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I D : : L a n d a m a e r i _ D o m e s t i c a t i o n _ G u i d e
T Y P E: : R E C O L L E C T I V E
A L E R T : : m e m o r y _ s t r e a m _ c o n t a i n s _ m u l t i p l e _ p a r t s
Oh Inos, how do I even begin with this one...? There's so much to talk about here, and it's such a can of worms as well. This is one of those things that's already hard enough to talk to normal people about; even more so if you have the kind of relationship with it that I do. Ah, well... I have to pick somewhere to start, so I guess the context is as good as any.
So, Landamaeri Domestication Guide, as it's known by most people, is both a setting and a story. The original
Landamaeri Domestication Guide was written three years ago by a
kuruki transfem - which is extremely important, but we'll get to why later - who based it upon a pre-existing uberniche xenofiction sub-genre, more generally called
Domestication Guides. I don't know which one of these, if any one in particular, it was that inspired the original author; but basically the original xenofiction imports are all very old. The oldest one I could find while researching the subject seemed to have made its way to the Fleet a couple centuries ago; which, damn. I don't know why, but the thought of people rediscovering multi-century old smut and basing a setting on it is... yeah, I dunno what I'm trying to say here. Moving on.
Anyway, so: The original stories almost all seemed to be formatted in similar ways, and they basically depicted the encounters of various races - typically the one that the author of the xenofiction was a part of - encountering a civilisation called the Affini Compact. The Affini Compact is basically this hyper-advanced intergalactic empire run by a race of (this is where it starts getting weird) domineering pet play plant people. According to how they're depicted in these stories, their goal is... to turn every other race in the galaxy - which they refer to as 'xenosophont species' - into their pets, which they call florets.
Immediately, this is, uh, one of The Premises Of All Time- and you can probably see why a lot of people clock out immediately just from reading that. It gets worse, though, when you find out how they do it: Being a 'pet' in Compact society basically means getting drugged up to your eyes with one or more of a variety of weird concoctions that the stories call 'xenodrugs'; which can do things like cause you to be unable to lie, stop you from being anxious, make you instantly fall asleep, increase the sensitivity of your skin tenfold so a light touch on the arm feels like being rubbed between the legs, cause you to become so hypersuggestible that you will do literally whatever you're told; etc etc. In case you maintained any plausible deniability that this could just be unusually worldbuilt sci-fi, they do in fact use all of this to have copious amounts of sex (or not-quite-sex, since a lot of the authors are ace-leaning) with the florets.
So, yeah: It's a kink setting. In addition to the aforementioned, the plants also strip all of the legal and political rights away from the people they take as their pets, then put these parasitic growths in their spines which they call 'Haustoric implants' which let them straight up read
and edit your thoughts. With all this in mind, you'd think they'd be intended to be the bad guys; but no, they're actually written as being intended to be benevolent. Which is... uh... kind of a difficult position to defend, given all of this, but the people who write the stories try very hard to do so; to usually fairly limited success outside of the main genre whom the stories appeal to. Which is where we now get back to what I said at the start about the author of the original
Landamaeri Domestication Guide being a
kuruki transfem:
This is also true of almost the entire audience for the
Landamaeri Domestication Guide as a larger setting. Since the author wrote the original three years back, hundreds of other people have ended up contributing stuff to the Landamaeri take on the genre, and it now has more than ten million words of stuff written for it. Of these people, though, both the authors and the people reading them are roughly 99% both
kuruki and transfem. Apparently, there's just something uniquely appealing about being kidnapped by giant plant people and having all your needs forcibly taken care of that is particularly appealing to that group of people; which, honestly? I kind of get it.
I read the original and didn't think it was gonna be my thing at all at first; the way the affini are depicted in the original is
starkly different to in most other LDG stories, and it both turned me off & also pissed me off quite a bit because I thought the worldbuilding about Compact society was a really bad representation of a fictional auth
qhispik society. I've since come around on thinking the story is bad, but I still don't like it. The good news (for me anyway) was that there are
a lot of other stories in the setting, and they're much more in line with the kind of stuff that I like. Most of the other works veer more dubcon rather than outright noncon, and quite a lot of authors put a big emphasis on hypnosis as well as all the drugging; which I like a lot.
The thing that makes it the most interesting, though, is I think the fact that it's written by the most similar demographic to me I've ever come across. Up until now, I figured that the hypnokink community was the place where I had the most in common with people; just because a lot of people there are also
kuruki, trans, and like hypnosis. But the culture there sucks and it's still ultimately a cishet male-dominated space, whereas in the LDG space, it's
just us. I honestly kind of never actually thought a community
just for
kuruki trans people could actually exist, and as a result of that, it took me a while to process the significance of what I'd stumbled upon- by which point I had done my usual thing of pissing off the moderators in the main Intersidera server and getting myself banned.
Definitely a little bit of an oops, and in hindsight, I would have been a lot more careful had I known how unique the place was. But anyway, I'm quite used to this sort of thing happening, so I just spoofed a fake fleetnet ID and rejoined on an alt later that day. In the weeks since then, I've made a fair few friends, and I've had a pretty good time of things overall. It's actually a really nice place, so long as you don't annoy any of the people in charge, and it's been kind of surreal getting to interact with people who are a bit like me for once.
...It does have me wondering how different things would have been if I'd found a place like this sooner, though. I've spent pretty much my entire life without ever meeting any people who are much like me. I can't help but think that, if I'd had more spaces like this when I was younger, I probably wouldn't have turned out quite the way I am now.
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Though, it's not like something as simple as that could actually keep me out...
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It seems like such a waste to allow the actions of a few powertripping idiots to keep me away from the first community I've come across in ages that actually *felt* welcoming. No, I definitely can't allow something like that... I've been looking for far too long for somewhere like this.
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Yes. If they're not willing to listen to reason, why should I abide by anything that they have to say? A social contract goes unfulfilled if one side won't keep up their half of the bargain.
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Yeah, why not. Okay... It's been a while since I've done this, but it shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Let's see...
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