All hail Harley Laroux 🙌🏼🙇🏻♀️
Have you read this beautifully crafted and highly spicy duet yet? If you haven’t, you need to. These four gentleman are highly recommended. My favourite character being Lucas – protect him at all costs. 💯🥹
Read The Dare first. It’s a nice quick way to get to know the characters. 😈 This is where the boot kicks into play. 👅
My rating of this duet (including The…
Here’s a screenshot I grabbed off IG. I felt this deeply with resonance to my latest FMC, Constance. She’s Butcher’s first and only true love. If you haven’t read the first book - Bad Things, it’s currently available on Kindle Unlimited. The first 10 chapters are free on Spotify.
The first chapter of my spiciest bang for your buck, Fuck Buddies. Full novel available on Amazon, here.
Enjoy, babes.
Made for the purposes of smut – not plot, you can find the whole novel here. Enjoy, babes.
Chapter 1:The Blind Date From Hell
“I’ve never met anyone with such a pompous personality. You’re truly someone I never thought I’d ever date. Congratulations, you prick. You’ve won the douchebag trophy.” Christa has found herself in the trenches of the ugliest date she’s ever been on. Most men want to…
Content warnings: Daddy kink, Exhibitionism, Anal Sex
Pairing: Original Female Character, Original Male Character
POV: Female First Person POV
Word Count: 489
Author’s Note: It’s been a long minute since I wrote one of these. Maybe you thought I had forgotten about this project, but nope. 😏 Muse still exists, just no time lately to get them out. Thank god for vacations. Enjoy babes 💋
Take A…
I read a few novellas to play catch up, but overall I had a pretty good month! I only DNF’ed one of these. 😏
A few sm*t filled books, dark romances, a thriller, and a horror. Let’s not forget the amazing biography by Britney.
Reviews coming soon for all these!
❓Out of my February reads, which are you most likely to pick up?
Next month will most likely be less books, but I’m hoping to have…
I am so effing excited to be on Harley Laroux’s #DemonSquad!!! 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆
❓If you could choose to be on any author’s street team (living or dead), who would you choose?
The Souls Trilogy received a makeover!These 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 with a second epilogue and soft paperback covers are 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 you can get them!
‼️ℕ𝕆𝕎 𝔸𝕍𝔸𝕀𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕃𝔼‼️
The new print editions are available at basically…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOOK REVIEW
WTF did I just read?!
Poor Charlie. Nothing goes the way he wants it to go, not even when he tries to force it. 🤣
Thanks to @feathers_library on IG for convincing me to read this fun and short little piece of gross horror/humour.
While I did enjoy it, it is meant for a very specific audience.
Please don’t read if you’re grossed out easily!! 🤮
“I will be her monster, her…
Happy Friday, y’all ❤️💋
❓Do you trust reviews? If so, where do you look?
As an author, I typically follow The Zon a lot closer than I would Goodreads.As a reader, it’s quite the opposite.
These thoughts are my own, and do not reflect anyone else’s views.
Here are my pros and cons for each situation on both platforms.Do we think alike? What would you agree with? Or maybe disagree with?
Amazon…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨🌶️🌶️
❓Are you into Greek Mythology? Who is your favourite God?
😻 This is hands down my favourite Persephone and Hades pairing. She is not dumb, nor is she helpless like most Persephones are. She’s just lost and in love.
Imo, this book is not meant for anyone under the age of 18.
This cute comic book hit all the right areas for me. It started out innocent, but these…
Content warnings: Begging, Oral Fixation, Cunninglingus, Anal Sex
Pairing: Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Original Female Character
POV: Female First Person POV
Word Count: 187
Exposed
Stick your fingers in my mouth.
Let me taste you, and have you take hold of me. Claim me as yours.
I want to feel the strength in your hands and relish in them. I want to warm them, suck…
Setting: Their home
Content warnings: FMF, Alpha beta omega, Face Fucking, Groping, Girl on Girl, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism
Pairing: Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Original Female Character
POV: Female First Person POV
Word Count: 861
Threesome
Her hand on my breast is warm as it cradles the underside of me. She squeezes softly, then more firm. I’ve never had a woman…
Setting: Hotel elevator/hallway
Content warnings: Aggressive Sex, Consensual Non-Consensual, Dry-Humping, Biting, Groping, Exhibitionism, Forced Orgasms
Pairing: Original Female Character, Original Male Character
POV: Third Person POV
Word Count: 925
Hotel Rendezvous
He follows closely behind her. His hands in his pockets. A smirk is on his face.
She’s a bundle of nerves and excitement.…
I’m sick of social media playing games with me. And I now have something special just for my website.
Let me introduce you to Smut Ficlets, a coffee table book of sorts.
One short and hot individual scene after another.
I’ve been posting them over on FB but needed some content over here on my blog. Not to mention the fact that if it was too racy, I couldn’t post it.
Here, and ongoing, I’ll be…
As another MCU chapter wraps, Eric Martin dishes on where the show's heroes and villains go from here.
This story contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of Loki.
It's been—what's the word?—a hectic couple of months for Loki's executive producer and head writer, Eric Martin. Rolling out a six-episode television series from a billion-dollar-plus-grossing superhero universe is no easy feat, even during normal times. But doing it during an actors' strike, which pretty much shifts the promotion of said television series entirely onto your own shoulders? Phew.
So when I caught up with Martin not even 24 hours after Loki's uber-chaotic Season Two finale aired, I asked him, you know, how he was doing. "I'm good," he said. "Relieved more than anything. I'm not great at celebrating victories. But I definitely felt some pride and had a bunch of people over from the show last night to watch the finale. That was a lovely event."
Even by MCU-postgame standards, we had a lot to talk about. Of course, the Loki finale begged a multiverse's worth of questions: Is Tom Hiddleston's Loki the most powerful being in this entire story, quite literally holding time and space together? Will Owen Wilson's Mobius transition to a full-time, Heineken-sipping suburban dad? Is Season Three in the cards? Also, how Martin handled the ongoing legal issues of star Jonathan Majors, which emerged after filming wrapped. Uneven responses from reviewers and fans, too. Add to that, Variety's explosive dispatch from earlier this month, which alleged significant turmoil at Marvel.
Here, Martin opened up about Loki's journey to true godliness, where Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie goes next, his thoughts on Loki's critics, and more. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
ESQUIRE: Before we really get into it, I have to ask: How does food work at the TVA?
ERIC MARTIN: That's an interesting question, because time isn't passing. I always approached it as if there is a [nutritive] requirement. Thermodynamics still apply and they need to create energy to move. But they don't get much time for it. Everything moves quickly at the TVA. You're always working and you get your nine-minute lunch break. There was a great gag we had in Season One. We ended up just having to cut it, but it was funny. We see a hunter in the cafeteria—they finish their meal, and then they just prune the tray. Instead of throwing anything away.
Now that we’ve seen the season, we know what the bookends are: Loki going from the He Who Remains aftermath to becoming the man at the end of time himself. Tell me about getting from point A to B.
The big idea was taking Loki from a lowercase-g god, to a capital-G God, powering him up to that place where he gets his throne—but it's not a throne he wants anymore. This is a duty. He's doing this so everyone else can have their lives. He's giving up the thing that he wants most so that everyone else can have their free will… We wanted to power up his abilities, but also his wisdom and knowledge.
Are we meant to understand that he’s suffering?
I leave that up to interpretation. That final image is meant to be ambiguous. So I'll let people make up their own minds there. If you look into mythology, someone like Atlas is an interesting person to look at with that.
Let’s talk about some of the other heroes. It’s great that Mobius is choosing the path of an Owen Wilson Character.
Mobius was the one in turmoil through all of this, truly not knowing which way to go. As much as he was this rascal that kind of broke the rules a little bit, he was a company man. Now, finding out that company isn't a place [where] he wants to work scrambled everything going into Season Two. So it's like, Well, what is my role? He just takes on the mission, while trying to ignore the other possibilities that are now out there. So with him by the end of the season, it's like he's just now able to go explore and figure out the opportunities that are out there.
I was surprised to see Sylvie alongside him in that moment. She seems to be in the same place of We’ll see where I go next.
Sylvie is interesting, because of all the stuff with McDonald's and her living that quiet life. It feels very gap year-ish. I'm not quite ready to grow up and do the thing. And she was pulled out of that. Now the work begins. I'm not sure where she goes from here. But I don't think she's going to live just a quiet life. Maybe she would. I don't know. But she's going to make a very active decision about what she's going to do—whatever that is. She's making that choice. It isn't just like, Oh, I'm going to feel things out. She's going to go in a direction.
Did you ever get to step foot in that McDonald's?
Oh, yeah. It was amazing. Everything was so period-specific. McDonald's has an in-house historian that advises on [projects like this]. It's one of those things I never considered like, Is that a thing? And then it's like, Of course it is. That's a gigantic company.
What about Ravonna's final scene?
I'll let people muse about what that can mean. She's up in the air. There are things that can happen with her. If you look to the comics, there are some fun inferences that can be drawn from the pyramid. And you know, who knows? Does Alioth kill her? Or did they strike up a friendship? Maybe Alioth remembers her? I don't know.
Jonathan Majors figures heavily into the season, between Victor Timely and the return of He Who Remains. I imagine it might have been a difficult position for you when allegations against Majors first surfaced. Tell me what happened next for you as a head writer.
You know, it's just: Try to keep it about the show. Let's do the best thing we can, here. There's so much, like—we just don't know about anything. So, OK, what can we do with our show? Let's just treat our show with respect, and you see what happens. It's a difficult situation all the way around.
Did you ever consider reshoots or editing the character out at any point in production?
You know, that's a larger studio conversation. For us, we were just focused on what we had and making that.
It does seem like everything was compiled and shot before his March arrest.
Yeah, no, we didn't do any reshoots for this season. There was no additional photography. So everything we shot, there in London, is what we see.
We see a small tease with the files—that the He Who Remains variants are running amok. Is it more likely that we see the character return in Loki, or somewhere else down the road? Or is that part of a larger studio conversation?
That is a decision that is made above my pay grade. They decide who's going to end up in what things.
On a macro level, where would you say Loki Season Two fits in within the overall Marvel story?
I actually don't know what the overall story is going to be. Things are so siloed off. I hope that we've been good teammates and created fertile ground for other things. The goal is to make it so good that the rest of the MCU comes to you. Obviously, I'd love to see all of our characters live on—OB and Ke certainly deserve to continue on. I'd be shocked if they didn't use them.
What would you say to the corner of fans and reviewers who have been critical of this season—and even the Marvel operation at large lately?
Thanks for watching? [Laughs.] No, I mean, I don't want to be ridiculous about that. Seriously, thanks for watching, and I hope they stuck with it. I think we had a challenging season with a lot going on. And I'm sure people at points got a little frustrated, like, Well, is this gonna lead to anything? But it always was.
That's the tough thing about Rotten Tomatoes, and people reviewing and weighing in on things that are in progress. Nobody's going out and reviewing a movie at the midpoint. It doesn't make any sense. You need to see the whole [season]. But I hope they stuck around, and I hope it landed for them. Ultimately, I'm just glad they watched.
That's a great point. Rotten Tomatoes does a Tomatometer for each episode, which is a different bar versus a binge release.
Yeah, for sure. I'm really happy. We had a weekly release. It's good for the industry. It's good for the viewers. It's good for the people making it. It makes what we do a little more precious, and it doesn't reduce it down to your weekend binge, and then you forget about it. It's good to live with these things, and to absorb them and fight about it. It makes it all more valuable.
With all the chatter lately about the state of the superhero genre, where do you see this type of storytelling going in the next five, 10, 15 years?
Does anybody know? I don't think anyone knows where Hollywood is going from year to year. I think we all have guesses. At the end of the day, it just comes down to making things that people want to see. And I haven't noticed less engagement, because my experience is all with Loki. I'm not sure with anything else, but I haven't seen any dip in enthusiasm. I've seen an increase. The fans of the show seemed like they've only gotten more excited about it. So, I don't know what to read. We can all kind of decipher that how we will. But I think we made a good show and people like it. At the end of the day, that's what it's about–you make something that's quality. You can connect with the audience, and the audience is going to connect with you.
What’s next for you?
I don't know. There are so many different paths. I'm super grateful to Marvel for this opportunity, because it was a huge door that was opened for me. I hope I did well by that opportunity, and that it will provide more opportunities.
My strike project was a novel about a family that wins the lottery, and it's just the worst thing that can happen to them. So I'm getting into editing my manuscript right now and hoping to go out with that next year. I just want to do good work, whatever form that's in. So I'm just looking out for quality. Is there a chance for something to be great? Can I work with people that I can learn from, that also care to make something great?
I love that mindset—especially during our current existential threat to the arts.
I have this feeling that we can still make great work in this industry that can draw lots of eyes. A lot of people are a little pessimistic about that. People just want to just make something and shove it out there. They think people will watch anything, but there is a hunger for quality filmmaking. I look at the '70s Hollywood and '90s indie cinema, when the big hits were also great pieces of art. Maybe I'm fooling myself and thinking that that's possible. But what's the point, if you're not trying to make something great?
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An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:
IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:
HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:
First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
