#dmbb

Top five mind control tropes, go.

Oh, so many options! Broad or granular, common or obscure! I feel like these are not truly my top 5 so much as they are the first 5 I thought of :)

In no particular order:

5. Unaware

My favorite writing technique is dramatic irony. Be it for comedy or horror (or, preferably, both) there's nothing that hits like an artfully unaware protagonist, falling into my clutches without ever realizing anything was wrong in the first place <3

4. Powerful Sub

Seriously nothing I love more than when a mind controller ensnares someone objectively more powerful than them. Physically or powers-wise. It's even BETTER when said slave has the ability to control minds, also, and thus begins a serial recruitment of proxy mind control.

3. What Now?

I have always been fixated on stories that explore the nature of power; I think they're really the only way a narrative can be wrung out of my extremely base desires. I love it when the controller gets everything they want and find they are still miserable. I love when they scream and thrash and spiral and take it out on their obedient thralls. I love when they build the life of their highest ambitions and find that is all completely hollow and unfulfilling <3 <3 <3

2. Vampires

Fucking duh.

Oh hey wait where does this link go. I hope it's not a sexy vampire novel OP wrote.

1. Mass Hypnosis

The vast majority of my "this is making me feel some kind of way but I don't have the language for it" moments growing up were instances of mass hypnosis in cartoons and the like. I love it so much. All of my most favorite tropes are often branches of it; go big or go home, you know?

When an ancient dragon dies, he makes a peculiar final request of his master.

I caught a rabid fever and the only cure was to write a fucked-up short story

Mind control, no sex, only violence. It's, as many of my stories are, about what absolute power would do to a person's psyche. It's also about the author realizing that being obsessed with stories about controlling dragons was a fetish thing all along (fuck)

Read on ao3 or ROM!

Hello! You can call me Rez if you'd please. Pronouns she/they/it.

Lurker at heart, problematic asexual erotica writer. This blog will be mostly stuff on queue but occasionally there may be original posts in which I bitch about very specific writing conundrums that come with the territory.

I have a website and an itch.io page. There is also a Patreon!

My work is available for free on all the requisite sites: AO3, ROM, EMCSA

Make Yourself Useful

A vampire novel about the dangers of abstinence-only sex education (metaphorically, anyways). Straight-to-lesbian brainwashing, butch vampire dom, 87k words.

Tagged: #myu

Slavebreaker

Transgender space opera about an all-lesbian society that has eradicated men. Detransition, dehumanization, all around pretty fucked up. 23k words.

Tagged: #sb

The Dragon Master's Black Banquet

No sex mind control story about a woman who controls all dragons (but she’s really nice about it)(for now). 5k words.

Tagged: #dmbb, #dragon master

Tenterhooks

The brainwashed slave of an asexual master makes a bid for freedom. 5k words.

Tagged: 🪝