Here is a list of my favorite MC stories and writers. It will be a long and arduous (on my wrist) process to go back through the archive to have this perfected, so it will take some time. A lack of inclusion does not mean a lack of enjoyment - it might mean I haven't gotten around to it yet.
That said, these are my own personal favorite stories and writers that stood out to me as needful in such a listing.
When I start to read, I first look for story, character, and writing quality. In that order. An enthralling story with gripping characters and lackluster quality will thrill me madly, though if all three qualities are in abundance? All the better.
I enjoy inductions and drawn-out seductions, though the rare story can skip these all together and still be amazing. Lush description is enjoyed when not taken too far, though being that I usually substitute details meaning to or not this is also not a requirement.
I suppose most of all, I look for stories of women controlling other women. The darker the better? Not always. Sometimes a lighthearted story can do, but this is a dark fetish and I enjoy it as such. Over the years I've tried my best to desquickify myself, meaning that very little gets to me in an "ew!" fashion short of scat and the like, though there are plenty of things storywise that can turn me away, pure content does not find this an easy achievement.
Nailing down just what is so awesome about Tabico is difficult. She doesn't shy away from writing anything, no matter how squicky it might get to some, and that's always drawn me in to her writing. Her connected stories weave an ever thickening web of inescapable seduction, while her stand alones manage to do this all on their own. With so much variation, it really is difficult to give you enough reasons to read her work, but simply put: you have to.
Rogue is an amazing story of a true hive mind with yummy robot goodness thrown in. Every moment draws our heroines deeper and deeper into a fate they couldn't possibly have expected, and though nor could we the heat is overflowing. Nominated for a Spiral in 2005, it was definitely worthy of stealing a victory.
Squick is something Tabico handles amazingly well. Incest is not the big taboo in this story. No one is fully aware of what's going on until the very end, and of course by then it's too late. Inspired at least in part by a creature that can be found in the 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons' fiend folio, this story is one that I've reread many times.
A vampire story - a thing that usually scares me away from ever even opening the first page - with a delightfully romantic edge to it. Tabico is not a writer who gets "romantic" used in her direction very often, but this one deserves it, and a read.
This is a sizzling hot story about a new kind of computer virus that doesn't just make your computer send emails, and when it steals your identity it just might make you a brand new one as its slaves. Sizzling, yummy, give it a read.
trilby else is another of those names that if you haven't heard it by now, I'd be rather shocked. His stories are sizzling hot, and not due to copious amounts of sex, but of mind control. As his pre-story warning says, he considers his work more than just smut and as such having some greater value, and I would have to agree. That literary edge is part of what keeps me coming back again and again, making for stories that would be worth a read, fetish or no.
This isn't the first story that gets tossed around when people mention trilby, so it felt appropriate to list it first. Though a good amount of trilby stories feature MC that is hypnosis based, this is a rather different story. Another fantasy as in genre tale that leads our protagonist headfirst into the lair of an evil mind controlling queen. Much of what happens may not be a surprise, but it is nonetheless delightfully erotic, fetishy, and possessing of a rather touching ending.
This is a sizzling example of a robot story where the robot aspect is all mental. The mind is where we get our grasp on reality from, and when your mind is controlled, reality can become anything. Few stories show it as deliciously. Plus, silver bikinis? Another must read.
One motif through out all of trilby's work is women feeing like whores or imagining themselves whoring themselves out for their owners. This story starts out with a hooker becoming a hypnoslave. Using classic hypnosis imagery, it thrives on the borrowing to the point of making it feel new again. Unfinished for now, but if you read it and like it, I know fanmail helps me finish things!
A college student can't quite pay her rent. No problem! Her landlady is a lesbian who will accept alternative forms of payment. Only thing is, she wants the sex to be enjoyed, mutual, fun. So how better to do that than to help her young leasee enjoy it more with some hypnosis? Of course, a trilby story, so this goes so very much further than that. This story even has alternate plotlines! Give it a read, you won't regret it.
thrall is another author who needs little introduction. Her stories delve heavily into the realm of depersonification, be it from human to toy, human to robot, or merely human to mindlessly obedient slave. Not only is her own work amazing, but she's worked great on a team with the other two members of the infamous "t-trio" in addition to others in the Quick and Dirty Anthology. If you haven't read the full body of her work, there's no time like the present.
I'm not one for all encompassing favorites, but this story is amongst my favorite on the archive. A delicious story where our protagonist begins craving a hypnotic experience, and as such a Willing Subject, gets so much more than she ever could have imagined. Hot as hell. If you haven't read this before, do so now!
Arousal and fear are very closely linked. This story shows that amazingly once the heat really gets going. It is no doubt one of the best stories to hold the RB tag on the archive.
Before, I mentioned that thrall's stories are heavy into dehumanization. This story is no different - sans its adorably romantic nature. If you don't feel something from this story, you're dead inside. Hot, and sweet.
Taking place in the same world as A Tenpack of Trixies, this shows what one can do with their yummy little remade convicts. Of course, if that was all that happened this would be a rather dull story. Things go wrong, and the woman below the bot starts to break free. What does that mean for her owner? Take a read.
These are stories either by authors I normally don't like, or stories by authors I haven't read enough of to know if I would put them under my Authors category.
"If at First You Do Succeed" by Flibinite
This story inspired one of my own, "Nocturnal Interlude", and it's pretty obvious why beyond the comic book tag. A yummy story of a novice superheroine falling in way over her head, Flibinite does a lovely job of showing us the inside of her head as she loses it, and providing a yummy flare of heat.
"Tock" by sara castle
A story told in the first person, to "You". That alone makes it an oddity for me to single out, but this is just a really good story. I found myself madly curious just what was going to happen all the way through, and did not find myself disappointed with the conclusion. Yummy, and worth a read for sure.
"Fulfilled" by Lisalynn_me
This is one of the first stories I read on the archive, and thus one just bursting with nostalgia. Even still, I find it holds up to the occasional reread purely for the helplessness of all involved and the delicious fate of this yummy cult's newest recruits.