>>25065916
>The wild part is I wouldn’t even say I’d want to be friends with them, nor are they characters I can relate to. But they are utterly compelling.
Sub 80 IQ and candidate for 'how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning'.

It's a fantasy anon. Same reason guys think GTA is a masterpiece

>>25065916
No thanks
Is rather read my 100th harem doujin

>>25065933
Interesting...because /lit/ has been calling women low IQ for a decade because they say many classics are bad because they can't relate to the main character...

>>25065916
>Why are women [x]
Because they're fucking stupid.

who the fuck cares what women read? my wife reads alot of slop and never tells me about her books. she knows i dont give a shit.

>>25065916
this is exactly why female literacy was a mistake

>>25065933
Kek that's literally an npc cattle tier thought process

>>25065941
The "likable" meme is about rootin tootin updootin fellas

>>25065916
This shit is literally just porn for women. That's why they're fanatical about it. It's like if a guy keeps going back to a really good porn video and he likes and tries to analyze all the angles or the way the girl moans and what about it makes it specifically hot to him. The thing is that these women pretend there's actual literary worth to the rape fantasies they goon to and that's what makes them especially annoying here

>>25065976
>It's like if a guy keeps going back to a really good porn video and he likes and tries to analyze all the angles or the way the girl moans and what about it makes it specifically hot to him.

So, fans of Continental film?

>>25065936
The difference is that GTA is a masterpiece because it's a video game and people who say it's one don't take it nor are taken seriously.
In this case, it's a masterpiece because a woman wrote it, another woman jerked herself to it and if you don't agree with that you are an evil misogynistic chud.
One is a masterpiece in its medium, the other is a masterpiece due to its context, author and audience, requiring several conditionals to be one even in its own medium.

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>>25065946
Anything else she never tells you that you don't give a shit about?

>>25065988
>GTA has no target demographic

>>25065997
>pointless argument
lol
lmao even

>>25065993
She annotated every part she creamed her britches to.

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>>25065916
Men, it's time. We have to take women's rights away.

>>25065997
GTA is able to trascend its target demographic, femgoonslop not.

>>25066011
Need to go after their pimp first (the government), and the pimp’s pimp (the fed). We run the risk of plans turning into the end of Taxi Driver, but what else can you do?

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>>25065916
women will shlick to this then call you a pervert for fapping to pantyshots

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>>25066015
Wrong

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>>25066042
This guy though found the book extremely problematic and an expression of rape culture

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>>25066042
Remember how beards used to be just for terrorists? Then they were for manly men that fought terrorists. Now they've come full circle.

>>25065916
Porn.
Didnt read the rest OP.

I get that it’s basically porn for them but I do often wonder if these women have actually read anything written before 2000

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>>25066070
You say it's porn but actually it's really popular even in women's Christian book clubs

The sooner you realize women LOVE rape the better your sex will be

>>25066070
I know one woman that’s read Alchemized, but also Jane Austen, and can appreciate older literature. She doesn’t run a book tok though. The whores in these pictures probably never finished a book written before 2000, besides Harry Potter.

>[...] when he checks her memories
eh, what?

>>25066107
He rapes her mind as well in order to retrieve her memories and see what secrets she's hiding

Why when The Marquis de Sade writes about women being raped it’s considered misogyny and perverted libertinism but when some millennial whore does it it’s suddenly the flavour of the month masterpiece? I’m feeling like a real fucking chud right now GOD I fucking hate women.

>>25066127
Women never consented to De Sade’s rape fantasies. A woman’s mind is Schrodinger's rape box.

>>25066077
How does that change anything?

>>25066141
Idk there must be a John Paul II Theology of the Body exegesis out there to make it holy goon sesh.

itt chuds cant handle spicy lit

>>25066070
Every copy of classic literature I own has been purchased from women who sell Dickens and Dostoyevsky alongside this sort of erotica.

>>25066144
Book =/= literature

>>25065916
>Women think Potter fanfic is a masterpiece
Typical

>>25065936
GTA is a masterpiece in design, not writing.

>>25066020
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>>25066042
>>25066046
I don't consider any of these things "men".

>>25066144
Spicy lit is fine, but don't fucking act like it's some exceptional masterpiece and act like a victim for being ribbed on for liking it.

>>25066070
Women are way bigger readers of classic literature than me. Men, if they do read, are almost exclusively reading self-help slop.

>>25066357
*men

>>25065916
I love GRRM's ASOIAF, so I can't blame these people. At least they read.

>>25066356
The hypocrisy in posts like these is wild. We all know that it's extremely to find men who will spend hours lecturing about how Star Wars is a masterpiece. The world is full of people with shit taste who overrate their favorite fiction.

Someone post an excerpt for class to read.

>Alchemised is a reimagining of SenLinYu's popular[7] fan fiction Manacled.[8][9] Manacled, a fanfiction that combined the intellectual properties of Harry Potter and The Handmaid's Tale[10][11] to reimagine the Harry Potter series in a dark alternative universe, with a romance between Harry Potter characters Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy,[10][12][13] was removed from the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own, where it had been initially published, on January 1, 2025, in advance of Alchemised's release.[8]

Hmmm, yeah, this has finally convinced me that there will never be a great female writer.

>>25066374
Those retards suck too. I've seen people say that SW is as complex as the fucking Illiad.
Manchildren, womenchildren, doesn't matter. They're both shit.

>>25066391
>there will never be a great modern day writer.
ftfy

>>25065936
GTA is a masterpiece in many ways, and your refusal to engage with the medium it mastered an innovated in is not an argument.
Car go VRRRRMMM

>>25066402
Bait, kek.

>>25066384
Not greentexting, anyone can find the rest of chapter 1 on the web if they want.

...

When light came, it nearly split Helena’s brain open. There was screaming.

“Fuck! How’s this one awake?” A voice broke through the sensory agony.

Light was stabbing her. A spike driven through her eyes, burrowing into her skull. Gods, her eyes.

She writhed. The brightness blurred, careening. The burn of fluid rushed down her throat. A roar in her ears.

Slick fingers dug into her arms, against bone, dragging her up. Air hit her lungs, sending them seizing as the fluid came back up.

“Fuck this stasis gel. Can’t get a decent grip. Make her shut up! She’s about to drown herself.”

Her head slammed into something as she was dropped. Rough stone tore her hands. She scrabbled blindly, trying to push herself up. Her eyes squeezed shut, but the light was still a knife in her skull. A hard object was ripped off the back of her neck, and something warm and wet ran across her skin.

“How the fuck is she awake? Someone must’ve fucked the dosage on this one. Don’t let her crawl off.”

Her arms were gripped again, and she was heaved up from the ground.

She tore herself free, forcing her eyes open. All she could make out was blinding white. She lunged towards it.

“You fucking bitch, you cut me!”

Pain exploded across the back of her head.


There was still light when she regained consciousness.

It came slowly, as though she were underwater, swimming towards a surface that rippled just beyond reach, consciousness seeping back in. Her eyes were closed; the light was just beyond them. She could feel the pain of it already.

She was lying on something hard. A cold table, its metal inert be-neath her fingers.

She could dimly make out voices, muffled but close.

“Well?” A woman’s voice. “Any others?”

“No.” A man’s voice. That first voice from earlier. “We’ve pulled the rest out. It was just this one stored wrong.”

“And she was conscious when you opened the tank?”

“Sure was. Started screaming when we lifted the top and pulled her up. Gave me a heart attack, I can tell you. Willems was so startled, he nearly drowned her, and when we did get her out, she was fucking feral. Scratched the shit out of me until we got her knocked out. Had the intravenous and all, but the sedation was turned off. Someone must’ve bumped it.”

“That doesn’t explain the lack of records for this one,” said the woman. “Seems odd.”

“Probably done in a hurry. Couldn’t have been kept for long. Even the ones properly done are mostly dead. Lot of the tanks are just soup and bones.” The man laughed nervously.

“We’ll know more once I have her in Central,” the woman said. She sounded disinterested. “You were right to call this in. It’s anomalous. Let me know how many of the rest wake. Any corpses intact enough for reanimation go to the mines. The living stock goes to the Outpost.”

>>25066404
“Of course. And you’ll put in a good word for me, right? It would mean a lot if it comes from you.” The man sounded hopeful, and his chuckle was forced. “Not getting any younger, you know.”

“The High Necromancer has many petitions to consider. Your work will not be forgotten. Have a lorry made ready for transport.”

There were retreating footsteps followed by an irritated sigh.

“There’s no need to feign unconsciousness; I know you’re awake. Open your eyes,” the woman said. “I’ve altered your senses, so the light shouldn’t be too much.”

Helena peered cautiously through her lashes.

The world around her was greenish dusk, every form shadow- like. The vague shape of a person moved on her right side.

Her eyes followed sluggishly.

“Good. You’re following instructions and tracking motion.”

Helena tried to speak, but a low gasping emerged.

There was a click of a pen and papers shuffling.

“So, Prisoner 1273, or are you Prisoner 19819? You have two inmate numbers, and there’s no record of either in this facility. Do you happen to have a name?”

Helena said nothing. Now that the mere concept of light was not a terror, she could think a little. She was still a captive.

The woman gave an impatient huff. “Do you understand me?”

Helena gave no response.

“Well, I suppose I can’t expect much. We’ll know soon anyway. You, bring her.”

The shape blurred away, and new figures appeared. Cold skin pressed against her wrists. The stench of chemical preservatives and old meat burned in her nose. Necrothralls. She tried to make out the faces, but her eyes kept sliding off, refusing to focus.

The table began vibrating as it was rolled across a stone floor, radiat-ing through her skull into her teeth.

Then it was so bright, it was like needles being driven into her reti-nas. She gave a muffled scream, squeezing her eyes shut again.

There was a nauseating lurch upwards, and everything grew darker again, a motor rumbling to life somewhere beneath her.

She needed to escape. She tried to shift and felt the clank of metal.

“Lie still.” The woman’s voice was suddenly back. Very close.

Helena jerked away, breath coming in rapid pants and her hands and feet twisting against the restraints. She had to run. She had to—

“Don’t make my day harder,” the woman said, her voice icy.

Fingers gripped the base of Helena’s skull, and a pulse of energy flooded through her brain.

Darkness again.

Jolting agony and sudden terror ripped Helena back into consciousness.

She lurched upwards, eyes wide, just in time to see a syringe pulled away. There was a snap of chains, and she fell back, heart racing, every beat a throb of pain as though it’d been stabbed through.

“There now.” There was the clatter of the syringe being dropped onto a metal tray somewhere to her right. “That should get you lucid and talking.”

It was the woman from earlier.

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>>25066046
Absolute state of it

>>25066020
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>>25066021
Those three look like the average reddit feminist who validates women's opinions to feel appreciated as a heckin' wholesome anti-toxic masculinity ally of women but who is secretly a repressed rapist.
>>25066046
This is more or less a normal guy.

races of the main characters?

>>25066404
>>25066409
I was about to say this reads like a really bad fanfic but then I find out that’s literally what this is, like >>25066020 this pathetic excuse for a man said, 5 stars!!! And people say literature as art died like 50 years ago!

>>25065916
Man I would read that in an instant if it were yuri. Why do women get all the great literature?

>>25066485
Going from the reviews, everyone is described as having pale skin and dark hair

>>25066505
*blond hair

>>25065916
meanwhile faggots on /lit/ tout Bataille, Catullus and Joyce as great authors of the western canon

>>25066391
Wasn't 50 Shades also originally a Twilight fanfic?

>>25066601
Yep.

>>25065916
I wrote reviews like this about Mother 3 when I was her age

>>25065933
>fell for the "how would you feel ..." meme
>accusing anyone else of having a <80 IQ

>>25065993
He probably called her books "slop" to her face a few times, so she doesn't tell him about her boyfriends anymore.

>>25066774
Porky did nothing wrong

>>25066078
this tbdesu
the trick is to be the kind of man a woman wants to be raped by. that's what trips most people up: it's a matter of understanding Time & Place.

>>25066391
Writing is a craft. The weird broads that spent hundreds of teenaged hours writing and critiquing trashy fanfics on AO3 are genuinely better writers with a deeper grasp of language than any fag on this board could even hope to be.
But they use those skills to make smutslop, because it's what they enjoy reading. No different from all those "guitar virtuosos" like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Yngwie Malmsteen that are incredibly talented at the instrument but whose original music is largely boring wank.

>>25066802
Joke's on you, I've been writing Monster Girl fapfics since 2014

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>>25065916
>booktok flavor of the week
>look it up in my local library's reservation system
>"321 Holds on 32 Copies"
At least this shit keeps the library funded.

>>25066803
if you're being sincere, that's honestly based Anon. keep at it

>>25066808
>if you're being sincere
I am. Obviously write other stuff too, but this is absolutely solid practice.

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>>25065916
>>he truly is a monster: a mass murderer of men, women, and children alike. Anything that stands in his way is annihilated. That’s what makes him so compelling.

>>25065916
The women aren't communicating well in the reviews, but I think it's plain to see why this stands out to them.
First let's get this out of the way, rape is accepted in fantasy/scifi. Especially if this is based on a fanfiction series, which if you haven't ever read fanfic or webnovels, there's sexually offensive or disgusting premises that soar way beyond this.

Now all these stories are a monogenre, that is a love story, so it's understood that ultimately in this story the couple individually each loves and are devoted to each other. It wouldn't work without this trope.
In this story the rape dynamic of the couple is taken to an extreme in ways that only a magical setting could allow, which necessarily increases the emotional stakes of their relationship.
Then I have just outlined both that this gross story about tyrannical magic rape is both a) implicitly wholesome, and b) objectively more entertaining to the reader on account of it.

And in this particular story where the rape dynamic of the couple is so extreme that they're like yin and yang, this clear and direct symbolism, again within a fantasy world of heightened reality, only makes the actions of the individual characters more comprehensible as abstractions.
While it's simplistic symbolism, it benefits the extreme nature of the content by offering readers an easy road from character study to symbolic abstraction, allowing them to comfortably project whatever emotions and concordances they wish onto the material.

>>25065916
because last month they were raving about milking bulls to fight against capitalism

>>25066856
So porn.

>>25066374
Star Wars doesn’t have elaborate rape fantasies.

>>25066856
Sounds to me like the female version of the "she is a 1000yo vampire in the body of a 13yo girl" cope. Hope you did not type this trash

>>25066841
Sounds based as fuck.
If only it weren't written by a woman.

>>25066841
Hitler is pure evil and we need to apologize a thousand times for his atrocities. Unless he is also a tall, handsome and mysterious type, then that's fine to forgive and fuck him

>>25065916
How have men and zoomers failed so spectacularly at finding any success with modern literature at all, how are books like this getting 200k reviews on Goodreads while we have nothing at all?

>>25066901
Women control publishing.

>>25066901
You just arent looking for it
Theres a lot of male novels out there. Spy/lone rogue shit. Brad Thor, Lee Child, Daniel Silva.
Stop complaining like a fag and go read literature for men.

anything multiple tiktokkers like is guaranteed dogshit

>>25066060
Cute t-shirt.

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>SenLinYu
So is this just another example of "female Asian diaspora" literature?

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being gay must be great

>>25066357
It’s literally the opposite but okay. The only classic lit women tend to read is Jane Austen.

>>25065936
GTA sucks. It's the equivalent of b action movies.
>>25065916
Women love to be raped. Women are naturally rapebait. They are naturally submissive and want men to take away their rights. Only beta male simps deny this while incels, misogynist chads, and women themselves all admit this is what they want and needs to be done. It's reddit who is singlehandedly keeping this from happening.

>>25067075
>It's reddit who is singlehandedly keeping this from happening.
Kek that's insane (if you believe it). Funny either way.

>>25066952
>Theres a lot of male novels out there. Spy/lone rogue shit. Brad Thor, Lee Child, Daniel Silva.
You mean bland airport thrillers that are all exactly the same shit every time. The only good one like that was the first Travis Chase book by Patrick Lee because it had a neat concept (the dimensional rift spitting out artifacts that are basically magic items, in your standard political/technotriller/CIA/spy bullshit setting), the rest is just so fucking boring.

>>25066806
>300 stinky vagina juices on every page turn
Guh!

>>25066806
I don't know about you buy I don't think borrowing a smut book from the library is a good idea considering what people get up to while reading them.

>>25066374
>womenchildren
redundancy