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Tried giving The Last Angel a read. Supposedly it's a perfectly reputable sci-fi story published in forum posts over multiple years. See https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-last-angel.244209/.
I already tried it a few years ago, but gave up because it seemed to simply be a vehicle for the author's lesbian fetish and mary sue protagonist. On my second try, it looked exactly the same, so I dropped it again.
I got I think two and a half books in. I enjoyed it greatly; I dunno, the (relatively low-key) yuri didn't bother me that much, and it seems to me that the term "mary sue" doesn't really apply to a doomsday-weapon superintelligent AI warship.
Relatively low-key? Practically every character is a woman! The handful of men you find throughout the text are few, one-dimensional and mostly negatively portrayed. Especially the humans. Frankly, from what I read, it seemed not just plausible but obvious that pre-story humanity was organized along strictly matriarchical lines, with every officer, politician and frankly every named character being a woman.
Hell, event he machines use feminine pronouns and display feminine personalities.
If I had the whole text in one file, I'd just search for "he" VS "she" and compare the numbers.
It's not the sex scenes that bother me but what this reverse-Bechdel-test-situation says about the author.
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