Getting better...

Well, I'm starting to feel a lot better and I'm finally getting back to work, which is great..

Anyway, in my boredom, I took heed to some of the suggestions made about a week ago and added thumbnails of the videos near where you can buy them over on the right. Hope that helps as a visual aid for you guys.

As far as fetish related stuff... nothing much has happened lately. I mean, I was sick, so that kind of killed the latex lovin' side of me.
But, as I'm feeling better, I'm preparing to take some more pictures and videos. I've already got some stuff in mind of what I am going to shoot, so it'll be more of an experiment in making a rather simple and perhaps mildly mundane one-person narrative than anything else.
I'm also expecting that it'll be difficult to keep my mask looking good and realistic. With the femskin, it now seems like my body is state-of-the-art while my head is a little outdated... So I'll have to figure something out to do with my appearance... although.... I've gotten so attached to my foam-rubber face!! If I change my mask, I just wouldn't feel like Anima anymore!
=(

I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

clearing my head...

I'll start by answering a few questions about the femskin (from teejay).

1. how much of you does it cover and how anatomically correct is it?

It's made like a leotard; it covers from my ankles up to the base of my neck and is sleeveless.
It's anatomically correct in that it has molded/painted nipples and a clitoral area, but I didn't spring for the anal attachment.. none of which I can post pictures of up here.
=P

2. from pictures i saw previously, the breasts looked a bit funky and a bit unnatural. do they actually stretch out enough to allow for larger breast forms?

They are pretty good in that they're fairly resistant to the 'uniboob' effect, however they're really meant to be worn with breast forms that are about C-cups. If you go any larger, then you will get some definite uniboobage.

3. is it comfortable to wear or is it uncomfortably tight?

It is pretty comfortable and stretches fairly easily. The main problem I have with it is that it's well.. fragile. I'm afraid that when I sit down I'll create permanent scrapes and cuts in it, which I've already done by wearing tight clothes over it. I also suspect that it would be VERY easy to tear, not to say that I have done that yet. But there are portions of the suit that are extremely thin and I can see easy tearing potential in the future.

Personal update:
So I'm feeling a little better, getting over my illness, but still not fully back. I'm hoping that I can get back to work in the next few days, but I'll have to see. I just started eating solid foods again this afternoon, so I don't want to get too far ahead of myself.
It's kind of a downer, since I was getting so heavily into masking/CDing again, then upon getting ill I completely regressed into not thinking about anything fetish related... but I'll see how things go once I fully recover.

I'm also beginning to feel like I'm becoming a salesman in thinking about new videos/photos to take, how to shoot them, how to present them to you guys. Trying to manage/streamline my content and considering ways of getting the media to you all without being too intrusive. Considering strategies, etc, etc.
So in short, it's getting on my nerves a bit, especially because I don't want this site becoming a business, I want it to remain the same as it has. So ANYWAY, here's another pic I took semi-recently

Enjoy!
;p

Sick

Hey everyone...
shortly after posting the other day I came down with a wicked case of food poisoning.
Even now I'm not feeling well, but I've been running a fever and puking every hour on the hour... I've left my computer on and every time I'd make a sale I'd hear this "ding" sound, which actually woke me a couple times.

The previous videos up there I've taken over the past couple years just for the fun of it, however now that I realize that there is a market for it I plan on taking them more seriously. So as a result I've contacted a friend of mine about helping me film some more. Which'll be great, because it'll make it possible to achieve more dynamic shots.
Anyway, I'm thinking of ideas of things to shoot and once I start feeling better and my friend has some time I'll start taking new videos.. which should be pretty soon.

Anyway, while still feeling crappy I slapped together this previews video for you guys, just to give you all an idea of what I'm offering. However, some of the preview videos don't show very much, due do their nature and the fact that this video is publicly viewable:

Change can be good.

Hi everyone, I'm gonna start with something I know most of you will appreciate.Yes... it's a femskin!

Having said that. It wasn't cheap! and I'm not exactly a millionaire with thousands of dollars to be throwing around, regardless of the fact that I did this one time.
After I basically cleared out my savings on a splurge of interest I realized that this fetish is getting more expensive than I ever anticipated... also, it's one of the new, seamless, translucent ones.
I figured I'd go top of the line as long as I was shelling out the cash.

I got the femskin a few weeks ago, but wanted to wait on making it public that I had it. The reason being, 1) I didn't want to give an inaccurate description of the item due to the excitement of getting something new and expensive 2) I've been thinking about making a change as to how I engage this site and my fetish to some extent.

So as far as my first reason..
If anybody has any questions about the femskin, feel free to ask and I'll be happy to answer them in my next post.

As far as my second reason, here is the part when I talk about how things are going to change for me and to some extent, this site.
In the past few months I've been buying lots more latex and fetish attire than usual, topping it off with the femskin. Previously I wanted to be able to make some sort of revenue from my blog, but at the same time I don't want to step on anyones toes by creating a pay-site.

The first way I tried to go about this was creating a donations button. I was hoping that some of you would be nice enough to drop me some change or maybe even a dollar or two for all my effort in making my rubbered up antics public, but no one did. However, I know if I were in your shoes I wouldn't have donated either, because regardless of donating or not, it wouldn't necessarily change the content of the site, therefore there was no REAL reason to donate, even though I did say that all the proceeds would go into me getting more rubber that would be displayed on the site... but again, if I were in your shoes, I'd rather have my money going into my own fetish rather than someone else's.

The second way was through advertisements and search bars.
Granted, this method has worked, but pays out about a hundred dollars every 2 years. Now, it's not as though I'm masking and cross dressing in order to make money, but I certainly have realized that it's not a cheap habit to keep up.

So this leaves me to the third way I am going to try to generate some revenue.
But before I get into the specifics I want to start off by saying that I gave this a lot of thought and tried to keep you, the viewers, in mind when doing this.

The obvious option was to go to the pay-site setup, meaning that in order to see my content you would need to pay a weekly/monthly fee to gain access to it. However, I personally don't belong to any pay-sites largely because I hate the idea of giving my credit info to some private site with an auto-renew policy all designed to sneakily separate me from my money. I also hate having to sign up anywhere, especially non-official sites that will just distribute my e-mail address to various parties ultimately ending in my in-box getting filled with spam.

The next option was to set up an account on some site where I could host my media and in order to download the media you, the viewer, would need to also make an account at the same site and pay a small fee in order to view the content on a pay-per-view basis.
I did like this idea because it didn't call for a weekly/monthly subscription on the part of the viewer. However, I didn't like it because it would be a pain in the butt for you guys to sign up at some obscure site and pay for every view/access.

So now, after much consideration I have finally come to a conclusion.
I have signed up with a site that works directly with pay-pal. I have inserted purchasable content on the bar to the right as you should all be able to plainly see. If you are interested in downloading any of this content, all you need is a pay-pal account (which is a completely reputable money handling site and any of you who have ever used eBay should be quite familiar with it).

All you have to do is click the "Buy Now" button, log into your pay-pal account, pay $1.50 (with no hidden fees or obligations), and you get to immediately download the content directly onto your computer, which means it's not pay-per-view, but rather you can view it as many times as you like. Also, this whole process should take under a minute.
It was the easiest option I could come up with and honestly, I can't think of any other method that would be easier without being free of course =P

So.. I've tried lots of methods to make some sort of revenue to pay off some percentage of my fetish related purchases, but nothing has worked.
And I think this way is completely reasonable. I'm only asking $1.50 in return for premium content of which is the final product of thousands of dollars of purchases on my part... Yes, Thousands of dollars.
So for the same price as a snapple, soda or less than a subway ride, cookie, crappy sandwich, or cup of coffee you can download a years worth of photos or an amazingly rare type of video... Oh yes, there's a video of me wearing a femskin in there, perhaps the first of it's kind on the web.


In closing, this is still a free site and I intend on keeping it that way. I have merely added premium content that has required work on my part and would otherwise never have hit the net, partially because it's a pain to format & post and partially because most of it is of a mature nature and couldn't be supported on youtube or any similar public video sharing site.
So, nothing is changing in terms of my content, the only thing that is changing is that I'm offering you guys more..
and if you choose to take part, then that will only act as motivation for me to generate more and of course, any money that I do make from these pictures/videos will be going into future fetish purchases that will be featured here.

SO NOTHING IS CHANGING!!! don't worry.

First Post of 2008!

Welp, my new years was rather boring. However, I've been putting a lot of time, thought, and effort into some new updates and upcoming surprises...
Some of those surprises I'm sure you'll like, others I'm thinking you won't.

Anyway, before I get into all that fun stuff, let me just draw your attention to the upper-right corner of my blog.
D'you notice anything new?

Yup, the search bar is back. On my older blog I had one, but it wasn't very well implemented nor did it function any differently than any other search engine. However, a few days ago I was goofing around with google and found that I was able to create a custom search engine that filters for specific sites, content, etc. So the search bar you see there on the right is designed for sniffing out latex, rubber, cross dressing, masking, and all that other fun stuff.

After about 3 hours of fiddling, site gathering, and implementing I finally got it up and working.
Now, I'm not supposed to tell you to use anything on my site, but I can tell you that it's pretty neat. So don't be afraid give it a try and see how the results of my personally tuned search engine works for ya and stay tuned for other updates.

=D

boredom

So, if you all haven't noticed the new convention,
I'll usually respond to your comments via. comments. Also, I commented on the previous post, just so sheyd and kerry don't feel left out and think that I wrote a new post without addressing what they wrote.

Also, I appreciate the increase in messages.
Thanks everyone! keep 'em coming, if you want that is.

aaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I was browsing around lots of rubber shops and came across a couple pictures of a single outfit that really peaked my interest. I don't know why though.To first give credit: the outfit was made/designed by Rubber55 and the pictures and outfit can be found at http://www.rubber55.co.uk/

I've never been into bondage and straight jackets have never really been my thing, however I really love how these pictures look! I also love the simple color-scheme.
I just thought I'd share.
I hope everyone has a great new years!

longer response and a ramble

A response to TM:
Thanks about the skirt, I'm starting to polarize to extremes among expensive and cheap things, so in a simple cheap-splurge I bought some vanilla clothes. Which is kind of ironic because the stuff I bought is considered edgy (if not just goth-y) however comparative to latex it's pretty uninteresting stuff and was amazingly cheap, compared to rubber, which is pretty darn expensive as everyone reading this already knows.I'm also wearing these gloves from the same online shop that I got the skirt. I actually like these a lot. They're made of rubber and cost me like... 6 dollars or something obscenely inexpensive.

Also, about the ads, I should be able to have some control over what is displayed here, however I've been too lazy to get into the nitty-gritty with how to pick and choose which ads I want shown.
I should get on that..

Now for the ramble:
Yesterday and today I've been kind of out of it with nothing to do, so as a result I've been bumming around the internet an alarming amount, spending most of the time looking though clothing stores of both latex and vanilla varieties trying to figure out what else I might buy myself for Christmas... even though I know that I really shouldn't get anything else.

I've also been looking at lots of masking pictures and masking videos and I've noticed a few trends, most of which I've fallen victim to myself.

The main one that I've seen has been the way that many maskers look like they're gonna pop when cross dressing. What I mean by this is that lots of maskers have their corsets strung up super tight, gigantic size triple-E breasts torpedoing out of their chests, and unbelievably tight costumes cutting off their ability to breathe. As a result lots of maskers look like tightly packed sausages ready to explode, which is not really a good look.
Believe it or not, lots of the time when I mask I feel the exact same way, but I make sure to try to look relaxed, which is helped most by forcing my arms down and shoulders back to give the illusion of being comfortable. Regardless of the fact that I sometimes feel like I'm gonna blow out of my skin.

The next is that we don't know what to do or where to do it!
I see lots of pictures and videos where it's someone awkwardly standing in front of a sheet trying to either hide their home or to create the illusion of a cheap photo-shoot.
Does this sound familiar?(red pointers indicating my own use of previously mentioned sheets)
I've grown to dislike how this looks, but at the same time, have no answers as to what we should do about it or where we should go. The thing is that most pictures tell a story of sorts, but most masking pictures are just flat displays saying; "I bought these clothes, I used these methods to look female, what do you think?" However, as to how we can add 'stories' to our pictures, I'm still unsure.

I know that many of us have tried to change the settings where we mask and rubber up, but lots of the time it still seems awkward to be totally covered in latex out in the woods or near picturesque locations or even in public areas and fetish parties. So I don't know what to do about the settings of our pictures.

Additionally, when taking these pictures, lots of the time we don't know what to do. Although, I guess we don't have to do anything, I just noticed it being especially weird when I see masking videos where someone is just standing in front of the camera or slowly rotating around or worst of all, when someone is grabbing and groping their new girl parts uncontrollably.
However, since I've started taking short movies of myself I too have realized that it's not so easy to think of something interesting to do. So I have no answers.

I do have a female friend who agreed to take pictures of/for me every so often upon request. So I'm hoping that I can get some more organic, better shots out of it.. even though I don't know what I'm going to be wearing, where I'll be having the pictures taken, or what the 'theme' will be... but I'm hoping they'll be better.

Anyway, I've got more to say, but there's no rush. So until next time...
and remember, comments are easier to leave now
=D