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I severely sprained my ankle this week which has lead to a lot of lying around time and forced bed rest. You’d think I’d be productive online, but I avoided working all week. My ankle is doing better now and so that leads to the guilt I feel for not doing anything. It’s so odd.
I’ve also come to the decision that it’s harder to have KnyghtMare take care of me when I’m injured instead of sick. Like there is this sensation I have that I’m not ill so I should still be doing things to take care of him. While I really do know that not to be true, the feeling still rides with me as I recover.
Anyway, I hope your preparations for the holiday season are going well, and remember that the $50 gift card contest ends this week!
A Day in the Life Series - I’m still looking for guest posts for the Day in the Life series. If you’d like to tell us what a day is like serving your Dominant please take a look at the requirements and send it in! Ignore the due date. I’ll still take them if you can write them!
Now for the week in review:
This Week on Submissive Guide
This section highlights the articles posted this week on Submissive Guide and other updates to the blog, if any.
- The Best-Selling Items on Amazon According to What Our Readers Are Buying
- Single in the Scene Part 1: Boundaries
- Assent Matters
- Submissive Chat Night: Trust
- Deceptive Submissive – The Flip Side of the Predator Dominant
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Dug Out from the Archives
Let’s dig into the archives and reconsider some of the older articles on Submissive Guide that you may have missed.
- Readers’ View on Polyamory
- Processing Pain in Play: What Can Interrupt or Block Pain Processing?
- Research Page: Collaring and Ceremonies
The archives have over 600 articles in them. Browse the categories to see what else is on the site.
Next Submissive Guide Chat Night
Come make friends and chit chat. Twice monthly discussions, all are welcome. Chat room is open 24/7 for conversation
Date: December 13th, 2011
Time: 8PM Central (Not in CST? Find out the time where you are!)
Topic: Trust
Recent Journal Prompts
Submissive Journal Prompts is a thinking prompt and quote site that can help you with topics for your journal or your own thinking.
- When you fantasize, is it usually about someone you know?
- Share a favorite childhood memory.
- As a slave, you do not give up your will. You learn to attune it to another person’s, until the two are as one. This is the real source of that “second sense” that some experienced slaves have: they know their Owners so well that they experience the Owners’ needs and desires as their own. In a sense, then, rather than giving up responsibility, a slave becomes doubly accountable.
From Erotic Slavehood by Christina Abernathy
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On Twitter
What you may be missing on the @subguide twitterstream. Follow @subguide to stay updated.
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Interesting FetLife Group
I admit that I am constantly on the look out for groups that are beneficial for submissives. Here is one that I’d like to share this week.
The Kinky Intellectual’s Book Club
About -
This a book club and discussion group that will feature a monthly read that is kinky, sexy, dirty, filthy and any other descriptive term you can think of that gets the juices flowing – that’s brain juice you perverts!!!
The description got too long. So just to help everyone find our books, vote on the next one and join in our discussions, please see our
__BOTM Club Bookkeeping thread__ is here:
http://fetlife.com/groups/36/group_posts/196753
Can I promote my book in this group?
Yes. You can. You can post reviews of your book. You can nominate and vote for your book for BOTM. You can bring up your book when appropriate in threads where people are looking for a book to read.
What you can’t do is bring up your book in so many threads, so often, I begin to get complaints about it.
Around the Web
I love reading other blogs and websites, and often bookmark their interesting posts. These are a few that top my list from the week.
- None this week. What good reading did you find? Share links in the comments!
That’s it for this edition. If you have interesting bookmarks you’d like to share, email them to be a subguide@gmail.com with the subject: Interesting link and I’ll take a look!
–lunaKM
My name is lunaKM and I’m a full-time stay-at-home submissive in a D/s relationship.
I started blogging when I was exploring D/s online in 2003. I needed advice, mentors and helping hands. Since then I've made it my mission to help novice submissives understand themselves and the services they wish to provide. 
I only discovered this blog yesterday (or so) and I’ve been enjoying it so far. As a Mistress, I always like finding out more about what it’s like to be on the submissive side in order to understand their perspective better.
It’s always such a strange thing to have to order an injured/ill slave to rest or stay in bed. It seems like his reflex is to work even harder to please me despite his condition. I have to remind him that in order to best serve me, I need him in good shape as soon as possible, so it’s in both of our best interests if hey relaxes and rests up.
In any case, I wish you a speedy recovery, luna.
Concerning your “Around the Web” section, it might be of interest to some of your readers (the ones who like their domination with a side of humiliation) that I have a “Twelve Humiliations of Christmas” series going on at my blog (thephonesexmistress.com). Basically, it’s 12 days of humiliations assignments. They’re totally free to read, participate in, and enjoy.
By the way, is that a photo of your Christmas tree? It’s lovely. I finally got my tree this weekend, but I have yet to get around to decorating it. Might be a good assignment for a special someone I know.
Thank you for your comments! I also appreciate your link suggestion, it sounds like fun!
I know how you feel, I’ve sprained my ankles five times in the last three years (clumsiness plus unfortunate lack of ankle stability) and although I never had to deal with your particular problem, I did have a lot of trouble because I HATE not being able to do things. So, from someone who knows the pain, I hope you recover quickly! :)