Miss Berkeley's Voyage

[Jon Smithie]

Hi Jon Smithie, its a great idea! I'm also a big fan of "Miss Berkeley's Voyage", and to know there will be a second part is just amazing!

BTW, will you get a chance to finish "Slavery 101"? The plot in this story is awesome! really hard to find on other stories.

Wow, Tox, what a memory you have! I wrote "Slavery 101" years ago! No, sorry to say, I probably never will write a part two to that. But thanks for the encouragement, it really motivates me to know that at least one person read a previous story of mine, and that a story concerning "Mina Berkeley's Voyage" might be read and enjoyed by others as well. No guarantees, but maybe I'll stop fantasizing about it and actually start writing it (LOL)!

 

[toxidomaskjr]

Seriously Jon, "Slavery 101" is incredible. A story where beautiful nice young women are pretending or enacting cruel situations from the past and getting stuck on that situation FOR REAL!! Wow! it's just amazing.

 

[Jon Smithie]

Seriously Jon, "Slavery 101" is incredible. A story where beautiful nice young women are pretending or enacting cruel situations from the past and getting stuck on that situation FOR REAL!! Wow! it's just amazing.

Thanks, Tox. You've motivated me so much I've started working on "Mina Berkeley's Voyage." I'm a very slow writer so it might take a while. I plan to post it in parts, so maybe that will keep me going. Yeah, I love the theme you mention above about beautiful, nice young women enacting cruel situations from the past and getting stuck in them. FYI I wrote another story with that theme called ". . . And The Truth Shall Set You Free." It's on the Rape, Pillage and Plunder website, which is a paysite. Unfortunately I didn't save a copy for myself, otherwise I would post it here.

 

[toxidomaskjr]

Thats great news Jon!, will be waiting patienly to read more from you.

 

[toxidomaskjr]

Jon, one last question before your new story "Mina Berkeley's Voyage" comes out:

Could you recommend authors with similar plots to "Slavery 101"?

 

[Jon Smithie]

I've written the first (very short) chapter of "Mina Berkeley's Voyage." I'll post it asap. Unfortunately the word processor app I use apparently isn't supported on this site, so I suspect I'll have to type it directly to the thread. I should have it up in a day or two.

In answer to your question above, Tox, I can't think of any stories that really pushed my buttons with a plot similar to "Slavery 101," that is, of a individual or group trying to reenact an aspect of slavery in a historically accurate way. But of course it depends on how similar you mean. Gagged Utopia has some good stories on the general theme of an interested but reluctant person getting in over her head. "Just Browsing," "Lost At Sea," "Fashion Faux Pas," and "The Fifth Photograph," all come to mind. I liked "Tracey's Medieval Humiliation" too. I believe that's on Indian Outlaw's Stripping Board (?)

 

[Madiosi]

I've written the first (very short) chapter of "Mina Berkeley's Voyage." I'll post it asap. Unfortunately the word processor app I use apparently isn't supported on this site, so I suspect I'll have to type it directly to the thread. I should have it up in a day or two.

In answer to your question above, Tox, I can't think of any stories that really pushed my buttons with a plot similar to "Slavery 101," that is, of a individual or group trying to reenact an aspect of slavery in a historically accurate way. But of course it depends on how similar you mean. Gagged Utopia has some good stories on the general theme of an interested but reluctant person getting in over her head. "Just Browsing," "Lost At Sea," "Fashion Faux Pas," and "The Fifth Photograph," all come to mind. I liked "Tracey's Medieval Humiliation" too. I believe that's on Indian Outlaw's Stripping Board (?)

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[toxidomaskjr]

In answer to your question above, Tox, I can't think of any stories that really pushed my buttons with a plot similar to "Slavery 101," that is, of a individual or group trying to reenact an aspect of slavery in a historically accurate way. But of course it depends on how similar you mean. Gagged Utopia has some good stories on the general theme of an interested but reluctant person getting in over her head. "Just Browsing," "Lost At Sea," "Fashion Faux Pas," and "The Fifth Photograph," all come to mind. I liked "Tracey's Medieval Humiliation" too. I believe that's on Indian Outlaw's Stripping Board (?)

Thank you very much Jon! Now please concentrate on "Mina Berkeley's Voyage"

 

[King Diocletian]

After a lot of work from Kindinov, I now have an illustrated version of the story.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

After a lot of work from Kindinov, I now have an illustrated version of the story.

Excellent Illustrations! Kindinov is to be congratulated.

Evocative and sugesstive while leaving the viewer ti fill in the rest from his imagination. Many other illustrations are jarring or force you to see teh secen thier way. These are very very good.

Any chance for similar for either SOE The student or for Scapegoat? I can dream

 

[toxidomaskjr]

This story really needed to be honored with that set of illustrations. Excellent job to the both of you!

 

[King Diocletian]

Excellent Illustrations! Kindinov is to be congratulated.

Evocative and sugesstive while leaving the viewer ti fill in the rest from his imagination. Many other illustrations are jarring or force you to see teh secen thier way. These are very very good.

Any chance for similar for either SOE The student or for Scapegoat? I can dream

Yes, to both. SOE The Student very soon, the Scapegoat in a few weeks.

 

[Jon Smithie]

Yes, to both. SOE The Student very soon, the Scapegoat in a few weeks.

Excellent! I always look forward to another King Diocletian story. Two would be awesome.

 

[Fossy]

I discovered the writing of King Diocletian (@King Diocletian) many years ago when I read “Miss Berkeley’s Voyage” on Ralphus, and recall being very much struck by the context, the detail and the whole ‘believability’ of the story, and I know that his inspiration for Elizabeth was the gorgeous Keira Knightly (now clearly evident through the excellent illustrations that adorn the tale). It was that same story which first attracted me to the wonderful site, CruxForums, when I saw the sequel to “Miss Berekley’s Voyage” in a search result.

Recently, Via this very thread, I came across his work ‘Scapegoat’ and have been equally moved by it. The whole context, the detail, each stroke of the scourging being described and the beauty inherent to the ‘heroine’, makes for a stunning mix. I have read and re-read it many times this past week.

I am not certain who he had in mind to play the part of Katherine, but given the performance of Miss Knightly in “… Voyage …” I suspect that he re-contracted her in for this epic too.

With that in mind, I have taken the liberty (and I really hope that he nor anyone else, minds) of creating the attached set of picture manipulations depicting scenes from ‘Scapegoat’ starring Miss Knightly. Once again, her performance was first class. I have let Diocletian know directly that I have done this, and would be delighted if you let me know what you think of them. Hopefully you will think the set is an apt reflection of another superb story.

 

[lithos1]

Russian illustrator Kindinov began to draw the story, as he previously did with "Miss Berkeley's Voyage", but he seems to have stopped it, as you can see here:

Диоклетиан. Козел отпущения

Что может быть сладостнее для плебса, чем видеть как юную девственницу, римлянку, на глазах у толпы с позором волокут на казнь?

kindinov.com

 

[joshua lawrence]

After a lot of work from Kindinov, I now have an illustrated version of the story.

Thank you so much!!!!! I just could not find it.