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The results are in, and the two that made the most sense to me got the most votes!

Is that a victory? Should that be celebrated? Maybe this shouldn't be celebrated.

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I have several questions regarding what the default meaning of this alliteration is.

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I have several questions regarding what the default meaning of this alliteration is.

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What do you would be like turning into a centaur like being? Not necessarily a horse but just a whole human upper body on top of a cuádrupedal animal.

It doesn’t actually appeal to me. I think I’d rather have the ability to temporarily become a full horse than a centaur.

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Feminine werewolf transformation triggered gradually in stages through praise, with form and clothes gradually changing, the final result a blissfully happy anthropomorphic wolf woman whose entire outfit is just a collar.

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You'll know it's me if I ever write adult material under a pseudonym because there'll be a disclaimer somewhere about all the reasons why certain things wouldn't be okay in real life.

"This is an indulgent fantasy that is perfectly fine to enjoy, but cursed tomes should be used more responsibly."

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I don't like truly inanimate transformations in which someone becomes an objet.

The idea of someone being completely passive and poseable, however, doesn't bother me, particularly with an added twist of a desire to be posed / played with (either because they just be like that, or a side effect of some magic).

So someone shrinking to doll-sized, being treated like a doll, and it being euphoric for them to be played with, yes.

Someone being turned into a literal inanimate plastic doll, no, not for me.

In this essay, I will...

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??? that was surprisingly down on yourself how come??? not a lot of experience drawing hyper?

Oh, no no no! That's not being down on myself! Here's my brain-thinkery:

I don't think my style lends itself well to it, which isn't a bad thing. Not everything looks good in every style.

I don't have a lot of experience with it, no. I'd actually have to practice to make something I'd be happy with.

People are often VERY PARTICULAR about things they find attractive, meaning it's potentially less about "Dan draw good", and more about "I have THESE SPECIFIC SPECIFICATIONS about what I want the results to be!"

Just number three again for emphasis, because seriously, people will have NOTES on that sort of thing. "Too big!" "Not big enough!" etc. The preferences can be fierce!

I both would and wouldn't want the shirt covering the results. I don't think the shirt should be successfully covering anything, or resized that much, in that situation, and I think it would look fake. HOWEVER, I ALSO don't want to draw and share an outcome in which the shirt isn't covering the results. So *I MYSELF* would have notes for myself that I would disagree with. Somehow.

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Dan where's the art of the max slider rattles the cage bars we know it's there

Anything people can imagine would be better than what I could draw of it.

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Short Story - Performance

Brad's finger hovered above the submit button in the transformation app, unwilling to descend.

The latest phones included transformation technology as standard, and Brad had used it many times before.

At home. Alone.

Brad's finger moved. Not down, but to the side. He duplicated the preset, and started editing the copy.

Hair length longer. Breasts fuller. Hips wider. Clothes skimpier.

Anyone who knew Brad would assume this form was just something for a dude who liked hot girls to have fun with, and maybe get a laugh out of his friends.

She hit submit, and the door buzzer rang as she transformed. Her ride had arrived.

Brad bounced over to the door, already exaggerating her actions. She thought of the role she was going to play, and how to correct anyone who thought there was anything more to it.

She opened the door. The amused man looking back at her was her best friend Alex, she knew that, but he'd also used the app. He looked absurdly handsome, and Brad's heart beat faster as her cheeks turned red.

This was going to be a difficult performance to pull off.

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I feel "casual TF nonsense" ultimately boils down to a lack of exposition and obligation.

The lack of exposition is not getting into nitty-gritty technical details and lore.

There's an alien invasion, and they're transforming people? Neat. Do we need to know why? Not unless it's super immediately relevant, no, and even then it's better alluded to than spelled out.

The lack of obligation is not putting things in to satisfy realism, or what would normally be expected, simply because it feels like "the thing that's done".

Someone's transformed. Can they, and others, have shocked, realistic reactions? Sure! Do they have to? HELL NO.

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Would you be okay with people doing fanart of your casual TF stories?

They're a lot of fun :)

I have no reason to object and would be incredibly flattered!

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Something I like about the "casual" TF nonsense approach is that there's usually the question of *why* someone is transforming in transformation fiction, and then there's the standard tropes of "huh-WHAAA?!" and trying to write people reacting with varying degrees of realism, AND matters of proving identity and such.

I'm not saying that's all bad, I write a comic in which all that's the deal, BUT what I AM saying it's nice to be able to just say "yeah, Steve transformed for some reason. It's just a thing that happens. We're not sure how we know they're Steve, but that's how it is."

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No Suit

Steve Smith tried not to fidget. He was dressed in business casual clothes, and seated in a plain folding chair in the hallway outside an office.

He wasn’t alone. Several other job candidates were in other chairs, each and every last one of them wearing some form of suit and tie.

Even their haircuts looked more professional. The haircut on the guy across from him probably had its own bachelor’s degree.

Steve didn’t own a suit. He had thought most business people didn’t wear them anymore, and besides which, he couldn’t afford one! He wasn’t at a job interview because he was rolling in cash!

Should he have borrowed one? Would a suit fitted for someone else have been better than none at… AT…

CHOO!

Steve abruptly sneezed, and it was a hell of a thing. At the apex of the sneeze, Steve’s hair exploded into longer, wavy orange hair that framed his now freckled, feminine face. 

The outfit he was so worried about burst into scraps, and reformed as a two piece bikini covering his newly slender, feminine figure.

“Covering”, perhaps, being a generous way of putting it, but more modesty than none was preserved.

A striped orange cat tail with alarmed fur sprouted, a hole in the bikini bottom accommodating it. His ears became big and cat-like with orange fur and black stripes, and were higher on his head than made any sense.

His hands were now covered in over-sized cat paw mittens with stuffing to maintain their big paw shape, and the slippers that had replaced his shoes and socks matched.

Mercifully, no gross remnants from his sneeze seemed to remain.

“NYAH!” Steve the catgirl meowed with alarm in a newly feminine voice, looking down at his new cleavage, tail, and all the rest of it. He pawed awkwardly at the top of his head with mitten-clad hands, confirming the cat ears.

This sort of thing happened to people sometimes, and there were plenty of ways to reverse it later if he liked, but why NOW of all times?!

His competition did their best to remain professional, but even they couldn’t hide snickers and general looks of amusement.

Steve had no idea what to do. Should he prioritize removing the mittens? How would he even do that? With his teeth?

Absentmindedly, his tongue investigated the inside of his mouth. His canines definitely felt bigger now.

The door to the office opened, and a professional-looking woman leaned out, her eyes on a tablet. “Steve Smith?”

“Meow… I mean, here…” Steve replied, a mitten-paw raised awkwardly.

The woman looked at Steve with surprise. “Oh dear. I assume this just happened?”

Steve nodded.

Without hesitation, she replied. “We won’t hold a sudden transformation against you, but if you’d rather reschedule, that would be fine.”

“You… You’re not bothered by…?” Steve, not knowing how to finish that sentence, shook his hands a bit while moving his tail.

She shook her head, smiling. “I get how it is. I turned into a hippo lady in the middle of a presentation last week. I WISH I’d wound up in an outfit that modest.”

Steve blushed a little, then stood, his tail and ears up. Everything seemed a little bigger than before as he looked up at the pleasant woman. “Well, then, I suppose there’s no reason to put it off!”

“Great! We like people who can roll with the punches.” As they entered the office, she added “so what pronouns do you prefer?”

“I… THINK he-him?”

Later, Stephanie the catgirl learned she got the job.

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Business Wabbit

On a normal work day, Alice could be described as a bespectacled svelte woman with brown hair in a high bun. Were she to have entered a library and declared herself its librarian queen, none would question her.

Were she try such a thing today, she would be deposed.

Alice subconsciously sashayed into the conferences room, her long, voluminous golden hair flowing behind her, and with no glasses on her face. She was voluptuous, and her figure was barely contained within a strapless pink bodysuit with a white, cottony bunny tail. 

The incomplete ensemble included sheer white tights over her legs, white cuffs, a white collar with a pink bowtie, and a headband with pink bunny ears. Missing were shoes, her feet only covered by her tights.

The black briefcase she carried looked somewhat out of place.

Three of her coworkers, Phil, Carl, and Vanessa, were already in the conference room. They were dressed in serious business suits for serious business people. As completely different as Alice looked, they recognized her immediately.

Alice raised her left hand as she set down her briefcase, her every move somehow looking like she was performing for an unseen camera. 

"I know, I know, this isn't appropriate workplace attire," she said wearily in a higher voice than normal. Her attire was actually a secondary concern in the minds of her colleagues, but they didn't interrupt. "This happened during lunch, and I haven't had a chance to do anything about it."

Carl's eyes lit up. "Lunch? Were you eating a carrot?!"

Alice shifted her weight and shook her head. "No, I think lettuce did this."

Carl's face sunk. "Lettuce?"

"Lettuce."

Vanessa shrugged. "It makes sense. Rabbits eat leafy greens. The part of carrots that rabbits actually eat is—“

Carl interrupted. “Alice is not a rabbit, she is a bunny girl!”

Phil sighed. “He’s really been hoping for bunny girl carrots.”

Alice put a hand on her hip. “I can tell you where I got the lettuce if you’re interested, Carl.”

“What, and eat it in a salad?”

“I guess?”

“No thanks.” Carl crossed his arms, pouting.

Vanessa pointed at Alice’s feet, her lips pursed. “Did the lettuce steal your shoes?”

Alice shook her head again. “High heels. I took them off immediately.”

Phil raised an eyebrow, a mild smirk on his face. “But you kept the ears?”

“The ears provide context,” Alice stated matter-of-factly. “Without them, this outfit is random nonsense.”

Vanessa nodded. “Makes sense.”

Phil looked skeptical.

“Lettuce,” Carl repeated, shaking his head.

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"Bill?" "Yeah, it's me." "How do I recognize you? You look completely different." "I dunno, man. Everyone just does. Anyway, I need to go bra shopping. Can you drive me? I'm used to being a foot taller." "At the mall with the good pretzels?" "Yeah." "Hell yeah I'm in."

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I've decided I support a genre of transformation fiction in which people inexplicably take transformation in casual stride as just a thing that's happening during their day.

Maybe there's an explanation for it all, maybe it's just stuff that's happening.

"Dude, check it out. I just turned into a cowgirl."

"That's surprising. You got udders?"

"Nah, but I'm pretty sure I've got milk up here."

"Huh. Well, if you need help with that, let me know."

"Thanks, I will."

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Thoughts on bimbo transformations?

Massively depends on context and what exactly is meant by it.

I like people acting silly and cute, I like figure and hair transformations, and I like a variety of outfits that would fit the bill (for both women and men). There are definitely things I would write / like that would qualify.

There's also a lot I've seen associated with it that I don't like, so... Boring answer is boring, but "it depends".

(Good rule of thumb, though, is if anyone ends up sad in an indulgent short transformation story, I'm not going to like it.)