Forrest Black and Amelia G photographed Szandora, the most devilish girl on their impressive talent roster, in honor of Halloween. The heir to the Church of Satan actually supplied the pumpkin. Happy Halloween indeed.

Tomorrow it will become clear why this needed defining today.

The Church of Satan is a philosophical/cultural organization which draws its name from the Islamic-Christian concept of Satan, and claims that every Man and Woman is their own God and responsible for their own destiny (”Satan” is used as a symbol and metaphor rather than as an actual deity).

It was established in San Francisco in 1966 by Anton Szandor LaVey, who was the Church’s High Priest until his death in 1997. People who practice this belief are called “Satanists”.

The Church of Satan does not have or desire tax-exempt status. As part of what it refers to as Pentagonal Revisionism the Church is actively working towards taxation of all Churches, and tries to put forth a policy of “responsibility to the responsible”. It neither solicits membership, nor offers a set course of degrees, and it limits the active participation of members to those members over 18 years of age, unless parental consent is given. Members are expected to follow the laws and statutes of their country and municipality.

Since the death of Anton Szandor LaVey, Peter H. Gilmore has been appointed to his current position as High Priest of the Church. The ‘headquarters’ have also since moved to New York City.

Many prominent figures have at one time or another been associated with the Church of Satan, including musicians Marilyn Manson, Boyd Rice and Marc Almond and journalist Michael Moynihan. (via Wikipedia)

Not all that Trek looking, except for the uniforms, but if you ever had a thing for Lt Uhura, you probably want to check this out.

BarelyEvil.com is another impressive production from the people at Blue Blood. Do they ever sleep over there? Blue Blood’s BarelyEvil.com has a somewhat more punk and naughty bent than sister site GothicSluts.com. Forrest Black edits BarelyEvil.com and Amelia G edits GothicSluts.com so perhaps BarelyEvil.com has more of a male perspective. It can’t be too male though because I love love love this site. The photography is excellent as always and the shoots are so creative. I particularly enjoy their ongoing devil girl series.

If you find chainmail and garb as hot as I do, then you will be all over this site. I get the impression that the photo sets are shot in Europe, so you won’t have to worry about seeing one of your SCA buddies and feeling all weird. Well, unless you are European. Damn this global internet. Lot of outdoor hardcore and indoor light bondage and discipline. The couples look like they are having fun and the look of the models is very approachable. Girl Knights is really my kind of thing in a big way.

In honor of the season, another week has passed, and yet another pale skinned stunner from Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com can be viewed here. This languid beauty would move anyone with a sense of art and, as I understand it, this Blue Blood girl is quite the painter and illustrator too.

The Elmendorf Creature is an alleged chupacabra corpse, found by a man in San Antonio, Texas. It was a small hairless dog-ike creature, apparently the cause of the deaths of livestock who all mysteriously bore two puncture marks on their necks, similar to those a vampire would inflict. No one has determined exactly what the creature was, but sightings of similar creatures have been reported throughout the USA and many South American countries.

An interesting note for skeptics, the remains of this creature have been and are being studied by scientist, and still there is no explanation. This could possibly be a new species, a variant of a known species, or possibly an animal once thought extinct. (via Wikipedia)

The legend of El Chupacabras, as it was known in Spanish, started to grow in about 1992, when Puerto Rican newspapers El Vocero and El Nuevo Dia began reporting the killings of many different types of animals, such as birds, horses, and, as its name implies, goats. While at first it was suspected that the killings were done randomly by some members of a satanic cult, eventually these killings spread around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life. The killings had one pattern in common: Each of the animals found dead had two punctured holes around their necks.

Some witnesses reported seeing a small, dark or green figure around the areas of the killings, giving police and news reporters the feeling that the chupacabras could, in fact, be an extra-terrestrial figure.

Soon after the animal deaths in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths began being reported in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, the United States and most notably, Mexico. Both in Puerto Rico and Mexico, El Chupacabras gained urban legend status. Chupacabra stories began to be released several times at American and Hispanic newscasts across the United States, and chupacabra merchandise, such as t-shirts and baseball hats, were sold.

It is possible that the animal deaths could have been produced by satanic worshippers or by disease. However, neither of those two theories were ever proven. No hard evidence of the deaths being caused by an extra-terrestrial or by a strange animal ever surfaced either, however.

Certain South American rain forest natives believe in “mosquito-man”, a mythical creature of their folklore that pre-dates modern chupacabra sightings. The “mosquito-man” sucks the blood from animals through his long nose, like a big mosquito. Some say mosquito-man and chupacabra are the same.

In July of 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas killed a hairless, dog-like creature (the Elmendorf Creature) that was attacking his livestock. As of yet, no one has been able to determine just what the creature is with testing of the bones continuing at a university in California. In October of 2004 another animal was killed by a rancher in the same region, closely resembling the Elmendorf Creature. A third was spotted by the zoologist as she was on her way to identify the dead one. (via Wikipedia)

Although women had always been represented among science fiction writers (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been called the first science fiction novel), it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joanna Russ began to consciously explore feminist themes in works such as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Female Man. WisCon, the world’s only feminist science fiction convention and conference, is a four-day event held every Memorial Day weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. (via Wikipedia)

This little blonde Trekkie is cute as a button but much nakeder than the button analogy would imply.

Nothing turns me on so much as a pale lean man in a good suit of armor. Preferably including some nice chainmail pieces. Long hair optional. There is no link to go with this. I just thought it bore mentioning.

The Chupacabra is a creature that resembles a living gargoyle said to exist in parts of Latin America, mostly Mexico and on the island of Puerto Rico. The Chupacabra has also been sighted by multiple eye-witnesses in Calaveras County, California. Reports say that the creature might have first appeared during the early to middle 1990s, harming animals of different species.

Translated literally from Spanish as “goat-sucker” (compare with chotacabras, the nightjar), the chupacabra is said to attack small livestock and drink their blood. Descriptions of this creature vary, and no one has produced undisputable evidence of its existence.

Some believe the chupacabra myth is a product of “mass hysteria” while others feel this is a weak explanation for the real dead animals resulting from the creature’s unexplained attacks. There are many eye-witness accounts dating back many years. (via Wikipedia)

In honor of the season, another week has passed, and yet another vampiric beauty from Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com can be viewed here. I’m going to restrain myself from all the double-entendres relating to bones, boning, boners, etc. that this particular series evokes despite its eerie beauty and lovely setting of old world elegance.

A damsel in distress is a stock character, almost inevitably a young, nubile woman, who has been placed in a dire predicament by a villain or a monster and who requires a hero to dash to her rescue.

Damsels in distress are almost inevitably tied up or chained; in the old melodramas and serials they would then be thrown onto railroad tracks or tied onto logs headed into a sawmill.

The damsel in distress is a popular stock character, perhaps in large measure because her predicaments almost always have more than a whiff of BDSM fantasy about them. The helplessness of these damsels, who are almost always foolish and ineffectual to the point of cluelessness, and their need for male heroes to rescue them, has made the stereotype the target of feminist criticism.

Damsels in distress are not used nearly as often as they were previously, and current depictions of the stock character usually play the role as camp. The stock character did undergo a revival of sorts in Halloween, Friday the 13th, and other slasher films of the 1980s. Here, though, the stock character was played with a twist: there were several young women characters, most of whom were killed by the serial killer villain, but one survived to defeat him. The young woman survivor herself became a stock character counterpart to the damsel in distress, as embodied in characters such as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series. Sarah Connor, a damsel in distress in The Terminator, became the effective survivor type in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Damsel in Distress is the title of a book by P. G. Wodehouse and a motion picture that starred Fred Astaire. (via Wikipedia)

Okay, this site is just out of control. It is like a mad scientists wet dream. The well-appointed dungeon has every imaginable sort of dunking tank, pool, water wheel, water gun, and nonspecific water squirting device anyone could ever fantasize. Plus they take field trips to the beach and lakeside. If you ever wondered what it would be like to be tormented to orgasm using evil water-powered implements, a site exists to give you an idea what it would be like. The models are quite varied in body type and style and appearance. This is the sort of thing the internet was probably invented to bring to mankind or at least it was predictable that this is what the internet ultimately would be used for. Kind of like the atom bomb only with forced orgasms instead of the more overt destruction of civilization as we know it.

Harlan Ellison is one of my favorite authors. He mixed genres and included mature themes in his work when it was truly a struggle to do so. In fact, he used a pseudonym to indicate to fans when his efforts might have been perverted and not in the good way.

Ellison has on occasion used the pseudonym “Cordwainer Bird” to alert members of the public to situations in which he feels his creative contribution to a project has been mangled beyond repair by others, typically Hollywood producers or studios. (See, e.g., Alan Smithee.) The “Cordwainer Bird” moniker is a tribute to fellow SF writer Paul M. A. Linebarger, better known by his pen name, Cordwainer Smith. The origin of the word “Cordwainer” is shoemaker (from working with cordovan leather for shoes). The term used by Linebarger was meant to imply the industriousness of the pulp author. Ellison has said, in interviews and in his writing, that his version of the pseudonym was meant to mean “a shoemaker for birds.” Since he has used the pseudonym mainly for works he wants to distance himself from, it seems appropriate — in that it can be understood to mean that “this work is for the birds”. Stephen King once said he thought that it meant that Ellison was giving people who mangled his work a literary version of “the bird.” (via Wikipedia)

This is not the sexiest sexy Trekker ever, but I’m glad somebody is doing Trek costume sex.

A vampire is a mythical or folkloric creature said to subsist on human or animal blood often having magical powers and the ability to transform. Usually the vampire is the corpse of a dead person, reanimated or made undead by one means or another. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as demons or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a wide variety of additional powers and character traits, extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject of folklore, cinema, and contemporary fiction.

Vampirism is the practice of drinking blood. In folklore and popular culture the term generally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly-occurring form of cannibalism. The consumption of another’s blood has been used as a tactic of psychological warfare intended to terrorize the enemy, and it can be used to reflect various spiritual beliefs.

In zoology the term vampirism is used to refer to leeches, mosquitos, mistletoe, vampire bats, and other organisms that prey upon the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to fictional animals of the same nature, including the chupacabra. (via Wikipedia)

Soft science fiction or soft SF is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on human feelings, while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws. In addition, ’science’ in soft science fiction often falls into the realm of things which current scientists consider impossible or at least highly unlikely. It is called soft science fiction by analogy to hard science fiction and because soft science fiction is often based around the ’softer’ sciences (philosophy, psychology, politics and sociology).

Soft SF is much less a defined subgenre than its counterpart, hard science fiction. It is sometimes used in a pejorative fashion when it is implied a given science fiction story is not rigerous enough in its application of science or is not ‘proper’ science fiction. Soft science fiction is also used as a synonym for New Wave science fiction.

Ray Bradbury is a good example of a Soft SF writer. In his short stories collected in R is for Rocket and The Martian Chronicles he takes common themes in Hard SF, like rocket travel or Mars colonies but focuses on the feelings evoked by these themes. (via Wikipedia)

In honor of the season, another week, another vampiric beauty from Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com can be viewed here.

There is no universally accepted definition of “Fantasy Fiction,” and furthermore, the characteristics of the form and its many overlapping sub-genres are the subject of debate among some fans and writers.

A critical characteristic is that the world feature some difference from Earth that is not a result of science or technology, but rather the result of magic or other anomalous phenomena. But, again, definitions and opinions on the proper classification differ.

As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted with science fiction and horror fiction. All three genres feature elements of the fantastic, of making radical departures from reality or radical speculations about what reality might be like, or might have been like. Some writers and critics prefer the term Speculative fiction due to the frequent crossover from one genre to another.

Further blurring the definition, some suggest there is a distinction between “Fantasy” proper as a genre, and “the fantastic,” the latter being a fantasy-like element in other fiction. (via Wikipedia)

Wow, I can’t show you very much of the picture of what The Trespasser is for on my page, but you can see it in all its explicit glory at this link. The site where this plaything is, err, demonstrated via photo sets and movies lists its vital statistics as Max RPM: 250 Watts: 250 Stroke: 4″ Strengths: Angled down nicely for missionary possition. Photogenic. Weaknesses: Not a real smooth stroke. Whether or not it is a smooth stroke, this has me thinking all sorts of high tech thoughts about my Kitchen Aid.

Am I still a good homemaker if I can recognize that that is Kitchen Aid lust?

In literature, fantasy is a form of fiction, usually novels or short stories, though fantasy role-playing games comic books and movies are also popular.

In its broadest sense, “Fantasy Fiction” covers an immense number of works by many authors, from ancient myths and legends, to some recent works embraced by mainstream literary audiences (such as Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel American Gods) and much in-between.

Perhaps the most common sub-genres of fantasy–or at least most commonly associated with the term “Fantasy”–are sword and sorcery and high fantasy, two closely related forms that typically describe tales featuring magic, brave knights, damsels in distress, and/or quests, set in a world or worlds quite different from modern-day Earth and usually inhabited by mythical creatures such as dragons and unicorns. Works by J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber and others are sometimes classified as either Sword and Sorcery or High Fantasy. (via Wikipedia)

This is basically a cute girl in a stretchy red catsuit, but let’s face it, if you saw her at a con, you’d hit it.

In practical usage, a robot is a mechanical device which performs automated tasks, either according to direct human supervision, a pre-defined program or, a set of general guidelines, using artificial intelligence techniques. These tasks either replace or enhance human work, such as in manufacturing, construction or manipulation of heavy or hazardous materials.

A robot may include a feedback-driven connection between sense and action, not under direct human control. The action may take the form of electro-magnetic motors or actuators that move an arm, open and close grips, or propel the robot. The step by step control and feedback is provided by a computer program run on either an external or embedded computer or a microcontroller. By this definition, a robot may include nearly all automated devices. (via Wikipedia)

The intruder is supposedly a nice gentle starter machine for ladies looking for a modern version of the Victorian cure for the vapors. Its vital statistics are listed as:

Volts: 90 Torque: 4.5Nm Min Stroke: 1/2″
Amps: 1.5 Ratio: 11:1 Mid Stroke: 4″
Max RPM: 350 Horsepower: 1/4 Max Stroke: 6″
Strengths: A smooth f*ck. Fully adjustable in speed and depth. Less heavy than the Hammer or Monster.
Weaknesses: At top speed, the intruder must be strapped to a massive object. Otherwise the energy of the bar jolts the entire machine.

As October is the spookyest time of the year, it is only appropriate to bring you a special gallery from Blue Blood’s GothicSluts.com for SexyFandom readers. Here is Jen Vixen in all her Halloween tattoos glory. Gothic Sluts has such amazing pinup elegance in the photography that I am always stunned by its beauty all over again, every time I log into the site. One of the only sites on the net which is truly worth the price of admission. You’ve got to have a membership during Spooktober.

It is not what you are thinking. Get your minds out of the gutter.

Hard science fiction, or hard SF, is a subgenre of science fiction characterized by an interest in scientific detail or accuracy. Many hard SF stories focus on the natural sciences and technological developments, although many others leave the technology in the background. Some authors scrupulously eschew such implausibilities as faster-than-light travel, while others accept such plot devices but nonetheless show a concern with a realistic depiction of the worlds that such a technology might make accessible.

Character development is sometimes secondary to explorations of astronomical or physical phenomena, but other times authors make the human condition forefront in the story. However a common theme of hard SF has the resolution of the plot often hinging upon a technological point. Writers attempt to have their stories consistent with known science at the time of publication. Interestingly, some hard science fiction stories are set in an alternate universe where different physical laws apply; however, in such cases the author makes use of current physics to design a universe that is at least potentially realistic.

Hard science fiction is largely a literary genre, as the complexities of physics rarely translate well to the screen. One of the notable exceptions is 2001: A Space Odyssey; however, the movie still leaves out much of the examination of the physics, computer science, and other scientific analyses present in the novel version.

Well known authors often said to be practitioners of hard SF include Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Iain M. Banks, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Egan, Michael Flynn, Robert Forward, Robert Heinlein, James P. Hogan, Nancy Kress, Larry Niven, Paul Preuss, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joan Slonczewski, Allen Steele, John Varley, Jules Verne, and Vernor Vinge. (via Wikipedia)

The name Halloween derives from the older form Hallowe’en, a contraction of “All Hallow’s Eve”, so called as it is the day before the Catholic All Saints holy day, which used to be called “All Hallows”, derived from All Hallowed Souls. Halloween was formerly also sometimes called All Saints’ Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries (along with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional northern European pagan holidays) and given a Christian reinterpretation. Halloween is also known as the Day of the Dead, and it is a day of celebration for Wiccans and other modern pagan traditions, though the holiday has lost its religious connotations among the populace at large.

In Britain in particular, the pagan Celts celebrated the Day of the Dead on Halloween. The spirits supposedly rose from the dead and, in order to attract them, food was left on the doors. To scare off the evil spirits, the Celts wore masks. When the Romans invaded the British Isles, they embellished the tradition with their own, which is the celebration of the harvest and honoring the dead. The British traditions were then passed on to the United States.

Halloween is sometimes associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the “liminal” times of the year when the spirit world can make contact with the natural world and when magic is most potent. (via Wikipedia)

Better check out this red shirt because she is sexy and you know red shirts don’t last. They are kind of like Spinal Tap drummers.

October is here and you know what that means. Tons of costumes costumes costumes. Trick or treat trick or treat trick or treat, give me something good to eat. It is the season of pumpkin pie and caramel apples and witches on broomsticks and the blackest of black cats. Cosplayers, costumers, and other fen and assorted weirdos can all feel like we fit right in this month. Viva October.