As close as it gets #2 – Tales of MU

Welcome to the second edition of what I plan on being an ongoing series “as close as it it gets,” where I blather on about various media that I find to be suitable substitutes for actual femdom media.

I should clarify that when I talk about “suitable” what I really means is that it pushes my buttons, has at least hints of  domination and contains as few harmful tropes or unfortunate implications as possible. Sometimes that means I might feature Maledom that hits all the right notes except gender reversed, sometimes it may be something that just feels Femdommy to me. I’ll play it by ear.

Today I’m featuring Tales of M.U. by Alexandraerin. This online erotic fiction series hits a lot of my buttons, and is absolutely nerdtastic. From TV Tropes:

The story revolves around the life of Mackenzie “Mack” Blaise, a self-hating half-demon freshman student at Magisterius University, a college of enchantment in an alternate universe where Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy and magic exist in place of modern technology. While not quite a deconstruction, it makes frequent joking allusions to common tropes of fantasy gaming.

I never actually played DnD (I got it for Christmas once, but my parents threw it away) but I’ve played some video games that used it as a base, and I’ve had friends nerdier than I, so I get the jokes and references in the series with out much trouble. The fantasy setting, and the nature of the narrative feels to me a rather similar to Harry Potter, only with kinky sex. I read through the entire archive earlier this year and it is escapism at it’s finest. If I’ve peaked your interest start at the beginning because I’m about to go into some spoilers.

Part of what works for me about this story is that the protagonist, though she is a she, has a pile of trait with which I identify. Mack was raised in a hyper-religious background, and retains a good deal of it’s influence, both consciously and subconsciously. Even though she can rationalize against it, her upbringing still has a major influence on how she feels particularly about sex.

She spends a lot of time inside her own head trying to figure out why things turn her on, early on she has trouble even identifying her arousal, as sexuality was such a taboo subject for her growing up. Now, my background isn’t nearly as conservative, but I did spend a long time feeling like a sheltered kid trying to hang with all the cool kids. Tales of MU just manages to encapsulate that as well as some of my feelings about submission and kink very well.

When it comes to Kinks, this series has got me covered, nearly everything I want to see is at least given a nod (frequently things I don’t need get some attention as well, but not so much that I can’t enjoy it.) I want to share what got me hooked on the series, chapter 31 has a public spanking that cut to the core of me.

“Bend over,” she said.

“What?” I asked, though it wasn’t actually that hard a concept to grasp.

“Put your hands on the wall,” she said. Standing directly behind me, she took my wrists in her hands and leaned forwards, her front pushing into my back. She guided me down into the position she desired, my fingers splayed out on top of the low stone wall, my legs spread, straight at the knees but leaning forwards, my torso inclined forwards.

In other words, with my ass sticking up in the air.

I’d said something before that she’d interpreted as me telling her I wanted to be spanked. I should have known this was coming.

I braced for it.

I really wanted to post the whole thing because it keeps getting better, even if you don’t feel like getting into the whole series this chapter is definitely worth reading in it’s entirety. You should be able to get though it without any further context, and it’s spectacularly hot.

My gripes with the series are few. While the primary relationship is femdom, it’s F/f, (oh, and poly, so Mack has a boyfreind who isn’t her owner but does dom her during sex. As does her third partner, Steff the transgender half-elf) Amaranth, Mack’s owner/girlfriend is a nymph, and part of her function  as a fertility symbol is to have sex with anyone and everyone, it has to do with the series mythology, but she only dominates in her relationship with Mack. There is no F/m in the main series except for one of the antagonists, and we get no look at her sex life.

If you need males subs, there is an unfinished spin-off  As the Underworld Turns which concerns the goings on with the female-supremacist dark elves, though I read it a while ago so I can’t say much for it, other than I remember some hotness. If you dig M/m ravishment and non-con fantasies there is another spin-off More tales of MU which has a bit too much dick for my taste, but if it floats your boat, I can vouch for the writing.

As the series goes on sex become less frequent, but I do find the story compelling, after something like 1100 chapters, Alexandraerin changed the format to shorter “books” but Mack and Amaranths dynamic is still going in a direction I enjoy reading. Hopefully, so will you.