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Future Story Poll!
🕑 Added 2024-08-17 01:36:53 +0000 UTCI have a couple different ideas for the next long-form story I want to write, and I'm curious to see which one y'all want to see the most!
I still have a couple short story ideas I want to bang out before moving into something bigger; I would expect the next long-form story to kick off somewhere in the neighborhood of two weeks from now.
When I say "long-form," I mean something on the scale of Give Yourself to Me. I don't know exactly how long any of them will be in particular, but I would expect something in the neghborhood of 15-25 chapters, 60k-120k words.
It would probably make sense to make voting in a poll like this subscriber-exclusive, but I'd rather get a greater amount of input and treat this like a sort of "Coming Attractions" to potentially entice some folks who don't currently have a paid sub. The plan is to eventually do all of these ideas, the only real question is the order in which I do them.
I'm also not going to consider the results of this poll strictly binding. Knowing which ideas have the most excitement among y'all is definitely going to play a factor in what I decide to go with, but if I find that one of these is really calling to me over the others, that's going to take precedence.
Idea #1: Epic Fantasy with a Growing Knight
Beyond the woods and mountains lies a small but prosperous kingdom, rich with magic. Unfortunately, that makes it an endless target for dragons. Each generation a knight is chosen to protect the kingdom. The knight derives their power from consuming the hearts of slain dragons, which make them grow to inhuman sizes and grant them incredible powers. When the kingdom's champion is slain unceremoniously, the seers desperately ask the stars to point them to a replacement. Everyone is shocked when the meek and petite handmaiden to the princess is chosen.
This story will still have sexual content in it, but it will be a little less front and center than it is in GYtM or Field Research. It's an excuse to work some creative muscles that those other stories don't really utilize, and will have a lot of worldbuilding, a bigger cast of characters, cool fantasy battles, etc. It is heavily inspired by this piece of art which has been living in my head rent-free from the moment I saw it.
Idea #2: Woman Ascends to Godhood
One day, a woman awakens to a new power: anytime anyone shows her the slightest amount of respect or deference, even something as small as holding a door open for her, she drains a little bit of their size, becoming bigger, stronger, and more beautiful as a result. As she grows, so do her powers, and she soon realizes that her fiancee has become her complement; any time he obeys another person, he gives away a fraction of his size.
When I sat down to first start writing, I sort of did a coin-flip between this idea and Give Yourself to Me; at its conception, it was kind of the same story but with the mommy kink swapped out for a divinity kink. The idea has sort of evolved and changed in my head as I've been writing though, and it's got a bit more of a distinct angle to it now. That said, I'll admit that of all of these ideas, I'm the coolest on this one at the moment, only because it's the most similar to what I just finished. But, I wouldn't be putting it on the poll if I wasn't still attracted to the idea of doing it. If you really liked GYtM and enjoyed the little teases of Lily slowly amassing more social power as she grew, this'll be the story for you!
Idea #3: Fantasy - The Barbarian Queen
An empire (think Rome) has been besieged for years, not by an army but by a single wild-woman, raised by bears and blessed by the goddess of Conquest. 8 feet tall, rippling with muscle and covered in battle scars, she now stands at the gates of the capital. With force having failed, the empire's young king resorts to a different approach, a potion that's said to drain the will and strength to fight from its drinker. However, his new queen soon teaches him that she doesn't need physical force to conquer him.
Story would be heavily focused on beautification and soft domination. No actual size-change in the early going, but it would eventually start to include shrinking content.
Idea #4: Hypnotherapy
A tall, brawny man is a highly successful manager within his company. Well, depending on how you define "successful." He posts great results, but his all-female staff despises him. He's a hardass, and has well-documented anger issues. After a blow-up too big to ignore, he's forced to attend an anger management session with a psychologist who's breaking new grounds in hypnotherapy. She uses her abilities to slowly make him more passive and submissive, to the delight of his put-upon employees. Eventually, she takes things even further, revealing the full extent of the mind's power over the body as she begins to slowly shrink him.
This story would be cut from a similar cloth as Horvuex's old story Surrogate, or openhighhat's Morning Coffee. Focused on the workplace, with a few different women that all have a slightly different flavor of dominance over our shrinking protagonist. Part of what excites me about this idea is playing with the format a little bit, doing "epistolary" sections where the story is partially told through the hypnotherapist's notes.
Lemme know below which of these stories you'd most like to read! And if you think all four of these ideas suck, well, pay me to write something else :p
