The Novellas!
Getting these ebooks compiled, uploaded, and released into the world was a HUGE accomplishment of 2017. They weren’t actually written in 2017, but the publication is part of the writing process, so it definitely counts.
View From The Top on Autostraddle
While my column about topping, View From The Top, over on Autostraddle ended in the spring, there were still quite a few pieces that are notable.
- Topping While Butch: The reconciliation between being masculine and being a top, the questioning of the assumption of the power alignments and coming to my own conclusions.
- The Thing About Sadism: This one was quite controversial, and generated some of the more … colorful comments. I’m particularly proud of the writing on this.
- I’ll Take That Risk, And That Knife Play: The trust of dominance and submission, the believing that is necessary for the tension to take place.
- Where I’ve Been: The penultimate piece, a retrospective of the series but also of my topping journey.
- Where I’m Going: The finale of the series.
Cock Confidence
In addition to publishing half a dozen posts about strap-on technology & psychology, I updated the Cock Confidence page here on Sugarbutch to be a better list of ALL of the posts and reviews I’ve written in the past. It’s fun to see them all together!
- Review: Sam
- The Best Uncut Strap-ons
- The Best Double Dildos
- #SexEdPornReviews: Episode 235 of Crash Pad Series, Featuring Mr Pink and Unkle Daddy
Private journal entries
I started publishing private journal entries on Sugarbutch again in 2017. After writing private entries for almost two years for the folks on Patreon, I moved the private entries over to Sugarbutch (about 30 of them) and made them visible to the world. They’re still only readable by the folks who are part of Patreon. This has been a big focus and growing edge of my writing this year.
- The Personal Blog Is Not Dead
- “Even between the closest people infinite distances exist.” about getting married to rife this summer
- Sixteen, poem/list of all the things banging in my head
- For giving, about letting go and what forgiveness means
- Pansy, about resilience
- Morning, a dirty daddy/girl story (as opposed to a not-dirty daddy/girl story about … breaking curfews and borrowing the car?)
Guest post
My Dog by Avery Cassell is the top guest post of the year. I’ve been publishing a few things by authors I admire here and there, which I’ve liked doing … there are so many good erotica authors out there. Thanks to Avery for sharing this one.
Body Trust
I write monthly over on the Body Trust blog on a theme connected to the wheel of the year and my personal journey with spirit and connection and resilience.
- Everything Must Change, musical anthems for times of dire destruction
- Seeking: Transformation in spring, the time when things can grow anew. This has the small list of things from my notebook to do when I’m in that frenzied state
- A Magical Day, morning meditation mantras and ways to make the day not suck
- Ice portal with birds, because it’s an amazing video of an iceberg with seagulls that I took in my hometown
- “Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
One more thing: #2017bestnine
How I’ve been using Instagram and posting photos publicly has changed this year, and I mostly keep my Instagram account private, but I still really enjoy posting there. It’s kind of funny, I used to have such a huge photography habit and eye, and carry a complicated camera with me everywhere, but as smartphones have taken over my (and everyone else’s) life, I feel less inclined. I guess snapshot photography became more accessible, and I got a little less interested. But the self-portraiture used to be so valuable to me. Not sure why that’s changed exactly.
Here’s my top nine photos from 2017 over on Instagram. Come on over and follow me.
Two of the nine are (professional portrait) photos by Bill Wadman from November — I’m working on a sort of retrospective post with a lot of the photos he’s taken of me over the years. More of his work soon.
