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WOULD TRANSFORMATION WIPE YOUR MIND?
General | Posted 5 years agoThere’s a common trope in home-grown transformation fiction. The victim, and it usually is a victim, experiences all the various aspects of their physical transformation, and then, between one breath and the next, their mind, to all intents and purposes is erased. It goes blank. There’s no intelligence left and no memory of their former existence.
As animal transformation is purely an exercise in fantasy at the time of writing, it’s a hard one to argue, but I’ve always been deeply unsatisfied with this progression. Yeah, changing into an animal would probably be extremely traumatic, and it could easily destroy the victim’s mind, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening in all these stories. Instead, there seems to be an assumption that an animal, as opposed to a human being, is essentially an unreasoning bundle of instincts with no personality or ability to think or remember.
I guess there’s a certain seduction in fantasizing about being a creature that is completely unruled by anything beyond spontaneous desire, but is it realistic to suppose the victim’s old intellect is just wiped and replaced with something that resembles a simple computer program? Eat, Sleep, Mate (or let’s be honest, with a lot of tf fiction, Mate, mate, Mate…)
I’m going to go with horses as an example, because I know horses. I’m not an expert by any means, but I’ve known some of them very well, and one individual in particular. Many of these qualities undoubtedly apply to other animals.
Horses have distinct and strong personalities and a range of ways to express themselves. They also have phenomenal memories: they learn much quicker than us, and they retain it for life. They have highly-developed problem-solving abilities, and most stable owners can tell tales of horses that quickly work out how to open supposedly horse-proof doors and gates that have foxed humans. They have minimal language-processing ability, and certainly can’t communicate in sentences, but they are able to recognize their own names and a number of commands – they would undoubtedly handle more, but the lack of language makes it hard for us to explain what we mean.
This doesn’t seem to ring true with the well-known conclusion to many tf-stories: “Then his mind went blank and later, police/family discover a confused and witless animal roaming free.”
I kind of feel that if you’re going to wipe a person’s mind when you change them, it’s a bit like knocking down a building and then repurposing the bricks. You haven’t changed one building into another: you’ve destroyed one and used its components to build a different one. There's no 'continuity of being'. If you’re going to obliterate everything that makes a person a person, you might just as well shoot them, stick 'em in a blender, and pour their remains into an animal-shaped mould...
I guess some people would say it's kind of pointless to discuss the 'realities' of shape shifting, but if the process simply destroys who you are, where's the fun in it? ;)
As animal transformation is purely an exercise in fantasy at the time of writing, it’s a hard one to argue, but I’ve always been deeply unsatisfied with this progression. Yeah, changing into an animal would probably be extremely traumatic, and it could easily destroy the victim’s mind, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening in all these stories. Instead, there seems to be an assumption that an animal, as opposed to a human being, is essentially an unreasoning bundle of instincts with no personality or ability to think or remember.
I guess there’s a certain seduction in fantasizing about being a creature that is completely unruled by anything beyond spontaneous desire, but is it realistic to suppose the victim’s old intellect is just wiped and replaced with something that resembles a simple computer program? Eat, Sleep, Mate (or let’s be honest, with a lot of tf fiction, Mate, mate, Mate…)
I’m going to go with horses as an example, because I know horses. I’m not an expert by any means, but I’ve known some of them very well, and one individual in particular. Many of these qualities undoubtedly apply to other animals.
Horses have distinct and strong personalities and a range of ways to express themselves. They also have phenomenal memories: they learn much quicker than us, and they retain it for life. They have highly-developed problem-solving abilities, and most stable owners can tell tales of horses that quickly work out how to open supposedly horse-proof doors and gates that have foxed humans. They have minimal language-processing ability, and certainly can’t communicate in sentences, but they are able to recognize their own names and a number of commands – they would undoubtedly handle more, but the lack of language makes it hard for us to explain what we mean.
This doesn’t seem to ring true with the well-known conclusion to many tf-stories: “Then his mind went blank and later, police/family discover a confused and witless animal roaming free.”
I kind of feel that if you’re going to wipe a person’s mind when you change them, it’s a bit like knocking down a building and then repurposing the bricks. You haven’t changed one building into another: you’ve destroyed one and used its components to build a different one. There's no 'continuity of being'. If you’re going to obliterate everything that makes a person a person, you might just as well shoot them, stick 'em in a blender, and pour their remains into an animal-shaped mould...
I guess some people would say it's kind of pointless to discuss the 'realities' of shape shifting, but if the process simply destroys who you are, where's the fun in it? ;)
COULD A HORSE TYPE ON A CONVENTIONAL KEYBOARD?
General | Posted 5 years agoI ran an experiment this morning - Kiliq and it were wondering about it.
Suppose you woke up this morning and found you'd turned into a horse during the night. (I keep wishing)
Suppose also you'd retained enough intelligence to remember how to write.
For whatever reason (possibly because its the only place you'd get any understanding) you need to Message a fellow wouldbe-equine. Could you do it?
Well, I'll tell you: it isn't easy! But it is possible.
I made some reasonable assumptions.
First, that a pc usually has a mouse beside it (not actually true for my pc, but true for every other pc owner I know)
Second, that a horse's visual acuity is good enough to see characters on a screen (not unreasonable - a horse can identify individual human beings at a quarter of a mile.
Experimental set-up:
As a 'hoof' I used a genuine horse shoe that once belonged to a friend (Polly, a 14.2hh piebald cob): correct curvature, somewhat blunt at the toe. The shoe is about six inches across.
I used one eye, and placed a thin piece of translucent plastic in my glasses to reduce my focus.
My computer is easy enough to turn on: a simple stud on top of the case. Not a challenge with a hoof of any size.
Next (and trickiest) - my pc requires a six-digit PIN code to access the desktop. This took two attempts. The numbers do not appear on the screen! It was helped by having a full-size keyboard with a separate numeric pad.
Having reached the desktop, I needed to call up Chrome. Fortunately in my case, I keep it on my taskbar: a single click. It was easy enough to nudge the mouse into place and then click it. (I think as a horse I might even have used my lips for this)
I also keep Messenger on one tab in Chrome: one click to access this, and a third to place the cursor in the typing space.
Actual typing. The target message was "Hey, I seem to have changed into a horse during the night!"
Well, scratch punctuation:) I just concentrated on the message content. It really wasn't too hard. My 'hoof' had a tendency to press two keys at once, but there's a saving grace: on most keyboards, backspace and the cursor keys are very conveniently positioned!
Typing 'HORSE' might very easily appear as "jhoprtsder" but it's fairly straight-forward (though laborious) to then use cursors and delete to edit it into the message required.
It took about ten minutes, and the message I ended up with was: "hey i seem, to jhave cjhangred into a horse duiring tjhe night" which I thought was good enough. I could have done better with a little effort.
So, next time you spontaneously change and need to send a message, don't assume it's hopeless.
What, you only have a smartphone? Damn!
Suppose you woke up this morning and found you'd turned into a horse during the night. (I keep wishing)
Suppose also you'd retained enough intelligence to remember how to write.
For whatever reason (possibly because its the only place you'd get any understanding) you need to Message a fellow wouldbe-equine. Could you do it?
Well, I'll tell you: it isn't easy! But it is possible.
I made some reasonable assumptions.
First, that a pc usually has a mouse beside it (not actually true for my pc, but true for every other pc owner I know)
Second, that a horse's visual acuity is good enough to see characters on a screen (not unreasonable - a horse can identify individual human beings at a quarter of a mile.
Experimental set-up:
As a 'hoof' I used a genuine horse shoe that once belonged to a friend (Polly, a 14.2hh piebald cob): correct curvature, somewhat blunt at the toe. The shoe is about six inches across.
I used one eye, and placed a thin piece of translucent plastic in my glasses to reduce my focus.
My computer is easy enough to turn on: a simple stud on top of the case. Not a challenge with a hoof of any size.
Next (and trickiest) - my pc requires a six-digit PIN code to access the desktop. This took two attempts. The numbers do not appear on the screen! It was helped by having a full-size keyboard with a separate numeric pad.
Having reached the desktop, I needed to call up Chrome. Fortunately in my case, I keep it on my taskbar: a single click. It was easy enough to nudge the mouse into place and then click it. (I think as a horse I might even have used my lips for this)
I also keep Messenger on one tab in Chrome: one click to access this, and a third to place the cursor in the typing space.
Actual typing. The target message was "Hey, I seem to have changed into a horse during the night!"
Well, scratch punctuation:) I just concentrated on the message content. It really wasn't too hard. My 'hoof' had a tendency to press two keys at once, but there's a saving grace: on most keyboards, backspace and the cursor keys are very conveniently positioned!
Typing 'HORSE' might very easily appear as "jhoprtsder" but it's fairly straight-forward (though laborious) to then use cursors and delete to edit it into the message required.
It took about ten minutes, and the message I ended up with was: "hey i seem, to jhave cjhangred into a horse duiring tjhe night" which I thought was good enough. I could have done better with a little effort.
So, next time you spontaneously change and need to send a message, don't assume it's hopeless.
What, you only have a smartphone? Damn!
A Sad Month
General | Posted 11 years agoTwo idols in the space of a fortnight. First Spock, now one of my favourite authors. Today passed Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld, after a courageously fought battle against Alzheimer's Disease.
Kind of hope (you need to be a Discworld fan to understand) that Death found the time to attend to Mr Pratchett personally, gave him a consoling pat on the shoulder, and maybe found time for a bit of a chat, before ushering him on. Maybe even a ride on Binky.
Kind of hope (you need to be a Discworld fan to understand) that Death found the time to attend to Mr Pratchett personally, gave him a consoling pat on the shoulder, and maybe found time for a bit of a chat, before ushering him on. Maybe even a ride on Binky.
Rippage! Realistic clothing failure in rapid transformations
General | Posted 11 years agoGood title for a thesis, heh? ^_^
One of the most important considerations when you're undergoing a rapid shape-shift is clothing.
Okay, some spells take this into account and conveniently disintegrate your garments, but spell-weaving of this caliber is rare: most of us have to put up with just "bustin' out"!
I've been doing some experimenting, because in an awful lot of tf artwork, clothing seems to give up long before it ought to, as if it were saying, "Damn. My wearer is changing into a [insert species here]: I'll just tear now, and safe any discomfort later."
Clothing, my good transformees, is tough stuff. Much of it is stretchy: far more stretchy than most tf artists would credit. When it's not stretchy, it tends to be VERY tough. Here are some experimental results (thanks to some old clothing which I severely abused).
There's not really a lot of point considering creatures smaller than human size, and a surprising amount of animals ARE pretty much human size: most sheep, goats, dogs, wolves, small deer: most of these are not going to stress the majority of human clothing. The sole exception here is footwear: the bones that make the length of our feet form the lower length of the leg in digitigrade animals (the rear cannon or shank in horses) are proportionally a lot longer. probably, a shoe would simply slip off. as if a shoe-horn had been inserted. Most modern footwear (sneakers or leather shoes) will NOT burst at the toes - not until it's caused injury to the wearer anyway!
Let's go up a grade: ponies, donkeys, medium deer, Great Danes, medium-large cats, llamas, small pigs: that sort of thing. I'm not being accurate: there's a huge variance of size in any lifeform, including humans. Again with the shoes: they would hopefully lever off, slipping around the hock joint (our ankle). Work boots and toe-tectors - OWCH! Your foot would snap first! Socks would stretch. Stretchy trousers (leggings) would stretch. Tougher trousers would split along the side-seams from knee upwards and the button zipper would burst (the seat will likely remain largely intact). Normal nylon cotton teeshirts will stretch - in fact they'll stretch about three times their rated size. I reckon i could turn into anything smaller than a Shire and still not burst most of my teeshirts. I'm size L and these will easily stretch to over a meter/yard diameter. Less stretchy garments will almost always fail at the seams, especially neck and sleeves. Elasticated garments like underpants and bras will fail at about 150 to 200% their intended girth. Most wrist watches (unless you transform wearing a Rolex) will fail with minimal stretch.
Large animals: cattle, large deer, saddle horses, lions, tigers, large pigs. Shoes, largely as above, but some may split along side seams. Socks, mostly, will still stretch. To a large degree, leggings will too, but will probably fail at the waist and subsequently tear down the side of the thighs. Stretchy tees, as I said, will stretch this far. Non stretchy garments will fail, mostly at seams: "panel" material usually doesn't tear. NO FAILURES OCCUR UNTIL SIGNIFICANT MASS HAS BEEN ADDED.
Really Large Animals: Elephants, draft horses, rhinos, dinosaurs, dragons: okay, NOW we're talking clothing exploding into shreds:) Proper rippage (especially you dragons with sharp scales and spines)! But even now, some garments will hang on for a surprisingly long time, and you may well find that stretchy socks and large nylon tees will still go the full distance.
So come on, artists: think about that clothing! It doesn't fail as soon as your werewolf gets a little furry around the elbows!
One of the most important considerations when you're undergoing a rapid shape-shift is clothing.
Okay, some spells take this into account and conveniently disintegrate your garments, but spell-weaving of this caliber is rare: most of us have to put up with just "bustin' out"!
I've been doing some experimenting, because in an awful lot of tf artwork, clothing seems to give up long before it ought to, as if it were saying, "Damn. My wearer is changing into a [insert species here]: I'll just tear now, and safe any discomfort later."
Clothing, my good transformees, is tough stuff. Much of it is stretchy: far more stretchy than most tf artists would credit. When it's not stretchy, it tends to be VERY tough. Here are some experimental results (thanks to some old clothing which I severely abused).
There's not really a lot of point considering creatures smaller than human size, and a surprising amount of animals ARE pretty much human size: most sheep, goats, dogs, wolves, small deer: most of these are not going to stress the majority of human clothing. The sole exception here is footwear: the bones that make the length of our feet form the lower length of the leg in digitigrade animals (the rear cannon or shank in horses) are proportionally a lot longer. probably, a shoe would simply slip off. as if a shoe-horn had been inserted. Most modern footwear (sneakers or leather shoes) will NOT burst at the toes - not until it's caused injury to the wearer anyway!
Let's go up a grade: ponies, donkeys, medium deer, Great Danes, medium-large cats, llamas, small pigs: that sort of thing. I'm not being accurate: there's a huge variance of size in any lifeform, including humans. Again with the shoes: they would hopefully lever off, slipping around the hock joint (our ankle). Work boots and toe-tectors - OWCH! Your foot would snap first! Socks would stretch. Stretchy trousers (leggings) would stretch. Tougher trousers would split along the side-seams from knee upwards and the button zipper would burst (the seat will likely remain largely intact). Normal nylon cotton teeshirts will stretch - in fact they'll stretch about three times their rated size. I reckon i could turn into anything smaller than a Shire and still not burst most of my teeshirts. I'm size L and these will easily stretch to over a meter/yard diameter. Less stretchy garments will almost always fail at the seams, especially neck and sleeves. Elasticated garments like underpants and bras will fail at about 150 to 200% their intended girth. Most wrist watches (unless you transform wearing a Rolex) will fail with minimal stretch.
Large animals: cattle, large deer, saddle horses, lions, tigers, large pigs. Shoes, largely as above, but some may split along side seams. Socks, mostly, will still stretch. To a large degree, leggings will too, but will probably fail at the waist and subsequently tear down the side of the thighs. Stretchy tees, as I said, will stretch this far. Non stretchy garments will fail, mostly at seams: "panel" material usually doesn't tear. NO FAILURES OCCUR UNTIL SIGNIFICANT MASS HAS BEEN ADDED.
Really Large Animals: Elephants, draft horses, rhinos, dinosaurs, dragons: okay, NOW we're talking clothing exploding into shreds:) Proper rippage (especially you dragons with sharp scales and spines)! But even now, some garments will hang on for a surprisingly long time, and you may well find that stretchy socks and large nylon tees will still go the full distance.
So come on, artists: think about that clothing! It doesn't fail as soon as your werewolf gets a little furry around the elbows!
Why would anyone want to be a horse?
General | Posted 11 years agoWell, actually I want to be a unicorn, but the question still stands.
On my long-overdue-for-an-update site, If WisheRs Were Horses, I devoted a small amount of space to the question, "Why would anyone want to be a horse?" I answered the question as fully as possible from several different perspectives; it could be escapism: the wish to live a simpler but relatively secure livestyle; it might simply be an admiration for equines in general; if you believe the majority of tf fiction, it's for the sex, although the most rudimentary study of equines suggests that however impressive their equipment might be, sex in horses is short-lived, clumsy, and dangerous (ask any stallion who misjudged whether his mate was ready or not).
There are quite a lot of reasons, and these could easily be applied whatever you want to be (there's a couple of people on FA with a peculiar desire to be something other than an equine - strange but true;) )
But yesterday evening (a Saturday), I happened to be in central Cardiff (it could just as easily have been London or Manchester) and watched my "fellow" human beings as they staggered from one night club to another, threw up, shouted obscenities at each other (or complete strangers), and in several instances, urinated in corners...
I've read articles by psychologists who denounce the desire to be an animal as aberrant behaviour and deserving of medical help, but... good gods!
If that's a representation of what it is to be a modern human being, then that's why I want to be a horse!
On my long-overdue-for-an-update site, If WisheRs Were Horses, I devoted a small amount of space to the question, "Why would anyone want to be a horse?" I answered the question as fully as possible from several different perspectives; it could be escapism: the wish to live a simpler but relatively secure livestyle; it might simply be an admiration for equines in general; if you believe the majority of tf fiction, it's for the sex, although the most rudimentary study of equines suggests that however impressive their equipment might be, sex in horses is short-lived, clumsy, and dangerous (ask any stallion who misjudged whether his mate was ready or not).
There are quite a lot of reasons, and these could easily be applied whatever you want to be (there's a couple of people on FA with a peculiar desire to be something other than an equine - strange but true;) )
But yesterday evening (a Saturday), I happened to be in central Cardiff (it could just as easily have been London or Manchester) and watched my "fellow" human beings as they staggered from one night club to another, threw up, shouted obscenities at each other (or complete strangers), and in several instances, urinated in corners...
I've read articles by psychologists who denounce the desire to be an animal as aberrant behaviour and deserving of medical help, but... good gods!
If that's a representation of what it is to be a modern human being, then that's why I want to be a horse!
Altairtf's 50 Question TF meme
General | Posted 11 years agoI might have one of the oldest active tf sites on the web, but I’m still very much a noob with community-minded internet: I had to google “meme”….
Altairtf posted this great tf meme a while back, and it was just too much fun to pass up!
THE 50-QUESTION TF MEME
(key: 0=no/never - 5=yes/always)
General interests:
I like TF art...
5/5 – Oh boy, do I
I like TF stories...
5/5 – I remember discovering the Transformation Story Archive in 1997. Oh, wow! OTHER PEOPLE LIKE TF TOO!!!
I am a TF artist...
3/5 – Of sorts. I envy people like Arania who can produce endless sequences.
I am a TF writer...
5/5 – I’m prouder of my stories than I am of my art. I just wish I had more time..!
I like to roleplay TF...
1/5 – Uh, how do you do that? Probably not. I want the real deal:) But I have tested how clothing would behave under extreme stress.
Personal questions:
TF has always been an interest for as long as I can remember...
5/5 – One of my earliest memories (I may have been four at the time?) was waking my mum up at five in the moming to ask her if this was possible. I forget her answer, but it was very patient, all things considered.
I share my TF interest with my real life friends...
2/5 – I’m selective, but yeah, a few know.
I wish TF was possible in real life...
5/5 – Oh, yes!
If I could TF into anything in real life, I would and it would be...
5/5 – a unicorn. DON’T tell me they don’t exist until you’ve talked to one about it.
If TF was possible and reversible, I'd want to try it regardless of how painful it could ever be...
2/5 – I’ve hardly any tolerance for pain at all. I can’t even watch it in tv dramas.
If TF was possible into the form that I've always wanted, but I knew I could never go back, I'd take it...
3/5 – Tricky one. I’d have said 5/5, but I have a close and happy family. I’m sure my daughter would love a unicorn for a dad, but I’m not sure about my wife, and she comes first.
I find TF sexually arousing...
3/5 – It can be. Really depends on how its portrayed.
I've had TF dreams while sleeping...
5/5 – Hah. Yes, twice but REALLY vividly, a horse both times, and the emotional remnant stayed with me for days!
I daydream about TF when there is downtime...
5/5 – Is that a question that needed asking?
Favorite changes:
I like being the subject of a TF (or my character)...
5/5 – Absolutely: first person changes are the best. And when I can bribe or commish someone else to visualise it for me (Posti’s written some great stories about me!) it’s even better, because I don’t know how it’s going to come out.
I like watching someone else undergo a TF (or their character)...
5/5 – I like tf into pretty much any animal with hooves. It’s not really a fetish: I just think paws are too hand-like: it’s not really a change. And I like herbivores more than carnivores.
I like animal TF...
5/5 – Again, when it’s equine or a hooved animal.
I like anthro TF...
2/5 – Not so much. I think I’d quite like to _be_ an anthro character, but the change is too slight to qualify as true tf in my book:)
I like gender TF...
3/5 – It’s okay. I always think that if you change completely into an animal, a sex change would be pretty small potatoes by comparison!
I like inanimate TF...
4/5 – Sometimes, quite a lot. Depends what into and how it’s done.
I like latex/rubber TF...
0/5 – No interest at all.
I like monster TF...
0/5 – Nope.
I like cartoon characters TF (MLP, pokemon, etc)...
2/5 – A bit. I’m no brony, but I like what I’ve seen of FIM, and I had an idea for a tf story in which a pokemon trainer used his Rapidash’s pokeball to escape from some nasty and the ball transforms him.
I like size change...
1/5 – Not really, unless we’re talking increase in mass from human to equine.
I like tail growth...
5/5 – Yeah:) I’d love to grow a unicorn’s tail or a horse’s tail, even if no other part of me changed!
I like bodily covering change (fur, feathers, scales, etc)...
3/5 – Unicorns have such fine fur, it isn’t really evident unless you look really closely. But some equines are quite shaggy and sheep/goat tfs wouldn’t look right without fleece. Of course, long manes…
I have a favorite body part TF...
4/5 – Legs: becoming a quadruped.
I like other types of changes...
0/5 – Um, not sure if I can think of any off hand.
Favorite triggers:
I like magic-based TF (spells, curse, etc)...
5/5 – Magic takes care of all those annoying little details that make tfs so difficult to achieve any other way. And it’s sparkly too.
I like science-based TF (injection, etc)...
4/5 – Can be good. Possibly my favourite tech-tf was in Dexter’s Lab, where after seeing all this really hi-tech energy-to-matter conversion stuff, and tanks of strange gels linked with mysterious pipework, Deedee was changed into a horse by being slammed between two giant “jelly moulds”:)
I like goo-based TF...
0/5 – No, I don’t.
I like sex-based TF...
4/5 – Often, although I never draw it and seldom write it. But I do like tf to feel pleasurable.
I like hypnosis TF...
3/5 – Can be good but I do like a transformee to know that they have been changed, and remember who they are.
I like other TF methods / don't care how it's started...
3/5 – I guess it sort of comes under magic, but divine “punishments” are good. Gotta love those Greek deities!
Favorite process:
I like TF that occurs in less than 5 minutes...
3/5 – I don’t like “poof” transformations: I like them long enough to appreciate what’s happening.
I like TF that takes much longer...
5/5 – Yeah. If it was me, I’d like it to last a long time: I’d enjoy the anticipation, and the time to acclimatize.
I like when changes take place heterogeneously, or each body part successively...
3/5 – I like both.
I like forced TF...
3/5 – On the whole, I prefer consensual transformations. I’d be lying though if I said I wouldn’t love to be able to transform _certain_ people into animals very much against their own will. That tail-gater behind me? Let’s see how he likes being a REAL road hog!
I like when the subject is resisting/not enjoying it...
3/5 – See above. Only if they deserve some form of punishment.
I like consensual TF...
5/5 – Always.
I like painful TF...
0/5 – Not at all. Not even when it’s deserved.
I like pleasurable TF...
5/5 – Always. And I quite like it when the subject so enjoys the experience that they don’t immediately notice they’re changing.
I like when the victim loses their human mind...
3/5 – Developing animal instincts and behaviour, yes. Forgetting who they are, NO! That’s not a tf: that’s killing a human and using their parts to build a different animal.
I like permanent TF...
5/5 – I loathe all those mainstream fictions (film and book) where the protagonist always returns to human form as if that’s the only acceptable resolution. My favourite children’s book is Winni Allfours by Babette Cole, where the heroine manages to turn herself into a pony, and when finally offered the chance to change back, refuses!
I like temporary TF...
4/5 – As long as it isn’t a one-off!
I like bondage during a TF...
2/5 – Indifferent… I think. Does wearing a saddle count?
I like clothes ripping during a TF...
3/5 – If it’s well done, but I’ve experimented, and I think most artists seriously underestimate just how far some clothes will stretch. A size-L teeshirt would stretch around most horses’ torsos without tearing.
I like sex during/after a TF...
4/5 – I’m not so keen on all those stallion transformations where the subject always ejaculates at some point in the change (I guess if it were happening to me it might be more enjoyable). But if it’s drawn well and everyone’s enjoying themselves… :)
I like group TF...
5/5 – Doesn’t happen often, but I like those stories where the whole human population transforms. Have you seen that beautiful Carpatina TV advert?
I like TF that occurs in front of people...
3/5 – Largely indifferent, and if it were me changing in RL, I think I’d like to do it in privacy, or with a close friend at least.
Bonus question:
I've withheld my answers/lied about some of them...
0/5 – Nope. Soul-baring can be kind of fun:)
Altairtf posted this great tf meme a while back, and it was just too much fun to pass up!
THE 50-QUESTION TF MEME
(key: 0=no/never - 5=yes/always)
General interests:
I like TF art...
5/5 – Oh boy, do I
I like TF stories...
5/5 – I remember discovering the Transformation Story Archive in 1997. Oh, wow! OTHER PEOPLE LIKE TF TOO!!!
I am a TF artist...
3/5 – Of sorts. I envy people like Arania who can produce endless sequences.
I am a TF writer...
5/5 – I’m prouder of my stories than I am of my art. I just wish I had more time..!
I like to roleplay TF...
1/5 – Uh, how do you do that? Probably not. I want the real deal:) But I have tested how clothing would behave under extreme stress.
Personal questions:
TF has always been an interest for as long as I can remember...
5/5 – One of my earliest memories (I may have been four at the time?) was waking my mum up at five in the moming to ask her if this was possible. I forget her answer, but it was very patient, all things considered.
I share my TF interest with my real life friends...
2/5 – I’m selective, but yeah, a few know.
I wish TF was possible in real life...
5/5 – Oh, yes!
If I could TF into anything in real life, I would and it would be...
5/5 – a unicorn. DON’T tell me they don’t exist until you’ve talked to one about it.
If TF was possible and reversible, I'd want to try it regardless of how painful it could ever be...
2/5 – I’ve hardly any tolerance for pain at all. I can’t even watch it in tv dramas.
If TF was possible into the form that I've always wanted, but I knew I could never go back, I'd take it...
3/5 – Tricky one. I’d have said 5/5, but I have a close and happy family. I’m sure my daughter would love a unicorn for a dad, but I’m not sure about my wife, and she comes first.
I find TF sexually arousing...
3/5 – It can be. Really depends on how its portrayed.
I've had TF dreams while sleeping...
5/5 – Hah. Yes, twice but REALLY vividly, a horse both times, and the emotional remnant stayed with me for days!
I daydream about TF when there is downtime...
5/5 – Is that a question that needed asking?
Favorite changes:
I like being the subject of a TF (or my character)...
5/5 – Absolutely: first person changes are the best. And when I can bribe or commish someone else to visualise it for me (Posti’s written some great stories about me!) it’s even better, because I don’t know how it’s going to come out.
I like watching someone else undergo a TF (or their character)...
5/5 – I like tf into pretty much any animal with hooves. It’s not really a fetish: I just think paws are too hand-like: it’s not really a change. And I like herbivores more than carnivores.
I like animal TF...
5/5 – Again, when it’s equine or a hooved animal.
I like anthro TF...
2/5 – Not so much. I think I’d quite like to _be_ an anthro character, but the change is too slight to qualify as true tf in my book:)
I like gender TF...
3/5 – It’s okay. I always think that if you change completely into an animal, a sex change would be pretty small potatoes by comparison!
I like inanimate TF...
4/5 – Sometimes, quite a lot. Depends what into and how it’s done.
I like latex/rubber TF...
0/5 – No interest at all.
I like monster TF...
0/5 – Nope.
I like cartoon characters TF (MLP, pokemon, etc)...
2/5 – A bit. I’m no brony, but I like what I’ve seen of FIM, and I had an idea for a tf story in which a pokemon trainer used his Rapidash’s pokeball to escape from some nasty and the ball transforms him.
I like size change...
1/5 – Not really, unless we’re talking increase in mass from human to equine.
I like tail growth...
5/5 – Yeah:) I’d love to grow a unicorn’s tail or a horse’s tail, even if no other part of me changed!
I like bodily covering change (fur, feathers, scales, etc)...
3/5 – Unicorns have such fine fur, it isn’t really evident unless you look really closely. But some equines are quite shaggy and sheep/goat tfs wouldn’t look right without fleece. Of course, long manes…
I have a favorite body part TF...
4/5 – Legs: becoming a quadruped.
I like other types of changes...
0/5 – Um, not sure if I can think of any off hand.
Favorite triggers:
I like magic-based TF (spells, curse, etc)...
5/5 – Magic takes care of all those annoying little details that make tfs so difficult to achieve any other way. And it’s sparkly too.
I like science-based TF (injection, etc)...
4/5 – Can be good. Possibly my favourite tech-tf was in Dexter’s Lab, where after seeing all this really hi-tech energy-to-matter conversion stuff, and tanks of strange gels linked with mysterious pipework, Deedee was changed into a horse by being slammed between two giant “jelly moulds”:)
I like goo-based TF...
0/5 – No, I don’t.
I like sex-based TF...
4/5 – Often, although I never draw it and seldom write it. But I do like tf to feel pleasurable.
I like hypnosis TF...
3/5 – Can be good but I do like a transformee to know that they have been changed, and remember who they are.
I like other TF methods / don't care how it's started...
3/5 – I guess it sort of comes under magic, but divine “punishments” are good. Gotta love those Greek deities!
Favorite process:
I like TF that occurs in less than 5 minutes...
3/5 – I don’t like “poof” transformations: I like them long enough to appreciate what’s happening.
I like TF that takes much longer...
5/5 – Yeah. If it was me, I’d like it to last a long time: I’d enjoy the anticipation, and the time to acclimatize.
I like when changes take place heterogeneously, or each body part successively...
3/5 – I like both.
I like forced TF...
3/5 – On the whole, I prefer consensual transformations. I’d be lying though if I said I wouldn’t love to be able to transform _certain_ people into animals very much against their own will. That tail-gater behind me? Let’s see how he likes being a REAL road hog!
I like when the subject is resisting/not enjoying it...
3/5 – See above. Only if they deserve some form of punishment.
I like consensual TF...
5/5 – Always.
I like painful TF...
0/5 – Not at all. Not even when it’s deserved.
I like pleasurable TF...
5/5 – Always. And I quite like it when the subject so enjoys the experience that they don’t immediately notice they’re changing.
I like when the victim loses their human mind...
3/5 – Developing animal instincts and behaviour, yes. Forgetting who they are, NO! That’s not a tf: that’s killing a human and using their parts to build a different animal.
I like permanent TF...
5/5 – I loathe all those mainstream fictions (film and book) where the protagonist always returns to human form as if that’s the only acceptable resolution. My favourite children’s book is Winni Allfours by Babette Cole, where the heroine manages to turn herself into a pony, and when finally offered the chance to change back, refuses!
I like temporary TF...
4/5 – As long as it isn’t a one-off!
I like bondage during a TF...
2/5 – Indifferent… I think. Does wearing a saddle count?
I like clothes ripping during a TF...
3/5 – If it’s well done, but I’ve experimented, and I think most artists seriously underestimate just how far some clothes will stretch. A size-L teeshirt would stretch around most horses’ torsos without tearing.
I like sex during/after a TF...
4/5 – I’m not so keen on all those stallion transformations where the subject always ejaculates at some point in the change (I guess if it were happening to me it might be more enjoyable). But if it’s drawn well and everyone’s enjoying themselves… :)
I like group TF...
5/5 – Doesn’t happen often, but I like those stories where the whole human population transforms. Have you seen that beautiful Carpatina TV advert?
I like TF that occurs in front of people...
3/5 – Largely indifferent, and if it were me changing in RL, I think I’d like to do it in privacy, or with a close friend at least.
Bonus question:
I've withheld my answers/lied about some of them...
0/5 – Nope. Soul-baring can be kind of fun:)
