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🕑 Added 2021-11-23 14:02:58 +0000 UTCWhere does all this transformation love come from?
TF was always something I loved when I was a kid. I grew up in the 80’s, where you had cartoons and toys like He-Man and Transformers… TF was all over the place, burrowing into my little gnome brain and laying an egg to hatch later on in adolescence. I think Mario 3 was the first real time I saw a character “pick up a thing that changed them into another thing”. That, or Little Nemo.
It was a Raccoon or a Fox...
In any event, in Junior High I started doing little 2 panel comics on notebook paper, a character that could eat different kinds of fruits and change himself in useful ways. He was either a fox or a raccoon, I can’t remember (sadly those comics are lost to time, or I’d upload a panel or two)
Toward the end of the comic, he had to break his girlfriend, the princess (of course). Now, he had been muzzled or some such, and was unable to eat his “balloon fruit” to help them both escape. So, she had to eat it (I think I forgot that the fruit changed him because he was special, not because the fruit was special.)
Anyway, it was when “the girl” changed into a balloon that the grub hatched and it was over. I tied sexuality with transformation and the kink was set.
The floodgates opened...
Drawings started pouring out of me, immediately to be hidden in the same places a teenager hides porno mags (of which I had none… dunno where my brother got his). It continued into high school, into college (where I found websites where the unashamed posted their own art).
So, I’m curious; did you all have similar early exposures to TF that made you hyped for it? What kinds of things do you remember about your early exposures to TF? Maybe it came later? If you feel like sharing, please post below!
Keep Dreaming!
—Gnome
Comments
Omgicanthinkofaname
As a kid I really enjoyed TF stories like Animorphs, Sabrina, or Totally Spies. When I had free internet access as a teenager, I ended up on a small site that had women into partially animal changes. Eventually I got into Deviantart with more TF work. Which lead to a site called purseboy (still exists as Purseboy2 but is missing some of the OG work). That's where I really found a large amount of object TF's and really got my interest going. After lurking DA and purseboy for awhile, I realized that most TF works focused on guys being changed and I wanted to see more women TF's. So I started making captions and then photoshops to fill the niche. It's been interesting to watch the various transformation fetishes grow all these years.
Joe England
Well now there's a topic of conversation. It's been a long, long time, and I wish I could remember with greater clarity. It's a big part of my life.I do know that, like you, it didn't originally begin as a fetish. Offhand, one of the earliest particular examples that drew me to in was an episode of the old Zelda cartoon where Link turns into a frog guy. That fascinated me, at first. But I noticed a turning point when I stopped caring, because he was a guy. I knew that that was when it became a fetish, and I wasn't a child anymore. One of those rare examples of passing a distinct threshold in life, beyond which you've... well, transformed. But the fascination has always influenced me, top to bottom, as exemplified by Zebra Girl. For eighteen years it was my TF art Magnum opus, and it was only near the end that overtly fetishistic aspects began to creep into the art and story. I'm glad, in a way, as I even managed to squeeze my personal favorite variety of the genre into the very last chapter when I TG'ed a character. I've always struggled with my yearning to draw fetish art versus my yearning to draw work that can be taken purely for its story, but that was when both parts of me finally came together in harmony.
ZekeStaright
I don't think I ever really caught the TF bug per se, but BE I can trace back to places like Leprechaun 3 & Repossessed. The closest I can think of would be Ranma 1/2, but that's still more BE than MtF TF for me. Then there was the episode of Flint the Time Detective where they were trying to catch Muscles & when he was turned evil, he used his power on the girl & she grew out of her clothes. Clothes busting is one of my favs.
DrewB
For me, it was probably Jack Chalker's novels, which involved transformation as a way of exploring questions of identity. Most of his books are on Kindle and I recommend them, he did some really interesting F/SF.
Gen-Awesome
I would have to say that my earliest exposures to TF came from two sources: TV and Books. I know for a fact that my parents let me watch cartoons a LOT when I was young. I used to sneak out of bed early in the mornings, just to watch the morning cartoons. It would be fair to say then that some of my earliest loves of TF came from there. The Donkey scene from Disney's "Pinocchio" or the Queen's TF into a Hag in "Snow White" were probably some of my first exposures to it. Eliza's TF in "Gargoyles" would probably be a close second. I think that books (and especially picture books) were where I really got exposed to TF in media. Whether they were Greek Myths (Circe, Arachne etc.), Fairy Tales (The Frog Prince) or stories about magic, TF often featured quite prominently. One of my Mother's favourite stories to read me and my brother was Meg and Mog. The first book features Meg's Witch friends accidentally being turned into mice on Halloween. Another book I remember was "PiggyBook" where an overworked mother leaves her husband and sons. Over time the husband and sons turn into pigs and things in their their house turn piggy as well. I used to love looking at all the little details in the books art and probably completely ignored its obviously feminist plot. When I was around 10, my family got a computer and dial-up internet. It didn't take too long for me to start searching for TF related websites on the internet. Some of the first that I found were Metamorphose.org and Naga's Den. In particular I was in search of Female TF's because even at a young age I knew that most TFs were male and I wanted to find some rare Female TFs in art and media. Ever since then I have been constantly scouring the internet, searching for new TF's in art and TV/Film. That's how I got here today!
Seritaph
Yeh, actually. Ah, the joys of hiding fairly innocuous art away in boxes under the bed. :)
Captain Rocko
Hmmm... Well I first started noticing that I like the expansion work when I saw episodes of Totally Spies. The Passion Patties episode got a lot of people. But for transformation, it's hard to say. I know I also became fixated with the blueberry expansion/transformation but it wasn't really the original from Willy Wonka that got me but a fan comic the Adventures of Berrygirl. In short, I think it was a domino effect, I like WG but then I found blueberry expansion, then inflation and then elastic TF and then object TF and so on. What was the thing that got me here, I don't know but here I am, now show me those balloon girls! 😍
