Hello, I am known as K-8 (aka "conscious_object"). Here I keep a fetish blog with a (skewed) sense of humor. Contained herein you will find my various random thoughts on my unique fetishes, and interesting finds culled from all over the intarweb, including art by my friends, and sometimes my own art.

Note: You do not need to have a Livejournal account in order to reply to an entry, as I have "anonymous posting" enabled. Just make sure to sign your name at the bottom, or I'll have no idea which comments are yours.

Would anyone happen to know the source of these pages?



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Someone sent me this video a familiar magic trick performed during recent Britney Spears tour. This guy not only borrows a Rudy Coby trick (switching it to a mannequin instead of a robot), but looks like he's also tried to rip off his unique hair style.

I have a few buddies who don't have a lot of readers right now, but whose LJs I think some of you could be interested in.

dreampaint: a SecondLife blog that hasn't updated in awhile, but she's also responsible for a bunch of fun art.

enchanterslj: a very new LJ that is/will be about hypnosis.

jay_petto: I post a lot of art by him.

kplay100: is particularly interested in creature TFs such as catgirl and werewolves.

lmcdosman: posts pictures of living mannequin street performers, and people frozen in place.

If you're on my friends-list and have a fetishy LJ that could use some more readers, feel free to plug it in the comments below, telling us what your blog is about.

Miner is Robocop's partner. You probably don't want to be Robocop's partner. Unless you enjoy being turned into a plant creature, or having your body switched with a techno-organic being.



The plant creature one is kind of a bummer, since she's pretty much brainwashed the entire time as well, so we never really get her reaction.

But it absolutely kills me every time I hear Robocop's delivery of, "Miner, no! Machete."

By the late '90s I was no longer waking up early enough to catch cartoons, so I had no idea they'd made another Robocop series (the first short-lived one was in '89). In this one, Robocop is more like Inspector Gadget (or Gizmoduck, if you like), being able to call on all sorts of random contraptions that come out of nowhere. It also has possibly the most ridiculous theme song of any cartoon I have ever seen, simultaneously hilarious and annoying (the lyrics are: "RO-BO COP! RO-BO COP! ROOOO-BOOOOOO COP!")

Masteroftoys alerted me to a few things of potential interest that he vaguely recalled seeing on the series. I'll a couple more to show later, but here's one them:

This is a short manga fetish story related to mannequin TF that I guess has been floating around for years. Utsumi was kind enough to do a translation, and I whipped up some relettered pages.

Flipped (reads left-to-right):



Unflipped (reads right-to-left):

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There isn't an interesting story behind it, really.

I named this "consciousobject" because I'd already been using the Yahoo Messenger handle "conscious_object" for awhile. The dash between words was removed because it put me one over the fifteen character limit.

But it wasn't a phrase I invented, just one I came across. Doing a Google search, I guess it means something in relation to law or something. But I originally came across it on a random forum I used to hang out on, that no longer exists. One day there was this thread with the title "Yo, Conscious Object!" The message inside was just this one person telling her friend to give her a call, and "conscious object" must've been some in-joke the two shared. There were never any responses to the thread, so to this day I have no idea what they meant by it, but it stuck with me. When I was trying to think of a good Yahoo name a few years later, when creating an account to chat about fetish stuff with, that's what popped in my head.

Sebastian imagines what could be a continuation to Jay Petto's Star Wars/K-8 crossover.

This is the sort of thing I'd expect more from Michel Gondry, but I suppose Spike Jonze shares similar sensibilities. It's an ad for Absolut disguised as a trailer for a fictional movie (...but aren't they all fiction?) [edit: I guess it's actually a trailer for a short film]. The female robot suit is kinda fun.



(Found by Rotwang.)

In the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, the summon creatures available to characters all have a common theme of being able to transform into a second shape that their summoner can ride. That's right, they're Transformers. But maybe with a little bit of "Beast Wars" mixed in, because only one each turns into a car and motorcycle, while the rest turn into animal type creatures.

The one getting the most attention so far is Shiva the motorcycle. I can't imagine why?



In past games Shiva has been a single character, but this time she is actually a pair of sisters -- Styria Shiva and Nix Shiva -- who can combine to become a motorcycle.



There's even an action figure already.

But I tell you, this is an example of an instance where I feel conflicted. On the one hand, I love seeing different takes on the idea of human motorcycle. But on the other hand, I think it's weird to see a fetish art design injected into a mainstream video game. In the context of fetish art, there's sort of this unspoken disclaimer of "this is just a personal fantasy, I do not actually think of girls as objects." But when what is clearly a sexual fantasy, without any attempt to disguise it otherwise, is inserted into a non-fetish story/game/whatever, it's kind of...well, this dude-bro straddling his bikegirl while giving us a knowing look comes off to me as just a bit skeevy. There's a place for that sort of art, and I don't think this is it.

I'm not saying I object to the idea of there being a summoned bikegirl in the game in general. But I think there are plenty of directions you could go in designing a bikegirl that wasn't so sexualized (i.e., that don't look like the rider is humping her). Especially when all the male characters are paired with female summons, and all the female characters are paired with male summons, yet there is no male summon designed to similarly make it look like the woman is humping her male summon. Instead you get an image like this, where the rider is now the sexualized one, which sort of loudly proclaims "yes, women are the Sex Class, deal with it."

It becomes even more obvious that the character was only split into two so that it could look like the rider is humping the woman, when you look at all the other summons and realize non of them are remotely human-sized; they're giant robots that tower over the human characters. For example, cargirl Brynhildr, who is much more tastefully done.

(Found by Kalira and Utsumi.)

Criminal Minds did a very interesting episode last Wednesday. The thing that most struck me when I saw the preview was just how similar it was to a subplot on a certain episode of Dollhouse this season. Both episodes involve women kidnapped, then kept paralyzed yet fully aware via a fictional injected medical serum, and dressed as and posed as dolls. The main difference is that the villain in the Dollhouse episode was a creepy male psychopath, while the villain in the Criminal Minds episode was a creepy female psychopath.

Normally I'd post a link to the episode, but for whatever reason, CBS is the only network that has yet to start putting full episodes online, only offering a few clips of each episodes on their website. So instead, here's a short video that summarizes the whole kidnapper storyline (trimming out most of the scenes with detectives standing around explaining to each other the kidnapper storyline).



The most interesting part starts at around the 5:00 mark.

The only scene that's missing is how they escape, which would've put the video over the 10 minute limit. But if you're really curious, you can view that scene here. Why CBS will let you watch the resolution of an episode at their website, but not the full episode, is beyond me.

A few years back I posted about a short horror film called "The Marionette" that looked freaky, but also really interesting. Unfortunately, it never showed up anywhere online, and the website went down not too long after the short's initial string of showings.

Well, for anyone else who was curious about this film, I've just discovered that it has recently been released on DVD as part of a collection of horror shorts, entitled Festival Of Horrors: Volume One.

However, I'm kind of torn. While I'm still curious to see what happens in this particular short, I'm not actually much of a fan of horror. I usually avoid horror, except for a small handful of exceptions. So I'm still on the fence about spending $15 on a DVD that I will only ever watch one (or maybe two) segments of, and then never touch again, know what I mean? But I thought I'd let you know its out there, in case any of you are curious enough and dig horror.

There's also a second short called "The Dollhouse" that may be of interest. Though disappointingly, from what I've read, ( SPOILER ).

A few months back, cyborg Beyonce and living doll Lady Gaga teamed up to do a music video.



I admit, I was sort of expecting an explosion of crazy sci fi costumes everywhere, so I was a little disappointed when it amounted to not much more than some nods to Betty Page and Quentin Tarantino and things (which maybe could've been fun in its own right, if the song wasn't so unusually monotonous). Though the camera-headed guys are an interesting touch. I was particularly amused because I'd just read this very unique transformation story on Deviantart not long before seeing the video.

Want to hear something FRIGHTENING?

In two months, this blog will have been around for half a decade.

Do you realize ee didn't even have Youtube yet back then? I'm starting to feel old.

Neil Gaiman's Statuesque is up on Youtube. Catch it while you can, before it's taken down:

Some fun things jay_petto just sent me:



And a pin-up with a better look at the outfit:

Something to get you into the holiday spirit:

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Found by Tienne from Stuckposing.

Anyone here live in the UK?

Neil Gaiman has a new short film called Statuesque that will be airing on Christmas Day at 10pm on Sky 1 (if that makes sense to you...our channel names are very different in the US). It appears to star his girlfriend Amanda Palmer as a living statue street performer, perhaps based on her real experiences doing just that before she did Dresden Dolls.

If you catch it, let us non-UKers know how it is.

If you enjoy Drake's Medusariffic brand of silliness, you may want to check out his new Flash experiment. Just go to Medusariffic Interactive and scroll down to "ASFR X-MAX."