![]() ![]() Like all the other stories so far, this is graceless. No one involved - not the author, not the editor - seems to understand that this is a story about a coercive sexual relationship. This story is unsettling, and unpleasant. If my newly-out asexual, transgender partner was worried about me accepting they had a lower and different libido than I did, to the point that they had nightmares about it, I would simply not have sex with them immediately after they voiced this concern, nor would I encourage to describe their body in sexually humiliating ways, because I am not a fucking sociopath. I am especially perturbed by the transgender, asexual partner being the submissive. My first impressions: If my partner was worried about me accepting that they had a lower and different libido than I did, I would simply not have sex with them immediately after they voiced this concern. I don’t think me being asexual or not has any bearing on the deeply upsetting core of this story. I understand the vocabulary around this might be different. ![]() ![]() Maybe if I hadn't read it I would have been more sympathetic to the other stories. This story ruined everything else for me. Past midnight, before dawn – Anne StaggsĪnd this is where I went from mild irritation that this collection wasn’t better to jawdropped horror. I neither know nor care what an Archon is and there isn’t enough time to either explain or make me invested. This could – possibly should – have been set in an office or the houses of parliament or something instead of a fantasy world. Why does this have so much worldbuilding in it? It’s just hatesex between a man and a woman who both have two sets of genitalia. This Fragile Little Affair – Kelvin Sparks Yes! I am aware! I picked up a book called Heckin’ Lewd because it was a trans and NB erotica anthology! Why is this character wearing a bumper sticker that says “I spend too much time on the most anodyne parts of queer Twitter”?Ĥ. It also had a character wearing a “not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you” shirt. This had a few throwaway lines about consent that ruined the flow just because that’s not how people talk. It ended rather abruptly I feel like this is a chapter and a half of a longer story about a criminal couple in a book that perhaps makes a few too many jokes about how transfems are all computer geeks, but it kept my interest. The main couple have some chemistry together, some nice banter, but this is a story that is trying to manage six of one half dozen of the other and ends up less than the sum of its parts. I was interested in the nanobot stealing plot but it didn’t go anywhere. Switch f/nb couple steal nanobots or something. ![]() It probably will not be the overwhelming tenor of the sexual pairings. I am a little miffed that the first story in this anthology to feature a nonbinary character has them bottoming for characters who identify as male and/or call themselves “Daddies” and use “breeding” terms but eh, that’s just a me thing, probably. The dialogue sucks but if you’re into gangbang porn it’s fine. Samphire internally refers to themselves by their nickname, “Sexy Badger.” I personally don’t enjoy the Age of Sail black leather corset aesthetic and I let out an audible groan at the purple “pegging leg.” The sea vegetable says “Hngggggggh yeeeessss, breed me, Daddy!” I’m incredibly annoyed at the editor for letting that stay in. It’s inoffensive enough, and the two main characters have chemistry as written, but it’s not very interesting. There’s a Cannibal Corpse song called I Ejaculate Blood. One of the women ejaculates red cum and I looked at the screen and slowly scrolled up and then back down to make sure I had not read that incorrectly. It is, unfortunately, okay until the succubus turns up and turns them into demons. This is a story about two trans women partners summoning a succubus through sex magic. The first story of an anthology should pop. The degree to which it is not good upsets me. It would be doubly nice if this came from a small queer press. I would like to access written erotica that is both inclusive and good. Nillin Lore underlines the dearth of inclusive queer erotica, how for most young queer people it must be subliminated through what little scraps the violent heterosexist porn industry throws to the side. I put all of those first to underline that I wanted this collection to be good. Every three months I get a nurse to stick me full of anabolic steroids. First, before I begin: I am the target audience for this anthology. ![]()
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