New Art From Invidia

Long time readers will remember Invidia, who used to have a spanking blog and art gallery, and was internet famous for her spanking art. (She also created the bent-over schoolgirl who lurks under the Spanking Blog sidebar, to replace the girl everybody hated.) Well, the good news is, Invidia has sent along several pieces of new spanking art! Here’s the first:

sepia caning art by Invidia

Note the nice thick welts — no patty-cake spankings in Invidia’s artwork!

Thanks, Invidia, and welcome back.

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Anti-Hotlink Robots: ACTIVATED

Folks, it is with chagrin, dismay, and weary disgust that I’ve finally been forced to disable hotlinking into the /spanking-pictures/ directory where all the great pictures you see on Spanking Blog are stored. I resisted for half a decade, but I’m done feeding bandwidth leeches for free.

If you experience any failure to see any pictures or graphics here at Spanking Blog, please let me know. The security robots are finicky critters, and I may have borked their instructions. I want to hear about any image-related oddities you may experience while visiting Spanking Blog.

That’s the message payload for this post.

The rest of this post is technical education for folks who are curious about the hotlinking problem or want to know what the hell I’m talking about — there is no spanking in it, so feel free to skip it.

“Hotlinking” is the practice of using, on your website, an image tag with a “src=” that points, not to your own web server, but to somebody else’s (like, say, Spanking Blog’s.) Hotlinking allows you to show images on your website that you do not have on your server — especially handy if you have some sort of web space, or are posting on a forum, where you cannot upload your own images.

Hotlinking is “bad” (for me) when it happens at high-traffic websites (because it costs me a lot of money in bandwidth) and when the people who do it don’t give me a courtesy link (because, if they did, I wouldn’t care about the bandwidth, I’d be too busy enjoying the traffic from the courtesy link).

Hotlinking is “good” (for the web and the world) when it’s done by people who don’t have their own image server space or don’t know how to upload pictures to their space. Hotlinking is also sort of built into the structure of the internet; the whole point of putting resources on the web is to share them, and hotlinking is one way to do that. Letting your images be hotlinked is a social good, if you can afford it and if people don’t abuse your generosity too badly.

Sadly, they do.

A year or two ago I put a lot of time and effort into a compromise solution — a fancy script that looked at every hotlink request and tried to decide which ones to accept (anything from a blog, for instance) and which ones to deny. There was also a middle ground, a category of hotlink requests that got satisfied, but with a “hotlinked from Spanking Blog” watermark. It was a huge pain to set this script up, it turned out to require constant tweaking, and, in the end it was pointless, because it didn’t actually reduce the number of hotlinked file requests my server had to respond to, since the script had to consider every one.

Here are some of the worst abusers in my logs for the month of August:

– Fark.com
– a Chinese-language spanking forum
– a members-only Norwegian image-sharing forum
– several “porn blogs” consisting of hotlinked pics from everywhere

There are also dozens of links from high-traffic non-adult blogs who hotlink the cute spanking pictures in my archives, but who are (presumably) reluctant to give a proper link credit because they don’t want to link to a horrifying nasty porn site like this one.

Anyway, no more. I’ve uploaded an .htaccess file to the /spanking-pictures/ directory that’s modeled after the one explained at Creating The Ultimate htaccess Anti-Hotlinking Strategy. Thanks to Perishable Press for the help.

Chained Up And Spanked

I’ve never quite understood why the BDSM sites are often so formal. Just because you’ve got her strung up with chains and spreader bars doesn’t mean you have to stand four feet away from her with an eighty-strand flogger made of finest hand-brushed buffalo hide. She’s right there, she’s not going any where, and it’s still OK to spank her with your hands, or slap her breasts, or whatever you want within her negotiated limits. Generally speaking, you can touch the submissive, it’s one of the perks.

So it was nice to find a picture from Society SM where the hand-spanking perks have not been forgotten:

regan chained and spanked

regan gets her titties spanked very hard and repeatedly

The model is Regan.

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Buying Spoons

Haron writes:

I should know better by now. I should know that when Abel says, “I need to go into a kitchen shop to replace XYZ”, he actually means “I want to go into the wooden spoon section, to get something to beat you with.” (OK, he probably wants to buy stuff to cook with too, but that motivation is definitely secondary.)

I, myself, have gotten out of more than one weary trip to the mall this way. When Bethie says “Let’s go to the mall, bounce bounce squee” I’ve been known to say “Sure, I’ve been meaning to get into the fancy kitchen store and look through their latest silicone spatulas.” Doesn’t always work, but sometimes there’s no more talk of mall visiting. “I tell you what”, says Bethie, “I need to spend a lot of time in the fabric store, you’d be bored, how about you stay here and I’ll bring us home some dinner?” Yes, dear, sounds like a fine plan to me, perhaps I’ll take a small nap while you’re gone.

On the other hand, Abel’s methods have their merits:

But yesterday I naively followed him into the shop, and stood by as he sorted through measuring jugs and other gizmos, only to see him pick up the thickest, scariest wooden spoon in the world. (Maybe it only seemed that way at the point, of course. The spoon you’re about to get smacked with is always the worst ever.) Protestations were no use: it was clear that the thing was coming home with us.

I’d forgotten all about it by the time I ran my bath this morning, – only to get a nasty surprise when Abel walked into the bathroom, spoon in hand.

“Hands on the edge of the bath,” he said snappily. The bubbles in the tub winked at me as I complied, promising me comfort after it was all over.

Maybe the mall — despite being run down and emptying out, despite its filling with blank storefronts, darker areas, and semi-resident vagrants, despite having that special rank odor of under-mopped decay that has come to typify small-town malls in twenty-first-century America — has its virtues after all. The kitchen store there sells some fine spoons and spatulas.

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Painful Wooden Spoon Spanking

As always, the spankings in the scenes from Pain Toy look like they hurt. And as any recently-spanked kitchen wench can tell you, a wooden spoon may look harmless enough, but it’s a highly efficient instrument of punishment:

painful spanking with wooden spoon

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Worried About The Cane

Here we see fresh-faced spanking model looking very worriedly at the cane she’s about to be feeling:

worried about the spanking she is about to get

I’m not sure which of the old spanking magazines this is from; I found it on Usenet.

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Spanking Jessica Alba

I’ve always thought that Jessica Alba was just about the cutest thing since puppies. This scene of her pulling down her pants before dashing toward her big brass bed in Good Luck Chuck made an otherwise forgettable movie worth the price of admission:

jessica alba stripping

Thus I quite enjoy this picture of Jessica Alba getting spanked by Sarah Michelle Geller (aka Buffy):

jessical alba getting an OTK spanking from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Of course it’s a fake, but quite a nice one. I’ve deliberately cropped and distressed the original to make it look more plausible; you can see the more-glamorous original work, by Mr. Hyde, at Chross’s Guide.

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