SO MUCH STUFF!

I want to start tonight's post by saying thank you to everyone who reached out to me regarding last night's post, either in comments, via email or by way of fetlife message. It turns out that I'm not the only girl who feels too big sometimes. Having a problem to which there is no solution but to change one's attitude isn't actually improved upon by knowing that one is not the only individual struggling with said issue, but there's still something incredibly wonderful about knowing that you aren't alone. When these moments come up, when I get vulnerable and explain something which I believe makes me odd and I'm met with the support of my friends and the understanding of others who struggle with similar issues, I'm reminded of why I got into the community in the first place. I remember the first day that I realized that other people were into spanking and I wasn't some kind of bizarre weirdo. It's such a good feeling that it makes me tear up a little bit. I can't say enough times how thankful I am for the family that I've made in the scene. It seems to be constantly growing, too, and I'm grateful for that, as well. One can never have too many friends, and that's a scientific fact because Hello Kitty said so.

This weekend, I got to spend a little time with a girl who was meeting other spankos in real life for the very first time. We didn't really talk about things very much, because we haven't gotten to know each other well yet and I think that we both felt some level of shyness, but it made me really happy in the heart-bits. Aside from people who I met in the Vanilla world who later turned out to be spankos (like V. and Peachy Keane), I don't think I've ever been one of the first people that someone met in the community. I'm glad that I got to be part of that. :D

Well, now that I've gotten all the heartwarming stuff out of the way, it's time to talk about all sorts of cool developments that have been happening for me as a spanking model and spanking writer. I also want to add that I hate the word "heartwarming" because it sounds like "heart worming" to me and makes me think of diseased dogs. (I swear I haven't been drinking. It's just 90 degrees in the middle of the night and we don't have air conditioning in my bedroom. -_-)

You may have noticed that I was interviewed by The Cameraman over on The Spanking View recently! Here's a snippit from the interview:

CAMERAMAN: I don’t know if you realize this or not, but your first shoot with Clare Fonda was the last time she was spanked by a female.  Can you tell us about your experiences working with Clare and what was it like to spank her and get spanked by her?

ALEX:  I knew that my shoot with Clare was one of the last spanking shoots that she did. I didn’t know that I was the last female to spank her! That’s actually very exciting to hear: I guess that can be one of my “claims to fame.” When Clare and I had discussed the shoot during the planning phases, we hadn’t talked about me spanking her. It was something that we came up with near the end of the day. I was pretty nervous about it, because I’d never done a video where I topped and I wasn’t giggling the entire time! It was a scene that had quite a bit of talking in it, as well, but I managed to get into the right headspace to make myself sound Toppy. Once I got over feeling nervous about it, spanking Clare was a lot of fun. She was very responsive, and she has such a cute bottom, I just let myself get into it and stopped worrying about doing it perfectly. I think it turned out really well!

The whole experience of working with Clare was really great. She’s such a fun person. The scenes that we were doing were really well suited to my personality as a spankee: I really do think of myself as a good girl who is sometimes just very naughty and in need of correction, so getting into that character wasn’t any work at all. I enjoyed being spanked by Clare– she gave me hard but not brutal spankings, and her scolding was awesome to hear in person. I get the impression that a lot of girls don’t like doing so many scenes in one day (we shot all the scenes pretty much back-to-back) but for me, it was pretty much a dream come true! I’d watched a bunch of Clare’s videos ever since I first got on the internet, so spending the whole day getting spanked by her was an amazing experience. 

It's me, giving Clare Fonda her last spanking from a female! 

Anyway, you should check out the rest of the interview if you haven't already, and keep up with The Spanking View. I'm very fond of The Cameraman, and I'm looking forward to working with him again this fall. :D

Next, there's the fact that a snippet from one of my posts about TASSP was featured on Spanking Blog! This was tremendously exciting for me because I've read Spanking Blog for a long time: the site is actually how I discovered what a "blog" was, and I read it before I had even received my first spanking. So, that was pretty cool and exciting for me. It made me feel very "legit" when I looked at my top traffic sources and saw that one of them was from them. "Huh? People are getting to my site from there? This isn't a list of places that I've been looking at?" If you don't already follow them, you absolutely should. I like the way that they feature snippits from other people's posts and stories, and I've followed their crumbs to lots of great stuff.

Next, I'm very pleased to announce that my essay "Sex and Spanking: A Personal Perspective" was published in Wellred Weekly's issue 9. Wellred Weekly is a great spanking publication. Real care and effort goes into the selection of the pieces, the presentation on their site and keeping a balance between the various sorts of writing and features that they include. I was really honored when I was approached to be included, and I hope that you enjoy reading issue 9. :D

Last but most certainly not least, I've got my Clips 4 Sale store up and running after months and months of it...not happening for various reasons. I have more content that I'll be uploading weekly, and I have plans to shoot plenty of brand new, exclusive content. I'll be introducing a brand new, never before seen spanking model sometime soon, too.
Now that I'm producing my own clips, I'm open to suggestions. Just drop me a line at alexinspankingland@gmail.com. :)

Well, that's all for tonight! I need to go take an ice-cold shower before I try to get myself to pass out in order to avoid heat-exhaustion.
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