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In the Court of the Nameless Queen
Take a trip across the sundered worlds to the Queendom of Corynnod, a dark realm of sorcery and desire, ruled over by she who is Queen, goddess, and mother to us all, in four fantastical and titillating tales of wonder, adventure, love, sex, and—of course—spiders.
A true and credible account of how Freydis Thorkilsdottir, war witch, became Freydis Gothi and the Mother of Abominations. Freydis Thorkilsdottir, soldier and war witch in the army of the Nameless Queen, has always struggled to find a place for herself as a transgender woman. She volunteers to lead men over the walls in a castle assault, in hopes that, should she survive, she might earn the attentions—and the favors—of her great and terrible araneidan Queen . . .
THE An account of how Freydis Gothi made the acquaintance of her most beloved and treasured servant. Fleeing oppression and unspeakable abuse, Kristina Kaminski—a woman who loves women in a land where such things are not allowed—travels into the grim and mysterious north and meets a most peculiar woman upon the shores of the sea. As she settles into her new life, it comes to pass that a dark conversion often necessitates a dark baptism . . .
An account of the coming of Steff Pelczynski, diabolist, to Caer Eldur and the court of the Marchioness. Steff is no man, but don’t try telling her that. When the young wizard travels into the north, seeking a change, she—with the help of a rather commanding older woman—finds a change she didn't know she was looking for . . .
THE CARNIVAL OF CARNAL DELIGHTS: An account of how Freydis Gothi acquired her legendary sword. Freydis Thorkilsdottir, Kristina the Apostate, and their friends take an excursion to a festival of wondrous terrors and delights where nothing is as it seems . . . and things already seemed pretty suggestive to begin with!
A true and credible account of how Freydis Thorkilsdottir, war witch, became Freydis Gothi and the Mother of Abominations. Freydis Thorkilsdottir, soldier and war witch in the army of the Nameless Queen, has always struggled to find a place for herself as a transgender woman. She volunteers to lead men over the walls in a castle assault, in hopes that, should she survive, she might earn the attentions—and the favors—of her great and terrible araneidan Queen . . .
THE An account of how Freydis Gothi made the acquaintance of her most beloved and treasured servant. Fleeing oppression and unspeakable abuse, Kristina Kaminski—a woman who loves women in a land where such things are not allowed—travels into the grim and mysterious north and meets a most peculiar woman upon the shores of the sea. As she settles into her new life, it comes to pass that a dark conversion often necessitates a dark baptism . . .
An account of the coming of Steff Pelczynski, diabolist, to Caer Eldur and the court of the Marchioness. Steff is no man, but don’t try telling her that. When the young wizard travels into the north, seeking a change, she—with the help of a rather commanding older woman—finds a change she didn't know she was looking for . . .
THE CARNIVAL OF CARNAL DELIGHTS: An account of how Freydis Gothi acquired her legendary sword. Freydis Thorkilsdottir, Kristina the Apostate, and their friends take an excursion to a festival of wondrous terrors and delights where nothing is as it seems . . . and things already seemed pretty suggestive to begin with!
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 13, 2022
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Natalie Ironside
3 books60 followersNatalie Ironside was born in Warren County, Mississippi in the early 1990s and still hasn't gotten over it. She primarily writes speculative fiction.
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October 3, 2023
NEW REVIEW, LONGER AND UNCUT
~ Spider Fucking, In Close Detail ~
I want to give a very special shout-out to Nameless Queen's foreword, which goes (in part) as such: "Herein, we celebrate the bodies of women of all different sorts, both cis and normal, and find beauty in the strange and even the inhuman." You can nitpick about it being exclusionary or rude, but guess what? Fuck that! Trans-normativity is a vanishingly rare thing, and I'll never not applaud like a trained seal when I see a book that centers the concept at its core. As the saying goes, it's pretty fuckin' based.
I'm probably the worst person to talk about this book though, sadly. I can't even tell you from a personal point-of-view if a trans lady getting her ass filled with spider eggs by the demon spider queen's fat chitinous cock is cool, so draw your own conclusions. (It may be pretty cool) Maybe I didn't read Nameless Queen one handed, and maybe erotica makes me feel fight-or-flighty now and then, but I am down with the ethos of Nameless Queen, and I think it's probably the best erotica I've read, maybe?
Part of that feels like it's imported from Ironside's earlier novel, The Last Girl Scout. There may not be literal commies or anarchists, and the story might be medieval in setting, but the ideological sentiment is pretty much the same. The armies of the Nameless Queen (enthusiastic sexual revelers, natch) represent freedom and a sort of chaos, and they go to war against an ecclesiastic church-type order with bishops and probably war clerics, and shit. We even have Kristina, the Jules Binachi analogue who runs away from an oppressive, abusive life under the church to live in sin - although instead of becoming a commie, Kristina becomes a sort of consort to the Nameless Queen's consort, which, lol. The war council in Corynnod bears a passing similarity to the All Soviet's in The Last Girl Scout; Freydis admires the enemy corpses she's hung from a gnarled tree the same way Mags does hers back home.
So it's kind of a weird book; the setting and such mostly rubs well against all of the incredibly filthy kinky "wonderfully heretical" sex, and actually I would easily read a fantasy novel by Ironside, (or any novel by Ironside pls I'm begging u) but... there sure is a lot of warfare and more than a li'l bloodshed, which is new to me! Violent conflict and lovemaking, as bedfellows. In much closer proximity than in The Last Girl Scout, to boot. I'm trying not to spend this whole review being weird, but Nameless Queen is special, I think.
Truly, in what other book does a woman renounce her former religion while getting fingerblasted? And really, what more could you want? Spider sex? You got it, fam. There still should have been more, because transfemme spiderfuckers the world over must be *parched*, and the titular queen only takes up a third of the runtime, tops. A great loss for ovipositor enthusiasts, because beyond bearing the spider queen's brood, the talk of age and time gaps between immortal spiders and newly transformed dykes, as well as the changes newly transformed spiderdykes undergo, is pretty fun! Clearly though, there is a lot to love beyond the arachnid lovin'. I mean, there's an egg-cracking story in here, teehee!
The whole time, I was like "Gee, I sure hope this strong, sexy lady doesn't trans this "guy's" gender! Spoiler: She does in fact trans "his" gender. By dressing "him" up pretty and fucking "his" ass, as these things usually happen. "You want the frightful, powerful witch to take control of you and use her inexorable power to turn you into a girl for her amusement." I decided, based on this, that I never want eggs in my fiction, because it turns my soul into a gaping black hole. This is legitimately my first ever brush with the forcefem transformation porn that Nevada talked about way back when, and it did not make me happy. No Thank You Ma'am. Still, good occasion for a shoutout to eggs, and any potential eggs that might be reading this. How did you get here?
I guess on that, the impetus for this big re-review is that I figured I should express in greater detail my utmost respect for and support of this book's 'thing', its 'vibe'. So then why the four stars, and all the bitching? I do think Nameless Queen is kind of a treasure, and while it was generally a decent read, it is DISTINCTLY not "for" me. Evidently. The foreword does not lie, and I was unsurprised that it was quite debauched and weird, but this is probably the most hardcore smut I've read. Easily bests At The Crossing, or She Came From the Swamp, or even Give Me Thorns, and it doesn't even suck! You might ask what the fuck I was expecting, but I've been mostly comfortable with previous monsterfucking books. This one's a step up the intensity ladder, I think.
It was by turns kind of weird and REALLY weird to read; at times it was pretty pleasant, and at times it was kind of a trial. However I don't think that you, the reader, should take this as a negative point. I mean, if a goofy queerlit enthusiast with a special interest in transsapphics says "Oh no, this book was waaay too saucy for me", it should read as sort of a ringing endorsement to a lot of people. So, I say: go fucking nuts. Read In the Court of the Nameless Queen today. Easy to recommend if you like hot trans babes, bdsm and spiders. Which, you do like spiders, right?
~ Spider Fucking, In Close Detail ~
I want to give a very special shout-out to Nameless Queen's foreword, which goes (in part) as such: "Herein, we celebrate the bodies of women of all different sorts, both cis and normal, and find beauty in the strange and even the inhuman." You can nitpick about it being exclusionary or rude, but guess what? Fuck that! Trans-normativity is a vanishingly rare thing, and I'll never not applaud like a trained seal when I see a book that centers the concept at its core. As the saying goes, it's pretty fuckin' based.
I'm probably the worst person to talk about this book though, sadly. I can't even tell you from a personal point-of-view if a trans lady getting her ass filled with spider eggs by the demon spider queen's fat chitinous cock is cool, so draw your own conclusions. (It may be pretty cool) Maybe I didn't read Nameless Queen one handed, and maybe erotica makes me feel fight-or-flighty now and then, but I am down with the ethos of Nameless Queen, and I think it's probably the best erotica I've read, maybe?
Part of that feels like it's imported from Ironside's earlier novel, The Last Girl Scout. There may not be literal commies or anarchists, and the story might be medieval in setting, but the ideological sentiment is pretty much the same. The armies of the Nameless Queen (enthusiastic sexual revelers, natch) represent freedom and a sort of chaos, and they go to war against an ecclesiastic church-type order with bishops and probably war clerics, and shit. We even have Kristina, the Jules Binachi analogue who runs away from an oppressive, abusive life under the church to live in sin - although instead of becoming a commie, Kristina becomes a sort of consort to the Nameless Queen's consort, which, lol. The war council in Corynnod bears a passing similarity to the All Soviet's in The Last Girl Scout; Freydis admires the enemy corpses she's hung from a gnarled tree the same way Mags does hers back home.
So it's kind of a weird book; the setting and such mostly rubs well against all of the incredibly filthy kinky "wonderfully heretical" sex, and actually I would easily read a fantasy novel by Ironside, (or any novel by Ironside pls I'm begging u) but... there sure is a lot of warfare and more than a li'l bloodshed, which is new to me! Violent conflict and lovemaking, as bedfellows. In much closer proximity than in The Last Girl Scout, to boot. I'm trying not to spend this whole review being weird, but Nameless Queen is special, I think.
Truly, in what other book does a woman renounce her former religion while getting fingerblasted? And really, what more could you want? Spider sex? You got it, fam. There still should have been more, because transfemme spiderfuckers the world over must be *parched*, and the titular queen only takes up a third of the runtime, tops. A great loss for ovipositor enthusiasts, because beyond bearing the spider queen's brood, the talk of age and time gaps between immortal spiders and newly transformed dykes, as well as the changes newly transformed spiderdykes undergo, is pretty fun! Clearly though, there is a lot to love beyond the arachnid lovin'. I mean, there's an egg-cracking story in here, teehee!
The whole time, I was like "Gee, I sure hope this strong, sexy lady doesn't trans this "guy's" gender! Spoiler: She does in fact trans "his" gender. By dressing "him" up pretty and fucking "his" ass, as these things usually happen. "You want the frightful, powerful witch to take control of you and use her inexorable power to turn you into a girl for her amusement." I decided, based on this, that I never want eggs in my fiction, because it turns my soul into a gaping black hole. This is legitimately my first ever brush with the forcefem transformation porn that Nevada talked about way back when, and it did not make me happy. No Thank You Ma'am. Still, good occasion for a shoutout to eggs, and any potential eggs that might be reading this. How did you get here?
I guess on that, the impetus for this big re-review is that I figured I should express in greater detail my utmost respect for and support of this book's 'thing', its 'vibe'. So then why the four stars, and all the bitching? I do think Nameless Queen is kind of a treasure, and while it was generally a decent read, it is DISTINCTLY not "for" me. Evidently. The foreword does not lie, and I was unsurprised that it was quite debauched and weird, but this is probably the most hardcore smut I've read. Easily bests At The Crossing, or She Came From the Swamp, or even Give Me Thorns, and it doesn't even suck! You might ask what the fuck I was expecting, but I've been mostly comfortable with previous monsterfucking books. This one's a step up the intensity ladder, I think.
It was by turns kind of weird and REALLY weird to read; at times it was pretty pleasant, and at times it was kind of a trial. However I don't think that you, the reader, should take this as a negative point. I mean, if a goofy queerlit enthusiast with a special interest in transsapphics says "Oh no, this book was waaay too saucy for me", it should read as sort of a ringing endorsement to a lot of people. So, I say: go fucking nuts. Read In the Court of the Nameless Queen today. Easy to recommend if you like hot trans babes, bdsm and spiders. Which, you do like spiders, right?
July 28, 2023
Well holy shit. I went in without expectations aside from queer erotica with some unsettling overtones of spiderfucking, and the queer spiderfucking erotica did not disappoint, but I'm floored by the enveloping world-building. I want a 1000-page trilogy set in this universe. What a fascinating and engaging world I've fallen into.
It's a self-published book and as such I am sympathetic to the details that I think would have benefitted from a strict editor. The characters are strong, with strong voices and motivations, and each story is engaging. The light in which we see the ethics of the main characters shifts to become more nuanced and sympathetic as the stories progress and build on one another. And the setting is beautifully fleshed out and visceral.
On the smut front, sadly I learned I'm not enough of a monsterfucker for spider ladies! I appreciate having the opportunity to learn that about myself, rather than spending my life wondering. But there's much to find for many tastes and the vibe overall is unselfconsciously hedonistic.
Also... I just have to say... all the characters are fun and charming in their own ways, but I have a particular fondness for Steff.
If you're curious, I really encourage you to check this book out. I am looking forward to starting The Last Girl Scout soon, now that I've had a taste of Ironside's writing chops. Recommended.
It's a self-published book and as such I am sympathetic to the details that I think would have benefitted from a strict editor. The characters are strong, with strong voices and motivations, and each story is engaging. The light in which we see the ethics of the main characters shifts to become more nuanced and sympathetic as the stories progress and build on one another. And the setting is beautifully fleshed out and visceral.
On the smut front, sadly I learned I'm not enough of a monsterfucker for spider ladies! I appreciate having the opportunity to learn that about myself, rather than spending my life wondering. But there's much to find for many tastes and the vibe overall is unselfconsciously hedonistic.
Also... I just have to say... all the characters are fun and charming in their own ways, but I have a particular fondness for Steff.
If you're curious, I really encourage you to check this book out. I am looking forward to starting The Last Girl Scout soon, now that I've had a taste of Ironside's writing chops. Recommended.
July 22, 2023
Unlike most Aussies, I absolutely AM here to fuck spiders
May 5, 2022
Ironside is an excellent writer. I like how she adds details suggesting at a larger cultural tapestry that the author and story are only allowing brief glimpses at. I'm also thoroughly enjoying the fact that the rival nation in this book is pretty clearly based on our modern western culture. Hilariously fun and sexy.
January 25, 2022
It's hot, it's steamy, it's got (concerningly - for me at least, who is generally not a monsterfucker...though...maybe I am now?) sexy spiders. Ironside is a fantastic writer (if you haven't already read her book The Last Girl Scout, absolutely go do so; her worldbuilding is gorgeous), and this is just the latest example of her meaningful and enjoyable writing. I could easily go on about the smutty, smutty (smutty smutty smutty) scenes which are way too hot to have been reading in a dermatology clinic when I'm meant to writing down what's happening (who can focus on how many actinic keratoses the doc is treating with liquid nitrogen when the Nameless Queen is doing *that* to Freydis? Not me, that's who). But Ironside goes beyond the (smutty smutty) sex scenes to create a world that I, for one, am fascinated with. I'm hoping to see more out of this world from her!
April 11, 2022
Holy S@#$ that was Brilliant
I love fanfic, I read a lot of it, and you know it's for free which is worth the hours spent reading various qualities of writing. Who am I to judge cos they are doing their thing and they do it well. But this author is special. First of all I paid to read this (based souly on the authors brief description on Tumbler), and by the end of it I felt guilty because I truly believe it is worth more than I paid!!! WT actual F?
I was captivated from the start. Characters, story arcs, erotica, fantasy, self discovery, queer ladies being awesome. It's got it all. Thank you Natalie. I really Really appreciate your talent and hard work. Please for the love of God keep it up!
I love fanfic, I read a lot of it, and you know it's for free which is worth the hours spent reading various qualities of writing. Who am I to judge cos they are doing their thing and they do it well. But this author is special. First of all I paid to read this (based souly on the authors brief description on Tumbler), and by the end of it I felt guilty because I truly believe it is worth more than I paid!!! WT actual F?
I was captivated from the start. Characters, story arcs, erotica, fantasy, self discovery, queer ladies being awesome. It's got it all. Thank you Natalie. I really Really appreciate your talent and hard work. Please for the love of God keep it up!
March 18, 2024
I AM here to **** spiders
I am biased, once again, toward this work. It hits all the audiences I belong to (trans, monster ****er, leftist, switch, gay, non monogamous). It feels as if it were written just to please me, specifically.
The writing isn't always flawless but the idea delights me so much that I don't care. It doesn't come to any real conclusion. We just bo through some violent, gay monster shenanigans and then stop.
As I've said before in my review of her other title, I'm probably in love with Natalie. So take into account how blind I may be.
If you're a clone of me though, you'll probably love it
I am biased, once again, toward this work. It hits all the audiences I belong to (trans, monster ****er, leftist, switch, gay, non monogamous). It feels as if it were written just to please me, specifically.
The writing isn't always flawless but the idea delights me so much that I don't care. It doesn't come to any real conclusion. We just bo through some violent, gay monster shenanigans and then stop.
As I've said before in my review of her other title, I'm probably in love with Natalie. So take into account how blind I may be.
If you're a clone of me though, you'll probably love it
June 11, 2022
It took me more time to read than usual, mostly because I mostly read before sleep and erotica does not really help with sleep. XD It was develish and very queer and full of varied sex scenes, and at the same time the world and the lore felt very alive, and more vivid than a lot of more common fantasy books. There isn't a whole lot of plot, especially since these are short stories, but we can see new facets of many characters in their more personal lives in each one.
May 29, 2025
Natalie Ironside embraces the freak (endearing) in this book, and while not everything was my particular cup of tea, I thoroughly enjoyed every second I spent reading this. It's hard to convey in words how much seeing a trans woman be portrayed not just as a badass that is revered across the land, but also as sexually desirable, means to me.
Thank you Natalie Ironside <3
Thank you Natalie Ironside <3
June 2, 2024
This is a reread and I did not adore it as much as I did the first time, but I still had so much fun with it!!!
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