(Inspiration Blog) How would you want to be transformed? (Patreon)
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An artist I used to know once said the reason he loved transformation so much was because of all the many ways you could go from point A to point B. All too often transformation is limited to a single route due to time and the effort that goes into illustrating it. But we can't deny that for every thing that a person can transform into, there's actually an exponential number of ways to transform into that thing.
I don't have hard terminology for this (yet), but the midpoint, that place of liminality as the figure crosses the threshold from one state to another can pack so much tangential information about the piece, that for many times that middle portion is all that matters.
Who is this man? Who is this duck? Who cares, look at his boobs 👀
But compare and contrast "someone-ripping-off-their-skin-to-reveal-changes-underneath" versus "putting-on-a-costume-that-becomes-their-new-skin". With either we arrive at the same result but how we get there can illicit a very different emotional-sensory response.
Even with fusions and merging, these multi-person transformations can take different avenues too. And so if you like my work, it stands that you may not care about merging in concept, but you do find my presentation to be pleasant.
I believe this is consequentialism? Where the pleasure derived is more important than the explicit means to receive it. (This is the same mindest many take to when enjoying dirtier fetishes too for example, especially when the kink is victemless. They don't find the act or its real world counterpart desirable, but for them a good picture is a good picture).
Lots of philosophy, but what I'd like to read from you in the comments are some of your favorite kinds of transformation, and I want to think that if you were to be transformed in some way where there'd be no consequences whatsoever, how would you want it to be?