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[eruthros]

One of the things thingswithwings and I are trying to do with the kink_bingo wiki is to expand the fandoms, and more importantly the types of fandoms, that we depict in the images that accompany the text. The examples I come up with are almost always from my fannish history -- I can think of a Buffy example for anything -- and TVtropes is not always descriptive enough to be helpful.

So, in the interests of expanding the fandoms, I have some questions for you guys! I'd love to hear about examples from comics or live action tv or anime or movies or things you know I've seen or things you know I haven't seen. (Episode or issue names/numbers/plot summaries/some other way to find things would be helpful but isn't necessary.)

1. Animal-people! People who turn into animals, people who have animalistic features, people who wear animal outfits, people who act like animals a la Wolverine.

2. Bondage! Bondage is so easy to do that I always go "oh, whatever, any scene I've seen on tv," but really I ought to expand the fandoms. We'd love all kinds of bondage: straightjackets, handcuffs, chained up, complicated rope bondage, hogtied, tied to chairs, tied to someone else, anything.

3. Mind control! Or hypnosis or amnesia or anything similar.

4. Sensation play type stuff -- people brushed with needles or fur or enjoying their silk shirts or whatever. Or blindfolds! Blindfolds are good.

5. Anything that your fandom is really good at! Like, Star Trek TOS is hugely into mind control, and Veronica Mars is all over voyeurism, but I'd never have known that without watching those shows, so what am I missing from your favorite show?

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[giandujakiss]

If you don't use Legend of the Seeker for BDSM, leather anything, you will be guilty of serious fandom misconduct.

I don't know if it counts for mind control but in Lois and Clark there's an episode called Pheremone My Lovely where someone invents what is essentially a sex pollen perfume, and everyone goes wild.

Oh, oh - animals - how about the entire run of Beauty & the Beast (remember? from the 80s?) I link.

[eruthros]

I don't want to be guilty of fandom misconduct! I think that's at least a misdemeanor. Is there anything in particular that makes it a great fandom for leather? Do they just wear a lot of it? I haven't seen any of it at all, and I've missed fannish osmosis for it!

I think sex pollen probably goes under aphrodisiacs, though there's some overlap, but I'll check out that episode of Lois & Clark! Oooh, though, now that you say Lois & Clark I vaguely recall an episode where Superman is hypnotized or brainwashed or something into being a bad guy? Possibly?

[giandujakiss]

The entire premise of LOTS is that people get brainwashed to be slaves to certain women and bow to their every whim. Meanwhile, there's a group of leather clad dominatrix's who "train" men in their dungeons to be obedient and to become unable to separate pain from pleasure. I AM NOT FUCKING KIDDING. IT IS ALMOST TOO MUCH FOR ME BECAUSE I AM DELICATE.

I don't recall Superman being brainwashed to evil - there were clone versions of him. In L&C, Red kryptonite just made him apathetic - on Smallville it does make him evil, though. Or reckless. Not sure.

[eruthros]

... wow.