Posted by marloweny 4 years ago Report

You'll get no argument from me. I can see why this stuff would be icky. I've got head-cannon that Val is in there, just riding the whole experience like it's a drug trip. That lets me enjoy it.

Posted by threk 4 years ago Report

Oh shoot, I just edited and recommented.

Posted by threk 4 years ago Report

I'd like the think Val's in there somewhere too, but oof, even so, if de-tooning isn't a thing then she's effectively gone. Even if she does come back that level of loss of control and being forced to act like something you're not is probably gonna leave trauma of some kind. That said, fantasy, lot of stuff on this site would be traumatic so that's a bit easier to gloss over.

Posted by threk 4 years ago Report

Getting odd, mildly uncomfortable feelings from this one, as it's all light-hearted Roger Rabbit shenanigans, but imo it's also one of the darkest things you've made.

Val is no longer Val. She got eaten by a mattress and has been twisted, body and mind, into something else with little way of communicating with her loved one, and a compulsion forced upon her to pursue almost mindlessly. The black widow toon mask was similar, but that was still basically the girlfriend, capable of speech and all that, only dommed up to a cartoonish degree, and turning back would be as simple as taking the mask off (only now of course she doesn't want to), this one just basically had Val turned from a thinking person into a smart animal. The person that she was was killed and all that's left is a bed-bug-shaped parody of herself, and that type of identity death is dark as all shit.

Posted by ninth 4 years ago Report

Yeah, same. There's the non-fatal, reversible kind of mind control/hypnosis type stuff but full mind erasure is essentially a unique form of fatal vore.

IMO it's likely because fatal aspect feels very unexpected or jarring given the initial and (supposedly) light-hearted nature of cartoons.

Posted by threk 4 years ago Report

It may be jarring, but toons working on rules that are fatal for humans has been a thing ever since the bad toon in Roger Rabbit dropped a piano on the MC's brother. Let alone the stuff going on in The Mask (The comic not the movie.)

Posted by ninth 4 years ago Report

Well yes. In this case it's the mental (metaphysical?) rather than physical lethality.

Let's narrow it down a little. Sure, you can "mentally" drop a piano on someone, and they're dead, but cause of discomfort (for me) is when their body or character to continues to walk around and interact as if everyone else doesn't realize that their death occurred.

It feels like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak.

Posted by threk 4 years ago Report

Gah, very true.

Posted by Rat_Guy 4 years ago Report

Toon vore isn't really my thing, but I do fucking love the idea of swallowing one's therapist.

Posted by marloweny 4 years ago Report

And, like seemingly every sub-fetish, I've written therapist vore more than once.

Posted by Rat_Guy 4 years ago Report

Really? Do you remember which stories offhand?

Posted by marloweny 4 years ago Report

This is the other one I can recall: https://aryion.com/g4/view/420464

Posted by Rat_Guy 4 years ago Report

Thanks man

Posted by Amberain 4 years ago Report

I think I agree with some of the others that it's a little bit disturbing how little of Val is left after her transformation. Someone turning into a toon, or being in a relationship with a toon is a cool idea, though I'd imagine them being more hyperactive, more telegraphed in their movements, like they are overacting, maybe even a bit more casually violent, because with toon physics none of it is permanent, but otherwise still mostly human.

What I don't like here is the seemingly complete loss of personality. Like the only part of Val that seems to have made it through the transformation at all is her attachment to her boyfriend. That said, after reading the premise given in the description of the picture you linked, I still think you did a good job with the story, and accomplished what you set out to do. However, from my outside perspective the story would have made more sense if the doctor had figured out Val had been trapped inside the mattress the whole time, and the bug was just an imposter.

Regardless, I hope that this isn't the last time you return to the idea of toon/human relationships, as I do feel like there is a fair amount of untapped potential for causal vore scenarios.

Like just off the top of my head, if the human was out in public and saw someone coming that they didn't want to deal with, an offhand comment about "wanting to hide" might be enough for the toon to just tuck them away somewhere. If instead the roles were reversed, the toon might just dive into whatever hiding spot is convenient, without even asking the human's opinion first. While those events, if successful, would probably be too quick to draw much interest, it could easily be the catalyst for future scenes . . .

It's moments like this where I regret my own inability to write well, as I can easily imagine several ways to go with this idea, and I didn't really intend it to be anything more than a throwaway example. Anyway, I guess I'll just leave you with my half-completed thoughts and hope you can divine something useful out of them.

Posted by Amberain 4 years ago Report

https://aryion.com/g4/view/196682

Also, here's an example of a toon/human story I liked from back in the day. Other than that it's basically off-topic, but I doubt I'd ever have better excuse to share it, so here you go.

Posted by marloweny 4 years ago Report

This story was definitely an attempt to write the prompt from the link. If it had been a story completely of my own design, or my take on the prompt without following it closely, it would have gone differently. How differently? Though maybe a sequel could help retroactively give it the angle I was hoping for. ... Tempting...

But as for toon/human relationships, I do have some ideas for ones that are a little more wholesome.

Posted by ninth 4 years ago Report

Hey, the imposter idea is good one