And while I'm being grumpy...

Why do people edit out the name of people and companies producing spanko images and thus deny them advertising?  Most bloggers freely use images that someone else has paid money and spent their time to produce, and in many cases the subject of the image has also endured some discomfort in that production.  If I use an image taken directly from a producer I try to ensure I only use images that they have given away for free as a sample of their work - that doesn't seem unreasonable as it may drive viewers to look at their site and very occasionally may actually generate income for them.  Of course, if they were to request me to remove one of their images I would still do so (although I've never had such a request yet).  If I use an image which doesn't have the name of the producer on it but I know who the producer is, I try to give credit.  But what do people gain from taking an image bearing the producers name and edit it to try to remove that name?  It doesn't mean you're not infringing their copyright - just depriving them of recognition for the work that went into producing it.  The only time I ever edit out a name on an image is when I know someone is claiming credit for someone else's work - perhaps after cropping the image to hide the name of the actual producer.

Some cases of name editing are also, spectacularly bad!

A very badly edited image from Punished Brats

An attempt to crop out the name but didn't quite managed to remove the top of the capital S from Dreams of Spanking - and even without that error, the face and bottom are fairly easy to identify (perhaps it's the bottom that needs cropping rather than the image...).

Another great image - I wonder where it came from?  Oh look, bottom right corner - looks as if it's from Punished Brats again!

It's not surprising that some producers have taken to putting their credits right across the middle of the image but it's a shame we have to see it spoiled like that.

Tumblr moans

Clearly the majority of blogs I have links for are on Tumblr.  There are also some on Wordpress and some here on Blogger and a small number privately hosted.  I tried Wordpress and found it hard to manage.  Tumblr, 'though, really annoys me.

First most "spanking" blogs have a huge proportion of non-spanking related material.  I notice that Secret Spanko has just returned to blogger for just that reason.  (Note that although I do post mainly on spanking and and many links are for spankings sites, I don't actually title my site as a spanking blog and I do feature some links to BDSM, candid nudity etc).

Second, it seems technically flawed.  Roughly speaking when I click on the blog name in my Blogroll, about a quarter of the time it tells me the blog isn't available right now (not just that it might contain sensitive material - I've got the hang of that one by logging myself into Tumblr first and keeping that open in a separate tab) but if I click on the name of the most recent post it opens perfectly fine and if they've set up an archive option that works fine as well.  So it is available - just unfriendly.

Most of all 'though I dislike to culture that promotes reblogging things all the time.  If you've ever checked out the links in my Blogroll you'll know that there's quite a lot and I do spend some time (too much) browsing them.  If I scan through two or three posts and then spot something that looks familiar I tend to assume I've already seen blogposts on that site prior to that date.  But in fact, the frantic reblogging of anything good often means I then see that same image on several more sites and therefore I don't know if I might have missed something. One day last week I saw three posts on one site and the next blog I looked at had the same three posts in the same order. Of course a lot of the material I post has been on other blogs, but usually it's from some time ago and I think people might not have seen it if they haven't been around for long or they might just like reminding.  Or I repackage it around a particular theme.  I think just filling a blog with the images you've just seen someone else post is causing the blogging community (and in this case specifically, the spanko blogging community) to become very bloated.

Am I just becoming grumpy in my old age?

Favourite for July

Not the sexiest spanking by a long way but very believable.  I love the way she's trying to bend away from the smack she's about to get as if that will somehow make it sting less.  It looks as if he's going to have a bit of a battle on his hands and that long clingy dress is going to be difficult to deal with if he's planning on putting her over his knee for a much deserved spanking.  It will be important to make the punishment harder and longer as a result so that he can stress to her that such clothing is not acceptable in the future.

Favourite for June

It's always encouraging to see the vast number of images out on the web of birthday spankings and the like - it's great that so many vanilla girls get a taste of spanking which they might otherwise forgo given the direction of modern parenting.  You have to just hope that a few of them (well actually, I'd prefer it to be a lot of them or even all of them!) get a taste for it and want to carry on with spanking and being spanked in their adult years.

Of course a lot of them seem to start out thinking it's all a huge laugh and then discover that spankings are meant to hurt.  I suspect this image, dating from an earlier era, might well fall into that category.  An attractive young woman laughing for the camera and adopting an appropriate pose, but within a few moments of this image she may have discovered how much a wooden paddle can sting.

Spanks for the Memories

I don't think I really need to explain this one.  I'm just thinking of their former neighbours seeing it and saying "Ah so that was what that noise was..."

Favourite for May

I do appreciate that many readers of this blog want to see bare bottoms but I know I'm not alone in enjoying more realistic scenes as well.  This scene must have happened so many times in schools in Scotland, parts of the Midlands, and North East England in particular.  Love some of the attention to detail such as the way the girl is slightly hunched as if bracing herself for what she knows is going to be a very painful experience in a few short moments.  Perhaps she's been told off during class and then told to stay back at the end so she's had a lot of time to think about what was to come.  Alternatively, perhaps the rest of her class are sat behind her watching - glad it's not them this time.

Regretting modern times

I'm sure that quite a number of readers of this blog would feel, as I do, that British schools in the 1950's and 1960's would have been far better placed to deal appropriately with this kind of classroom misbehaviour than they are today.

Nicely placed!

Some phrases that get used in the CP world rather irritate me - for example when someone is described as having a "naughty bottom" (I rather doubt that the bottom is what has been naughty although it may well be the appropriate target for someone to deal with the naughty behaviour).

However, this one I really like and I've never come across it before.

I have little doubt that Frances and Mary fully deserve (at least) two 'licks' apiece but I really like the expression of them being 'nicely placed' - presumably that being squarely across the seat of their panties.

I came across the image completely out of context - if anyone can shed any light on the origin and the backstory I would be very grateful.

Favourite for April

(I thought this was appropriate since I'm slightly 'late' publishing it!)

I imagine what's happened here is a boyfriend/girlfriend fooling about in a deserted churchyard, he smacks her bottom a few times and, for a laugh, she decides to show off the resulting red marks for the camera.  To me this is a grave offence (groan!) - if I was the church warden I'd treat such disrespect by making her stay bent over the headstone for six of the best so she'd have some longer lasting marks to remember the occasion by.

Just the recipe for a sunny summer's day (for those who can remember what those are like).

Childhood memories

I had a very brief opportunity yesterday to look at a book with people sharing memories of their childhood - managed to get a quick copy of this page with my iPhone.