Wednesday Reading Meme

[ratcreature]

What I Just Finished Reading

I mostly continued my somewhat futile attempt to find kinky romances that work for me. I read the first two of the Love Language series by Reese Morrison, on which I am quite torn. I enjoyed very much that the protagonists were kinky people with normal lives and jobs, and appreciated that there were both cis but also trans and genderfluid heroes, with various sexual orientations, and while I'm not very familiar with Deaf culture, the portrayal of that community seemed solid, and the writing generally good. Unfortunately the set of kinks that are the main focus of this series (variations on daddykink, age play and puppy kink) are not really my kinks.

I also read The Prince's Consort (Bred for Love, #1) by Revella Hawthorne, a mpreg slavefic novella, that meshed more with my kinks (more the slavefic than the mpreg, though in this the pregnancy bits didn't get further than conception), though the setup was a weird mix of contemporary and sf tech with some fantasy monarchy elements? I'm kind of unduly bothered by worldbuilding even in porn.

I also read a bunch of fanfic.

What I'm Reading Now

I actually started the third of the Love Language series by Reese Morrison, Love Limits, despite the kink mismatch.

What I'm Reading Next

Possibly the next in that mpreg series? Not sure though.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I'm kind of unduly bothered by worldbuilding even in porn.

I feel this so much! And that's why I write very little porn because to get there, I have to do all this worldbuilding...oh look it's another gen fic.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. It's not even that I want to get some lengthy infodump to tell me how some weird society works, or exploratory side adventures before getting to the good parts when reading slavefic porn, and yet...

[mllesatine]

It's so difficult with kink. Not only the kinks but also how those are written. I sometimes look at a fanfic with all the kinks I like but the spark just isn't there.

[ratcreature]

It kind of depends on the internal mindset, whether a kink works or not, less on the acts. Which is I guess why I am reading porn rather than watching videos. And quite often kinks and squicks are rather adjacent, like I have an embarrassment squick, but a humiliation kink...