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Hello all!

I'll try to be terse here (and assuredly fail miserably at it; terseness and myself simply do not mix; hence why I choose to be a writer! :D!) when I say that I really don't know what I'm doing with all of this. I'm brand new to the forum, and I have never publicly shared any of my stories - let alone my erotic or pornographic ones - with anyone, really. I'm not new to sharing pornographic creations, but since I don't know how off-topic we're allowed to go, I'm just going to leave it at "you can google my username and see what exactly I mean."

This thread is for my original fictional work, Lesbanon, subtitled "A Tale of the Son of Woman." I'm not exactly how the forum and archive work together, so I'll just provide a link directly. You can view the story in the archive by following this link.

Looking around, it seems that that authors' replies to reviews need to be done in a thread like this, so I suppose I'll use this thread primarily for that. However, I also want to use this thread to discuss the story itself - its lore, my reasons for making it the way I do, how I am progressing on writing the story, how the story itself is progressing within its universe, things like that.

Since I don't have any reviews currently, I suppose I'll open with some information about the story, which either be not evident when reading the story itself (especially in its far-from-finished state), or is just some random "the more you know" information.

The title of the story: This one may not be so hard to figure out, especially if you read the first two sentences of the story, or even just the summary. The title - and name of the fictional country it takes place in - is a spin on the term "lesbian." It is actually a portmanteau of the word "lesbian" and the real-world country name of "Lebanon." Why Lebanon? I originally thought of using the name "Lesbos," but seeing as that's an actual place in Greek mythology, thought that'd be a bit too boring. I needed another name that started with an L for the sake of the quasi-pun, and Lebanon was the first thing to come to mind. :D

LESBANON as a deconstruction: Firstly, I want to point out that the story is a deconstruction. What, exactly, is it a deconstruction of, you may ask? It is a deconstruction of the tropes within both sexual media (which is to say porn novels, porn films, porn comics; anything pornographic, really) and the modern interpretation of high fantasy. More specifically, it is a deconstruction of the overt sexualization that mainstream media has bastardized the phrase "high fantasy" with.

Look at any modern fantasy MMORPG - TERA Online, for example. While the men are clad to the teeth in heavy steel and spikes in every which way, the women's heaviest armor set is effectively a bikini top that can barely contain breasts that are larger than their heads.

I find the entire ordeal entirely distasteful, and more than a bit objectifying. I'm not a hardcore feminist by any means, but I recognize the validity of some women's complaints about such things. Certainly there are some women out there who don't have problems with it, or possibly even find such sexualization empowering in some fashion, but all in all I find that it makes a joke out of the genre as a whole. It's hard to be taken seriously of a fan of high-fantasy, especially high-fantasy RPGs, these days. Dragon Age? "Oh, that game where all you do is have sex?" TERA Online? "Oh, that game where all the women run around half naked?" Vindictus? "Oh, that game where all the women are asian porn stars?" It's very frustrating.

With all that being said, why is Lesbanon written the way it is, enforcing those very tropes I just detested? Well, that's simple: I'm a bit of a satirist! :D!

When I find something that I can't take seriously, that I find makes a joke out of itself, but others can't seem to see the joke like I do, I try to make the joke I see abundantly clear. I take what is already absurd, and stretch it to hyper-absurd means. To really drive the point home of how silly I think it all is, I put the absurdity into an otherwise realistic situation: having sex-crazed lesbians who run around in armor that exposes their breasts and lower bodies fighting to maintain a crashing economy and a society that is starting to fall apart and break into a civil war should be a pretty jarring contrast. :).

Inspirations for LESBANON: I won't lie when I say I am a huge fan of the Oglaf web-comic series. The basic idea for the story actually comes from the Oglaf episode, "Kronar, Son of Man," which is about manly-man barbarians who "have been freed from the taint of women for generations" and who are able to somehow reproduce in their male-only society, while at the same time (in true Oglaf fashion) being pretty sexually active and experimental.

The basis for the story basically flipped the idea Oglaf presented on its head, where it is a woman-only society who has been "freed from the evil of men for generations" and who are able to somehow reproduce in their female-only society, while at the same time being absurdly sexually active and experimental. The main character of the story (who was only introduced as a newborn in the prologue chapter), Cro, derives his name directly from "Kronar", as a less subtle nod to Oglaf for giving me the original idea.

I assure you all, though, that is where the similarities end. The same very basic idea, but an otherwise entirely unique idea.

Before I wrap this post up, I would like to say that I would really appreciate if you guys would read what I have so far and give me some feedback. I wrote the whole seven or so MSWord pages of the first chapter (prologue) in about 90 minutes' time. I only proofread it once, immediately after, so it is prone to grammatical and semantic errors. Please let me know if you catch any, and I'll work on correcting them as quickly as possible.

Again, this is my first time sharing my writing publicly, and I won't deny I am a bit shy about it. I like to consider myself a good writer, but then, I think every aspiring writer likes to think so as well, no matter how crummy their writing may actually be. My only request is that you don't beat around the bush or drown things in sugar: if you think my writing is shit, please just straight-up tell me you think it's shit. I would like it if you offer some constructive criticisms - what you think is shit, why you think it's shit, and suggestions on ways to make it less shit - but if you don't, at least an honest opinion will be respected.

I'm a big boy. I can take it. Honest. :)

(I'll only cry a little :P).

Well, that's about it for now. I told you terseness and I weren't close friends. :).

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Since it appears there is no edit button (and a nice green-named person in the shoutbox who I assume to be a moderator suggested I do this), I want to add one last detail:

I have no idea when I am going to be able to write and publish the next chapter of the story. It may be 2 or 3 days, or it may be 2 or 3 months. As a Computer Science undergrad at uni, who has quite a few personal (and some pornographic) side-projects, finding time to dedicate to any one thing is a bit of a shuffle for me.

There are infinitely more things that I want to do than I have time to do them in. I hope ya'll understand. :).

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Chapter 1 has been posted!

Check the story's link in the archive. New chapter is "Chapter 1", since the chapter first posted was technically the prologue.

New chapter adds another 12 pages (MS Word, standard font and spacing) to the existing 8 (so it's half against as long as the prologue). New chapter is chock full of action, and this time, only a small portion of it is sexual! There's character development, and relationships, and drama, and even someone getting slapped who wholly deserves it!

Don't miss out on it!

Edited by LordAardvark
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Appendix

Last updated: May 27 2013, Chapter 1

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Chapter 2 has been posted.

This chapter adds another 16 pages, becoming the largest chapter so far. Cro is a grown man now, having lived his life in isolation with his Aunt Erisa. But that all changes when he comes across two young women getting frisky in the woods he hunts in, and it raises all kinds of questions for Cro about his human male body, and its unexperienced reaction to those two women.

There's a lot of self-discovery in this chapter, with a sheltered young man first discovering his sexuality - a sexuality that is shunned and cast as the very definition of evil by creed.

This chapter also introduces a new character that will (unfortunately) become a main character, and critical to the plot: Gresil. Why do I say unfortunately? Because Gresil is a sick duck. A very, very sick duck. That's what makes her a perfect tool for her purpose in this previously unknown scheme that is scratched upon though in the very end of this chapter.

Be aware that Gresil is single-handedly responsible for a majority of the extreme tags in this story (bondage, abuse, torture, etc). Nothing too intense happens in this chapter, as it ends with introducing her, but be aware that future scenes with her will be more morbid. I would personally like if the character was unnecessary, but my modus operandi for writing is to let myself be a slave to the story, and let it write itself - and the story, as it has come to be, calls for this unfortunate sadomasochistic shapeshifting woman. I'm not one for changing a story simply because I don't like it, and so it has come to this.

I have tagged the chapter appropriately, with a special warning regarding the ending scene with Gresil.

Be sure to check it out, and don't be afraid to tell me what you think so far!

The appendix will be updated in a few days.

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