Cycle I — Commentaries is where the first version of the voice gets its lights turned on—and you can see the wiring. It’s the earliest point where the “tone” becomes a method: why a line is sharp instead of pretty, why a pause lands harder than an explanation, why I choose restraint over easy escalation even when escalation would get more reaction.
This is the best place to start if you want to understand how I build pressure on the page—how dominance becomes presence, how humor turns into leverage, how consent stays load-bearing without the heat going cold. You’ll see the standards in motion: what I’m protecting, what I’m refusing, what I’m aiming at when I decide a piece needs teeth, or mercy, or both—and why none of it is accidental.
Cycle I – The Commentaries – Full Index
- Starting Point… (1-1)
- Onward and Upward… (1-2)
- Great Expectations… (1-3)
- The Sacrifice of Control… (1-4)
- Learning Through Experience… (1-5)
- Objects in Space… (1-6)
- Your Submission – An Introduction (1-7)
- What/ever… (1-8)
- Beyond the Fantasy… (1-9)
- Broken Thing(s) (1-10)
- Getting Ahead… (1-11)
- From Master, with Love… (1-12)
- For What It’s Worth (Lucky 13)…. (1-13)
- Back (Track)… (1-14)
- Saturn Return (New)… (1-15)
- Neptune Nowhere (In or Out)… (1-16)
- Jupiter Obsession (Dangerous Type)… (1-17)
- Uranus Joy (Post-Modern Sleaze)… (1-18)
- Pluto Reversal (Never Say Never)… (1-19)
- Mars Bars (Naked Eye)… (1-20)
- Stripped (Re-Align)… (1-21)
- Lapse In Memory (Jump)… (1-22)
- C = 1 ÷ 0… (1-23)
- The Great Beyond… (1-24)
- What’s The Worst That Could Happen? (You Wouldn’t Know)… (1-25)
- Times Like These… (1-26)
Read these in order for the slow accumulation, or jump to whatever title grabbed you and watch how fast the pattern shows itself.