Reader’s Picks: MCaesar
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Hello, intrepid reader! I go by MCaesar around these parts. I discovered the EMCSA in the mid 2000s, which might have been a few years before it would have been legal for me to access it. In 2019, I started a deliberate effort to read several stories from each weekly update and to leave some commentary on each one in the MCForum. If you haven’t visited, come on down; it’s a lovely place!
I’m a straight guy with switchy sensibilities. As long as a woman is involved, either MCing or being MCed by a man or another woman, I’m a happy camper. I’m also pretty accepting of the many forms that MC might take, though classic hypnosis and its pop-culture trappings (spirals, pocket watches, etc.) are near and dear to my heart. Here are some of the big things that excite me when reading a story:
Seduction and surrender. I prefer the tension found in the struggle with temptation over instant or irresistible control. It’s hotter when the subject is coaxed into obedience, be it willingly or despite their crumbling resistance.
Rich plots and relatable characters. Having characters I actually care about and can root for tends to be a force multiplier for how sexy it is when they use or fall prey to MC, as well as plots that explore the consequences.
Romance. I enjoy when MC plays a role in the creation or mutation of loving relationships, and much less so in their destruction. I can absolutely dive right into the dark and the depraved if it’s written well, but I’m much easier to please with wholesome couples and situations that bring the warm and fuzzies.
Gentle femdom. If it’s got nothing else, I can get hooked by stories with confident women desiring and pursuing men to their mutual satisfaction. You may notice many of my shorter picks share this in common.
Novelty. Having read hundreds of stories, I sometimes feel a bit jaded by the most common tropes. If a story can present an idea I’ve never seen, add a fresh spin to a familiar one, surprise me with a plot twist, or inspire me with new prose, it reinvigorates me.
This one is a pure, sexy hypno romp that left a big impression on my formative Archive reading. There’s a fun sense of the protag flexing the powers of the new technique she’s learned, while also being swept along by it. The (ultimately wholesome) manipulations in chapter three I found especially hot.
The pop-up-riddled website that appears in this story might feel like a throwback to a younger internet nowadays, but the slow enthrallment this faceless programmer wreaks on their victims is evergreen. The way it branches out into multiple connected vignettes as the pyramid grows makes each scene that much steamier. I especially like how some of the victims improvise as they recruit to keep the process fresh.
I’ve read a few of Wiseguy’s stories, and the dude is a legend. Seriously, look him up. This one I often return to just for sheer hotness wrought upon the neighbor guy, but I also like the intraharem dynamics at play and the fun and naughty tone.
I owe much to Anynom as both a reader and a writer. I discovered his stories early after discovering the Archive and devoured them because they all follow a simple and effective formula: present a clear, concise premise, move onto a thematically appropriate induction and climax with a sex scene. To a younger, more impressionable me, they made writing seem accessible. This tale, and is sequels Breast Exam, Breast Enhancement and Breast Exploration, follow that template, sharing a common protagonist and breast-based inductions as she seduces her way into the things she wants.
In the incredibly unlikely event that you discover this page before discovering Jukebox, then congratulations and you’re welcome. I singled this one out because it didn’t just push my buttons, it created new ones for me. The use of language around incremental control leveraging more incremental control is sublime.
Legend of Mystania by Thantos69
This fantasy epic is about a normal guy who goes to a perverted fantasy world to save it, his crush and his family from an evil wizard, not necessarily in that order. It has a huge cast of characters and heaps of lore, and puts in the legwork to make them all pull together into a beautiful tapestry. Some of the references might be dated, but there are heaps of highly imaginative, fantastical sex scenes and methods of MC to enjoy, sprinkled naturally along the heroe’s journey.
I’m not the first to put this one on my list, and I hope I’m not the last. It’s arguably my favorite story on the Archive, and as far as I’m concerned, the more ways there are for people to discover it, the better. The characters are complex and have complex relationships to the MC, and their differences are a powerful engine that drives the rollercoaster of a plot. The submissives have plenty of agency, and are often more proactive than the dominant protag. When their struggles and manipulations come to a head, the results are scorching!
For my money, 321 is best in the business for characters that feel real. For Hostel in particular, that even extends to the well-researched locales of Berlin. And soon both are embroiled in sex slavery conspiracies where the stakes are life and death. Our heroines have to figure out exatly how they feel about hypnotic servitude while they still have a chance to avoid it by outfoxing perhaps the most charmingly affable yet chillingly ruthless villain on the Archive.
Alan has many good stories. Some of them aren’t up my alley, and some are. But this one, in my humble estimation, is the funniest story I’ve read on the Archive. If you have a fondness for the Command and Conquer: Red Alert series and know a bit about European history like I do, do yourself a favor and read this. Some of the jokes are laugh out loud, and some are brilliantly understated, and if you can hold back the chuckles for a while, you might even notice that they’re sometimes pretty sexy, too.
There are many wholesome, hypnokinky romance stories on the Archive to choose from, and I might get around to picking out some of them for this list, but none have gotten me as invested as Fireflies. It follows our hypno-virgin protag from her meetcute with a handsome ‘tist through the triumphs and tribulations of their relationship, as they experiment and learn about one another and themselves. It’s raw, and it’s grounded, and that makes the heat and the drama pop off like fireworks.