This is a strange one, and I have no idea whether or not anyone will care about it, but I had fun writing it. I guess it's almost more of a silly world-building thing than it is smut (although it is also disgusting, disgusting smut). Anyway, if you're not into it, don't worry, this isn't the new normal... it's just a one-off.
Anyway, I'll just point out a few fun, goofy little things in here, for anybody that cares:
1. Michelle Riviera, the subject of the Annual Employee Evaluation, was last seen in The Leather Chair, when she was a college freshman and pledging for a witches' sorority. Six years later, she's a young professional with a bright career in the "transform industry" ahead of her.
2. Chapter 11 of Porcelain revealed that witches often choose new names for themselves, which is why many of the witches featured in these memos have such absurd names (Misty Madness, Stormy Horizons, Xyn Darkcloud the Unbound, etc.).
3. The second Incident Report and resulting memo from Misty Madness features the recurring character Karen Reginald, whom we already know has a predilection for selling clients the wrong transformations.
4. And of course, the first Incident Report references Diaper Dames and their Diaperization program, from yesterday's story, The Right Way to Get Diaperized.
5. Misty Madness's crack about the name Transform-U echoes my own dissatisfaction with the name, which I made up in about ten seconds and then felt increasingly stuck with as it was featured in more and more of my stories. These memos wound up becoming a fun way to replace the company with NuYu, which looks and sounds more like the name of a dumb tech startup, which is what I had been going for (and botched) with Transform-U.
6. Finally, the first Incident Report includes a witch named Jesse Baden, who is one letter removed from Jesse Faden, the protagonist of 2019's video game Control. I referenced her here because all of the little memos and collectables in that game had this fun "supernatural meets dull office bureaucracy" vibe that I'm obviously drawing from with these.
Okay, that's it. If anyone actually read all of this, thanks for humoring me.
Oh, and also, the NuYu logo visually references the recently leaked logo for Denis Villeneuve's Dune movie, which a bunch of people on Twitter were ragging on because some of the versions of the logo made it look like it said "DUNC". (Turns out that a star with a horizontal accretion disk-looking thing fades in to make the middle prong of the "E", but the first leaked shots didn't include this.)
Super excited for the new Dune. Great director, amazingly dead-on casting, and my favorite sci-fi novel of all time.
What an excellent little caption series! I am especially in love with the new worm terminology used by witches in your captions as of late, also how cruel Michelle Riviera is at the beginning. It is so fulfilling and so right for this type of a story.
I’ve been loving all the new caption lately! Though I’m curious if by any chance could we get some witch vs witch action? I’m curious what a witch duel would be like in your world.
It's common for people with the magical spark who nonetheless don't have what it takes to make it as a witch to meet horrible ends (e.g. here, here, or here), either by toying with magic that they are too incompetant to understand or by being outperformed by a true witch. But if you're talking about truly powerful, established witches, such as the corporate executives in this epistolary story: transformation magic simply doesn't work on them, unless they allow it to. Competant and powerful magic users have control over the shapes of their bodies and souls in a way that worms and failed magic users do not, and it doesn't seem as if any amount of magical power or brilliance can change that (so in other words, even if, say, Destiny Aflame is a far more powerful witch than, say, Mary-Lou Mountain, this doesn't seem to give Destiny the power to successfully use transformation magic on Mary-Lou).
This is why the society that the witches have built for themselves doesn't seem to be all that different from pre-magic society. They still have to go to work for demanding witch bosses, they still have to put up with annoying witches out in the world, and they still place some value on politeness and civility (at least, to one another, if not to worms). If any more powerful witch could magically crush any less powerful witch, the world would quickly consume itself with chaos and violence, ruled by brutal witch queen warlords and looking nothing like the pre-magical world.
The fate of Lisa's mother might seem to contradict this, but, contrary to her own belief, she wasn't truly powerful. She was an unskilled and unimpressive witch living in a small, backwater town where, by coincidence, only she and her daughters possessed the magical gift. She ruled that town with an iron fist and consequentially developed delusions of grandeur that made her eventual dehumanization at the hands of her much more powerful daughter, who is a true witch, all the more frustrating for her. But in reality, she was never anything more than another failed witch. Note that, while the Transanimated reporter in this story refers to Lisa's mother as a former all-powerful witch, Transanimated reporters are never magically gifted (which is why the reporter in this story met such a terrible fate), so from their perspective, anyone at all with the magical spark is all-powerful.
Heh, so the above is my in-universe answer. The real world answer is that I don't really do much with witch-versus-witch action in my stories because, to me, the femdom fantasy is that these witches are invincible and omnipotent, stomping over lesser beings and doling out horrible fates with total impunity. If they were all living in fear of one another, and all doomed to eventually be bested by a better witch and share the horrible fate of their victims (because there's always a faster gun)... well, that's just not really what my fantasy looks like at all.
I did some early stuff with witch combat that, as you can see, I've done some silly retconning in my head to align with my current understanding of the rules, which is that the witches don't really transform one another.
Sorry! I know some people really like those kinds of stories. Maybe it's popular with people who fantasize about being the transformer and being the transformed equally. I pretty much exclusively fantasize about being transformed, so in my little fantasy universe, the transformers and the transformed are mostly two immutably different classes of people.
Wow so if a so called “powerful” witch gets transformed, that means they weren’t a true witch? Does that mean that they become a laughing stock among witches? I wonder how long a witch could go on thinking they’re a true witch only to have it blow up in their face? Are there any cases of famous “powerful” witches turning out to be nothing more than a failed witch? I imagine a witch could stack up a few bitter rivals before having her whole world come crashing down when their luck runs out and they find out they’re not actually a true witch. I imagine that wouldn’t look too pretty for them. Haha!
A "true witch" learns pretty early in their training how to take full control over their mind, body, and soul. It's like, basic magical literacy for a witch. Magic-users without this skill might call themselves witches, and certainly no worm would challenge them on that, but the world of witchcraft would never consider them witches.
In the early days following the Great Magical Awakening, it may have been possible for such wannabe witches to get pretty far. But you've seen how vicious and bloodthirsty modern witch sororities are... I don't think a magic-user without the skill to prevent their own transformation would ever make it through college without getting a one-way ticket out of their human bodies!
That gives me an idea of a witch college scenario where a popular gal from a very powerful witch family thinking she’s hot shit cause of her heritage, only to get owned by a nerdy witch girl who actually is a true witch.
This is a strange one, and I have no idea whether or not anyone will care about it, but I had fun writing it. I guess it's almost more of a silly world-building thing than it is smut (although it is also disgusting, disgusting smut). Anyway, if you're not into it, don't worry, this isn't the new normal... it's just a one-off.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'll just point out a few fun, goofy little things in here, for anybody that cares:
ReplyDelete1. Michelle Riviera, the subject of the Annual Employee Evaluation, was last seen in The Leather Chair, when she was a college freshman and pledging for a witches' sorority. Six years later, she's a young professional with a bright career in the "transform industry" ahead of her.
2. Chapter 11 of Porcelain revealed that witches often choose new names for themselves, which is why many of the witches featured in these memos have such absurd names (Misty Madness, Stormy Horizons, Xyn Darkcloud the Unbound, etc.).
3. The second Incident Report and resulting memo from Misty Madness features the recurring character Karen Reginald, whom we already know has a predilection for selling clients the wrong transformations.
4. And of course, the first Incident Report references Diaper Dames and their Diaperization program, from yesterday's story, The Right Way to Get Diaperized.
5. Misty Madness's crack about the name Transform-U echoes my own dissatisfaction with the name, which I made up in about ten seconds and then felt increasingly stuck with as it was featured in more and more of my stories. These memos wound up becoming a fun way to replace the company with NuYu, which looks and sounds more like the name of a dumb tech startup, which is what I had been going for (and botched) with Transform-U.
6. Finally, the first Incident Report includes a witch named Jesse Baden, who is one letter removed from Jesse Faden, the protagonist of 2019's video game Control. I referenced her here because all of the little memos and collectables in that game had this fun "supernatural meets dull office bureaucracy" vibe that I'm obviously drawing from with these.
Okay, that's it. If anyone actually read all of this, thanks for humoring me.
Oh, and also, the NuYu logo visually references the recently leaked logo for Denis Villeneuve's Dune movie, which a bunch of people on Twitter were ragging on because some of the versions of the logo made it look like it said "DUNC". (Turns out that a star with a horizontal accretion disk-looking thing fades in to make the middle prong of the "E", but the first leaked shots didn't include this.)
DeleteSuper excited for the new Dune. Great director, amazingly dead-on casting, and my favorite sci-fi novel of all time.
What an excellent little caption series! I am especially in love with the new worm terminology used by witches in your captions as of late, also how cruel Michelle Riviera is at the beginning. It is so fulfilling and so right for this type of a story.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it!
DeleteI’ve been loving all the new caption lately! Though I’m curious if by any chance could we get some witch vs witch action? I’m curious what a witch duel would be like in your world.
ReplyDeleteIt's common for people with the magical spark who nonetheless don't have what it takes to make it as a witch to meet horrible ends (e.g. here, here, or here), either by toying with magic that they are too incompetant to understand or by being outperformed by a true witch. But if you're talking about truly powerful, established witches, such as the corporate executives in this epistolary story: transformation magic simply doesn't work on them, unless they allow it to. Competant and powerful magic users have control over the shapes of their bodies and souls in a way that worms and failed magic users do not, and it doesn't seem as if any amount of magical power or brilliance can change that (so in other words, even if, say, Destiny Aflame is a far more powerful witch than, say, Mary-Lou Mountain, this doesn't seem to give Destiny the power to successfully use transformation magic on Mary-Lou).
DeleteThis is why the society that the witches have built for themselves doesn't seem to be all that different from pre-magic society. They still have to go to work for demanding witch bosses, they still have to put up with annoying witches out in the world, and they still place some value on politeness and civility (at least, to one another, if not to worms). If any more powerful witch could magically crush any less powerful witch, the world would quickly consume itself with chaos and violence, ruled by brutal witch queen warlords and looking nothing like the pre-magical world.
The fate of Lisa's mother might seem to contradict this, but, contrary to her own belief, she wasn't truly powerful. She was an unskilled and unimpressive witch living in a small, backwater town where, by coincidence, only she and her daughters possessed the magical gift. She ruled that town with an iron fist and consequentially developed delusions of grandeur that made her eventual dehumanization at the hands of her much more powerful daughter, who is a true witch, all the more frustrating for her. But in reality, she was never anything more than another failed witch. Note that, while the Transanimated reporter in this story refers to Lisa's mother as a former all-powerful witch, Transanimated reporters are never magically gifted (which is why the reporter in this story met such a terrible fate), so from their perspective, anyone at all with the magical spark is all-powerful.
Heh, so the above is my in-universe answer. The real world answer is that I don't really do much with witch-versus-witch action in my stories because, to me, the femdom fantasy is that these witches are invincible and omnipotent, stomping over lesser beings and doling out horrible fates with total impunity. If they were all living in fear of one another, and all doomed to eventually be bested by a better witch and share the horrible fate of their victims (because there's always a faster gun)... well, that's just not really what my fantasy looks like at all.
DeleteI did some early stuff with witch combat that, as you can see, I've done some silly retconning in my head to align with my current understanding of the rules, which is that the witches don't really transform one another.
Sorry! I know some people really like those kinds of stories. Maybe it's popular with people who fantasize about being the transformer and being the transformed equally. I pretty much exclusively fantasize about being transformed, so in my little fantasy universe, the transformers and the transformed are mostly two immutably different classes of people.
Wow so if a so called “powerful” witch gets transformed, that means they weren’t a true witch? Does that mean that they become a laughing stock among witches? I wonder how long a witch could go on thinking they’re a true witch only to have it blow up in their face? Are there any cases of famous “powerful” witches turning out to be nothing more than a failed witch? I imagine a witch could stack up a few bitter rivals before having her whole world come crashing down when their luck runs out and they find out they’re not actually a true witch. I imagine that wouldn’t look too pretty for them. Haha!
ReplyDeleteA "true witch" learns pretty early in their training how to take full control over their mind, body, and soul. It's like, basic magical literacy for a witch. Magic-users without this skill might call themselves witches, and certainly no worm would challenge them on that, but the world of witchcraft would never consider them witches.
DeleteIn the early days following the Great Magical Awakening, it may have been possible for such wannabe witches to get pretty far. But you've seen how vicious and bloodthirsty modern witch sororities are... I don't think a magic-user without the skill to prevent their own transformation would ever make it through college without getting a one-way ticket out of their human bodies!
That gives me an idea of a witch college scenario where a popular gal from a very powerful witch family thinking she’s hot shit cause of her heritage, only to get owned by a nerdy witch girl who actually is a true witch.
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