gala's got a brand new...blog.

gala · 13-04-12 14:57:13

Still skeletal, but I'm plodding along. I hope it'll be a sound little body of work - I've got a lot of love for those pastels at the moment, and more things to write about than you can shake a dick at.

http://someplacetostickit.wordpress.com/

Hope to see you thurr. Cheers.

gala · 13-04-12 14:59:33

bonanza jellybean is pretty good. i accept. thanks.

WLV612 · 13-04-12 19:41:04

Yours if the first blog I've ever viewed. Mainly because I don't like the word, "Blog". Sounds like a chant at a bowl hugger.
You like word play. I found that interesting. And labels. You do have style and flair so continue in that vein.
Dislike last names that end in, "ing".
Too aggressive, too violent. Just my opinion. I do think Gala is nice. Like a balloon, light, colorful. Free. Again, opinion. And you practically spelled out your real name or I'm very much mistaken.
I'm totally impressed but not sure if I'm existentialist enough to wrap my head around a lot of what I read.
Good luck.

blissed · 14-04-12 01:12:16

Your title font is gorgeous http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/circe/light/

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viva · 16-04-12 01:10:13

GRR I posted big comment about Vanting and it never got published. Anyway I adore le blog de gala, but I don't like Vanting and I had another suggestion, kinda, anyway, will post later if I can.

artemesia · 11-05-12 02:03:50

egads gala, i have to admit, i never really knew you until now. it's been amazing seeing you talk, give, share your experiences on IFM, ISM, agony and all that. and now i get to here your voice in my head whenever I go visit your new blog. damn, i feel like the luckiest faux punk out there.

and the story you share about x-plore. wow.

artemesia · 11-05-12 02:07:39

WLV612 wrote:

... I don't like the word, "Blog". Sounds like a chant at a bowl hugger.

ah ha ha ha, you slay me, you keep up the good work too!

HollyWood · 14-05-12 01:36:14

Gala - I have the same constant struggle with names used for work I don't want readily available in connection to my legal name and work outside of that arena. If it were more of an ‘act’ as you say, like in mainstream pornography, I don’t think I’d suffer the same uncertainty. The difference is that my work for feck and other nude work is very personal, and it isn’t my alter ego, it’s me. I think it’s an important aspect of sex-positivity that you don’t separate your sexy/slutty/naughty side from your intelligent/academic/professional side because it perpetuates that same mother/whore divide that women are so constantly plagued with – suggesting that you can’t be the two at once. However, as much as I have no qualms with friends, colleagues (outside of the feck-o-sphere ofcourse) and strangers knowing me naked and at that intimate moment of orgasm, I don’t want my father or possible job prospects to take this ‘side’ of me as the whole picture if they were to stumble across my nekkid stuff. So where do we go from here? I like 'Gala' and I am told I have changed my pseudonym for the last time, so it looks like I’m stuck with Holly Wood for Feck (others included Ivana Weiner, Amanda Pound and various other ridiculous yet hilarious double entendres), but I do feel like I have unwillingly created an alter-ego that did not always exist. Divided the meslut and the meprofessional. It’s actually saddening that I must do this – and it’s mainly due to fear. Fear of getting caught by less accepting parties. Do you feel the same way?

gala · 16-05-12 05:25:18

For me it's more about personal security than anything else. I have a rich private life that I feel really protective of. I want to share parts of it on the web, because that's how I connect with the people I love who aren't right in front of me, but I only want to do that with the people I choose. And I can't do that under my real name and keep my personal security. I've begun to phase my legal name out of rotation altogether. I use a pseudonym for personal stuff, and Gala for professional stuff. The lines are not always clear, but I'm doing my best to make them clearer.

Gala isn't really an alter-ego as much as she's my professional face. When I started pro BDSMming, I was told that Gala wasn't a domme name, and I ended up with something else that I don't totally love. I'm in the process of trying to get rid of that name and use Gala for everything, because I don't really like the split personalities that comes with having multiple professional identities, and I'm increasingly 'out' enough about what I do to do it all under one moniker. It's also a business decision. You can't drop a name like that after 6 years. 6 months is one thing, and I encourage you to keep teasing out the working name that works for you (and I totally fucking love Amanda Pound - that's way clever!) and that feels the most resonant with the you that makes the smut and all the rest. We do blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional, and I kinda feel like sex work always does that, it's just to varying degrees. So even the folks who work in the more mainstream parts of the industry are doing that too.

Artemesia: thanks. You're a good sort to know, and so am I. Sorry you end up hearing my voice, though. That'd be obnoxious. I'll try to turn off that function.

HollyWood · 16-05-12 06:06:08

I guess I write alot about pornography and sex - I have a blog which is pretty much purely sexually explicit imagery too. I want my writing and my mood-board of smut to be connected to my real name because professionally this is a body of work which can act, in ways, like a portfolio. However, I am constantly straddling the line between my personal involvement in porn and my detached writing about porn. I want the two to be reconciled but I can't due to privacy/security and for the aforementioned reasons. R wont let me change my name to Amanda Pound anymore I will use it for other work maybe.

HollyWood · 16-05-12 06:24:30

That didn't really make sense - breakitdown below

I make art that is sexually explicit and that I want associated with my real name which is conncected to said mood-board of smut.

SO, i engage with sex through: making art, making a visual journal of smut to inspire my art, making porn, writing about sex positivity and porn.

They are all so intertwined!! How can I separate the stuff which has me in it (under a pseudonym) from the stuff that doesn't (under my real name)??

emily_c · 08-06-12 12:11:22

it's funny for me - Emily started out as my name when i worked in a massage parlour, and i took it with me when i did feck work. i do consider emily to be an alter-ego of sorts - mostly because in face-to-face sex work, i found i did take on a role - a more assertive, completely un-submissive, friendly but slightly detached version of myself that allowed me to do my job, love my job, and keep some of my 'energy', (as wanky as that sounds) to myself.

for me, letting the smut/sex work occupations mingle with my 9-5 professional job is not, at all, ever, an option. i'd not be fired, but my career and reputation would be problematised in a way i'd just rather not deal with. i have blogs, which are highly censored and highlight aspects of my life - i would love nothing more than an open, sex-ranting, feminist rambling, book-reviewing blog, discussing times where i worked two jobs, or when i dealt with fucking a lover, and being intimate with clients - but i personally can't run the risk of being 'outed' in my words. images, i think i can fudge, but if i was known to be reflecting on it? the pen, mightier than the sword, and probably the camera.

good on you, Gala - the more awesome sex blogs there are out there, discussing sexuality, performance, gender, and so on, the better.

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