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The Annex Reviews, 7/25/03
by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com)
Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh 



I've been wanting to do a special review series of fur 
stories for a while. Fur stories are those in which the 
protagonists are anthropomorphized animals (such as one  
might find in Disney,) humanoid beings with animal 
characteristics (such as werewolves) or sentient 
animals. The genre has grown tremendously over the past 
few years as its fans, or furries, have taken to the net 
and discovered each other, creating archive sites like 
Furnation.com for fans' creative output, robust 
databases like Fur Central, and well as dozens of 
mailing lists and search engines for specialty 
interests. There are even furry conventions, of which 
Anthrocon is the most famous.

As a genre, furry overlaps into both vore (creatures 
eating each other, with sexual overtones) and 
transformation (creatures transformed into other 
creatures, with sexual overtones) with mostly science 
fiction, fantasy, and supernatural themes. The genre is 
a tolerant one, with all sexual pairings finding 
acceptance, if prone at times to cliquishness and 
polyamorousness. There seems to be a 60/40 split between 
males and females, with many of the males being gay or 
bisexual, which is interesting.

The subject matter of fur stories truly runs the gamut. 
As in regular erotica, many stories are simply sexual 
encounters made more interesting by the fact one partner 
is a wolf, the other a fox. But other stories strive to 
be something more, differing little from straight fic 
except the protags are anthropormophized animals. In 
many cases the writers try very hard to treat this 
concept seriously -- which they must, because unlike 
human sexual encounters, no matter how bizarre, fur 
encounters are a total fantasy -- and this earnestness 
and seriousness of tone is one of the genre's great 
flaws. Often the earnestness becomes belabored, and many 
stories seem to devolute into something resembling a 
rewrite of a role playing chat log, which many of them 
could be. But others are delightful.

Here are reviews of some stories I've culled from 
several sites with a variety of pairings and subject 
matter.



The Stories:

Tanj's Tale, Parts 1 - 4 (Kittiara): M/F, M+/F, F/F, 
  fur, cheetah, bond, D/s, mc, slave, SF, humor

Making the Passage With a Friend (Will A. Sanborne): 
  M/F, rom, fur, dog

Birthday Surprise (Divigon): M/M, cons, fur, cetacean

Scaley (Divigon): M/F, fur, dragon, mc, slave, herm, SF

Herbal Lupine (Narzil Blade): M/M, cons, fur, werewolf, 
  magic

How Coyote Married a Man (Aethan): M/M, cons, fur, 
  coyote, tg, Native American myth, humor

Sealoque - The Begining (Moon Dragon): M/F, F mast, 
  oral, fur, dragon, viol, mystery

DVD Review: Bjork's Greatest Hits, Volumen 1993 - 2003




Tanj's Tale, Parts 1 - 4 [A] 
Where found: The Collected Tanj Stories
URL: http://www.silverglass.org/kittiara/toc.html
Author: Kittiara
Type: M/F, M+/F, F/F, fur, cheetah, bond, D/s, mc, 
  slave, SF, humor

"Tanj's Tale" is one of the more famous -- or notorious 
-- fur stories out there, spanning several "books" of 
many lengthy chapters each. It was originally called 
"Trouble's Tale" and still may exist in that form on 
some sites, but the name of the protagonist was changed 
because of problems with a certain science fiction 
author. 

The story is one of those where fur crossbreeds with 
bondage and D/s, specifically the slave story, and it's 
a space opera slave story to boot. But such combinations 
are common for fur, which pretty much crossbreeds with 
everything. (Another fur space opera/BDSM tale can be 
read at Maureen Lycaon's Velan Archive.) Tanj is a 
cheetah fem, an engineer aboard a junky space transport 
which has very bad luck: the crew is stranded in a 
spacedock without a means to pay their moorage, which 
means they are sold into slavery. Tanj winds up in a 
coffle headed to a sex-slave training facility where she 
is subjected to sex deprivation and sleep deprivation, 
mental conditioning, canings and whippings, various 
bondage positions, and enforced sex with multiple 
partners, of multiple species. Despite the heaviness of 
the scenario it's very lighthearted, very fun, reading 
like the author wrote it over a long period of time 
without any literary goal in mind besides a descriptive 
one. In other words, it's episodic rather then 
novelistic. Here Tanj completes her "final" in Bondage 
101:

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The "Graduation Ceremony" was more of the same, 
conducted this time, in the Academy's lobby. Tanj was 
strapped tightly to a padded stone block, her rump 
barely at its edge, her legs pulled back and shackled to 
either side, exposing her sex. Her body was bent back 
over a rounded edge, her collar locked to the front 
vertical face of the block, her upper torso upside-down. 
Her arms were drawn along either side face of the block, 
and shackled to her ankle cuffs. She was blindfolded, 
and a thick rubber-coated ring gag filled her mouth. 
Apparently the block of stone was carefully sized, as a 
number of furrs had fucked her very exposed sex from a 
standing position, with little difficulty, while on the 
other side, kneeling furrs found her mouth at just the 
right height for her to service them that way. Her 
muscles were strained and cramped, and yet, as time went 
by, she realized there WAS a delicious component to it 
all. The way she was tied, she must be a sight! And she 
had to admit, she'd rather pass the time, using her 
tongue on some furr's sex, male or female, or better 
yet, have some anonymous male work his cock in and out 
of her pussy, than simply hang there, with nothing to 
distract her from her sore limbs and back...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I thought the author's voice was fresh and enthusiastic, 
without the labored seriousness of many fur stories, or 
the polished seriousness of BDSM ones. Its imagination 
and humor, in fact, are more reminiscent of a naughty 
cartoon or furry comic. I liked it, but the stories 
don't lend themselves to being read in one long draft. 
By the time I got to the self-bondage scenes in Chapter 
3 I was mighty tired. But in small doses the story is 
very enjoyable and I found myself forgetting the 
characters were furries after a while, save for the 
offhand mentions of paws or pelts. A furry, on the other 
hand, might see those same mentions as keeping the 
animal nature of the characters in mind. 

Recommended, even if you don't normally like furry 
stories, because it is the biggest and best furry space 
opera slave/bondage story on the net.  




Making the Passage With a Friend [A] 
Where found: Will's Creative Writing
URL: http://users.primus.host.com/~was1/Stories/PASSAGE.htm
Author: Will A. Sanborn
Type: M/F, rom, fur, dog

If is Kittiara is sprawling, undisciplined, and 
unpolished as a furotica writer, Will A. Sanborn is the 
opposite: his stories are very tight, controlled, and 
comparatively uncomplex. He is the more polished writer, 
but in fur, and in erotica in general, this isn't always 
to the advantage of a story, as excess of all kinds is 
what makes neterotica interesting.

Alfen is a young dingo, or Australian wild dog (once the 
domesticated pets of the aborigines) making his 
"walkabout" through the Australian wilderness, a journey 
familiar to anyone who's read the "The Celestine 
Prophecy" or seen the great Nicholas Roeg film of the 
same name. He has his fears and doubts about it, but is 
able to gain confidence when he kills a wild boar with 
the aid of a mysterious Dingo fem. Later the two become 
lovers, bedding down for the night:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Their kiss lasting a small eternity, she slowly pulled 
away from him to look up at him once again, a quiet 
desire and admiration flickering in her eyes. Smiling at 
him, she silently reached out to play with the laces 
holding his tunic closed. Pulling at the knots, she 
slowly undid them one by one, stopping at the one at his 
waist, to then part the folds of the leather and reveal 
his fur to her.

Working the garment over his shoulders and down his 
arms, being very careful of the tender wound there, she 
soon had him bare to the waist. Running her fingers 
gently through the white fur of his belly and chest, she 
giggled as he moaned softly to her touches. Running his 
hands through her hair once again, playing with the 
soft, light-brown locks that ran in gentle, flowing 
waves, he scratched behind one of her ears and smiled 
back at her. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This was a more simple tale than the Tanj story, as many 
of this author's fur stories seem to be; he has written 
at least 50 of them, many of them presenting different 
sexual encounters between species, such as a man 
kidnapped by alien wolf fems, or a young mage forced to 
serve a humanoid dragon. Though all were well done for 
what they were, particularly the descriptions of the 
furs, there was something missing in them for me. 
Perhaps they were too edited and labored over (from his 
site he also writes for mainstream SF publications) 
without the individuality of authorial voice that there 
was, perhaps inadvertently, in the "Tanj" tales and the 
Divigon stories below.

However, this less -- extreme, let's say -- style would 
be appealing to readers who may not like the more wild 
or cliquish aspects of furry fandom, such as the rampant 
polyamory, the cartoonish plotlines, and the in-jokes. 
What he writes are basically romantic encounter stories 
with protagonists who are a little bit different, and 
they are recommended if you like the idea of fur but are 
unsure of where to start.




Birthday Surprise [B/B-] 
Where found: Hedonism's Ophidian Haunt
URL: http://users.transfur.com/Hedonism/stories/d_birthd.htm
Author: Divigon
Type: M/M, cons, fur, cetacean

Scaley [B+] 
Where found: Hedonism's Ophidian Haunt
URL: http://users.transfur.com/Hedonism/stories/d_SCALEY.htm
Author: Divigon
Type: M/F, fur, dragon, mc, slave, herm, SF

In my reading I've found that most fur stories 
concentrate on animals that can be easily translated to 
anthropoid terms, those who have entertained us through 
centuries of legend and myth, and Disney and anime 
offerings in the modern day. Generally, this means 
mammals with prehensile limbs like raccoons or 
squirrels; animals related to those kept as pets, like 
canids and rabbits; and glamorous predators known for 
their fur, like snow leopards and tigers. There are a 
fair amount of serpent, crocodile, and dragon folk 
represented, and avian ones such as hawks or griffons; 
horses and unicorns are seen occasionally, but you don't 
come across anthropomorphized pigs very often, or 
salamanders, or shrews. This story was unusual in that 
it featured cetaceans ("phins.") 

As with every story featuring fur protags certain 
liberties must be taken with nature to anthropomorphize 
them and in many cases these attempts were more 
interesting to me as a reader than stories themselves. 
This being a story about cetaceans, the author had a lot 
of postulating to do, not least of it how these 
creatures communicate by sonar and have sex in an 
underwater setting. Alas, the author wasn't quite up to 
the challenge, and the phins came across more like human 
beings wearing dolphin masks with pointy fins glued to 
their backs: 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"Happy Birthday!" he shouted, blowing the party whistle 
through his blowhole.

The orca took a step backward in surprise.  The sight of 
a dolphin in a party hat not exactly what he had 
expected.

"Devon, what the hell do you think you are doing?" he 
asked gesturing for the phin to enter.

"Just wishing you a happy birthday," said the 
perpetually grinning dolphin.  "Surprised to see me?"

The dolphin put the present on the table then gave the 
orca a tight hug.

"How you been old boy?" he asked, sliding his hands over 
the larger mammal's sleek back.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I was mightily mystified by this opening passage, as 
cetaceans do not have hands and arms, or (later on) 
shoulders and biceps, as far as I can see. And how the 
hell can they walk around and sit on a couch if they 
don't have legs? Or wear a pair of speedos if they don't 
have hips?

I realize, not being into furry fandom myself, that I 
don't have the right to dictate how furries should "see" 
themselves when role-playing their respective personas, 
but if you're going to write a story about it that 
others might read I suggest you make it clear from the 
get-go exactly what kind of creature you are, so readers 
don't get confused. OK?

I don't mean to rag on the author too much, though, 
because he does try for the unusual and has one hell of 
an imagination. The creatures were better delineated in 
another short story he wrote on the same site, "Scaley," 
where a Terran man is kidnapped by a reptilian alien 
princess and transformed into a hermaphroditic, mind-
controlled, dragonoid bondage slave, complete with 
lactating teats:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"Oooh," she giggled. "Mammalian, how cute..."  

Tom suddenly became aware of a tautness in his chest and 
his  attention was reluctantly drawn away from the scent 
which held him  captive. Looking down he watched his 
chest swell, pushing out  into a definite pair of 
feminine breast with large nipples made  from tiny 
scales which stuck out proudly before him. For a moment  
he was strangely happy, then he became aware they were 
still  growing... Finally they stopped, a huge pair of 
tits protruding  form his chest, pulling down on him. He 
let out another meep of  surprised and watched as a 
dribble of milk ran down the cracks in  his scales out 
of view.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The Hedonism site, on which both these stories were 
found, seems to specializes in the more extreme sorts of 
furry tales; one of them, "Baeral Milkmaid" (written by 
Hedonism himself) features humans enslaved by furries 
and scalies and reduced to a form of intelligent 
barnyard animal to give both milk and egg products; 
there's unbirthing scenes as well -- unbirthing being a 
comparatively new form of fetish featuring adult 
organisms climbing back into their mothers' wombs -- and 
various transformations between humans and animals, even 
a bit of mind control. You can't get any more wilder 
than that, can you?




Herbal Lupine [A-] 
Where found: Narzil's Transformation and Satyr Pages
URL: http://users.transfur.com/narzil/stories/herbal.html
Author: Narzil Blade
Type: M/M, cons, fur, werewolf, magic

Kyle and Simon are a gay couple who like to get away 
from it all at their country cabin on the weekends. On 
one trip they stop at a country store to pick up extra 
supplies and spot a mysterious box of tea called Herbal 
Lupine (a pun on the flower and the Latin word for wolf 
I suppose.) It's obviously magical because the store 
manager can't remember putting it there, but the two buy 
it anyway. Later, when they each brew a cup on a moonlit 
night, its effects become known: "They pressed their 
eager muzzles together, tilting them, licking and 
nibbling one another's faces; slipping their long canine 
tongues into each others' mouths and across sharp new 
teeth... They could smell the closeness of their bodies, 
the warmth of their mate's fur, the strength in their 
shoulders, arms and chest."

Compared to the phin fantasy the story was a more 
successful handling of the various permutations between 
(gay) human and wild animal, and how each of those 
stages experiences its sexuality. Most of the story was, 
in fact, taken up with these permutations, so it 
couldn't be said to be much of a story. But the writing 
was detailed enough to be interesting, if overearnest in 
the way I have found many fur fics to be. When the two 
have changed completely, 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Together they sped, out of the living room, through the 
bedroom. Onto the bed, across to the open window, and 
out. The storm front had passed, the dark clouds pulling 
away to the east, leaving open sky behind. Beautiful 
stars glittered like diamonds, brighter than they had 
ever seen them before, and the moon, the oh so beautiful 
moon, making their hearts sing in the night. The two 
wolf lovers chased one another, horny and lustful, 
dashing, running, growling, howling. Across the fields 
and through the forest, wet grass under their paws. They 
knew they would have to return before dawn. But tonight, 
they were wolves, and would be as wolves as much as they 
could, a new life. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Awww, what a *happy* ending! 




How Coyote Married a Man [A+] 
Where found: Furry Pleasures
URL: http://www.yiff.nu/Gay/coyote.txt
Author: Aethan
Type: M/M, cons, fur, coyote, tg, Native American myth, 
  humor

This was one of best fur stories I've read. Not 
surprising as Native American myth contains all sorts of 
references to supernatural sentient animals, as well as 
a dreamtime past when all humans had some qualities of 
animal in them. These myths are custom-made for fur.

This story read so smoothly and completely like one of 
those myths it almost could have come from a book of 
them; the author did an outstanding job of capturing the 
tone, subject matter, and even the crazy sense of humor. 
He or she must have studied those myths very closely to 
come up with a pastiche like this. Coyote is the 
trickster of Native American myth, a godlike being 
nonetheless prone to the venal human emotions of pride 
and greed. Wanting to have a tribal feast in his honor 
(for he likes food and is always hungry) he spies upon 
an Indian brave, Proud Elk, who has been refusing the 
suit of the young women of his village. Wanting to take 
him down a peg or two Coyote disguises himself as a 
maiden named Laughing Fox to seduce him; Proud Elk, 
being closeted and not realizing it, falls for the 
"princess" hook, line and sinker. Apparently his people 
lack good sex education, for he doesn't realize Coyote 
is male even after their wedding night:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Proud Elk smiled, a little coyly. "I have never seen a 
woman naked," he admitted. "What are you like under your 
clothing?"

"Oh, uh...much the same as you," Coyote said with a 
nervous grin. He stroked his paw along the large shaft 
in his hand. "Only smaller."

"Show me!" Proud Elk commanded, lust in his eyes. Coyote 
meekly obeyed, stripping out of everything. Proud Elk 
was fascinated. "Why you're just like a man!" Coyote 
blushed. "I'm pleased," said Proud Elk, drawing him 
closer.

Coyote succumbed to his "husband's" caresses, his back 
arching when Proud Elk's hands slid down to caress his 
buttocks. Almost involuntarily, Coyote began to kiss and 
lick at Proud Elk's throat. Some part of his mind kept 
insisting, "Just to make the trick better!"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Mistaken-identity hilarity ensues, as well as 
realization from both characters that they enjoyed the 
encounter. Later the story develops truly touching 
qualities as the two fall in love, the promiscuous, 
bisexual, immortal Coyote realizing eventually he's 
unsuited to life with the mortal brave. 

This was very good story for both its pastiche qualities 
and its human ones; it tried to be something more than a 
furry encounter, something greater. After reading it, 
though, I'm still not sure if the tale is an actual one 
or not... perhaps, at one time, passed around by the 
elders of the tribe after the kids had gone to bed. 




Sealoque - The Beginning [B-] 
Where found: Moon Dragon's Erotica
URL: http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/MoonDragon/www
Author: Moon Dragon
Type: M/F, F mast, oral, fur, dragon, viol, mystery

Sometimes you find fur -- or in this case, scale -- in 
the strangest places. This was found on an author's site 
who as far as I know is not affiliated with any of the 
fur ones. It's the first part of a longer novel about 
two weredragons, Sealoque and Neila, lovers who can take 
on human form, and their modern-day battle against 
Blakfyre, an evil druid. It read very much like a 
legitimate fantasy novel, one that perhaps the writer 
had been workshopping for a while, a supernatural urban 
fantasy with touches of mystery, romance, mythical 
creatures, bid a' wee Irish and Celtic themes, and 
suspense. This sounds like a sure fire recipe for 
commercial success, but the author couldn't leave things 
alone and inserted a number of gratuitous sex scenes:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Neila jerked her hips as the tongue as thick as three of 
her fingers thrusted in and out of her slick pussy. She 
was close to the edge, and when the dragon's tongue 
pulled out of her trembling cunt to make tiny circles 
around her clit she nearly went all the way over. She 
had always been impressed by her clit, when she was 
aroused it peeked out of its hood and swelled as big as 
the end of her thumb. She hadn't ever seen another 
womans pussy to compare it to, but she understood that 
hers was slightly larger than average. Regardless of its 
size it was now the target of a relentless attack as 
Sealoque beat a steady rhythm with his tongue. 

"Mmmm! Ooh yeah," she moaned, "I want ye to make me cum 
baby. I'm almost there. Do it baby, do it for me. Make 
me... Ungh, ungh! Aaaaaaaaah!" 

As her pussy began to spasm wildly, Neila wailed out her 
climax and her thighs locked around the dragons face, 
with her hips jerking out of control until her orgasm 
subsided.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sheesh, is she dead from pleasure yet?

Anyway, I said gratuitous in reference to the sex scenes 
because they were so disconnected from the rest of the 
story -- and the mainstream tone the author was careful 
to build up -- that they came off as ridiculous, 
smacking of the most tired, stereotypical porn cliches 
out there, the kind where the characters are cumming 
buckets and scream it. Later a jarringly introduced 
teenage character, the would-be ward of the weredragons, 
masturbates herself for no reason at all, observed by 
the female weredragon (whose speech patterns resemble 
those of that annoying Irish chick on "Touched by an 
Angel") who masturbates in response, also for no reason 
at all.

This was an acceptable idea for a fantasy novel that 
could have been either commercial-mainstream or erotic, 
but not both, at least not in this way. The passages 
involving the human and dragon were unusual, but dull 
compared to the other fur I've read, which, while it can 
be silly at times (as in the phin story) can also 
display some truly creative erotic writing. The filler 
material, on the other hand, wasn't erotic or sexual at 
all and read like it came from a different book. 

In sum, the story wasn't bad, but the attempts to sex it 
up were, as the author didn't seem to know what he or 
she was doing. 



DVD Review: Bjork's Greatest Hits, Volumen 1993 - 2003

If there was ever a recording artist said to be fur it 
would be Bjork. Her videos from the start have shown a 
fascination with the erotic qualities of the natural 
world as well as a playful use of state-of-the-art CGI 
effects, with a wink or two along the way at "National 
Geographic" type television documentaries; much of the 
imagery also evinces a tension between civilization and 
nature, nature and man's computer simulations of nature, 
and conscious, stylized eroticism with basic animal 
reproductive urges. I don't know if all these makes any 
sense, but it does make the videos weirdly watchable, 
true works of art in a way that very few rock videos are 
these days. All are worth repeated watchings even if you 
are not a fan of Bjork or her music. Who knows, she may 
grow on you. I was not a fan of hers, but after watching 
the DVD, I grew to appreciate her a little more, and 
will be checking out her recorded material. If a video 
can inspire you to do that, it's done its work.

The DVD was a collection of videos from the years 1993 
to 2003. Seeing them together one becomes aware of the 
repeated images in her work: light bulbs, flying 
insects, bears or bearlike wild creatures, mouths and 
teeth, cyborg limbs, the liquid excreta of the body. 
Some of these themes are evident in her earliest video, 
"Human Behavior," which shows her being menaced by a 
Godzilla-like felt Teddy Bear who later eats her; 
another video, "The Hunter," features a Bjork in a 
baldcap who periodically sprouts, via CGI effects, 
metallic blue armor over her face which gradually 
coalesces into the visage of a high-tech grizzly bear. 
In this video she keeps an impish smile on her face 
throughout despite the intensity and seriousness of the 
song, as if reveling in miracles of computer technology 
and what it can do. Other nature themes occur in "Nature 
is Ancient" and "Ioga." In "Nature is Ancient" two 
microscopic pond organisms (again, sophisticated 
computer simulations) perform what seems to be a 
tentative mating dance, surprisingly sensual in an odd 
way, which leads at the end to the generation of a fetus 
inside one of them with Bjork's features. "Ioga" also 
uses high-powered image generation to create a series of 
landscapes reminiscent, with their tundra, ice bogs, and 
volcanic ridges, of Bjork's native Iceland, the effect 
again surprisingly sensual.

Not only does Bjork do fur, she also ranges into other 
fetish genres. She is not afraid to bare her body for 
purposes of artistic expression, though with the years 
she has become more Earth goddess than spright. "All is 
Full of Love," with its two humanoid industrial robots, 
each with a seamless integration of Bjork's face, does 
for ASFR what "The Hunter" does for fur, showing the 
robots kissing and caressing each other as pointed 
instruments lube their joints. It's at once touching and 
spooky, grandiose and winsome. "Cocoon" (directed by the 
great Japanese production designer Eiko Ishioka, who did 
art direction for the movie "The Cell") does the same 
for mummy fantasies: a nude, geisha-wigged Bjork, 
powdered to look like one of the members of the Butoh 
dance troop, generates twirling crimson lines out of the 
nipples of her exposed breasts like animated redvines, 
the strands cocooning her toe to head throughout the 
song, which by her gestures she seems to welcome. In 
"Pagan Poetry" the fetish is piercing: in one of those 
CGI effects she loves, video images are run through a 
Sobel manipulation giving tantalizing hints of nipples 
being pierced with beaded strings. At the end there's a 
closeup of a back pierced with parallel rows of rings, a 
ribbon laced up corset-style between them.

Definitely recommended for some interesting watching.

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