Naked caning
Let me say at the outset that you are responsible for insuring that this design is safe for whatever use you wish to put it to. Used improperly this can cause injury. Be safe and sane, people.
Step 1: buy Amazon items B001E95R1S and B01N99XMM2. You will also want to buy 7 round-head #8 5/8" wood screws and #8 flat washers. You will need a drill with a 1/8" bit and a power screwdriver for the wood screws.
Step 2: Unroll the chair mat and lay it flat. Weight it down and leave it for a few days so that it loses its rolled up shape memory.
Step 3. Measure the top of the stool seat and cut a rectangle out of the mat about 1/2" smaller in each dimension. Try to arrange the rectangle to maximize the number of "pegs" that remain inside of it. Cut that rectangle out of the larger mat. You can do this multiple times, perhaps getting 8 or 9 stool-sized mats out of one larger mat. Use some 60 grit sandpaper to smooth the cut edges.
Step 3.5 (optional): Use some 120 grit sandpaper to ease the points on the studs if you want to moderate the severity.
Step 4: Center the mat with the stud side up on the top of the stool seat. Using the 1/8" drill, drill a pilot hole through both the mat and the seat in the very center of both. Place a washer over one of the wood screws and drive it through until it's home.
Step 5: Check that the mat is aligned and centered properly. Perform the drill and screw operation to make a figure H (so one screw in each corner, one in the center of each long side and one last one in the overall center).
Step 6: Assemble the stool as its instructions indicate.
And there you have it. The threat of just one minute on the punishment stool will put a stop to any undesirable behavior your sub/little/slave/whatever may be exhibiting. Of course, making them sit on the stool nude with their hands behind their head is highly recommended. Maximal impact would be achieved by also requiring them to not support their feet on anything.
I haven't actually done this research, but I posit that erotica is the genre that on a percentage basis has the most works that pass the Bechdel test.
To save folks looking it up, the Bechdel test requires the work to have
At least two named female characters
That have a conversation with each other
About some topic other than a man
On that score, probably the entire Lesbian section here passes, if nothing else.
I've taken this a number of times in the past, and the results are never a surprise:
== Results from bdsmtest.org ==
100% Sadist
100% Dominant
96% Master/Mistress
90% Voyeur
86% Daddy/Mommy
77% Rigger
72% Owner
58% Brat tamer
49% Degrader
41% Exhibitionist
40% Experimentalist
28% Non-monogamist
26% Vanilla
7% Primal (Hunter)
5% Ageplayer
0% Primal (Prey)
0% Pet
0% Rope bunny
0% Brat
0% Slave
0% Submissive
0% Switch
0% Masochist
0% Boy/Girl
0% Degradee
Quote by deviantsusieI tend to write in 3rd person but tend to write it as if it was from the main character’s perspective. In the 6 chapters of Charlotte Sometimes, the reader never leaves Charlotte so we don’t know anything else going on in the world unless observed by or told to Charlotte.
This is an excellent point. It's a modern technique. It is called the "unreliable narrator" and contrasts with the "omniscient narrator," which has been the norm for most of the history of creative writing. An unreliable narrator reports facts from the perspective of the protagonist. When he reports on the mindset of other characters, it is only his inference of what that mindset is, and it may be incorrect. An omniscient narrator is effectively the local God in the world of the story and always tells the truth (in the sense that he says what the author wants you to believe). He knows precisely the mindset of everyone in the story. You can tell a story with multiple unreliable narrators, in which case you wind up with something like Rashomon, where you can see the same events differently through different characters' eyes. Rashomon with an omniscient narrator would have been little different than an episode of Perry Mason.