrass [my loved ones] - and I won’t risk my job, either. There’s no telling what my boss or coworkers would do if they knew the truth.”  The name was picked for two reasons first, one of the possible translations is “enchanted by the queen” and the other point is because it sounds like a real name. Ms. Cantatis is occasionally amused with the response the name gets because of how realistic it sounds. “A lot of people on Facebook call me ‘Regina.’ I always laugh about that because I’m on the opposite end of the dominant/submissive spectrum from the queen.”

The name A. Regina Cantatis was created when she began e-publishing. Of the roughly thirty stories she has put out online she has released seven stories as eBooks. There’s  less pressure in attempting to get work e-published as opposed to using a normal publisher as the author is allowed to decide which of their works to release.  The other concern that she had felt when dealing with publishing was that she feared costs trying to get her works published would cost “I assumed there’d be an up-front publishing cost to eat into my profits and maybe even lead me into debt. “ She learned through her experiences with e-publishing that the process is still complex and difficult, but as far as costs go “There aren’t any up-front costs; Amazon and similar organizations just take a cut of your profits. It’s not a huge cut, and it’s completely worth the time you spend in publishing something.” While she wants to get all of her works published eventually, but Ms. Cantatis has started publishing her stories based on how likely she thinks the story is to sell, so that it can help build her name. This means that her stories are not necessarily published by her whether or not a story is her favorite.  Though the first work she published was the story Sleepwalkers, which Ms. Cantatis had been mulling around in her head for most of her life and as a result is her favorite of the works she has written, “That’s my baby. I came up with the original concept when I was about eleven, and since then I’ve spent three decades trying to turn it into a novel. I’m proud to have finally succeeded, and I’m even prouder about the praise it’s received.”

Ms. Cantatis has had a fascination with mind control from a young age which she reasons is a result of her upbringing. As a child Ms. Cantatis was always told to be a good girl, and she believes that mixed with her innate desires to please and be responsible. These factors led her to two facts about herself, that she was fascinated with the idea of mind control, and that she found she favored being controlled not controlling. Cantatis believes that while her mindset is mostly the result of how she was raised she does admit that her nature had to have some impact on it, “It’s my desire to please someone else that makes me want to submit: if I’m controlled thoroughly enough, I can never displease. On the other hand, my sense of responsibility can be a burden sometimes. I could shed it if I were someone else’s puppet; then I wouldn’t be responsible for my own actions at all.” It is important to understand that in spite of her fascination and enjoyment of the idea of mind control and depersonalization. They are things she believes should be fantasy only and are not things that should be done or attempted in the real world.   However, in these fantasies the thing that intrigues Ms. Cantatis the most though is not being a puppet or just controlled, but is much more involved with her love of science fiction.

A common element in Ms. Cantatis’ work is individuals being turned into drones of one type or another, predominantly robots. As to why she enjoys robots as opposed to puppets. The answer is first that she likes the shininess and second, “it’s a combination of loving science fiction and being fascinated with really deep levels of depersonalization. A doll is more human-like than a robot, so a doll is less interesting to me than a robot.” Ms. Cantatis finds the idea of depersonalization appealing, although she will point out that she is happy with herself and has no self-esteem issues, but it goes along with her interest in the idea of being controlled combined with a desire to not have to deal with the pressures being a person brings. “Standing out in a crowd is stressful, especially when you’re a kid who wants to fit in but doesn’t know how; and that’s how I grew up. I wanted to be like everybody else, so I fantasized about losing my individuality; and those fantasies still resonate with me today because I grew up with them.” Thus she uses her stories to explore and share her fascination with the ideas of depersonalization and mind control. Some of her stories can be used to compare the difference between different levels of being an individual.

In her story Willing Subject Cantatis has the main character, Missy at the start of the story, go through different levels of being controlled and experiencing depersonalization. The main character starts out as a fully free individual intrigued by an individual claiming to be an ancient sorceress as part of a stage hypnotism show called the Black Pearl. Over the course of the story Missy develops her submissive personality that wants nothing more than to serve the Black Pearl called m (lowercase is part of the spelling at this point in the characters arc.)  Eventually Missy and m are actually arguing over whether to return to being Missy or continuing to attempt to become a perfect servant like m wants.  In the end there is no Missy or m, there is only a thrall without identity. The thrall, in contrast with m, isn’t striving to serve because it is incapable of wanting anything at all. This story is a good example of how Ms. Cantatis demonstrates the different levels of a controlled individual and how it can be used to play with the idea of identity.  You have the different types and, with the exception of the thrall, the personalities eventually come into conflict over what they want.

Ms. Cantatis plans to continue with her publishing and is presently working on a special edition of Sleepwalkers, as she’s trying to get the cover right. For those considering getting into e-publishing she notes that getting the right cover image is very important, and that while the process of getting a book e-published is not expensive it is still a difficult process to get through. “That’s why I gave up on trying to publish anywhere but Amazon and Smashwords. Those are troublesome enough.” She is proud of the works she’s done and is looking forward to getting more of her work put out in the future. For those who have any interest in reading her work look her up on Smashwords or Amazon.

*tap tap* Is this thing on?

Ah, good. The sound check is complete and now it's time for the interview! Callidus has been kind enough to give me another chance to hog the spotlight, and he's asked some pretty interesting questions. I think you'll enjoy the results. If you do, be sure to drop him and me both a line!

Many plates spinning

There's "Ethna Redux," almost ready for a final polish; my interview with Callidus soon to be posted on his site; the M/m story, which is shaping up very, very nicely in my head - it's almost time to start writing; and that mysterious other project I can't say much about yet and may not ever be able to say much about, depending on what we decide as a team. That's the (only) downside to collaborating: you don't get to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it - or say whatever you want to say whenever you want to say it. Me, I've got a pretty big mouth...online, at least. Some of my fellow writers, not so much. Dammit. ;-)

Voicelessness

Behold the lovely Ancilla Tilia, nude, muzzled, and loving every second of it. I discovered in an interview I read that "ancilla" is Latin for "slave," and she really is a lifestyle sub.

Anyway, I chose this picture to share with you today because it represents a subset of my general mind control/enclosure/bondage fetish: enforced muteness. After all, isn't our ability to speak, to express our wants and feelings and opinions, an essential part of what makes us human? Taking away someone's voice, literally or figuratively, is extremely depersonalizing. In real life, it's horrible; but in MC fantasy, it's delicious. A slave has no voice at all in what happens to her or him.

Voicelessness is a theme I explored first in private fantasies; then later in several of my stories, including Spellbound, Solitaire and Willing Subject. Funny how those three just happen to be my personal favorites.

I've also explored the theme in some early photomanips I created for my own private pleasure. I'm sorry to say none of them are good enough to share online; however, I will give you this little tease: Callidus is interviewing me for his blog and has convinced me to share another pic I did which came out rather better than the mouthless ones. I'm not sure when he'll post the interview, but I'll let you know once it's up.

Oh, and one other tease: I hope to start writing "Ethna Redux" today or tomorrow.

My First Interview

Just a quick note to say that my fellow EMCSA writer sara castle was kind enough to make me the guinea pig in her newest experiment at the MC Garden, "On the 'Good' Doctor's Couch." This is the first in a planned series of interviews with various EMCSA writers, so be on the lookout for more in the coming weeks or months. In the meantime, here's my interview. Note that replies to this post are in a separate thread, linked at the bottom of the page.

Thanks again, sara. I really enjoyed the experience.