My "Images" (a term I stole from Suki) are short ideas, images, and sketches written for the amusement of and offered as tribute to my Liege and Lady. They were always longer and never so well crafted as Suki's short masterpieces, and over time, my Images files began to include various email excerpts and other works in progress or ideas for works and became more journal than art, so some juxtapositions may seem odd. Some of my Images follow. They are generally cruel and nonconsensual and of interest only to sickphuxs, so please read no further if such doesn't appeal to you. The Images are impurely the products of a warped imagination, and should not be seen as a reflection of the scene, nor should they be imitated by anyone not interested in a protracted term as the ward of the state. Steven S. Davis --------------------------------------------- Some imagery from this morning. First, the quick femdom version: ---------------- Two locked chests in a woman's bedroom for her toys. One full of chains and clamps and canes and irritating oils and ropes in coils and various things which go in or over a man's mouth. The other with a bound man inside squirming around as best he can in the small dark space, trying to get as comfortable as he can in a hard wood box, waiting not terribly patiently for his mistress to decide to let him out, hoping that this time after she has her way with him she may let him stay in bed with her, happy at least that she often wakes up needing him again. Better for him is when she still can't go to sleep thinking of him in the box and needs to bring him out and use him again; even if she does curse him out for what he does to her when she comes to get him ("damn you" with a horny smile is a curse he can bear, in other contexts for her to curse at him would be shattering). But usually when she can't get to sleep she alternates between punching her pillow and pounding the top of his box and he hasn't heard that, so he may have a long night in the box. ---- This was the quick femdom conversion of the morning's masturbatory images. The longer version: The imagery involved passing an order home to get someone and box her (I was taking several women and assuming a harem; which has various attractions but one, to this sadist, is the strange feelings created when subs are involved in punishing other submissives). So two women went and got D, stripped her, bound her, and put her in the toy box and locked it shut, while D rather mournfully asked what she had done and why she was being punished and the other women could only tell her that they didn't know, they were sorry, but they had their orders, she had to go in the box. None of them were happy about this, they all knew that the box became an ordeal very quickly and they were all friends; the other women would be suffering as they thought about D locked in the box as the hours dragged on. Finally the order was given to let her out. But only to immediately take her and bend her over a chair and tie her ankles and wrists to the legs of the chair (at different heights) and then surround her with hot lights and turn them on and leave her sweltering in the hot rays of these lights. Again, without answering her questions why, except to say again that they were sorry, they didn't know why. After an unreasonable amount of time in the heat, the women were instructed to get straps and begin working D over. Still no explanation, just give her a thorough strapping all over and do not show any mercy. Which had the other women crying too before they were finished, though not sobbing as much as D was (D wasn't suffering as much from seeing her friends suffer as she was suffering from the strapping - towards the end when the relentless pounding of the sharp leather against her ass and back and thighs and sides and arms and belly and breasts had become too much, D wasn't aware of much of anything except that she occupied a universe of pain - but it did add to her distress). [Sometimes one's morning masturbation isn't going well and one needs to escalate things] Of course, I couldn't handle that much cruelty. I'd want the women torturing me to be enjoying it; seeing a woman crying as she swung a strap at me would confuse my circuits too much, even if I know she as a submissive and so it was OK for me to enjoy her suffering. And I'd have to know what I had done or better that I hadn't done anything, my Lady just wanted me to suffer; being allowed to believe for hours that she was angry with me would be too cruel. And I'm afraid I don't think I could actually deal with a universe that consisted of nothing but pain (how incredibly awful it would be when the pain blocked out even the awareness of my Lady, when there wasn't even any room left in my mind for her, because every piece of my consciousness was fully occupied with one thing: pain) But perhaps the longer femdom version might go like this: Morning comes and I'm shaken awake and told to get back in the box. My last service to my lady had been good enough that she went to sleep warm and happy hugging me, which made me warm and happy. But now the brief peace she'd felt is gone again, now she's hungry again. She is in fact sort of mad at me, for this isn't how she'd expected things to be. She didn't think that having more and bigger orgasms than she'd ever known was going to lead to her being relentlessly, achingly horny, with only very rare periods of peace when she was able to satiate her lusts. She jokingly cursed at me for cursing her with insatiable desire but part of her wasn't joking, part of her wanted release from this torment, but she could find none. She wanted me when she was with me, wanted me more when apart, wanted me in her arms and wanted me in her torture devices, wanted me to be suffering and wanted to give me comfort, wanted my lips pressed against hers and wanted my lips open in a scream. There wasn't much she could do about this now - somehow or other life goes on even when one has a new slave and she had things she had to do, she couldn't stay and bite me all day - but she could lock me in the box and know that I was suffering too. Not that knowing I was in the box made standing in line at the cleaners any easier. When she got home and it was time to make dinner, she could at least get me from the box, sit on my face for awhile, then when having a brief calm period, tie me over the chair for later. Turning on the hot lights as she left, already getting wet again, and telling me that I would roast while she cooked her roast. Which I would indeed, standing bent over in an airless windowless room surrpounded by hot lights, blinded by them, uable to open my eyes (not until she prys and clamps them open, something she'll only do when she's going to be there to keep my eyes moistened). Fortunately for me she'd rush down after dinner, having little hunger for food, and turn off those lights so she could see to swing a strap (the dark sunglasses didn't help much with seeing black leather straps), and could begin making my body burn all over the way hers burnt, a relentless beating all over my naked body which was as merciless to her as it was to me since every stroke of hers and every squirm and scream of mine made her burn more until the fire consumed her and she'd scream in a shattering, shaking, full body orgasm that left her as helpless as me but contented and at rest. For a while.... [OK, it's a bit over the top, but then, getting over the top is sort of the point] --------------------------------------------------- Keeping my end up "Get your ass in the air, baby". It'd been awhile since I'd been a source of entertainment for my Lady. And lacking many other skills, entertainment was my main value as a submissive, so this was a serious failing. So it was about time I was put to use. Today's use was, appropriately enough, to keep my end up. Telling her about fun videos I've seen is always dangerous. I shouldn't have been surprised that she filed this idea away for some time when I hadn't been keeping my end up. "C'mon, get your ass up. I'm not having any fun just standing here with this cane looking at you laying there nicely trussed. Well, I am, but I'm not having as much as I could be having, so hold your end up, boy." She had my ankles crossed and bound so that if I did decide to get up and hop away there was no chance I'd succeed (she knew I wouldn't try to flee, but she liked making sure I didn't have any capability of doing it as well as no probability of doing it; she also liked me knowing it, maybe because she knew I liked her wanting to take away my capabilities of resistance). My hands were locked in leather cuffs, locked together in front today so my hands wouldn't get in the way of the cane, and to make certain I couldn't use my hands (which were taped up in fists, thumbs inside the fists) the cuffs were then tied to a cord - a short cord - which was tied around my balls. This wasn't the easiest position to move in, but I struggled up on my knees, presenting my ass to her. "Good boy. Now, let's see", she said, bending at her knees to study my ass, running her nails over the existing welts. "The stripes are coming up nicely. Now, where would another one look nice. Here, I think", she said, scratching her nail along a line on one cheek. Then she stood and flicked the cane a couple times without impact, before saying, giggling, "Hold still till I hit you, silly boy", and slashing the cane across that line on my cheek, at which I shrieked despite myself and rolled away to my side. "Again with the falling over. You're just not keeping your end up, boy", she said as she slashed at my exposed arm and then put another welt on my thigh. "You're not making it any easier on yourself, since ever time you fall over I'm going to hit a wing and a thigh. Sometimes even an inside thigh", she said, slashing one. That may not have been why my ankles were crossed, but she wasn't one to miss the potentialities of my position. "Hold your end up, boy". So I squirmed and wiggled and got my ass back up in the air and my face on the floor. "Two cheeks up and one cheek down, good", she said, walking around me a few times, studying her handiwork. Stopping, not coincidently, I knew, with one foot near my face. I squirmed around a bit and managed to kiss her foot, and she walked around behind me again and bent down to feel my ass. Not kissing her foot wouldn't mean that she wouldn't keep beating me - she didn't allow me any safewords and knew I didn't want any - but she knew when I kissed it that I wanted her to keep doing what she wanted to do. Which didn't mean I wanted her to do what she was doing, but that was oft a distinction with no significance. At least not one my ass would record. "Here, I think", she said, and she stood up and the cane slashed down twice. "Oh, and there too", she laughed, as I rolled - well, sorta - grimacing at the double pain. She stood there enjoying my pain - not helped much when I jerked my wrists upwards - for a time before slashing an arm and thigh and saying, again, "Hold your end up, boy". "Have I mentioned that that isn't funny anymore, ma'am ?", I rasped. "I'd noticed you weren't laughing. But it amuses me, and that's what matters, isn't it ?" "Isn't it ?", she repeated, slashing across my shoulders. "YES, ma'am". "Don't keep me waiting so long. Now about holding up your end...." "Yes, ma'am", I said, struggling into position. "I think we've almost enough", she said, studying the lines on my ass. "Maybe four more, two on each cheek. Shall I do them all now ?", she asked. "As it pleases you, ma'am", I said, shuddering at the prospect. "Silly cliche answer, but a pretty shudder", she said, slashing my shoulder. "Sorry, dear, shudder, shoulder, too tempting. Felt good - quiet, boy, it felt good for me - so let's do it again", she said before the cane slashed through empty air over my shoulder, once, twice, three times, four, five, dammit when was she going to stop toying with me SEVEN, shit seven. "When I saw the way your shoulders kept tensing and you raised your hands a little each time I missed, I just couldn't resist a chance to make your torture your balls, boy. But you don't want me to be able to resist you, do you now ?" Well, she had a point. She also had a cane and the damn thing suddenly descended on my poor ass four times in rapid succession, her wrist flicking so quickly that it felt like one long stroke but all four strokes landing right were she wanted them two on each cheek between the previous welts, the pain way more than I could process and freezing me for a moment as I stayed on my knees shuddering before I could get a sound out and wwhen that sound came it was a sob. Her kneeling behind me and squeezing and pinching and clawing and hand slapping my burning ass kept me sobbing for some time and kept her nicely entertained, as I could see from her smile and glow when my tears cleared enough to see her face over me as she stroked my hair. "I think there's enough welts on your ass, now, dear. Or will be in a little while. So you rest for awhile and then I'm going to paddle your ass but good. I know how much you hate getting paddled over fresh hot welts - and you know how much I enjoy doing it to you". "Now hold your end up, boy. I want to watch your buns rising". Sometime after getting my ass up in the air it occurred to me that I probably deserved a Mistress who was a punster among her other sadistic bits. But as she dropped the rat traps within my field of view I wondered if I deserved one with with such a good memory or so much interest in videos I'd enjoyed (and such an appreciation for irony). It seemed I'd be doing "shake those tits, baby" later, while sitting on a very sore ass (not fair, they didn't use both a cane and a paddle on the woman in the video). I obviously didn't deserve such a Mistress. I'm just lucky I guess. END ---------- Additional/background information FWIW, the video I'm referring to is a Tao Productions video called Fetish Phone Fantasy. There's a scene in which a woman (her bondage is more conventional, wrists tied behind her and ankles tied together) is squirming on a bed being paddled by another woman, who keep telling her to get her ass up and then hitting her ass (no other tortures for her; this is a job interview (the job is a phone sex place where - yeah, sure - women actually enact the things the callers describe) and she's just told "if you want the job get your ass up". There's another scene in which she's sitting on a bed tied at the ankles and knees, wrists and elbows tied behind her (she's one of these women whose elbows can touch) and with rat traps on her breasts she's told to "shake those tits, baby" and made to keep shaking her shoulders while the other women whip her if she hesitates. Very hot. While I wouldn't be surprised if the rat traps had been modified to reduce their pressure, she really looks like she's in a lot of pain when she's shaking her tits. There's more, of course. including a nice scene when she's kneeling on the bed and the two other women (the boss in blouse and skirt, and an employee in lingerie) are each holding strings one end of which is tied around one of her nipples and alternately tugging them and flogging her until she's begging "no more, please, no more". -------------------------------------- Fetish Objects She lay in her bed, fondling one of her high heels. She'd never particularly liked high heels, and hadn't worn them much since high school, after she'd decided that she had enough credentials as a woman and didn't need her shoes to prove anything. But he liked them, she knew, and though he'd never ask her to wear them he reacted well when she did, and she liked that. She liked the way she felt when he was submitting to her, and though she'd never tell him this, she'd do anything that gave her more power over him, and the high heels were easy enough. Besides, it was fun torturing him with them, making him suffer with the objects he enjoyed so much, and a convenient way to keep him attending her, since it was quite impossible to keep dust off them and her command to keep her shoes spotless kept him at her feet, just where he belonged. And where he was in easy range for a jab with her heel. He'd probably be amused if he ever learned she wiped them before his arrival with something which helped attract dust. Funny thing was the way the shoes made her feel now. Some Pavlovian response ("But Mistress, you're certainly no dog" she could hear him saying; "Then how can I be such a bitch" she'd reply, while being appropriately cruel, if ever he gave her that particular opening). She felt so powerful and sexy with him, she usually wore high heels for at least a while when seeing him, so she started feeling powerful and sexy when she put them on. Now she was getting worse than him. At least he didn't react to the shoes when she wasn't wearing them. She'd wondered about that and watched him when she had such shoes in his line of sight, sometimes when he was alone waiting for her, and he didn't look at them much or touch them other than to quickly wipe dust off them. She was the one who'd taken to laying in bed fondling one and thinking about him. Holding the shoe gave her some part of the rush she had when he was with her, so attentive to her, so determined to please her, so under her power and so much loving being under her power, and she so loved having him under her power. And under her shoes; she got so hot pressing her heel into some sensitive part of him, or resting a stiletto against his throat or his eyelid. The one saving for him when she had him on the floor, circling, kicking, jabbing, and stepping/standing/even dancing on him was that it got her so hot so fast she'd soon dive onto his face or his conveniently erect cock. Now holding her shoe she felt some part of that arousal and while it wasn't the same, with her shoe in one hand and his shirt on and one of her favorite toys - well, her favorite inanimate toys - in the other hand, she could have quite a good time. She was tempted to tell him that she'd found his replacement, and before he was too crushed show him the shoe/shirt/slip-in combo. But she wouldn't. It'd be more cruel to him than even she was ready to be, and anyway it wasn't really true, since the shirt wouldn't moan when she stepped on it (she'd never admit to anyone she sometimes lay one of his shirts on the floor and put her shoes atop it so she could see the tableau from her bed). Certainly not a replacement. But when he wasn't available, fondling the shoe, feeling the sharp toe and hard heel and imagining him under them did work surprisingly well. Weird thing, this fetish business. --------------------------- "You don't look like Lou" It was kinda cute the way her eyes flashed defiantly whenever she perceived that one of us was looking at her. But maintaining the pretense that she wasn't scared of us was too difficult to do all the time, and when the studied indifference we showed her caused her guard to drop, the fear was apparent. And delicious. She sat there on the bed, propped up by pillows like we were concerned for her comfort, the frilly femininity a deliberate contrast to her dire situation. Of course, someone lounging comfortably in bed usually isn't in business clothes (minus her shredded jacket, some of which was stuck in her ropes but most of the remains of which had been cut away and tossed on the floor; her figure was displayed nicely by the top she wore but nicely concealed by the jacket, giving her the option to show off or not show off; well, that used to be her option, now she had no options, now we made all the choices for her, and we chose to display her). Usually she wouldn't still have her high heels on (the rope around her insteps assured they didn't come off however much she kicked, though should hadn't been kicking for awhile). And usually she wouldn't have ropes wrapped around her wrists and ankles and above her knees and elbows. But as I'm sure our guest would agree, these weren't usual circumstances. Well, not for her. It was the first time she'd been tied up since she was a little girl playing cowgirls and Indians. For us this was more common, and a lot of women had sat where she was now, waiting to find out what was going to happen to them. We let them wait a long time, it was hard for anyone to stay brave when she had to sit there so long with her body aching from the tight bondage and her jaw screaming - when she could not - from the ballgag jamming her mouth. One thing they never expected was to be ignored. Usually they weren't women who were accustomed to not being looked at, and they plausibly enough expected that they'd be ogled by anyone who abducted and bound them. But we didn't pay much attention to them for a long time after getting them in position. We knew the bondage would hold them and we wanted them scared and confused and whatever confidence they might have in their ability to handle us to wane. This lady was certainly used to being admired. Slender everywhere except where clumps of fat are admired, with long slender but well sculpted legs, a sharp short cut for her blonde hair and cool blue eyes over patrician features. She was used to being in charge as much in her personal life as she was over her employees. Well, that was over. After my partner and I read looked over the newspaper and chit-chatted a bit, then had something to eat, and then made love (partly because it was, of course, fun to make love, especially when we were both so horny after the capture of a woman we'd stalked for a long time, but partly because watching us make love further confused our captive), and cuddling for a long time, we finally got to the task of looking through our prisoner's purse and papers to find out who she was. We knew who she was, of course, she'd been selected and surveilled and stalked so when the trap was sprung she'd have zero chance of escape; a woman like this we were not going to shoot in the back as she ran away from a botched capture. But we didn't want her to know that, didn't want her to realize that she was grade A in our opinion and wouldn't be casually killed or damaged. Whatever gave her a sense of how valuable she was to us would give her a little bit of an edge and we wanted her as powerless as we could make her, so the pretense that she was just some woman we grabbed at random and now we wondered who she was was useful. As was letting her know that we knew where she lived and worked - where she used to live and work, that is - and what her loved ones looked like. Sometimes knowing her family would be in danger if she escaped caused a woman to stay where we put her even when the opportunity to escape presented itself (and sometimes it didn't, but either way was OK with us; it was really sweet seeing a woman opt to stay and die rather than imperil her family, and even sweeter telling a woman who'd bolted through the phony escape path and run into our trap that because of her cowardice her family would all die). We are never surprised. Well, until today. Sometimes fate catches all of us off guard. We wanted so much to show this woman that she'd lost control of her life, that for all her intelligence and skills and beauty she was not in control. Seems fate had done that already. An interesting letter in her briefcase from a doctor discussing her diagnosis of ALS, and some printouts from websites concerning the disease and it's course. She was very early in its course, as much as we'd watched her we'd never seen anything that showed any deterioration. Guess she must have noticed something though. Irritating being cheated of our chance to pronounce a death sentence on her. Ah, well. Fate can be so unkind. Interesting situation for us. From what the papers said she probably had longer to live than most of our slaves survived; it's a hard life and even if neither rough games nor sudden summary punishment caused death, being a sex and torture slave wears one down (the more so since we liked mature women of accomplishment; a coed would last longer but an accomplished professor was a sweeter prize, it was so nice changing a physicist's focus from big bangs to gang bangs) and even if she were healthy our prize wouldn't still be a beauty a year from now, and we'd be considering the most fun way of terminating her. From what we read, letting nature take its course could be fun; letting her become a prisoner within that magnificent body, unable to flee even when we made no effort to restrain her, unable to respond to the tortures we inflicted on her, that might be amusing. Maybe this wasn't such rotten luck for us after all. Pretty rotten luck for her, but then, her luck had run out as soon as we realized what a woman of beauty and accomplishment she was and decided she would be ours. So I sat down on the side of the bed, the letter in one hand, and looking at her slender lovely legs and ignoring (but enjoying) the angry look she was giving me, I finally spoke to her, saying "You don't look like Lou Gehrig". ------------------------------------------------- The Choice He didn't know what to do. And his Mistress, laying back and smiling, wasn't helping. "I said, 'Pick the toy you think you should pick'; seems clear enough to me", she told him. Clear enough for her perhaps, but he had to make the choice, and he didn't know what to do. Arrayed before him on the floor were a range of toys, one of which he was to pick and bring to his Lady. What did she mean, "pick the one you think you should pick" ? The one he liked the most ? He didn't much like any of them, but the elkhide flogger with its soft flat but rounded tails, heavy thud and no sting, was one he came closest to enjoying. Though what he enjoyed most was his Lady's approval. But what would bring that ? The most severe toy there, the knout, a heavy hard leather singetail that could easily slice him apart ? She never used that save for show, he didn't believe she'd ever use it on him, and she knew that, so there was no sacrifice in bringing it to her. His optimal choice would be something the choice of which please her so much she'd not use it on him, but something so severe she'd never use it wouldn't do that. But she hadn't made this a simple choice for him; he couldn't exclude the babybear and papabear and find what was just right. Mamabear had a full menu, but what was her choice ? And did she want him to make her choice ? He was supposed to always do what pleased his lady, so he should be picking what she wanted, right ? But he was always to be honest with his lady, so he should show honesty and pick what he wanted, right ? Why wouldn't she tell him whether he was picking what he wanted or what he thought she wanted ? Not that he was sure what she wanted. Mamabear's menu included the viper, a vicious tongue of leather which he couldn't bear but could endure, maybe that was the choice. But she knew he'd only pick that hoping that she wouldn't use it, and this she just might use (but should that matter ?) - but she might not, and she might be disappointed in him if he brought her a toy she'd not want to use. Was he to bring her something he was prepared to bear but wouldn't like ? The rubber flogger was what he could bear but could bear the least. But she knew his limits and wouldn't use that past his breaking point, which meant she wouldn't use it long. The flogger made from leather shoelaces, that he didn't like but he could handle it, he'd be squirming and whimpering under her lashes for a long time with that, she could have a lot of fun with it. Was it the toy she'd have the most fun with that was the one that he should choose ? Was it about his sacrifice or her fun ? He knelt there before the array of toys and under his Lady's laughing eyes and sly grin, and he didn't know what to do. But he knew he was very sorry he'd ever been so arrogant and unsubmissive as to decide what was best for his Lady, and he hoped to leave all choices to her in the future. ----------------------------------------------- Perspective. A couple images: 1) A man spreadeagled out in the wilderness someplace, his clothes cut off by a woman who then plays with him with the knife for awhile, then puts a small incision in his lower abdomen and pulls out a bit of intestine, then ties a very long rope to it and ties the other end to the end of a truck which she tells to drive way very slowly while she lays alongside him, fondling and threatening him while watching him come to the end of his rope, at which point she has the option of either cutting he rope, or lying back and watching him come slowly undone (perhaps while speculating how much of him could come out and still be put back in, till it gets to the point where she smiles and shakes her head "no" to quash whatever hope remained that she might mean to spare him). If she *knows* that she will cut the rope, it might be a little less messy to simply tie his balls; a little more interesting might be tying his balls and leaving the rope coiled between his legs and having the truck on his head side, so as it pulls away the uncoiling rope would be pulled across him, maybe through a ring tied to his cock to bounce/tug his cock as it's pulled through the ring. 2) She strips him and ties his hands behind his back and make him stand with one foot on each of two blocks of ice, then puts a noose around his neck with a foot or so of slack, so she can watch his bare feet squirming on the ice as the blocks melt and the noose tightens. And watch as he lowers towards the row of spikes below him, between his legs, which will begin piercing his crotch a while before the noose tightens enough to make him lose consciousness. Both a bit excessive, I agree. I really wouldn't need the spikes piercing my testicles while I was torn between hoping the noose would kill me and trying to hang on (so to speak) a little longer, knowing that each minute's existence would be paid for by deeper piercing of my groin, to remind me that the stuff we worry about every day isn't *really* so important. I suspect being tied face down on a bed with a striking array of striking instruments on the bed above my face, with those instruments taking their turn in the hand of a woman who likes me and *really* likes hurting me, and enjoys asking me if I'm worried about short shipments and overage release orders now, that would probably be enough to restore my perspective. ----------------------------------------------------------- That would sting > <paper cuts> > > I've never done it, but the idea of binding someone to a chair > > and cutting her again and again with paper has long amused. > > Lots of little cuts along the tops of the ears, then running > > my fingers ack and forth over her cut ears. And, of course, > > much alcohol spraying/wiping over the cuts. [cut comment about the alcohol hurting more than the cutting] So you'd say that fondling a man's cock to keep it hard as you pricked it again and again with a series of sharp tiny pins coming from an opaque container (so he can't tell how many more of them you might have) probably would not hurt him nearly as much as would the constant alcohol wiping (supplemented by occasional peroxide pours) done to maintain sterile technique ? "But Ma'am, the pins are all sterile already". "But they won't be when I start reusing them a second time - and they won't be so sharp as to be almost painless when you get pricked a second time with them. Oh, don't be such a silly wimp, first of all there's no way you are getting loose, and if you keep twisting your wrists like that you'll hurt yourself. Why, look, already you're bleeding a little; now I'll just have to pour some peroxide on your wrists. Bad boy ! Such language; I'll have to gag you if you insist on being so coarse. Now to finish taking care of your wrists. There. Oh, dear, now you've gone away again, you should feel very bad about making me work so hard fondling your cock and balls, there you go, that's better, but you're getting blood on my hands and it clashes with my fingernail polish, now where is that thing, what'd you call it, a stiptic pencil, why are you shaking your head "no", isn't that what it's called ? Well, whatever, it does seem to stop the bleeding from the pin pricks for awhile. I don't have this magnifying glass here to hurt your ego, I'll use it to study where I can apply fresh pricks on the second go around - and the third, when the needles will really start hurting - and I can't see if there's blood all over."