Codi by Tabico

Codi is a 4-part story that doesn’t go anywhere and doesn’t even pretend to try. And yet it strangely sets up an intriguing future I wanted to see more of. It’s basically the hive idea from mind control fetish stories (often female-only hives where individual humans get converted into drones and lose their mind, personality, and volition to further the goals of the hive, usually with lots of sex-based conditioning). The twist here is that it takes place in a future where our present-day has suffered some major catastrophe. To find out more about the past the hive makes clones of people who preserved their heads cryogenically (in the hope to get revived at a future date) and transfers all the memories of those frozen heads (those memories that survived) into the clones and then uses those clones to mine history. Sometimes it works as with our main protagonists and some of the memories remain intact enough.

It’s an ingenuine concept that even without the fetish aspect to it all would make for a pretty interesting sci-fi story. That said, I do like it as a fetish story because the juxtaposition of a present-day person resurrected in the future as a mostly mind-controlled slave who knows what she has lost but has no control over it is interesting. Irrespective of whether it’s realistic to revive frozen heads, it’s funny to play with the idea that it can work but then revive those same heads in a future they certainly wouldn’t have expected nor wanted to be revived in.

Like I said the story doesn’t really go anywhere nor does it really work as a short story, it’s more like 4 chapters of a larger narrative that just stops dead. But the core concept is pretty cool and I wish someone else would pick it up and do something with it.

Black Start by anna//bool

On a site dedicated to hypno fetish stories, I discovered a small community of authors writing in a setting established by GlitchyRobot called HDG (short for Human Domestication Guide based on the story of the same name) where advanced plant-like aliens conquered Earths and enjoy converting specific targets into their private pets. Which could be an appropriate dark setting, though most of the stories I checked out read like the authors projected their full ensemble of kinks and issues and in the end, it makes most of those human-to-pet conversions rather tame and not quite scratching that itch I want from mind control stories.

Basically, the characters who get turned are already such failures as human beings that the aliens enslaving them and making them their pets actually improves their lives. The best metaphor I can come up with is as if a prizefighter kicked a sick puppy. He might win, but it’s hardly a compelling fight. Same with most of the HDG stories where being enslaved doesn’t quite capture the degradation and dehumanization I look for.

That said, there’s always something worthwhile to find among the rubble. Black Start by anna//bool is about an intergalactic black ops operative finally finding the space pirate ship she has been hunting for ages only to discover that it’s totally empty. Going back to her ship she later finds out she got infected with something but by this point it’s far too late. When I say black ops operative I mean deeply cybernetically enhanced human, think female Space Marine (or Samus Aran) where the virus takes over her own brain implants, keeps her imprisoned in her own battle suits until it has full control of her mind and body and slowly programs her to its liking.

What the operative contracted is basically an experimental infiltration and takeover program (not intended for biological systems) that gets in and takes deep roots in the systems it infects. By the time the aliens arrive, it’s far too late to save her as the mind virus and our operative are too deeply linked and what remains of the operatives mind has been delegated to a simple background process. This is a story, particularly for the mind control fetish people, there’s zero sex here, the closest you get is some conditioning scenes involving emotions. Still, it’s clever and intriguing and the mind takeover and breaking are quite detailed.

Training Day by SetaOrt

There are far too few stories that combine mind control and dolcett fetish like Training Day does. Honestly, apart from this one nothing much else springs to mind, despite that it seems such a great fit. One could argue that it’s not true mind control, there are no rays or hypnosis or other more obvious means, just good old-fashioned mind-break through relentless torture and conditioning. All this to bypass the conscious mind of our narrator and get right at the id below or in this case the pussy that controls our protag to become a meat girl or as the story so deliciously puts it, product despite her rational mind know that that will be the end of her and she ends up as food, but as terrible as this sounds she also get incredibly aroused by the temptation of it.

Our narrator’s girlfriend is going on a trip to Europe with another love interest, who is a bit of a TV cook and who seems to have also a bit of a mean streak, offering meat slave training for Emi the narrator while her girlfriend is touring. The story implies a lot without spelling it out, like that Emi is more bottom than anything and also somewhat turned on by dolcett stuff. It’s a dolcett world, though not one of those totally far gone with quotas for all females. Instead, it’s all contracts and slowly convincing people to give up personhood to become meat but it seems elaborate and not something many do. The end result is the same though. In such a world, a sort of subtle mind control or mind-breaking technique makes a lot of sense.

I actually like how consensual it is, at least the initial decision. Because once our heroine has accepted to get training in becoming product, her trainer tries her very best to break her spirit and make any further decision making on her part void. The story tries to cover a lot of ground and the story isn’t particularly long so out of necessity it skips a few steps on the way and near the end jumps ahead quite a bit. I probably would have preferred more drawn-out scenes of control and slowly breaking her but there are enough details to give you a rough outline to fill out the rest with your own imagination.

What the story manages to do nicely though is to perfectly nail the slow descent of our protagonist from a person fully in control of herself to a mere owned product unable to help herself not offering her life for consumption. It’s thrilling because you wonder where the point of no return for our protagonist is and then it has slipped utterly out of her control even when she doesn’t know already and it’s both scary and still arousing to see herself giving in and totally losing control without really realizing that its all over for her already.

Benighted Arrival by Richard Tang

This is one of those stories that has far more interesting world-building than the core “porn” angle of the story. The main character suddenly wakes up on an alternate Earth where Germans summoned demons during WWII, lost control of them, and now the world is a very different place with demons in control in some countries, not at all in others and the geopolitical structure of the world is very different from our own (the US, for example, doesn’t exist anymore and instead is broken into hundreds of smaller nations, Germany didn’t lose the war but had to ally with others to stem the tides of the demons and parts of the UK are now under demon control).

Some of these things are a bit iffy even from a world-building angle but never explored enough to really poke holes into them. Really, the story is about a woman from our world landing in this world, realizing she’s the double of an undercover resistance fighter working against the UK government that seems to a large extent under demonic control and trying to survive just adopts her role. Where she comes into contact with Krandal Mesper, a rising new star in the secret service, also a demon and she gets the hots for him. So over the course of the story, she rats out a couple of other resistance fighters, gets into bed with Mesper, eventually finds out why she was hauled to this world from her own (it’s as ludicrous as you can imagine, Mesper wanted to smoke out the resistance fighters working together with her double in this world) and then willingly lets herself get transformed into a demon-changed sex slave, a human transformed so that she essentially becomes his pet and only has sex on her mind.

If I’m generous I say the story has more ambition than skill to pull off what it sets out to do, some of it is down to prose that’s not always as elegant as it could be. For the most part, the writing is okay-ish but every so often a turn of phrase just pulls you out because of how flippant or out of place it feels. The other, bigger problem is how much of the story feels like filler for the main character to reach her desired ending, the transformation into a demon sex pet. I like mind control, I even like it when the main character realizes that giving up herself is what she ultimately desires, but I want there to be at least some struggle with that decision.

Our main character here has almost no self-awareness, she makes decisions as if by authorial dictate and not as if they were arising authentically from a real person’s thinking. I get the author wants the story to go a certain way but at least make it a bit more believable. Make the character struggle with her decision, make Krandal work for her becoming his sex pet a bit more than snapping a finger.

That said, even when the writing here doesn’t exactly fire on all cylinders, the final scene where our viewpoint character gets transformed with no way back pushes the right buttons for me.

The Perfect Sex Toy by Wayne Mitchell

https://fiction4adults.com/books/b9639-the-perfect-sex-toy.htm

Short novel that has a very simple premise: a young woman joins a program to test various sex toys, both because she got egged on by some of her student colleagues as well as because she really could use the money. She’s the kind of character that is a godsend for smut, not a teenager anymore but due to her repressed upbringing rather sheltered from most sexual experiences, something she knows and craves deep down but would never admit to herself.

Turns out she’s a natural, not in testing sex toys, there are a couple of hiccups along the way, but a natural submissive, so good that she counts into the category of a natural slave, somebody who wants to be owned, told what to do and who does it willingly and really enjoys it. The guy who owns the sex toy company and who is overseeing the testing is slowly leading her to test more and more daring toys bringing her more and more into his world and forcing her to accept and enjoy her own hunger for sex while also slowly testing just how submissive she is and how far he can go with her. Obviously, since she’s a natural slave, pretty far.

There’s the usual stuff you expect from this kind of narrative structure, starting with vaginal arousal and some normal-sized dildos, a couple of sessions, and even homework dedicated to the back passage so that she can take most of the larger buttplugs, some parts dedicated to edging and so on. As she opened up more and more (in more than one sense) you get the feeling she’s also slowly getting conditioned. It’s not quite mind control, due to her natural slave nature the whole thing is more about taking out the restraints added by her upbringing to fully become who she’s deep down.

I personally enjoy stories about natural slaves, even I don’t buy that concept even for a second. People are more complex than that, more than just the perfect dominant or submissive or natural master or slave, but as a fictional concept, it’s something I find entertaining. That said, even for fiction, I found the main protagonist almost too willing to go along with everything done to her. Even when the master was always surprised just how docile and willing his subject was (and needed to mention it a couple of times to hammer it home for the reader), I felt it was a bit too easy for him to make her go along with everything. That said since most of that was pretty damn hot I didn’t mind too much. Overall it’s more vanilla sex or vanilla masturbation than anything darker veering toward or beyond BDSM but sometimes it’s nice to read something this light and hot that is just direct and simple in its attraction.

The summary of the story implied something a little bit darker than it actually turned out to be, which is more of a romantic and sweet ending than what I was expecting where it would go (sold as a literal sex toy to rich buyers). Overall it’s a nice enough story that has a good sense of pacing and detail to string you along until the end.

Private Curriculums by t’Sade

https://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/private-curriculums/

If you have smut covering more than one fetish, often one makes up the core of the story and the other(s) works as the framework. Seems even fetishes aren’t evenly distributed. In Private Curriculums, the framework is mind control, but the core is true unrestrained sadism. If you wonder how to spot the difference, you just have to check where the focus is. If it’s on long, detailed descriptions of taking control of somebody, mind control is the core fetish, if it’s on long, detailed descriptions of inflicting pain on somebody, then sadism takes center.

Mind control fetish fiction is often more pleasant with few stories having mind controllers who are basically such irredeemable assholes as the main character here is. They are often monsters but of a very different kind that take pleasure in control, not in more basic pleasures such as inflicting physical pain.

Not that the mind control here isn’t central for the story to work, the main character uses some scripts for an arcane school teacher schooling system he bought on the darkweb to take control of some of the teachers and admins at his workplace, compelling them to attend some sex education classes on healthy BDSM that turn out to be not quite what they expected. Our main character seems to be somewhat of a school IT sysadmin and he either has been a sadist from the start or the parade of beautiful women he has no access has turned his attraction into a mix of lust and a thirst for something darker. But while the mind control gets the ball rolling, once our main protagonist has control he uses it for his real target, which is the utter ruination of the women he’s after.

This isn’t just sadism you expect from normal BDSM stuff, this is about inflicting so much pain on the women that it takes root in their minds even after the memories of the events are erased. It’s about forcing them through so much tribulation that they are suffering for months or longer afterward from the harm done to their bodies if their bodies ever recover fully at all. I’ve read snuff fiction that’s technically worse but the way t’Sade goes into detail in every private sex lesson each of the teachers suffers through makes it feel more visceral and there were a couple of moments where I had to take a pause before reading on. It has the potential to make you squirm when you feel even a bit of empathy for the fictional characters suffering and how it slowly ups the ante with each of the eight teachers and forces seemingly worse and worse stuff on them, inventive new ways to inflict pain on them is a sight to behold.

There’s fiction you don’t enjoy because it’s a badly done version of something you like in theory and then there’s the stuff you have to admit is quite well done, just that you’re not the target audience for it. I’m not really into pain, physical pain to the extent that it’s explored here and while I like Dolcett and some snuff fiction or BDSM, I’m mostly into it for other aspects. This story is really for a very specific audience and if you’re going into it expecting something else you might not just end up being disappointed but mentally scarred as well.

If there’s a flaw from a narrative point of view, it’s that the main character doesn’t really change. I was expecting something like the character discovering how his own desires run along a much deeper and darker vein than he expected once he got his hands on the mind control software. The only difference at the end of the story is that he now has a stash of videos of what he has done to jerk off to but there’s no real character growth.

There’s also one side-reference early on not further explored I’ve wondered about before but have never seen explored in any stories, the combination of mind control and Dolcett/snuff fiction. Given how willingly women in Dolcett and/or snuff fiction let themselves get killed for pleasure, I thought mind control would make a more sensible explanation for that than them just being crazy freaks.

Dolcett Diplomacy by EvilFuzzy9

https://aryion.com/g4/view/663663

Another story by FuzzyEvil9 that mixes Dolcett with gender bender though here against the backdrop of a fantasy world. The bits I found clever here and most compelling weren’t really the Dolcett or the gender bender stuff per see (the latter is so insubstantial that it won’t really satisfy gender bender fetishists) but how the princess of the Dolcett fantasy country used her rather unconventional traditions of meatgirls eating and the accompanying sex to ensnare the prince of another country to become married to her (eventually) because he has fallen for their degenerate ways.

The country the prince is coming from and probably most of the other regions see the Dolcett fantasy country as rather horrifying but once close to what goes on the prince feels compelled to explore his own darker impulses up to transforming into a meatgirl and getting killed for his meat as well (he gets better, as do all the other meatgirls, its a typical fantasy world where revive magic is normal). What really works here is the dynamic between the princess of the Dolcett country, the prince, and his personal guard, a strong knight who follows his prince everywhere, is initially repulsed by the prince’s attraction to what is going on in Dolcett fantasy country but when his prince is transformed into a woman and meatgirl realizes he has the same dark impulses just with a very specific target.

Like his other stories, FuzzyEvil9 doesn’t really hold back with the pain when it comes to the killing off the meat girls, yet strangely enough, it doesn’t stop me from enjoying his stories, despite that it seems that the pain depicted should stop the meatgirls from enjoyed the experience (same as with the prince turned meatgirl) but yet isn’t so. I’ve seen snuff stories where the pain has replaced pleasure as the driving feeling or becomes so closely intermingled the subjects can’t differentiate between either, but that’s not what’s going on here. It’s just pain and still, the meatgirls proclaim to enjoy their experience, which I can see happening on an abstract level, not the pain itself, but everything surrounding it. Curious, but overall it works.

I hope FuzzyEvil9 writes more stories in that setting and with those characters because it feels there’s still plot left to explore.

Meatgirl Stand-In by EvilFuzzy9

https://aryion.com/g4/view/591957

This combines two fetishes I like in smut, gender bender and dolcett, a combination of which there’s only a very limited number of stories I’m aware of. The setup follows what I would call porn logic, it wouldn’t make sense in our world or with real people, but it works well enough to get the story going and best of all make for a neat steamy read.

Basically, this is a world where people can change gender for a limited time and even come back from death with all their memories intact up to the point of their death, via a technology called venn machines (it’s set in a science fiction setting called Trust Machines, though I assume it’s a dolcett variation on it). Why a world with technology like would even need cannibalism is probably up for debate, but that would get in the way of the smut, so hey, either you roll with it or you don’t.

So our protagonist gets a call from his close friend that their human yakitori is canceled as one of the three meat girls didn’t turn up last minute and mentions that the only way to save everything is if our protagonist would change gender and let himself get cooked as the third meat girl. Which our protagonist promptly agrees to despite not really being sure whether it’s what he really wants, but once he has agreed to he’s unwilling to back out. What follows is the usual stuff you expect, but nicely written, our protagonist goes to the party, learns what is feels like to be constantly watched as a woman, has sex with his friend, and finally becomes meat.

I found it interesting that the story didn’t really hold back in describing how painful the whole gutting, spitting, and roasting would be. Usually, dolcett fiction either by sleight of hand or other mechanisms downplays that, and it does make you wonder why some of the girls come back to do this again and again, almost as if they were addicted to the whole process, despite the story clearly showing that none of them really is into it for the pain itself. And its heavily implied that our protagonist will have many more of these experiences in the future as well, as he has come to like both having sex as a woman and getting cut into meat for others. I can believe the first but I’m not entirely sure the story is completely convincing on the meat girl experience.

Still, that said this was nicely done. It’s very singular in its focus, but quite effective at that. If you want to see a neat combi of m2f gender bender with dolcett stuff, this won’t disappoint.

Herd Instinct by Tabico

https://mcstories.com/HerdInstinct/

Herd Instinct by Tabico is one of my favorite stories by my favorite smut author. It’s also almost the perfect hucow story as far I can compare it to anything else I’ve seen written in the subgenre. What sets it apart are two things, one is a clever plot development halfway into the story, the other is a level of detail that I have seen almost no other story like this bringing to the table. It starts with the abduction of the viewpoint character but her name isn’t really all that relevant as it soon loses all meaning to her.

When I say level of detail, just for starters, it starts with describing our protagonist being imprisoned in a closed box for days, where soon she suffers from hunger and thirst, has to deal with her own bodily dispersions, and what kind of toll this has on her body and mind. Meanwhile, she also realizes that the water feed they give her to alleviate her worst thirst changes in taste and she suspects they are feeding her some drugs, which turns out to be true. Once she gets out of the box things only get worse, with various drugs injected into her, a dehumanizing treatment that reduces her to a cow who gets punished if she even tries to talk (she soon gets a collar that gives her electric shocks if she tries to talk), she gets branded and then is forced to crawl into another area with other human cows like her.

Soon it becomes clear this is just the beginning with various rounds of injections aimed at changing her into the best shape for a milking cow including various mind control methods to make her not just give in but also change her mind to accept and want to be a docile, mindless cow that does nothing else than eat and produce milk. Hucow stories where women are consensually or nonconsensually changed into hucows aren’t exactly rare, but few go to the lengths that Herd Instinct go to show how the personality of the protagonist is taken apart, remodeled into a voluntary slave, a thing that can’t even think of itself as anything other than an owned pet and embraces that existence. The people who have taken our protagonist and other women and changed them into hucows are almost indulgent in getting the whole look right, from changing the color of their eyes to match real cows to various other details like fusing their legs and arms at certain angles.

The thing about Tabico’s stories, who often have deeply depraved mind controllers (or non-human entities even less easy to pigeonhole) doing their things, is that most of them never come off as particularly malicious, often they love their subjects, they love what happens to them and few of them seem to get off on pain or suffering. In their own way, they are lovely characters who can be nice, like the Doctor here who takes a shine to our protagonist because she’s turned so fast into a docile cow that it’s unusual even for those forced to go through the whole process. She loves her cows, fucks them, but still has no hesitation to hurt and punish them if they ever step out of line and try to act as humans again.

The Doctor loves the protagonist so much, that she would have liked to breed her, make a whole line of utterly domesticated female cows that are slaves from the moment they are born, but our protagonist can’t get kids anymore due to a biological complication. Which is when the story throws you the plot-related curveball that adds so much oomph to it. Our protagonist can’t get kids anymore, but she had a daughter before. Which the lovely Doctor asks our protagonist to abduct like herself and then plans to make her into a cow as well, going through the same dehumanizing process as her mother.

In any other type of story, this would be utter horror and the linchpin around which the story resolved to bring the protagonist back from all the mind-control she has undergone. Here, it’s the linchpin as well, but only to show the commitment of the protagonist to become the perfect slave, to remain a cow forever. It’s the ultimate betrayal to abduct your own daughter, force her to go through the same things as you have that will forever destroy her mind, make her into a human pet used only for breeding. As far as delicious evil things go, it’s hard to imagine the story going anywhere even more depraved than what is depicted here (maybe with a dolcett ending, but then the stuff all the human hucows are injected with shortens their lifespan as well, so it almost goes there).

I truly love the story, it’s one of the best Tabico has written, hitting all the right notes and going to places few have gone and with a style and panache, few are able to. Also gets me off every damn time I read it.

The Adventures of Silver Girl by Madam Kistulot

TAoSG on Amazon or Smashwords

This is a mind control fetish novel written and published initially by Madam Kistulot between 2005 and 2006 on the EMCA. On the surface, it’s about a superheroine who gets enthralled by what would probably be called a supervillain who heads her own corporation where all the other powers she takes control of work for her. I say on the surface because while the first chapter is devoted to setting up Silver Girl, her world of supers, her daily routine, and how it all works, only to then pretty much push the whole story forward and get her under the control of the supervillain mostly called The Lady throughout the book. From thereon almost nothing set up initially becomes relevant again (with one exception) and it really details her daily routine working for Chronos, though I’m wary of using the word work here.

It’s a 360 pages book (by my ebook counting method) but for all that space Silver Girl or Silver as she has been renamed (or silver when in the presence of The Lady) really only does two jobs while the rest of the time she’s really going around the skyscraper she’s now living in and getting hypnotized by the other supers working for The Lady, or hypnotizing them herself. The Lady pretty much lets all the other supers she has taken control of use their powers on each other which leads to a constantly shifting hierarchy of who is in control of whom, and since each of them has unique powers that are nicely suited to some form of mind control (Silver Girl herself discovers that her powers are also ideally suited to it, powers she never tried to use too much in the past due to her moral qualms of doing too much damage to others with them).

If you expect there to be a lot of sex going on all the time, the answer would be sort of yes and no at the same time. It is heavily implied that each of the supers under the control of the Lady (and she herself as well) have sex with the women they take control of, but since it’s all told from the perspective of someone who more often than not gets controlled or lets herself get controlled (Silver Girl really starts to like it) to the point that she doesn’t remember what happened afterward except feeling good, there’s almost zero explicit sex in here. The book is heavily suggestive of what is really going on and feels extremely hot, but if you go just by the words on the paper the most you will see is kissing, touching, and cuddling. And Silver Girl herself, when she’s in control, is blissfully, well innocent is the wrong word but really her needs run more toward physical and emotional closeness.

At times it feels like one of the reasons why Silver Girl takes so much to be under control or play with the other controlled women is that she seemed extremely lonely in her former life as a superheroine and now, with somebody else taking away her ability to make final choices, can, at last, allow herself to enjoy being around others and feeling again. One of the two jobs she performs for the Lady, basically capturing another superheroine she knew from her former life, reflects that to a degree because she has no qualms about taking her and when the Lady then utterly transform her capture into almost a mindless pet for her, still feels like this is a better life than that of the solitary superheroine she was living before. Sure, Silver Girl’s under control of the Lady, but there’s a degree of freedom to her thinking that makes it clear that she sees some of the positives to lacking total freedom but feeling love in turn.

What’s fascinating to me is that Silver Girl remains a superheroine until the end of the story, despite being utterly mind-controlled, to some degree changed to become the henchmen of a villain and become somewhat of a mind-controller herself, she never wavers in her need to help others and do good. There’s a genuine kindness to her that’s not diminished by being mind-controlled, just diverted. Where all the other officers of the Lady want to use their powers to control each other for the sheer power of it, she uses her powers of control either more like a mischievous spirit and for fun, to help others (however misguided) or to defend the people she loves or cares about. Which I think is what makes her prevail in the end when she goes against another mind controller who works in opposition to the Lady.

Most of those working for the Lady do it because they are forced to do it. With Silver Girl, while she is forced or rather mind-controlled as well, she also does it because she wants to save everyone around her, it’s such an integral part of herself that it survives her memories routinely getting erased or subdued, her mind shattered and broken into a million pieces. She’s a hero to the end, which I found was a lovely sentiment. I also found it fascinating how the story managed to start from one situation where you think it would be about Silver Girl working again the mind controller who has her taken over, only to then raise an even worse version of a mind controller and show the stark differences between the two.

To somebody who is not into this fetish, it’s all the same, but to those into it, there’s a world of difference whether the mind controller using you actually cares about you or not. From the earliest moments on with the Lady you always get the feeling that she’s incredibly aroused by taking over and controlling Silver Girl and the other women, by getting into their heads and understanding how they tick, not in any malicious way. It’s not exactly love, but it’s a form of care and level of humanity utterly lacking in the one Silver Girl has to fight at the end who sees the women she takes over as disposable tools, not as people, but as stuff to use and throw away. She doesn’t give a fuck, whereupon the Lady is shown in the end to do. She’s still evil, after all, she takes over people against their will, but in a mind-controller world, you take your nice evil and be happy with it.

This is a long book for this type of content and if you’re not really into mind-control, then this probably won’t work for you, as its smut is just not explicit enough, as a superheroine story it doesn’t go the conventional places you would expect it to and even when it sorta goes there in the end, it’s 85% or more of just women mind-fucking each other in various inventive ways. If you love mind-control then this will be really enjoyable, but there’s really not much else than that. I really liked it, I loved the attention and care that went into both making Silver Girl a fleshed-out character as well as her continuing mind-control. At times some scenes go on a bit too long, but other than that, really fun stuff.