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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:11:37 -0400
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The Annex Reviews, 4/30/00
by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com)
Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh OR
http://home.aol.com/ladycyrrh
The stories:
The Kiss of Fire, Parts 1 and 2 (Juxian Tang): M/M, rape, h/c
Wendigo (Dorian Runninghawk): M/M, Native American, rape, sex
slavery, hist
Fuck Club (Edward Rider): M/F, femdom
Cold (Terri Madison): M/F teen, rape, oral, revenge
The Heir (Bliztenschnell): M/M, bi, mast, mystery
Tarzan and Terk (Argent AJ): M/F, first, Disney
The Kiss of Fire, Parts 1 and 2 [A]
Where posted: ASCEM
When posted: 3/20/00
Author: Juxian Tang
Address: juxiantang@hotmail.com
Website: http://internetdump.com/users/juxian/fiction.html
Since my comments about fanfic in the 4/10/00 Annex I've delved
deeper into the steamy underside of slash, and slash writers, and in the
process discovered what amounts to a new fetish, or genre of sex story:
the M/M rape/abuse/pain tale, written by mostly straight females, for
mostly straight females. Leaving off, for the moment, what that "says"
about the secret fantasies of some women, the genre is a growing and
popular one, and as always when I discover a new fetish, I'm happy as a
clam. What wonders exist in the rapidly mutating petri dish of pop
culture!
This story was set in the DS9 universe and involved a sexual encounter
between Benjamin Sisko and his nemesis Gul Dukat, who is an oily-
tongued, scaly-faced, spoon-nosed Cardassian. Dukat has been gravely
injured in a shuttle accident and he has been brought into sickbay,
after which he will be put on trial; for what crime is not clear. Sisko
comes in to visit, and as he regards his enemy, the reader becomes
aware of a dark secret the two men share when Dukat makes a dying
request:
"I want you to do it to me, Captain. The same thing as I did to you.
Revenge yourself on me."
I shook his hand off from me even before he finished, even before I
fully realized what he meant - but he didn't try to stay with me. In fact,
he moved it away eagerly, taking the sheet and pulling it slowly away
from himself.
The long wound openings were not gaping any more, with the
regenerators working on them - but the dark gashes and burns still
looked frightening on the pale skin. Dukat was naked under the sheet -
I could see his broad chest revealed, his washboard abdomen - and then
I grasped his wrist and yanked the sheet back over him
abruptly.
"You are sick," his wrist was delicate in my hand and yet steel-strong.
My voice was stiff with fury - with contempt I tried to put into it. "Don't
try to do it again!"
All this is a veiled way of saying Dukat forcibly cornholed his
Commander and, out of guilt perhaps, is requesting the same so his soul
can rest easy. Then follows a flashback to the said rape, after which
Sisko acknowledges his twisted passion for the alien and returns the
favor.
The story was so highly keyed I imagine it would be very difficult for
the non-fan to understand, as it was not porn so much as passion. As you
can tell from the above passage there was also a lot of dwelling on pain
and physical trauma (the two endure assorted bruises and broken
bones) and the feel of it is similar to the h/c (hurt/comfort) slash I've
seen, wherein one partner is injured and the other tries to assuage his
pain -- or wallows in it. But outside of this incident, the larger context of
the story was obscure. We know neither why Dukat was in the
shuttlecraft, or why he was going to be put on trial for it; likewise, we
never find out where and why Sisko's rape took place. This is fairly
common in both slash and fanfic (as if the scene in question occurs
between two commercial breaks) but in a story, it leaves me unsatisfied.
If the fanfic is referencing an earlier episode, it should at least be
touched on, so readers aren't totally confused. But to be fair, I can see
how the lack of background information serves to heighten the drama
and pathos, in the same way lack of background in a hard-core stroke
story serves to spotlight the sex.
I admit, though, that I can't even remotely imagine Sisko and Dukat
getting it on, nor does this story convince me that this is how they
would act if they actually did. But then, the main reason for reading
stuff like this is for the sheer drama of it.
Wendigo [B+/A-]
Where posted: ASSGM
When posted: 4/17/00
Author: Dorian Runninghawk
Address: DoranIIl@aol.com
Here we have another male rape story, written from a male's point of
view this time. The differences between this and the slashy stuff were
subtle, but there. The rapee's male attributes are dwelt on more
explicitly, and the naughty bits are organ-related rather than holistic.
There's more of an emphasis on what can euphemistically be termed
"male smells" which a straight female wouldn't really know about
unless she chances to sniff a spunk-filled male asshole. And the lovers
are less monogamous, preferring to share their partners or take their
sex in clumps or three or more.
Anyhow, the story is set in the Aztec empire before the Spanish
conquest, and is told by three different characters: a young Indian
brave, an escaped slave; the evil priest who is chasing him down, who
has supernatural powers credited to the Wendigo, the Indian spirit of
myth; and a captain in the Spanish army who falls for the slave and
later rescues him. Here the brave pauses in his flight, observed by his
enemy:
The breeze sighs like me as I watch you lying on your stomach, lapping
at the frothy water like a sleek brown mountain cat; and just as
dangerous. Your breech clout is askew and the firm, sunwarmed mounds
of your man moons invite my eyes to feast and my clawed hands to
fondle. I feel the old, familiar ache in my loins beginning to pulsate as
you look up and around, wary as a hart in rut, your long midnight hair
spreads like heavy corn silk across your broad back and shoulders. Your
black eyes, mystical in their heritage, see me and yet do not see me as I
crouch in the rocks and leaves. I am well hidden, blended if you will,
with the foliage, one moment green and trembly, and the next hard and
rippled and rusty brown as the bark of a tree, but you know I am here.
You know what I desire. You are squatting now with your brown hands
in the tumbling water. Your reflexes, lightning fast, pluck an unwary
fish from the water, which you will roast and eat to fill your stomach.
You handle the creature as though you would cherish it rather than
consume it, and as I watch, son of the sun, my fangs bare in amusement
as you say your cherokee words of respect for the life of the creature. I
want to spit the drool that is pooling around my tongue and slipping
forth from my fanged mouth, but I dare not....you are aware of my
presence and to do so would only make you spring away.
The Aztec Empire must be fertile ground for barbaric male fantasies, as
I've read one another story with this setting, and I'm sure there are
more. But though the author stated the story was written in
collaboration with a history professor I found several historical
inaccuracies. For example, Montezuma is the name the Spanish gave to
Moctezoma; he was never called that by his own people. Also, the Indian
brave is described as Cherokee, in which case he's a little far from his
hunting grounds. But I suppose the author was choosing to use artistic
license, and on the whole it works, even down to the sexual terminology:
"man-snake" for cock, and the wonderfully evocative "manmoons" for
buttocks. That's a thing to chew about with the girls: "Gosh, doesn't that
cute waiter have such squeezable manmoons?" I certainly plan to make
it part of my vocabulary.
In sum, though, the story didn't quite hold together for me, and I think
it just needed more discipline on the part of author; it was more than a
little over-lush. However it made a nice contrast to the story above.
Fuck Club [B+]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 4/19/00
Author: Edward Rider
Address: ed_rider7@hotmail.com
"Fight Club" was a movie about the reaction of modern men to the
soulless,consumer culture of contemporary America; instead of feeling
emasculated, they opt to beat the crap out of each other. But in this
story, they find a different way to handle their confusion: they
emasculate themselves even further in service to a female dom and her
two twin helpmates.
This was the premise of the story, which reads more like an
introduction to a longer series rather than a complete story in itself -- it
felt like the author wasn't going as far with the material as he could
have, and I missed the detail that could have been provided. Plus,
wouldn't *women* be more likely to rebel against soulless consumer
culture by letting loose their aggressive instincts, i.e. becoming dommes
in their own club?
But this was interesting and timely premise, and if the author develops
it into a series, it could be entertaining.
Cold [B-/B]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 4/21/00
Author: Terri Madison
Address: terri_madison@hotmail.com
Two sisters, ages 23 and 19, are driving out to a remote cabin to
rendezvous with their boyfriends. It's the middle of winter, a blizzard is
raging, and their car breaks down. Two guys in their late twenties stop
to rescue them. The girls trustingly jump in their car, proving they
haven't a brain cell between them. And when the guys do the "Take
your shirts off, we wanna see what you've got" bit they react with
shocked indignation, as if they'd never dreamed of such behavior from
two suspicious guys on a deserted country road.
That's the premise behind the story, and while it's short on imagination
and hard to swallow, it was written grippingly enough. The sisters are
raped and forced to give blowjobs and go down on each other, and it
transpires that neither one was as sweet and innocent as we originally
thought -- the elder loves to give head, while the younger, in
anticipation of losing her virginity that night to her boyfriend, has
thoughtfully shaved her pussy. Gee, I don't know...as long as it's hot and
moist, what horny young guy would really give a damn? What
difference does a fur coat make?
The silliness eventually grated on me, and after the revelation that the
boyfriends were the ones who set up the duo for abuse (the younger
guy was sore because Little Miss Virgin made him wait too long) I felt
like throwing the story across the room. I like rape/humiliation tales as
long as they're delivered without tropes and with finesse, but the old
"they're really sluts underneath, so they deserved it" cliche deserves to
be shot. And buried.
The Heir: Prologue [B+]
Where posted: ASSGM
When posted: 4/18/00
Author: Blitzenschnell
Address: Blitzenschnell@usa.net
Mike and Adam are roommates, and perhaps more. One day Mike
receives news that his deceased father's stock portfolio is due to be
distributed, and that Dad may have had several illegitimate children
who will get a slice of the pie. Not only that, Dad kept detailed records of
his sex life, and it transpires he was bisexual. The mystery of the story
is thus set up: who are, and where are, these mysterious love children?
And what was up with Dad?
Though the prologue wasn't rated it was pretty clear the meat of the
story is going to be M/M -- the list of major players at the beginning
(all young, all male) bears this out. Female encounters are absent or off-
screen; instead, the young men masturbate together over porno mags.
Not untypical behavior for young men, but the smell and presence of
the wasted spunk is always noted, as are what "studs" the other
characters are.
In some ways I liked this story; it had a good setup, the details sounded
plausible and intelligent, and the warm small-town atmosphere mixed
with family history and sexual secrets is worthy of a Mathis B. Rogers
story. Most of the conversation was done well, too.
On the other hand, the story was confusing in parts, and there wasn't
much to distinguish one young men from another. Further chapters
will tell its true quality, but I'm betting the story heats up and the
mystery deepens.
Tarzan and Terk [A]
Where posted: ASSM
When posted: 3/20/00
Author: Argent-AJ
Address: argent_aj <argent_aj@my-deja.com
This was the first 'toon story about Disney's "Tarzan" that I've seen, and
the author requested that I review it.
I haven't seen the movie myself, but I've heard a lot about it, and seen
the clips of the good parts. Tarzan and his pal, the tomboy girl-gorilla
Terk, sneak out to see the elephants mate. All the mounting and
trumpeting gets Tarzan oddly excited -- and gets to Terk too -- so, they
wind up mating themselves in a very enjoyable first-time experience.
I wasn't sure I would like the story, but I wound up thinking it was
delightful. The author has obviously seen the movie a few times and has
gotten the playful Disney tone down pat while simultaneously adding
explicit sex to the mix; doing the dirty under Uncle Walt's nose, AND
making it seem entirely natural to the film, is a very hard act to pull off.
The author also did a good job of imitating Terk's speech patterns. I
could almost imagine Rosie O'Donnel saying the lines.
On the other hand, there seemed to be some confusion on the part of the
author regarding gorilla anatomy, as he or she asked for advice on it. To
me, Terk came across as more human female than gorilla, but as she is a
talking anthropomorphized gorilla, I feel authenticity isn't as
important as the author seems to think it is -- it would ruin the Disney
tone of the piece. And you have to admit it's probably impossible to find
out what an actual gorilla's pussy would smell like.
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