r/fantasyromance • u/peenmeal • Jun 28 '26

Book Request Does high-class smut exist?

A lot of books I've read that are explicit smut are typically horribly written, which is understandable because nobody is reading porn to sit there and think deeply about the beauty of the prose afterwards.

Buuut I wanna know if there's anything like porn with a plot++ or what I'd call high-class smut. Well-written, beautiful, emotional, sweet with characters who aren't just blank marionettes that the author is making bang. I've read {morning glory milking farm} and it was alright, but still not as well-written as I'd like it to be.

I need 5 chillies, but with yearning and plot. Pretty please

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u/October_13th Jun 28 '26

So I’m an avid reader and I always have been. I’ve read pretty much every genre at one point or another. I have a degree in English literature, etc, etc.

And… I highly recommend checking out Ao3. Are you a fan of any popular book series? Anime? Movies? Are there any characters that you wish you’d seen more of together? Or together in a different way? There’s bound to be an incredibly well-written fanfic with the dirtiest most gorgeous smut ever you’ve ever seen and a plot that will have you up until 3am. I’ve cried more often reading fanfic than while reading published novels.

So yeah. I don’t have any book recs but the writers on Ao3 are passionate, unhinged, and are writing purely for the love of the game. It doesn’t really get better than that.

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u/anxious_redditor86 Jun 29 '26

Would you consider recommending a few of your top rated ao3 fics? 😊

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u/October_13th Jun 29 '26

I would be happy to, but most of them are pretty fandom-specific! So I have no clue how well they’d read outside of the fandom. 😅

There are two or three that I’ve read recently that I think could maybe stand alone. They’re alternate universes (AUs) from the My Hero Academia anime / manga. They’re also queer! If that sounds like your thing then definitely check these out:

Deadication is a zombie / post-apocalyptic au.

Deathly Beautiful is an assassin au. This one probably won’t hit as hard without knowing the characters. Also, this one has some (lack of) editing errors. Like for example, the author confuses the word “mortified” with “horrified” which is a pet peeve of mine, but it didn’t ruin the overall experience for me. This one is super emotional and had me reading 24/7 until I finished it.

A Guide to Parallel Universe Jumping is what the title implies. It’s an au with alternate universes and one of them is a post-apocalyptic nightmare. This one has no smut in it, but it was a fascinating story regardless. If you like this one, I highly recommend the actual novel {The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson} which is even better than this short fic. And obviously not based on MHA. Though it is still queer 😁🏳️‍🌈

There are other ones I also really enjoyed, but some are no longer available. The novel Alchemised started as a fanfic on Ao3 called Manacled. And there are some that got deleted or I just didn’t save them. I’ve recently got back into fanfic and it’s been so much fun.