Posted by TestAccountPleaseIgnore 3 years ago Report

This, I think, is another example of you writing something well by taking a different tack from most writers on this site. Anyone can write pornography; you write erotica. Anyone can write gruesome physical torture, but there's just something that sticks with you about someone who deliberately destroys people's lives. Sadurna follows through on that - to her, every single aspect of Sunshine's self-worth, independence, and past life has to be destroyed, and, if I'm not mistaken, there's a faint implication that Sunshine will be forced to reproduce with one of those stallions in order to make a better runner.

Like, when you write this stuff, you pull out all the stops, and I gotta give you credit there, because I don't think that I'd have the spine to write something like this.

My only real sort of nitpick is that I personally suggest the "psychological torture" tag be applied here. Yes, there's the content warning in the description, but it's not really specific. I figured that said content warning just referred to elements of your previous works taken up to 11, not gaslighting and emotional abuse.

All in all...yeah, wow. Damn. I feel like I just had a firework go off in my face. Not exactly what I was expecting, since most of your other stuff is like an opera/orchestra reaching a crescendo, but it's an interesting deviation from your other stuff. I just wasn't expecting the whole Zersetzung thing with Sadurna.

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Posted by ObsidianSnake 3 years ago Report

Wow, thanks for the comment! The very first on this one, too.

The emotional components of the domination are rather intense here. Put simply, it's horse-breaking, from the perspective of the horse, made worse by the facts of the horse's already existing depression and the half-forgotten connection she has with her owner. I usually write gentler domination than this. That said, if the dommes are all gentle, then none are.

I was worried that this one was going to get some flack. Instead, it was quietly popular, as far as my works go.

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Posted by TestAccountPleaseIgnore 3 years ago Report

I was worried that this one was going to get some flack. Instead, it was quietly popular, as far as my works go.

I think it's because it's first-time readers of your work mistake your other stories as trying to portray their dommes as "morally right", or sympathetic/etc. - a mistake I made, too, until I read through them again and realized they aren't about morality. Sure, people do horrible things to other people in them, but that's not the point - the point is the story.

On the other hand, Sadurna is obviously not sympathetic/nice/anything like that. As you/I know, she wasn't written with morality in mind, but anyone reading this, even if this is their first time on your work, won't get confused on that. They go "yeah, this woman's pretty horrible, let's just enjoy the story", rather than getting hung up on relative ethics.


I usually write gentler domination than this

It's probably the hardest domination you've ever written, yes, but it's closer to everything else on this site, so people aren't put off by it, ironically enough. Your other work sometimes falls into an uncanny valley of "are these predators supposed to be good people?", at least at first glance, whereas this doesn't.

Maybe people should read this first to set a baseline for the rest of your works - like, "it's all uphill from here". I probably should have, myself.

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