Writing Journal: I'm almost finished revising The Adjusters #35, and I'm about halfway done writing #36. It's going slowly, very slowly. Too slowly, in fact. But at least I know what #36 and #37 are all about, and #37 should be the end of Book III—unless it comes out too long, and then I'll have to push some kind of epilogue into #38. But I'd rather avoid doing that. And then, time to start or rather continue writing Book IV, where we catch up with Jenn, which will be a bitch to write for reasons all of its own...
I hope all of you that celebrated Thanksgiving earlier this week had a wonderful time. I certainly did.
As I feared I would be, I've been incredibly busy these last few weeks, so little time to catch up with smut. Thankfully, I have accumulated a bunch of links to mind-control stories that caught my eye in the past few months, and that you may also find interesting.
The first three are rather dark stories where a victim is turned helpless to resist either orders from others, or her own prurient impulses.
In Heat, by Rikimaru: “Tiffany is drugged by John.” Poor Tiffany, who hardly deserved her fate. But quite hot. (ASSTR and by extension the EMCSA has been having problems lately, so refresh often if there are issues accessing the existing seven parts of this story.)
Dare Me Not, by Vexcave: “Janine can't resist a dare after listening to an audio CD.” Poor Janine, who also hardly deserved her fate.
Bossing the Boss, by Fourscore: “Frustrated worker controls his controlling boss.” Poor Suzanne, who maybe deserved her fate a bit more.
Next up, a slightly different take on mind control. Becoming Dominant, by Dirtysillythoughts: “Casey learns of his power through a very sexy mentor.” This is all about Casey discovering he's a dominant, who can assert his will on others. But instead of going on a crazy binge screwing every girl he runs across, he's taken in by his stepmother who teaches him about his gift in a rather special way. Some very interesting scenes in here. The story seems to be ongoing.
Finally, this one is listed as mind control, but frankly, it's not really that. The author, Nsiom, justifies the label by saying that getting someone to do something that they would not do otherwise by offering them enough money is a form of mind control, but I don't buy it. Thankfully, I don't have to, because the story is great even without that label. It's Busford: “People will do anything for money.” Busford is a smug uncouth bastard, but he's got money, and he likes to use it to satisfy his baser instincts. And he's happy to share the wealth with his friends. Some sweetly twisted scenes in there that are almost more effective than had the author used straight-up mind control.
"Getting someone to do something that they would not do otherwise by offering them enough money is a form of mind control"
ReplyDeleteActually it is true if you think about. Lots of people are quite properly indoctrinated about importance of money, and don't realize that money is just a paper that matter as long as you have economy supporting this kind of currency around you. Out in the wild for example - You can't eat money, can't produce tools with money, can't produce resources with money, maybe you can use them to start fire - and that is it.
Believe it or not, I heard people saying that they want to go on the boat where rich people went instead of a boat where doctors, teachers and military personnel went, in sudden world flood scenario - "because they are reach, duh!". That is just crazy.
Yeah, that's a fair statement. I'm not going to deny that in practice yes you can coerce someone with enough money, of course. Just like you could with threats, although I guess people complain less when they're being bought than when they're being beaten.
DeleteBut I will venture that when one goes out to find some mind-control smut, they're looking for something different than monetary coercion.
Then again—maybe I'm just too narrow in my definitions.
It's all fascinating, anyways.