Happy 8th Birthday, The Masque! Blogspot seems to think I want to type in Hindo today - so we'll just roll with that and say that it's pretty.
I'm having a moment here। Actually, a pretty big moment। Today is the official birthday of TheMasque. It was Jan. 12, 2001 that I bought the domain name after months of wibbeling and worrying and planning and wringing my hands. Eight years ago, I made the commitment to myself to make porn pretty. In all reality, eight years ago, "pretty" was a fairly novel concept when it came to porn. It was mostly bouncing breasts and nude buttocks flying about. Story wise, there was Kristen's and Lit and neither one made me very happy. We started out small. *Really small. There was a handful of my poetry, Caught's writing collection and anything that I could beg, trade or wheedle from friends and strangers. There wasn't even a gallery until almost a year later when my partner and I took hundreds of photos of yours truly to start it out, sifting them down to about 30 pictures that didn't suck. (The way I saw it, no one was going to give me naked pictures for public view unless I was willing to put up or shut up.) I did a LOT of personal networking back then, asking friends who thought I was nuts, to post their secret stories. I was always so amazed when they actually did - and I have always been grateful for those folks who, one at a time, made me believe that I could help make sex pretty. Even my mom got in on the act, editing the room description text for each section - a few of them made her swallow her tongue and mourn over the loss of her little girl.
Every single page was a handmade creation। I made masks to decorate each section, fifteen in all. That was the beginning of my *other venture in professional mask making – a totally different story. Every story was added by hand, every page was coded by hand. Stories came into my email and I posted them after creating the page and making sure it was linked in properly. Thank goodness for the system we have now. I could NEVER do ever do everything by hand again.
So many people have worked so hard to make The Masque an amazing place to read, relax and play। Thank you all, so very, very much for your help and your friendship, your time and your energy. Thank you.
Today, I celebrate, with a lot of wonder, eight really neat years. Yesterday, I renewed the domain name for 10 more years. Ladies and gentlemen, we ARE here to stay.
I'm having a moment here। Actually, a pretty big moment। Today is the official birthday of TheMasque. It was Jan. 12, 2001 that I bought the domain name after months of wibbeling and worrying and planning and wringing my hands. Eight years ago, I made the commitment to myself to make porn pretty. In all reality, eight years ago, "pretty" was a fairly novel concept when it came to porn. It was mostly bouncing breasts and nude buttocks flying about. Story wise, there was Kristen's and Lit and neither one made me very happy. We started out small. *Really small. There was a handful of my poetry, Caught's writing collection and anything that I could beg, trade or wheedle from friends and strangers. There wasn't even a gallery until almost a year later when my partner and I took hundreds of photos of yours truly to start it out, sifting them down to about 30 pictures that didn't suck. (The way I saw it, no one was going to give me naked pictures for public view unless I was willing to put up or shut up.) I did a LOT of personal networking back then, asking friends who thought I was nuts, to post their secret stories. I was always so amazed when they actually did - and I have always been grateful for those folks who, one at a time, made me believe that I could help make sex pretty. Even my mom got in on the act, editing the room description text for each section - a few of them made her swallow her tongue and mourn over the loss of her little girl.
Every single page was a handmade creation। I made masks to decorate each section, fifteen in all. That was the beginning of my *other venture in professional mask making – a totally different story. Every story was added by hand, every page was coded by hand. Stories came into my email and I posted them after creating the page and making sure it was linked in properly. Thank goodness for the system we have now. I could NEVER do ever do everything by hand again.
So many people have worked so hard to make The Masque an amazing place to read, relax and play। Thank you all, so very, very much for your help and your friendship, your time and your energy. Thank you.
Today, I celebrate, with a lot of wonder, eight really neat years. Yesterday, I renewed the domain name for 10 more years. Ladies and gentlemen, we ARE here to stay.
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