Message-ID: <37126asstr$1025543404@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: <LadyCyrrh@aol.com> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <2d.1f76468d.2a50edca@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:27:06 EDT Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews, 6/30/02 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:10:04 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail X-Is-Review: yes Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2002/37126> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: IceAltar, newsman The Annex Reviews, 6/30/02 by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com) Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh Here's the latest round of reviews, three science fiction, and two from the ASSM Summer Solstice Romance Festival. I'll be doing more entries next month. I'm very pleased at the quality I've found. Now for some news about my website. My Spanish language skills have progressed to the point now where I will be accepting Spanish language sex story sites as a service for the Latino community. The same rules apply as to my other listed sites: noncommercial or semicommercial only, at least three sexually explicit stories, easy to search and use, and lastly, with a minimum of annoying popups and flashing banners. As always, I look for general porn, fetish, BDSM, fanfic, furry, anime/yaoi, and any other weird kink you can think of. (Side note) I am amazed at the amount of anime fanfic that exists in Latin America... it far outnumbers fics for TV shows, books, and movies. I can only guess they're being written by young people, the new net generation. Of the TV shows, Xena is by far the most popular, followed by The Xfiles, Buffy, and Roswell. The Trek series are strangely missing; I found exactly one slashy Star Wars site, also. With native search engines, this ratio might change. So, if anyone has any recommendations, let me know. The stories: XWives #1: Sluts Save the World (Jo Jo Jinx): M/F+ cons, SF, watersports, humor Lance Storm and the Slaves of the Hypnotron (Wersgor): M/M SF, mc, immobilization, humor The Red Temple (Rushlight): M/M Star Wars slash, BDSM, slave Summer Solstice Romance Festival: Red Revenge (Frances LaGatta): M/F rom, bond, D/s, hist Summer Solstice Romance Festival: Stargazing (Spline Duck): F/F rom XWives #1: Sluts Save the World [B/B-] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 6/19/02 Author: Jo Jo Jinx Author address: jojo@jojojinx.com Author website: http://www.jojojinx.com This story was first in a series. An illustrated version of this story is available on the author's website. The XWives (a spoof of the Xfiles?) are a group of oversexed housewives with nothing better to do than chase big cocks all over the world. When news comes to them of an alien invasion ("Their invasion [was] a thirty year campaign of terrorism that They called television, radio, and adult internet... to turn the population of the world into a mass of spineless, low morality, promiscuous cum sluts") they set off, naked, each wife taking on a moniker ("Janie - Gang Bang Leader... Connie - Coozy Cunt") describing her specialty. If this all sounds heavy-handed, it was. The action starts when the aliens ask to be taught about Earth sex. Nasal fellatio and alien cunnilingus follow. This story wasn't badly written, but it was very obvious, and of the "Cum flying everywhere" genre that was frankly never one of my favorite story types. The humor was more of the lowest-common-denominator adult-joke variety than the well thought-out parodies of Shon Richards, Please Cain, or Felix Lance Falken, other writers whose science fiction spoofs I've enjoyed. This story seemed to be trying too hard to be clever and topical, and the straining showed. I don't think the author knew anything more than the average person about science fiction, the Xfiles, or UFO lore, and if you don't have a knowledge of what you are spoofing, your spoof is not likely to impress. So, I can't really recommend it for its humor, but if you do like "Cum flying everywhere" slutwife stories, give it a shot. Lance Storm and the Slaves of the Hypnotron [A+] Author: Wersgor Author address: ghamell@hotmail.com Where found: http://www.mcstories.com/LanceStorm/LanceStorm.html This SF parody, found on the Mind Control Stories Archive, handled the spoof elements more successfully. Manly Lance Storm is a member of the Allied Space Fleet Rocketeers sent to investigate the disappearance of a spaceship full of Chippendales dancers. To his chagrin he finds out his partner is Lt. Eros, a member of an oversexed race calling themselves the Orgasmians. The two set off and come to a 'rogue planet' where gay Dr. Sleazor has enslaved the dancers and paralyzed them with his Hypno-Para-Freeze-Gun: >>>>>Meanwhile, in Sleazor's lair of evil, the Nemesis of Space was relaxing in his favorite hammock, sipping a pink fruity drink with a little silver umbrella. The Ho Slave who had mixed the drink stood within arm's reach, holding a tray and waiting mindlessly for his master to finish. Tall and beautifully muscled, he resembled the ancient Earth movie star Sylvester Stallone, although the fact that his mind was a blank made him look more intelligent.<<<<< Heee! Poor Lance is paralyzed himself and only a greater hypnotic force can save him. That force is to be made love to by his partner: >>>>>He wanted to resist what he was feeling, but how could he when the alternative was to stay a living statue forever? He tried again, desperately, to move on his own, to jerk away from this unsought experience. But, though sweat streamed as if he was lifting enormous weights, every muscle remained locked helplessly in place. His arms, legs, torso, all were alive and sensitive, yet as petrified as solid marble. And now Eros was running strong, quick hands all up and down his sides, leaning in to slowly, seductively lick at his nipples, hanging on to one rigidly outstretched arm for support. Lance wanted to gasp, but his throat would not obey. He had never had anything done to his nipples before --- it just wasn't a guy thing! But this sensation, this unbelievable feeling! The licking turned to sucking, and Lance instinctively knew that if his tits were not frozen, they would be standing at full attention!<<<<< Everything ends happily when the two defeat the villain and Lance acknowledges his homosexuality. This story was very silly, but loads of fun, spoofing not only Flash Gordon type movie serials, but the gay guy-seduces-straight guy fantasy, and the know-it-all but secretly oversexed sidekick in the mold of Mr. Spock, as slash writers have conceived him. Recommended, and there are other stories in this series, too. The Red Temple [A-] Author: Rushlight Where found: http://www.slashcity.org/~rushlight/temple.htm Though I've known "Phantom Menace" Star Wars slash has existed for a while I haven't been inspired to re-review it until now, with the release of "Attack of the Clones." The Phantom Menace is by far the more slashier of the two movies, chiefly because there are no main female characters, and the male leads are so very very pretty. This story was recommended (a 'rec' in fanfic terms) on another site I thought I'd give it a go. Obi-wan and Qui-Gon are sent undercover to a Fringe world to recover a kidnapped governor's son who has been sold into Red Temple slavery... Red Temple meaning the widespread practice of sexual bondage that drives this world's economy. In order to infiltrate this underworld Obi-Wan volunteers to be sold as slave. Qui-Gon only reluctantly agrees, sensing danger ahead for his protege as he's put on the auction block. But mixed in with it is... arousal? >>>>>Qui-Gon stared. He had seen his apprentice naked before, many times throughout their long association together. It wasn't anything that he had ever really thought about before. But now, seeing the elegantly sculpted muscles and planes of that hard body, he felt a stirring inside of him that defied explanation, and he had the ridiculous urge to look away, as if that would somehow make it easier on Obi-Wan.<<<<< Of course it is, because in fanfic there is canon and there is fanon, or gradually accreted story elements put there by fanfic writers and accepted by mass consensus, and one of them is that the older, more experienced Qui-Gon always lusts after his younger, more vulnerable partner. So the slashing begins. This story was written well, but like a lot of fanfic I found the author was merely skimming along on top of the action instead of delving into the deep n' dirty. Not necessarily where sexual matters are concerned, but in the more basic story elements like immediacy and suspense. I always knew Obi-Wan was going to be all right, even as he's boffo gang-raped and sent to an S/M parlor. He even had a female trainer -- a mary sue? -- whose job it was to hold his hand and guide him through the enslavement process. Not a lot of tension. (I wonder if the overly restrained, polite tone of fanfic these days is because of the widespread use of beta readers.) I was hoping for a surprise ending -- like the governor's son decides he wants to stay a slave, or the female trainer turned out to be an enemy spy, or something -- but the only surprise was that Obi semi- falls for his new Master, and Qui-Gon has to step in to fight for his freedom. Which in fanon isn't much of a surprise at all. Nevertheless, this was a long, juicy tale with lots of unrequited longing and a few hot BDSM scenes, and if the pair's later conversion to the joys of D/s is unconvincing, there's enough gooiness going on here to keep any slasher happy. Red Revenge [A+] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 6/21/02 Author: Frances LaGatta Author address: lori111c@worldnet.att.net This story starts out with a bang, in the style of a historical bodice-ripper: >>>>>She was at once aware that she was buck naked, raw hide bound at the wrists and ankles, spread between birch saplings with her private parts shamefully exposed to watchful eyes. Her face flamed and she squeezed her eyes tight; her mortification at this dreadful degradation knew no bounds. And her mouth. . . it was full of something she could not swallow. She tried to cry out for the Lord to save her, but all her pleas came out as muffled, futile noises. In confusion and fear she thrashed her russet tresses against the mossy dirt, and suddenly it all came back to her.<<<<< Yes, the virginal protagonist had been kidnapped by Indians during the summer solstice of 1777 and lies staked out on the ground as she waits for her fate. A Lenni Lenape brave approaches, and after some preliminary explorations of her body >>>>>... her eyes widened like twin pools of blue appeal as she watched him strip away his deerskins, revealing a magnificent form and a penis reminiscent of the bull in the pastor's pasture. It swayed like the tree limbs high above her. And she found that the sheer size of his manhood did not inspire fear, but instead made her pulse raced with an intense craving.<<<<< Actually, this whole story was pretty damn quotable, the author having done an excellent job of emulating the tone of historical fiction, as well as that of American fiction of the late 1770s. And pretty damn hot, too. The brave put me in mind of the movie "Last of the Mohicans" -- not the Daniel Day-Lewis character, but his Iroquois foe. Yum. To top it off, there's some interesting backstory, too. Recommended, and I'll ask the author to give us more stories in this vein, please. Stargazing [A+] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 6/20/02 Author: Spline Duck Author address: splineduck@hotmail.com Author website: www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/duck/www Two old friends, both female, take a break from a boring party to go lay out on the lawn. One is a pansexual into play parties, the other a wife dissatisfied with her mate. Side by side, they regard the stars and reminisce: >>>>>"It's such a beautiful, clear night, one of the best. I love looking at the Milky Way when it's so clear and dark," I said. "I've always felt peaceful down here at night. The stars look so near and personal. I like to think about them masturbating." "Masturbating? Talma, what are you talking about?" "Well, mostly they're all alone. Some of them are double stars, so I guess they might be doing kinky things to each other through the eons, but lots of them are solitary. A few are even multiple stars: far-out, stellar group sex, maybe."<<<<< As you can tell, this heats things up for a discussion of masturbation practices, and how the one friend initiated the other into self-love long, long ago when they were both twelve. This was a very good story, always interesting, even as it swung between sweet naturalism and the exaggerations of conventional porn (the narrator gangbanged her high school's rival football team -- twice -- just to spite the boyfriend who dumped her?) with the sweetness winning out. Maybe it was me, but I wound up reading far more into these two characters than was there... I could easily see this story as the start of a longer one, or a series, perhaps. In any case, the author established character without hitting us over the head with it. He or she had a way with description, too (the narrator describes her cunt: "You know, I like to think of it as my Grand Canyon: shrubbery around the rim, deep with folds and turns, and moist far in the center") and even if people don't wax so poetic in real life, it was fun to read. My only quibble was with the female masturbatory techniques. I don't know why solo diddling with the middle finger is so paramount. The index finger has more muscles and is more dexterous, and is only a quarter inch shorter. Hell, I don't use fingers at all, in the beginning. I go with my knuckles, or the side of my thumb. (I can't believe I said that.) And the narrator is still surprisingly nasty towards the boyfriend who dumped her so long ago, considering he wasn't even that well-endowed and she had bigger fish to fry. But, I did like this story a lot, especially that comment about the stars. Two friends, hangin' around and talkin'... who knows what things will come up. _____________________________________________________________ Comments to: ladycyrrh@aol.com Website---> http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ----- send stories to: <ckought69@hotmail.com> | | FAQ: <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/faq.html> Moderator: <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Discuss this story and others in alt.sex.stories.d, look for subject {ASSD}| |Archive at <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org> Hosted by <http://www.asstr-mirror.org> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+