Long ago, I stumbled over an infographic (though I don’t think anybody called them that, it was so long ago) on how to tie a Japanese rope bondage harness. Only trouble was, with the blogging tools back then I only knew how to use things that were small enough to be cropped or reduced to 320 pixels wide; plus, it was an ugly graphic (because somebody had slapped a nasty repeating watermark all over it). No matter, I was all “Woo, bondage! Must be edgy and post about it!” Hey, I was a newbie, and this was 2003 — kink still had a smidge more of a taboo edge back then.

So I fired up my primitive cropping tools, did the best I could, and made a post, with a poorly-cropped thumbnail and a link to the ugly over-watermarked monstrosity. But I wasn’t ever really happy about that post — the graphic was poor quality and my thumbnail was even worse.

Fortunately, the internet is like the ocean; if you wait long enough, it will eventually wash treasures up on your beach. Today’s treasure was a huge, clear, bright and unsullied .jpg of the same infographic that I butchered so badly back then. So, seven years later, I went back and updated the post:

Japanese Bondage Illustrated