♦ 100,000 hits!♦
♦ Go me!
Yes, some time today I reached my first big milestone in blogging terms: 100, 000 hits. I know plenty of sex blogs get there quicker than this, but feck it, I’m proud of myself.
In this time I’ve gone from mildly open-minded to really rather filthy, from bi-curious to bisexual, from wallflower to the troublemaker, from in a long-distance relationship to shacked-up, from student to professional.
This blog has survived my final year of uni and all the exam stress and dissertation-writing that entails, it’s survived fairly lengthy gaps of no-Tubes, moving from place to place, my first real job, Fractal and I leaving our respective homes and moving in to our new flat, my obsession with Left 4 Dead and also my recent bouts of being so hilariously busy in my ‘free’ time that I’m barely at home.
And I’m still managing, more or less, to keep it on its feet.
I hope you’ve enjoyed helping me reach this little target by visiting and reading my ramblings, I hope they’ve entertained and aroused and enraged and amused and perhaps made you just a little more open, a little more sexual and sensual, a little more deviant and a little more happy with being a real human being who likes sex and fun and filthy with other real human beings.
Rest assured I’m very grateful to each of you for making this blog a success, particularly those of you who’ve stopped and said hello and especially those of you who I feel I’ve come to know somewhat. Thanks for following the Boudoir and for making me smile and, most importantly, think.
Last, but by no means least, thanks to Fractal. You were the one to start my life, my angel. The real bit, anyway. You gave me confidence, beauty, love and companionship, you taught me to love my body and what it can do for myself and others. You introduced me to the wonderful dichotomy that is sex: simple and complicated at once.
I love you, my heart.
So people, I’ve not been able to do everything I’ve wanted with the blog so far, but there’s more to come and I plan to keep writing and improving this place for a very long time.
I wanted to find some suitably celebratory picture to end this wee ego-wank of mine, but I don’t seem to really have anything.
You’d think there’d be something in the 5,951 sexy pictures on my hard drive. (Christ, that’s rather a lot)
So instead I’ll leave you with the picture I took to the hairdresser’s this week. It’s evidently not a picture of me, but it is (give or take) a picture of what my hair looks like now.
Because that’s how thrillingly interesting Blacksilk’s Boudoir is, baby! :P ♦








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June 24, 2009 at 8:16 pm
ladypandorah
I’m so thrilled for you to reach this, yes as you say, milestone – congratulations my dear Blacksilk – and to Fractal as well of course who has helped to inspire some truly smoking hot posts!
I don’t even want to pretend I am as open and as *filthy* as you are, but in seeing your blog out there, it stirred me into wanting to express that side to me that felt needed venting. So thank you for being there as an inspiration for starting my own blog.
Your posts are always written from the heart, from the soul and from the sexually energetic core you possess, and that is what makes it stand out from others. You aren’t afraid to test boundaries, both for yourself and for the writing sphere of things and you have gifted us with some beautiful prose, poetry, French, images, personal photography and illustrations (still have the devil/angel image stuck vividly in my head mmm oh oh and the housewifey with the welts mmmm).
You are a generous blogger, both for what you give here and for your comments on other blogs. So yay you. Muchly.
Congrats again, Blacksilk – I look forward to seeing you flourish even more.
Lady Pandorah xx
June 24, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Innocent Loverboy
*bows to you*
Marvellous.
June 24, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Tom Allen
Well done! I’ve enjoyed reading this; as so many blogs go under in the first few months, you’ve really taken the time to express yourself well and make this a place where people look forward to reading more.
Looking forward to the next 200,000.
PS – can we pretend it’s a picture of you?
June 25, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Lilly
Congrats!!! I love reaching stats like that. And I wish I could see the -real- you bc that haircut is stunning!!! Wow. Not something I personally could ever pull off, my face is too round for it.
June 25, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Blacksilk
LadyP: I’m somewhat gobsmacked by just how shiny your comment is! Fractal will attest that I’ve spent literally the last five minutes periodically saying “aww, she’s so lovely” in a rather dazed fashion!
Thank you so much for the praise, it means a lot. Especially since your own blog is perhaps the finest one I read and since you’ve always been such a support to mine.
As for pushing the boundaries, I suppose I’ve grown up around restraint and have decided that its much more dangerous than it looks. Its necessary to stop the fire burning things up sometimes, but too much of it smothers the flame entirely, if you’ll excuse my attempt at extended(ish) metaphor.
Ooh, and you’ve reminded me to stick a Victor Hugo poem I found up here soon. (Since, y’know, the French calendar posts petered out pretty sharpish. They’ll return, honest!) Glad you liked the drawings too, since they’re something I’d really like to master and since my progress at them is so important to me.
In any case I can’t quite express how really beautiful a comment that was, it’s really renewed my vigour for making this place the best I can.
Thanks, m’lady. xx
June 25, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Blacksilk
ILB: *returns the bow* (Curtseying is for *girls*) Thank you, good sir!
Tom: Thanks so much, that really makes me feel really proud coming from a dabhand like you! I’ve always been so impressed by how, I dunno, professional perhaps, your blog seems so I’m very pleased you think mine worthwhile!
[ego] And you can pretend it’s me if you want, but you’d be missing out! [/ego]
Lily: Thanks! And you never know, I might be able to rustle up a little something me-wise in the near future. Especially with such a sexy audience making the request! :)
June 25, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Tom Allen
:laughs:
Touchee.
June 26, 2009 at 12:36 am
Jani
Many congratulations on passing such a landmark : )
I have only been following your blog for a wee while now but in that short time, it has truly informed and entertained – keep it going and I’ll keep reading.
And as for your choice of picture – wow! If we had half of the moxy and grace of that beautiful young woman, what a world it would be! Who is she?
Bestest wishes XXX
June 26, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Blacksilk
Thanks very much and welcome! :)
I actually had no idea who the girl was until you asked and gave me the impetus (I know, I know, the picture alone should have given me that) to look her up. Turns out she’s a model and a Suicide Girl called Dice.
That picture comes from here though: http://oldboy1985.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured–10
Which is a great gallery in any case.
Oh, and much kudos to you for using the word ‘moxy’! x
June 26, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Innocent Loverboy
I would have given you a curtsy, but I’d need to be wearing my princess costume to do that, and I don’t feel like costuming up right now – too hot for blue velvet this evening!
July 3, 2009 at 8:46 am
Midnight Princess
Congratulations! It’s nice to hear that your lovely blog is appreciated! x
July 3, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Blacksilk
Thanks very much! And thanks for reading! :) x
July 3, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Tom Allen
There’s reading? I just look at the pictures.
July 3, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Blacksilk
Oh, you wait! One of these days I’ll post a picture that forces both! :)
September 26, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Beginner_Man
LOL I might have contributed due to my google image search for “Hulk Smash” and your picture of a Hulk figurine between a massive pair of breasts. I shared it with the chatroom and they were all really new to erotic text. However, I’m not, as I check out asstr.org mostly. Do you contribute there? Thank the Hulk for giving me an opportunity to view this site, hehe!
October 1, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Blacksilk
Haha, thanks, Beginner! I appreciate it!
That is a really awesome picture. Best use of an action figure ever. I’m really glad you got a whole new load of people into erotic writing too. Did they like it?
I’ve not seen asstr.org before, but it looks really interesting so I’m definitely going to have a proper browse around it when I get 5 minutes. Not that I need more sex stuff! :P