Message-ID: <40279asstr$1041732621@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: <LadyCyrrh@aol.com> From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <125.1c4a32ba.2b489b44@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by sara.asstr-mirror.org id h04KHCdA032044 X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:17:08 EST Subject: {ASSM} {REVIEW} The Annex Reviews, 1/4/03 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:10:21 -0500 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/Year2003/40279> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: dennyw, gill-bates, hecate, newsman The Annex Reviews, 1/4/03 by Lady Cyrrh (ladycyrrh@aol.com) Website: http://members.aol.com/ladycyrrh This posting: The 2002 Cyrrheal Awards The Blue Pill (Scott): M/M, SF, rom One on One (Courtney Sweet): M+/F, cons, anal, male stripper Violet (Toran): M/F, bondage Suzy's Honeymoon (Glaucus, Ted E. Bear): F/F, M/F, tg, rape, humil, exhib, bond, toys, first, wife Movie notes: The Fluffer Here are my awards for best neterotica of 2002. Keep in mind not all these stories are A+, and not every A+ story got an award; these are just the stories that impressed me, for better or for worse, in the year of 2002. As usual, I pick the story and then tailor the award to it, not the other way around. If the awards seem freighted towards BDSM, fantasy, and slash it is just an indication of my reading interests for that year and not that I didn't find regular erotica or porn lacking in merit. It's also because I hate wasting a read, even a recreational one! So, on with the awards. Best Victorian Mystery/Rubber Fetish story: The Revenant of Hargreave Manor, by Bill Lemieux (4/25/02) This story impressed me deeply with its tone of gothic mystery and descriptions of rubber and latex bondage gear... and sinister bondage devices, as well. Much was left deliciously to the imagination. The Sweet Kisses Award for Most Promising Teen Slash Writer: My Sweet Prince, Nina Inherz (4/25/02) Not the best yaoi/slash story out there, but the funniest and wackiest. From the now-tame Fanfiction.net self-posting archive, it serves as a reminder of how wild and freewheeling this community of young fanfic writers once was. Most Extreme Slave: Christopher Enslaved, Joshua Ryan (5/26/02) The cruelest, most eerily plausible, and best-detailed slave story I have ever read, gay or straight. Best Mind Control Writer for 2002 (tie): Farleven, Trilby Else (5/30/02; 7/20/02) I've read many stories from both these writers. Trilby impresses me with his handling of plot and character in his SF/fantasy tales, even if the stories don't always end happily. Farleven writes more traditional porn and it's comparatively less fine, and more stereotyped, but still very hot reads in the slave/mind control vein. Two very different authors, both worth reading. Best Short-short(s): Seven Flashes, Selena Jardine (6/20/02) Seven stories under 500 words, each different and sexy in its own way The Fuck Dodgers Award for Best Science Fiction Spoof: Lance Storm and the Slaves of the Hypnotron, by Wersgor (6/30/02) A humorous gay parody that winks knowingly at science fiction movie serials and 1950s space opera shows. Best Historical: Red Revenge, by Frances LeGatta (6/30/02) Imagine Daniel DeFoe crossed with a bodice-ripper. A lush erotic encounter with an Indian brave. Best Original Slash: Titos' Adventures, by Paladin (7/20/02) Not the best edited or proofread slash fantasy out there, but one author's unique, almost British voice, sexy and sweet and very imaginative. Best Tolkien BDSM Writer: Tyellas (8/2/02) This author perfectly captures the Tolkien tone and adds her own unique twist to Middle-Earth canon, with impeccable research and elegant prose. The Bung Gusher Award for Most Gratuitous Use of Blood and Gore: Untitled, Abby (8/2/02) This LotR bloodfic was about unfettered assault and little else. Read only if you like to fantasize about characters beaten to bloody pulps. Best Humor: Outback, Dingo Jay (9/2/02) There were other humor stories, but this Aussie bestiality tale took the cake. Serious or not? You decide. The Wiggy Marsdust Award for Gender Ambiguity: The Question, by Rev. Cotton Mather (7/10/02) I wasn't sure whether to award this story or not, but realized it had stuck in my head for a long time after I read it, taking on new meanings the more I thought about it. That, and I liked the rhythmic nature of the prose. Best Superhero: Wonder Woman, the Conquest of Paradise by Knight; American Dream, by Krazy Kat (10/13/02) Of all the superhero fics I've read these two were the best, combining adventure, spandex, sexual mishaps, and a sense of humor. Best Family BDSM: Family Shoot 2000, Herman {10/26/02) If three female generations of one family got together to pose for bondage photographs this is exactly what would happen. The Herschell Gordon Lewis Blood Feast Award for Best Vore Writer: Neuralmancer (10/26/02) This author impressed me with his (?) dark sense of cruelty and out-there scenarios involving cannibalism, slave farming, and snuff. Author Honorable Mentions: Allison, The Purple Herald, Cyan, Spline Duck, David Shaw, Souvie. The Blue Pill [A] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 12/28/02 Author: Scott Author address: Scottturnitred@hotmail.com Type: M/M, SF, rom This story begins in adventurous SF mode, setting the tension: a man and his commanding officer, a woman, have experienced an accident in space, and they're running out of oxygen. Their ship is crippled and they're moving only slowly into range where they can set out a distress call. Their crewmates are dead. Things look hopeless when the narrator finds the hallucinogenic drug of the title: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> These little blue pills were called dreamers because of the intense sexual fantasy illusions they were said to produce. The word was this pill was so powerful it often so scrambled the users brain with phenomenally powerful fantasies that a person just couldn't go back to a regular life. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The two want to go out with a bang, so they take the pill and have a shared-mind sex encounter in a virtual cabana on a beach. Later they are rescued, the drug having slowed their metabolism so they can stretch out the air that's left. This was a very good story both in its plot (there is a plot for once), setting, and characterization. I thought the sexual fantasy was kinda tame considering the pill had unlimited power (it was romantic hetsex with a bit of light bondage) but then, I'm used to stronger stuff. I also thought too much was made of the fact that the female commander needed to let her hair down and let herself be a "real woman" in such a yuppie Pottery Barn scenario. Still, the interplay between the two characters was good, and it was a suspenseful, touching story. One by One [B+] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 12/28/02 Author: Courtney Sweet Author address: courtney_sweet@yahoo.co.uk Author website: http://erotic.stories.by.courtney-sweet.com/ Type: M+/F, cons, male stripper Courtney Sweet has been writing unapologetic porn for a while now, raunchy female fantasies designed to get the reader hot without any pretense of plot or character. I read her slave girl auction ones a while ago (not reviewed) and now this one, about one woman's encounter with a group of horny male strippers: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "She's ready Scott" Adam murmured and Fiona felt herself being held steady as Adam buried his wedge of man meat deep inside her hot swollen pussy. She gasped and moaned loudly as the hard rod of man muscle invaded her silky depths, she was so horny his entry into her fuck hole almost made her cum on the spot. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm puzzled on how to deal with pure porn. I know it's silly to criticize it on literary terms because it's more advertisement than story, with magic phrases like "abused cum filled mouth" and "orgasm-swollen cunt" and "hot spurts of sperm." It would have been very easy for me to be snide with this story. But I read it to the end, and enjoyed it, even though the descriptions of tanned, oiled, hairless male stripper bodies didn't really turn me on -- I like real men who sweat and have hair and muscles that don't look like they've been injection-molded. Stripper men, and most men in recent porn films, actually, look gelded to me, like steers or action figures. Though I'm often tempted to touch one, just to see what it feels like. Nonetheless the writer did a good job for a strictly porny fantasy, the only improvement being perhaps a willingness to be more individual in the subject matter and writing style. Violet [A] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 12/29/02 Author: Toran Author address: toran29@insightbb.com Type: M/F, bondage Toran impressed me with his gothic horror/sex tale "Do You Want to Continue?" in the Gromet's Self-Bondage website I reviewed a while back. This is a new bondage tale from him, shorter and more lyrical. An unnamed woman is sleeping soundly in bed dreaming of a "muscular black stallion" carrying her to some unnamed doom. She wakes up to find a real intruder has broken in, who begins to tie her up in silk cords: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Around and around he bound her and only when he had her elbows tied together did he stop to reach into his pocket for the second coil. By now, she was shrieking and that would have to be stopped but, catlike, he sat up and turned so that that he could capture her flailing ankles with his rope. Like a maypole being bound on mayday, her legs gradually lost their freedom and were motionless as his bindings went from ankle to thigh. A quick tie-off between her pinned wrists and a delicate rope about her big toes, and she was captured in a snug hog-tie. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The story ends on a tense note: "Thunder boomed outside her bedchamber and briefly illuminated the silk bag that she was being slid into. She would never see her bed again, nor would she ever be free of his ropes again. " A short, well-executed bondage fantasy, lovingly told, and you can tell the author *means* it, to whoever he's telling it to. Suzy's Honeymoon [C] Where posted: ASSM When posted: 12/31/03/02 Author: Glaucus/Ted E. Bear Author address: tedebear690@yahoo.com Type: F/F, M/F, tg, rape, humil, exhib, bond, toys, first, wife Whew! This story had a shitload of categories in it. A virginal young couple, Suzy and Brad, go to Turkey for their honeymoon and are immediately deported because Suzy is carrying some mace (?) Until their return ticket home they are held in a Turkish prison. Not the dirty, cockroach-filled hellhole we're familiar with from the movies, but a bright, clean, multinationally staffed facility equipped with a full honeymoon suite... the better to videotape the drugged, clueless lovebirds on their wedding night, making of that sweet time a perverted travesty of lust. I've come across a handful of stories over the years with this theme -- not necessarily honeymooners in Turkish prisons, but virginal young couples who are humiliated by more experienced roués -- and have always found them hard to swallow, because young people today are more sophisticated about sex, even if they're virgins. I could have forgiven this if the story was good. But it wasn't; there were many more problems with plausibility, from the stiff dialogue rife with misspellings ("I will make love to you and your wife Brad, in France it is called a menage au trios") to the lack of research regarding setting (What's a German prison guard doing in a Turkish prison? And why do all the other prison staff speak and act like they're Americans? It couldn't have been that hard to look up old Newsweek articles at the local library.) And while some sex scenes were good, such as a forced sex encounter between Suzy, a vibrator, and the aforementioned German matron, attempts at adding pathos to the couple's fate fell flat, reading like the "Oh Brad! Oh Lisa!" scenes of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Which I don't think the original author intended. However the original writer is long out of the picture, having abandoned this story in 1997; later chapters will be penned by Ted E. Bear, who reposted these first ones as an introduction to his own. So the quality of the piece may yet improve; you'll have to wait and see. Movie Notes: The Fluffer We got a DVD player for Christmas, so over Winter break I've been busy catching up the movies I've missed during the latter half of the year. This movie was one of them. Filed under GAY in my favorite indie rental place, it's a raunchy comedy set, like "Boogie Nights," in the porn industry. Unlike that film it's the gay porn world of direct- to-video movies, a world of anonymous offices, indifferent actors, jerry-rigged sets, and atrocious dialogue. Sean, a naive film buff, comes to LA intent on breaking into movies, but the only job he can get is as gofer and camera boy for Janus Films, the gay video production house. He meets a variety of colorful characters: buffed straight boy Johnny Rebel, Janus Films' star, who does gay films for quick cash; Hector, a sweet, gay Mexican production assistant; a persnickety bondage "boy" who is actually a queen in his late 40s; a genial- acting but nasty old-school camera man who gives the hero a hard time; a level-headed female exotic dancer upfront about her appetite for big, dumb men; and lastly the owner of Janus Films, Chad Cox, a fast-talking ex-porn star in shorts and tennis shoes played by Robert Wagner... scruffy but lovable ace reporter Joe Rossi in the old Lou Grant TV show! I admit it was a bit of a shock for me hearing the star of one of my favorite teenage shows talk enthusiastically about sucking cock, but I adjusted, and he, like all the actors, did star turns in this film. The story depicts Sean's progression from his first confused days on the job through his growing infatuation with Johnny Rebel, the dim, musclebound star whom he occasionally fellates to full erection for the camera. It shows how he becomes too wrapped up in this world -- in an amusing way, not the moralistic bad turns of "Boogie Nights" -- destroying his budding relationship with a nice young man as Johnny Rebel eventually destroys his, and they both are forced to flee from the law when a major crime is committed. But I don't want to give away too much. As a plus, on the DVD there's production notes, deleted scenes, a Johnny Rebel montage (I hear some gays have been talking this illusory character as if he's real) and a hilarious gallery of the fake video boxes created for the film, with titles like "Citizen Cum." Funny and touching: recommended, even if you think it would skeeve you out. Come on, there's only one shot of somebody's dick in it. Director Richard Glatzer, Writer Wash Westmoreland ____________________________________________________ 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> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+