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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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[blushingflower]

Well, Dollhouse is basically all about mind control. I know a lot of people find the consent issues really squicky, but the chair they use to wipe minds would work.

Twilight has what cleolinda termed "fursplosion" when the werewolves turn from human into animal. (cf. the flying leap transformation that takes place starting circa 0:47 of this video. I suggest watching it on mute)

Also, you should use Beast from the X Men for something, possibly furries or something, because he's wonderful and covered in blue fur.

I feel like there's some non-genre show I like where there's a bit about touching someone's clothing b/c it's so soft or something, but I can't remember precisely what it is at the moment. I will get back to you if it comes to me. Otherwise, I think our fandoms line up enough that I don't know of anything I expect you don't already know about.

[eruthros]

That is an AWESOME fursplosion! And Beast is a great idea; I love him to pieces.

Even within my biggest fandoms, I totally forget important scenes -- brainstorming is hard!

[blushingflower]

So, for BtVS there's are several scenes of various people chained or tied up: Angel, Faith, Giles are the images that come to mind. Also VampWillow and her universe for leather (and one of the greatest lines: "in my world, there are people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies" which is actually somewhat true of my world). And of course Spike handcuffing Buffy during the scene where the house falls down around them when they have sex. Also stills of Faith holding the knife the Mayor gave her would be great images for knifeplay (and staying in the Whedonverse for weapons, Jayne from Firefly sure does love his guns...). And Xander with Dracula would work for mind control. Plus there's canonical werewolves.

My favorite White Collar scene is the one where Peter handcuffs Neal to the chair and tells him not to pick the lock and Neal listens.

Harry Potter has mind control via the Imperius curse.

There's also a scene in Make It or Break It (ridiculous ABCFamily show about gymnasts that is very problematic in the way it deals with sex but appeals to my love of cheesy dance movies) that has a very D/s obedience thing between the coach and one of the gymnasts. He tells her that she's "like a dog that won't stay" because she won't trust and let someone else tell her what to do. And then this happens (start at 5:17). Yeah, she's underage, but they throw around words like "obedience" and "surrender" and my brain goes certain places, I can't help it.

Fraggle Rock doesn't have mind control, but it does have Convincing John, who can talk you into anything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3WTuZxi0gM (Her hands are in cups b/c he convinced her it was a good idea). Also the Fraggles frequently end up in cages, which is a kind of bondage.

Rory ends up blindfolded in this Gilmore Girls episode (she actually finds the blindfold in her room with instructions to put it on and meet at a specific location/time, which is what you see in the beginning of that video). I feel like there are other blindfold moments in the show as well. There's also a bit where Rory's in the library looking up Henry James passages to find inspiration for sexy text messages to Logan (and then when he calls her later, she complains that she doesn't have her books/notes and therefore can't talk dirty, basically).

[eruthros]

That Peter/Neal scene is so hot -- it's the reminder of the handcuffs, and Peter's instruction, and Neal's obedience to the spirit of the order even while he's thinking of the ways he could ignore the letter of it. It makes me go \o/

I haven't seen Doppelgangland in a long time; clearly I should check it out again! And thanks for the other fandom recs :)

[blushingflower]

Also, I've been watching the first season of Lost. There's lots of people being tied up with rope, some scenes that would work for knifeplay or gunplay (the scene where they open up Locke's knife case I was just like "Oh, those are some pretty knives Mr. Locke..."). Also Kate/Sawyer for lots of wrestling, rough play and people being held down.