Crystal Knight. Yet More Appreciation

Crystal Knight, yet more appreciation

My usual pornstar obsession waxes and wanes. There's an initial rush of enthusiasm and euphoria. She's amazing! She's perfect! Find everything she's ever done! Then it fades, sometimes down to a confused, "What did I ever see in her?".  At least that's how it goes for me, probably evidence of my low character. 

But with some stars it's different. The obsession waxes, wanes and then waxes the fuck back up again. "OhMiGod, how did I not see that she's this good?" Over and over again. As the amazing Crystal Knight says, "Caught in the endless cycle."

I already wrote a long, rambling appreciation of Crystal back in 2021. Go read it here. In that, I tried to spell out what makes her so different and so good at her craft. 

What was missing from that piece, was a recounting of her evolution over the five years she's been releasing material. The Crystal of 2022 is very different to the Crystal of 2017 and between those dates there have been many other Crystals. Styles, looks, content, formats, tones have been added or altered. In truth, her evolution has been more like the development of a myriad of personas and styles that she adopts, perfects, and then discards as she pleases.

I have nearly 300 of her videos, a little over ten percent of the 2,863 that she currently has on IWantClips. Obviously, I've chosen ones I like, so it's not a perfectly representative sample, but I have enough, and spread over her career to date, to be able to identify the broadly different phases she's gone through. 

There's two aspects to these phases, the physical and the performative. Crystal has changed her appearance many times. Not just her hair and makeup - I think she's had surgery on her face and body more than once. She looks quite different now than when she started, although she's always been stunningly beautiful. At the same time, she's changed how she makes the videos and the content of them. Her manner changes, her vocabulary, her tone of voice. How she moves, how she sits or stands, or the backdrop where she films.

There are distinct styles she has tried out and used for a long or short time. And they don't all remain in her rotation. She prunes them. For instance, there was a particular style she used a lot in 2019, crouching in front of her long red couch, her hair in a soft wave. These are particularly mean. She favoured tight corsets or body suits and the topics include training and slavery, often with a bitchy or very mean element. She dropped the setting in 2020 and her look changed along with it. That's not to say that there are always such strong dividing lines in time. She always mixes up content and setting, outfit and look, but new styles appear in her roster, are prominent for a while and then disappear. Always different, always the same.

So these phases overlap and merge and continue. They're not sudden shifts, but from one year to the next there are styles and looks that are distinctive to that period.

[Edit: Reading back over what follows, I'm slightly uncomfortable at my commenting on her appearance, especially her weight. I'm just trying to describe how her look changes, I'm always in awe of how she looks and her weight doesn't matter. I think she looks just how she wants to look. I wouldn't dream of criticising. Also, I don't know for sure if Crystal has had surgery - apart from some work she had done on her nose in 2021, which she posted pics of. Again, it shouldn't need to be said. Her body, her life. Anyone can do anything to their own body. I'm trying to tread a fine line between describing her look, which I find fascinating, and commenting on it. Again, her body, her life.]

2015-2017 Soft, Thin and Hesitant.

I only have a couple of dozen of scenes from this period. She's clearly developing her style. It's great, but she doesn't have the adamantine confidence of later videos. Also, she's moving around a lot more in front of the camera and she hasn't perfected her outfit or makeup choice. Some videos from this time have no femdom element at all - they're really softcore stripping videos.

She's very thin and very often dark., though there's the occasional blonde period. In fact, in her earlier videos her hair colour changes more frequently than later on.

These early videos aren't so well lit as later on, but the most noticeable difference is the sound. There's always a distinct background purr and a lot of echo. She will take some time to make this better.

Early on. Crystal wears a lot of bikinis and often she's standing up. To be honest, these are not my favorites but there are occasional flashes of the brilliance that she will later hone to a fine edge.

Some time near the end of 2017 I think she has some surgery done, or she just hits a new makeup style, I really can't say, but there's a point where she starts to look different and suddenly her confidence is much higher, and after this point, it's all femdom. 

2018 Dark, Thick and Adventurous.

Who wouldn't want to be good for her?

Until October 2018, Crystal's hair is dark and she begins a series of much stronger worded videos. She's not telling you to jerk for her, she's graciously allowing you to do so. Most of her videos are shot from a  kneeling or crouching position, or she's standing, looking down at a much lower camera and she stays there. I think her body is a little heavier than most of the earlier years, though obviously she's still utterly perfect, and she begins to vary her themes and key styles more. 

Here's a good standing example from this period. 'Be a Good Cuckold For Me.' Flawless outfit - it appears in many videos. The hairstyle is also one she favours in the period as well as the foot of her four-poster bed. Also, the gravity-defying thong bikini which she wears in a bunch of other clips.

More typical is this one, 'Sports Bra Jerk Off Encouragement'. Kneeling, no background and dark makeup. This has the perfect matter of fact line. "You need to jerk, harder. And you're going to." 

That's a rare case where Crystal films in front of some sort of plain background. Most of the time she films in a recognisable room - a sitting room or a hall. You feel you're very intimately invited into her home. 

You need to jerk. Harder.

I think 2018 is the period I have most videos for, and definitely the most favorites, like the amazing 'My words can make you do anything.' For this post, I watched almost all of them again, and I think it was during this year that she moved from performing her scripts - amazingly well - to really believing them. In 'My Words ..." She says "You need this feeling. And you're going to crave it." The whole video is shot in close-up - she barely moves. Her eyes are locked on the viewer's. She speaks slowly, with authority and real tenderness. She's not merely performing, she's creating the role and inhabiting it. She is Crystal and she is literally irresistible.

My Words Can Make You Do Anything. 

2019 : Honey Tresses of Pure Evil

Mid 2019, Crystal goes through around six months of a consistent hairstyle. At times the blonde highlights are more prominent, but in the main, she seems to have found a style she likes for quite a while. Also, some time in 2019, her face changes again. I think she has something done to her cheekbones,  or again, maybe it's just a more consistent makeup style. All I know is she looks different again.  

This is the red couch period, many of the clips from this time are filmed in front of a long red couch with the lips painting in the background. On the settee, she can sit, kneel or crouch in front of it, or even lie down. My own directory from this period is a deep red from all the red couch videos, one after another. 

Peak 'Red Couch' Period. How can you say no to this face?

It's a very prolific period, where she's posting multiple clips per week and many of them are custom videos. In style, she's now favouring much harsher content. But for Crystal, most often, that means a softer tone, an even gentler voice to deliver her excruciating lines. 'In Your Head' is a great example, or the devastating 'Once a Loser, Always a Loser.'

In Your Head. And your Soul.

A personal favourite here near the tail end of 2019 is 'Extremely Hot Home Wrecking.' Not a theme I usually go for, but her performance in this one is outstanding. When she says "Make Mommy Proud" she is just perfection. Confidence and authority just emanates from her. It feels like she will melt the camera with her raw power.

Do anything to make Mommy proud.

2020 The Dark Doorway to Slavery

I think Crystal moves into a new house near the end of 2019. Some settings seem to disappear around then, or get gradually faded out. Her favourite setting is before dark curtains in front of an archway. And she's changed appearance again, back to a much slimmer figure, either through surgery or dieting I don't know, but the look change coincides with a sudden expansion in topics covered. 

Mesmerisation has never been so hypnotic.

It's around this time that she begins to do her mesmerisation, mind-fuck videos. They aren't as well developed in style as they will later become, but this is where they begin. Also, more videos are much closer to the camera. Leaning in and licking or kissing the lens in extreme close up becomes much more common and the distance between Crystal and her viewer shrinks to almost nothing. 

Fuck You.

Findom had been a common theme in all Crystal's videos to this point but during this time it becomes an element of almost every video and she begins to produce ever more explicit findom clips. Her 'If you buy this' series, which she'd started in 2019, really takes off in this time. She's now made 60 of these which are composed entirely of clips of Crystal flipping the bird and saying "fuck you" in a variety of outfits.

Worship is a euphoric release. 

But as well as all this, there's a very telling video from 2020 - 'Training your positive femdom addiction.' 

But first, an aside. I think there's  three kinds of scripts that Crystal works from. First, are the customs. Here, she has some phrases and bullet-points she's working in. Maybe a full script from a subscriber. You can tell these apart from the others, as Crystal's eyes will flick to the script every now and again. It's subtle, but when you're staring at her face, you notice. Also, there will be hints in her monologue, more laboured points, maybe a little hesitancy. And within the video there may be noticeable edit points where she's had to stop and restart. 

Then, there's the more common clips where she's written something herself. She clearly has a theme, some phrases she's going to use, and maybe even some specifics, possibly an outline script. There's less hesitancy, it all flows better, and she's way more comfortable with her performance. 

Then there's the ones where she has started filming with some idea, and she just extemporises around the theme. These are rare, but much more noticeable. No eye-flicks and no hesitation. She just lets it all fall out of her. I think, if I'm right, that these show a lot about how Crystal feels about her work. 'Training your positive femdom' is one of these. It's worthwhile quoting one passage at length.

"You're so tired of hearing “Fuck you. Pay me.” as every girl's answer, to any question you send. There's such a difference when you're with me. It's such a euphoric feeling. So much pleasure. No degrading at all, because I know that I can get in your head. And I can own, control and dominate you without having to be a bitch. 

You need to learn something subby. So many of you do. Being nice does not make you submissive. Being kind and sensual does not make me submissive in the slightest. Do you see one thing on my body that’s submissive? Do you hear one thing I say that’s submissive? No, because I'm not. I just know the secret that nobody else tells you. You don't have to be a bitch to be dominant.

In fact, being a bitch means you're trying to prove something. It means that you are trying to show the world how strong you are by saying stupid things. I don't have to do that. Now, don't get me wrong. Some of my boys love humiliation, and being degraded all day, every day. But the reason I'm so successful and the reason I do so well is because I'm not that way.

I can appeal to that fetish. I can appeal to the desire for humiliation. But 99% of Crystal’s army, prefer me, the exact same way that you do. You just didn't realize how sensual I really am until you watch these Positive Femdom videos. Then you learned it's not about calling you a loser. It’s about telling you I want you to be a good boy for me."

She says all this without a single eye-flick or hesitation. She's just spelling it all out. I've said elsewhere that I think Crystal feels different to other performers. I think this is why. She loves dominating her boys, but she shifted from being just good to being outstanding, when she began to let her own feelings show in her videos. These positive femdom videos and her most luxurious mesmerising videos feel most true to her. She looks like she's enjoying recording them. She talks about 'Her Boys' so warmly that listening feels like the warmest, softest embrace. 

Of course, maybe I'm imagining all this and Crystal is just a great performer. But I can't shake the idea that after nearly three thousand videos, she must feel something about her work and her fans. I think, in the above passage there's a hint that this is the real Crystal. 

Crystal just wants you to feel good.

2021 Her Voice Consumes Your Soul

I think, some time in 2021 Crystal gets a better recording and editing setup. Her voice is clearer and softer and the audio level is more consistent. The dark doorway is still there, and the red couch features every now and again but she's rarely standing up.

This is the period when her tone becomes even more alluring and insidious.  Breathy, slow and intimate, she leans into the camera, exuding power and confidence. "Tell me you love me." She suggests in 'Fall into Trance' and you find that it's become impossible to resist her, even if you wanted to.

It's all so slow and unhurried. The viewer finds themselves drawn into the warm, enclosing space she has created for her subjects. Her suggestions, her commands, are so compelling and arousing that you truly find yourself willing to do anything she asks. Jerk for her for hours? Beg for her strap-on? Leave your wife? Leave your job? Pay her all your money? Eat your own cum? You would be crazy not to. It truly begins to feel like a privilege to obey her.

Her real gift, I think, is that she grants the viewer - her boy - the permission to jerk off to her. She truly encourages you to sink deeper into adoring bliss for her. There's a trust, a compact. You both agree that she is magnificent, her viewer, worthless. And thus in agreement, everything is possible. You can both revel in her utter beauty and her boy's desperate longing.

It's all so languid and unhurried. Crystal has learned to use her voice, her manner and her movements to create an atmosphere and a mood that is utterly compelling. It's subtle and effortless. She's still labelling some videos 'mesmerisation' but really, it's all mesmerising. Even something as mean as 'Jerk with your tears' is delivered in a soft tone. Brutal. Cutting. But so gently delivered. When she says "Nobody wants you. Nobody wants to fuck you. You're never the bully. You're the one that gets bullied." the whiplash between the words and her whispered delivery is torture. 

But it was after I saw her 'Being normal is boring' clip that I realised just how special Crystal is. She's like a cuckoo chick planted in your mind. She's so powerful, so greedy, that you can't help but fall in love with her even as she murders everything else that you care about, just to make more room for her, her, everything for her. "Being normal sucks." She says. "Why would you want to be normal, when you could be my sub?"

Being her sub feels like such a wonderful privilege. Really, it's everyone who has yet to discover her who is deserving of pity.

This theme, that a life jerking to Crystal is patently better than any vanilla relationship, is a constant presence. In 'Stay Single For Me' she really lays it out. "I want you to get five clips which you can spend the rest of your night with. Five clips that you can date all night long." This relationship is perfect.

2022 She Towers Over Your Prostrate Form.

Since I make PMVs, how the performer fits in the lens is very important to me. Crystal's clips fall into two broad categories here, standing and non-standing. Non-standing might include crouching, kneeling, lying or anything where Crystal is not on her feet, and very often she will shift position from one position to another, especially if she's performing with a couch or a seat. 

Standing though, is standing, often with a camera lower than waist-level and while she may move forward and back, she doesn't move from standing to any other position. She's always done these standing scenes, but in 2022 she noticeably increased the number of standing clips. At the same time, her variety and range of outfits seems to have shot up, and I think these developments are related, since when she buys a new outfit, standing position may well show it off best. 

And the new year seemed to show a great many new outfits. New lingerie, new bikinis. Dresses! Velvet bodysuits and leather bustiers! Romper suits and sheer baby-dolls. Crystal has never been shy about investing in clothes but the variety and range seemed to have moved up a couple of notches.

Right now, it's harder to see the edges of her latest development, but it is so good to follow her career as she hones her abilities and her range even further. 

I follow other femdom stars who produce similar content. I'm often surprised that they get more attention and more views than Crystal's content on IWantClips or OnlyFans. I can't help but think that this is intentional. She doesn't seem to attend shows, do interviews, or put herself out there just to gain attention. Her army is a secret army. She concentrates her time on filming and producing. I've commented before that the preparation for each clip must take a lot of effort. Hair, outfit and makeup alone probably takes half a day and that's without the setup and editing and producing it onto her different platforms. 

Conclusion.

I know almost nothing about Crystal Knight, the person, and trying to get inside the head of a performer only through their performance is an exercise in folly. Doubly so, when their entire performance is based around getting inside your head. 

What I do know of her, is all good. She is hardworking, conscientious and honest. The few fellow-fans I've talked to unanimously report how professional, kind and understanding she is. 

On the few occasions I've interacted with her, I've experienced the same. She is warm and considerate. She takes infinite care over what she's delivering and does so with a smile. In short, she makes you feel like a good boy.

The way she has developed her style and her content over seven years leads me to conclude that she must enjoy doing what she does. To have produced so much and so well, makes me believe that she feels affection and respect for her boys, her Crystal army. How could she be this good at it if she didn't feel something for her fans. She understands them, perfectly. She wants to make them feel good. She wants them to be good boys for her.