Some weird Day-Old Thoughts on Week-Old Stories about Snippets from a Multiverse.

The characters of Geraldine Linventeur and Daphne Miller may be familiar to some of you from my Mind Control University story, though no prior knowledge is required here.

Eee^eeehhh... I suppose. I guess I can't really say for sure, since I've probably read at least a hundred thousand words of MCU (or however many it was up to Truce Week, when I burned out on the genre altogether), but there's a lot of context to this one that, if you don't have it, will probably make this story sound like nonsense. Who is Geraldine? Who's Daphne? What's their relationship, that one would perform cartoon villainy just to give the other a nice gift? I know, but how could someone who isn't into MCU expected to know (or care) about any of that?

That said, it was nice to get a taste of the old MCU again. Fantastic folks in that community, back in the day. Memers and shitposters nonpareil. I think this board could learn a thing or two from them.

Quote from: MCaesar on January 05, 2020, 03:26:50 am

Read Test Cases. Have a few Thoughts.

I feel like I've read a hundred stories about women staring at screens, getting horny and brainwashed. Never gets old. The antics of the two nerds in charge of the brainwashing made it stand out a little in a fun way.

It's often interesting to me to focus on the controllers, even while the story focuses on the affected. There are a few more Test Cases to come, at least until I feel I'm no longer saying more.

I did have an inkling that there might be more. It was open-ended, even though there weren't any specific loose ends.

I have exactly one thing to say about Adoring My Robot Overlord.

It's very, delightfully British.

Okay, maybe more than one thing. For a dystopian world, it actually felt kind of... light. Like a silly dystopia. And I do love robots. Didn't push too many of my buttons, personally, but it was fun and competently done.

Thoughts on I’m Coming 4 U by Jukebox, as well as the 4U series overall:

First, the stories give off a really cool spy vibe, like the Bourne movies but with less shaky cam and the protagonist is a sex slave. Second, I think the setting is fascinating, and we get a big exposition dump in this installment to break open all the little cracks and glimpses we've gotten into the history of the MK Perfect conspiracy. And for once, the "cabal of sinister mind controllers" trope plays out to it's logical conclusion, where one person decides they just want to be the only one at the top. I feel like there are too many shadowy cabals made up of megalomaniacal mind controller that all seem to share and get along fine, and that always breaks my immersion unless it's addressed.

And last, but the opposite of least, the way that 4U works through her programming in all sorts of situations. Rarely is a brainwashed character so aware of their own brainwashing, and so deftly able to dance around the cognitive dissonances that arise from conflicting programming. It's fun to watch. The pleasure component of the brainwashing sometimes feels kind of pushed to the background, and some of the sex scenes feel a little tacked on as an afterthought. That just might be me, though. I feel like all the hottest stuff is going on in 4U's head.

Resolutions (Trixie Adara) (mc ff ex hm) (new)  by Trixie Adara
Four friends drunkenly make New Year’s Resolutions which will turn out to drastically control their lives in the coming weeks and months.

This probably was the intent of the author to portray as such, but I always found New Year's Resolutions to be a joke. People will put all this thought into doing something positive, only to just not do it. I personally made a Resolution years ago to not do Resolutions! So, having women actually follow erotically charged Resolutions can only be a farce. Even the first part, which largely introduced this whole thing, delivered, in albeit more intriguing than hot ways. The Resolutions themselves were not erotically charged, but it seems instead that the interpretation of them became erotic. I'll look forward to more.